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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1938
Page
12
President Roosevelt's radio talk pledges to back liberal candidates across parties and hints at a broader realignment of the Democratic Party toward New Deal principles. The address attacks opponents within and outside the party and raises the possibility of a 1940 third term.
Washington Republican Frank Knox charged President Roosevelt distorted national income figures calling the fireside chat weak statesmanship. Knox cited commerce records claiming 48.362 billion dollars in 1932 versus the president's 38 billion. Rep. Hamilton Fish urged Republicans to back reelection Democrats who defend the New Deal amid sharp criticism of the president as dictatorial.
Federal PWA grant approvals total about 74 million for federal penal institutions and other projects across states. Week’s PWA allotments reach a record 322 million with 326 projects nationwide. Veteran facilities in Knoxville top a list including 670 thousand for a neuropsychiatric center and a lighthouse project in Mississippi River storehouse.
SOUTH PARIS Maine AP Defense counsel won an extended trial date for Francis M Carroll 43 year old former deputy sheriff and World War II veteran accused of murdering Dr James G Littlefield 67 of South Paris The indictment ties Carroll to the slaying that led to the life terms for Schoolboy Paul N Dwyer 18 who now serves life in prison Clyde H Chapman former attorney general and Carrolls counsel secured until July 25 to prepare The judge shifted the date from July 12 and Carrolls pastor father of five requested time while bail on a morals charge involving his oldest daughter remained unresolved The case follows the October 13 slaying noted after Dwyers guilty plea and confinement details were deemed potentially harmful to Carrolls defense
The federal surplus commodities corporation reports 11 million people are being fed under an emergency direct relief program expanded to meet rising demand from cities and states. Officials estimate this month the number receiving food purchased and distributed to local relief agencies has increased by four million people.
Captain Harry Manning known for ocean rescues and Earhart navigator on the doomed round the world flight showed an even chance of recovery Saturday from injuries suffered when his private plane crashed Friday near Roosevelt field in Mineola New York.
London and Copenhagen reports reveal Countess Barbara von Haugwitz-Reventlow seeks a divorce from her Danish husband amid a long string of rifts. The dispute centers on training of their two year old son Lance, with friends noting no intent to separate the child or move him to America.
Shirley Ann Weir 9 and Milton 7, children of William T. Weir 35, Gladstone Ill, died Saturday from monoxide gas while the family traveled over Berthoud pass with windows closed. Another son 10 and the mother Pauline Weir 30 were in serious condition at St Anthony's hospital Denver. The husband sped to the hospital after his wife fell ill.
ARMCO filed a petition with the Cincinnati regional NLRB asking that charges previously filed settled and dismissed be stricken from the SWOC complaint. The CIO affiliate accuses ARMCO of Wagner Act violations by fostering false propaganda. Donald R. Richberg to represent ARMCO in hearings.
Funeral services for George Martin McCormick will be held in the Turner chapel at 2 p.m. Monday. The Rev. Elton D. Wells will officiate and burial will be made in the Fairfax cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Funeral services for Mrs. Adelia Hutchinson aged about 70 were held Friday afternoon at Rohn funeral home. She died Wednesday morning. Burial followed at Linwood cemetery. Rev. Frank Ward presided. Attending from out of town were Mr and Mrs Merton Seymore and daughter Helen of Reedsburg Wisconsin and Mrs Lela Bender of Aberman Wisconsin.
Linn County political conventions are scheduled for Saturday at 11 a.m. in the county courthouse with Republicans meeting in the west third floor courtroom and Democrats in the east. Democratic presiding officer Joseph Mekota and keynote speaker John M. Redmond headline the sessions, with Republican presiding Carl Hendrickson and keynote D. R. McCreery of Alburnett. Farm laborites use the second floor east room with Rev. Tra E Edwards presiding. delegate totals are set by past vote tallies.
The woman died almost instantly after a shooting. The suspected husband Heying, who had bought a new car, disappeared and the vehicle was found on a rural road north of Dubuque. Authorities noted ill health and lack of funds may have driven him to take his own life. His wife and two children were supported by WPA earnings while he worked in New Vienna and Dyersville.
Former U S ambassador William E Dodd said he was informed the German government set aside 30 million dollars for propaganda in the United States. The claim, reported from Washington, cites confidential information to explain Nazi influence efforts.
A four alarm fire swept a six story brick warehouse in Chicago's Joep district on Saturday causing damage estimated over 100000. Chief Fire Marshal Corrigan said the blaze appeared incendiary. Police questioned Oscar Iber whose company occupied the building and who said he recently cut fire Insurance from 55000 to 45000.
Reports of rising tension between Austrian and German nazis were confirmed by reliable private sources in Berlin. The dispute has not yet become dangerous, and before it does Adolf Hitler will likely travel to Vienna to intervene decisively, the sources said.
In Mexico City acting President Felix C. Rodriguez and Senator Augustine del Castillo exchanged shots in the senate lobby. Rodriguez pursued Castillo from his office, who took cover behind a pillar as both fired several shots. No one was wounded. Del Castillo complained Rodriguez would not recognize him on the senate floor.
Mrs John N Garner departed New Orleans on a Caribbean voyage aboard the S S Toloa operated by United Fruit, while the vice president remained at his ranch near Uvalde Texas.
Wichita oil man S A Murphy gave baseball stars a share in promising property four years ago. The well drilled on the property produced less than 100 barrels a day and was described as a flop. Experts said the duo could net about $2,000 if a buyer is found.
