Dionne Father Seeks Official Probe Into Quintuplets Care
Oliva Dionne urged Ottawa to launch a judicial inquiry into the guardianship of the five Dionne quints. He accuses Dr. Allan Dafoe and guardians of restricting parental contact and mismanaging the children’s education and finances while the quints’ public exposure has helped build a sizable fortune.
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Ottawa
Ont
Ins
Oliva Dionne
Allan Roy Dafoe
Henri St. Jacques
Lanvyer
Attorney-General’s Office
Dafoe
J. A. Valin
Percy D Wilson
Dionne
Wilson
Jacques
Attorney-General’s Department
Board of Guardians
Camp divorce granted to Mrs Gladys Camp
Mrs Gladys Smith Camp and Walter Camp Jr were granted an interlocutory decree of divorce on grounds of cruelty. Walter Camp Jr is son of the late noted sports authority.
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Hollywood
INS
Gladys Smith Camp
Walter Camp, Jr
Final Chance for National Want Ad Week Bargains
Notice urges readers to place Want Ads this Saturday between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Ads can run in Saturday paper or the larger Sunday section. Readers report good results this week and are advised to call 2-1121 or the Gazette office to place ads.
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Gazette Office
Doctor Dafoe Blames Outside Forces Over Dionne Quints
Dr Allan Roy Dafoe says outsiders seek control of the Dionne quints and their $600,000 estate amid disputes with guardian Oliva Dionne and the quints board. He cites Dions suspicion and staff allegations of Anglicization as fueling the conflict and notes investigations by Ontario officials.
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Board of Guardians
Ontario
Dafoe
Dionne
Dafoe Nursery
Dr. Dafoe
Jacqueline Noel
Claire Tremblay
Gordon Conant
Percy Wilson
Freezing Snap Hits Cedar Rapids Fruit Trees
Temperatures plunged to a 31 degree low at 6 am in Cedar Rapids as frost whitened rooftops. Readings rose through the day to 62 by 2:30 pm with a high of 58 in the morning and 55 at 8:30 am, then cooled to 40 by midnight per Chambers Inskeep records.
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Cedar Raiis
Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Undistributed profits tax back in Washington deal
A five billion dollar tax bill reached a compromise in secret conferee sessions between the Senate and House. The week-long deadlock ended with at least a partial victory for President Roosevelt as the undistributed profits tax principle was restored to the measure.
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Washington
INS
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Jap Cabinet And High Command Face Drastic Purge
London reporting that Japan’s wartime cabinet may undergo drastic reorganization with a purge of the military high command if the China situation is to be saved. Ministers could surrender authority to an iron military dictatorship amid defeats and home dissension.
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London
INS
Japan
Nippon
China
London Daily Express
Roosevelt to sail next Friday for brief Charleston cruise
President Roosevelt announced plans to depart Washington next Friday for a four to five day cruise aboard the treaty cruiser Philadelphia. He aims to distance himself from phones visitors and press while reviews reports and considers a tax reform message to Congress.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Charleston
S. C
Philadelphia
Atlantic Ocean
Congress
Henry Ford
William E. Borah
Idaho
Borah
Cedar Rapids Man Charged With Drunk Driving
Franke Whitters 49 of 2906 Oakland Rd NE was arrested by Patrolmen Walsh and Weiland at 11 05 pm on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was stopped on Seventh Ave at First St SW after police followed his car four blocks. Parsons 1024 First St SW rode with him and said Whitters drank beer before refusing to stop. Whitters pled not guilty in Justice W R Watsabaughs court and a May 6 hearing was set. bond of 500 was posted and he was released.
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Franke Whitters
Oakland Road
Walsh
Weiland
Seventh Avenue
First Street
Whitters
Dorothy Parsons
Iowa City
Miss Parsons
Cedar Rapids
W. R. Watsabaugh
First Lady of the Laird on Incompatibility as a Major Divorce Cause
The First Lady of the Laird argues incomparability drives quarrels over money and strains marriage more than infidelity. She notes long term mutual harm from temperament clashes, urges adjustment or divorce to salvage sanctity. Copyright 1938 DR NEWTON.
Out-Of-Town Guests Attend Cedar Rapids Chamber Event
More than 1 250 out of town customers attended the second annual guest day at Memorial Coliseum in Cedar Rapids on Thursday night. The Chamber of Commerce event featured a Dutch lunch, informal conferences, boxing exhibitions, a battle royal, and a vaudeville revue led by Frank Bennet and the Ueidelberg singers. Van Vechten Shaffer welcomed guests as Chamber president.
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Cedar Rapids
Memorial Coliseum
Chamber of Commerce
Armory
Ueidelberg
Frank Bennett
Debs
van Vechten Shaffer
Berlin Criticizes U S Plans to Sell Warplanes
Berlin newspapers denounced rumors that the United States would sell military type aircraft to Britain. The Lokalanzeiger said such deliveries would make neutrality policy difficult to reconcile.
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Berlin
United States
The
Lokalanzeiger
Windsor Birthday Call From Duke Delights Princess
Windsor England UP reports Princess Elizabeth celebrated her 12th birthday with a telephone call from her uncle the Duke of Windsor. The royal congratulator spoke to her from Cannes France describing the moment as the biggest thrill of the day.
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Windsor
England
Elizabeth
Duke of Windsor
David
Cannes
France
Landon Blames Fear Of Inflation For Economic Setback
In Topeka Kansas Alfred M Landon criticizes federal inflationary policy and fear of inflation as key factors in the recession noting business downswing and a sharp 1937 break. He warns of rising deficit for 1939 and uncertain government action. The speech was read by Hugo T Wedell due to Landon’s absence for family illness.
