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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1938
Page
6
O A Conwell examiner in charge announced the Commercial Savings Bank Marion will pay an extra five percent dividend bringing total to six and five tenths percent with checks ready for depositors Monday. Marion news items include obits, parties, club events, holiday gatherings, and local sales notices across the town.
Young and Zella Mae Fenlon organize the dinner and request members to contact them about arrangements. A board of finance and church council meeting is planned tonight at 7 30 at the St. Pauls Lutheran parsonage 664 Seventh Avenue.
Washington reports TVA power program ran a 310 171 loss last fiscal year and a cumulative deficit of 748 664 since 1933. Comptroller E L Kohler testified before the joint congressional committee investigating TVA amid charges of mismanagement and accounting juggling.
Andrew Jackson Keyser of Cedar Rapids dies in DeFuniak Springs Florida after moving there to improve land interests. Survived by wife Emma, three daughters Maude Weymer, W. W. Palmer, A F Haberle, and son Lloyd B. Keyser, plus siblings and eight grandchildren. Helen Jackson, 84, Iowa City widow, dies in local hospital. survived by two children and two grandchildren. Funeral arrangements in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, with services pending details. Also funeral notices for Mrs Hattie D. Peck with services at Turner chapel and Oak Hill Cemetery.
DES MOINES UP The supreme court Friday denied a petition for rehearing filed by W F Main operator of the Standard Manufacturing company Cedar Rapids Main had been sued by F A Henriott Louisville Ky who sought to recover the purchase price of 40 vending machines The tower court awarded Henriott 1021 and the supreme court upheld the decision.
Birth notices list newborn daughters and sons to multiple couples in Central City area. Recipients include Mr and Mrs R C Mills with a daughter born December 16 at St Luke's hospital and Mr and Mrs Leo Nie with a son born December 15 at Mercy hospital, plus additional babies to Elmer Smith Clifford Ward and Ludwall Verba at Mercy hospital and addresses provided.
Mrs Ed Whaley of the Indianapolis area was killed when a car failed to make a turn north of Indianapolis at about 6 30 p m Thursday The four injured include Ed Whaley Alexander Lester and Leonard Dekoning all of Indianapolis and Miss Mary Blanche Whaley 19 driver of the car The injured were taken to a hospital in Oskaloosa for treatment
Mrs Sadie Warner spoke to the Council of Social Agencies urging the public to coordinate with the Y M C A Christmas exchange. She praised a master list from Linn county relief head Alice Ferber that prevents duplications and targets 173 unprovided families amid 571 listed. contact the clearing house at 2-1138 to donate or arrange delivery by December 24.
The text recalls execution details tied to Warden Clarence Larkin and Guard Henry Martin and mentions co-plotters killed by Folsom guards and others sent to the gas chamber. It also reports a 1939 U.S. Irish potato crop projection of about 310 million bushels, 60 million less than 1938.
Two petitions seek an involuntary reorganization of McKesson and Robbins in Hartford Connecticut federal court. A separate petition in the Southern District of New York asks dismissal of an involuntary bankruptcy filing on grounds not specified.
Burlington high school debaters won nine of ten contests to take first place in the tri state invitational tournament. Seventeen schools from Missouri, Iowa and Illinois participated with Iowa City in second, Brentwood in third, Hannibal in fourth, and Galesburg Moline and Paris tied for fifth.
Berlin report says Nazi propaganda minister Paul Joseph Goebbels declared Germany lacks space to live. At the same event Hitler warned Germans have produced more from soil than others but limits exist, urging organized consumption and self supplied needs during a celebration marking a 3.00% kilometer milestone in high speed motor roads.
Death Valley Scotty mourns the loss of his longtime pack mule Slim a 40 year old mule killed by a mountain lion Betty the remaining mule aged 38 carried supplies on his desert journeys and stood beside him as he rode through the rocky expanse miles he and his mules traversed together remain a legend of Death Valley life and travel
Ed Old Deafie Davis, 37, the last member of Folsom prison’s so called mad dog mob, died in San Quentin’s lethal gas chamber. The ringleader of the Bloody Sunday abortive escape plot from Folsom on Sept 19, 1937, Davis’ death marks the end of the mob saga.
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