Fathers, Federal Jobs, and Shifting Post Office Power
A column decries Father's Day neglect while noting 15,000 fathers face civil service lifetime appointments after congressional adjournment. It criticizes partisan postmaster appointments and warns of federal payroll expansion amid economic fear. The piece shifts to Ottawa vetoes on Alberta mortgage rules and the moral tension of wealth, Christianity, and capitalism before recalling a friend scarred by hardship.
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Civil Service
Congress
New U S Foreign Policy Pattern Signals Navy Strength
A plain warning pattern against treaty breakers emerged from the Seventy-Fifth Congress with a defense budget boosting the army and navy. Secretary Hull’s framing labeled Italy Germany and Japan as international anarchists while aiming for a long-term shift to world law, backed by expanding naval power and nonpartisan support.
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Kirke T. Simpson
Washington
Congress
Senate
Berlin
Rome
Tokio
China
Hull
Italy
Germany
Japan
Games At Carnival Closed As Ordered By County Attorney
Cedar Rapids news item reports all games labeled gambling by county attorney G King Thompson were closed at the Royal American shows in Cedar Park. Paddle wheels down, booths open but no customers, merchandise prizes used after 8 pm. pyramid device also shut. Police chief Robert Vinch says closures were voluntary, not due to official action. A formal notice to cease gambling was sent via Sheriff James H Smith's office.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Park
G. King Thompson
Robert Vinch
Carnival Management
Thompson
James H. Smith
Mortgage foreclosures and social cancer in economic crisis
A critique contrasts mortgage foreclosures and predatory wealth with the idea that honorable men harmed by ruthless economic forces and political demagogues form a deeper social cancer. The passage argues the danger lies in systemic economic and political manipulation rather than individual misdeeds.
Gettysburg Anniversary Reflections On War And Valor
Sir Henry Newbolt described as the last bugler, he and other poets are cited for war’s chivalry and horror. The piece recalls Gettysburg’s first July week, with Lee and Meade facing, Pickett’s assault, Armistead and Cushing among the fallen, as university Southern students bore Homer and battle memories.
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Henry Newbolt
Clifton Chapel
Gettysburg
Lee
Meade
Jook
Pickett
Seminary Hill
Armistead
Cushing
University
South
Homer
Redskins Plan Legal Warfare On Squatters
MUNCIE Ind UP Chief Larry Godfrey of the Miami Indian tribe says 100 paleface squatters occupy 2500 acres near Pennville. The tribe will file suit in federal court at Fort Wayne to reclaim land under early U S treaty terms claiming tax sales and dispossession violated tribal rights.
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Muncie
Ind
Larry Godfrey
Blackford County
Fort Wayne
Pennville
United States
Clarence E. Benadum
Godfrey
St. Mary’s
Peru
Minersville Pupils Ordered to Salute Flag Unconstitutional
Federal Judge Albert B. Maris ruled a Minersville Pennsylvania school board regulation requiring pupil flag salutes violates religious belief. The decision voids expulsion of Lillian Gobitis, 15, and William Gobitis, 13, both Jehovah’s Witnesses, and affects their education after being removed on November 6, 1935.
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Philadelphia
Albert B. Maris
Minersville
Maris
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Lillian Gobitis
William
Walter Gobitis
Jehovah's Witnesses
Hoffman Attacks Hague and Speakers in New Jersey
Former Governor Harold G. Hoffman criticized Norman Thomas and two congressmen barred from speaking in Jersey City. He said they ought to be expelled from any community.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Norman Thomas
Jersey City
Harold G. Hoffman
Chicagoan named head of 13th Engineers
The Thirteenth Engineers meeting at the Roosevelt hotel in Chicago elected Cedar Rapids resident Cedar Rapids veteran Rol Duty as president and chose Minneapolis as the 1939 reunion city. Des Moines’ Walter P. Stotts became senior vice president and Omer McGlaughlin of Cedar Rapids was named junior vice president.
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Cedar-Rapids
Chicago
Thirteenth Engineers (Railway) Association
Minneapolis
Roosevelt Hotel
Walter P. Stotts
Des Moines
Omer MceGlaughlin
Cedar Rapids
A. B E. Ward
Milwaukee
Thirteenth Engineer News
Ladies Auxiliary
C. H. Vaughn
Harrington
Kan
Ray Danvers
Shawnee
Okla
James Stewart
J. A. Elliot
Little Rock
Ark
Weekly Forecast for Chicago and Surrounding Valleys
The weekly outlook calls for showers Monday and Tuesday then generally fair conditions. A new round of showers is expected Saturday with cooler temperatures in the south portion on Wednesday, and warmer conditions forecast for Thursday and Friday.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Nazis Extend Jewish Purge Across Reich
A sweeping German anti Jewish campaign intensified by secret police orders extended to all Germany on Saturday. Jews faced panic as mob actions increased and foreign consulates were besieged. the first influx of refugees arrived penniless aboard the SS.
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New York
INS
Roosevelt
Berlin
Germany
Anti-Semitic raids in Germany widen crackdown
Reports from Berlin, Worms, and Frankfurt describe intensified police actions against Jews amid a national anti-Semitic drive. Authorities claim arrests target social and criminal elements with no political motive, though observers estimate hundreds to thousands detained or under protective custody across cities and provinces.
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Worms
Martin Luther
Frankfurt
Berlin
Harold Trewin Seeks GOP Nomination for Supreme Court
Harold R. Trewin, Cedar Rapids attorney, announced he will seek the Republican nomination for Iowa Supreme Court at the July 23 state convention. Born in Lansing, he moved to Cedar Rapids in 1902, graduated from Dartmouth in 1912 and Iowa College of Law in 1915, and practiced law with his late father in Trewin, Simmons and Trewin. He served in the U S Army for two years during World War I.
