Judge Ellison’s 85th Birthday Noted as Service End Approaches
Anamosa marked Judge F O Ellison’s eighty fifth birthday with a Gazette state page feature praising his long service across Linn Cedar and Jones counties. The piece argues the Eighteenth district must retain strong, qualified judges and avoid political or geographic favoritism as retirement nears at year’s end.
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Anamosa
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Jones County
Cedar County
Tipton
Ellison
Effort to end CIO Maytag strike at Newton fails
Governor Kraschel ends conference urging return to work without discrimination for union activity. CIO pickets block plant entrances next day, mild violence noted. Court orders CIO to stop interference. governor urges resumption. CIO led by John L. Lewis faces state authority.
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CIO
Maytag
Newton
Kraschel
John L. Lewis
Nationals Triumph Over Americans In Charity Game
Nationals beat Americans 4 to 1 in the sixth annual charity exhibition before 28,000, with Johnny Vander Meer Bill Lee and Mace Brown holding the American sluggers to seven hits. Joe DiMaggio and Joe Duan tailed a late rally for the Americans in the ninth.
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Nationals
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Johnny Vander Meer
Bill Lee
Mace Brown
Joe DiMaggio
Joe Buonta
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Astor Kin Offered Job In Night Club
New York dispatch reports Francis Ormond French was offered a $30 weekly post at a New York night club, with a path to advancement, the venue listing his son in law John Jacob Astor III among its patrons. French, who declared himself destitute, had sought a PWA job and since then received other offers.
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Francis Ormond French
John Jacob Astor, III
PWA
French
State contract cost fuels graft inquiry
The state faced graft scrutiny over a policy fixing 28 cents a case for transportation, nearly triple the then costs. A legislative committee cleared the matter with influential officials backing the outcome, frustrating a potential expose and suggesting a funding link to the Fueling campaign fund.
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State House
Cardozo May Not Return To High Court
Washington dispatch reports that Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo is gravely ill in New York and unlikely to return to the bench this term. Officials expect his resignation once the court reconvenes in October, with a stroke in February having left him partially paralyzed and recent complications threatening his life.
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INS
New Deal
Supreme Court
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Roosevelt
New York
Cardozo
Irving Lehman
New York Court of Appeals
Port Chester
N. Y
Joseph Rauh
Accuses Railroads of Stock Gambling and Rebates
President Alexander F. Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen told President Roosevelt after a Wednesday conference that railroads could save 700 to 800 million dollars yearly if they sold transportation only. He charged railroads had gambled on the stock market and given rebates to shippers and said unions would back the President against the proposed 15 percent wage cut. Whitney added he had not discussed the wage reduction with Roosevelt.
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Alexander F. Whitney
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Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Roosevelt
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Death Claims Two Vets Who Attended Gettysburg Confab
GETTYSBURG Pa Two veteran attendees of the last blue and gray reunion died Wednesday at Carlisle hospital both 91 years old One served with the Union forces the other a Confederate veteran of Largo Florida Doctors said heart conditions caused the deaths Three other veterans were improving from exhaustion at Carlisle hospital twenty nine veterans remained hospitalized with exhaustion
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Daniel T. Price
Marion
Ind
Carlisle Hospital
John W. Cooper
Largo
Fla
Japanese moves alarm France and Britain in Far East
Reports from Shanghai say a Japanese cruiser reached the Paracel islands with fifteen warships off Haihow on Hainan. France warns of action if troops land on Hainan as Paris presses to defend trade routes. Chiang Kai-shek criticizes Japanese cruelty while Tokyo reports 775,000 square miles seized and 1,300,000 casualties.
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Brothers Jailed For Auto Theft In Cedar Rapids Area
Cedar Falls brothers Charles Akers and Delbert Akers, 22 and 24, were arrested in Waterloo on a motor theft charge. They were arraigned before Judge C. J. Haas and given until July 11 to plead, with bonds set at $2,000 each. They allegedly admitted stealing a Marion, Iowa car on June 30, which was recovered with two tires missing. serial numbers matched by Waterloo police.
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Cedar Rapids
Charles Akers
Delbert
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
C. J. Haas
Akers Brothers
Bob Vlach
Kudina
Harry Oakley
Marion
First Avenue
Thirty-first Street
Louisa
Oakley
Vanderbilt kin heir dies in Budapest heart failure
Count Laszlo Szechenyi, husband of former New York heiress Gladys Vanderbilt and ex Hungarian minister to the United States, died Wednesday in Budapest from heart failure. The magnitude of his fortune is $15,000,000.
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Budapest
INS
Laszlo Szechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
New York
United States
Authorize Boost In Eastern Rail Passenger Rates
The Interstate Commerce Commission allowed eastern railroads to raise passenger coach fares from 2 to 2.5 cents per mile, effective after ten days’ notice. The decision requires a 18 month trial with full revenue records and urges parallel intrastate action to match interstate timing. Eastern carriers estimate the increase could add about $30 million annually.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastern Railroads
Beclare Loyalist Fleet Crippled by Plane Attack
A Zaragoza message to Messagero on Wednesday claimed the Spanish loyalist battle fleet had been completely crippled by an air bombardment off Cartagena on June 17. Italian planes fighting with the nationalists reportedly conducted the raid, with Barcelona authorities warning against spreading news. The Rome report calls the fleet paralyzed, though naval guides say only several ships may be damaged while others remain afloat.
