Resignation and reflection mark Cedar Rapids school notes
The editor shares reader letters praising long serving educators including Ruby Byers and the four veteran high school principals. A couple recalls 60 years on a Des Moines farm, while a rules committee chair warns districts about gym injury liability and calls for stricter supervision and parental or medical consent after injuries.
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Ruby Byers
Benjamin Franklin Junior High School
Cedar Rapids
Ruby
Florida pardon board declines mercy for McCall
The Florida pardon board refused to commute the death sentence of Franklin Pierce McCall for the ransom kidnapping and murder of James Bailey Cash Jr. in Princeton. The decision ends pleas from McCall’s attorney and from Mrs. Cash’s family, with only a state Supreme Court appeal left to seek clemency.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida Pardon Board
Franklin Pierce McCall
James Bailey Cash
Princeton
McCall
Cash
Lily McCall
Jasper
Raiford
Mrs. McCall
Mrs. Cash
C. A. Arriett
Arriett
Pardon Board
State Supreme Court
Injured McKinley and Franklin Students Highlight Gym Duties
Cedar Rapids report details injuries from compulsory gym class at McKinley high and a similar incident at Benjamin Franklin high. Robert Skaar broke a tibia while at McKinley. Paul Norager Jr. fractured an ankle at Franklin and was sent home unattended. Norager’s father criticizes lack of report and care, noting his son rode home in a cast.
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Board of Education
Norager
McKinley High School
Benjamin Franklin High School
Robert Skaar
Fifteenth Street
McKinley High
Paul Norager
Sixteenth Street
Franklin
Ruby Byers
Davis City man confesses to 3 year old murder
ADMITS MURDER. AP reports Attorney General John H. Mitchell announced that Robert McNally aged 34 of Davis City Iowa has confessed to shooting Cy Arthur aged 72 also of Davis City more than three years after the crime.
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Des Moines
John H. Mitchell
Robert McNally
Davis City
Cy Arthur
Halt Probe of Horlick Milk Heiress Death
Toronto authorities abruptly suspended a probe into the death of Maybelle Horlick Sidley an heiress of malted milk products wealth. The investigation was ordered by Attorney General Conant then canceled hours later as detectives prepared to interview doctors who conducted a private autopsy.
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Toronto
Ont
Conant
Maybelle Horlick Sidley
Sidley
W. Perkins Bull
W. L. Robinson
W. G. Lougheed
Eric Linnell
al Capone
Bull
Chicago
Chicago Master-In-Chancery
Rescue of Woman on Mountain Ledge Near Keene Valley
Twenty five year old Maria Gersen was saved from a precarious ledge 400 feet above Chapel Pond after Adirondack woodsmen used ropes from the top of an 800 foot cliff. Allan Slater of St Hubert was lowered to the ledge and hauled up with the rescued climber. She remained calm and was uninjured according to Constable William Isham as a spotlight watched over the rescue through the night.
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Keene Valley
N. Y
INS
Maria Gersen
Adirondack
Chapel Pond
Allan, Slater
St. Hubert
Maria
Slater
William Isham
Grand Jury Recalled to Test Law in CIO Foundry Strike
NORTH CHICAGO Illinois recalling the March grand jury to decide if any law remains in the country. State's Attorney Charles E Mason announced during the CIO strike at the Chicago Hardware Foundry plant where non striking workers tried to breach picket lines. Indictments were to be drawn against strikers and leaders and presented to the grand jury next week.
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Chicago
Ill
INS
Charles E. Mason
CIO
Chicago Hardware Foundry
Mason
Grand
Stock dealings reach three month high on New York session
Trading on the New York stock exchange Thursday totaled 2 770 000 shares, the largest since October 29, with the list closing about unchanged. Railroads led the early gains while industrials sagged in the final hour as selling dominated.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Roosevelt to Lead Liberal Campaign on Stump Tour
President Roosevelt leaves tonight on a major campaign swing for liberal candidates. He aims to bolster New Deal supporters in Kentucky Oklahoma and California and may target anti‑New Deal opponents as well. Farley heads northwest with Alaska tour plans and potential remarks on party purging efforts. The journey covers about 10 000 miles adding to his vast leadership tour with stops in Marietta Fort Worth San Francisco and Yosemite before returning to Washington.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Kentucky
Oklahoma
California
Senate
Farley
Northwest
James A. Farley
Alaska
Democratic Party
Clinton
Fort Worth
Texas
Elliott
San Francisco
Exposition Grounds
Yosemite National Park
U. S. S. Houston
Panama
Pensacola
Fla
White House
Marietta
Ohio
Northwest Territory
Senator Barkley
Barkley
A. B. Chandler
Elliott Roosevelt
West Coast
Pueblo
Colo
McAdoo
O Connor Defies New Deal Purge Move
Washington fields report that Representative John J. O’Connor of New York, chair of the House Rules Committee and brother of Basil O’Connor, resisted any New Deal effort to purge his supporters amid intra party conflicts.
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O'Connor
New Deal
Washington
John J. O'Connor
N. Y
House Rules Committee
Roosevelt
Basil O’connor
Refugee intake denied by Belgium Canada and Australia
Belgium Canada and Australia refused to open their doors to political and racial refugees from Germany and Austria in a joint stance announced at Evian. The decision kept refugees from entering these nations despite international pressure.
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Evian-Les-Bains
France
INS
Belgium
Canada
Australia
Germany
Austria
Landon Attacks New Deal Plan as Failures and Threats
Alf M. Landon, the 1936 Republican candidate, denounces the New Deal as a failure and warns of economic tailspins if spending stops. He accuses Roosevelt of governmental absolutism, calls the wage hour law a political weapon, and says farmers are regimented amid 12,000,000 unemployed.
