Cold Wave Pushes Schools to Close and Rails to Halt
Forecasters warn of extreme cold with subzero wind chills across Iowa towns including Spirit Lake, Fort Dodge, Muscatine, and Des Moines. Snowbound rails delay freight as officials note school heads may close to protect pupils. countdown to easing weather remains uncertain with temperatures plunging 25 to 40 below in several regions.
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Serius
Eldora
Spirit’ Lake
Mulford
Spearer
Northwood
Burlington
Dubuque
Town City
Marshalltown
Muscat
Fort Dodge
Davenport
Council Bluffs
Keokue
Clinton
de Meres
Rockwell City
Councl
City Briefs and Personals Page Highlights
Community notices and small ads mix with brief local items. The column cites ticket offers, event reminders, sales, and assorted personal notices involving residents and organizations in town. Details are scattered but reflect neighborhood concerns, social happenings, and service offerings.
Davenport Man Wins Carnegie Heroism Award
Davenport resident Alfred A. Jackson receives a bronze Carnegie Heroism Award for rescuing Miss Fordyce and others from a flooded Davenport bridge incident in 1934. The action saved a woman and involved dangerous currents, a bridge, and multiple bystanders assisting with ropes and a pulley system.
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Davenport
Alfred A Jackson
Daryett
Adam Fordyce
Fordyce
Jackson
Decris
Miss Forcree
Miss Fordsee
Miss Frecyces
Tre Chan
Edward Takes Train to Sandringham
Edward King is proclaimed king of the United Kingdom and the British empire in a ceremonial sequence spanning London and the dominions. Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston announces the proclamation in the Friary court, as 41 guns salute and the royal procession unfolds through Trafalgar Square and the City of London. The royal standard returns to Buckingham Palace, and the proclamation is read in India, Northern Ireland, the colonies, the Isle of Man, Jersey, and various counties.
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Gerald Woods Wollaston
Edward King
Silve
Gera
Herald’s College
God Save
St. James Pars
Buckingham Palace
George
Queen Mary
Sandringham
Palace
Mall
Earl Marshal
Duke of Norfolk
St. James Palace
Edward
Mother Mary
Life Guards
Trafalgar Square
Charing Cross
Windsor Herald
Alfred Trego Butler
Strand
Temple Bar
London
Fleet Street
City of
Ludgate Hill
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Royal Exchange
Dominions
India
Northern Ireland
Isle of Man
Jersey
United Kingdom
Two Women Hurt In Bobsled Crash Near Westminster Church
Mrs Ralph Dresher and Mrs Wayne Basler suffered slight facial injuries when a bob sled carrying a Westminster Presbyterian church group was struck from behind by a car making a left turn onto Fourth Avenue from Fourteenth Street. The driver fled after stopping briefly, leaving no report at police headquarters. The bobsled party included other riders and ended near the rear of the school. Mrs Dresher and Mrs Basler are sisters.
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Ralph Dresher
Favenue
Wayne Basler
Seventeenth Street
Westminster Prebyterian Church
Fourth Enue
Fourteenth Street SF
Bonus Board Officer Holds Local Meeting
J J Miller of Des Moines executive secretary of the Iowa bonus board held his annual conference at the courthouse with the board of supervisors soldiers relief commission director of relief county auditor and representatives of the American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Red Cross Miller outlined the bonus board functions related to local veterans organizations and relief plans A proposed plan to prorate soldiers relief commission funds equally for the year was explained.
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J J. Miller
Des Moines
Iowa Bonus Board
Board of Supervisors
Soldiers’ Relief Commission
Siditor
American Legion
Veterans of Foreen Wars
The
Red Cross
Miller
Bonus Board
McGregor Farmer Burned In Gas Engine Explosion
Frank Davies, a McGregor farmer, sustained severe facial burns when a gas engine on his farm exploded while he tried to start it in sub-zero weather. He was rushed to McGregor hospital for treatment.
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the Gazette
McGregor
Frank Davies
McGregor Farmer
McGregor Hospital
Disillusion in New Deal Talk and Tax Reform Views
The column discusses Senator Burien K Wheeler a New Deal supporter facing disillusionment among opponents of dictatorial government. It notes Iowa veterans bonuses totaling about 1.4 million dollars and contrasts Polk and Woodbury counties with larger sums. It also reports on Morgenthau ordering faster income tax return examinations to nine months, aiming to curb deficiencies and mentions past federal inquiries into Iowa political rackets and grafters.
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Burien K. Wheeler
Montana
Washington
Inn County
R. J. Laird
Iowa
Polk and
Woandbury
Uncle Sam
Secretary of the Treasury
Laval Cabinet Quits as French Franc Hangs in Balance
Paris reports Premier Pierre Laval and his entire cabinet resigned after the defeat of the Haaré-Laval peace plan and radical socialist disapproval. Finance Minister Regnier and Pensions Minister Maupoil remained. Daladier eyed as possible successor amid franc crisis and political turmoil.
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Paris
INS
Pierre Laval
France
Laval
Elysee Palace
Marcel Regnier
Pensions Maupoil
Quai D’orsay
Ethiopia
Italy
Radical Socialist Party
Lebrun
Edouard Daladier
Warns Danzig Nazis To Obey League Rule
British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden warned Danzig Nazi authorities to respect League of Nations authority. He told the League council that the Nazi administration in Danzig refused League recommendations. The speech signaled a warning to Germany not to exploit the Rhineland crisis.
