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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1938
Page
16
Washington insiders say the 1936 congressional race could determine whether Alf Landon or Herbert Hoover is viewed as the GOP’s leader. Both claim the mantle as last standard bearer and ex‑president, with campaigns to test who best motivates party nominees in key states.
In Bow Street, Chief Magistrate Fry rejected Count Haugwitz-Reventlow’s plea for a speedy hearing of charges filed by Barbara Hutton. The Danish nobleman, in Paris, must first present himself in England before any rapid trial can proceed.
Rep. Dickstein of New York and chair of the House immigration committee warned he will vigorously oppose any effort by Countess von Hauwitz Reventlow, former Barbara Hutton, to regain American citizenship by any shortcut.
Cholly Knickerbocker in the Journal American says Countess Barbara Hutton has no wish to regain United States citizenship. He claims her future involves becoming a British subject through marriage and dismisses reports of an attraction to Prince Frederick of Prussia as unfounded hooey.
Northampton Massachusetts dispatch reports Charles Morris, a horse man and alleged cement coffin murder victim, left with John Paul Bathelt in a new car shortly before Morris disappeared. The car, later found with bullet holes and blood, is tied to the case as investigators seek pending grand jury action and confirm Morris identity through garage testimony and dental records.
TOKYO UP A typhoon battered Japan causing floods and landslides and severing railroad, telegraph, and telephone service. Ninety thousand Tokyo homes flooded with some submerged. A Yokosuka landslide buried twenty schoolgirls. two died and others were rescued. Dozens more fatalities reported elsewhere as rail traffic between Tokyo and Osaka halted.
Chester Pa AP Solicitor General Robert Hf Jackson accepted from Finland a monument celebrating Seventeenth century Finns who founded the city as an imperishable symbol of Finnish American friendship.
In Palestine the 18-year-old Solomon Ben Yosef was hanged by British authorities in Acre for firing on an Arab bus, despite no casualties. Protests from the Jewish community spread as prayers and fasting followed the execution.
A letter delivered to President Roosevelt accuses foreign propaganda and funds of aiding an overthrow of Cardenas and calls for a swift, clear application of the good neighbor policy in Mexico to benefit the hemisphere. The signatories include Homer L. Martin of the United Auto Workers and leaders from key labor unions.
Special to The Gazette Iowa City announces the 1939 debate topic Should the United States form an alliance with Great Britain The question opens a season of preliminaries across nearly 150 schools with finals to be held at the University of Iowa. Class winners from Iowa City Teachers High Cedar Falls Teachers High and Immaculate Conception Cherokee last year headline the competition.
Earl Amelon was found guilty of driving while intoxicated in district court in Iowa City. Judge Harold D Evans set a ten day window for a motion for a new trial and plans to sentence Amelon on July 11. The offense carries up to a $1000 fine and a six month imprisonment.
Four students from the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary of Chicago will present a program at Calvary Baptist Church. The event includes vocal and instrumental music and preaching by Mr. and Mrs. D Mortensen and Mr. and Mrs. W Drummond. Picture slides will be shown during the service at 7 30 Wednesday evening.
Percy Nickless of Des Moines was chosen vice moderator at the Iowa Presbyterian synod annual convention in Ames. The Rev. E. L. Marousek of Jefferson was reelected stated clerk, P. B. Shedd of Rockwell City reelected permanent clerk, and Dr. Gilbert Voorhies of Fairfield named as field representative for the Iowa board of national missions.
Iowa Taxpayers association chief Joe L. Long asks county auditors to avoid illegal levies in the coming year and to publish budgets. He cites $80 million unexpended balances held by banks and argues $30 million could be returned to taxpayers without cutting services.
President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to exempt a proposed Mississippi river bridge at Guttenberg Iowa from taxation. The measure would have formed a Cassville Guttenberg bridge commission with power to build and operate bridges and tax exemption for bonds. Heed dismissal argued tax relief would unfairly burden other taxpayers.
Des Moines tavern owners urge legalized liquor sales by the drink under class B permits. They argue statewide revenue gains and elimination of foreign liquor with on premises sales, and claim local policing could cut state costs. Leadership slate named with Chris Larsen president and several vice presidents.
Dubuque aviators interrupted their meeting Tuesday night to aid a fellow member, Jay Burkholder, who circled the field seeking a landing due to darkness. They lit the runway with car headlights and flares, guiding his plane to a safe landing at the municipal airport.
Harry Horak, a young farmer south of Brandon, suffered a broken back and internal injuries Monday night after a cow kicked him as he walked on his farm. He was rushed to Vinton hospital. Horak, son of Mr and Mrs Wesley Horak of Vinton, was injured amid a farming accident. Consumption of cheese in the United States has increased from two and a half pounds per capita twenty years ago to five pounds now.
WEST LIBERTY More than 1500 spectators watched the Prairie Parade pageant honoring West Liberty s centennial at the fair grounds Tuesday evening The queen Betty Nauman was named with attendants Wanda Weakley Margaret Carey Catherine Brooks Corrine Foster and Mary Jean Kline A Wednesday morning parade featured over 100 units Chief John Hattery of the Iowa highway patrol spoke at the afternoon program AMANA Funeral services for Christoph Benzinger 58 were held Tuesday He died at Mount Pleasant hospital after a long illness He is survived by a sister Wilhelmina two brothers Gottlieb and Jacob Burial was in Amana cemetery.
Frances Snitkay of Belle Plaine and Harold Sandehus of Boone wed in Cedar Rapids with Dr Il M Gage of Coe College officiating. Attendants were Gretchen Weaver and Paul Feddersen. Ms Snitkay, a 1923 Belle Plaine High graduate, pursued studies at Iowa and Columbia and taught in Belle Plaine schools. Mr Sandehus, Coe College alum, works as an engineer in soil conservation and plans to live in Oolumna after a brief wedding trip.
The Presbyterian church of Marengo selects two delegates for the regional Presbyterian church youth conference in Parkville Missouri this July. Rehard Brown, University of Iowa student, will represent university young people and Charles Robert Dilling will represent the Presbytery of the Iowa City area.
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