Iowa Prison Warden Reflects as Executions Stir Debate
The column blends veterans memories of Col Glenn C. Haynes with a critique of war aims and law enforcement. It cites a Springfield conclave of 80 of 102 Republican county chairmen choosing a strong state ticket and urges Iowa to oppose a Kraschel Kampmeier Kirtley bloc. It notes Roosevelt’s naval program and Japan’s rising fleet, then covers Reed’s Senate nomination to the Supreme Court and the Madison oil conspiracies case, tying prices to anti trust action and public sentiment.
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Rainbow Division
Glenn C. Haynes
168Th Infantry
Iowa
Haynes
Glenn C Haynes
Fort Madison
Springfield
Ilinois
Illinois
State House
K.K.K
Kraschel- Kampmeier-Kirtley
Double Hanging At Fort Madison Iowa Two Men Executed
Fort Madison Iowa witnessed a double execution as John M Mercer 29 and Allen B Wheaton 21 faced death for murders decades earlier. Both men walked to the gallows with guards and priests present and were hanged simultaneously at about 7 18 am after brief final declarations and Mass. Mercer smiled for photographers while Wheaton refused eye contact.
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Fort Madison
INS
John M Mercer
Allen B. Wheaton
M. Mercer
L. E. Bees
HE. O'Neil
Tipton
Wheaton
Mercer
Glenn C. Haynes
W. W. Christian
Joe Perry
Council Bluffs
Penitentiary Death Stockade
Iowa
Robert G. Sproat
Henry Plummer
Plummer
Everyday Living Proverb Reflections and Commentary
A 1938 column by Dr Newton questions common sayings and proverbs. It argues love brings insight not blindness and that silence, success, honesty, and opportunity need nuanced reading. Reflections on courage, youth, honesty, and progress accompany brief historical allusions and a closing nod to Franklin.
Iron Lung Patient Broadcasts Tonight
Frederick B. Snite Jr 27 an infantile paralysis victim who has spent nearly two years in an iron lung will broadcast Monday night from Miami Florida in support of the Foundation for Prevention of Infantile Paralysis.
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Chicago
Frederick B. Snite, Jr
Miami
Fla
Foundation For Prevention of
Economic Reform and Monopolies Under the NRA Era
The passage critiques the New Deal era and National Recovery Administration policies. It notes how price fixing was encouraged or required, portraying monopolies as oppressive and ruthless, equating historical economic control with modern concerns over market power and corporate dominance.
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NRA
SEC Adopts Rule to Curb Short Selling
The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules to curb short selling in a declining market. Effective February 8, short sales will only occur if the sale price is at least 1 percent above the last sale price, making such trades impractical during falls. Short selling in rising markets remains allowed, though officials did not explain why.
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Securities Exchange Commission
Commission
Business Failures Reach Peak Since 1933
Dun and Bradstreet reported that the week ended January 20 saw 338 business failures, the highest weekly total since November 9, 1933. The figure compares with 265 failures the prior week and 163 in the same period of 1937.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet
Exemption Request Aims At Private Holding Firms
Ellsworth C. Alvord for the S. Chamber of Commerce asked the House Ways and Means Committee to exempt private holding companies with multiple stockholders that function as operating firms from a proposed surtax on closely held corporations.
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Washington
Ellsworth C
Probe fatal air crash ten plugs checked Cedar Rapids News
Investigators examined the Cedar Rapids crash that killed C. Alan Fredrickson and John O. St. Aubin at the Aviation Country club Saturday. Federal Inspector J F Read and Dr. Knight led the inquiry, with club officials helping. Findings point to accidental death from motor failure. no inquest planned. Funeral services announced for Fredrickson in Essex. St. Aubin’s body sent to Minneapolis for services.
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John O. St. Aubin
Aviation Country Club
J F. Read
Davenport
BL. Knight
W. T. Saxon
Owen Smith
Knight
Read
Washington
Fredrickson
Essex
Turner Chapel
Dwight Krumholtz
Hanford
American Legion
Forced feeding to save Noe lives at Memphis cathedral
MEMPHIS AP A 22 day fast by Is real Harding Noe ended as doctors moved to force feed to restore strength. The 47 year old former dean suffered a grave but not hopeless condition and may require three months to recover. An IV saline glucose provided the first feeding with subsequent feedings planned about every eight hours. The episode followed the bishop removing Noe as dean amid warnings against his religious fasting.
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Memphis, Tenn
Israel Harding Noe
St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral
Buchanan
Royden Keith Yerkes
University of the South
Sewanee
Beardsley Ruml Appointed Deputy Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank
Beardsley Ruml of New York City, son of Dr and Mrs W Ruml, 1901 Fifth Avenue SE, named deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York by the Federal Reserve Board in Washington. He has served on the NY Fed board, previously headed by Owen D Young of General Electric, succeeding Young as deputy chairman, and has long served with the Rockefeller Memorial, Spelman fund and Rosenwald funds. He was dean of the social science division at the University of Chicago from 1931 to 1933 and is a member of the Social Science Research Council and the American Statistical Association.
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Cedar Rapids
Beardsley Ruml
New York City
W. Ruml
Fifth Avenue SE
R. H Macy and Company
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Washington, D.C
Federal Reserve Board
Washington
Ruml
Qwen D Young
General Electric Company
Young
Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Cedar Rapids COC Anniversary Dinner Reservations Open
Reservations remain open for the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce anniversary dinner to be held Tuesday at 6 30 p m in the Shrine temple A L Taylor executive secretary says the event marks the Chamber fiftieth anniversary and the twentieth anniversary of the present organization Reservations should be made through the Chamber of Commerce office.
