Nevada mountain mystery reaches dramatic denouement
In Reno Nevada a grim murder mystery centers on Marian Gilbert and William J. Gilbert with two men, Carl Ramser and Buck Biamont, amid blizzards and vanished spouses. Ongoing investigations seek the killer or killers as bodies remain missing and confidences unravel.
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Reno
Nev
Ins
Nevada
Buck Bia‘mont
Marian Lewis Gilbert
Menlo Park
Calif
Equestrienne
William J. Gilbert
Centerville
Biamont
Carl Ramser
Mrs. Gilbert
Gilbert
Louis A. O'Neal
San Jose
O'Neal
Marian
Ramser
Babies Gas Bag Tested as British Defence Measure
London AP reports Britain plans a rubber gas bag for babies two years old and younger as a defensive measure. The device folds around the child and uses an air pump with a filter. pumping every fifteen minutes prevents suffocation. Britain has 30 million gas masks in production at 500,000 weekly and will deliver 30,000 to municipalities, with home office guarantees of eight hour delivery to every citizen if war looks imminent.
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London
Home Office
Britain
First Place Winners Named in Linn County Dental Poster Contest
Mary McGregor of Mount Vernon took first in city grades seven to nine, Eugene Dunn of Marion won rural school division, and James Cabalka captured city fourth to sixth grade honors. State winners will be chosen in Davenport the first week in May.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids Dental Society
Mary McGregor
Mount Vernon
City
Eugene Dunn
Marion
James Cabalka
Davenport
Western Grebe Reported Feeding at Cedar Lake
Dr Warren Keck of Coe College identified the Western grebe at Cedar Lake on March 29 and informed the Cedar Rapids Bird Club at Coe Science Hall. Club members observed a rich variety of waterfowl and other birds, plan an exhibit during the Iowa State Bird Convention at the Montrose hotel on May 6 and 7.
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Warren Keck
Coe College
Cedar Lake
Cedar Rapids
Bird Club
Iowa
Fillmore School
Jean Ethel Brown
B. C. Brown
Fourth Street
Keck
Public Library
Montrose Hotel
Germans to observe two minute silence for Greater German Day
Berlin reports a two minute silence will be held at noon Saturday to mark the proclaimed Greater German Day from Vienna city hall. Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels ordered the national observance.
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Berlin
Greater Germany
Vienna
Joseph Paul Goebbels
Omelet with Ham and Parsley Featured in Cookbook Stil
A recipe describes beating yolks with cream and seasonings then folding in whites and cooking in butter until puffed and browned. It directs topping with chopped ham and folding, then garnishing with parsley before serving. A fruit cup with grapes pineapple peaches and avocado is suggested as an appetizer. Loch Lomond is noted as Scotland’s largest lake.
Town Deluged By Pennies As Tax Protestors Act
In Albany a penny flood hit Troy as 1000 R P I students pledged 25 percent of purchase prices in pennies to protest hidden taxes. The $2500 coin deposit drained local banks and aimed to spark a national campus tax awareness drive by the Taxcentinels.
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Albany, N
INS
Troy
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Albany
Make This Model At Home From Anne Adams Patterns
Describes a dainty summer sewing pattern with a jabot, short sleeves, V-neckline, and gored skirt. Pattern 4721 fits women sizes 34 through 50, with 3 1/2 yards of 41 inch fabric for size 36. Includes illustrated step by step instructions and mail order details for patterns and book.
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Anne Adams
Trousseau
The
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pattern Department
Weat Seventeenth Street
New York
N. Y
American seeks 3.5 million barrels oil indemnity in Mexico
W R Davis of Boston arrives in Mexico City aiming to secure 3 500 000 barrels of Mexican oil as indemnity. He represents a network including Crusader Petroleum Industries England Irish Refining Dublin and others and plans to ship any oil to a German refinery. He denies links to Francis W Rickett and Bernard E Smith who were in Mexico over a separate expropriation affair.
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Mexico City
INS
Mexico
Europe
W. R. Davis
Boston
Mass
Davis
New York City
Crusader Petroleum Industries
England
Irish National Refineries
Dublin
Europaische Tankslager
Transportag
Germany
Scanditank Concern
Sweden
Mexican Petroleum Administration
Francis W. Rickett
Bernard E Smith
Dionne Quints Welcome New Brother Thirteenth Child
The Dionne family in Callander Ontario welcomed a new son born Monday night to 29 year old Oliva Dionne. The baby weighed 74 pounds at birth and is the quints thirteenth child, joining the five sisters Marie Yvonne Annette Cecile and Emilie and ten older siblings. The infant and mother are reported doing well.
