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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1942
Page
10
Paramount loans Mary Martin to MGM for Right About Face where she joins Kay Kyser and his orchestra. Mary dined at the Brown Derby with husband Richard Halliday as studios discuss star pooling and lending trends.
The Georgia board of health declared a statewide quarantine on all persons with venereal disease and ordered detention and treatment for those without care. Violations become a misdemeanor. Incoming individuals must report within 24 hours. noncompliance leads to quarantine and isolation if contagious. Historians note the banjo’s Arab origins.
The Gazette lists today’s theater slots for Paramount State TPALACE Rialto and Marion venues with titles such as The Major and the Minor Here We Go Again The Falcon's Brother The Mille Annual Remarkable Andrew and Roaring Frontiers Mercy Island Dangerous They Live and What’s Cookin plus Bahama Passage and other short subjects. At extreme depths divers show blood vessel saturation from nitrogen.
Review notes the WWI stage hit Friendly Enemies as a screen success during WWII. Characters Karl and Heinrich彼德国移民 brothers drift between German loyalty and Americanism, while their sons join the war. Noting mixed scenes of comedy and pathos, with Nancy Kelly and James Craig in romance, and a second feature about Philippines guerillas starring Lloyd Nolan and Carole Landis.
Walter Sands says Halloween windows show a changed motif after inspecting 50 shops. Kids spent time drawing the victory symbol V and printing slogans like Buy war bonds and Down with Hitler and Mussolini.
A compact sweep of New York social life recounts Walter Winchell at Carnegie Hall with Francis Biddle and Mrs Biddle, A A Berle at the Carlyle, Gregory Ratoff in Washington, and stars like Janet Blair Lily Pons and Bob Hope. draft news, stage folk, and Broadway society scenes mix with jokes about pork and meatless days.
Professor Dale Welsch of Coe College begins his sixth Iowa health district 10 tour with speech clinics in six counties. He will diagnose speech difficulties in grade schoolers and suggest corrections. Dates span Oct 17 Osceola Clarke, Oct 19–20 Creston Union, Oct 21 Leon Decatur, Oct 22 Corydon Wayne, Oct 23 Centerville Appanoose, Oct 24 Albia Monroe.
Dr David I Berger head of the Bible department at Coe College will speak at the Dubuque University homecoming banquet Saturday evening on Education for Victory. He previously served as professor and dean of the theological seminary at Dubuque University and earned his doctorate Sunday afternoon. The lecture titled Vital Religion will occur at the Youth League meeting of the Cedar Rapids Presbyterians at Central Park Presbyterian Church.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker reports a U S survey in Britain shows the air war will dominate western Europe until the Luftwaffe is neutralized and German aircraft output weakened He notes British admiration for American fighters and bombers and predicts Allied air superiority amid ongoing German design efforts and high morale in U S forces.
A six and a half pound baby girl was born Thursday to Mrs Robert Reynolds of North Carolina at the home of Reynolds mother Mrs Evalyn Walsh McLean. The 98 year old senator married Evalyn Washington McLean on October 9. This is his fifth wife.
Wefer once held a Fifth Avenue SE mortgage and owned a 500 acre farm. In 1932 he spent months in Cedar Rapids with business interests here. Herman J. Becker of Stark Insurance notes a card from K R Williamson arranging a meeting about the farm. Otto Sikora later handled most of Wefer's business.
The text describes a St Joseph man connected to Cedar Rapids and St Joseph with heirs in eastern Iowa farms. It notes signature as Wefer not Weber, Marengo residents recall his wife’s sizable holdings, and remarks that he lived modestly though considered not dumb.
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