Mystery tycoon Bull linked to Horlick heir will dispute
Racine Wisconsin dispatch reports Maybelle Sidley left one third of her 9 million fortune to W Perkins Bull a mysterious international figure with ties to royalty and high society. The will may be contested as Sidley died nine days ago and pending probate sparks questions on mental state and inheritance.
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Racine, Wis
Ins
Maybelle Horlick Sidley
Toronto
Ont
W. Perkins Bull
Bull
Horlick
Sidley
William Sidley
W. Perkins Bull, Jr
William Horlick
Horlick Fortune
Mrs. Sidley
Chicago
Los Angeles
United States
England
King George V
Cuba
London
Hitch-Hiker Blood Donation Aids Transfusion
Battle Creek Michigan INS reports Fred J Thompson on a hospital run picked up Harold Thomas hitch hiker who offered his blood after a mismatch transfusion test. The donor's blood matched the needed type and Mrs Thompson began recovery.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Fred J. Thompson
Quincy
iMich
Thompsport
Harold ‘Thomas
Campaign Fund Probers Check On Tennessee
Senate committee reviews alleged misuse of public funds in Tennessee tied to candidates seeking renomination. Chairman Sheppard says inquiry targets undisclosed state concerns and will publish questionnaire responses from senatorial hopefuls. North Dakota matter may be decided in Friday session.
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Washington
Sheppard
Texas
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Tennessee
Berry
Tenn
Tom Stewart
Winchester
J. Ridley Mitchell
Cookeville
John R
Neal
Knoxville
Edward W. Carmack
Murfreesboro
Senate
Maryland
Pennsylvania
California
North Dakota
Carmack Injured Self-described beating found near Paris
E W Carmack, a U S senate candidate in the August primary, was found injured by a roadside near Paris Tennessee. His car lay in a ditch its gas tank empty. He was semi conscious and unable to explain the mysterious assault. He is the son of the late Senator E W Carmack who was assassinated in Nashville in 1908.
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Paris
Tenn
INS
E. W. Carmack
U. S. Senate
Here Funay
Carmack
Cartmack
Sen
Nashville
Wheat acreage allotment set at 55 million acres for 1939
The Agriculture Department announced a national wheat acreage allotment of 55,000,000 acres for 1939, the minimum allowed under the new farm program.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
New Yorker Wage Chiefs Job Offered to Andrews
Elmer F. Andrews New York state labor commissioner has been offered the federal administrator post of the new wage hour law. Washington advices say a decision could come before Roosevelt sails on his vacation cruise. Andrews, who has announced candidacy for lieutenant governor, said he would accept if offered.
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New York
Elmer F. Andrews
United Press
Washington
Roosevelt
San Diego
Andrews
Roosepel
Electrical Firm Head Arraigned In Dewey's Racketeering Probe
New York District Attorney Thomas E Dewey announced an early trial for John Griswold Livingston 65 head of a major electrical firm and Frank W Cooper 60 secretary in J Livingston and Co charged with failing to make material entries in the company books. Both pleaded not guilty and were released on $1000 bail each under a rarely used penal code section carrying up to three years imprisonment.
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NEW York
Thomas E Dewey
John Griswold Livingston
Livingston
Frank W. Cooper
J. Livingston and Co
Britain orders 1000 Spitfire fighters from Barons Nuffield
Sir Kingsley Wood air minister announced in Birmingham that Baron Nuffield, Britain’s leading automobile producer, would supply 1,000 Spitfire fighting planes. The order underscores wartime production efforts and mail to support the RAF.
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Birmingham
England
Kingsley Wood
Baron Nuffield
Britain
Iowa Supreme Court Enters Maytag Labor Contempt Fight
Des Moines reports the Iowa Supreme Court will hear the CIO appeal from District Judge Homer A. Fuller over contempt rulings against three union leaders James Carey William Sentner and Hollis Hall. Sentner disclosed communist party ties and multiple arrests while Carey and Hall faced direct testimony on labor disputes.
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Des Moines
Maytag Washing Machine Company
Iowa Supreme Court
CIO
Homer A. Fuller
Jasper County
Edward A. Sager
High Court
Fuller
Sager
James Carey
William Sentner
Hollis Hall
Maytag arbitration board weighs wage dispute findings
Arbitrators B F Kauffman E H Pollard and Frank Wilson heard conflicting testimony on the 11 week Maytag strike and plan to submit findings to Gov. Kraschel. The decision has no binding force under Iowa law as compulsory arbitration is not provided. Union argues wage cuts would trigger broader cuts and slow recovery.
