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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 17

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DES MOINES SUNDAY REGISTER, APRIL 3, 1938. KOW! More Than 300,000 Circulation! FIVE IOWA NEWS DURING WEEK STARTING APR. 11 REFUND MUSIC Safety Award Winner TICKET MONEY C. of C. to Fete Golden Anniversary FORUM SPEAKER IS PLAYWRIGHT Reade to Open Series Here on Monday.

A widely known Oxford unU versity graduate snd writer of Is Civic Association Oversubscribed. Opening State Income Tax Returns For the first time In the 14 MEMBER DRIVE TO BE LAUNCHED years of the organization's history, Des Moines Civic Muic associa tion workers were preparing to refund season tickets Saturday night at Hotel Savery. modern and historical plays will be the neighborhood public forum speaker In Des Moines this week. Working late, commttteewomen Preliminary Meeting on Friday. Fifty years of life spent in had recorded 1,410 tickets, capacity of the Hoyt Sherman place -1 auditorium, and were attacking a pile of unopened letters contain ing more $5 bills and requests for stimulating and fostering all types of Des Moines activity will be celebrated by the Leslie Reade, the new forum leader, was bom in South Africa.

At Oxford he studied law, later 1938-1939 memberships in the as sociation. immun mum '-w sui i mei maim immmm'i" Chamber of Commerce during the 'Full Value." "It should be plainly evident week starting Apr. 11. becoming a mem now that the music association Is ber of the Brit The celebration will open with an all-membership meeting' next Friday noon. The memberahlp not a charity.

Its members re ish bar. He is a hkaujs. member of the Royal Institute of ceive full value for their money," said Mia. Clifford DePuy. general International affairs, London, drive, to be held in connection with the golden anniversary, will be launched at a breakfast on England, and has participated in special work for the League of Nations.

Monday morning of the celebra As a playwright, Reade is tion week. Oolden Jubilee. known for "The Shattered Lamp," successfully produced In London chairman of the membership drive Just ended. "Next year persons who want to Join the association had better get their money in early. The tickets will go fast." Student Tickets.

Student memberships in the association will be refunded first, Mrs. DePuy said. Costing S2.50, they were sold on the understanding adult members should have The week will be called Golden and New York, N. Y. He has Jubilee week and a ipecial com' contributed to The Nation, The New Republic and The American mittee in charge of the week'a special actlvitiei will be headed by Clifford DePuy.

Other members Spectator. His home now is in New York. will be George Stroud, W. Reade is an expert on interna Scott, Harry Sivright, Francis tional politics, as well as on lit first choice. Robinson, Dave Crenshaw and erature and the drama.

Many of Two hundred student member Joyce Swan. his articles have dealt with for eign affairs. ship season tickets have been sold. They will be refunded beginning This Golden Jubilee week committee also will be in charge of the Friday program which with the last tickets issued. It is mi i i iiifif I i expected no full membership will have to be cancelled to pare mem Ills subject during the week will be "The Contemporary American Play." His first talk will he at Roosevelt High school at 8 p.

ni. Monday. Tuesday night Reade will lead a bership to 1,410. The progrsm for the coming lUslittr Stiff Phot With boxes and bales of state Income tax returns piled around them, these girls Saturday were digging Into the pile. They are (faring camera, left to right), Veronica, Morrissey, 1700 Grand and Ruth Mary Harrison, 508 Polk blvd.

