Washington DC plebiscite marks suffrage demand vote count
In Washington DC a plebiscite saw 98,566 residents vote against taxation without representation, asserting constitutional right to vote for federal and civic officials. Officials will brief the House Judiciary Committee May 18 on Capper Norton and Lewis Randolph bills. Eleanor Patterson led the effort with local high schools as polling places.
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INS
Boston
District of Columbia
Congress
House Judiciary Committee
Capper- Norton
Lewis-Randolph
Eleanor Patterson
Washington Herald
The
Washington Times
Labor leaders clash over jobless figures and WPA funds
Lewis and Green spar over relief and public works totals as they recount proposed 1.25 billion and a 1 billion dollar program. They cite complaints about WPA project sponsors hiring handymen below prevailing wages and report an agreement with Harry Hopkins to enforce prevailing rates or risk grant withdrawal. Gless confirms expected approval of a 4.5 billion spending program.
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Federation
Hopkins
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
Gless
Senate Appropriations Committee
Set Aside C N W Proposal Against Crandic To Dec 1
The Iowa commerce commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission set aside the Chicago and North Western railroad Crandic switching restrictions until December 1, 1938. Harry Sundberg led Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce traffic bureau efforts with Cedar Rapids and Iowa City railway officials. The move would have isolated the Crandic line from freight handling for over twenty five Cedar Rapids firms.
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Chicago and North Western Railroad
Iowa Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harry Sundberg
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids and
Iowa City Railway
North Western
Crandic
Cedar Rapids
Sundberg
Business groups able to meet problems says O Leary
John W. O Leary of the United States Chamber of Commerce told a Washington audience that business organizations can handle difficulties if given the chance. He warned against moves toward government supervision and ultimate control of trade associations, citing the NRA experience as evidence that such oversight hampers progress.
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Washington
John W. O'Leary
United States Chamber of Commerce
O'Leary
Chamber
NRA
Cabinet of France Backs British Pact Explained
Paris reports the cabinet approved the French British agreement reached in London and decrees issued under special powers. The measures cover the budget production credit labor capital relations and penalties against foreigners violating the right of asylum.
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Paris
London
Thomas Seeks Lindy Law Against Hague
Thomas files a demand for free speech protections after Hague ousted him from Jersey City. In a Saturday confrontation, Landon writes to Thomas pledging solidarity and warning against rising intolerance, urging unity to defend democratic rights and freedom of speech.
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Thomas
Hague
Hotel Guests Protest Night Drilling Near Palace Theater
Mag nus hotel representatives urged the city council to limit drilling for the Palace theater well to daytime hours. Patrons complained of noise affecting sleep. The permit did not specify hours. Public Safety Commissioner Benesh will investigate. A zoning protest against 716 Oakland Avenue from light to heavy industry, with about fifty names, was filed and sent to the city plan commission.
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Magnus Hotel
Tschirgi
Palace Theater
Public Safety
W. C. Benesh
Oakland Avenue
City Plan Commission
Armistice Day Declared Permanent National Holiday
The House approved a bill to make Armistice Day November 11 a permanent legal holiday. Rep Gearhart of California said it would become the seventh national holiday alongside New Year’s, Washington’s Birthday, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day and Christmas.
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INS
House
Senate
Gearhart
California
Will of Dr. J. B. Robinson Probate in Mount Vernon
Will of Dr. J. B. Robinson who died April 21 was probated in district court. The will dated February 17 leaves wife Anna a life estate with son Arthur and daughter Nellie Robinson Kelly as residuary devisees. Nellie is named executrix and specific bequests include 200 to Laura Platt and 200 to granddaughter Kathleen Robinson Kelly.
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J. B. Robinson
Mount Vernon
Anna C. Robinson
Arthur Robinson
Nellie Robinson Kelly
Laura Platt
Kathleen Robinson Kelly
Oust Japs In Tense Foreign Area Flareup
Shanghai dispatch reports Japanese gendarmes ousted from the Nanking road sector after Chinese terrorists bombed a crowded street. Brigadier-general Smollett ordered Seaforth Highlanders to scene until Japanese troops cleared out, then both sides agreed to withdraw. Ten Chinese victims injured in the third bombing in two days.
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Shanghai
INS
Nanking Road
International Settlement
Telfer Smollett
Seaforth Highlanders
Anglo Japanese pact on Chinese duties reached in Tokyo
London dispatch says Britain learned Japan offered Germany large economic concessions in China if Berlin withdraws aid to China. The report notes a curfew and guards on Nanking road after a bomb aimed at a Japanese truck, while Hangchow reports claim 20,000 Chinese troops were annihilated as Japan presses a regional offensive.
