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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1938
Page
2
A newsroom team fills in for Santa after a North Pole doll factory strike by the Crowd of Impetuous Elves. They describe duties, disguises, and the challenges of convincing children, from fear of the beard to misheard requests, in a humorous holiday feature.
The narrator recalls a visit to Sonny a close friend’s child in a Santa Claus voice. They chatted about his sister Sally his fleet of toy cars and trucks and his mischief with the hall lamp. Sonny’s mother later said he liked the visit best of all Santas he had seen.
Evacuation of 32 foreigners from Ku ling was completed despite a storm. One third were Americans as they traveled 13 miles down a mountainside to a Japanese transport at Kiukiang. The Monocacy reported the evacuation and expected the transport to sail to Shanghai, signaling near completion of U S gunboat operations on the Yangtze.
The Linn County Abstract Company's report records conveyances and mortgages in Linn County for December 2 through December 8. Conveyances total $73,035.00, mortgages aggregate $73,035.00. The same week last year shows conveyances and mortgages totals of $57,754.00.
The Y M C A notes the northwest side Star club with charter members Roger Donegan LeRoy McNulty Richard Day Charles Wolfe De Vere Wolfe Albert Lindquist William Jepson Bill Wall Charles Johnson Bernard Scott. Fourteen Cedar Rapids boys attended the Eastern Iowa Hi Y assembly in Washington Iowa December 9 and 10 including Roosevelt high students Glenn Williams Arthur Miner Jack Linkletter Harold Lanton Richard Wildman Louis Nelson Robert Doo little Robert Walker Amos Thompson Donald Myers Wilson Millard Washington Amity Blakey Bethel Hil Richard Hart and St Pauls Methodist boys supervisor and Harry G Hansen boys work secretary.
An epidemic of the mumps in Dansville New York affected sixty nine school children and included public welfare officer Esther Shafer and Dr. Gustav Selbach director of the county health laboratory.
New York AP reports Mrs. Carol E. Coster and her husband Dr Donald Coster were temporarily restrained from using their 100000 dollar brokerage account as State Attorney General probes McKesson and Robbins Inc a massive drug firm led by Coster. An order requires appearance Dec 19 with books and records.
In Lebanon Ohio two men and two women faced charges of kidnapping and robbing State Patrolman Parker Powell. David S. Cross and Coy Russell pled guilty and were bound over to the grand jury under 25000 bonds. Marie Day and Naomi Hayes waived examination and faced grand jury action under 15600 bonds. Cross and Russell admitted kidnapping Corporal Lowell and confessed to three bank robberies and several holdups across three states.
The body of Chris Patterson, 35, a miner indicted in the slaying of former Deputy Sheriff Frank White, was found by a roadside near Harlan with eight bullet wounds. Investigators suspect he was killed elsewhere and dumped here. Patterson had been subpoenaed by federal authorities in coal mine conspiracy trials. White was a defendant in the same case. The government alleges coal firms and allied officers used terrorism to oppose unionization in the coal fields.
A survey shows seven residents left South Carolina for each outsider moving in during the 1920s decade, reflecting a net outflow and population shift. The data highlights regional emigration trends affecting the state’s demographics and economy.
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