Plane crash kills four marines near Potomac
A board of inquiry was named to determine the cause of a large training plane crash Monday night into the Potomac River. Four Marines died including Master Tech Sergeant Benjamin F. Belcher and Staff Sergeant Laurence G. Granville. The pilot, Capt. John Wehle, West Point, was thrown clear before the aircraft hit water. Also reports mention a related California and Georgia connections.
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Quantico
INS
Potomac River
Benjamin F. Belcher
Laurence G. Granville
Biggs
Calif
Raymond ¥. Kennedy
Manassas
Frederick M. Hudson, Jr
Drexel Hill
John Wehle
West Point
Edgar A. Guest The Poet of the People As Fishermen
A compact poem fragment-set titled The Poet of the People features lines about fishermen life and life’s misers, with brief verses on honesty with money and pain. It presents short reflections by Edgar A. Guest from 1938.
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Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Theaters listings and executor notice in Iowa
The column lists film showings at Paramount Laurel and Hardy at New State and other theaters with stars such as Don Ameche Rosemary and Bogart. It also includes a Notice of Appointment of Executor in Linn County Iowa dated September 26, 1938, naming The Peoples Savings Bank as executor and John M. Powell as attorney, urging payment of debts and filing of claims.
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Paramount
Gateway
Don Ameche
Aileen Whelan
Iowa
Rosemary
Priscilla
Lola Lane
Gale Page
Claude Rains
New State
Laurel and Hardy
Gloria Stuart
Michael Whalen
State of
Linn County
Mattie J West
Linn Peony
the Peoples Savings Bank
John M. Powell
Deaf and blind woman folklore puzzle list
A fragmented puzzle compilation mixes word clues with a bizarre narrative about bad chaps and Uncle Wiggily. It references famous deaf and blind figures, legal claims, proverbs, and animal and object clues, concluding with a fairy tale style interaction and a stray chocolate cake remark.
Bedtime Stories Two Bad Chaps Hunger for Uncle Wiggily
The Fox and the Bob Cat, angry and hungry, quarrel over a cave escape rescue. They plot to catch Uncle Wiggily and Bubu, debating who willEat first and how to divide him, in the grass as the scene unfolds.
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Fox
Bob Cat
Uncle Wiggily
Buster
Rabbit Boy
Bob
Bubu
Uncle
Uncle Wiggily and the Circus Cage Trick
Uncle Wiggily taunts the Bad Chaps as the Fox and Bob Cat close in. He hints at a trick to outwit them while warning Bubu to run and keep baby safe, signaling a cautious plan to avoid danger.
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Bubu
Uncle Wiggily
Mr. Longears
Hollywood Scatterbrain Foiled by Fame and Folly
In Hollywood on the Boulevard I meet a writer who fell from grace, owing nearly five thousand and living with a wife and daughter barely keeping a roof. He drives a Cadillac to a ten room Hollywood Hills mansion and adores first editions, a lifestyle mocked by peers as the world’s grasshoppers fate.
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Ollywood
Hollywood Hills
Hollywood
Publicity, contracts, and fan mail woes of 1930s stars
A nostalgic column recalls Sherrill Walker's abrupt release from a Paramount contract after winning the Tournament of Roses queen title. It laments fan magazines hubris, notes Hollywood’s rising starlet mystique, and highlights a flood of European fan letters for work, with Eddie Cantor assisting. It also mocks Marie Wilson's forgetfulness amid a memory-school joke.
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Sherrill Walker
Pasadena
Paramount
Hollywood
Europe
United States
Eddie Cantor
Room Service at Iowa Theater: Marx Brothers Comedy Ahead
The Marx Brothers bring Room Service to the Iowa theater Friday with Groucho Chico and Harpo in a farce of interrupted romance, wild humor, and shady finance. A penniless producer, 22 actors and a hotel scheme ignite chaotic tricks as an auditor and a backer arrive. Co feature Juvenile Court stars Rita Hayworth Paul Kelly and Frankie Darro.
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Iowa
Marx Brothers
Groucho
Chico
Harpo
Marx
Columbia
Rita Hayworth
Paul Kelly
Frankie Darro
Barron Motor Co Hosts 600 Auto Dealers Meeting
More than 600 automotive dealers from the Cedar Rapids trade area are to attend a Barron Motor company meeting at the Montrose hotel in Cedar Rapids at 7 pm Wednesday. William J. Barron will lead the event with principal speaker Tom Duggan of Thompson Products.
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Cedar Rapids
Barron Motor Company
Montrose Hotel
William J. Barron
Tom Duggan
Thompson Products Com
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Frank McHugh
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Nat Pendleton
Strand
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Lenore
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Pannie Wuast
Mas Soceate
Warnie Bros
JOY
Edgar Kennedy
Beaux and Errors
Fisherman's Paradise
Baer Auch
Lotte
Lucille Ballann Miller
Frank C Albertson
Jimmie Fidler
Katharine Hepburn
Gretna Garbo
Dorothy Lamour
Madeleine Carroll
Alice Faye
Shirley Temple
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Arizona
Wildcat
Marie Wilson
Addison Sims
Liberty
America
Haven of
Refuge
Don
Ameche Whelan Wa Lyle T
Binnie
Hterdogs
Tannhauser
Paramount News
Ars
John Barrymore
Rea Gane
Neo
Howard Kraemer
Alice Cooper
Barron Motor Co
Berlin
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