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Council Bluffs
Roosevelt
Alf M. Landon
New Deal
Kansas
Bi- partisan Ticket For Judges Named In Iowa District
Democrats and Republicans in Iowa's Eighteenth Judicial District agree on a four judge slate for November. Nominees include incumbents Haas Ring and Moffit with J E Heiserman named to fill Ellison's Jones county seat. Heiserman, 38, will join the district bench alongside a Democratic member as the compromise. Approval at conventions followed hours of deadlock and a nod to Ellison's service.
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Cedar Rapids
Eighteenth Judicial District
Charles J. Haas
If. C. Ring
Linn County
John T. Moffit
Cedar County
J. E. Heiserman
Monticello
Jones County
F. ©. Ellison
Ellison
Heiserman
Hawkeye
University of Iowa Law School
Coxsee and
Coxsee
Colorado River party safe after Cataract Canyon crossing
The National Park Service reported that two women and four men floating the Colorado River are safe. A radio message from an amateur operator read Colorado party 100 miles above Lee's Ferry, indicating they had passed Cataract Canyon despite flood-swollen waters.
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Grand Canyon
Ariz
National Park Service
Colorado River
Park
Colorado
Lee's Ferry
Cataract Canyon
Fried Chicken Ads Boost Local Sales in 521 3rd St
W T Abernathy at 521 3rd St SW reports strong fried chicken demand after a three day Want Ad in The Gazette. He sold 49 fries and could not fill 15 orders, urging readers to place affordable Good Things to Eat Want Ads by calling 2-1121.
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W. T. Abernathy
3Rd St. SW
the Gazette
Abernathy
Ford Accused of Labor Violations in St Louis Case
The national labor relations board issued an examiner report charging Ford Motor with unlawful acts at the St Louis assembly plant after a 1937 strike. It calls for reinstatement of 192 discharged workers and back pay for 96, plus removal of a company created union the Liberty Legion of America. If Ford accepts, notices must be posted. if not, the full board may act.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Ford Motor Company
Middlewest
Ford Assembly
St. Louis
Big River Rouge
Detroit
Fare Company
United Automobile Workers
Treport
Tilford
E. Dudley
Dudley
Ford
United Automobile Workers Union
the Examiner
Henry Ford
Liberty Legion of America, Inc
Examiner
Lightning Strikes City Hall Cenotaph in Cedar Rapids
A thunderstorm toppled the cenotaph at Cedar Rapids City Hall damaging stones and glass, with a fragment breaking through a skylight into a Public Health Nursing room. No injuries reported as partial rebuilding is planned. fourth lightning strike on the cenotaph this year.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
City Hall
Public Health Nursing Association
State Builds Highway Office on 16th Ave SW Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids plans a new 40000 building to house the state highway commission district offices, moving from Waterloo. The brick two story site on 16th Ave SW will serve fourteen counties and includes land for staff autos. Groundwork drawn at Ames offices. several local officials aided land purchase and site options.
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Cedar Rapids
State Highway Commission
Waterloo
Fred R. White
First Highway Commission
Fifteenth
Sixteenth Avenues
Fifth Street
Ames
The
Highway Commission
Clayton
Black Hawk
Buchanan
Delaware
Dubuque
Benton
Linn
Jones
Jackson
Clinton
Iowa
Johnson, Cedar
Scott
van Veehten Shaffer
Chamber of Commerce
Glenn O. Fletcher
Horace G. Hedges
New Industries Committee
John J. Wagner
Maytag workers in Newton weigh peace talks
CIO attorney John Connolly says a return to work could occur with no change in Maytag’s stance if the governor orders arbitration of the dispute and endorses the process. Workers might resume during arbitration, but a rejection of arbitration would trigger another strike.
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DES Moines
INS
Maytag Washing Machine Co
Newton
John Connolly, Jr
CIO
Connolly
Ickes Defends Thomas in Oklahoma Campaign
Secretary Harold Ickes condemned moves to gag facts in the Oklahoma senatorial race and defended Sen Elmer Thomas over alleged irregularities in Indian trust estate management. He criticized anti administration efforts to suppress truth and pledged to speak out on Indian affairs under his jurisdiction.
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Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Oklahoma
Elmer Thomas
Ickes
Maytag strike sparks grand jury action in Newton
Three Maytag Washing Machine plant workers were arrested on kidnapping charges tied to the nine week strike dispute. William Longren Hollis Hall and Richard W Niebur face charges with bonds set at 2000 and 5000 dollars. Hall also faces criminal syndicalism. State officials weigh troop deployment as Gov Kraschel makes no comment.
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Newton
Maytag
William Longren
Hollis Hall
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
CIO
Richard W Niebur
Hall
Niebur
Longren
William Sentner
St. Louis
Sentner
Earl Shields
Jasper County Grand Jury
Lela
Political Hustings Crowding Dial Like Ants At A Picnic
A 1938 column by Arthur Bugs Baer notes the radio era brings relentless political hustings as every politician pushes a broadcast. The piece quips the FCC rule invites rebuttal, while the dial fills with fireside chats and rostrums as a satire of endless political speech.
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Frances Prescott
Estella Swein
Jennie Post
Miss Byers
William H. Bishop
MCALL
Cedar Rapids News
Horlick Milk
CIO Foundry Tioup
Liberal” Group
Landon
Colorado River Party
NLRB
16Th Ave
Kraschel
Nelson G. Kraschel
Shields
Lutherby
Carr
Maytag Plant
Frank Beehly
John Connolly
CIO Group
E. E. Alger
Union
Pershing
Estherville
Woodrow
Colfax
LeRoy Davis
Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Federal Commission
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