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Topeka
Kan
Alfred M. Landon
Kansas
Congress
Mr. Landon
Landon
Secretary Perkins Reports 50000 More Laid Off in March
Washington. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins estimates that about 50,000 additional workers were laid off during March. The figure reflects ongoing job losses amid economic strain and policy responses.
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Washington
Frances Perkins
Moran and Parker Arrested in Check Fraud Probe
Chicago and Pittsburgh police detained George Moran known as Bugs and Frankie Parker a former airplane bootlegger in a plot to flood major cities with counterfeit travelers checks totaling a quarter of a million dollars. Nine alleged members were held and more than 30 suspects were being sought in Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Detroit and other cities.
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Chicago
George
Bugs” Moran
Frankie Parker
Moran
Parker
Pittsburgh
New York
Philadelphia
Detroit
Thomas Kelly
American Raw Express Company
Kelly
Canada
United States
Walter Nolan
Logan
Ohio
Marie Ribble
APB
George “Bugs” Moran
Gazette Begins Baby Photograph Contest
The Gazette invites photographs of babies eighteen months or younger taken since December. Five dollars is paid for each published photo in The Sunday Gazette on Child Health Day May 1. Entrants must mail black and white 4x6 prints with name age and parents’ address by April 27. envelopes requested for return.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Decorah
Waukon
Washington
West Liberty
Iowa
The
Gazette, & Jar Rapidg
Center Point School Board Members To Stay In Office
Center Point Harmony claimed a resolution to avoid a special election as all school board members chose to remain in office. Three members withdrew earlier, with resignations later withdrawn after county superintendent Walter Shupp directed the posting halt. The shutdown followed a pupil strike over the board’s handling of principal and coach Alfred Pierce and related issues.
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Center Point
Harmony Clgaim
Apriou
C FE Lisbo
Street
W.G Bromwell
Ko Remero
Floyd Dufoe
Walter A Shupp
Seth Hendry
Shupp
Hendry
Alfred Pierce
Reprieve Delay As Electric Chair Fails In Texas
Two condemned men, John Vaughn and Johnnie Binks, received a one week reprieve after the electric chair motor failed at the Texas state prison. Vaughn, blocking the chair, declared his innocence in a death chamber speech as Warden Waid halted the execution with Gov Allred’s reprieve.
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Wiuntsville
Tex
State Prison
John Vaughn
W. W Waid
Garrett
Wai
James V. Allred
Vaughn
Johnnie Binks
Ward
Death Row
Polish radio op reports Amelia Earhart SOS in Poland
Stanislaw Poradowski an 18 year old amateur from Bedzin says he received SOS signals on Wednesday between 8 03 and 8 08 am that he linked to Amelia Earhart He notes the signals used call letters KHAQA and a 4005 meter wavelength Earhart’s known calls were KHAQQ and bands 6210 3105 and 500 kilocycles Officials doubt the link since no one else heard the signals and Earhart disappeared far from Poland.
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Warsaw
Stanislaw Poradewski
Bedzin
Poland
Amelia Earhart
Poradowski
Miss Earhart
Probe of Sen Guffey Asked by Philadelphia Dems
John B. Kelly head of Philadelphia Democratic city committee urged President Roosevelt to order an FBI inquiry into alleged coercion of WPA workers by Senator Joseph F. Guffey. Kelly accused Guffey of pressuring workers to back a Lewis aligned slate, demanding WPA be kept out of politics and calling for prosecutions.
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Philadelphia
John B. Kelly
Democratic City Committee
Roosevelt
Joseph F. Guffey
WPA
Kelly
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Guffey
Edward N. Jones
Pennsylvania
Kellys
John le. Lewis
Lewis
CIO
S. Davis Wilson
Thomas Kennedy
The
United Mine Workers
George H. Earle
U. S. Senate
Charles Alin Jones
Pittsburgh
Governa
Favre-Jones
State Democratic Committee
State Committee
Gultes
Guttes
John L. Lewis
Roosevelt Nan
John T Lewis
Guftes
FBI
Harrisburg
David L. Lawrence
Commonwealth
Earle
Kennedy
Jones
Senator Guffey Denies Coercion Claims in WPA Roles
Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania rejected John B Kelly's charges that he attempted to coerce WPA roles. Kelly urged an FBI inquiry into the coercion accusations, and Guffey replied, Let him have them do it.
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Washington
Guffey
John B Kelly
WPA
Pennsylvania
Kelley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lawsuit Filed Over Cosmetic Defamation in New York
Hirestra Laboratories sues the American Medical Association and Dr Morris Fishbein for libel and defamation in New York County Court seeking 1 million dollars over statements about Endocreme, a cosmetic product. The complaint targets remarks published in the AMA journal.
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New York
Hirestra Laboratories, Inc
American Medical Association
Morris Fishbein
Hirestra Laboratories
England Uses Railroad Spikes On World Map War Metaphor
In a satirical cartoonish piece, ANTHUGA "bUGS" BAER lampoons British diplomacy by depicting England planting railroad spikes as pins on a world map. The text jokes about Aden, riparian rights in the Indian Ocean, and Italy, with sharp quips on “giving ten days’ notice” before taking a country, framed as international back scratching.
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Anthuga
Bugs” Baer
England
Italy
Aden Protectorate
Indian Ocean
Red Sea
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Cedar Rapids News
DR Newton
U. S
Bug" Moran
Amelia
Sen. Cuffey
Earle-Jones
Sue Fishbein
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