Relief funds may follow road grant formula in proposal
Washington AP reports Congressional circles discuss a relief aid plan using a formula similar to federal road grants. Senator Byrnes favors a population, mileage, and area based distribution with state cooperation and possible 25 percent state match. Republicans weigh alternatives and emphasize restrictions on political spending.
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Washington
Byrnes
Senate
WPA
Harry Hopkins
New York City
Congress
Vandenberg
Mich
Ecuadorian Tension Persists After Revolt Compromise
Quito reports ongoing unease as a compromise failed to quell unrest from disaffected army units led by left wing figures. Twenty deputies including Speaker Francisco Arizaga Luque reportedly arrested as they discussed convening parliament and impeaching President Aurelio Mosquera Narvaez. Numerous army officers also detained.
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Quito
Ecuador
Chamber of Deputies
Francisco Arizaga Luque
Aurelio Mosquera Narvaez
Merry Fahrney Appeals To Illinois High Court
Merry Fahrney Cassini the Chicago patent medicine heiress asked the Illinois supreme court to decide if she is divorced from Baron Arturo Berlingieri. The appellate court had ruled her February divorce from Berlingieri void due to lack of Illinois residence and cruelty alleged in California.
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Springfield
Merry Fahrney Cassini
Illinois Supreme Court
Arturo Berlingieri
Chicago
Oleg Cassini
New York
Count Berlingieri
Merry
Berlingieri
Illinois
California
Painting by Cedar Rapids artist sold to Paul Muni
Des Moines painter Harry D. Jones who helped Robert White on Cedar Rapids federal building murals sold his Cedar Rapids painted work The Sandpile to actor Paul Muni. The painting was shown in California and bought there after Jones lived in Cedar Rapids during mural work. He is now creating a fresco for the Des Moines public library.
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Harry D. Jones
Des Moines
Robert White
Cedar Rapids Federal Building
Paul Muni
Cedar Rapids
California Art Gallery
Muni
Jones
Federal Building
Notice of Probate of M Boxn Will in Iowa Linn County
Notice is hereby given that on the ard day of JAINEy A. D. 1939 at 2 30 o'clock p m an instrument purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of M Boxn late of said county deceased will come on for hearing before the District Court for the proof and admission of same to probate Dated Cedar Rapids Iowa December de 1908 Edwin W Lundquist Clerk District Court Barnea Chamberlain de Hanziik Attorneys
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Nsw
State of
Iowa
Linn County
Jainey
A. D
M. Boxn
Cedar Rapids
Wilson High Aristotelian Honor Society Inductions
Five former members presented a tableau and dialogue to open induction ceremonies at Wilson high school for the Aristotelian chapter of the National Honor Society. Inductees named include Geraldine Hass John Hensley Jeanette LeMar Ernest Kubik Mae Marie Korab Neal Hoover Howard Klekar Douglas Mathews Kathleen Check.
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Wilson High School
Aristotelian
National Honor Society
Velma Shimek
Jenni Doupnik
Irma Zahradnik
Charleen Lorenc
Bessie Livingood
John Turner
Ruth Hemmer
Georgia Merrifield
Jennie Post
Miss Post
Mary Ann Pavlicek
Inez Nasinec
Geraldine Hass
John Hensley
Jeanette LeMar
Ernest Kubik
Mae Marie Korab
Neal Hoover
Howard Klekar
Douglas Mathews
Kathleen Check
JSA
Stephens Mills
Leo Lucas
The
Gazette
Tom Farmer
Wilson Squad
Parkinson Musical Ensemble
Lasswell Photo Wilson High School
Neal Woaver
John Tiensley
Howard Kliekar
Yale Professor Praises Linn Medical Relief Plan
Yale medical professor Dr. John Punnett Peters praised Linn County Clinic efforts for aiding the needy as a model for nationwide medical care innovation. He urged physicians to test practical plans while guarding against political control and emphasized treating patients holistically amid rising costs and evolving care demands.
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Yale
Linn
Linn County
United States
John Punnett Peters
New Haven
Conn
Linn County Medical Society
Roosevelt Hotel
Feters
Cedar Rapids
Yale School of Medicine
Peters
Corrigan Loses Again in Civil Penalty Not Excused
Hollywood report says Douglas Corrigan, famed for his wrong way flight from New York to Ireland, was cited for parking his car in the wrong place and fined two dollars while working on a movie about his historic flight.
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Hollywood
INS
Douglas Corrigan
New York
Ireland
Corrigan
Traffic Court Toll Tracked Despite Absence
When the defendant failed to appear, officers presumed him lost again, yet they still collected the $2 fine as due.
Caraway says women can be president despite Eleanor stance
Senator Hattie Caraway defends women’s future presidency saying a woman would be fully qualified for the high office, opposing Mrs Roosevelt’s dismissal of a woman President. Caraway cites the American people and her own reelection as proof of support for women leaders.
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Senate
Franklin D Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Caraway
Women as Presidents and Arkwright’s Spinning Inventions
The passage argues that women can be elected President without prior experience, echoing that men have risen to office without it. It notes Washington’s lack of prior experience and imagines women in the same role. It recalls Richard Arkwright’s invention sparked the cotton spinning industry. His wife, in 1770, destroyed his spinning machine models to pursue barbering.
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Washington
Richard Arkwright
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A. W. Erskine
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Robert E. Neff
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Erskine
Iowa State Medical Society
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Hattie Caraway
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