Comedy 10 Open Coe Play Season at Cedar Rapids
The Cre college playhouse under Kent Andrews will open its 1940 41 season with the modern romantic comedy Freier Madame. Season tickets available at the alumni office. Cast includes Lambert of Freeport and Brancaw of Road, with Madame Tosa. Executors of Luann Cartes estate seek immediate settlement. claimants to present demands.
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Cre College Pathouse
Kent Andrews
Cee
Madame
Taib Avenue
Cedar
Maxwell Andersons
Wonaless
Coe
Knesn
Madame Tosa
Detla Roonta
2D Lambert
Freeport
Betts Tarn
Spee Lake
Kenneth Roberts
Faifield
Boernice Brancaw
Ruad
Beth Schlampp
Fidera
Dad Thompson
Bergreg
Wy Day by Eleanor Roosevelt in a Travel Medley
Eleanor Roosevelt writes of tea with democratic women in San Francisco and watching son James with his marine battalion. She muses on military training, civilian discipline, and the need for steady leadership as executives face the wartime test, with plans to travel to Portland and Seattle for speaking engagements.
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San Francisco
Ars Mehyn Douglas
Mys
Mauiine Benjamin
James
Willam James
Teeluck
Edward VcCauley
Aamport
Portland
Oregon
Nan Wood Honesman
Congress
League of Women Voters
Seattle
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Shriners Train to Waterloo Ceremonial Parade and Feast
About 200 members of El Kahir Shrine Cedar Rapids travel by Rock Island train Friday to Waterloo for the Shrine annual fall ceremonial with parade buffet luncheon banquet and floor show. The Cedar Rapids group will include the temple band patrol drum corps and wrecking crew. Officers from Cedar Rapids are listed including Petranek Haegs Thompson Maxwell Smith Batley and Barber.
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Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Rock Island
Dubuque
Mason City
E. J. Petranek
H. E. Haegs
Rabban
G. K. Thompson
H. C Maxwell
Hollywood Notes on Welles Kane and O Henry Parallels
The column surveys film news from Paramount on Donlevy and O Henry ties, mentions Al Jennings and American Vagabond, notes Orson Welles and Citizen Kane praise, Mary Lee at Republic, Roy Rogers in Custers Last Stand, and Robert Stack’s draft registration inspiring a tour. It also includes Flynn missing a boat due to weather and delays.
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Ollywood
INS
McGinty
Donlevy
Brian Donlevy
Paramount
Capnahang
Fairhaired Boys
Bank
al Jennings
O Henry
Jennings
al Jenninings
Douglas Eairbanks, Jr
Henry
O Henry Starres
Orson Welles
RKO
George Schaefer
REK
Muery
Mary Lee
Republic
Parsons
Deanna Durbin
Susanna Foster
Ted Weems
Sierra Sue
Roy Rogers
Silent movie stars toast Quiet Please in Honolulu
The draft in Honolulu and a scolding for not taking the boat frame a scene as Cecil B DeMille Samuel Goldwyn Mary Pickford and many Lasky friends honor Quiet Please at the Bailt more theater. On set of Riders of Death Valles Big Boy Williams arrives to a chorus of Here Comes the Bride as Lupe Velez influence is said to ease his shyness.
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Honolulu
Cecil B DeMille
Samuel Goldwyn
Mary Pickford
Jesse Lasky
Bailtmore Theater
Big Boy Willams
Universal
Bride
Bigs Boy
Lupe Velez
Imm
Delegation Protests Blasting At Concrete Materials Quarry
Six women and a man appeared before the city council to complain of blasting at the Concrete Materials company quarry on Pleasant Valley avenue SW. They listed four grievances including excessive explosives and damage to homes, health impacts, and traffic congestion. The council referred the petition and Mayor Hahn promised efforts to alleviate. An ordinance adding Twenty first avenue SW from A to C streets to a no heavy traffic zone was read to ban rock trucks from the quarry.
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Pleasant Valley Avenue
Frank Hahn
Twenty-first Avenue
Theaters Showing Big Names in New Releases
At the theaters Iowa features The Lady in Question with Brian Aherne and Rita Hayworth, and Boys of the City with the East Side Kids. Paramount presents Suzie Up the Band with Mickey Rooney Judy Garland? William Tracy June Preisser and Larry Nunn. State offers City for Conquest with James Cagney and Ann Sheridan, plus Frank Craven and Frank McHugh. Palace screens Forty Little Mothers with Eddie Cantor and Charlie Chan in City in Darkness. Rialto shows Beyond Tomorrow with Harry Carey and Six Gun Trail with Tim McCoy.