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Harold R. Trewin
Fourth Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Supreme Court
Iowa
Lansing
Trewin
James H. Trewin
Dartmouth College
College of Law
University of Iowa
Nippons War Effort Yields to China's Great Flood
Report from Shanghai notes Japan's military drive toward Hankow faltering as the Yellow River flood inundates northern Henan and surrounding provinces. 700000 destitute Chinese flee, 200000 peasants trapped, thousands dead amid 3500 villages flooded. Soviet armed clash mentioned in dispatches.
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Shanghai
Japan
China
Yellow River
Hankow
Henan
Honan
Far East
Three Injured In Two-Car Crash On First Avenue E
A Saturday night collision on First avenue E near Cedar Memorial cemetery left three people injured. Jerry Voldingh 23 of 1407 Third avenue SE drove one car. Carl McClean 26 of 631 Eighteenth avenue SW drove the other. Mrs Vosdingh 25, Mildred McClean 47, and Clifford McClean 4 sustained facial cuts bruised knee tongue laceration and head bruise. Mrs Vosdingh was hospitalized at St Luke's.
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Jerry Voldingh
Third Avenue SE
Carl McClean
Eighteenth Avenue
First Avenue E
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Jerry Vosdingh
Third Avenue
Mildred McClean
Thirty-fifth Street
Roosevelt Honeymoon Mystery After Society Wedding
Mr and Mrs John Roosevelt slipped away for an unannounced honeymoon after a lavish society wedding in Nahant Massachusetts. The couple, accompanied by Clark Roosevelt, departed with a police escort and likely headed to New Hampshire Campobello or a Canada sea trip, as they left amid a crowd of curious onlookers. The President and First Lady stayed to greet guests before leaving themselves for Tyde Park New York.
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Nahant
Mass
John Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Nane Clark Roosevelt
Old Town
New Hampshire
Campobello
New Brunswick
Canada
John
Anne
Tyde Park
N. Y
Salem
Cadets Land Disabled Bomber At Fairfax Airport
Two naval cadets on a transcontinental training flight landed a jammed gear bomber on Fairfax airport grass before 6,000 spectators. Pilot Robert Slye and co pilot James Plant escaped injury after circling for over three hours. Their sub bomber was slightly damaged while accompanying plane and ground crew aided the safe touchdown.
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Kansas City, Mo
Fairfax
Robert Slye
James Plant
Fairfax Airport
St Louis
Norfolk
San Diego
Calif
St. Louis
Plan Organization To Oppose Both Of Big Labor Groups
Pittsburgh AP report on 30 delegates from Pennsylvania Ohio and Illinois forming a third national labor group to oppose CIO and AFL. Roy Mays of Jones and Laughlin Steel Mills says policies and member names not yet announced while Wagner Act rights are cited.
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Pittsburgh
National Labor Organization
Committee For Industrial Organization
American Federation of Labor
National Order of Independent Unions
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
Roy Mays
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. Mills
A. F. of L
CIO
Gazette Vacation Mail Service Instructions
The Cedar Rapids Gazette informs readers to arrange vacation mail delivery by contacting the circulation department or giving a carrier an order to forward the newspaper to a vacation address. This notice guides readers on how to keep in touch with home while away.
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Cedar Rapids
Anamosa pair escape from University General Hospital
Lloyd Barton 21 of Luther and Robert Malone 23 of Creston escaped from the University General hospital in Iowa City Saturday night after gaining access to a skylight from the ward rest room. They left in a 1935 Ford V-8, believed county 96 owned, wearing hospital clothing.
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Iowa City
Lloyd Barton
Luther
Robert Malone
Creston
University General Hospital
Anamosa Reformatory
General Hospital
E. J. Ruppert
County 96
Ruppert
Anamosa
Robert Neff
Winneshiek County
University Hospital
Gunderson
Prisoners Escape From Iowa City Hospital
Des Moines AP report states two inmates from Anamosa reformatory escaped from the State hospital in Iowa City. Names listed are Lloyd Barton 21 Luther Ja and Robert Malone 23 Creston Iowa.
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Des Moines
State Reformatory
Anamosa
Iowa City
Lloyd Barton
Luther
Robert Malone
Creston
Anamosa inmates escape from Iowa City hospital
Lloyd Barton and Robert Malone, two Anamosa reform school inmates, escaped from the State hospital at Iowa City on Saturday night. Warden W. H. Frazer said Barton, 21, was sent to Anamosa about two years ago on a 15 year sentence for uttering a forged instrument.
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Anamosa
Lloyd Barton
Robert Malone
Anamosa Reformatory
State Hospital
Iowa City
W. H. Frazer
Barton
Weather records show Cedar Rapids warm spell and fall
A warm spell lifted the thermometer to 86 at 5 p.m. in Cedar Rapids before receding to 80 by 7 p.m. The day rose to 77 at 10 a.m., 84 at noon, and 85 at 2 p.m., with a 53 degree low at 5 a.m. Records cited from Chambers In skeep.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Senator Clark Opposes Bombing Suburbs in Adjourning Remarks
In a satirical column, Arthur Baer notes Senator Clark's opposition to bombing innocent suburbs. He critiques the memorial resolution as mild scolding and questions aid to enemies while asserting the planes and bombs are American. Baer suggests adjournment may be prudent.
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Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Senate
Clark
Airo
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