Court case highlights need for river patrol after near drowning
Harold Hess’s charge for care in operating a motor boat was dismissed for lack of evidence. The incident on May 1 on the Cedar river involved S. S. O'Toole who cannot swim and was saved by bystanders after a wave from a passing power boat overturned his craft.
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Harry Johnson
Harold Hess
Dunreath Drive
Hess
S. S. O'Toole
Ellis Boulevard
O'Toole
Cedar River
Ellis Park Pavilon
Arthur Fink
Fink
O’toole
Milford Tefer
K Street
Noel Rose
Leo Logan
Johnson
Mount Vernon
High Rock
OTAFF MOVES IN AT CAMP GOOD HEALTH
The Camp Good Health staff for Cedar Rapids includes Miss Kluss Fred Samek and his brother David, plus kitchen and cabin leaders Miss Shirley Like Miss Maxine Spencer Miss Sara Margaret Wilson Miss Virginia Becker and Miss Alice Miller. Camp nurse Miss Mary Herrmann oversees health care, diet and regular examinations for physically handicapped children aged six to twelve, with funding from The Camp Good Health Fund via The Gazette.
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Kluss
Fred Samek
Ellis Boulevard
Coe College
David
Shirley Like
Thirty-fifth Street
Maxine Spencer
Twenty-ninth Avenue
Woodland Drive
Sara Margaret Wilson
Nevada
Virginia Becker
Maquoketa
Alice Miller
Grundy Center
Wilson
Becker
Miller
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Camp Good Health
Cedar Rapids
Mary Herrmann
Public Health Nursing Association
Michael Reese Hospital
Chicago
University of Michigan
Dubuque
Camp Good Health Fund
the Gazette
Iowa
Iowa Farm Income Rises 1938 First Four Months
The Agriculture Department reports Iowa farm income from principal products and government payments rose by 13.606 million in January to April 1938 versus the same period in 1937. April cash income totaled 42.547 million, up from 39.186 million. January-April income reached 179.32 million against 165.714 million a year earlier.
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Washington
Iowa
Agriculture Department
Department
Fear Prior to Kidnap Report in Ymir Canada
Carmella La Jeunesse, 19 months, has been missing from Ymir since Monday. Serjt G C Barber says police fear kidnapping after a bloodstained handkerchief was found on a hillside. About 200 miners have searched the mountain country. Thursday night Mrs Morris La Jeunesse returned home with a newborn son.
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Nelson
B. C
Carmella la Jeunesse
Ymir
Sergt. G. C. Barber
British Columbia
Morris la Jeunesse
NERB Wins Remand in Ford NLRB Case
Sixth Circuit grants remand of the Ford NLRB case back to the board with a 30 day stay for Ford to petition the Supreme Court. NLRB seeks enforcement of order reinstating 29 workers for union activity. Ford faces further appellate steps. The court denies Ford interrogatories and rules on related motions.
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Covington, Ky
INS
Ford National Labor Relations Board
Sixth District Court of Appeals
NLRB
Ford Motor Co
Supreme Court
Xen Hicks
Ford Company
Ford
High Court
Ford Interrogatories
Wheat Crop Prospects For Season From Government Report
Government estimate shows unusually large winter wheat crop with a total forecast wheat output between 1 020 623 000 and 1 035 623 000 bushels for the year. Spring wheat may bring 260 000 000 to 285 000 000 bushels. last year production 873 993 000 bushels. rye at 55 138 000 bushels with 13.6 bushels per acre.
Southern Senators Claim Victory In Their Wage Fight
Southern senators said they won a year long drive to set lower minimum wages in the south and anticipated broad exemptions from a 40 cent an hour scale. They noted the administrator would be placed in the labor department as part of the deal. A WPA relief and public works bill also advanced with a larger allotment to 1.425 billion dollars and funding to last until March 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dixie
Senate-House
David I. Walsh
Mass
Labor Department
Senate
Roosevelt
Doe's Leap: White-tail Jumps Sixteen Feet From Rest
A white-tail doe was observed leaping sixteen feet from a reclining position, a notable display of agility and power. The incident highlights surprising capabilities in local wildlife behavior.