Backs to camera are Margaret Stiles, S884 Eleventh and Frae Entrikin, 1024 Grand ave. season will be announced aa soon Rettr Staff Photo. Two persons saw Mrs. Millon Y. Strlrklrr, 3605 Allium stop her car In a heavy rain Wednetulay and pit up a heavy sign which had fallen In the street at nftj-nlxlh t.

and Grand ave. Because she went out of her way to remove a traffic hazard both persons Independently recummended her for Police t'apt. V. E. Tlmmons' weekly safety award, which Tlmmons presented to her Saturday.

launches the celebration. The chamber was founded aa the Dea Moines Commercial Exchange In 1888. The population of the city waa 40,000, and the exchange had a membership of 280 with an annual budget af $3,000 for the first year. The program adopted by the forum at North High school; booking arrangements can be Wednesday night at Grand View made. The association guarantees college; Thursday night at Drake at least four concerts a season.

university lounge, and Friday Bum's Day at Iowa Wesleyan night at East High school. He will speak at 1 p. m. Saturday at INSTALL NEW change Included the obtaining of more conventions for Des Moines, Younkers. TROOP TODAY development of Iowa roads, ob taining more favorable freight MINISTERS ASK DEFEAT OF BILL rates, and a systematic advertise WORKS ON CAR, DIES.

(Thi Ret Utar'i low Ntwi Servlct.) KALONA, I A. Alpheus Miller, Boy Scout Event to Be in ment of the city as a location for hind the reorganization bill," the Kev. Mr. Neville said Saturday. "Some future dictator may take advantage of Its provision." Iowa ministers and laymen are Invited to attend a second meeting "to down atheistic communism" at 7:30 p.

m. Monday at the center. The Rev. Mr. Neville will speak.

industries. Mondamin Ave. Church. A new Des Moines Boy Scout 1 Good Will Trips. troop will be Installed at 7:30 0 49, a hatchery employe, died at his home here at 7 p.

m. Saturday of heart attack after working on his car. His wife, three sons and two daughters survive. Atheistic Communism Efforts to expand Des Moines hi i retail center occupied the n. today at Mondamin Avenue Church of Christ, Sixteenth st.

snd Mondamin ave. early years of the exchange with I annual good will trips being car- Seen by Pastor. Thirty ministers and 120 lay The new troop, to be known as ried out Each year, the number Troop 54, will be Installed by men headed by the Rev. Jack L. SPRING SALE OF NEW PIANOS of conventions grew, and each Troop 31, of Highland Park Church of Christ, under the lesd- Neville, pastor of the Des Moines year some accomplishment of the Evangelistic center, Saturday tele ership of Scoutmaster Dave Baty.

group maae me city more aiirac I tiva to business activity. By 1908, the membership had in graphed Iowa Democratic con 1 -test 1-V -rJ W. Coones, assistant scout gressmen to vote against the gov executive for the Tall Corn council of the Boy Scouts of America, ernment reorganization bill. creased to 800, and the exchange I had the reputation of being on of will speak. Assisting in the installation will Jthe moat active organizations of its type in the country.

The in- I creased amount of work under-I taken by the exchange waa being "In maU-rlal matters we are very fearful you will be Impelled to follow falHe Gods," the telegram read. "With the Lord's help we have be Francis Antrim, assistant scout master of the new troop; the Rev. Dave Titus, pastor of the church; 1 divided between the Commercial club and the Greater Des Moines -a T' Ms 1 ft tM -V, 1 created happy homes through the pursuance of industry and the gos committee, both organized under i pel. We desire to remind you ours is the only government In the Earl East, chairman of the church scouting committee; W. C.

Find-ley, chairman of the council's committee on scout advancement; A. E. Tyler, chairman of the church board; Carl Wicker, troop service committee member; Jack Bennett, troop scoutmaster. The troop charter will be presented by John Olson, north dls- world guaranteeing religious the exchange. The exchange voted In 191S to change its name to the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce, and started the year of 191 under that name.

An agricul F'ear for Liberty. "We are thoroughly convinced $380 fliilbranaen (Vogue). Full scale C90C rnnftole )skf 9 Wurlitzer Console, full SH40 New Kurtzman Grand Gulbraniten Full scale Spkielte $495 (1'riscilla). $245 the so-called government reorgan- tural committee waa organized, and the retail merchants' bureau I scale, maple finish $365 trlct commissioner for the Boy izatlon bill now pending in the Scouts of America, aided by Alex house jeopardizes this liberty. We 1 Moses, R.

