California Flood Toll Rises as Deaths Hit One Hundred
In southern California floodwaters from storms left 104 bodies found with 100+ more missing amid vast property damage. East Riverside faces typhoid risk from contaminated water while health officials urge inoculations. Roads reopen gradually as transit and utilities recover.
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George Parrish
Los Angeles
California
San Bernardino
Riverside
Orange
Santa Ana
Sierra Madre Mountains
Pacific
Love and hate in daily life in a 1938 reflection
A reader argues hate is not always devil work yet warns against hating people. The piece discusses righteous indignation versus hatred of human beings, urging love of neighbor and enemies to avoid self-destruction. It notes fear drives global hate and cites a 1938 copyright.
Cotton and corn allotments shift in 1938 program
A Washington report notes the AAA plans a 2,000,000 acre cut in national cotton acreage with a similar rise in corn allotments, but Iowa is not facing cotton loss and gains will be spread across the commercial corn area. The piece also links southern livestock growth to cotton diversion.
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Washington
New York Financial
AAA
Iowa
South
Gazette
Ed Hadley
Sam Bledsoe
Bledsoe
Middle West
Frenzied Journey Was All In Vain
A Los Angeles man at the Metropolitan Water District drove 300 miles through bad roads to help his daughter and family stranded in isolation. He arrived to find them having a large ham and eggs breakfast.
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Los Angeles
Metropolitan Water District
Yale Professor Thurman Arnold Nominated for Antitrust Post
Attorney General Homer S. Cummings offered Thurman Arnold of Yale the job as assistant attorney general in charge of the antitrust division to succeed Robert H. Jackson. Arnold, an antitrust and tax expert, previously worked with Jackson before joining Yale.
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Washington (LLP
Homer S. Cummings
Thurman Arnold
Yale University
Robert H. Jackson
Cummings
Yale
Jackson
Hugo Carusi
Arnold
Justice Department
Yale Law Professor Thurman Arnold Poised to Accept AG Post
Professor Thurman Arnold of Yale Law School said he would probably accept the Saturday offer to become assistant attorney general in New Haven.
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New Haven, Conn
Thurman Arnold
Yale Law School
Injured Banker in Cedar Rapids Highway Crash
Marvin Selden vice president of Merchants National Bank suffered head and chest bruises when his car collided head on with another four miles west of Cedar Rapids on highway 30 AV. The second car driver Kidd fractured a knee cap. Two young women with Selden were injured one with head injuries. Doris Long Tama injured. Betty Carrithers uninjured. icy pavement cited. Passengers taken to Mercy hospital.
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Marvin Selden
Greenwood Drive
Merchants National Bank
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Kidd
First Avenue W
Selden
Doris Long
Tama
Betty Carrithers
Ira_ T. Carrithers
Forest Drive
Carie
Mercy Hospital
Rakovsky Testifies In Treason Trial Admitting Conspiracy
Christian Rakovsky, a confessed Trotzkyist conspirator, testified he confessed after eight months in solitary confinement. He described Trotzky’s plans to provoke wars and blamed Trotzkyites as the advance guard of aggression. The trial also heard from Japanese ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu and Rakovsky’s shift to British intelligence links.
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Moscow
Christian Rakovsky
Soviet Union
Russia
Rakovsky
London
Paris
Leon Trotzky
Mexico
Arcos, Ltd
Great Britain
Japan
China
England
Secret Service
Settlement Reached Ending Hall Manufacturing Strike
A settlement ended the Hall Manufacturing Company sit down strike dating from February 17 by United Production Workers union 453 CIO. Work will resume Monday with management and workers citing mediator R E Mythen who secured a written agreement. The document recognizes the employees designated representatives for collective bargaining and notes CIO dominance during the dispute.
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Hall Manufacturing Company
United Production Workers Union 453
CIO
Marshall Hall
R E. Mythen
United States Department of Labor
Owen Elliott
G. W. Wood
Mythen
Ice Brings Telephones Down Cedar Rapids Area
Repair crews race to restore phone service after Friday freezing drizzle and ice. Most long distance circuits were back by Saturday noon with rerouting used during emergencies. A Cedar Rapids to Marshalltown line remained out due to a felled pole. Western Union telegraph lines also suffered multiple outages while rail lines stayed generally intact. Snow flurries and icy roads marked the morning as temperatures hovered around 24 degrees.