Newton Publisher Urges G. O. P. To War On Sitdowns
Des Moines AP James R Rhodes publisher of the Newton Daily News urged the Republican state convention resolutions committee to condemn sitdown strikes and seek Wagner Act revisions. Rhodes a former Fifth district committeeman was not seeking reelection. Newton was the site of a recent sitdown at the Maytag washing machine plant tied up by CIO union workers.
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Des Moines
James R. Rhodes
Newton Daily News
Resolutions Committee
Rhodes
Newton
Maytag
CIO
Air Raiders Kill 13 In Bombardment Near Teruel
Insurgent air raid on Algima de Alfara along the Teruel highway fatally harms 13 people including women and children and wounds 20 others. The strikes occurred Friday causing extensive casualties and damage in the area.
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Madrid
Algima de ‘Alfara
Teruel
Retna
King George Visit Joins France and Britain Against Dictators
Paris reports a revived entente as King George and Queen Elizabeth prepare a royal visit seen as both protocol and a signal of united democratic resolve against the Berlin Rome axis. The event follows years of tensions and is framed as Europe's defining political moment since Hitler's rise.
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King George
Entente
Paris
Ins
France
England
Europe
Japan
George
Queen Elizabeth
Edward VII
Hitler
Fashoda
Sudan
Edward
Ruhr
Adolf
Fires rage across Pacific coast forests in three states
More than 200 fires blazed across California Oregon and Washington as heat and lightning sparked dozens of blazes. In California Mount Shasta and Feather River areas reported numerous fires while Washington fought sixty fires with 5000 acres burned at Toandos peninsula. Oregon faced a severe heat assisted fire season with aerial aid and a call for extra crews.
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San Francisco
Pacific Coast
California
Mount Shasta
Forest Service
Plumas National Forest
Feather River
Sierra Nevadas
Forestry
Washington
Toandos
T. S. Goodyear
Olympia
Oregon
Lane County
Turnover of Goods Best Since Easter
With favorable weather, retailers nationwide posted the fastest turnover of goods since Easter. Department stores and specialty shops reported sales above the 1937 level, Dun and Bradstreet noted. Gains ranged 2 to 7 percent. overall volume 6 to 14 percent below 1937. Fall buying gained momentum in wholesale markets as inventories dwindled and price markups neared.
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New York
Ins
Dun and Bradstreet
Fish Urges Lehman For G O P Ticket in New York
Hamilton Fish Jr urges New York Republicans to consider two anti New Deal Democrats for the U S Senate. He reiterates nominating Alfred E Smith for one seat and endorsing Democratic Governor Herbert Lehman for the other.
Injured hiker rescued from Mount Olympus summit
Rog er Carney twenty four year old hiker was hauled down from the ten thousand foot summit of Mount Olympus by a twenty man rescue squad after a Thursday fall left him with a broken leg. Teammate Harold Rapp twenty three and Brayton White twenty three joined the long search as White braved dangerous terrain to summon help. Rescue crews faced an eight to ten hour trek to reach the highway. Mount Olympus is noted as the area’s most difficult peak.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Roger Carney
Mount Olympus
Here
Carney
Harold Rapp
Brayton White
Rapp
White
Clear, Cool Cedar Rapids Weather Rises to 85
Cedar Rapids recorded a cool day with a 59 degree low at 6 am and a high of 85 by 2:30 pm. Thursday’s peak reached 77 at 4 pm then fell to 63 by midnight, according to the Chambers Inskeep recorder.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Successful Rental Want Ads
The Gazette lists rental vacancies that were rented, including 13th St Me 117 apartment near Coe College with furnished living areas and modern kitchen, 1613 three room upper unit in private home with laundry, and 403 three furnished rooms with board and laundry. Also 32nd Ave S bachelor unit with private entrance and hot water.
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13Th ST
Coe College
Sth. ST
32Nd Ave
Furnished 2nd Floor Rooms with Frigidaire in Cedar Rapids
Decent offer for renters in Cedar Rapids. A furnished 2nd floor with three rooms and Frigidaire is available with bills paid. Sara invites landlords to place a Gazette want ad to reach prospective renters. dial 2-1121 to phone your ad.
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Sara
Cedar Rapids
Gazette
World Flyers Honored in New York After Record Round-the-World Flight
New York city feted Howard Hughes and his five crew members with a thunderous ovation and parade down Broadway after their world flight in three days, 19 hours, 8 minutes, and 10 seconds. The tribute surpassed Lindbergh's Paris flight reception in scale and emotion.
