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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1939
Page
3
The Iowa House backs legalizing pinball and bank night lotteries with a tax plan from Representative Leo Hoegh projecting state revenue of 250 000 to 400 000 yearly. The piece notes political reactions to new revenue and ongoing debates over slot machines and urban entertainment measures.
Four naval reserve airmen died when two reserve planes collided midair during the launch of the aircraft carrier Wasp in Quincy Massachusetts. Pilots Waldo T. Brown and Ellsworth Benson perished along with crewmen John Aussello Walter Kirk as the squadron maneuvered over Fore River shipyards. A child in a nearby home was unharmed as one plane struck a roof and another crashed on a hill near Weymouth and Braintree.
Police transport 82 year old Catherine Halvorsen to hospital after neighbors report her dead. A rough ambulance ride dislodges her false teeth and she sits up, regaining normal breathing en route to the Danish American hospital.
Washington reports war department regulations limit new lieutenant appointments to single men never married. Officials say a wife is a handicap to a young officer and married men are not wanted under the army expansion program.
New York AP report says Tammany District Leader James J. Hines won a certificate of reasonable doubt in supreme court on Tuesday, allowing an appeal of his four to eight year sentence for aiding the Dutch Schultz numbers racket which reportedly took in about 20 million dollars annually.
The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed Judge B O Tankersley’s ruling overruling a motion by H M Cooper of Marshalltown to strike the Cedar Rapids Gazette Company’s answer in a libel case. The suit denied an agency relationship between the company and Mr and Mrs Thomas Dodd and Charles Dodd of Belle Plaine.
A tense scene describes pursuit across England and France as authorities weigh actions. The confrontation looms as negotiators seek restraint while tensions rise and the public awaits a decisive move.
A 1939 pondering essay by Dr Alwton and others on friendships, self restraint, faith, civlization, and personal philosophy. It reflects on belief, conscience, wisdom, and the origin of the word man from Sanskrit meaning Think.
Iowa House approved a 104 to 0 vote for the old age assistance act raising the pension ceiling to 30 dollars in exceptional cases and adding 2 million dollars a year for pensions. The plan would push state pensions to 7.5 million dollars annually with federal matching bringing total to over 14.5 million dollars for recipients. The bill moves to the senate and sparked a debate over appropriations procedures.
Britain warned Italy not to copy German expansion by marching into Albania. Official British sources said any Italian action threatening Albania’s independence would breach the British Italian agreement. Reports in Rome said Italy massed troops near Albania to extend control.
A satirical column by Arthur Bugs Baer imagines the New York and San Francisco fairs in a playful rivalry. Half the fleet each, rumors swirl about Sally Rand and popular pavilions like the Frankfurterium and Mustardcade amid staged competition.
A reader mails in about a new Gazette sponsored candid camera game in Cedar Rapids. Cameramen started today and expect about 2,500 photos Tuesday as townsfolk cooperate and pose. Participants can send a quarter with a card to receive three 2 by 3 inch prints and later prints in The Gazette. Susie invites friends to join and try the downtown activity.
Washington report says 12 members of the house deficiency subcommittee were chosen to lead a WPA investigation. Edward T Taylor heads the panel with Clifton A Woodrum as second in command and the group plans outside help. Focus will be on general relief policy and administration to guide potential legislation and review the 1940 relief appropriation.
In Columbus an Ohio senate resolution to probe reported un American activities in state universities was suddenly withdrawn. Senator R A Pollock, sponsor, said he pulled the measure as a protest against its handling and noted he sought a showdown on the senate floor before it was sent to a committee.
Berlin officials released figures showing German public debt added about 10 billion marks in the year ending January 1939 raising total indebtedness to 28.11 billion marks. The report lists the $11.24 billion total in current dollars and notes the wide rise in wartime spending.
The Pan American Airways liner Yankee Clipper landed at Southampton ending the final leg of its trans Atlantic flight after departing Marseille earlier Tuesday on a 700 mile hop.
Vatican authorities are examining plans to shield Pope Pius XII and his aides during air raids, according to a Vatican news service disclosure on Tuesday.
Gov George A. Wilson named King R Palmer of West Union H C Beard of Mount Ayr and Mrs Mary Huncke of Des Moines to Iowa’s new state board of social welfare. Palmer 45 a Republican and UI graduate serves six year term, Beard 61 a Democrat and former Mount Ayr mayor and US attorney, Huncke longtime child welfare advocate.
Gov George A Wilson faced a 36 to 11 partisan vote after lawmakers urged action on overdue appointments to state boards. Republican rivals argued the resolution was too political while several panels await nomination including the board of control liquor commission parole and highway commission amid reorganization.
Cedar Rapids police arrested Walter Lammer 34 of Marion on an intoxication charge after his truck hit a machine driven by J. W. Posey 1565 Second Avenue SE in front of the library on Third Avenue. No injuries were reported. Lammer posted 105 dollar bond and pleaded not guilty. Posey did not appear against Lammer. Lammer was charged only with intoxication as police had not seen him driving.
New York officials report Charles Mitchell and Lot Schwartz were found guilty of second degree assault in the seizure of 4 year old Michael Katz. They held the boy for two hours in a failed ransom attempt of 7000 dollars from his father George Katz. They were acquitted on a kidnapping charge.
Picketing parishioners who have barred the Rev. Simon Borkowski from leaving St Barbabas Church in Vulcan Michigan say they will release him on April 18 The ongoing case at Marquette seeks an injunction stopping the picketing and forcing the priest and 35 congregation members to show cause why the injunction should not be issued The pickets say they love the priest too much to let him depart and have kept vigil at his home since last August to block his transfer.
Special to The Gazette Grinnell Iowa Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins signals a move to establish a legal home in Grinnell amid his election as trustee of Grinnell College His Iowa ties feed speculation he aims for the Democratic presidential nomination and seeks the Iowa son image Hopkins has lived in the East for twenty years and prepared his business appeasement speech in Grinnell last February
New York comedian Jack Benny pleaded guilty in federal court to smuggling jewels and received a suspended sentence of one year and a day and a $10,000 fine. co-defendant George Burns also pleaded guilty and faced similar penalties. Benny had switched from not guilty to a no defense stance on advice of counsel amid questions of government prosecution.
Cedar Rapids news reports George Aupperly 23 of Marion injured when his tractor veered on Sixth Street SE and toppled after the right front wheel locked. He was pinned under the machine for several minutes before rescue and transport to St Luke’s hospital for X rays to check for broken bones.
Burglars broke into the Texaco Bulk plant at 631 Twelfth Avenue SW on Monday night. They shattered a door, entered the office, and ransacked the room but found no loot, the fourth such break in with no money kept in the office.
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