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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1940
Page
6
Cedar Rapids is commended for reducing its bonded indebtedness from 3 000 000 on April 1 1932 to 2 250 000. Over eight years the city added capital improvements worth over 2 000 000 including a jail police station 100 ton garbage incinerator sewage disposal plant and water system upgrades along with street department modernization.
Hedy Lamarr and Gene Markey end their marriage after a 14 month union. Lamarr testified there were only four evenings they spent at home alone, separating the couple in Hollywood.
Nancy Kelly and Robert Cummings lead a Paramount screen attraction running through Monday in a special anniversary program. Supporting cast includes Hugh Herbert Roland Young and Montagu Love. Roland Young plays a Boston family black sheep opposite his daughter who resists an arranged marriage. Cummings is the romance. Herbert brings a comic range from cab driver to Scotch nobleman.
Chevrolet leads its nearest competitor by 200 000 units so far this year. The Sunday worship service at Shueyville United Brethren church is at 9 30 with Sunday school at 10 30 and Senior Christian Endeavor at 7 30. Dr L B Gray of 1423 Bever Avenue SE is in Veterans hospital Des Moines after surgery on Sept 20. condition satisfactory and expected return to Cedar Rapids soon. Sidney J Mills, private in 19th company signal corps at Fort Des Moines, visited his mother Mrs Gertrude Mills on Glenway Drive over Sunday. transferred to the 326th air company at Fort Douglas Utah. Theft of an oxford gray overcoat and new dark trousers from a home closet in last two and a half weeks reported by A T Smith of Mount Vernon Avenue SE. value 15 50. Cedar Rapids taxicabs will have meters checked and sealed next week. Captain Gordon Hughes announces. Cub Pack 24 at Garfield School heard a moving picture of a northern canoe trip. awards given to Scouts. Detectives were called to Mrs W E Brown home to report a prowler between 7 30 and 8 15 p m. doors left open and no sign of a break in observed.
The Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor appointed RV. Richter G. K. Strausser and F. A. Canfield to a vocational education committee to work with local employers. The group also voted to ask the city council for a new taxicab rate ordinance at the request of J. D. White business agent for the teamsters union.
Cub Pack 24 meets as Richard F. Smith, Boy Scout field commissioner for Cedar Rapids, conducts the session guiding troop activities and merit badge progress.
Traffic Captain Gordon Hughes says new markers furnished by the Chamber of Commerce will be installed Monday to route Highway 30 through the business district. The path runs along Tenth Street SE from Eighth to Second Avenue, loops on Second to First Avenue W, then past city limits. Through routing continues on Eighth Avenue SE, K Street, and Sixteenth Avenue SW.
Aubrey Smith recovers after a tractor upset upending him to the ground causing a broken arm and bruises. Franklin Wilson suffers a scalp wound after being thrown from a mowing machine several days earlier.
Washington AP says the adjutant general replied to Rep McLaughlin that corps area commanders could permit enlistment of young men with juvenile court records. British prisons slowly are installing radios in all cells.
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