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Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Shrine Temple
A. L. Taylor
Chamber
Cedar Rapids Commercial Club
Chamber of Commerce
The Man She Won Opens as a Gazette Serial
Fate and happiness cross social divides in Phyllis Moore Gallagher’s new The Man She Won serial. Obstacles test young lovers but love triumphs in the end. Read the opening chapters launching Wednesday January 26 in The Gazette.
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The
Gazette
Phyllis Moore Gallagher
Kidnapping Plot Targeted Baseball Stars, Hoover Says
Federal prosecutors move to arraign John Henry Seadlund on Lindbergh law charges in the Charles S Ross kidnapping slaying. Hoover told Walter Winchell that Seadlund and accomplice Gray eyed Dizzy Dean and Joe DiMaggio for ransom but abandoned the plan due to publicity and doubts about payment.
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John Henry Seadlund
Charles S. Ross
Washington
LLP
J Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Dizzy Dean
St. Louis
Henry Seadlund
Cardinals
Dean
New York
Walter Winchell
J. Edgar Hoover
John Henry Senadlund
Joe di Maggio
Hoover
Winchell
Seadlund
James Atwood Gray
Charles S Ross
di Maggio
Lou Gehrig
Yankees
Gray
Seadlund Seadlund to Face Electrocution in Ross Kidnapping
Chicago report states government action to seek the electric chair for John Henry Seadlund over the kidnap slaying of Charlies S. Ross. Igoe prepares case as investigators finish minor links. Seadlund, 27, a northwoods lumberjack, tied to Tommy Carroll and Dillinger-era crime, confessed to Ross and James At killing after capture ten days earlier.
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Chicago
John Henry Seadlund
Charlies S. Ross
U.S
Michael L. Igoe
Northwoods
Tommy Carroll
Desperado
John Dillinger
Ross
James At
One Inch Rainfall Then Snow Hits Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids saw snow after an off season rainfall totaling about one inch. Rain started Sunday afternoon, then slowed by evening as temperatures rose to the upper thirties. Snow began Monday, melted as it fell, while roads turned slick and the Cedar River neared a two foot rise.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Cedar River
Iowa Windmill and Pump Company
Reed Approved As High Judge By Committee
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Monday the nomination of Stanley F Reed to the Supreme Court. The nomination, President Truman s second, was approved at a brief executive session with about half the members present, and a favorable report was ordered forwarded to the Senate. Reed, 53, will succeed Justice Sutherland, retiring after 13 years on the high bench.
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Stanley F. Reed
Sutherland
Senate
Reed
Hugo Black
Alabama
Roosevelt
Mr. Reed
Washington
Justice Sutherland
Man on way to see newborn son victim of highway stickup
W R Deering of 445 Rich street Columbus Ohio reported a daylight stickup nine miles west of here on Highway 30 about 10 30 am Monday. A man with a revolver robbed him of $64 his watch and a traveling bag after he gave a lift to a man carrying a gasoline can who claimed they were out of gas. The man who committed the crime sat in the stalled car while an accomplice searched Deering. Deering was en route to Columbus to see his wife and newborn son after receiving a wire saying It s a boy. He had been installing a boiler for the Municipal Light and Power Company. The assailants fled as Deering said his car was in second gear.
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W. R Deering
Rich Street
Columbus
Ohio
Highway 30
Here
Deering
Ames
Municipal Light and Power Company
Rosamond Pinchot Found Dead In Gar
New York AP report says Rosamond Pinchot 33 daughter of Amos Pinchot and niece of former Pennsylvania governor was found dead in an automobile at the estate of Harry Alexander Old Brookville Long Island. Police say death by own action due to automobile exhaust fumes. Identified by servants. one of her last stage appearances was The Eternal Road. She married William Gaston in 1928. their son was born in 1929.
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Nassau
Rosamond Pinchot
Amos Pinchot
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Harry Alexander
Old Brookville
Long Island
Miss Pinchot
Alexander
Nassau County Police
Lewis F Ellmore
Max Reinhardt
William Gaston
West Chester, Pia
Burgus First Of Council To Toss Hat In City Ring
Louis D Burgus longtime Cedar Rapids resident and current finance commissioner announced his candidacy for re election Monday making him the first incumbent to enter the March city elections. He is completing his third term, a former Burlington resident, and has lived in Cedar Rapids over twenty years selling for John Blauls Sons company. He is a property owner married with two schoolgoing sons.
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Louis D. Burgus
Seventh Avenue SE
Burlington
Burgus
Cedar Rapids
John Blaul
Youth Admits Burning Barn and Robbery in Cedar Rapids
Lawrence Kizer, 19 of Vinton, confessed with his companion to a robbery at Joe Gilchrist’s cafe in Cedar Rapids, then set fire to a barn at the Worthen home to divert attention. Police recovered two nickel plated revolvers and $96 in currency and coins from Kizer. He named the partner as James Register and linked the Mount Auburn beer tavern holdup on Jan. 10, with warrants issued.
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Feo
Lawrence Kizer
Kizer
C. H. Taylor Beer Tavern
Mount Auburn
Vinton
Kaizer
Worthen
Joe Gilchrist
Takes Democrat To Build Bridge Where None Needed
Cartoonist Bugs Baer mocks Democratic push to fund a bridge where no river exists. He adds a jab about a fictitious CCC camp with two sets of books producing about eighty thousand dollars, claiming the camp was imaginary.
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Baer
CCC
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