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Geneva
INL
Danzig
Anthony Eden
Great Britain
League of Nations
Eden
League of Nations Council
Free City
League
Rhineland
Bremer Kidnaping Defense Ends Case
The defense rested in the trial of Harry Sawyer William Weaver and Cassius MacDonald accused of conspiracy in the Bremer kidnapping case. No defense was offered for MacDonald the Detroit consultant charged with making two trips from Miami to Havana to exchange 72000 dollars in ransom bills.
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ST Paul
Harry Sawyer
William Weaver
Cassius MacDonald
Edward G Bremer
MacDonald
Detroit
Miami
Fla
Havana
Cuba
Severe Deep Freeze Impacts Cedar Rapids Area
A dangerous cold snap paralyzed Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. Students walked miles to school as four high schools halted meals and some parochial schools dismissed early. Weather froze highways, delayed trains, and strained relief services while motorists faced drifted roads and stalled vehicles.
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Wilson Senior High School
Lilian Schminkey
St Wenceslaus
Immaculate Conception
Coe
Intense Cold Records 19 761 Phone Calls In Hour
The Northwestern Bell Telephone office set a new hourly record on record cold Wednesday with 19 761 completed calls between 10 30 and 11 30 a m as men worked from downtown to families at home.
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Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
M. H. Morrison
Morrison
Control Board Seeks Clemency for Anamosa Convict
DES MOINES AP The Iowa board of control chaired by E H Felton will ask clemency for Martin Norton Anamosa reformatory convict who aided guards in subduing Sam Renicks a Negro who threw guard Charles Strickel to his death Norton serving a ten year forgery term reportedly saved the life of guard C H Hall A clemency recommendation will go to the state parole board though the form is unspecified.
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Des Moines
E. H. Felton
Iowa Board of Control
Martin Norton
Anamosa Reformatory
Sam Renicks
Charles Strickel
Felton
Norton
C. H. Hall
State Parole Board
Orpha Cramer 82 Dies in Monticello
Mrs Orpha E Cramer died at her daughter's home after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at 1 15 p m Thursday at the Methodist Episcopal church. She was born June 26 1853 in Mercer county and lived on a Castle Grove farm before moving to Monticello. Survived by son F C Cramer daughters L F Balster H Deischer Will Hiller Eda Van Buren eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Burial in Oakwood cemetery.
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Monticello
Cramer
John N. Smith
Manchester
R. R. Smith
Wayne, Neb
G. B. Collins
Bethany
Okla
Hattie Grant
Eagle Rock
Calif
Frances Shaw
D. A R
Anamosa
William Macaulay
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Local Man Suffers Head Lacerations In Highway Crash
E. J. Arnold of 1600 Seventh Avenue SE told Sheriff James H. Smith that he had cuts and bruises to his head when his car skidded into a car driven by J. D. Frantz of Tipton on Highway No. 30 near Lisbon between 10 and 11 a.m. Wednesday. Arnold said Frantz’s vehicle was crosswise on the road. Both cars were badly damaged.
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Linn
Jones County
Cedar Rapids
Bertram
Monticello
Dubuque
Central City
Alburnett
Edward Jedlicka
Monona
The
Gazette
Manchester
Jedlicka
Cedar Rapids Y. M. C. A. Boys’ Department
Interchurch
Pioneer
Comrade
North Western
Rock Island
Milwaukee
Calmar
Oneida
Illinois Central
Ehler
Coggon
Iowa City
North Liberty
Waterloo
Center Point
State Weather Bureau
Iowa
Highway Commission
E. J. Arnold
1600
Seventh Avenue SE
James H. Smith
J. D Frantz
Tipton
Lisbon
Arnold
Edward May Seek Closer Ties With United States
Diplomatic officials say King Edward VIII will push for stronger Britain United States cooperation in world affairs. The king, known for friendly ties with Americans, signaled a new era of Anglo American friendship during a Guild Hall reception with delegations to the naval conference.
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London
Edward VIII
Great Britain
United States
Edward
Guild Hall
Norman H. Davis
Roosevelt
Prince of Wales
Davis
Mr. Davis
South America
Duke of Kent
North
South
Socialite found dead after plunge from hotel window
New York police say H Biddle Fitler, 30, social register member from Philadelphia, was found on a ledge seven stories below his tenth floor hotel room in midtown Manhattan. Authorities believe he fell rather than jumped. Fitler was sales manager at Edwin H Fitler Company and son of N Myers Fitler, former mayor Edwin H Fitler’s descendant.
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New York
INS
H. Biddle Fitter
Biddle
Philadelphia
Midtown
Manhattan
Fitler
Edwin H. Fitler
N. Myers Fitler
Hotel room key found in pocket during murder probe
Chicago police disclosed a key marked 428 found on Dr. Silber Peacock, a child specialist slain three weeks ago. The 428 key was recovered during searches of hotel rooms as part of the inquiry. the doctor’s widow denied knowledge of the key.
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Dr. Peacock
Chicago
Silber Peacock
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