Community groups discuss social services aid in Cedar Rapids
Leaders from the Community House Sunshine Mission Public Health Nursing Association Y M C A and Y W C A discuss aid for underprivileged residents. They detail services from health clinics to shelter and youth programs and note high attendance and ongoing fundraising efforts.
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M. H. Morrison
Community House
Public Health Nursing Association
Junior League Nutrition Center
Cedar Rapids
A. T. Pleune
Sunshine Mission
Thompson
Public Service Division
Cedar Rapids Community Chest
Emil Pazdera
Hotels, Restaurant and Laundries Group
Thomas L. Crabbe
Financial Group
Ira Carruthers
Insurance Group
Utility Group
A. H. Talbot
Rockey Newton
Amusements Group
Iowa Platform Appearances By Knox Announced
Chicago publisher Col Frank Knox Republican vice presidential candidate will make five minute platform stops in Iowa on Sept 25. The schedule lists Red Oak Creston Osceola Chariton Albia with times from 11 30 a m to 3 30 p m CST and an address in Ottumwa at 4 20 p m.
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Chicago
Iowa
Frank Knox
Red Oak
Creston
Osceola
Chariton
Albia
Ottumwa
Iowa City Business Men To Hear James E Green
James E Green will deliver the principal address at a goodwill meeting of Iowa City business men. The event on September 30 was announced by interim Chamber of Commerce administrator Charles A Bowman. Green, known as a humorous inspirational speaker, was recommended by the U S Chamber of Commerce. The meeting starts the fall winter season for local business leaders.
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Iowa City
James E. Green
Charles A. Bowman
Chamber of Commerce
Green
United States Chamber of Commerce
Iowa News In Brief Highlights Local Events And Notices
A compilation from The Gazette covers incidents across towns. A Wyoming fire damaged Wishmore sandwich shop interiors due to a loose connection while repairing a stove. Other items note sophomore initiation plans in Lowden, church festivals, American Legion leadership changes in Anamosa, and multiple school class officer elections in Dewitt and Strawberry Point.
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Wyoming
Wishmore
Ernest Weller
Plan Your Play in Bridge to Control Trumps and Discards
A bridge hand shows how careful planning beats aimless play. South, the dealer, fights to avoid a dangerous club finesse and instead sets up a heart entry to discard, using counting and orderly sequencing to maximize tricks and minimize losses.
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East
South
West
Declarer
Cedar Rapids figures advance to leadership roles and study
10 20 30 J. H. Tatsch of Cedar Rapids was elected vice president of the Reserve Officers association of Town at a Des Moines meeting. Miss Roberta Lubbock of Cedar Rapids won a Walton Pyre School scholarship at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. Miss Dorothy Inskeep departs to serve as an assistant at Drake University. Mrs. A M Bittner and children left for California.
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J. H. Tatsch
Cedar Rapids
Reserve Officers Association of Town
Des Moines
Roberta Lubbock
Walton Pyre School of Dramatic Art
American Conservatory of Music
Chicago
Dorothy Inskeep
Drake University
A. M. Bittner
California
Mansfield heads to Pittsburg for Carnegie Institute
Louis Mansfield leaves for Pittsburgh to enroll at the Carnegie Institute. Mr and Mrs Luther Brewer host a farewell dinner for Mr and Mrs William Harvey Miner who depart for St Louis to settle there. Mrs F A Greene and her son Lyle return from a fourteen week visit with relatives in Boston and Providence. Cedar Rapids native R I Earl Crandall, a crew member of the U S cruiser Memphis, that sustained a disaster, left the ship two days before the incident.
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Louis Mansfield
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Institute
Luther Brewer
William Harvey Miner
St. Louis
F. A. Greene
Lyle
Boston
Providence
R. I. Earl Crandall
Cedar Rapids
U. S
Memphis
Lost in New York at Greene's Opera House
Inez Murray suffered a severe wrist cut from a fall on glass during the performance in New York. W B Wallace has returned from a business trip to Texas and New Mexico. Long Beach California.
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New York
Greene’s Opera House
Inez Murray
W. B. Wallace
Texas
New Mexico
Long Beach
Calif
Roosevelt Plans Weekend Cruise From White House Yacht
President Roosevelt sails the Potomac for a weekend leisure trip to Chesapeake Bay to rest from weeks of travel and speeches. He aims to avoid calls and official duties through Sunday night while his aides monitor reaction to his warning that private utilities must curb electricity prices. The cruise starts a lull period until Sept 29 before renewed campaign efforts.
