Taft Speech Skirts Farm Issue in Topeka Address
Senator Taft spoke in Topeka avoiding a farm problem solution while praising rival Republicans by name. He attacked New Deal policies as masking domestic failures and urged Republican unity to address farm income and the debt limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kan
INS
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Thomas E. Dewey
Arthur Vandenberg
Styles Bridges
Joseph H Martin
Frank Gannett
Herbert Hoover
Alfred Landon
Republican Schools of Thought
Taft
Kansas
Congress
Republican Party
Civilian Chairmen Named for Pilot School Camps Across 3 Areas
Frank Knox named three civilian chairmen to oversee privately financed committees in the Fifth Sixth and Seventh Corps Areas to organize camps to train 10 000 pilots. Lewis B Rock Reed G Landis Ira E Wight Jr and Jesse W Barrett will handle promotion and enlistment while the army provides sites tents and officers with camps opening around July 1 and a national chairman to be named later.
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Chicago
Frank Knox
Lewis B. Rock
Dayton, O
Herald
Reed G. Landis
Ira E. Wight, Jr
Jesse W. Barrett
St. Louis
Army enlistment drive shortens to fill vacancies at Des Moines
Applications for enlistment in all branches are now being accepted by Corp. William Giesendorfer at the federal building. Six field artillery vacancies exist at Fort Des Moines with $2 per month plus government food clothing shelter and medical care. Technical schools offer specialized vocations to recruits.
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Corp
William Giesendorfer
Field Artillery
Fort Des Moines
Garage prowlers strike Second and Third avenues
Police seek culprits after multiple garage break ins in the 1600 and 1700 blocks of Second and Third avenues SE. Richard Drake reports his glove compartment rifled with a gearshift knob and roller skates taken. John Taylor Jr says his garage prowled but nothing stolen, though a gas cap left on the trunk.
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Second
Third Avenues SE
Richard Drake
Third Avenue SE
John Taylor, Jr
Second Avenue SE
Stolen Articles Reported From Local Garage
Early Saturday E W DeNio of 1730 Third Avenue SE reported articles stolen from his garage in a local theft incident. The report notes the loss details were provided to authorities for investigation.
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DeNio
Third Avenue SE
Governor Wilson Receives St Olav Medal in Chicago
Governor George A. Wilson was awarded the St Olav Medal and certificate by King Haakon of Norway through the Norwegian consulate in Chicago. The honor honors his courtesy to Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha during their visit to Decorah a year earlier. The award predates Norway's invasion and the king's flight to a neutral region.
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Des Moines
George A. Wilson
St. Olav’s
King Haakon of
Norway
Chicago
Olav
Martha
Decorahia
Haakon
City Briefs include graduates and early thefts in New York and local area
Elizabeth Davis will graduate from the New York School of Fine and Applied Art at next Friday's ceremony in New York City. In other notes, W. F. Kee suffered minor facial burns when boiling linseed oil ignited a basement fire. Police investigate a bogus $18 check passed at Armstrong's by a neat man claiming bonding company ties. A six tube auto radio valued at $23.55 was stolen from Montgomery Ward by two youths, who visited the store seeking car radios and commented on electricity for the farm.
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Elizabeth Davis
First Avenue E
New York School of Fine and Applied Art
New York City
W. F. Kee
Third Street
Kee
Armstrong
John W. Miller
Merchants National Bank
O S. Sullivan
Murphy
Montgomery Ward
Second Street
M. A. Pegram
Pegram
Anne Adams Pattern 4427 For Playtime Outfit
Three piece playtime outfit with halter neck bra shorts with pleats and a high neck jacket. Pattern 4427 covers misses sizes 10 to 18 with bust 28 to 36 inches and requires fabric yardages. Send 15 cents to Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department for the pattern and book in New York.
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Anne Adams
Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Department
West 11Th St
New York
N.Y
Belgium ex premier van Zeeland sails home to fight
Former Belgian premier Paul van Zeeland sails aboard the Manhattan for his homeland to aid the war effort. Also aboard is Athea Dawes of Chicago, daughter of the late Gen Rufus Dawes, who will marry Sub-Lieutenant Colin Stamp of the British navy, son of Sir Josiah Stamp.
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New York
Paul van Zeeland
Belgium
Manhattan
Athea Dawes
Chicago
Rufus Dawes
Colin Stamp
Josiah Stamp
Washington sails with 1108 refugees from Balkans
United States liner Washington departs Genoa for New York carrying 1,108 American fugitives crowded in cabins and lounges. Most evacuees come from the Balkans as 2,000 more are expected aboard the Italian liner Rex.
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Genoa
Italy
United States
Washington
New York
Balkans
Rex
Bill Boyd Injured in Film Accidents
Hollywood star Bill Boyd known as Hopalong Cassidy is hospitalized with a broken leg after his horse slipped during a Saturday filming scene. The incident occurred when the horse threw him against a tree.
