Milk Fund Urges Subscriptions for Undernourished Children
The Cedar Rapids Current Comment urges monthly pledges to a Milk Fund to provide whole milk for undernourished school and preschool children. The Gazette commits $50 a month for four months, with readers invited to donate any amount and credits acknowledged. A separate note discusses paying for prayers in Iowa's legislature and reflects on aging and leadership.
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Jreaders
Cedar Rapids
The
Gazette
Public Health Nursing Association
Ruff Courtroom Showdown Over Vallee Divorce Cash
In New York a court hearing over a $100 weekly allowance for Fay Webb Vallee nearly sparked a brawl as Justice Cotillo heard motions. Fay did not testify. Vallee apologized after the clash as Gottlieb pressed dismissal and Vallee’s absent attorney noted her bed confinement. The day revealed income estimates for Vallee, and questions about a telephone liaison with dancer Gary Leon.
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NEW York
Rudy Vallees
Fay Webb Vallee
Supreme Court
Salvatore Cotillo
Samuel Gottlieb
Fay
Vallee
Hartstein
Justice Cotillo
Gottlieb
Clarence Webb
Santa Monica
Calif
Gary Leon
Peace Mind Not War Makers, Ford Quote Refuted
A 1935 critique argues that blaming arms makers oversimplifies war roots. It asserts peace requires universal will and justice among people, not scapegoats or leaders. The piece stresses transforming minds to end cycles of conflict.
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Henry Ford
Ford
Perjury Charge Planned for Hauptmann Trial Witness Heier
New Jersey Attorney General David T. Wilentz said an indictment for perjury will be sought against Benjamin Heier, a defense witness in the Hauptmann case. Heier testified he saw a man resembling Isidor Fisch near St. Raymond's cemetery during the Lindbergh ransom night. He urged that Prosecutor Hauck consider calling a grand jury to indict Heier for perjury.
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Trenton
N. J
INS
Benjamin Heier
Hauptmann
David T. Wilentz
Heier
St. Raymond's Cemetery
Bronx
Isidor Fisch
Anthony M. Hauck
Winterdon County
Wilentz
Hannah
Fisch
Isidor
Anna
Finnegan Freed Under $4 000 Bond
Charles L. Finnegan aged 25 of Cedar Rapids was released on bonds totaling 4 000 after being charged with robbery and assault with intent to murder. He allegedly beat Jan J Hrbek a 71 year old secretary at the Bohemian Savings and Loan and robbed the office of 562 75 on January 21. Finnegan admitted being in the office but denied the assault and robbery.
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Cedar Rapids
Charles L. Finnegan
Fifteenth Street
Finnegan
Jan J Hrbek
Bohemian Savings and Loan Association
Hrbek
Bomb damages fan house at Glen Alden mine in Wilkes-Barre
A dynamite bomb shattered windows of the Glen Alden Coal fan house in South Wilkes-Barre as miners entered the fifth day of a strike. No injuries were reported.
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Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Glen Alden Coal Company
South Wilkes- Barre
Glass Attacks Critic Over Banking Bill Readiness
Senator Carter Glass criticized an unnamed critic and rejected being labeled against the treasury banking bill before seeing it. He denied using prestige from office to gain personal benefit and warned against pressuring Federal Reserve actions for self interest. Former Senator Owen, head of the national monetary conference, defended public interest and disputed Glass’s use of expertise.
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Washington
Carter Glass
Robert L. Owen
Treasury
Glass
Capitol Hill
Virginian
Banking and Currency Committee
House of Congress
Federal Reserve
Owen
National Monetary Conference
Malaria Strikes Kurunegala Hospital Staff
In Kurunegala Ceylon the malaria plague has sickened the entire staff of the town's only hospital. About thirty thousand lives were lost in three months, and every doctor and nurse has contracted malaria, forcing many from duty during the day and night effort to help others.
