Milk Fund tops $500 for school children
Friday marked the Milk Fund’s first $500 day, with $444.25 from Lions club benefit and $68.75 from named contributors. Gifts aim to furnish daily milk for school children and preschoolers, with more names to be listed tomorrow. send checks to The Gazette. A letter to Current Comment prompts discussion on politics and public sentiment.
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Lions Club
L. H. Stubbs and Co
C. R. Lodge
W.B.F.A
Penick and Ford
W. E. Goreham
Nat'l Assn
Louie
Harrison students sip milk under Kiwanis fund drive
At Harrison Elementary, 93 students in a single lunch line drink from the milk fund supplied by the Kiwanis club. The program, aiding needy children, plans to expand as enrollment nears five hundred and fifteen.
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Harrison
Measures Move To Recast New Deal Work Relief
Administration leaders in Washington move to abandon the $4.88 billion work relief plan and push a $1.88 billion continuation fund for another year. Senate insurgents threaten the bill while a new approach may be tested before the full Senate and House. The revolt includes a secret 100-member bloc of young Democrats and other factions aiming to force votes on controversial issues.
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Washington Ins
Senate
Roosevelt
Senate Appropriations Committee
Washington
LLP
Congress
James F. Byrnes
S. C
Capitol
Senate Democrats
House
Wedding Ring Worn By Sisters Before Fatal Leap
Jane and Elizabeth Du Bois, daughters of the American consul general at Naples, leaped from a London airliner in a planned death pact. Police opened letters, the coroner found no drugs, and a red tulip bedecked mortuary marked the scene.
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London
INS
Jane du Bois
Elizabeth
Court du Bois
Naples
Italy
Jane
C. E. Lewis
Hornchurch County
M. L. Hendre
Old Church Hospital
Romford
Hornchurch
TVA Appeals Ban on Power Sale in Tennessee Valley
TVA plans an immediate appeal after Federal Judge William Grubb blocked TVA power sales and ordered Alabama municipalities barred from PWA loan use to build transmission lines. The ruling halts government competition with private utilities and challenges TVA’s power cost yardstick plan.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
William S. Grubb
David E. Lilienthal
TVA
Birmingham
Ala
Roosevelt
Tennessee River
Alabama
W. S. Grubb
Alabama Power Company
PWA
Federal Public Works Administration
Federal Court of Appeals
U. S. Supreme Court
Tennessee
Grubb
Power Authority
Pouches Bringing Bank Mail To This City Are Stolen
Post office inspectors in the Dubuque district investigate thefts of mail pouches carrying checks from northeastern Iowa to Merchants National bank. Pouches disappeared on February 11 14 and 18 as transfers from Prairie du Chien Wisconsin through East Dubuque. Nearly twenty five banks sent checks via the mail on the theft days. no money or registered mail involved.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Merchants National Bank
Railway
Prairie du Chien
Wis
East Dubuque
Kennamer Awaits Sentence in Gorrell Killing Case
Nine teen year old Phil Kennamer awaits formal sentencing in Pawnee County as the convicted killer of John F. Gorrell Jr., a Kansas City dental student. The case centers on the death of Gorrell in an Oklahoma incident.
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Pawnee, Okla
INS
Phil Kennamer
John F. Gorrell, Jr
Kansas City
University coed dies after lab infection at Minnesota
Lucretia Wilder, 23, a University of Minnesota medical division scientist, died after being exposed to streptococci germs during an experiment with rabbits. An accidental scrap when a rabbit leaped free caused the splatter of deadly germs on her scratched arm. Despite Mayo Clinic and Chicago hospital care, she died two hours after illness began, with university officials confirming the tragedy.
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Minneapolis
Lucretia Wilder
University of Minnesota
Miss Wilder
Twin Cities
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Chicago
Ruth E. Boynton
Leon Wilder
Cooper School
Daughter of Uncle Joe Cannon Dies at 70
Helen Cannon, 70, daughter of the late Speaker Joseph G. Cannon and hostess for Uncle Joe, died at the family home in Danville Illinois from heart trouble early Saturday.
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Danville, Ill
Helen Cannon
Joe” Cannon
Meat Price Cut Condemned by Livestock Association
The United States Livestock association adopted a resolution condemning propaganda to lower retail meat prices. Delegates argued current prices lag far below 1925-30 levels and blamed higher processing and distribution costs. The group urged examining processors' profits and books, backing Wheeler Senate resolution.
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Chicago
United States Livestock Association
East
Association
Senate
Burton XK. Wheeler
Montana
Federal Trade Commission
Herring Denies Knowledge of Bribe Effort
Gov Clyde L Herring said he knew of no one who spoke with Linn county attorney about the Cooper trial or was sent to talk to him He advised Thompson tell the story to the legislative committee investigating state liquor law administration created recently by the legislature.
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Des Moines
Clyde L. Herring
King Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Cooper
Thompson
State Liquor Law Administration
Farmer Greb Appeal to Supreme Court
Notices of appeal to the state supreme court were filed by J. Le Hay Farmer and plant superintendent Delbert E. Greb after fines of 1000 and 300 dollars plus costs were imposed by Judge H. C. Ring. The charges stem from illegal possession of liquor found at Farmer's canning plant and Greb's alleged sale of whisky to a special agent. The raid produced 204 state liquor seals tied to Harold M. Cooper, head of the liquor control commission, whose subsequent trial and potential sentence were outlined.
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State Supreme Court
J. LeHay
Cedar Rapids
Delbert E. Greb
H. C. Ring
Edwin W.lundquist
Ring
Farmer
Greb
Twelfth Avenue SE
State Liquor Commission
Harold M. Cooper
State Liquor Control Commission
Cooper
Linn County
Liquor Commission
District Court
Six Die Five Hurt In French Wind Storm Across France
A violent wind storm swept southern and central France killing six and injuring five on Saturday. The destruction stretched across multiple communities including Bordeaux. Local authorities mobilized emergency crews to manage the aftermath.
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Bordeaux
France
Roosevelt signs oil production control measure into law
President Roosevelt signed the new oil control bill into law to regulate illicit interstate oil shipments after the Supreme Court voided the prior mechanism. The bill, crafted by Senator Connally, completes congressional action and restores federal control machinery.
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Washington
APS
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Congress
Boston
White House
Connally
Tex
Senate
Ickes
Quaker Oats Declares Extra Dividend and Annual Profit
Directors of Quaker Oats announce an extra dividend of 1 dollar a share on common stock in addition to the regular 1 dollar quarterly. Payable April 15 to holders of record April 1. Preferred stock gets a 1.50 dollar quarterly dividend payable to holders of record May 1. John Stuart reports 1934 earnings of 5,478,955, the highest since 1931, but cites clouded outlook from deficits and tax rises.
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Quaker Oats Company
Chicago
John Stuart
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1935
Traffic tolls in Cedar Rapids for 1935 appear in error text with garbled figures on accidents injuries and deaths. The fragment suggests a city record or news note but provides no clear totals or sources.
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Cedar Rapids
Bystander Drops Dead in Hotel Rampage by Sign Man
Frank Greges, the 67 year old sandwich sign man famed for returning $42 000 in bonds, ran amok in his hotel room shouting I am God. Police and a doctor restrained him as Michael W. Gryewacz 40 entered complaining of illness and died after Greges shouted I can kill anyone. Greges was sent to Bellevue Hospital psych ward.
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New York
Frank Greges
God
Michael W. Gryewacz
Greges
Gruewacz
Bellevue Hospital
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Upper Iowa
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Cedar Rapids News
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