Births and court notes from Waterloo and Mount Vernon
Births: Mercy Hospital reports a son born March 6 to Mr and Mrs Adolph Biderman of Mount Vernon. Residents listed: Harry Carr and Berneice Seaton of Waterloo. Frank Roshek and Helen Walker of Victor. John Whitney Soden of Shellsburg. Lola Rachel Long of Clarksville. Police Court: W G Rinderknecht of 523 Sixth Ave SW fined $2 and costs for failing to stop at a traffic signal.
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Harry Carr
Berneice Seaton
Waterloo
Frank Roshek
Helen Walker
Victor
John Whitney Soden
Shellsburg
Lola Rachel Long
Clarksille
Mercy Hospital
Adolph Biderman
Mount Vernon
Mar
W. G. Rinderknecht
Sixth Avenue
Custody Awarded and Jail Terms From Justice H R Churchill Court
Ruby Chapman wife of Merle Chapman aged 27 receives custody of a child and monthly support of 20 dollars after desertion in Cedar Rapids. Dee Chapman 23 married in 1933. Harold Hamer 39 of 1216 Eleventh Street SE gets 30 days for receiving stolen property with 25 days suspended. Clyde Kauffman and others receive 30 day sentences for intoxication. Deaths include Mrs Mabel L Davidson aged 60 at 435 Thirty-fourth Street NE.
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Ruby Chapman
Merle Chapman
John T. Moffit
Justice OF Peace Courts
Harold Hamer
Eleventh Street SE
W. A. Letchworth
Cedar Rapids
Ralph Hencks
Clyde Kauffman
William Seelye
H. M Edmundson
John McFadden
H. R Churchill
Mabel L Davidson
Thirty-fourth Street
Sweden Seeks Finnish Armistice Mobilizes Youths
Notices posted Thursday call the army conscript class of 1920 and thousands of volunteers to serve as conscripts. Government had previously mobilized men from 1896 to 1919. patrols along the southeastern coast rush toward Viipuri bay with machine pistols and grenades to halt a Russian ice-crossing attack.
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Viipuri Bay
Council Debates Golf Course Financing And Site Suitability
City council weighs funding via golfer fees for a municipal golf course and seeks expert evaluation of land suitability. Commissioner Burgus and Hines outline the plan while Dave Williams questions site practicality and favors relocating if terrain is unattractive. Extension of land options and expert guidance are requested.
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City Plan Commission
Lou Burgus
Hines
Dave Williams
Stefan
Williams
Labor Board Proposals Prompt Dissent in Wagner Act Debate
The article records debate over amendments to the Wagner Act with proposals to shorten time limits for charges, exclude farm cooperatives, finality of examiner reports, limits on back pay, and abolition of the economics division. Dissenting voices from Henley and Murdock call the changes emasculatory while Smith and Smithmen signal possible support for selective amendments.
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David Saposs Smith
Henley and Murdock
Rooming house gains hallway phone after dispute
Mrs Mamie A Owens operating a 628 First Avenue East rooming and apartment house gets a hallway phone reinstalled after a quarrel with telephone company reps. The phone now sits in a hallway accessible to roomers, not as a common use line. Floyd F Moore investigates and a compromise is reached.
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Mamie A. Owens
First Avenue E
Owens
Police nab youth in local car theft case
Police traced a stolen vehicle to a 19 year old youth from Helena Montana after he was found by Downers Grove authorities. The suspect Ray Whiteman gave a false name and was later identified as Ray Hunt son of W C Hunt. He had escaped from the state hospital at Cherokee and admitted to driving the car to Mallard and Cedar Rapids before arrest. Authorities arranged to return Hunt to the Cherokee institution.
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Himeis
Downer'’s Grove
Ray Whiteman
Helena
Mont Aear
First avenue-Fifth Street
W C Hunt
Mallard
Earl Stanley
Downer's Grove
Ray Hunt
W. C. Hunt
State Hospital
Cherokee
Stanley
W. C Hunt
Cedar Rapids
Hunt
Convicted Robbery Plotster Sentenced in Illinois Payroll Case
John Wellman also known as Blackwell was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to taking part in an attempted robbery of an Illinois Central train carrying a $69,900 Army payroll in Danville Indiana.
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Danville
John Wellman
Blackwell
Ininois Central
Linn AAA Moves 6 Rooms to Old Federal Building
Crowded Cedar Rapids federal building prompts Linn county AAA to lease six west second-floor rooms and a hallway in the ORC building for offices and staff. The move, effective April 1, aims to consolidate space for the county’s large farming program, with $65 monthly rent and key Linn officials named.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Or.c
Linn County Aaa
Lester FE. Mitchell
Fairfax
Linn County Committee
Federal
AAA
Farm Security Administration
Rex Conn
Linn County
Social Security Administration
Bureau of Internal Revenue
United States Attorney's
Census Bureau
Post Office Department
Department of Agriculture
Federal Grain Supervision Office
Department of Justice
Federal Court Room
Treasury Department Bureau of Internal Revenue and Alcohol Tax
WPA
War Department
Northeast Iowa Reserve District
National Guard
Northeast Iowa
349Th Infantry Regiment
American Red Cross
Navy
John F. Wager
Central City
RB. Booth
John E. Dunn
Mitchell
Booth
Dunn
Snowstorm Forces Down Gannett Plane
Topeka reports that Frank Gannett publisher and Republican presidential candidate was forced to land in Albuquerque by a severe snowstorm while on a private flight en route to meet Alf Landon and other Republican leaders.
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Topeka
Kan
Frank Gannett
Rochester
N. Y
Albuquerque
East
Alf Modandon
Tornadoes Form in Other Regions With Thunder Showers
The article notes tornadoes occur in parts of the world outside the United States where thunder storms are frequent. It describes a form of tornado linked to such weather patterns and contrasts it with U.S. experiences.
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United States
Readers plan to indoctrinate youth in Soviet Russia critique
A Cedar Rapids commentary blasts a textbook and its editor for portraying Russia under communism as a modern success while casting the United States in a negative light. The piece argues teachers push a biased anti American narrative, urging parental vigilance against perceived indoctrination.
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Cedar Rapids
Ruge
Russia
Leningrad
Moscow
Rugg
Cty
America
Sokolsky
Soviet Russia
Liberty
Dewey Proposes Farmers Run Government Farms Plan
Dewey attacks New Deal agricultural policy arguing for farmer run payroll swaps and forecasts that rotating officials with farmers would lead to starvation and laughs. He says the plan aims at price parity by cutting surpluses but neglects industrial stimulus to lower prices.
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Eoo
United States
Parity and farm income under New Deal programs examined
The excerpt argues the 1937 38 39 period saw record farm outputs despite reduced acreage, claiming crop control failed to deliver parity. It contrasts Republican and New Deal eras, noting higher farm cash income in Republican years and lower totals with government payments during the New Deal, questioning overall policy effectiveness.
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United States
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