Soviet Arctic Flight Establishes Permanent Weather Station
A Soviet expedition after a historic flight to the North Pole begins building a meteorological station 1244 miles from the pole. Four crew members will stay a year, basing a permanent outpost for a Moscow San Francisco air service concept.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
North Pole
Pole
Peary
Josef Stalin
Soviet Union
Russian Arctic Administration
Robert E. Peary
Matt Henson
Rudolf Island
Arctic Ocean
Mikhail Vodopianoff
Prof
Otto Schmidt
Russia
Mild Cedar Rapids May Weather Preview
Cedar Rapids weather preview shows June like conditions with bright skies and mild temperatures. The day began at 50 degrees shortly after 6 a.m. and climbed to 62 by 10 a.m. Friday reached 78 at 1 p.m. then 72 at 7 p.m. and 58 at midnight per the Chambers Inskeep company recorder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Gazette Want Ads Boost Spring Business
More people use Gazette Want Ads this spring and readers are urged to place their ads in the bigger Sunday section. Courteous ad takers are on duty until 8 PM to receive your Want Ad. dial 2-1121 or visit The Gazette office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
Enduring Wisdom On Leaders and Human Rights
A 1877 reflection contrasts Pitt Burke and English policy with human rights. The writer notes patriotic grief when nations err and cites Jesus wept over Jerusalem. He laments fear driven, greedy leadership and urges patience and faith in a higher wisdom amid looming disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
England
Pitt
America
Burke
American
Jesus
Nesbit Awaits Life Sentence In Parker Murder
William Nesbeth alias Nesbit a former Sioux City bartender sits in a jail cell awaiting mandatory life term after a jury found him guilty in the New Year’s Eve Parker murder. The case ties Nesbit to two accomplices including Harry Reeves and Lee Bradley as part of a gang connected to a $37000 fake jewelry robbery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls
S. D
INS
William Nesbeth
Nesbit
Sioux City
Floyd Ha’ Parker
Harry Reeves
Iowa State’ Penitentiary
Lee Bradley
Parker
Coronation Bunting Warmed Refugee Children in Southampton
British coronation decorations were repurposed into blankets for 4000 Basque refugee children from Bilbao. Volunteers, including Boy Scouts and workers, prepared a canvas city of 500 tents near Southampton six miles away for temporary housing and meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southampton
England
Great Britain
Joint Committee For
Spanish Relief
Bilbao
Habana
Madrid Bombardment Kills At Least 30 In Insurgent Attack
Three hours of heavy shelling in Madrid on a Saturday killed at least thirty and wounded over one hundred. Insurgents fired at least 200 shells, tearing apart private dwellings and striking the American embassy area. Civilians fled cellars as shells hit hotels and suburbs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Castellana Boulevard
Tetuan
Rebels Launch Major Offense Around Bilbao Surface War
In the Basque campaign rebel General Emilio Mola opened a large assault near Bilbao with over 10 000 troops and air power. Loyalist forces repelled the attack after heavy losses on the insurgent side and fierce urban fighting near fortified Bilbao as refugees fled toward Munguia and Derio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bilbao
Spain
Ins
Emilio Mola
Dimas
Munguia
Derfo
June Lang and Orsatti Licensed to Wed in Los Angeles
Marriage license filed for June Lang and Victor M. Orsatti in Los Angeles. The couple announced plans to wed next Saturday, marking a union between a film screen star and a screen artists' representative.
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June Lang
Orsatti
Wed
Los Angeles
INS
Screen Star
Victor M. Orsatti
Screen Artists
Amalgamated Wood Heel Plant Fire Prompted Heroic Rescue
In Lynn Massachusetts a fire erupted at the Amalgamated Wood Heel Co. plant on Friday. A stenographer shouted for help and Joseph Fireman responded swiftly to extinguish the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Mass
Amalgamated Wood Heel Co
Joseph
Boom Harrison Eyed as Democratic Senate Leader
Washington reports a Senate leadership shift rumor as Pat Harrison of Mississippi gains support to lead the Democrats if Joe Robinson of Arkansas is nominated to the Supreme Court vacancy left by Willis Van Devanter. Potential challengers include James Byrnes and Alben Barkley, with seniority favoring Harrison.
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Washington
INS
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Senate
Joe T. Robinson
Arkansas
Supreme Court
Capitol
Robinson
Willis van Devanter
van Devanter
Harrison
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Alben W. Barkley
Kentucky
House
Barkley
Byrnes
Court
Virginia
Nopton x
Enshina
Seetedechatatien Ng
Pakey Miners
Earhart Fire Briefly Damages Flying Laboratory
Amelia Earhart described damage from a fire aboard her flying laboratory as negligible after she extinguished it herself. She said the blaze started from an overheated motor and was promptly put out.