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Hollywood
INS
Bill Boyd
Hopalong Cassidy
Appeals Wage Law Invalidated Going To Supreme Court
The United States appeals the 1938 wage law decision in a case from Georgia. The suit involves Darby Lumber Co for paying under minimum wage and over 44 hour weeks, with Judge Barrett ruling the act unconstitutional on commerce clause grounds as applied to interstate shipments. The Solicitor General argues Barrett’s ruling conflicts with multiple district courts and the Fifth Circuit.
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Washington
INS
Supreme Court
Department of Justice
William H Barrett
Savannah
F W. Darby Lumber Company
Statesboro
Barrett
Francis Biddle
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal
Regional Music Contest Results
Closing events of the regional music contest list Class A girls glee clubs, various solos and ensembles led by students from Mason City Marion Waterloo Iowa City Cedar Falls Postville Tipton Oelwein and others with placements ranging from one to four. Class B and C ensembles follow including bands from Maquoketa and Wav erly Eldora Training school among multiple categories and scores.
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St, Paul
Iowa
Mason City
John Miller
Marion
Helen Shoemaker
Hawarden
Barbara Litchfield
Waterloo
John Theimer
Cedar Falls
Verla Bales
Iowa City
Jack Grosvenor
Iowa Falls
Isabel Clifton
Earlville
Northwond
Oelwein
Clear Lake
Tipton
Towa City
Independence
Postville
Warren Vincent
Dubuque
Janette Coonradt
Osage
Richard Smith
Town City
Mills County
4-H Club
Malvern
Missouri Valley
Wahoo
Neb
Jawa City
West Branch
Spirit Lake
Odcbolt
New Hampton
Fairfield
Davenport
Jesup
Springville
Newhall
Manona
Maxine Kanipe
Tracr
Virginia Simpson
Bill Church
Monona
Jean Stucker
Cedar Rapids
Jean
Sidney Pare
Volga City
Chauncey Ward
Arlene Schiegel Maynard
Bob Hilsabeck
Robert Simpson
Renwick
Glidden
Muscatine
Sioux City
Cresco
Mary Jean Olson
Waukon
Russell Waltz
Karl Symkil
Anamosa
Louis Jenkinson
Deene Peterson
Laverne Clary
Waverly
Water Pose
Paul Schutte
Vernon Kriz
Nations in Americas Protest German Invasions
Twenty one American republics join in a Panama issued declaration denouncing Germany for invading Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. The statement cites international law and calls for the restoration of law and justice in interpeoples relations.
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Panama
United States
Germany
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Low Countries
Augusto S. Boyd
Ickes Says Nation Commands Roosevelt for Third Term
Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes stated that the people have called on President Roosevelt to seek a third term. The remark echoes a growing public push for continued leadership amid national concerns.
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New York
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Roosevelt
Free In Killing Of Her Child's Foster Mother Hopes To Gain Custody
In Chicago a jury acquitted Mrs Aino Tossavainen 25 of murder in the fatal shooting of her foster mother. She sought to regain custody of her 4 year old daughter Taimi from juvenile court. Disposition hearing pending. Winds Children's Home and Aid officials expect custody to stay with the child’s current caretakers.
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Chicago
Aino Tossavainen
Taimi
Walter Buchanan
The
Winds Childrens Home and Aid Society
Tossavainen
Chicago Milk Strike Threat Emerges After Negotiations Collapse
Chicago faced a fresh milk strike threat as Associated Milk Dealers announced a collapse of talks with the Milk Wagon Drivers union. They posted wage-cut notices citing a proposed $40 a week scale plus commissions versus the current $48 minimum. Paul Potter said both sides remain irreconcilable. Henry Weber, president of the union, spoke on the action.
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Chicago
INS
Associated Milk Dealers
Paul Potter
Dealers’ Organization
Henry Weber
Drivers Union Declares New Scale Posting a Lockout
The drivers' union said their members were ready to continue work at the old scale, but the posting of the new scale automatically constituted a lockout.
National Guard Encampments Tentatively Canceled
National Guard encampments in eight Seventh Army Corps states were tentatively canceled as guardsmen prepare for a 21 day August mobilization at Camp Ripley Mann. The decision followed a conference among guard officers and Regular Army leaders led by Maj. Gen. Percy P Bishop.
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Omaha
Fourth Army
Camp Ripley
Mann
Seventh Army Corps
Percy P Bishop
Theft Hits Hose in Gasoline Theft Case
Salt Lake City AP reports Mrs. Lewis M. Griffith suffered a theft of five gallons of gasoline from her car. The thieves damaged her garden hose, cutting two feet from it to siphon the fuel, prompting relief over the ruined hose.
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Salt Lake City
Lewis M. Griffith
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