Blind Cedar Rapids man shows courage and navigation by faith
James Patterson, 66 and blind since birth, navigates Cedar Rapids with precise memory and Braille reading. He tours the city four times a year by trolley, teaches Sunday school, and relies on a modest pension to live with his sister and brother in Marion.
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Fifth Avenue
James Patterson
Cedar Rapids
Marion
State School For the Blind
Vintan
Patterson
Death by own action shocks German Catholics in prison
In Berlin a priest Father Bruno Schubert reportedly hanged himself in jail after he was arrested for printing and distributing the Pope’s encyclical. The incident followed Nazi seizures of Catholic printing presses and a searing Nazi assault on Cardinal Mundelein, as more priests face charges and Protestant church dissent rises.
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William Shirer
Berlin
Germany
Bruno Schubert
Cardinal Munderein
Hitler
Father Schubert
Cardinal Mundelein
Oxford
England
Schubert
Pius
Reich
Gestapo
Eckener Sees Static Spark as Hindenburg Cause
World famed dirigible master Dr. Hugo Eckener told the commerce department board the Hindenburg disaster likely began with a static electricity spark igniting hydrogen aft. He suggested unexplained hap penings and a gas leak from tail area due to landing maneuvers and structural tension.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Hugo Eckener
Hindenburg
Commerce Department
Ing
Eckener
Psychic prediction tale draws skeptical laugh
A reader recounts visiting a psychic described as a gracious sixty five year old woman. The clairvoyant allegedly identified a dead sister in law by name and described a ring and family details. She forecast a diplomatic mission abroad in 1931 for the reader’s son, a claim dismissed by his son as Witch of Endor lore. Continued on Page 8.
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Endor
Strike threats fill Hollywood as actors warn picketers
The Screen Actors Guild issued a hard ultimatum to picketers at Paramount studios warning they will back a “wreck crew” to drive them away if molesting or intimidation continues. IATSE president George Browne threatens a parallel strike if FMPC deals proceed without consent, pledging to shut down major studios and theaters nationwide to force settlements.
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Hollywood AP
Screen Actors’ Guild
Paramount Studios
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage
George E. Browne
IATSE
Striking Federation of Motion Picture Crafts and Film Producers
Hollywood
FMPC
Son Sought After Mother's Slaying in Pittsburgh
In a north side apartment, 37 year old Mrs. Mary Brookman Neeld was killed and 42 year old Paul Lustig a juvenile court reporter was wounded. Detectives sought her son Francis Brookman 21 of Washington who was visiting.
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Pittsburgh
North Side
Mary Brookman Neeld
Washington, Pa
Paul Lustig
Dennis Timpana
Francis Brookman
Brookman
Lustig
Gifts Boost Camp Good Health Fund This Year
Louise Leibert circle of the King's Daughters gave a $60 gift as Camp Good Health's major project. The group of twenty women has funded its charitable work since last September, holding rummage sales selling household items on commission and collecting old papers to raise funds for physically handicapped children.
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Camp Good Health Fund
Louise Leibert
The
King’s Daughters
Camp Good Health
Short Silk Pants At The Coronation Golf Links
A humor piece recounts a man wearing short silk pants at a coronation. He jokes the garment makes him feel young yet look older as his pants gum to stay up and he imagines wading with fellow golfers. The piece ends noting further vanity and a jab at golf accessories.