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Tucson
Ariz
Ins
Amelia Earhart
Aviatrix
Miss Earhart
Miners Resume Strike Deep Beneath Wilsonville Mine
More than 400 striking miners emerged from Superior coal mine No 4 for a bath, then descended again while both sides kept negotiating but deadlocked over first concessions. PMA leaders say the men stayed loyal and refused to quit. A delegation from the strike induced 40 PMA workers to walk out in sympathy at the Eagerville mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilsonville
Ill
Superior Coal Mine No. 4
John Fisher
Progressive Miners’ Association
Eagerville
Joe Ozanic
PMA
Thomas Solbie
Gillespie
Camp Good Health Improves Child Health Through Dental and Medical Work
The Public Health Nursing association prepares campers by removing infection sources. Dentists perform needed work funded by a $125 WPA relief grant via Mrs. Alice Ferber. Children receive tonsillectomies adenoids removal and diphtheria toxoid vaccines before entering the camp. The Cedar Rapids initiative relies on Camp Good Health Fund donations to cover $6 weekly per child for a month or more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Health Nursing Association
Alice Ferber
Cedar Rapids
Camp Good Health
Camp Good Health Fund
Gazette
Reckless Lady opens in The Cedar Rapids Gazette
Vera Brown presents Karen Mallory a wealthy heiress who loses her fortune and confronts life in poverty. The serial tale Debuts next Tuesday May 25 with opening chapters in The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Brown
Cedar Rapids
Karen Mallory
New GM Strike Breaks Out at Saginaw Michigan
Detroit AP reports a new strike at the Chevrolet parts plant in Saginaw with 1,500 workers picketing over union complaints. Yale & Towne announces Detroit plant closure affecting 400 to 800 mostly women and sitdown stoppages since March 9. Governor Murphy urged investigation and Ford organizer drive to enlist 90,000 U.S. workers.
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Saginaw, Mich
Detroit
Michigan
General Motors
Ford
Chevrolet Parts
Saginaw
United Automobile Workers of America
Chevrolet
Toledo
Ohio City
Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company
UAWA
Tas Ieeene Maurice
Mentihon
Union
Ford Motor Company
Richard T. Frankensteen
Dearborn
Homer Martin
Henry
United States
Strike at Chevrolet parts plant labeled unauthorized
SAGINAW Mich AP a strike in the parts manufacturing division of the Chevrolet Motor company was labeled unauthorized. Officers of the United Automobile Workers of America sought a quick conciliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saginaw, Mich
Chevrolet Motor Company
United Automobile Workers of America
70 Years Still Far From Being Old Age Even For Boy Scouts
A humorous 1937 column by Arthur Bugs Baer argues against age-based resignations in public life. He jokes about an uncle older than seventy still in the Boy Scouts and mocks narrow measures of wisdom. The piece contrasts experience, study, and judgment with trivial tests.
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Boy Scouts
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Hitchhiker killers of Dakota teacher await hearing
Norman Westberg and Howard Christensen, Chicago hitchhikers, admitted shooting and beating Ada Carey 26 of Blunt to death near Onida. They face preliminary murder charges today or Sunday after being taken to Pierre for safekeeping. Carey identified Westberg as the shooter before dying.
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Onida
S. D
Norman Westberg
Howard Christensen
Chicago
South Dakota
Pierre
Ada Carey
Blunt
Jack Reedy
Westberg
Milk Price Cut By Cedar Rapids Co op And Rivals
Cedar Rapids milk prices fall one cent per quart as competition from two cash and carry distributors influences a price drop. Distributors agreed to share the cut, with some shops delaying the change for several days. The Cedar Rapids Co operative Dairy lowers its price by about a half cent per quart and now charges 1.84 per hundredweight for 35 percent butterfat milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Eeting
Film Strike Turmoil Rages Over Labor Situa tion
Hollywood reports sharp clashes over the film craft strike led by Charles Lessing of the Federated Motion Picture Crafts and condemned by Joseph M. Schenck, with George Browne urging strikers to purge communist critics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Calif
Joseph M. Schenck
Film Producers’ Special Committee On Labor Relations
Charles Lessing
Federated Motion Picture Crafts
George Browne
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes
Green Links Reds With Federation Foes In Labor Split
Washington AP William Green president of the American Federation of Labor tied communists to its opponents on the eve of a labor chiefs’ fundraising conference. He cited a Moscow dispatch claiming the Communist Party is active in uniting workers and argued the split within labor stems from this influence.
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Washington
William Green
Organized Labor Movement
American Federation of Labor
Green
John L. Lewis
Committee For Industrial Organization
Moscow
Communist Party
United States
Manila issue rattles State Department over McNutt
Washington dispatch reports United States High Commissioner Paul C. McNutt in Manila asserts protocol control, demanding diplomats address him first, before President Quezon. Filipinos object fearing loss of sovereignty while Quezon seeks fuller U S independence. Page 10 column 6.
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Washington
INS
State Department
McNutt
McNutts
Philippine Commonwealth
Mc Nutt
Manila
United States
Manuel Quezon
Roosevelt
Quezon
Islands
Fire damages auto shop as flames sweep rear workshop
A gasoline related blaze at Hadad Automobile Co. 527 Second Ave SE spread through the workshop burning a work bench and ceiling. Mechanic Ronald Morton 1017 First Ave E sustained minor hand burns while fire crews battled dense smoke for forty three minutes and salvaged the tarred shop for about ninety minutes. A second call at 9 46 AM Friday to B D Millholen Mattress Factory 135 First St NW reported a side wall and cotton on fire injuring Joseph Fencil 304 I Ave NW slightly.
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Cedar Rapids
Hadad Automobile Company
Second Avenue SE
Fourth Street
Second Avenue
Ronald Morton
First Aveenue E
B. D. Millholen Mattress Factory
First Street NW
Joseph Fencil
I Avenue NW
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U. S
Ivan Papanin
Ernst Krenkel
Newton
Boom Harrison
Camp G —D
Jevee
Cc Eeee
Women’s Auxiliary of
Grace Church Booster Club
Fidelity
Life Assn
Vétddepiaavsen
Cc. E. A. Secesteeeses
Lock Factory
Ford Drive
Walter Reuther
West Side
Reuther
Frank Murphy
Hitchmiker
State Dept
Robert G. Nixon
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