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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1939
Page
27
Mrs. Dorothy Barber 20, wife of a WPA worker, near recovery after two weeks of voracious eating baffling doctors at General hospital Kansas City. She credits faith and prayer for a sudden improvement as her abnormal appetite gradually diminished and doctors describe the recovery as unexplainable. She expects discharge Sunday or Monday.
Evan S. Edwards, 36, found face down in a five foot ditch along a rural road, suffered basal skull fracture brain concussion and six scalp lacerations. Police believe he was slugged and dumped from a moving sedan after a robbery of $15. William Morrison saw the body tossed and gave license plate notes. Edwards lived in Waterloo with two young daughters and worked at the John Deere tractor plant. He was last seen at the factory to claim a $10 compensation check.
Senator Walter F George announced plans to introduce legislation to bar Secretary Henry A Wallace from subsidizing exports of government loan cotton without congressional approval. He linked Friday's 57 point cotton price drop to rumors that Wallace may dispose of part of 11 million bales abroad at less than cost.
Britain and France pursue Soviet backing to block Adolf Hitler by arranging Roumanian oil and grain sales through Moscow. Daladier wins fifth confidence vote as he pushes decree powers to rule by wartime measures. He outlines armament and production steps while dispatching notes to Berlin and coordinating with Bonnet and foreign envoys.
The article reports that CIO unity proposals mirror Communist Party plans with Moscow approval. It cites a 1937 Communist Party resolution calling for a unified trade union congress including CIO AFL rail unions and affiliates, plus a six point peace formula and a prospective 60 to 90 day convention.
A Nazi spokesman defended the occupation of Bohemia Moravia as legal and rejected British and French charges that Munich was violated. He compared US tariff penalties to a Monroe Doctrine in Central Europe, and noted President Hacha’s collapse during talks with Hitler while urging Britain and the United States to recognize German influence in the region.
Rev. Gerald L. Smith, associate of the Inte Huey Long, sues March of Time Inc and ten others for 5 million dollars claiming the newsreel damaged his reputation. He says the film linked him to Father Divine, Hitler and Mussolini in a segment titled The Lunatic Fringe.
President Lazaro Cardenas announced that an agreement in principle was reached with American and British petroleum companies whose properties were expropriated. The talks followed meetings with Donald R. Richberg, representing seventeen dispossessed firms, in Mexico City.
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Democratic senators report President Roosevelt agreed to a teamwork plan. He would inform his party in Congress of proposed legislation and invite protests or suggestions before action. Four first term senators visited the White House and urged closer White House Capitol cooperation while backing $150 million WPA funds.
Senator Pittman announced a neutrality act push with bills to repeal existing laws. Treasury ordered a 25 percent tariff on Reich exports, while rulings favored Hungarian goods from Ruthenia. Czech minister Hurban seeks to prevent German take over of his legation as U S officials prepare a response to Germany’s actions in central Europe.
New York reports a six and three quarter pound boy born to Mrs. Dick Toby Wing Merrill at the Columbia Presbyterian medical center on Saturday.
Ten people died when a Stratoliner crashed near Washington 10 000 feet up. Dutch officials and Boeing team members perished, while most victims were Seattle residents. The crash, linked to test flights, halted deliveries to Pan American and to other orders, raising sabotage rumors and broad investigations.
Rome reports the Italian press on Saturday says Britain and France will not deter Italy from pressing its claims on France. It cites protests over alleged mistreatment of Italians in Tunisia and supports Nazi absorption of Czechoslovakia as justification.
H W Hager aged 35 and Robert Ryan 27 both Bloomfield Illinois residents are jailed in Wapello County on the Friday morning hold up of Harold Glassford a deaf mute from Ottumwa They were arrested in Des Moines and will be arraigned Monday police said
Boeing test pilot Julius Barr who had survived Chinese and Japanese hostilities died in a stratoliner test crash in Washington. He earlier served as Chang Hsueh liangs, later Chiang Kai-shek’s personal pilot, conducted mercy flights, and returned to Seattle last December before joining Boeing tests.
Ottumwa AP a safe cracking at the International Harvester plant yielded 950.66 dollars in cash Friday night. Thieves used a brace and bit and a sledge hammer to force the lock and break a rear window to gain entry. The sledge finally opened the safe by knocking off the combination and handle.
President Roosevelt proclaimed April as cancer control month and urged states to join in the fight against cancer. He noted medical authorities affirm many cancers are curable, a disease now second only to heart disease as a cause of death in the United States.
Five defendants arrested December 4 in Houston Texas pled guilty before Federal District Judge James A. Donahoe. They admitted abducting Omaha car salesman David A. Clark in his own car near Troy Kansas on November 10 and released him unharmed.
Detective Sergeant Bernard Riley said Sam Hryciuk confessed to killing two Chicago women in the last eight months and admitted about fifty attacks or attempted attacks on other women.
Obituaries list James M. Zimmerman of Cedar Rapids age 86 died at a local hospital after three weeks illness. He leaves wife Mary and children Verne Marsh B A Anderson Ruble Shelton J F Zimmerman P A Zimmerman and sister Bette Chasten. Funeral 2 p.m. Tuesday Brady Mortuary Linwood Cemetery. Also notices for Clara Mae Leidich Stoner Lois Bethel Hook and related services and burial details.
Mrs Malinda Padley aged 80 died at 2 p m Saturday at her sister Mrs Elmer Gamble in Mechanicsville She was born December 16 1858 in Cedar County daughter of Jason and Lucinda Davis She married Charles A Padley in 1887 and lived in Milwaukee Chicago and Cedar Rapids Mr Padley died in 1920 Surviving siblings include Mrs Walter Spry Mrs Gamble and James B Davis The funeral is 2 p m Monday at the Mechanicsville Methodist Church with Rev Dorr Whitmore and Rev R H Supplee officiating Burial will follow in the local cemetery
Glen Histand age 23 of Orson Iowa died this afternoon when the tractor he operated overturned crushing his head. The accident occurred near Little Sioux Iowa and was reported by AP.
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