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Quints’ Special Nursery
Joyal
County Tax Office Reports Record Three Month Collections
General tax receipts for the first quarter of 1938 totaled 1 178 762.52 dollars, about 32.7 percent of the 1938 levy and exceeding one million for March alone. The county levy stands at 3 601 987.76 dollars, with March receipts setting a new monthly high.
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Milo Sedlaeck
Missionary To Talk On India At First Baptist
The Rev. Fr. Bixler Davis a Baptist missionary from South India will give an illustrated talk at 7 30 this evening at the First Baptist church. He spent twenty years in South India focusing on education and will show pictures of the country and native life. The meeting is sponsored by the church Women’s Missionary Society led by Mrs. E R Moore. The public is invited.
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Bixler Davis
South India
First Baptist Church
Davis
India
Woman’s Missionary Society of the Church
E. R. Moore
Roosevelt proclaims May Day as Child Health Day
President Roosevelt proclaims May 1 as Child Health Day and urges Americans to plan how child health work by public and private agencies can be extended and made more effective.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Notice of hearing on bank receivership sale in Cedar Rapids
In Linn County Iowa the District Court announces an application by D W Bates Superintendent of Banking to sell the Southerly half of Lot 10 Block 39 J D May's Addition Cedar Rapids for 900 dollars cash. A hearing is set for April 12 1038 at 9:00 A M at Cedar Rapids Court House. All interested parties must appear and show cause why the receiver should not be authorized as prayed. Wayne Boland attorney for receiver.
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District Court of Iowa
Linn
D. W. Bates
Jaws
Plaintif
American Trust and Savings Bank
Cedar Ramidé
Iowa
American Trust and Savings Bank of
Cedar Rapids
District Court
Ann G County
Towa
State of
American Trust and Bavines Bank of
Jows
Jd. C. May
Cedar Fra Pide
Linn County
Chieftains oppose drastic change in monetary policy
Washington (INS) The board of governors of the federal reserve system resists any drastic shift in monetary policy now. A majority believe altering current policies would do little for business recovery while noting potential uptick in industrial activity. They advocate a sound coordinated policy of taxation federal spending lending foreign trade agriculture and labor. The reserve board stresses maintaining credit and cites idle funds for lending with very low rates and no need for inflationary steps.
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Washington
INS
Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
Reserve
Using Wrong Methods To Avoid His Attentions
Mary Manners answers readers on dating behavior for teens in a column. Ally dodges Fritz through tricks and doors while Sally’s tactics backfire. the exchange includes a teen boy's view on dating and a response supporting youthful opinions.
Appointment of Administratrix for Willard Gehm Estate
Notice states that on April 4 1938 Mary Gehm was appointed administratrix of the estate of Willard H Gehm late of Linn County Iowa who has ceased. Creditors are asked to prove claims against the estate to O J Elserhast attorney in the Linn County District Court Iowa and pay debts promptly.
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Willard H. Gehm
Linn
Towader
Linn County
Iowa
Clerk Of Court And County Recorder In Race For Reelection
Two Cedar Rapids officials announce reelection bids in the Republican primary on June 6. Clerk of the District Court E W Lundquist, longtime resident and former labor Federation leader, seeks another term. County Recorder Dempsy Jones, a musician and civic figure, also runs for reelection. Both list long Cedar Rapids ties and family details.
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E. W. Lundquist
C Avenue
Lundquist
Cedar Rapids
Tribune Publishing Company
Wingert Press
Fortress Monroe
Allied Printing Trades Council
Seek Tho Sought In Million Dollar Taxicab Racket
Eight state alert issued for three men by District Attorney Dewey over a five year taxicab protection racket. Samuel Smith and Joseph Troue already held on warrants. Daniel Klein a material witness. John Firone named as a former Luciano henchman.
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New York
INS
Thomas E. Dewey
Samuel Smith
Joseph Troue
Daniel Klein
Dewey
John Firone
Charles “Lucky" Luciano
Dannemora
Giver Up Gun That Sparked Spanish War
A royalist prisoner captured at Morella in Castellon province handed to insurgent authorities a revolver he claimed was used to assassinate Calvo Sotelo in July 1936, the spark that ignited the Spanish civil war. The weapon was presented to Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
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Saragossa
Spain
INS
Morella
Castellon
Calvo Sotelo
Sotelo
Francisco Franco
AMA Warns Estradiol Cream May Cause Harm
The American Medical Association issued a warning about indiscriminate use of a beauty cream containing estradiol. The advisory notes potential serious organic changes and possible cancer, to be published in the April 7 issue editorial.
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Chicago
The
American Medical Association
Journal of the Association
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