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Candidates to Be Chosen Thursday for District Bench
Democratic and Republican delegates from Linn Jones and Cedar counties meet Thursday at the Linn county courthouse to nominate four candidates for the Eighteenth district bench. Conventions start at 11 a.m. with Republicans in the third floor west courtroom and Democrats in the east courtroom. Incumbent judges are Ellison Haas Moffit and Ring. Ellison retires next Jan. 1. Jones Republicans endorse Rhinehart for successor and Jones Democrats endorse Cash.
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Linn
Jones and
Cedar Counties
Linn County
F. QO. Ellison
Anamosa
C. J
Want Ad Sells Piano Quickly in Gazette Listing
A reader details selling a Baby Grand via a Gazette Want Ad. The ad drew six prospective buyers and sold by day three. Call 2-1121 for an Ad-taker to place your Want Ad. Sold Baby grand arendigians good condition 1 Ave.
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Taylor Lashes German Policy on Migrations
Myron C. Taylor head of the United States delegation warned at a 32 nation refugees conference that forced migration of political and racial groups can bring catastrophic suffering. He singled out Germany and urged united action to halt this chaotic dumping of peoples while stressing U S help rather than direction.
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France
Myron C. Taylor
United States
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Austria
Quitting Education Group Because of Attack On Legion
Massachusetts educational commissioner James G. Reardon resigned from the National Education Association after an attack on the American Legion in a Columbia University Bulletin article. Reardon, a Legionnaire, blamed no NEA link to the remarks while condemning the attack as undeserved.
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Massachusetts
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Columbia University Bulletin
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Reardon
Union Leader Outlines Way To Compromise
Newton AP William Sentner regional CIO director says CIO members may return to work with a 10 percent wage cut if Maytag agrees to arbitration of the dispute Any arbitration decision would be retroactive to the restart of work A back-to-work guarantee against violence was also sought by union leaders participating in the conference with company and union officials.
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Newton
William Sentner
CIO
Associated Press
Maytag
Sentner
A. W. Miller
Miller
Elliott
F A. Woodrow
Ralph Beals
Wilbert Allison
Robert Kirkwood
James B. Carey
New York City
Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union
Inch of Rain Drops Mercury 22 Points
One inch of hard driving rain fell between 2 10 and 2 45 p m Wednesday dropping the temperature from 95 to 73 degrees. Humidity intensified the heat as the day’s high matched the year’s high set June 23. Flooded streets near Second avenue and Park Court stalled cars and dampened ignition wires.
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Cedar Rapids
Second Avenue
Park Court
Chambers
Government to issue 200 million RFC notes
The administration agreed with treasury officials to issue 200 million dollars of government guaranteed notes through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to raise new capital for lending. The notes will be offered July 20 and mature in three years, with the interest rate to be set later.
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Washington
INS
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Jesse H. Jones
Treasury
Illinois panel affirms radium victim compensation
The Illinois industrial commission on Wednesday affirmed a life pension and other compensation for Mrs. Catherine Wolf Donohue of Ottawa for disability linked to Radium Dial Company work. The five‑member full commission signed the final order, approving April 5 awards by arbitrator George B. Marvel and adding $730 for medical expenses.
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Chicago
Illinois Industrial Commission
Catherine Wolf Donohue
Ottawa
Radium Dial Company
George B. Marvel
Stocks Swing Back Into Upward Trend
New York stocks resumed their buoyant mid year rise on Wednesday as active buying surged into the last half of the session marking a renewed upward trend for the market.
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New York
Pickets Turn Back Workers at Maytag Plant Gate
Des Moines reports Gov Kraschel withheld a labor situation statement at Maytag Washing Machine plant as 700 CIO unionists and sympathizers fail to reopen. The back-to-work group declined a 10 percent wage cut, while Kraschel proposed arbitration on all but wage reduction. Fire under boilers failed to restart operations as mass picketing persisted. Mayor Campbell and Sheriff Shields sought troops, with no arrests for mass picketing.
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Bulletins Des Moines
Nelson G Kraschel
Maytag Washing Machine Company
George Campbell
Newton
Maytag Washing Machine Co
CIO
Kraschel
Ed Hall
Ed McClosky
Earl Shields
Campbell
Des Moines
It's Time To Figure Number Of Gasps To Breathing Spell
A column by Arthur Bugs Baer reflecting on optimism in markets in London Paris and Wall Street. It notes shifting sentiment from sympathy to mend and hints at upcoming prosperity, referencing past statements from 1926 and 1936 and Joe Kennedy with a cautious, tongue in cheek tone.
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Arthur “Bugs” Baer
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Paris
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