J. Guthford snd William Woodford. CIOC I I'! Uprights Foster 4 Waldo Used Orand $20 Reiliur Stttt Photo. Iowa Wesleyan college students at Mount Pleasant Friday donned hobo costumes to participate In the Bum's day activities. They had chargs of the chapel entertainment and led a parade through the business district.

Virginia Carls of Mount Pleasant (left) Is shown assisting Katherlne McNeil 4 I 7l l( 'p from became a part of the chamber. The Des Moines Boy Scout movement was reorganized by the chamber in 1918, the membership increased from 300 to 8,000, and the movement put on a permanent basis. Efforts Rewarded. urge you to vote sgainst the bill in its entirety." The telegram was the outgrowth of a meeting Thursday night at the Evangelistic center. 313 Fourth sponsored by the Rev.

Mr. Neville and Jack Lafield, Houston, a representative of the Christian American magazine. "Atheistic communism Is be Liberal trade-in allowance Easy terms STONER PIANO CO. of Wapello In giving Max Stein of Wyaconda, some Instructions on how any "well dressed man" should appear. Elmer Fenton of Mount Pleasant (right) Is learning from Muriel McKinnon of New London that she carries the parasol because rain often ruins "good clothes." PASTOR TO LEAVE.

SIGOURNEY, IA. The Rev. E. K. Schneider, pastor of St Paul's Evangelical church, haa resigned, effective June 19, and will accept the pastorate of St.

Paul'a Evangelical church at Donnellson. In 1923, a zoning commission Phone 4-6238 914 Walnut I was created by the city after years ESTATE IS SET Oi eiron oy. me cnamoer, ana a I comprehensive city plan taken un-j der consideration. The safety coun-cil was also founded In that year, and a drivers' school held. ATS200.000 Yes, College Men Prefer Blonds But Brunets Get Jobs A women's Affairs department bad been started In 1920, and In 1924 the young men's department was founded.

This la $40,700 in Gifts Left now known aa the Junior Cham by Bear of Decorah. DECORAH, IA. Ben Bear, vet ber of Commerce. A rather momentous question as to whether college men "I DON'T SEE YOU VERY OFTEN SINCE YOU BOUGHT THIS NEW OLDS MOBILE" The first president of the cham eran merchant who died here Mar. prefer blonds has been settled, at a popular midtown ren ber then the a was 22.

gave away a fortune estimated NO-MY OLDS MOB IE IS THE EASIEST CAR ON CAS I'VE OWNED IN I HARDLY EVER ADD OIL BETWEEN CHANGES, AND MY UPKEEP COSTS ARE LOWER, TOO OLDSMOBILE GIVES ME EVERYTHING COULD ASK FOR IN ECONOMY Louis Harbach. Few presidents at $100,000 during his lifetime, rave served more than one term His will, which was filed for probate last week, is believed to dezvous. Two years ago the establishment advertised for an assortment of exclusively blond waitresses. The cash register clanked a happy refrain as Drake university aitnougn Ashton Clemens was twicf re-elected. W.

W. Waymack cover property worth approximate ly $200,000. It consists of three siuaenis partook or double cnoco' Is president this year. 1 1,400 Members. real estate properties in the cen ter of the business district, the Bear home, majority stock In the late sodss served up by flaxen-tressed maidens.

Definitely, the gentlemen preferred them. Unfortunately, the blonds also preferred university gentlemen. PREP SPEAKERS HOLD CONTESTS Bean Bear and other stocks The present membership of the Including the Junior group and women'a department. Is about 1,400. All of this group will participate In the opening cel and bonds and life Insurance total ing $35,000.

The city's blond supply was ex Under the terms of the will Mrs. hausted rapidly filling vscsncies ebration luncheon Apr. 8. but will Bear will receive the bulk of the in the ranks. jiot be included in the anniversary estate, but there are individual Tht RefllUr'i lows Ntwl Strrlet.

