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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1938
Page
16
About 6 000 Jewish refugees, driven from Germany to the Polish frontier, huddle in Zbaszyn awaiting a solution. They live in dilapidated buildings, with Polish police limiting them to town limits while Warsaw aids with scarce food and clothing and Polish doctors run clinics.
James Roosevelt, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt, says he contributes regularly to his church and to others. He denies charges by the Rev Howard Anderson before the house committee. Roosevelt spoke in Hollister after visiting his sister Mrs Anna Roosevelt Boettiger before heading to Seattle.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette promotes pattern 4994 by Anne Adams featuring a snug slip and pantie design with high waist options and won’t-slip straps. Available in misses and women sizes including 14 to 42, the 39 inch fabric size 16 requires 3 1/2 yards. Order via 15 cent pattern book and 25 cent book plus pattern bundle.
Roger W. Babson, noted economist, told a New York church audience that a general failure to keep the Sabbath holy is the chief cause of America's economic and social ills. He spoke Tuesday night.
Linn County invites sealed proposals for Bridge No. 797 a 301 by 30 ft plate girder and Bridge No. 3041 a 50 by 20 ft I beam. Bids due 10:00 a.m. December 22 1938 with deposits security and $33 000 funding cap. Bid bonds required and right to reject all bids reserved.
In San Diego Dorothy Boelhauff 29 was charged with murder for whipping Leonard Skillhorn 6 resulting in a skull fracture. She said she used a ruler for not buttoning his coat and tying his shoes and locked him in a closet before he was found unconscious.
The Daily Mail reports the Duke of Windsor is negotiating through an agent for a lease or purchase of a residence in Cadogan Square southwest London as a possible town house if he returns to England.
Ad promotes using want ads to rent a spare room for extra cash during the Christmas shopping season.
A 1938 science based Q and A notes that science prioritizes societal rights over individuals and urges wise spending over saving. It discusses teaching children to use money wisely, not stingy hoarding, and condemns stuttering as a serious issue needing supportive treatment rather than ridicule. It also argues that dislikes stem from upbringing and experience, not nature, and that race prejudice is learned rather than innate.
In Linn County Iowa a last will for James T Rhodes will be proven in district court on December 1938 at 9 AM. The hearing aims to admit the instrument to probate with Stewart Holmes as attorney and Edwin W Lundquist as clerk.
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