Funds To War Navy Groups at 19 Year Crest
Washington AP Public works allotments swell to 1,322,047,452 for the next twelve months. Armed services receive more money for guns planes warships salaries barracks rivers and harbors improvements flood control and navy yard expansion than since 1920. Congress allocated most funds. PWA added 77,878,000 for barracks and development. Navy authorized by Congress to expand fleet tonnage by 20 percent in ten years at over 1,000,000,000.
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Washington
War and Navy Departments
Armed Services
Navy Yard
Congress
Public Works Administration
PVA
Army Navy
Roosevelt
Mrs Dahl Receives Hollywood Movie Offer
HOLLYWOOD UP The beautiful Edith Dahl, who saved her Amer ican aviator husband from a nationalist firing squad in Spain, reportedly drew a studio offer. Universal is said to have contacted her to come to Hollywood. Dahl won a pardon for Harold Dahl by sending her photo and a letter to Gen Francisco Franco. He remains prisoner, and she will not tour the United States until he can go free.
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Hollywood
Edith Dahl
Spain
Universal Studio
Imanger
Last Widow of War of 1812 Vet Dies in Buffalo
Mrs Carolyn Poulder King, 89, the last surviving widow of a War of 1812 veteran, died in Buffalo. She married Darius King at 19. he died 18 years later. Esther Ann Hill of Independence, Ore is now the sole surviving pensioner as a result of the second war with England, daughter of a veteran.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Carolyn Poulder King
Carolyn Poulder
Darius King
New York
Esther Ann Hill
Independence
Ore
England
Hill
Wanted To Die But Is Doomed To Live
George Shanks a 63 year old Wichita grocery clerk who attempted suicide by shooting himself learned he would live after doctors found a 22 caliber bullet lodged near the brain center. Doctors chose not to remove it saying it would likely cause death and Shanks was told he would recover.
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Wichita
Kan
INS
George Shanks
Shanks
Musician of Hamelin Verses and Puzzle Rhythm
A fragmented newspaper puzzle row mixing a Hamelin tale description with a long vertical and horizontal wordplay. It references a legendary hero who rid Hamelin of rats and includes clues for various words such as musical notes, objects, and actions, forming a verse and riddle style item.
Heart Day Sale Sponsored by Volunteers of America
Volunteers of America will sponsor the annual Heart Day sale in Cedar Rapids Saturday. Prizes await young residents with the largest receipts. headquarters open at city hall council chamber. The group aids children, working girls, the aged, prisoners’ families, rehabilitating ex-prisoners, and flood victims. founded forty five years ago by Babington and Maud Booth. Local committee includes Rev. Elton D. Wells and several area leaders.
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Volunteers of America
Cedar Rapids
Council Chamber
City Hall
Babington
Maud Booth
Elton D. Wells
F. D. Fillmore
A. E. Chase
George Laird
H. C. Ring
N. C. Dreier
Frank V. Orr
E. W. Brown
J. M. Molloy
Notice of Administrator Appointment in Linn County Iowa
State of Iowa Linn County notice states George R. Liddle was appointed and qualified on June 29 1938 as Administrator of Fred C. Hermon deceased. All indebted persons must pay promptly and claimants must present authenticated claims to the Linn County District Court clerk through attorney B T Perrine.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Fred C. Hermon
Iowan District
George R. Liddle
B. T Perrine
Thought waves campaign idea shocks Shawnee leaders
Mrs. Ruth M. Johnson seeks the Democratic nomination for state commissioner of charities and corrections by telepathy not pledges. She says she wants no hitchhikers and has turned down several candidates who asked to be included in her early morning thought concentrations, using 30-minute telepathic periods to campaign.
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Shawnee
Okla
Ruth M. Johnson
State Commissioner of Charities and Corrections
Having Wonderful Time contest offers Cedar Rapids trip
Ginger Rogers star of Having Wonderful Time opens in Cedar Rapids with a promotion giving one reader a planned Ozarks vacation. Fourteen local merchant ads hide a letter each. entrants list missing letters, then write a 100 word idea of Having Wonderful Time. Prize includes travel, meals, hotels, cruises, sight seeing.
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Ginger Rogers
Iowa Theater
Miss Rogers
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Ozarks
Louis Straka
The
Straka Travel Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Priest Plunges to Death at Commodore Hotel
New York AP reports Father William A. Marchant a 51 year old Catholic priest fell from a fifth floor room in the Commodore hotel. Police say he fainted while attempting to open a window. death ruled accidental.
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NEW York
William A. Marchant
Commodore Hotel
Birthrate in U S Shows Slight Increase
Washington AP says the census bureau found seventeen births per 1,000 population in the United States last year, up from 16.7 in 1936. Since 1915 the rate generally declined, with thirty-two states and D C reporting increases. New Mexico最高 31.4, New Jersey lowest 12.6.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
District of Columbia
New Mexico
New Jersey
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