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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1938
Page
27
In Cedar Rapids twenty local residents including eight doctors and three lawyers were surveyed on mercy killing. Eight favored legalization while seven opposed and five were undecided citing safeguards and concerns over diagnosis errors and potential abuse.
Dr. Maud Slye of Chicago renowned for cancer research will address a public meeting February 10 at the Coe College chapel Cedar Rapids. She will dine with Linn County Medical Society at Montrose hotel earlier and has long studied hereditary cancer in mice aiming to map human risk.
An English steamship line in Melbourne unveiled a centenary crest redesigned by the College of Heraldry featuring a kangaroo. Australians complain the tail is drawn incorrectly, indicating the heraldic team never properly saw a kangaroo.
London dispatch notes Viscount Hailsham, the lord chancellor, seeks retirements or reassignment of elderly and absentee justices of the peace. Some magistrates aged 70 to 87 resist leaving the bench, while reform would create a supplemental list for noncourt duties and ceremonial tasks.
Moscow plans for a round the world flight to beat the seven day nineteen hour record set by Wiley Post in 1933 were revealed at a meeting of outstanding Soviet airmen. Pilot Nicholas Shebanov said the aim includes gathering data to master fast aerial communications between Moscow and Siberia and the Far East. Date for the flight was not stated.
New Martinsville West Virginia Doyle Quinn ate the evidence and was sentenced to seven years in state prison after forging a check. He chewed the check at a preliminary hearing. the grand jury indicted him. He pleaded insanity but a jury found him sane. Judge J F Shipman gave credit for two weeks in jail awaiting trial.
The Interstate Commerce Commission postponed until February 23 the argument in the Associated Railways case seeking to take over the Minneapolis and St. Louis railway. The hearing was first scheduled for February 21.
A mock news interview charts a Groundhog Day press conference scene at a brewery site. Nutsy the Interviewer clashes with the hog king over coverage and six weeks of winter lore while plans for a public preview loom and a fiery statement is promised.
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