Improvements Noted At Linn County Home
Inspectors note progress at the Linn County farm home but say a hospital ward is lacking and night fire safety is weak. Improvements include new beds and furnishings, decorative repairs, and added fire extinguishers while concerns remain over ward divisions, plumbing, and emergency procedures.
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Linn County
Linn
W. H. Bleakly
Mrs. Bleakly
Bleakly
County Farm
Marion Township
Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Murphy Seen as Possible VP on Roosevelt Third Term Ticket
Washington insiders report Attorney General Frank Murphy could be drafted for second place on a 1940 Roosevelt third term ticket. Support cites Murphy’s diverse public service roles and rising Democratic support, along with pressure from the inner circle to counter Dewey’s Republican appeal.
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Washington
INS
Frank Murphy
Murphy
Detroit
Michigan
Philippines
U. S
White House
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Roosevelt
Capital
Garner
Uvalde
Texas
Squalus Sub Dive Begins to Raise 26 Bodies
Navy divers started the complex operation to lift the ill fated Squalus and its 26 dead from 245 feet of Atlantic mud. Officials say the task may take up to three months with salvage crews using helium oxygen and pontoons to raise the submarine safely.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Atlantic
Navy
Jon
United Press
A. R. McCann
Washington
Navy Department
McCann
County Home Observes Evening Meal Preparations
Visitors observed county home meals with an evening menu of boiled eggs, bread and butter, cottage cheese and rice pudding, tea or milk. The scene included doors opened to residents, staff listed, and a 5 am lights signal for breakfast.
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Bleakly
County Home
Roy Jordan
Dorcas Dean
Clara Fellows
William Peterman
Zeta Achey
Olive Walton
Emma Hendrickson
Earl Lewis
Charles Stevenson
Mrs Etta Scoggin Dies Aboard Flight Between Cities
Mrs Etta Scoggin a 75 year old invalid from Los Angeles California died Saturday aboard an airliner traveling from Kansas City to Chicago. She was en route to visit a daughter.
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Chicago
Etta Scoggin
Los Angeles
Calif
Kansas City
Local lad wins Chicago film talent hunt in Hollywood path
Franklin Peddie of Fort Wayne and Hannah Lee Childs of Detroit were selected from more than 200 entrants at Chicago try outs supervised by Jesse L. Lasky and R K O to develop motion picture talent. Peddie, 19 and Northwestern sophomore, performed for a second audition with 24 others before final selection announced at the Palace theater.
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Franklin Peddie
Cedar Rapids
Fort Wayne
Ind
Chicago
Jesse L. Lasky
R.K.O
Hollywood
Peddie
Northwestern University
Hannah Lee Childs
Detroit
Jack Mulhall
Lasky
Indiana Boy
Charles Boyer
Miss Lee
Palace Theater
Young Peddie
New York
Pacific Coast
Lasky and
Changes Planned for WPA in 1940 Relief Budget
Washington D C officials report the House appropriations subcommittee plans to restrict WPA funds for 1940. It aims to ban art and theater projects and other white collar work, bar relief clients from joining the Workers' Alliance, remove workers who strike, and cap construction projects at 25 000 dollars.
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Washington
House
Roosevelt
Clifton Woodrum
WPA
Workers’ Alliance
Two Year Old Drowns In Creek Behind Family Home
Wallace Idaho police report a 20 month old boy Walter McElfish drowned in Ginese Creek behind the family home while the mother was at the hospital with a newborn.
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Wallace, Idaho
Walter McElfish
Ginese Creek
Ome
Poles Plan War Dictatorship Defense In Wartime
Poland moves to avert a forceful Danzig seizure by proposing a wartime dictatorship enabling Marshal Smigly-Rydz to take absolute command. President Moscicki could declare war. civil rights suspend. government answerable to the supreme military authority. Poland rejects Nazi demands while seeking Allied aid.
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Warsaw
Poland
Danzig
Edward Smigly-Rydz
Europe
Ignacy Moscicki
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Free
Reich
East Prussia
Free City
Great Britain
France
Moseley to Testify on Anti Semitism Probe Wednesday
Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley, retired, will testify Wednesday before the House committee probing un American activities about statements by earlier witnesses linking him to a drive against Jewish communism. The panel has heard witnesses seeking Moseley to head a coalition to unite groups against a Jewish Communist plot to overthrow the government. Moseley has said he will respect the subpoena.
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Washington
House Committee
George van Horn Moseley
Moseley
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Sy Maomi Doebel
Night Watch
Whittier
William Bleakly
Cyrus W. Cole
W. F. Amsden
Rial U
Bezdek’s
Johnson Avenue
Cedar Rapids Frinting CO
W.T. Sands
Second St. NE. ' Sdial
Des Moines
Kaness City
Crandie
Crandic
Iowa City
Chistop
Cedar Rapids and
Iowa City Railway
Franklin Peddie, JR
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