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Cesar Nanus
Cedar Rapids
M. H Morrison
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Marshalltown
West Cedar Rapids
Western Union
Knickerbocker Sees Moscow Trial as Death Sentence for International Communism
Paris based columnist W. R. Knickerbocker argues the fourth Moscow trial marks a formal death sentence on international communism. He notes refugees fleeing the Soviet Union, including Germans, Austrians, and Italians seeking aid abroad, highlighting the peril for communists worldwide.
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Knickerbocker
Moscow
Paris
INS
Russia
Stalin
Hutchinson Ice Cream Pioneer Frank Hutchinson Dies
Frank D Hutchinson 76 founder and former president of Hutchinson Ice Cream Co and its 29 factories died in a Los Angeles hospital after a heart attack while wintering in California. A Cedar Rapids resident since 1905 he built a statewide ice cream business later sold to Borden in 1930. He received a 1929 eminent service in agriculture award and helped introduce key innovations including brine freezers and the homogenizer.
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Frank D Hutchinson
Park Terrace SE
Hutchinson Ice Cream Company
Los Angeles
Calif
Hutchinson
California
Cedar Rapids
Borden Company
New York City
Mrs. Hutchinson
West Okoboji
Town State College
Ames
M. Mortensen
Department of Dairy Manufacturing
America
Mortensen
Town
United States
Iowa State College
Myr Hutchinson
Iowa
Early Call Your Want Ads for Sunday Gazette
Do not wait until eight o clock tonight to place Want Ads for the Sunday section. Ad-takers are busy with many customers, so call early to ensure placement. You may charge by telephone if your name is on the account and there are no past due balances. Dial 2-1121 or visit The Gazette office to place your ad.
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Sunday Gazette
Gazette
Norris Urges Morgan and TVA A Aa Resign
Senator George W Norris accuses TVA Chairman Arthur E. Morgan of hindering the agency’s program and urges his resignation. The dispute involves TVA directors David Lilienthal and Harcourt Morgan with Roosevelt weighing in as the intra board feud gains public attention.
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Washington
George W Norrs
Ned
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Arthur E. Morgan
Norris
Morgan
David E Lilienthal
Harcourt A. Morgan
Lilienthal
Roosevelt
Lumbermen's Assn Plans Expanded Newspaper Ads
The Iowa State Lumbermen's Association will increase newspaper advertising in 1938. Secretary W. Badeaux of Des Moines said the group will use extensive space in leading Iowa cities to reach a wider public. The remarks were shared at the southwestern Iowa lumbermen's annual convention in Council Bluffs.
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Council Bluffs
Towa State Lumbermen’s Association
Badeaux
Nes Moines
Southwestern Towa Lumbermen
Senate Kills Roosevelt Veto Power for Individual Items
A house senate conference committee eliminated a provision granting President Roosevelt power to veto individual items in appropriations bills. The amendment, tied to the 1.4 billion independent offices appropriation, was dropped while other bill provisions move back to the house. Remaining senate amendments seek funding for a Gilbertsville TVA dam, boost rural electrification, and require Senate confirmation for high earner independent agency staff.
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Washington
House
Senate Conference Committee
Roosevelt
Independent
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
TVA
Gilbertsville
Rural Electrification Administration
Search for missing Peter Levine shifts to the Bronx
Police traced three telephone tips from pay stations in New York to a ransom plot for 12 year old Peter Levine. The Levin e family reports the kidnapers offered $30 000 for the boy but failed to provide proof he is alive. Police drained Indian Lake after tips suggested the body may be there.
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New Rochelle
N. Y
INS
Peter Levine
Bronx
New York
Indian Lake
Levine
Manhattan
William Sullivan
Brooklyn
Peter
Murray Levine
Pershing Nurse Removed As Condition Improves
General John J. Pershing's condition improved so steadily that physicians decided to dispense with one of his two nurses. The 77-year-old soldier was in cheerful mood and had a comfortable day with nourishment taken and strength increasing, according to Dr. Roland Davison.
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Tucson. Ariz
John J. Pershing
Roland Davison
General Pershing
Child Dream Warns Of Fatal Accident At School Route
Mrs. Willard Kearns cautioned Patricia six to be careful en route to school after the girl said a dream warned of an auto collision. The prophecy proved true when an auto struck her at an intersection before school, causing a broken pelvis.
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ST. Louis
Willard Kearns
Patricia
Butler’s Advice Still Fresh From Use Says Murray Butler
Raymond Moley criticizes the new deal as a flop while Nicholas Murray Butler defends his guidance as sound and unchanged by use. Barney Baruch also voices sharp criticism this week, and Bugs Baer notes mood and memory color the debate.
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Arthur
Bugs" Baer
Raymond Moley
Barney Baruch
Nicholas Murray Butler
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