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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1939
Page
1
A state senate panel cites misconduct among trustees and staff at state hospitals, urging immediate board removals. Debate centers on political motives, with many urging full inquiry into patient mistreatment and facility shortages. Leaders urge constructive action while warning against broader punitive measures and political posturing.
The Cedar Rapids city council unanimously approved moving forward with a $30,000 exhibition hall at Hawkeye Downs, funded over ten years. City officials will handle bonds and plans, with construction aimed to start within a month and space planned for 4-H and Farm Bureau activities and future expansion.
A reflective essay by Dr. Newton criticizes self centered national thinking and urges a broader covenant. It compares Chamberlain as umbrella bearer to collective responsibility, citing rain as a political metaphor. The piece invokes Alice in Wonderland and a legend of a city covering ball to argue for shared salvation from bombs and hatred.
The Gazette circulation department warns of a man claiming to be Robert Smith selling subscriptions at a reduced rate. He is not an official Gazette solicitor and used an old magazine receipt. No such person matches the provided description in Center Point. Report any approach to The Gazette at once.
Republicans clash over Gov Wilson’s request to restore educational appropriations to 1937 levels. House approves 7.27 million for state education including University Hospital while total budget with newcomers tops 21 million.
President Roosevelt signed the bill wiping out immunity of federal and state employees from income taxation. The measure imposes tax on government workers, altering prior exemptions and reshaping federal and state payrolls.
Des Moines AP reports 72 year old Senator George M. Hopkins urged continued support for the board of control amid an investigation of five institutions. Hopkins defended members White Felton and Stevens as honest and capable, arguing the inquiry shows broader systemic issues and urging they not be removed. Forsling and Hill pressed for ouster to restore morale and prevent a public blot on the state.
Arthur Bugs Baer notes that alphabetical listings can lack true order when abbreviations and contractions save space. He jokes about indices while referencing agencies like FAA HOLC FHA and federal alcohol administration as a playful mix of letters and acronyms.
In Los Angeles 17 year old Buddy Merriel died by suicide on Thursday, foreseeing a looming war. He feared having to kill others and had spent days reading war news and listening to radio reports. He told his mother he dreaded war and the army.
Mrs Ernest Schwabe of Blairstown five miles southwest of town rescued her two children from a farm home fire. She found Donald, the year-old, in a smoke filled kitchen and directed Rowena to kick out a window and jump to her arms from the second story. The baby survived slightly burned, the girl had a cut on her left arm. The mother, working in a laundry house, ran around to the front to find the door and windows locked, then spotted the child at a second floor window and saved her. The father, in a field nearby, called the Blairs town fire department. the house and contents were destroyed. The Schwabes had moved March 1 from Clarence to the old Dodd place.
Secretary Wallace told a Senate appropriations panel that dictators blocked the trade program and urged Congress to approve subsidies for wheat and cotton exports while seeking larger farm aid. He cited a surplus crisis and argued for an aggressive foreign trade policy to retain a normal share of world markets.
A Gazette candid camera moment captured Blanche Mohn on a busy downtown street as she hurried. She will receive a 7 by 9 sepia enlargement for being among today’s subjects. Mrs Layer and daughter Jeannine also will be photographed and mailed a sepia print. Cards costing 25 cents grant three 2-1/4 by 6-3/4 inch prints to those photographed.
Berlin reports 100 Germans fled alleged Polish terrorism in the Polish Corridor. Warsaw announces 21 German Nazis arrested for incitement against the state and related charges. Danzig protests Polish train crossings over an anti German song, signaling rising diplomatic friction.
Reports claim Poland asked the French government about a new German proposal to guarantee its western frontier in exchange for permission to build a strategic motor road under German sovereignty across the Polish Corridor to East Prussia. Widespread Polish opposition to any concession is noted.
Secretary of State Cordell Hull said he had no advance information about British Foreign Secretary Halifax's remark that the United States shared Franco English resolve to halt the dictators. Meanwhile Undersecretary Sumner Welles urged revising the neutrality act to let Britain and France obtain needed supplies in the United States as aggression threatens U.S. interests.
Senator William K Borah argues in a letter to St Olaf College students that war will not hinge on democracy versus totalitarianism. He says European democracies drafted secret prewar spoils treaties and the Versailles pact, advocating American youth confront Nazism and Communism only when they arise, not from current crisis.
Prime Minister Chamberlain and Premier Daladier pledged to fight with full power to defend Greece and Roumania from aggression. They announced joint British French resolve to protect Mediterranean interests and reaffirmed the Franco Polish military alliance. The move aims to deter Berlin Rome axis expansion amid rising wartime tensions.
Premier Edouard Daladier said Paris maintains permanent contact with Britain the United States Russia Poland and the Balkan Entente amid growing European tensions. He noted Germany’s threat to Jugoslavia and Britain’s concerns over Italy’s invasion of Albania while Chamberlain faced pressure over Croatia.
Cedar Raph New John English a mechanical engineer at 515 Seventeenth Street SE was overcome by carbon monoxide at 10 p m Wednesday during a test of a new soy bean roasting process at the Three Food Products Company 2708 Mt Vernon Avenue SE Police said incomplete combustion of natural gas produced the gas Harry O Donnell president of the company at 2220 Grande Avenue SE with Mr English saw him collapse and ordered aid Firemen treated him at No 6 Fire Station and ambulance crews revived him with oxygen before he was taken to St Luke s Hospital He left the hospital Thursday and was reported in good condition.
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