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INS
Exchange Telegraph Company
Tokio
Britain
Japan
Germany
China
Nanking
Hangchow
Here
Marriage Unites Imperial Hous es in Potsdam
In Potsdam on Monday Prince Louis Ferdinand and Grand Duchess Kira wed in two ceremonies uniting Hohenzollern and Romanoff lines. The civil service was brief at the registrar's office with Former Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and Grand Duke Cyril as witnesses. A Russian church rite followed at Cecilienhof.
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Germany
INS
Imperial Potsdam
Hohenzollern
Romanoff
Louis Ferdinand
Kira
Friedrich Wilhelm
Cyril
Cecilenhof
Holding Agents For Income Property Must File Iowa Tax Return
Holding agents for non resident owners of income producing property must retain a portion of receipts and file Iowa state income tax returns for their clients. G. J Bondurant noted repairs insurance and depreciation are deductible on income properties while an abstract cost is not. Foreclosure costs are not deductible but may be added to property cost for depreciation. A. F. Peddie of Fort Wayne discussed Cedar Rapids real estate conditions.
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Iowa
G. J Bondurant
Iowa Income Tax Division
Cedar Rapids
A. F. Peddie
Fort Wayne
Ind
Horace Hedges
Protest Transfer Of Beer Permit To 1405 Mount Vernon Avenue
John Ahrends seeks to relocate his west side beer parlor to 1405 Mount Vernon Avenue SE, sparking a protest from twenty nine nearby residents. The city council disclosed the protest filing on Monday as Ahrends cites expired lease at his current site near First Street and F Avenue NW.
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Mount Vernon Avenue
John Ahrends
West Side
Ahrends
First Street
F Avenue NW
GM Directors Vote 25 Cent Dividend on Common Stock
General Motors directors approved a 25 cent per share dividend on common stock despite first quarter earnings of fourteen cents per share. A similar dividend was paid March 12. The June 13 payout will go to stockholders of record on May 12.
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New York
General Motors Corporation
May Day unrest and diplomatic moves as Hitler visite continues
Reports describe tightened police surveillance and detentions around Adolf Hitler as fascist and Gestapo influence grows. Hitler praises German unity and announces labor reforms while Czech Sudetenland leader Henlein presses for a plebiscite. Poland sees violent May Day clashes with deaths and many arrests. British PM Chamberlain seeks to remove a danger spot through Anglo Italian talks. U.S. President supports peaceful negotiations. France pushes Czechoslovakia toward concessions to Germany to avoid war.
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Ovra
Germany
Italy
Reichsfuhrer
Czech
Sudetenfuehrer
Konrad Henlein
Poland
Europe
Neville Chamberlain
House of Commons
United States
Chamberlain
Galeazzo Ciano
Lord Perth
Palestine
Paris
France
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Eminent German Novelist Seeks U S Citizenship
Thomas Mann a renowned German novelist announced in Cleveland that he would apply for United States citizenship this week. He fled Germany in 1934 after Hitler’s rise and Nazi persecution, though he is Aryan.
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Cleveland
Thomas Mann
Germany
United States
Adolf Hitler
Mann
Radio Patent Pool Monopoly Upheld by High Tribunal
The U S Supreme Court in a 5 to 1 ruling upheld the radio patent pool monopoly claim. The decision held infringement when licensed tubes sold for one use were used in another, despite the seller’s stated radio use. Justice Black dissented, warning the ruling expands control by patent owners over open market purchasers.
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Washington
Ins
Hugo Black
Supreme Court
General Talking Pictures Corporation
New York
Talking Pictures Company
High Court
Justice Black
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
General Electric and Radio Corporation of America
Butler
Richard Caldwell Wins Higgins Award In National Mechanical Drawing
Richard Caldwell son of Mr and Mrs Ray Caldwell of 224 Twenty Sixth Ave SW was informed on Monday that his mechanical drawing entry in the fourteenth annual national mechanical drawing and industrial design competitions received one of the six Charles M Higgins Memorial awards. Caldwell, a 10A student at Wilson High School, was chosen from 10000 entries in the contest.
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Richard Caldwell
Ray Caldwell
Twenty-sixth Avenue
Charles M. Higgins
Richard
Wilson High School
Scholas
Young Caldwell Outlines Bridge Expansion Shoe Project
The entry by Young Caldwell features complete working drawings and detail sheets for a steel highway bridge expansion shoe. Caldwell's instructor is M. E. Warner of 110 Wilson Avenue SW.
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Tic
National High School Weekly Magazine
Young Caldwell
M. E. Warner
Wilson Avenue
Caldwell
High Court Upholds Tax on Arizona Business Groups
The Arizona Publishing Co publishers of the Arizona Republic Phoenix Gazette and Arizona Weekly Gazette failed to stop the states 1 percent gross income tax on business enterprises. The Supreme Court affirmed a Phoenix federal court ruling denying a temporary injunction against collection by the state tax commission. The company contended the levy violated the First Amendment freedom of the press.
