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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1939
Page
2
Robert Galligan, 37, survived 63 hours wedged at the bottom of a 75 foot bootleg coal mine in Shenandoah Pa, fed by rescuers and singing The Beer Barrel Polka. His 84 year old father Patrick hugged him as crowds watched law enforcement free him from the narrow space amid danger of further collapse.
Washington (INS) Republican governors and state legislatures have cut more than 100 million from their budgets for the next two years, backing Roosevelt era spending. GOP National Chairman Hamilton said administrations are eliminating and consolidating services reducing payrolls and tightening agencies to balance budgets.
Jock Rutherford a 60 year old locomotive engineer from Revelstoke B C rode in the cab of a locomotive with King George and Queen Elizabeth. He called the day just another trip and noted the heaviest rainfall in years as he left the cab to a crowd of friends and reporters.
A meditation on common sense versus divine audacity. The author contrasts the stoic, ordinary life with the pioneering spirit of poets prophets and saints who reshape life and lift humanity beyond the average existence.
Washington reports a bipartisan Senate bloc promising to stay in session until fall to fight any move to repeal the existing arms embargo tied to neutrality. Senator Capper and others favor keeping the mandatory arms embargo, opposing administration proposals to repeal it and open arms sales to belligerents.
In two 5 to 4 rulings the Supreme Court held that the federal Constitution does not bar double taxation by states Alabama and Tennessee can tax a Nashville trust estate and New York may tax a $250000 Denver bank trust for a New Yorker who died in 1931. Justice Stone led the liberal bloc with four justices. Chief Justice Hughes dissented.
The Gazette advertise department will accept want ads until 10 o clock Tuesday morning for the Decoration Day edition. Dial 2 1121 to place your ad.
The Dionne quintuplets celebrated their fifth birthday with a grand party. They received a miniature gymnasium a stocked grocery store and juvenile books to start their library during the celebration in their lower-banked nursery.
Investigators in Chicago question Noble C. Chambers 22 who claims to know the solution to the eight year old murder of Benjamin Collings aboard his yacht Penguin in Long Island Sound. Chambers says the kill came from smugglers who mistook Collings for someone who informed on them. Police say the tale needs verification and continue inquiries with New York authorities.
The National Safety Council reports April traffic safety worsened with 2 210 deaths, down from 2 250 a year earlier. City accidents fell 9 percent while rural highway deaths rose 8 percent, shrinking net gains to 2 percent. Through four months 1939 shows 870 fewer deaths than 1938.
Walter D. Fairfield of Omaha en route to New York City located his sister Mrs. Herman H. Leiwest near Williamsville after a police radio broadcast. Neighbors heard the appeal and helped rejoin after thirty six years apart.
A 13-year-old boy Richard Nugent was hospitalized with bruises and lacerations after a 175-foot fall from Mount McKay in Fort William Ontario. He was recovering with bandages from head to foot on Monday.
Cedar Rapids observes Memorial Day with a 9 am water service on the Second Avenue bridge by the US naval reserve unit honoring the dead. Navy Mothers looms cast bouquets as the parade forms on the bridge at 10 am and proceeds to Oak Hill Cemetery for a program led by Rev Elton D Wells of Trinity Methodist Church.
Cedar Banks News H C Beebe 54 of WHOL Sixth avenue Marion arrested by police at 745 pm Sunday on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated pled not guilty before Judge C J Haas Monday and posted 500 bond Beebe s brother S Beebe 60 owner of the car a passenger in it was charged with intoxication He pled guilty in police court Monday and was fined 10 and costs The men were arrested at the junction of routes 149 and 30 near Cedar Rapids after reports had been phoned to police Three large empty beer bottles four empty pints and a full pint of beer were found in the car and Beebe had been weaving all over the road
Iowa Young Democrats clash as two resolutions committee members refuse to sign Roosevelt third-term endorsement. The row centers on Ed Breen Howard Baldwin and William Connery who later signed after revision. Judge Richard F Mitchell praised New Deal gains while tracing state leadership.
Six year old Everett and his younger brother Jerald face malnutrition dental problems and a speech defect while living with a great aunt after their home fractured. Camp Good Health organizers aim to boost Everett mental outlook and Jeralds speech therapy with supervision for Jeralds heart condition and careful play. Volunteers from a carpenters and painters group worked over the weekend to ready the camp lodge and cabins.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan announced plans to run again for the Senate in 1940 while leaving open the possibility of a presidential bid. He urged the Republican convention to choose a platform and a one term President aligned to restore solvency and free enterprise, emphasizing the need for clear principles and national unity. He said the party should let the people decide the presidency if it fits the principles and offers the wisest answers.
Tom Pendergast the Kansas City political boss surrendered at a federal prison to begin a four month sentence for income tax evasion. He arrived with his wife and three children after driving from Kansas City and was admitted immediately to avoid cameramen.
Attorney General Roy McKittrick asked the Missouri Supreme Court to bar 142 fire insurance firms from operating until they repay $8,000,000 and surrender increased premiums tied to the 1935 O'Malley-Pendergast settlement. In Kansas City a three judge federal court ordered criminal action against those who foisted a fraudulent order on the court. William Bullitt, the Louisville attorney for the insurers, had signaled these companies’ willingness to restore the funds to policyholders.
Maj. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of American army aviation, arrived by army plane Sunday to be the guest of the Nicaraguan republic in Managua.
London reports steady but uncertain sightings of Thomas H Smith from Los Angeles who departed Old Orchard Maine in a 640-pound puddle jumper. Lack of radio meant no progress updates as doubts grew about a successful crossing amid heavy air traffic on a Monday holiday.
A police inquiry began into alleged teen aviators Thomas Smith and associates after a small craft was spotted over Londonderry Northern Ireland. The monoplane traced a southward path along the coast near St Bees Head on the Cumberland coast, drawing attention from watchers at a signal post along the coast.
Asaater Thomas Smith of Los Angeles continues his transatlantic flight attempt stalled by a Newfoundland storm and rough seas. He began from Old Orchard Beach and hopes London bound flight may take about 33 hours with a 640 pound craft carrying 160 gallons of fuel and three gallons of oil. Police questioned him after landing secrecy Saturday night as curiosity grew.
An unsigned critique lampoons a proposed undistributed profits tax. The writer likens it to a useless button, mocks Washington policy theater, and argues a tax on losses would extend taxation beyond any fair aim.
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