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Kurunegala
Ceylon
Inquest Ordered Into Toddville Man Hoening Death
Coroner will hold an inquest at 9 a.m. Saturday in the courthouse into the death of William H. Hoening 55 near Toddville. Hoening died from a forehead gunshot wound after his wife hid the weapon during a struggle as neighbors found him unconscious. An earlier postmortem and statements from Mrs Hoening and witnesses led to the inquest decision. Burial is set in Dunkard cemetery ten miles north of Cedar Rapids with no flowers.
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William H. Hoening
Toddville
C. E. Irwin
Andrew Coquillette
Coquillette
Hoening
Cora Hoening
Irwin
Wesley Brown
Carl Ditch
C. E. Simpson
Brown
Norway
Iowa
Linn County
Lee Berdet
Earl Raymond
Dorothy May Hoening
William Hoening Sr
Marengo
Julia Wolf
Deep River
Ida Langlas
Minnie Mathes
Pella
Rosie Wolf
Watkins
Beatty Chapel
Dunkard
Cedar Rapids
La Follette orders probe of Wisconsin penal institutions
Governor Philip F. La Follette on Friday night ordered an investigation of the state board of control and all penal institutions under its supervision. He said an appointed investigator would review the board’s conduct and recommend changes if needed.
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Madison, Wis
Philip F. la Follette
State Board of Control
Senate Set to Vote on Liquor Probe Next Week
Des Moines AP says the six member Senate panel to investigate the Iowa liquor control commission was approved by the appropriations committee with a 5,000 dollar cap. The group can subpoena witnesses and seize records, with penalties for noncompliance. Senate action is expected early next week after a party line clash.
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DES Moines
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Iowa Senate
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
John N. Calhoun
Keosauqua
Appropriations Committee
Liquor Commission
Hog and cattle prices hit peak in years in Chicago auction
In Chicago's livestock market prices surged to highs not seen since 1930 for cattle and 1931 for hogs. Cattle for tender cuts sold at 13.90 per hundred pounds while well fattened hogs brought 8.30 per hundred in packing-town trading.
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Chicago
Auto Show Planned for Feb 17 to 20 in Pla Marc Ballroom
Cedar Rapids hosts a four day auto show from February 17 to 20 at the Pla-Mar ballroom on First Street and A Avenue NE. Admission is ten cents with doors open 1 to 10:30 p.m. daily. Exhibitors include Allen Motor Co Buick Olds Rapids Chevrolet Wagner De Soto Plymouth Unzeilig Pontiac Millsap Hupmobile Stepman Graham Kadlee Stude baker Rude Ford and Handler. Evenings feature the Pla-Mar Revelers a 12 piece orchestra.
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Cedar Rapids
Pla-Mar
First Street
Avenue NE
Allen Motor Company
Buick
Oldsmobile
Rapids Chevrolet Company
Chevrolet
Wagner Motor Company
de Soto
Plymouth
Unzeilig Motor Company
Pontiac
Millsap Hupmobile Company
Hupmobile
Stepman Motor Company
Graham
Kadlee Brothers
Studebaker
Rude Auto Company
Ford
Handler Motor Company
Dodge
Phrase okie doke condemned as moron’s yes by lexicographer
New York lexicographer Dr Frank Vizchelly called the term okie doke a moron s yes after reading Seattle trial accounts where a witness used it He said the expression reflects a mental age of ten years or less and labeled its user as possessing such ignorance
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New York
Ins
Frank Vizchelly
Seattle
Wash
Quintuplets Parents Sued Over World’s Fair Exhibit Deal
Chicago report describes promoter Ivan Spear filing a federal suit seeking 1 million dollars from the Dionne family and Canadian guardians for alleged breach of a May 1 exhibition contract. Defendants include Ontario officials, newspapers, and syndicates cited for using Quintuplets images without permission. The Dionnes face legal action amid a chaotic vaudeville performance in Chicago.
