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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1938
Page
14
Chicago lines push a 15 percent wage reduction for all railroad workers. H A Enochs, chairman, says current wages threaten industry survival and livelihoods. Conference postpones action to July 20 with no firm decision yet on cuts totaling about 250 million dollars from annual payrolls.
Roy Gardner, once Houdini of train robberies and an Alcatraz inmate, claims Capone declined funding a 1934 plan by Albert Bates and Tom Underwood to kidnap Interior Secretary Harold Ickes. The scheme aimed to hold Ickes for a presidential ransom, but failed as Capone refused after two approaches for $10,000. Gardner described his own career move to film sales and noted the plot’s collapse.
Special Agent L V Boardman of the Detroit FBI on the July 11 16 Iowa peace officers short course program at the University of Iowa will deliver three lectures and a demonstration. Director Rollin M Perkins says Boardman chosen by J Edgar Hoover. Lectures cover Fingerprinting Federal Crimes and the Function of the FBI and Latent Fingerprint Technique. The six day course aims to draw about 350 police officers sheriffs county attorneys and constables.
SAN FRANCISCO INS report states Senator Hiram Johnson criticizes the senate purge and suggests abolishing Congress as an easier, cheaper solution amid inflation and debts. He returned from Washington Tuesday in a fiery note on roosevelt era politics and fiscal peril.
Three large carriers United, Transcontinental, Western, and American announced that starting July 1 children between two and 12 will fly at half fare. Children under two travel free when accompanied by an adult, as per the survey of parents backing the move.
La Vern Metz of Dubuque Iowa, a high school graduate, won a nationwide contest on current events sponsored by Our Times publishers. The $1 200 scholarship to American University Washington DC covers four years tuition. Harrison M Sayre of American Education Press announced the award.
Vermont showed the greatest percentage decline 41 percent during the first five months of 1938 with Pennsylvania second at 38 percent, saving 361 lives. Leading cities by population class posted varied death rates per 100000 through May, noting Milwaukee 5.2, St. Louis 8.4, Boston 9.8, Providence 3.8, Louisville 9.8, Dallas 10, New Bedford 21, Lynn 23, Utica 23, Lowell 24, Evanston was the largest community without a traffic death.
The National Safety Council reports a 27 percent May drop in traffic deaths, saving 3,780 lives. May deaths were 2,280 versus 3,120 in 1937, and for the first five months of the year 11,100 lives were lost compared with 14,090 last year. Travel rose 3 percent in early 1938, suggesting the decline isn’t due to less driving.
Mildred Steinrich 17 returns with her father to Newark after a dispute over marriage to Philip Kofsky of Los Angeles. Father consents to the marriage to be held at the Newark home this weekend. Habeas corpus writ dissolved after a truce.
Five year old Joan Rice stole gasoline to cook for her dolls in Beaver Crossing Nebraska. She lit a match and the toy stove exploded killing her on Tuesday.
The Public Works Administration raises total approvals to $570.6 million for ten Navy department projects. Allocations include $100,000 for USS Hartford restoration at Charleston and $275,000 for a Seattle base building and barracks, plus $220,000 for San Diego storage buildings and $300,000 for two land plane hangars at the Seattle area.
A detailed rundown of NBC CBS and ABC network programs for Wednesday evening on WEAF WJZ WABC WBBM KMOX WCCO and related stations. Entries include Tommy Dorsey Harri Parsons Kay Kyser Amos n Andy Lum and Abner Larry Clinton Ted Henderson and many orchestras plus variety shows and public affairs segments.
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