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Iowa
Brian Aherne
Rita Hayworth
East Side Kids
Paramount
Mickey Rooney
Judy Gatland
William Tracy
June Preisser
Larry Nunn
James Cagney
Ann Sheridan
Frank Craven
Frank McHugh
Eddie Cantor
Sidney Toler
Charle Chan
Rialto
Harry Carey
Tim McCoy
Cedar Rapids Guard Units Open Drive For Recruits
Cedar Rapids National Guard units announce a recruitment drive with headquarters at 304 Second Avenue SE. About 35 men can be recruited to full peacetime strength, with openings for specialists such as cooks bakers auto mechanics truck drivers typists clerical workers and male nurses in four units including Company C 133rd Infantry Headquarters Detachment 133rd Infantry and Company H 136th Medical Regiment Hospital Company.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa National Guard
Second Avenue SE
Adjutant General of Iowa
133Rd Infantry
136Th Medical Regiment
Cedar Rapids Units to Enter National Guard Training
The division surgeon's office notes all units are now motorized and open enlistment is for singles over 18. Registered men may still join the national guard. Cedar Rapids units are slated for induction for annual training after Jan 1 1941 and will proceed to Camp Beauregard Louisiana, now under construction and to be available after year’s start.
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National Guard
Cedar Rapids
Camp Beauregard
Louisiana
Oranges Named Surplus Food Of Week In Cedar Rapids Drive
A Cedar Rapids Iowa drive designated oranges as the surplus food of the week for Linn and Johnson counties. Mayor Frank K Hahn proclaimed oranges would replace cabbage to curb surplus from Iowa and other states. Merchants were urged to feature oranges with reduced prices and restaurants were invited to cooperate.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Johnson
Cedar Rapids-Linn Counts Food Industries Council
Surplus Marketing Administration
Frank K. Hahn
Iowa
Johnson Counties
Lucy Simpson
Community Nutrition Service
Miss Simpson
The
Food Industries Council
WMT
One Year Army Enlistment Program Suspended in Cedar Rapids
After two days of operation the one year enlistment plan was halted at the Cedar Rapids station with no enlistees under the new provision. Lieut. Lyle F. Buchanan received orders. Three men were enlisted Wednesday under regular terms: James C. Smith Davenport, Charles G. Brose Dubuque, and Marvin Stevens Davenport, all for Fort Des Moines units. Ontario leads Canada manufacturing, producing about half of national factory value.
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Cedar Rapids
Lyle F. Buchanan
James C. Smith
Davenport
80Th Field Artillery
Fort Des Moines
Charles G., Brose
Dubuque
Marvin Stevens
Field Artillery
George Connell Named Detective in City Police
Sergeant George Connell, with the department since 1926 and in the detective rank since 1934, was promoted to detective by Public Safety Commissioner Wes Benesh on Thursday. The move was approved by the city council and is effective immediately to fill the vacancy from A F Haberle’s reversion to patrolman after a civil service ruling. Patrolman How ard Walsh will serve 90 days as temporary replacement.
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George Connell
Police Department
Public Safety
Wes Benesh
Connell
A. F Haberle
Civil Service Commission
Haberle
Civil Service
Benesh
Patrole
Dan Kruidenier
Public Safety Commissioner
John Hanna
Howard Walsh
Walsh
Department
Navy Recruits Exceed Quota Accepted in Iowa Section
Des Moines reports say Cedar Rapids navy recruiting station accepts applicants in excess of quota. Those passing physicals will be accepted as fast as papers are prepared. Draft registrants may apply by contacting their local boards and appearing at the navy station.
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Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Far East
Nay
Notice to Bidders for Four Door Sedan Trade In
Sealed bids due by 3:00 PM October 21 1940 at the Braza Car Dispatcher office Ames Iowa for one four door Chevrolet sedan license 2008 P and E A-1615. Obtain proposal forms from J A Paulson Cedar Rapids. State law grants preference to Iowa grown products and provisions under Chapter 62 BI Code 1935.
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Braza
Iowan State Highway Commission
Ames
Iowa
J A Paulson
Iowa State Highway Commission
Cedar Rapids
State of
Natex Representative At Podzamek's Pharmacy Ad
The ad from Podzimek's Pharmacy promotes Natex and urges readers with sluggish bowels to consider a gentle colon cleansing. It lists symptoms like restless sleep, jitters, gas, and tiredness and frames relief as possible through the product. It targets neighbors and friends in the community.
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Natex
Podzimek
Second Ave
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