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Chicago
Papa Oliva
Mama Elzire Dionne
Ivan Spear
Spear
Allan Dafoe
Dionne
Arthur W. Roebuck
Ontario
Olivier Dionne
W. H. Alderson
Kenneth Morrison
H.r.valin
Toronto
Ava Grant Walkers
Eric
Enterprise. Association
Pathe News
Eking~features Syndicate
Chicago Times Publishing Company
Paramount Productions
Chicago Evening American
The
Star Printing and Publishing Company
Whose Wife a Romance and Mystery by Erskine and Firth
Lawrence Vane, an idealist, marries a model with a notorious reputation, and is suddenly accused of murdering his wife. The Cedar Rapids Gazette will begin this startling tale next Monday February 11 in a blend of romance and suspense.
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Lawrence Vane
Vane
Gladys Shaw Erskine
Ivan Firth
Cedar Rapids
Roosevelt praises scout work and invites nation to jamboree
President Roosevelt lauded the Boy Scout organization on its 25th anniversary radio address. He invited thousands of khaki clad youths to attend the first national jamboree in Washington next August and praised volunteer service while urging adherence to the scout oath as a foundation of citizenship and good government.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Walter W. Head
Boy Scout Organization
St. Louis
White House
James E. West
McSwain
House Military Committee
House
Hit and run driver sought in fatal Brodie crash
Police sought a hit and run motorist after James L. Brodie 80 of 421 Thirty-fifth Street NE was struck while crossing First Avenue E at Thirtybone Street. He died en route to St Luke's hospital from skull fractures and internal injuries. Witness Ben Bolnow said the brown 1929 Ford sedan fled toward Marion. Inquest planned. no arrests made Thursday night.
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James L. Brodie
Thirty-fifth Street
First Avenue
Thirtybone Street
Brodie
St. Luke’s Hospital
Charles E. Irwin
Irwin
Ben H. Bolnow
First Avenue E
Marion
Bolnow
Charles City Theater Explosion Devastates Business Block
Investigators probe the charred remains of Charles City theater after an explosion Thursday night sparked a blaze that raged through a 60 room hotel, theater, hamburger shop, smoke shop and beauty parlor. Five businesses were destroyed and a garage rear damaged. Firefighters from Charles City Mason City and Nashua fought the flames, with no injuries reported. The blast, likely in the Hildreth theater basement, occurred just before the evening program and cause remains undetermined.
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Charles City
Hildreth
Mason City
Nashua
Hildreth Theater
Dr Calvin Hoover Named Consumers Counsel of AAA
Dr Calvin Hoover, economist on the Secretary of Agriculture staff, becomes consumers counsel of the AAA, succeeding Dr Fred C Howe who resigned. Hoover hails from Burwick Illinois and accepts the post in Washington DC.
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Hoover
Howe
Washington, DC
Calvin Hoover
Burwick
Ill
Agriculture
Wallace
Consumers Counsel
AAA
Fred C. Howe
Hauptmann Trial Hears Key Alibi Evidence
Defense rests as state probes alibis for Isidor Fisch and Fisch sisters witnesses. Two lumbermen testify on ladder wood while witnesses recount a Bronx alibi and a New Jersey farmer disputes defense testimony. Miss Fisch, via interpreter, states she and Isidor were together in 1933 and Hauptmann case moves toward final arguments.
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Hopewell
Isidor Fisch
Fisch
Bronx
Hauptmann
New‘ ‘Jersey
New Jersey
Long Island
Defense Staff
Wilentz
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Toddville Man
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LA Follette
Wisconsin Penal Institution
Cedar Rapids News
Chicagoan
Dionnes
Papa Dionne
Papa
Mama
Diannes
George Washington
Callander
Buster Keaton
Merci Beaucoup
J. L. Brodie
Marips News
John Ferris
Flemington
Bruno
Richard Hauptmann
Baby Charles
AY Lindbergh
Thes Jory
Hunterdon
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