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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1938
Page
1
The wage and hour bill awaits the President’s signature, promising a 40 cent minimum wage and a maximum hour cap, though economists doubt more jobs will be created. General Dawes reflects on life after illness, while Nebraska’s Governor promotes Father’s Day, and Britain and the United States stand firm on naval and international tensions.
The Senate approved a compromise flood control measure, sending it to the White House, as leaders aimed to wind up congressional business. The vote was 52 to 32 amid debate over land condemnation for dam sites and amid other spending-lending and farm benefit policy negotiations.
Earl Fuller of Dubuque told police he was robbed of 91 dollars by two men on a Dubuque Des Moines bus. After a noon layover they allegedly walked toward aGas company plant and tavern drinking preceded the loss of 91 dollars and his bus ticket to Des Moines.
Retailers who are getting it say sales tax payments are raising last year's aggregate revenue from this source. To realize how fortunate we are in Iowa one needs only a few days downcast where retail business is down from last year.
Dr. William Wallace Campbell, 75, renowned astronomer who died Tuesday by leaping from his San Francisco apartment, had many visits to Cedar Rapids as guest of the late Mrs. George B. Douglas. He and his wife were close friends of the Douglases, and they named their son Douglas after Mr. Douglas. Their children once stayed at the Douglas home during a scientific expedition.
Washington AP B H Meyer of the Interstate Commerce Commission warned of the rail industry facing the greatest salvage operations in history unless carriers' status changes. He dissented from a decision denying Associated Railways permission to acquire the bankrupt Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad. He warned that delaying action could increase future losses. A separate action reconsidered a denial to raise passenger coach fares to 2.5 cents per mile. Congressional help for railroads in danger of bankruptcy stalled amid lukewarm legislative support and railroad labor opposition.
A dynamite blast in Harlan Kentucky wrecked the home of J I Sexton a miner recently subpoenaed to testify for the government in the Harlan conspiracy trials. No one was injured.
Chinese communists demand Chiang Kai-shek defend Hankow or armed workers will take over the defense. Flood waters from the Yellow River flood Henan, forcing Japanese to shift assaults toward the Yangtze. Dispatches report 300,000 civilians homeless and 150,000 drowned, with thousands of Japanese troops trapped.
Cedar Rapids saw sun return after another rainy night as the day Tuesday and early Wednesday added about one-third of an inch to the month’s total, reaching 3.47 inches. Temperatures ranged from 62 at 6 am to 70 by 10 am, with the day’s high in the mid eighties earlier.
Charles W. Simms a 70 year old carpenter for the Rock Island railway sustained fractures to the left shoulder and wrist five ribs and the right kneecap after falling from a moving work train between La Porte City and Waterloo. He was found later at Waterloo hospital after coworkers located him.
LOS ANGELES AP Charles A. McLachlan 55 was found guilty by Superior Judge Frank Smith of the sex murder of 6 year old Jenny Moreno Downey Calif Prosecutors had planned to try him next on an insanity plea and he faced trial on that issue after the verdict This report notes the guilty verdict and pending insanity defense.
A reader shares anxiety about job fear and jitters amid layoffs and recession. The letter urges renewing faith and revisiting prayer as a source of courage, recalling elders who endured life’s shocks with deep religious reserve and urging a return to religious wells in the desert.
Eddie Cantor announced plans to depart for England on July 6 to raise funds for Jewish children in Germany. He has already aided 227 children from Germany and Austria to move to Palestine and aims to reach 500.
The American Medical Association met to defend doctors as individuals from New Deal socialized medicine proposals. The House of Delegates rejected broad national medical care programs, while doctors discussed advances in medicine at 15 scientific meetings. The Roche report noted high poverty illness and urged restraint on vast tuberculosis and syphilis funding, prompting debate on economic factors in illness.
Mrs Daisy Tegtmeyer the forgotten woman of the county jail lost her bid for freedom in federal court Judge Charles E Woodward denied her writ of habeas corpus saying there was no illegality in nearly four years confinement in Cook County Jail The state courts have ample jurisdiction over her person and the matter She was jailed for failing to obey a circuit court order for an accountingvolving $30000 in her father in law estate where her husband was executor
The Julian Louis Reynolds baby, born to millions, is under guard at the Paxton estate of his grandfather in Richmond. Richard Reynolds, reportedly taken from his crib on Long Island, was moved there by his nurse as the coup for custody unfolded before the mother Helen Fortescue Reynolds reached Glen Cove, New York. The dispute followed the estrangement of the parents and a separation suit filed by Mrs Reynolds.
John L. Lewis pressed House leaders for a floor vote on the Walsh-Healey contract measure but was rejected by Speaker Bankhead who cited advice that amending the law now would be unwise. Lewis accused the rules committee of protecting corporate interests as AFL head William Green condemned the CIO move as stupidity and treachery to labor.
Atlanta based report states former golf legend Bobby Jones failed for a second time to recover from the federal government 53000 dollars he says were overpaid in income taxes.
Miami AP Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, was found guilty of kidnapping 11-year-old James Bailey Cash by Circuit Judge H F Atkinson. Sentencing postponed to Thursday morning as defense seeks record review. McCall testified, admitting abduction details and claiming he acted impulsively amid money temptation. murder charge possible but unlikely to proceed. The trial centered on the ransom kidnapping linked to the boy’s death.
Washington AP Congress passed Tuesday a bill raising the number of enlisted men the army can assign to its air corps from 16 000 to 21 500.
Column by Arthur Bugs Naer lampoons U S Britain ties with jokes about Joe Kennedy and wartime debt. It mocks post office and Niagara Falls as self running while noting England supplying the mortar of international friendship.
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