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Washington
INS
White House
Potomac
Roosevelt
W. m Navy Yard
Chesapeake Bay
New York
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard
Social accounting urged to guide public works policy
George Soule proposes a national system of social accounting to test use of natural resources guiding public works and conservation. President Roosevelt pressed Boulder Dam turbines as delegates heard a radio description of the dam’s water falling 180 feet, a highlighted feature of the world power conference.
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Washington
Roosevelt
George Soule
World Power Conference
Boulder Dam
Constitution Hall
Colorado
Falls
Niagara
Soule
Secret Result Of Medical Dispute Stays Hidden
The American Chemical Society closed its 92nd meeting without releasing the outcome of the dispute with the American Medical Association over papers announcing new chemicals and drugs. Herman Seydel of Jersey City presented arthritis treatment findings with a benzoate compound, which sparked the controversy and led to the closed session. Dr. Paul Leech attended, Seydel claiming two years of clinical use. The society emphasized scientific cooperation over controversy and said research cannot be confined to one group.
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Pittsburgh
American Chemical Society
American Medical Association
Herman Seydel
Jersey City
N. J
Paul N. Leech
Chicago
The
Medical Association
Division of Drugs, Foods and Physical Therapy
Seydel
Chemical Society
Four Confess Plot To Wreck Train For Robbery
Coshocton Ohio prosecutors say four confess to planning to derail Pennsylvania passenger trains near Rock Run and Indal Bridge on August 27 to rob passengers. Albert Buckmaster 21 Edith Buckmaster West 30 Wayne Hartley 24 Norman Hartley 30 were named after hours of questioning.
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Coshocton
Russel E. Lyons
Pennsylvania
Rock Run
Yndal Bridge
Lyons
John Bank
Rockland
Albert Buckmaster
Edith Buckmaster West
Wayne Hartley
Norman Hartley
Kalona Baptist Association Meet Set for September
The Washington county Baptist association will convene with the Kalona congregation on September 13 14 and 15 with E H Reif as moderator and Rev Milan Thompson leading the singing. Rev Carstensen of Washington will preach the sermon titled Christ Pre eminent in our Personal Faith.
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Kalona
Washington County Baptist Association
E. H. Reif
Milan Thompson
Carstensen
Blum summons parley to halt labor strife in France
Premier Leon Blum called representatives from major employers and organized labor to a Monday meeting as strikes spread across France. About 100 000 industrial workers were on strike with riots in Clermont-Ferrand and Vosges factory occupations continuing as Blum warned of stricter labor laws if agreements are not enforced. Renault engineers faced questions over alleged attempts to sow discord while workers reported no truth to alarmist rumors.
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Paris
Leon Blum
Vosges
Blum
Clermont-Ferrand
Indus
Renault Motor
Renault
Popular Front
St Johns Church Opens Sunday School at 10 A M
The Sunday school of St John's Episcopal church on Nineteenth street at Park avenue SE will reopen Sunday at 10 a.m. Firemen put out a carburetor fire in a car owned by Lee Stinger of Mount Vernon at 3:57 p.m. Friday caused by a short circuit. The car was at Third avenue and Second street SE.
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St. John’s Episcopal Church
Nineteenth Street
Park Avenue SE
Lee Stinger
Mount Vernon
Stinger
Third Avenue
Second Street SE
Prowler Reported Near 1016 Third Avenue SW
J T Jenson of 1016 Third Avenue Southwest told police Saturday he saw a trespasser in the neighborhood at about 1 am. He described the man as around 25, coatless and hatless.
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J. T. Jenson
Third Avenue SW
Fire at Quaker Oats plant small damage on grinder
Firefighters responded to the Quaker Oats plant at 4 52 p m Friday after a grinder on the first floor overheated and ignited. Damage remained limited to the grinder with no reports of injuries.
Cedar Rapids Pianist Wade Moves Amateur Hour Appearance
Cedar Rapids pianist Wendell Wade will appear on the Amateur Hour program over WOR at 4 p.m. Cedar Rapids time, not on September 13 as first scheduled. Wade announced the rescheduled broadcast for September 20.
