Unemployed land use and hospital reforms debated
The piece discusses using 80 to 100 acre plots for food production by unemployed workers under the Playground commission and proposes supervising the University hospital funding and admissions reforms. It cites 30,000 dollars of food produced previously and urges larger scale cultivation. It also notes anti hospital spending reform and critiques university control under Dr. Jessup.
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Playground Commission
J. W.carberry
City Prepares for Emergency as Water Rises
Cedar Rapids adopts watchful waiting as the Cedar River climbs toward the 1929 flood level. Iowa Electric Light and Power readies extra pumps and sandbags, with officials forecasting crest between Sunday and Monday and urban areas evacuating lower basements as water threatens the region.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Waterloo
Iowa Electric Light and Power
Seatien
Ella
First Street
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Charles Herbeck
80-100 Acres Needed For Relief Gardens
Relief officials seek 80 to 100 additional acres near the city limits to round out a relief garden program. The effort aims to produce hundreds of dollars worth of vegetables for county distribution to the unemployed this summer and fall. The garden committee, led by Joseph W. Carberry, has 75 acres ready and plans to issue more than 1,000 tracts. lots were doubled to 50 by 100 feet to boost output.
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Cedar Rapids
Joseph W. Carberry
Carberry
Lillian Landmesser
Board of Supervisors
Arry County
Perszons
Relief Committee
Garden Relief Office
Playground Commission
Four-Power Pact Seen as Simple Peace Option
The proposed accord would involve Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, with four powers cooperating on world affairs for ten years, renewed unless repudiated. The writer notes peace is the simplest path though humans may doubt it.
Justifiable Homicide Verdict In Oser Death
A coroner's jury in Chicago returned a verdict of justifiable homicide in the March 20 death of Fred Oser a moving picture operator at the Operators Union headquarters. Ralph O’Hara the union organizer admitted firing the shots claiming self defense and remains jailed on a murder warrant awaiting bail hearing after the coroner’s findings.
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Chicago
Fred Oser
Operators’ Union
Ralph O'Hara
O'Hara
Seventeen States Set to Tap 3 2 Percent Beer Friday
AP reports at least seventeen states plus parts of two others may sell 3.2 beer next Friday. Additional state dates range from April 13 to July 1 with bills in motion in eleven more states and defeats in three. Delaware restricts sale to Wilmington. Maryland to Baltimore and two counties. Other dates include Louisiana April 13, Vermont May 11, Wyoming May 18, West Virginia June 9, North Dakota July 1.
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Associated Press
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Minnesota
Missouri
Montana
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Washington
Wisconsin
Delaware
Wilmington
Maryland
Baltimore
Louisiana
Vermont
Wyoming
West Virginia
North Dakota
Boxing and faith collide in a preacher fighter tale
A theater owner invites a church choir to perform on Thanksgiving day and James J. Corbett appears as the first act. The diarist recalls a talk with Corbett about the Bible and boxing, linking St. Paul’s inner struggle to a literal knockout with a call to confront evil directly.
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James J. Corbett
Corbett
Sullivan
St. Paul
Jim
Fitz
Senators To Keep Roosevelt Farm Aid Plan Almost Intact
Washington AP Roosevelt won Senate Agriculture Committee support for a relief bill aligned with his speed goals. The panel kept most of the farm aid plan intact after talks with the President, removing cattle and sheep from the price lifting bill and excluding tobacco from 1909–14 levels. The panel plans to report the bill Monday with possible Simpson cost guarantee debate and hopes to include the mortgage program if possible.
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Kendrick
Wyoming
Senate
Norris
Neb
Simpson
Wallace
Smith
Capitol
Chicago Whoopee Night Called Off
Chicago hotels asked breweries to halt deliveries before daylight delaying a planned April 7 celebration to welcome back legal beer. Officials feared disorder and temperance groups urged restraint to avoid undermining the prohibition repeal effort.