Dramatized Audience Trial At Nazarene Church
Dramatic evange listic event used Pilate a questioning line What then shall I do with Jesus to involve the congregation as a jury. Rev Wright Strong staged a courtroom scene during Sunday services part of the New York youth campaign with speaker R Adrian Miller Clinton.
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Jesus
Church of the Nazarene
Wright Strong
R. Adrian Miller
Clinton
E. E. Russell
Russell Sisters
Mr. Strong
Young People’s Society
City plan commission meeting and local incident notes
The city plan commission will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday in city hall. M F Mitralsky Cedar Rapids attorney returned Monday from a two week business trip to California. William Herman 21 of 822 A avenue NW injured left ankle Saturday night when he fell off a motorcycle treated at St Luke's hospital Sunday. Charges of disturbing the peace by fighting in front of 111 Third street NE were dismissed in police court Monday on motion of Harry S Johnson assistant city solicitor. Leslie Osler three year old son of Mr and Mrs Amos Osler 1506 Tenth street SE suffered a laceration on the forehead when he fell in a shallow cesspool behind the Osler residence at 11 20 a m Sunday. The boy was treated at St Luke's hospital.
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William Herman
A Avenue NW
St. Luke’s Hospital
Third Street NE
Clair Burgess
F Avenue NW
Ray Selby
B Avenue NE
Harry S. Johnson
Leslie Osler
Amos Osler
Tenth Street
Osler
Faulkes Returns Home After Gall Bladder Operation
James N. Faulkes vice-president of The Gazette company has returned home to recover after treatment for arthritis in Tucson Arizona since last August. He underwent gall bladder removal and an appendectomy during his stay in Tucson.
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James N. Faulkes
the Gazette Company
Tucson
Ariz
Mr. Faulkes
Two Men Arrested for Malicious Property Injury Case
Police arrested F. C. Lodestien and Walter Smith early Sunday on malicious injury charges. Smith allegedly entered Reliable Transit at 418 First Street SE to obtain a pump key and pour gas into Lodestien’s car. Later, Baird King reported Smith kicked out a rear light on Fourth Avenue and Sixth Street SE.
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F. C. Lodestien
Center Avenue NE
Walter Smith
B Avenue NW
Abbas Hass
Smith
Reliable Transit Company
First Street
Lodestien
Baird King
B Avenue NE
Fourth Avenue
Sixth Street SE
Fritz Triebel Seeks Republican Nomination for Constable
Fred Fritz Triebel a 29 year old resident of 1319 E avenue NE has filed for republican nomination as one of Rapids township two constables at the June 6 primaries. Triebel born in Cedar Rapids attended Washington high school served three years as a Cedar Rapids police officer and is Linn county grand jury bailiff. He is active in the Knights of Pythias.
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Fred “Fritz
Triebel
E Avenue
Rapids Township
Cedar Rapids
Washington High School
Linn County
Grand Jury
The
Knights of Pythias
Births and Place Details From Local Families
Grand Rapids report: John Randolph Lynott born to Mr. and Mrs. John Axe on April 30. Elizabeth Lynott is formerly Miss Elizabeth Lynott. Harold Johnson on Eleventh Street SW welcomed a daughter on April 30 at St. Luke's. Leonard Strait on First Avenue E welcomed a daughter on May 1 at St. Luke's. Merle McConaughy of Mount Vernon welcomed a son on May 1 at St. Luke's. Robert Cooper of Alburnett welcomed a daughter on May 1 at St. Luke's. Q R Snider of Avenue NE welcomed a son on May 1.
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J. H Lynott
Grand Rapids
Mich
John Randolph
John Axe
Cedar Rapids Symphony ends sixteenth season with free memorial concert
The Cedar Rapids Symphony under conductor Joseph Kitchin closed its sixteenth season with a Sunday concert at Memorial Coliseum, featuring Schubert and Tschaikowsky works. Soloists Virginia Ohmann and Beulah Wessale impressed with violin and piano performances, and the program included Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro overture. Dr. Murray spoke at Sunshine Mission events following the concert week.
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Memorial Coliseum
Cedar Rapids
Virginia Ohmann
Beulah Wessale
Miss Wessale
Wilson High School
Coogan Firm Seeks to Protect Jackie Earnings
Attorneys for Jackie Coogan filed affidavits in a recovery and accounting suit before Judge Emmet Wilson Coogan. The documents claim Jackie Coogan Productions, Inc. was organized to preserve earnings due to the former child star. Coogan seeks amounts from his mother and stepfather and cites total income around 2.2 million and net estate value about 250 thousand.