Bomber Crash Kills Eight Army Flyers
A bomber crash killed eight Army flyers after a stormy flight. One body remained in the wreck, others were scattered with parachutes charred or opened. nearby woods and knoll fields saw wreckage and a small fire as sheriff’s aides investigated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youle
Fearful Abduction Case In Adrian Targets Teacher
Michigan state police and G men broadcast arrest for Harry van der Cook also known as Russell Miller, an Adrian cattle buyer and suspected kidnapper of Lucille Wilson 22 a school teacher. Wilson left with van der Cook Tuesday night to accompany him to California as governess to his four year old child.
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Adrian, Mich
INS
Michigan
G-men
Harry van der Cook
Adrian
Lucille Wilson
van der Cook
Miss Wilson
California
Russell Miller
van de Cook
New York
Local Man Killed by Lightning at Cleveland School Garden
A man was struck by lightning while taking shelter under a tree at a playground garden near Cleveland school. He was dispatched to a scene, rushed to St. Luke's hospital, and pronounced dead by Dr. B. L. Knight, county coroner. Patrolmen found a steel file in his pocket.
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Lance
St. Luke’s Hospital
B. L. Knight
Duncan
Stodola
Parsons
Cleveland School
Deplores Decline Of Civil Service Under New Dealers
Des Moines reports Arthur T. Vanderbilt, head of the American Bar Association, condemning the drop in civil service under the New Deal at a state bar convention. He urged a permanent federal employee corps to run government and argued for reinstating civil service alongside justice reform. Boyle Clark defended the integrated bar proposal for all lawyers.
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Des Moines
INS
Arthur T. Vanderbilt
American Bar Association
State Bar Association
Vanderbilt
United States
England
Boyle Clark
Columbia, Mo
Two Men Taken Off Freight Train in Marion Jail
Two men removed from a Milwaukee freight train in Marion were lodged in Linn county jail Thursday night. Detective Jack Monahan of the Milwaukee railway held them on trespassing charges pending records check. Names given: Forrest Williams, 33, Joplin, Missouri, and Charles Carey, 37, Chicago.
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Milwaukee
Marion
Jack Monahan
Milwaukee Railway
Linn County
Forrest Williams
Joplin
Charles Carey
Chicago
British Chiefs Meet To Avert Spanish Raids
London reports a high level meeting of Britain’s army navy and air force chiefs to discuss preventing further attacks by a lone Italian seaplane raider in Spanish waters. The raids hit Alicante Denia and Gandia with damage to British ships and warehouses.
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London
Britain
Army
Admiralty
Foreign Office
Savoia
Alicante
Denia
Gandia
Thorpehaven
Brisbane
Argentina S corn crop seen smallest in 15 years
The U S Agriculture Department reports Argentina estimates its 1938 corn crop at 179 million bushels the smallest in 15 years. Analysts note drought cut yield about half from last year and 46 percent below the 1931-36 average with an exportable surplus under 100 million bushels versus 270 million last season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Argentina
Challenge to federal judges income tax in Nebraska suit
Circuit Judge Joseph W. Woodrough files a test case in Omaha challenging Congress power to tax salaries of federal judges including Supreme Court and district bench. The suit names George W. O’Malley Nebraska internal revenue collector and has backing from over fifty judges appointed after 1932.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha, Neb
Congress
Supreme Circuit
District Court
Circuit
Joseph W. Woodrough
Omaha
George W. O'Malley
Internal Revenue
Nebraska
Woodrough
Congress approves temporary national economic committee
The House Judiciary Committee voted to empower President Roosevelt to control the antitrust probe, approving the O Mahoney resolution to create a temporary national economic committee in the same form as the Senate version after a two hour closed door wrangle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Roosevelt
House Judiciary Committee
O'Mahoney
National Economic Committee
Senate
Local Men Advance At Naval Training Station
Four local men and one from Williamsburg are on twelve days leave from the Great Lakes naval training station after completing three months of training. Rex Hinman, Lawrence McFaddin Jr., Wayne Neville, Eldon Bencke, and William Bean are listed with their home addresses. McFaddin passed machinist mate school exams for Norfolk but chose naval academy entrance instead. Hinman, a former naval reserve member, was advanced to apprentice third class in one month. Also on furlough are W. J. Schuldt from the U S S West Virginia and D. J. Carlson from the transport Chaumont, visiting their families in Marengo and at 208 Seventh Street SW respectively.