Amid a Europe war scare, Spain backs down on air reprisals as Britain appeals to Mussolini and Franco to cease attacks. Chamberlain urges Barcelona influence to stop bombing. fascist press hints at open war, while insurgents raid Alicante and press defenses on a 45 mile front.
Francia B. Sayre, assistant secretary of state, condemned Germany’s national economic policy as degrading to the German people. The remarks, prepared earlier, followed Hull’s note to Berlin over Jewish property registration and underscored strained German-American relations.
Hollywood reports Paulette Goddard said she would go to Reno within a week to establish a ski club amid ongoing divorce rumors with Charlie Chaplin. She dodged questions about the cruise wedding aboard Chaplin’s yacht and a Far Eastern captain’s role in their marriage.
Fred Condon, 18, son of Mr and Mrs Fred D Condon of 1514 Bever Avenue SE, suffered a severe laceration to the left arm when he slipped and fell against the front of a delivery truck he was working on Saturday noon. He received six stitches at Mercy hospital.
Sergeant L. B. Loewenstein World War veteran and traveling lecturer visited The Gazette office on a route to Los Angeles for a September American Legion convention. Born in New York and raised in North Carolina, he served with the 18th Infantry medical detachment in the First Division, has crossed the Atlantic twice and the American continent ten times, and plans to reach Los Angeles by Sept. 16. He criticizes Adolf Hitler, says the US should stay out of future wars, and warns money sent to Germany could be seized by the Hitler regime.
Norman Thomas, labeled the country s top socialist, spoke for an hour at a police guarded Newark park rally honoring George Washington. He attacked Mayor Frank Hague as spectators peppered him with questions and cheers after the address. More than a hundred officers and emergency gear stood alert after a prior riot in Military Park.
Four people died as a squall and a baby tornado struck parts of Illinois and Indiana on Saturday. Will County reported a two mile damage path with uprooted trees, destroyed outbuildings, and two box cars toppled from Santa Fe tracks. At Fleck's airport in Springfield a hangar was ripped off its foundation and carried over 100 feet, with three planes, two Cubs and an older Swallow, demolished costing about 5000 dollars. no injuries were reported.
Chinoook Montana AP reports flood crests threaten Milk Musselshell and Missouri rivers. Workers from farms, rail and highway crews begin rehabilitation efforts after nine lives lost in surrounding waters as rivers threatened nearby communities.
Fred A Beste 30 formerly of Davenport and Lawrence Stoner 16 were killed when the airplane they rode crashed into a power line and burned near Riverside California on Saturday. Beste was the pilot and a son of Mrs. Henry Beste of Davenport, where four sisters and a brother also live.
NEW YORK AP delegates at the Seventy-ninth annual convention approved a new congregation constitution making retirement at age 70 mandatory for pastors in the Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod of North America.
Richard Scott, 24, of Capron Illinois, a Cornell College summer session student, died in a Cedar Rapids hospital Friday of a streptococcus infection. He attended Cornell 1934-36 as an AXE member, later taught in Blake Illinois, and was to become principal of Garden Prairie elementary school next fall.
Business chieftains back recovery efforts as the United States Chamber of Commerce launches a nationwide campaign to aid the federal recovery drive and urges cooperation with the government on monopoly investigations. PWA grants total 74 million for 326 projects, lifting weekly and year totals.
New Rochelle New York Murray Levine paid Captain Helmar Strom $1000 after Strom found the decapitated body of Levine's son Peter washed ashore. The payment settled any claim Strom might have against a $5000 reward Levine offered, with Levine stating the captain deserved a share for ending a period of dreadful suspense.
The New Deal celebrity colony grows to three with the arrival of Harry L. Hopkins and Mrs. James Roosevelt in Rochester Minnesota. Mrs Roosevelt is due to visit her husband’s son and personal secretary at Mayo clinic where he is undergoing treatment for a gastric ulcer. Hopkins will undergo a physical examination. he was operated on here last winter.
CHILLICOTHE Mo INS charges say two girls at the state industrial school were kept in dungeons for up to ten weeks at a time. Anna Belle Dudley 19 testified to Prosecuting Attorney Richard Ashby that girls were put in strait jackets and beaten by a male guard from the state penitentiary.
Two Colorado men who faced lifelong blindness saw for the first time after pioneering cornea grafts using spare parts from another patient's eye. William A. Lewis, 29, and Frances Helt, 41, regained vision in one eye each after operations on April 5 and a lengthy recovery, hailed by surgeons as a milestone toward replacing worn body parts with new ones.
Washington dispatch reports spokesmen for railway workers appealing to carrier management to withdraw their 15 percent wage cut notice immediately. The Railway Labor Executives Association urged this move as cooperation with President Roosevelt’s recovery drive and the government effort to stabilize the industry.
Saranac Lake New York rail industry leaders urged policy action to let railroads operate as a business and receive equal treatment. J I Pelley president of the Association of American Railroads spoke at the New York State Bankers Association convention on Saturday.
The Rev. T Franklin Miller formerly of Cedar Rapids now leads the Church of God at verett Mass visits his parents in Marion. He will speak this morning at the Church of God on Eighth street and L avenue NW Cedar Rapids on The Debt We Owe and in the evening on The Christ of the Future.
The location of Solomon's Temple, destroyed by Romans in 70 A D, has long been occupied by the Mosque of Omar.
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