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Hollywood
Jackie Coogan
John Coogan
Jackie Coogan Productions, Inc
Jackie
Coogan
Emmet Wilson Coogan
Lillian Coogan Bernstein
Arthur Bernstein
Committees In Charge Memorial Gifts For St. Luke's Drive
St Luke's hospital memorial gifts drive to fund a new wing. Committees led by Arthur Poe and Robert C Armstrong meet at the Roosevelt hotel at 4 p m Monday. They plan bronze name plates and six installment payments across 1938 to 1940.
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St. Luke’s Drive
St. Luke's Hospital
Roosevelt Hotel
Arthur Poe
Robert C. Armstrong
Percy F. Keehn
Council Deliberates Cemetery Permit for Twelfth Ave Site
The city council debated allowing a non conforming cemetery at Twelfth avenue and Seventeenth street SE as the Syrian society Atteyeh petitions for zoning approval. The ordinance was tabled until Thursday and officials will survey the neighborhood before a decision.
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Twelfth Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Atteyeh
Dr A L Murray Opens Sunshine Mission Series
Minneapolis speaker Dr A L Murray opens the Sunshine Mission series with a talk on leadership and shepherding, arguing that communities need guidance by a higher order to govern social life. He compared humans to sheep in need of a wise shepherd.
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Dr. A. L. Murray
A. L. Murray
Minneapolis
Motorist Hurt In Smash But Gets Out Of Overturned Auto
Harry Hanson of 271 Twelfth Street NW was hospitalized at St Luke's with head neck and arm lacerations after his car struck John Paul's parked truck on Avenue NW. The vehicle overturned and Hanson escaped the wrecked car in a daze. Twenty four stitches were required. The condition was later listed as fair. Separately 12 year old Dale Peyton suffered cuts and a bruised shoulder when a car driven by Joe Svoboda struck him on J Street SW. Svoboda left the scene until detectives identified him and directed him to report to the station.
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Harry Hanson
Twelfth Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
John Paul
Avenue
Paul
Kruidenier
Funcke
Hanson
Dearborn Brass Company
A Avenue
Dale Peyton
Sixth Street
Joe B. Svoboda
J Street
Wilson School
Svoboda
Wilson
Haberle
Peyton
Wayne McPike
Nineteenth Avenue
Italian airliner crash kills 19 including Albanian envoy
A large Italian airliner returning from King Zog's Albanian wedding crashed in the Formia mountains killing 19 people. Among the dead are Djafer Villa Albania's minister to Rome and Helen Lindhein a 33 year old American woman. Jewelers aboard carried a costly gem consignment for Countess Geraldine Apponyi. The jewels were lost though reportedly insured.
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INS
New York
Zog
Albania
Formia
Helen Lindhein
Djafer Villa
Geraldine Apponyi
James Blake Dies at Home in Florida
James Blake, former Quaker Oats sales head in New York state and Cedar Rapids traffic manager for the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City railway, died at his Florida home. He served civic roles in Cedar Rapids including Shrine potentate in 1928 and was survived by his son, daughter Jane of Miami Beach, and Josephine Wilkinson Blake, his wife of 1929, plus two sisters. Funeral arrangements are set through Turner’s mortuary.
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Albany
N. Y
Quaker Oats
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Iowa City
Blake
el Kahir
Shrine
Mount Hermon
Masons
Iowa
Trowel Chapel
Apollo Commandery
Knights Templar
Jane
Miami Beach
Fla
Josephine Wilkinson
Georgia Blake
Los Angeles
Ian Sutherland
Minneapois
Turner’s Mortuary
Coe Creative Writing Awards Honor Local Students
Outstanding Coe students were recognized at a chapel service as Vernon Lichtenstein announced the 1938 literary contest winners. Beulah Detwiler won the $10 first prize for Good Ol Rat, while Mabel Cisna earned the $10 gift in Cedar Rapids memory for Elsa and Marjorie Reaney received the $5 second prize for White Lie.
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Coe
Vernon Lichtenstein
Beulah Detwiler
Fifth Street NW
Marjorie Reaney
Columbus Junction
Mabel Cisna
Walker
Miss Detwiler
Ladies’ Literary Club
Miss Cisna
Elsa
Marvin Hromek
Henry J. Hromek
Cedar Rapids
Marvin
Paul Engle
Engle
Miss Reaney
McKinley Students Sing At Rotary Club Program
About forty members of the cast from The Fire Prince operetta at McKinley junior high school sang excerpts at the Rotary club noon meeting at Hotel Roosevelt. The show was led by Marjorie Emerson and Warriett Elliott with Alice Inskeep presenting.
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McKinley Junior High School
Rotary Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Alice Inskeep
Marjorie Emerson
Warriett Elliott
Bus Crash in Portugal Kills Twenty Passengers
Twenty people were killed when a bus traveling from Vienna do Castelo to Oporto collided with a train on a bridge near Lisbon and plunged into a river.
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Portugal
Oporto
Vienna Do Castello
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