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Arthur “Bugs” Waer
Reckless Lady serial to start in Cedar Rapids Gazette
Vera Brown’s novel Reckless Lady begins as Karen Mallory a rich socialite faces a judge after a traffic offense. The tale portrays modern youth and wild behavior as it debuts next Tuesday May 25 in The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
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Karen Mallory
Vera Brown
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Johnson slams judiciary bill compromise in senate
Senator Hiram Johnson denounces administration efforts for a two justice increase on the supreme court. He calls the compromise disgraceful and vows fight to the finish, warning the plan would let the president control a subservient court and erode principles. Foes consider an early showdown with a quick vote if support wanes. The judiciary committee rushes to draft a harsh majority report.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Hiram Johnson
California
Johnson
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Hunger strike by CCC clerk for raise at Fort Oglethorpe
Phillip A. Baumgartner, 37, a civilian CCC clerk at the Fort Oglethorpe subsistence warehouse, began a hunger strike over his $105 monthly pay. He has not eaten since last Sunday and shaved none to protest rising living costs. A war veteran and father of six, he remains at work and vows to continue as long as possible.
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Rossville
Phillip A. Baumgartner
Sam
Baumgartner
CCC
Fort Oglethorpe
Baumergartner
Aged Man Dies Of Tiger Attack At Indoor Circus
St Joseph Missouri report says 81 year old H G Getchell was clawed by a tiger when he approached its cage at an indoor circus Thursday night and died Saturday from injuries.
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ST. Joseph
H. G. Getchell
Soviet Polar Flight Reports First Weather Broadcast
Moscow received the first weather report radioed from the North Pole by eleven Soviet explorers who landed on an ice floe. They plan a Russia to America transpolar line with a base at the pole, noting 12 below zero temperatures and a sunny, calm scene as tents and a radio station rise on the ice.
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Moscow
North Pole
San Francisco
Schmidt
Rudolf Island
Tragic Drowning Of Janet Glick In City Cistern
Three year old Janet Darlene Glick fell into a cistern behind the family home at 1058 Tenth avenue SE after lifting a lid to fetch a toy broom. Her mother, unaware, found Janet later floating in the water as neighbors rushed to help. The lid and 25 pound stone lay overturned at the scene.
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Janet
Doctor E M Hub Bell Dies After Illness Following Jail Release
Dr E M Hub Bell of Yutan Nebraska died Saturday at the county hospital after being released this week from a six month county jail term. He began serving three weeks ago after pleading guilty in federal court to selling narcotics.
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Omaha
E. M. Hubbell
Yutan
Neb
Sitdown miners in Wilsonville agree to peace parley
In mine No. 4 330 feet underground in Wilsonville officials of Superior Coal Company and Progressive Miners of America reach a peace conference after long distance talks between Fred S. Pfahler and John Fisher. Union leaders plan to keep strikers in the mine during negotiations with 30 day reapportionment to follow. A mass meeting and festival atmosphere surrounded the shaft entrance where 2,500 to 3,000 people gathered to hear speakers and bands play.
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Superior
Coal Company
Fred S. Pfahler
John Fisher
Progressive Miners of America
Fisher
Pfahler and Wilcox
Miners’ Committee
Sawyerville
Eagerville
Mount Claire
Cedar Rapids Gazette highlights and features push New York flight and local profiles
A Cedar Rapids Gazette sketch package blends a five hour United Airlines return to New York with a shuttle route reopening and safety praise. It also previews city hall portraits, graduation memories, royal nicknames, umpire lessons, milk route life, sport fitness advice, new Iowa City newspaper plant, double feature pages, and a candid highway commission profile.
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Gazette
Cedar Rapids
New York
United Airlines
Closeu
Egies
Ueen Lizzie Lizzie
Great Britain
Ildi
Iowa City
Ames
State Highway Commission
Sion
Roosevelt to push 40 cent wage with 40 hour week
President Roosevelt plans to outline a labor program in a special message to Congress. The Black Connery bill would set a 40 hour week and a 40 cent basic wage for interstate production, with child labor bans and a three man commission to adjust hours seasonally.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Connery
House Labor Committee
White House
Weekly forecast for Chicago area May 24 to 29
The AP reports a period from May 24 to 29 with generally fair conditions in the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Expect showers Tuesday and south portion Wednesday, followed by generally fair conditions for the rest of the week with warmer temperatures Monday and again later in the week and cooler midweek.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
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