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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1938
Page
22
In Cedar Rapids Barney Anderson, 20, once a college beginnings faded by loss, finds YMCA support and a Coe College scholarship after living on the streets. Russ, homeless a year, battles adjustment but keeps a job and plans to return to high school. Community Chest fund drives aid boys like them toward education.
The Czech Defense fund benefit dance will be held next Thursday from 2 to 5 p.m. at the C S P S hall. Eight women’s organizations sponsor the event and a committee meeting Tuesday at 2 p.m. will finalize details.
A small band organized by the Jan Hus I O O F lodge delegation will visit other Linn county lodges. Henry C. Jensen chairs the group, which visited Ely lodge last Tuesday and will visit Mount Vernon lodge next Wednesday. The Mount Vernon visit follows a 7 p.m. meeting after the Ely lodge is represented.
Members of the automotive trade and assistants are invited to a meeting at the Montrose hotel Monday at 8:30 p.m. Sponsored by National Carbon Company Inc and its wholesale agents. Topics include anti freez e protection for automobiles and Prestone anti freeze. Cedar Rapids Auto Supply is the local agent.
Fort Peck Montana AP reports that plans to repair the upstream face of the Fort Peck dam were halted by army engineers pending an investigation led by Col. Sturdevant. Major Kittrell cited no official cause, while Lt. Col. Snow said the slide was due to foundation settlement. Eight men died as dam materials tumbled down the east embankment.
Riverside reports the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus, stranded since Tuesday by financial troubles, moved to the Al G. Barnes circus winter quarters in Baldwin Park California on Saturday.
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