Roosevelt recovery plan attacked as waste and confusion
The piece argues President Roosevelt's new recovery program repeats the earlier failed effort, warning of seven billion dollars in cost and calling for stronger will and cooperation. It notes municipal loans, WPA projects, and questions about debt, markets, and dirt-road maintenance, ending with quotes from Dr. Thomas Vernon Smith on the politician’s role.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Cedar Rapids
Uncle Sam
ICC Vetoes Passenger Fare Increase by Eastern Lines
The Interstate Commerce Commission denied the eastern railroads request to raise passenger coach fares from two to two and a half cents per mile. It found the proposed increase unjustified and said it would have boosted revenues by about $30 million. The proposed territory spans from Lake Michigan to Chicago Peoria and Springfield.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastern Railroads
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Peoria
Springfield
Wheeler Sets Next Week to Begin Rail Legislation
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee chairman Burton Wheeler announces next Thursday as the start of work on a legislative program to ease rail economic problems. The Associated Press notes Class One railroads posted March operating revenue of 232,006,029, down 25.8 percent from 1937 and 30 percent from 1930, while a 15 percent passenger fare increase was tied to freight boosts granted earlier.
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Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Association of American Railroads
JCC
Roosevelt
Congress
Dr. B. R. Johnston Dies After 1898 Cedar Rapids Service
Dr. B. R. Johnston aged 71 of 1047 Fifth Ave SE Cedar Rapids died at 7 40 p m Wednesday after six weeks illness. A Canada born physician who trained at Hering Medical College Chicago he practiced in Onawa briefly before Cedar Rapids. He served as a major in the medical corps during World War I and was assistant division surgeon of the Nineteenth division during the influenza epidemic. He was married to Alice Goss of Chicago, who died in 1933, and his daughter is Dr Florence Johnston of Cedar Rapids.
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B. R. Johnston
Fifth Avenue SE
Florence Johnston
Ingersoll
Ontario
Canada
Hering Medical College
Chicago
Alice Goss
Johnston
Onawa
Dr Smith Appeals To Bridge Warring Political Groups
Dr Smith positions himself as a mediator between rival factions and hopes to dissolve group and class barriers that fuel ongoing uncertainty. He rubs shoulders with diverse politicians and earns cautious praise from supporters.
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Dr. Smith
Senator Smith
Reflections on religion and character from a 1938 piece
A collection of aphorisms on faith, virtue, and society. It contrasts genuine belief with empty religiosity, questions harsh punishments for soul crimes, and praises inner richness over outward show. Quotes from Seneca Keats Bernard Shaw and others frame the moral notes.
Deadlock on Profit and Gains Taxes in Conference
Washington reports the $5.33 billion tax bill stalled in a Senate-House conference over undistributed profits and capital gains levies. A brief session ended with adjournment until Friday as Roosevelt’s letter opposing the Senate’s repealing of the profits tax shaped the debate and hardened positions.
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Washington
INS
Senate
House
Congress
Roosevelt
Weather Update From Cedar Rapids Clouds Drift Over City
Cedar Rapids saw a cloudy day with temperatures rising from 60 at 7 a.m. to 74 by 1 15 p.m. A late 7 p.m. reading was 74 with midnight at 65. Monday’s 2 p.m. high reached 82, two shy of the season high of 84 set March 21. Record inaccuracy noted by the vnal Inskeep company.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Vnal Inskeep Company
Jackie Coogan Offered Leading Role in No One Man
Hollywood AP Jackie Coogan, once a child star and founder of a fortune, was offered a job Thursday by Universal Studios. The Kid would join the cast of No One Man, a modest picture, alongside Man Grey and Noah Beery Jr.
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Noah Beery, Jr
France Slipping From Powers Ranks Amid Economic Strains
Paris. France faces financial collapse as war debts bite and allies waver. Daladier gains plenary powers to finance defense while France roofs in on external threats from a rising Germany and a Franco-led Spain under insurgent Franco. England remains a brief ally in a widening European crisis.
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Ins
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Spain
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Sweden
Daladier
Why Not Real City Market Shelter on River Front
A Hawkeye Lumber and Coal Co. official urges Cedar Rapids to skip the corrugated iron riverfront shelter. He questions its prominence and cost, suggests a permanent sanitary market building as a WPA project, and cites farm markets as proven institutions elsewhere. The council filed the letter with mixed favorable views overall.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Don S. Barry
Hawkeye Lumber and Coal Company
Barry
Thayer Reels From Power Cut as Town Reopens Municipal Plant
Thayer Missouri faced a total power shutdown as Arkansas Missouri Power cut service during a two year dispute over building a municipal plant. Mayor C A Reef said generators will supply the business district while residences shift to candles lanterns and coal oil lamps. The town expects completion in three months and seeks the utility to leave.
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C. A. Reef
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Arkansas-Missouri Power Company
G. F E. Paxton
Poker Company
R. W. Williams
Center Point Strikers Demand Ouster Of All 5 Teachers Or None
Center Point enters day three of a school strike with students barricading the building and strikers pressing for the dismissal of Alfred Pierce as principal and head coach. The board's reasons are unclear, while nearby Palo and Toddville threaten to sever athletic ties over Pierce. A strike bulletin cites majority rule as a motive for action and 73 students support the strike in a sign petition.
