Cedar Rapids Artist Marvin Cone gains national art honor
Vernon last summer Marvin Cone painted Two Barns which now hangs in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute. It will join 299 others in Directions in American Painting as critics cite his top status alongside works shown at National Academy of Design and Chicago Art Institute among many venues.
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Vernon
Marvin Cone
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Institute
Department of Fine Arts
Cone
National Academy of Design
New York
Cincinnati Art Museum
Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania Academy of Art
Philadelphia
Toledo Art Museum
Chicago Art Institute
Chicago Galleries Association
Cedar Rapids
Daniel C. Rich
Chicago
Coe College
David Turner
W. R. Boyd
United States
WPA
Life
John W Barry
Two Barns
Mount Vernon
Ivanhoe Bridge
Carnegie
Wes Panek
Doris
Fifth Avenue SE
Mr Cone
Cedar Rapids Art Association
Public Library Art Gallery
Nation To Salute Its Sea Dogs On Navy Day
Navy Day on October 27, proclaimed by President Roosevelt and state governors, marks the 1775 bill for the first U S fleet and Theodore Roosevelt’s birth date. The navy enlists aggressively, with a broad campaign across newspapers, radio, and civic groups to recruit a record number.
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Roosevelt
Continental Congress
United States
Theodore Roosevelt
Department of the Navy
Navy
Vesper Service Closes Coe College Homecoming
The 4 p.m. vesper service today ends Coe College three day homecoming. An Old Testament theme features Moussorgsky cantata Joshua performed by the music department with the college orchestra and choirs. Prof. Paul S. Ray directs. Soloists include Margaret Hindence and Richard Kean with Grace Huddle Loeckhoff.
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Coe College
Moussorgsky
Joshua
Paul S. Ray
Margaret Hindece
Richard Kean
Grace
Classic Jewish musical service features Bruch violin piece
Joseph H. Kitchin violinist performs Kol Nidrei by Max Bruch with Flora MacKay Kitchin as accompanist. An a cappella choir sings Bairstow anthem I Sat Down Under His Shadow. Congregation joins in Chce Every Man and Nation Turn Back O Man with readings by Prof. James B. Hodgson and greetings from acting president C Harve Geiger. Eleanor Wendland and Eleanor Houts serve as organist and accompanist.
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C. Harve Geiger
David S. Berger
Eleanor Taylor Wendland
Eleanor Houts
Missing 19 year old pilot officer Davis Barnwell over Malta
Mrs F S Barnwell learns Davis Usher Barnwell 19 year old pilot officer and sole surviving child is missing after baling out of a crippled plane over Malta. Two older brothers and the father died in aviation service and testing in earlier years.
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London
F. S. Barnwell
Barnwell
Davis Usher Barnwell
Malta
R.A.F
Bristol
Rickets Preventative Teased By Cleveland Pediatrician
Dr Henry J Gerstenberger of Western Reserve University announced at the 26th International Medical Assembly that a single injection of a vitamin D-3 extract could protect children for months from rickets. He said lack of sunshine causes the bone disease and winter is the peak risk, suggesting fall injections.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Cleveland
Junior
Henry J. Gerstenberger
Western Reserve University
Twenty-Sixth
International Medical Assembly
Specific Charges Against French Leaders Move to Supreme Court
The attorney general presented to the supreme court Saturday charges against Gen. Maurice Gamelin former Premier Edouard Daladier and Leon Blum former minister Pierre Cot and other ex leaders and asked penalties to supplement recent Petain prison terms.
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VICHY
Supreme Court
Maurice Gamelin
Edouard Daladier
Leon Blum
Pierre Cot
Henri Phillippe Petain
Charges Hit Daladier Gamelin Blum and Cot in French War Prep
The prosecutor accuses Daladier of failing to arm France and entering war unprepared. Gamelin faces charges of letting France go to war unprepared and disrupting the high command. Blum is accused of social legislation that disrupted factory work and delayed aircraft output by strikes. Cot is charged with failing to supply airplanes.
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Daladier
France
Gamelin
General Staff
Blum
Cot
Waterworks Leaders Meet at Cedar Rapids Conference
Hydraulics experts gather for the twenty sixth annual Missouri Valley section meeting of the American Waterworks Association in Cedar Rapids. Sessions run Monday to Wednesday at the Montrose hotel with speakers from Chicago Wichita Sioux Falls Kansas City Des Moines and St Louis and a special program for women.
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Missouri Valley
American Waterworks Association
Cedar Rapids
H. F Biomquist
Louis R. Howson
Chicago
M. E.rogers
Wichita, Kan
Harry S. Morgan
Division of Sanitary Engineering
Iowa Department of Health
D. W. Senges
Permutit Company
Des Moines
Roger C. Higgins
Chillicothe
Melvin P. Hatcher
Kansas City
Water Department
Vance C. Lischer
St. Louis
County Water Company
Montrose Hotel
Oil blast kills two in Ventura
An oil storage tank explosion in Ventura California left two men dead Saturday and three others in critical condition. Investigators probe the cause of the blast at the facility where the injuries occurred.
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Ventura
Calif
Ins
Music Night at Memorial Coliseum Wednesday
A free music night at Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday at 8 p.m. is sponsored by the recreation and playground commission with Roosevelt and Franklin high schools Coe and Cornell colleges the Czech chorus and organist Frank Bates Jr. The program includes instrumental vocal organ solo and choral and orchestral numbers using the new amplifying system.
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Memorial Coliseum
Recreation and Playground Commission
Roosevelt and Franklin High Schools
Coe
Cornell
Frank Bates, Jr
Coliseum
Doctor Imposter Cheats Woman In Plaster Footprint Heist
A New York housewife, alone at home, is tricked by a suave stranger posing as a doctor. He claims she and her husband must pass a physical exam, makes her immerse both feet in plaster for a footprint, then loots the apartment of $1,000 in jewelry while the plaster hardens.
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New York
Post Office
One Man I Opinion by Walter Kiernan
Walter Kiernan presents a collage of items from Teaneck to Germany praising walking 55 miles for gas savings and noting 55 miles per day. He jokes about uniforms in Germany and criticizes a Chicago foundry for aluminum delivery. The column blends satire on wartime economy and cultural references with a final note on Finland’s forests and lakes.
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Walter Kiernan
James H Hocking
Teaneck
N. J
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Grant Wood
Wood
Emma Grattan
Washington High School
Merle E. Garmoe
Third Street SE
Dial
Montrose
Iowa Electric Light & Power Company
Germany
Fuher
Finland
Newman
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