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Chicago
German Nazis Tighten Boycott Against Jews Across Germany
A Munich style roundup shows a nationwide Jewish boycott by the Nazi regime with shops closed and pickets at many storefronts. Reports detail a Kiel incident in which a storm trooper Astheimer was wounded and later presumed dead, while a Berlin market saw no casualties from bombings.
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Berlin
Kiel
Astheimer
Astimer
George Schumm
Awyer
Schumm
Altheimer
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Perce
Tietz
Leipzigstrasse
Jerusalem
Rock Island Rail Head Sees Voluntary Pay Plan
A. L. Haldeman states no official notice of wage cuts or contributions has been received. He notes unofficial talk of a one sixth pay return but cannot verify it. March paychecks for Rock Island employees will be issued on April 15, with the plan described as a purely voluntary measure to aid the company.
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A. L. Haldeman
Rock Island Railroad
Rock Island
Haldeman
Roosevelt Regulations Cut Veterans Benefits Costs
Washington reports President Roosevelt's new veterans benefits rules outlining estimated savings of 400 to 450 million dollars. The plan eliminates non service disabilities, retains Spanish American War veterans pending proof of service connection, and becomes effective July 1. It covers disability and death benefits for active and peacetime service, with scales from 8 to 100 dollars monthly and dependents' supplements, plus reviews for meritorious but unprovided cases.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New Vets Rules Outlined for War Service Pensions
Official summary details eligibility for pensions to veterans disabled by disease or injury in the Spanish American War through World War I. It covers active duty requirements, presumptions of soundness and service connection, varying pension rates from 10 to 100 percent, and increases for loss of limbs or needs for aid. Widows children and dependent parents of deceased veterans are also mentioned.
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Russia
National Guard
Plan Dramatic Curb on Securities Sale
President Roosevelt and advisers plan two bills to curb Wall Street practices including pools profits, director interlocks, and exchange supervision. A commerce probe cites 25 billion in risky securities sold over thirteen years as motive for tighter federal control.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Wall Street
Huston Thompson
Federal Trade
House
Capitol Hill
Commerce Department
Weather Outlook for Chicago Week Beginning April 3
AP reports a mild start to the week for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys with limited precipitation. Temperatures are mostly moderate.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Pope Illuminates Cross On Mountain During Holy Year
Pope Pius XII lit a huge cross on Mount Senario above Tuscany in a Holy Year opening act. The blazing cross, visible for miles, accompanied the breaking of the Holy Door in St. Peter's and began twelve months of observance marking the 1900th anniversary of Christ’s death as Tuscan villagers watched in awe.
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Rome
Pius
Senario
Tuscany
Christ
St. Peter's
Roosevelt Orders Large Cut in World War Veterans Benefits
President Roosevelt used emergency powers to cut veterans benefits and pensions by over 400 million dollars as part of budget savings. The action removes disability benefits not incurred in active service and risks dropping about 400,000 World War I veterans from the rolls. Some Spanish-American War veterans may also lose pensions under new rules.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Veterans Benefits and Budget Cuts Under New Economy Plan
The White House estimates savings of about 400 million to 450 million dollars by reducing veterans facilities spending and reorganizing hospital staff after July 1. About 700,000 World War I veterans receive hospitalization, with 300,000 service-connected. Rates for disability payments change only slightly, while Spanish War veterans retain benefits until proven non-connection.
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Howe
Lonard ‘Oni
Veterans Hospital
Atill
Youth 17 Gets 8 Years For Plane Murder Involvement
In Brownsville Texas a 17 year old high school student Earl Dodson was sentenced to eight years in prison after a week long trial. He furnished arms and advice to Erin McCall the student flyer who killed himself after landing the plane piloted by Lehman Nelson. State witnesses said McCall hid the gun Dodson supplied and that Dodson advised force to seize the plane.
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Tex
Earl Dodson
George Westervelt
Dodson
Erin McCall
Lehman Nelson
Young McCall
McCall
Nelson
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