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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1938
Page
6
A fire fed by exploding oil tanks swept the Lafayette at Le Havre leaving the 1929 luxury liner a smouldering total loss. The skeleton crew trapped aboard escaped along lines cast from the dock after fighting flames through the rear of the ship.
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler spoke to about 6,000 German residents in Rome at the Massentius Basilica after a day of meetings with Mussolini. He praised the reception and noted ties to the Nazi fatherland while Mussolini stood by, as Ettel and Bohle led the German presence.
Opera at Covent Garden halted mid performance as Mme Lotte Lehmann fell ill with a chill during Der Rosenkavalier. She cried I cant go on and left the stage after 20 minutes the curtain fell while attendants summoned a physician. Hilde Konetzni took over the Princess role.
Havana Cuba UP Col Fulgencio Batista army chief of staff and Cuban strong man suspended his three year plan for social economic and political rehabilitation and urged focus on stabilizing democratic institutions He said presidential ambitions were not timely and elections should come as soon as possible The 20 point program will be suspended until after elections observers call the move a clever political maneuver
Mrs. Maggie King, 70, claimed she lived with her husband for 43 years unaware of a 1894 divorce. Superior Judge John J. Lupe ruled she was not proven not served with summons, ending her claim to a $25,000 Milwaukee estate and exclusion from heirs.
In Huntington Indiana Mayor C W Bangs a jailed defier of court orders in his bid to set up a municipal light plant lost his bid for re nomination in the Republican primary Foster E Catshall led with 1784 votes to 1133 for Bangs securing the nomination The result was reported Wednesday
Seven Grinnell College seniors were awarded Phi Beta Kappa keys at chapel services by Prof Raymond McClenan, Grinnell chapter president. Recipients include Betty Carnes, Alice Ebeling, Fred Eisen, Edith Galt, Imogen Spencer, Joyce Stribling Paton, Wilma Altenbernd, Donald Fort, Thomas Keehn, and Lorraine Eckert.
Allenton Wisconsin AP reports Mr and Mrs John Hug welcomed their 18th child in 24 years as the family grows to eight brothers and nine sisters. The parents sought a unique name for the newborn amid busy household chatter.
Otis Steel president M R Kulas reports in a Cleveland message that U S industry will maintain reduced output a while but expects improvement by August as auto demand may rise. He cites high costs and calls for tax reform and cooperative government policies to unlock private capital and revive industry.
Raymond Schutz, sociology professor at Manchester College Indiana, told Illinois Federation of Women’s Clubs that war between communism and fascism in Europe is inevitable and democracy may face a fight. He noted Hitler and Mussolini meeting in Rome and warned abrupt changes could reshape history.
The Senate approved amendments to speed up 1937 cotton subsidies and raise tobacco quotas under the crop control act. Connally would allow $130 million early payments and base 1938 compliance on acreage planted, not harvest. Southern lawmakers criticized the act for allotments by acreage rather than pounds, urging amendments to fix the quota system.
Dolores Costello says her father Maurice Costello threatened to force monthly support. The former Mrs John Barrymore described the remark as unfavorably public and said she will contest a court action demanding 200 dollars per month.
Five year old Manfried Hauptmann son of Bruno Hauptmann was hospitalized with a fractured cheek bone and leg after being run down by a car driven by Fred H Moser in New York. Police said the boy ran into the street near his home and Moser was not held. Doctors reported the injury not serious.
In Newark U S attorney William F. Smith said federal agents would be asked to investigate Norman Thomas the socialist party leader in a kidnapping case against Jersey City officials John Underwood deputy chief inspector and Henry Gauthier chief of detectives. Thomas alleges he was seized from a May day meeting in Journal Square and ferried to New York without a permit. Mayor Frank Hague faces months of conflict with left wing groups as federal actions against his city forces rise to seven.
Dr Tuley F Huntington 68 a Cornell trained author and printer of fine books died of a heart attack at his home in FASC ALTO California He was born near Barrington Illinois and graduated from Cornell College Mount Vernon Iowa He taught at Lake Forest College the South Side High School Milwaukee and Stanford University He wrote English textbooks and hand printed several volumes of verse
Secretary Wallace dismissed Iowa Governor Kraschel as unduly alarmed over alleged glaring inequities in individual corn acreage allotments under the farm act. Wallace noted tensions and said regional official Claude Wickard visited Iowa to discuss the dispute with the governor.
Washington insiders report the general staff will veto selling the air corps’ latest fighter and bomber planes to Britain. They note foreign policy could push Roosevelt and the State Department to permit the sale despite staff opposition. Britain seeks newer export models. policy could extend to Germany, Italy, Soviet Russia, or France.
Actress Merle Oberon was awarded 25000 dollars damages and costs in London in a suit against her chauffeur Sidney James Digby who collided with another car in March 1937 injuring the screen star.
Police report Nazi vandals mutilated the Masaryk monument at Madrisch Schonberg near the German frontier painting swastikas on the memorial. The site honors Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, regarded as the father of Czechoslovakia.
In Beloit Wisconsin police were summoned by residents chasing a bobbing dog that barked loudly. The dog was not aggressive but bitten by a bee causing swelling and soreness as officers arrived.
A dense schedule of radio programs across NBC CBS and ABC networks. It lists time slots from 6:00 PM to 10:30 PM and 12:00 PM to 11:30 PM with hosts such as Rudy Vallee Kate Smith Bing Crosby Amos n Andy and Paul Whiteman among others, including orchestras, dramas, and variety shows.
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