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New York
Howard Hughes
Earth
Charles A. Lindbergh
Paris
Broadway
Can
Hughes Slows After World Flight Restful Sleep Forty Hours
Howard Hughes, symbol of speed, recovered from his world flight fatigue with a fourteen hour sleep Thursday night. He stayed in his Hotel Drake room on Park Avenue from 7 15 p m until after 9 a m Friday, rising only after a long rest.
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New York
Howard Hughes
Drake Park Avenue
Hughes Homecoming Sparks City Hall Welcome
Crowds of 30,000 greet Hughes at Floyd Bennett Field after his around the world flight. Mayor LaGuardia hails the achievement as a step toward world peace and civilian aviation. Katharine Hepburn waits at her Saybrook home as Hughes seeks privacy after the spectacle.
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LaGuardia
Hughes
Floyd Bennett Field
Hepburn
Lull in Holy Land Shattered by New Bombing
In Jerusalem a fragile inter racial quiet collapsed as bombs and rifle fire wounded three and a fatal shooting occurred when British troops fired on Arabs trying to enter the Jewish quarter of Safad after a bomb exploded in the Arab section. The two week period had seen about 1530 killed and 300 wounded.
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Holy Land
Jerusalem
INS
Safad
Second District Endorses Hickenlooper in Gubernatorial Bid
Republican delegates from Iowa’s second district endorsed B B Hickenlooper of Cedar Rapids for lieutenant governor. R E Hill of Oxford Junction was reelected central committeeman and Mrs Harriett Ballard of Cedar Rapids reelected central committeewoman. Delegates named district reps on state convention committees and sent erectings to Harrison Spangler, detained by illness at home in Cedar Rapids.
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Des Moines
B. B Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
R. E. Hill
Oxford Junction
Man
Harriett Ballard
G. D. Rose
Dubuque
Harold Thienen
Davenport
Hillis K. Lee
Maquoketa
W. A. McCullough
Clinton
Harrison Spangler
Spangler
Walker D. Hanna
Burlington
Carrie E. Snider
West Liberty
Man Drowns at Ellis Beach During Supervision
Sterling Miller Jr a 26 year old Black man and father of three drowned at Ellis beach Friday at 11 20 am while supervised by a group of Black children with no lifeguards on duty The three boys who saw him say he disappeared near the north tower and the body was recovered at 12 05 pm by Patrolman Harley Simon Artificial respiration was attempted by park department workers and ambulance attendants but Dr B L Knight coroner ruled the death accidental drowning at 12 45 pm
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Cedar Rapids
Sterling Miller, Jr
Thirteenth Avenue SE
Ellis Beach
Miller
David Jones
Richards Mims
Andrew Blakey
Twelfth Street SE
Trene Willis
Willis
Harley Simon
Park Department
Marvin Springer
Twentieth Avenue NW
Harry Mullin
F Avenue NW
B. L. Knight
WPA Grant Boost Raises Pay for 82000 Southern Workers
The Works Progress Administration increased its payroll by about 320000 dollars monthly starting Friday, giving 82000 southern workers average monthly raises of 3.90 dollars. Administrator Harry L. Hopkins announced continued purchases of surplus clothing for relief, with nearly 10 million dollars in goods bought to date.
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Washington
Works’ Progress
South
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Cedar Rapids Man Nominated for Lieutenant Governor by Republican State Convention
At the Des Moines convention on Friday Iowa Republicans nominated B B Hickenlooper of Cedar Rapids for lieutenant governor by acclamation after Harry Thompson withdrew. Tate Young Republicans endorsed Hickenlooper. a western challenge was unlikely. The gathering planned to fill three statewide posts and elect a new state central committee chairman, with P C Lapham withdrawing from superintendent race in favor of Jesse M Parker.
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Des Moines
INS
B. By Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Irving W. Myers
Young Republicans
J. H. Anderson
Iowa
Fridday
J. H. Mileroy
Vinton
Carl H. Cook
Glenwood
State Central Committee
Cook
Milroy
B. B. Hickenlooper
House of Representatives
Harry B. Thompson
Muscatine
Hickenlooper
Thompson
Yowa Tate
Republican Central Committee
Lapham
P. C. Lapham
Charles City
Jessie M. Parker
Hughes Returns to Film After Quitting Picture Business
Howard Hughes, famed producer of a renowned aviation film, exits the film industry then resumes work in cinema. He adopts a nomadic breakfast habit and critics say global history shifts as oceans become mere tableware for future events.
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Howard Hughes
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Miss Hepburn
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Arthur “Bugs Baer
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