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Alfred Pierce
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Palo
Toddville
America
James McArthur
Roosevelt Reasserts Monroe Doctrine On Pan American Day
President Roosevelt declared that peace in the Western hemisphere must not be endangered by external aggression. Speaking to the Pan American Union board, he reaffirmed the historic Monroe Doctrine on an inter American basis, with the speech broadcast to American republics.
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Washington
Roosevelt
The
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U.S. Ambassador Warns Hemisphere Against Predatory Forces
United States Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt warned in a radio speech that nations of the western hemisphere must uphold collective ideals to preserve their safety against predatory forces seeking new fields to conquer.
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Lima
Peru
United States
Laurence Steinhardt
Western Hemisphere
Roosevelt on hemispheric solidarity and peace
The president asserts 21 American republics share a common objective to maintain peace within the hemisphere and solve international differences by negotiation. He emphasizes not resorting to war, upholding justice and law, and honoring pledged word as the foundation of security and freedom.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Navy plane profit cap repealed in Scott bill
The House Naval Affairs Committee approved the Scott bill by an 11 to 4 vote to repeal the 10 percent profit limit on navy airplane contractors. The measure grants wide discretion to the secretary of the navy and aims to allow greater profits on experimental aircraft.
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Washington
INL
House Naval Affairs Committee
Secretary of the Navy
Weird Cult Performs Good Friday Passion in Hills
In Santa Fe New Mexico, Los Hermanos Penitentes retreat into the hills to enact a brutal Good Friday Passion play. Members lash themselves with fiber whips during the flagellation rite, culminating at sunrise on Calvary near the Sandia range.
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Sandia
Roosevelt outlines plan to lift economy and relieve distress
Washington dispatch details President Roosevelt's message to Congress on business relief and recovery. It notes the nation faced collapse from over speculation and overproduction in the twenties, leading to 1929 33 depression, and credits March 1933 actions for restoring credit, raising purchasing power, and aiming for a fairer national income, with continuation page 14.
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Lindbergh Weighs Purchase of French Iliec Island
Col Charles A Lindbergh visiting Dr Alexis Carrel on Saint Gildas island was reported negotiating to buy Iliec island off the Atlantic coast of France. The island, once owned by musician Ambrose Thomas, features a chateau.
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France
Charles A. Lindbergh
Alexis Carrel
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Iliec Island
Ambrose Thomas
Lindbergh renews lease on Long Barn at Sevenoaks Kent
The Evening Standard reports Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has renewed the lease on Long Barn in Sevenoaks Kent for a considerable period. The Lindbergh family continues to reside there.
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London
The
Evening Standard
Charles A. Lindbergh
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Sevenoaks
Kent
Circus Strike Ends at Madison Square Garden
The Ringling Barnum Bailey circus animal handlers and crew ended a two day strike after a mediation board led by Arthur S Meyer. A normal show resumed with no animals and 800 performers adapting to the absence of elephants and concessions. Performers and patrons faced an uneven show amid the missing popcorn and drinks.
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INS
Frank Buck
Ringling-Barnum and Bailey Circus
Arthur S. Meyer
New York State Mediation Board
Mr. Buck
Madison Square Garden Arena
Seat price rises to 63000 in New York stock sale
The seat on the New York Stock Exchange was arranged for sale at 63000 dollars, rising four thousand dollars since the last transaction. The report notes the higher price reflects market activity.
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New York
INS
New York Stock Exchange
President Seeks 7 Billion Dollar Recovery Plan The Nation
President Roosevelt urged Congress to back a 7 billion dollar recovery program with 5 billion in federal spending and lending and a 2 billion expansion of bank credit. He called for a united national will to spur an upward spiral, stressing self restraint and opposition to dictatorship, and outlined a three division program to raise national income.
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Roosevelt
Congress
United National
House
Senate
Fireside chat set for 9 30 p m nationwide radio broadcast
The White House announces President Roosevelt will address the nation in a fireside chat at 9 30 p m Iowa time. Reservations are made for both networks of National Broadcasting Company and Columbia and Mutual systems.
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Roosevelt
Iowa
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia and Mutual Systems
Roosevelt Proposes Broad Fiscal Measures For Public Works
The plan lists a first group of appropriations for the new fiscal year starting July 1 including 1.25 billion for the Works Progress Administration 175 million for the Farm Security Administration 75 million for the National Youth Administration 50 million for the Civilian Conservation Corps and 1.5 billion for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. A second group asks 300 million for housing authority slum clearance 1.45 billion for public works loans and grants 100 million for public roads and 37 million for flood control and reclamation projects.
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National Youth Administration
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Reconstruction Corporation
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United States Housing Authority
This Is The Richest Nation Says Arthur Baur
The piece satirically declares the nation the richest in the world regardless of funds. It argues expenditures run rampant and proclaims we will tap the gold reserves under Fort Knox in a provocative view of fiscal excess.
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