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Williamsburg
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Rex Junior Hinman
Clara Hensley
A Avenue NW
Lawrence McFaddin, Jr
Lawrence McFaddin
Fourteenth Street
Wayne Neville
Susan Kissinger
J Avenue NW
Eldon Bencke
Henry Bencke
Twelfth Avenue
W. J. Schuldt
U. S. S. West Virginia
San Pedro
Calif
Rs. H. Schuldt
Marengo
D. J. Carlson
Chaumont
O. N. Carlson
Seventh Street
Witnesses Say State Patient Was Abused
An investigation into alleged abuse of patients at the state hospital for the insane continued in Cherokee. Four relatives of patient Ben Freeburger 61 of Manson testified that attendants abused him as the inquiry by the board of inquiry proceeded.
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Cherokee
State Hospital For the Insane
Ben Freeburger
Manson
Board of Inquiry
Freeburger
Myrtle Griffin
S. H. Freeburger
George Thomas
George Freeburger
Sioux City
Harry White
Board of Control
McCall Arrested In Baby Abduction Case And Confession
The Cash family faced a grim scene as 5 year old Jimmy Cash was found murdered twelve days after his kidnapping. McCall confessed to the crime after an extensive probe and was linked to ransom notes found at multiple sites. Authorities recovered most of the ransom money while heavy storms and floodwaters complicated the case.
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Hilliard
FBI
McCall
Florida
Princeton
Boy
Miami
Hoover
Cash
Skeegie
Jimmy
Torrential Rain Drenches City Streets in Downtown Flooding
Heavy rain and high winds turned downtown streets into lakes and rivers. Cars along Third Avenue SE faced rising water while runoff swelled storm sewers as the storm eased to steady rainfall.
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Jennie Bedett
Fifth Avenue SE
Bever Avenue
Fifteenth Street
Park Court
First Avenue
Third Avenue
Fourth Street
Second
Third Avenues
Twenty-first Street
D Avenue NE
Chambers Inskeep Company
Mercury
Third Avenue SE
Mothers in Chicago Milk Supply Strike for Higher Pay
Eighteen mothers who provide breast milk to the Chicago board of health for undernourished infants staged a brief walkout. They gathered in the corridor to Dr. Herman Bundesen to demand 16 cents an ounce for milk instead of six.
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Chicago
INS
Board of Health
Herman Bundesen
Health board heads win pay boost for mothers
Bundesen as board of health president explains the increase cannot come from the health department budget and convinces the mothers to continue their service despite the added per ounce payment.
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Bundesen
Board of Health
Health Department
Would-Be Coal Case Witness Murdered Cast in Trial
A witness testifying in the coal case said Frank White appeared at the scene of Bennett Musick's slaying. He claimed Bill Middleton offered money to switch sides and swear for the defense. The witness said White, a former Harlan deputy, held a rifle near the Musick home the night of the shooting. The government aims to use the Musick killing as a key element in its case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank White
Bennett Musick
Fox
Bill Middleton
Theodore Middleton
White
Harlan
Musick
Mixes His Judges
Frederick Reilly, 40, was placed in the workhouse for thirty days after a seventh conviction for vagrancy and intoxication. Judge Mark Rudich sentenced him following a boastful remark about their friendship and a raised two-finger gesture.
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New York
INS
Frederick Reilly
Mark Rudich
Reilly
Rudich
Mark
Loveland cafe offers free coffee on sunny days
A Loveland Colorado cafe posts a sign promising free coffee any time on days when the sun is not shining. The whimsical offer draws attention to local business promotions and weather quirks in the community.
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Loveland
Colo
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