District high school declama Saturday night six waitresses events of the next week. gifts to relatives, business aasc- if W. W. Jaeger, vice president of were very busy dispensing refreshments at the place. tory contests are under way In iciates and other organizations Iowa.

The winners will go to Iowa amounting to $40,700. All were brunets. 5 "No more glamour gals for us," City, to the state forensic Each of Decorah's six churches art given $100. Similar amounts signea me mansger. hTom now tournament finals.

Results re- on, we insist it enough to be de- the Bankers Life will be principal speaker at the all-member-whip luncheon Apr. 8, according to John Adams, secretary of the chamber. YOUTHS SNATCH WOMAN'S PURSE go to the Union Aid society, the Masons, Elks, Odd Fellows, Wom ported are: mure and steady." Fairfield. Li TRANSMISSION yC00 A'ZTLn Vu IL. i j.wiiii.-ii.M m.ji mm Aiohifw en's Relief corps, American Legion Oratorical Peter McGivern of auxiliary, fire department, park Marengo, la.

icommission, Aase Haugen Home SERVICE ENDS ifor the Aged and the Children's Dramatic Louise Heer of home in Des Moines. Luther col 3 Railroad Men Serve Total lege and the Decorah hospital are Helena Mitchell, 608 Twelfth at, lost 25, a prayer book and rosary when two youths snatched her purse while she was on her way home about 10:30 of 129 Years. (Th Rtflittr'l low Ntwl Strvlct.) BOONE, IA, Three employes of Humorous Craig Hustion of Columbus Junction. Harlan. Oratorical First, Bob Caddick the North Western railroad worked to receive $500 each and the Hebrew Orphans asylum at Cleveland, Ohio, was given $250.

The will waa drawn up Feb. 24, 1934. Executors are Milton Loeb of New York City, a nephew; Mrs. Bear and David S. Benjakin of Springfield, a son-in-law.

C. N. Houck Is attorney for the estate. of Walnut. P- m.

Saturday. The woman told police her purse was taken while she was walking west on High between Tenth and Eleventh streets. She said one youth appeared to Dramatic First, James Christ- their final days Thursday after serving an aggregate total of 129 years. They are Harry Weaver, machinist; Frank Whitman, boiler-maker, and Elmer S. Clapp, traveling storekeeper.

ensen of Harlan. Humorous First, Wayne Bark- man of Harlan. ne about 18, the other 19. They disappeared down an alley, she 4DVEBTIM.ME.NT. 4DVEBTI0EMENT.

aid. Weaver has been employed by the railroad since 1S9L Whitman started to work for the railroad In 1899 and Mr. Clapp started to ASTOUNDING AND EFFECTIVE FOR WILDLIFE GROUP TO MEET APR. 11 (Tin Rotfitu't tows Nw tcnrlcO work In 1895. All three men started to work In Boone.

SORE FEET AND BACKACHE 1JNUIANOLA, I A A county misery when muscle are sore LODGES TO MEET. (Th fUfitti'i lows fm sm.) GARNER, IA. Kebekah lodges and lame when you have sprain In Many Cases Overnight Results Make Sufferers Happy of Hancock county will hold a con or strain when feet are sore and aching don't hesitate get a S3 cent bottle of penetrating Om conservation meeting will be held the high school auditorium Apr. II, according to Howard A. Baer, president of the Warren County JVlldlife association.

A county sportsman club will be organized after the meeting. The What vou want is rrWct frnm vention here Wednesday. Miss Jo arhen ntiiu anrenmu mrut l.m I Oil and rnb It In good. sephine Dustin of Maxwell, DEWALL MOTORS, ING. sembly president, will give' and muacJea andjoo.

K't main address. Miss Velva Caro-, prTly reuei is wnat you may ex- for th. relief of the Ipeet when you use powerful medi- pains of rboumatlim, sciatica, nou- thers of Garner is district .17. iritis, neuralaia and iumbavh purpose of the club is to admin-J rhone W128 Des Moinr 1306 Locust Street later the bird stocking program. dent.

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