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Wendell Wade
Cedar Rapids
WOR
Fire at Ralph Nash residence ignites attic clothing
Saturday morning fire crews responded to the Ralph Nash home at 1034 Thirty-second Street NE where clothing in the attic caught fire while children played nearby.
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Ralph Nash
Thirty - Second Street
Missing Boy Sought After Oregon Bike Trip
The sheriff's office in Oregon Illinois reports Edwin Bowers age 16 a boy who left Oregon on a bicycle Wednesday is missing. He weighs 150 pounds stands six feet tall and wears overalls. He was last heard from via a postcard sent from Cedar Rapids Iowa.
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Sheriff's Office
Oregon
Ill
Cedar Rapids
Edwin Bowers
Waitress Slain by Mysterious Bullet in Long Beach Hangar
In Long Beach California a 31 year old waitress Marie Saner was shot in a municipal airport hangar Friday night. Police found her body after aviator William Buchanan said he heard a shot and saw her collapse. Despondent over a failed plane entry, she had been applying eye bandages from Buchanan’s dresser drawer.
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Long Beach
Calif
Marie Saner
William Buchanan
C. E. Peterson
Buchanan
Freshman Initiation Held at Six Ty High School
The annual initiation occurred in the school auditorium Friday with six high school pupils and guests attending. Eighteen freshmen have enrolled.
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Alburnett
Tung Oil Chief Defends Deals in State Injunction Action
W. C. Jordan president of Standard Tung Oil Corp of Cedar Rapids argues the firm does not sell securities but plants land for tung oil production under contract. The Iowa secretary of state alleges unregistered securities and questions jurisdiction. Jordan says purchases receive warranty deeds and that no salesmen are used, while the injunction cites a 1935 Clinton area transaction exchanging the tung oil agreement for securities.
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W. C. Jordan
Standard Tung Oil Corporation of
Cedar Rapids
Alex Miller
John F. Brady
Iowa Securities Department
A. B. Clark
Jordan
Standard Tung Oil Company
Florida
Secretary of State
Standard Tung Oil Corporation
State Securities Department
Securities Department
Clinton
Mina Jordan
Pedestrian M I Rodibaugh Injured in City Crash
Samuel I Rodibaugh suffered a scalp wound after being hit by a car driven by M J Matteson at the First Street and Third Avenue SW intersection Saturday at 11 40 a m He was taken by police to Mercy hospital and expected to be released later that day Matteson said he had stopped for a light and was traveling south as Rodibaugh stepped into the path Passengers included Mrs Matteson Mrs S A Mitchel of Blue Earth and Max Brown of Iowa Falls
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Samuel I. Rodibaugh
Seventh Avenue
M. J. Matteson
Blue Earth
Minn
First Street
Third Avenue
Rodibaugh
Mercy Hospital
Matteson
Experts Say Fat Herring Matches Beef for Nutrition Weight for Weight
Experts contend that a fat herring provides comparable nourishment to beef when measured by weight. They note that oily fish can offer similar protein and fat content per unit weight, challenging assumptions about dietary value.
Liberals Unite Behind Roosevelt Across Regions
Eastern liberals southern democrats midwest progressive groups and liberal labor leaders form a new alignment to back Roosevelt's reelection. Led by Sen. Robert La Follette Jr. and with 118 delegates from 23 states, the bloc pledges an aggressive, independent campaign, backed by labor figures like John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman, and with Fiorello La Guardia overseeing a national effort.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
Robert M. la Follette, Jr
Wisnesey
Lone Aatctoe
Maury
Labor
Nonpartisan League
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Machine Workers
D. W. Helt
Brotherhood of Railroad Signal Men
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
J. A. Phillips
Cedar Rapids
Order of Railway Conductors
Wisconsin Progressives
Minnesota Farmer-Laborites
Philip F. la Follette
Wisconsin
Hjalmar Petersen
Minnesota
Elmer A. Benson
Benson
Lewis Beee
Washington
James H. Causey
Colorado
George T. Davis
San Francisco
Monrad Wallgren
la Follette
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Hays Group Curtails Drinking Scenes in Films
The Will H. Hays organization warns Hollywood studios to limit drinking scenes in publicity stills and films. Publicity directors are told to reduce liquor imagery unless necessary to the story, following complaints from temperance groups and women’s clubs.
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Hollywood
Will H. Hays
Hays Group
Women’s Clubs
Temperance Societies
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