Senate judiciary panel split over court enlargement bill
Washington reports a closely divided Senate Judiciary Committee faces executive session on the Supreme Court enlargement bill. Supporters claim majority gains, while foes seek maneuver to block or push a nonrecommendation. Death of Bachman shifts dynamics as Ashurst presses for a favorable report intact.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Ashurst
Arizona
Senate court bill faces division as debate resumes
Chairman Ashurst fights Van Nuys plan to strip supreme court features while supporters and opponents quarrel over enlarging the court. A committee check shows a tight split with eight against expansion and a possible proponent division that could shift control. Rep Fish proposes a two thirds court vote to strike down acts, except where a majority of justices find a constitutional right would be denied or abridged.
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Ashurst
van Nuys
Supreme Court
Senate
Rep. Fish
New York
Fish
Congress
Debtors Brace for Settlement as Global Financing Shifts
The letter reflects concerns over postwar debt and the Johnson Act limiting financing to nations with overdue balances. It notes England and France seeking settlement by borrowing from the United States, while praising prudent driving and urging public education to curb reckless road behavior. A reader mourns George Drummey’s death and calls for road safety campaigns.
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Europe
Uncle Sam
England
France
Warn Normal Wheat Yield Necessary To Forestall Decline
Washington report notes that normal wheat yields are needed to prevent further depletion of reserves after three years of small production. If output falls short of consumption, prices may rise above 1936 37 levels, while higher production could lower prices unless European buys push reserves up or general price levels rise.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
City Briefs and Personal Notices
City briefs note a Monday to Thursday bungalow cooking school and local deliveries from Richards Pharmacy. Mrs. David G. Bleakley returns home from St Luke’s hospital after a month’s confinement. The Hedges Company offers properties for sale to buyers for homes. Grace Wieland seeks a divorce from Walter Wieland on cruel treatment grounds, married December 10 1925 at Waterloo, asks title quieted in real estate and household goods.
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David G. Bleakley
Meadowbrook Drive
St. Luke's Hospital
Grace Wieland
Walter Wieland
Waterloo
Canton Rainbow to meet at Maine lodge hall
Canton Rainbow No 22 Patr iarchs Militant schedules an 8 p.m. meeting Monday at Maine lodge hall located at 838 First Avenue East.
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Canton Rainbow
Patriarchs Militant
Maine Lodge Hall
First Avenue E
Certificate of Limited Partnership Filed for Universal Investment
Universal Investment company of Cedar Rapids files a certificate of limited partnership with County Recorder. General partners are Perry C. Rude and George W. Hearn. Limited partners are Ruth Ho Rude and Margaret L. Hearn.
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Universal Investment Company of
Cecar Rapids
Dempsy Jones
Perry C. Rude
George W. Hearn
Ruth Ho Rude
Margaret L. Hearn
Memorial visit to Anamosa by Star of the West Knights
In memory of S C Viles members of Star of the West Judge No 1 Knights of Pythias will visit Anamosa Monday evening to confer the Pythian rank of page on a large class of candidates. Mr Viles was a Past district deputy grand chancellor No meeting will be held locally Monday evening.
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S C Viles
Star of the West
Judge No. 1
Knights of Pythias
Anamosa
Viles
Deaths Bernard Hershey and Charles Eret
Funeral services for Bernard A. Hershey will be held at Immaculate Conception church at 9 am Monday with burial in Mount Calvary cemetery Monsignor John M Matlay officiating The Knights of Columbus will recite the Rosary at Teahen funeral home at 730 pm today Friends may call this afternoon or evening at the funeral home Funeral services for Charles Eret of 7622 Eleventh Avenue SE who died Friday evening will be held Monday at 17 pm at the Janeba and Brosh funeral chapel with Theodore Mlubecek officiating Burial will be in Linwood cemetery Friends may call at the chapel Sunday evening
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Bernard A. Hershey
Immaculate Conception Church
John M Matlay
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Knights of Columbus
Teahen
Bhierds
Charles Eret
Eleventh Avenue SE
Janeba and Brosh
Theodore TR Mlubecek
Linwood Cemetery
Four Old Women Rob the Treasury in Notorious Scam
Four elderly women ran a petty counterfeiting style heist by skimming excess bills from money packages while recording only shortfalls. Secret service planted marked notes, exposing the scheme as the packaged cash grew oversized. The women lost their jobs and faced wealth-seizing consequences.
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Secret Service
United States Treasury
Linn county seniors to observe May 10 as Senior Day
The Chamber of Commerce and County Superintendent W A Shupp announce Monday May 10 as Senior Day for Linn County high school seniors. Activities include tours of Cedar Rapids parks and local manufacturing plants to showcase city advantages.
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LINN
Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commeree
W A Shupp
Chamber
Kessler Joins Northwestern Band Under Percy Granger
Donald Kessler son of Dr and Mrs J A Kessler of Cedar Rapids played second clarinet with the Northwestern University band at Exanston as Percy Granger directed his own compositions. The national clarinet solo champion in 1934, he sat beside Dominick DePaprio of Chicago. a former pupil of William F Vesely.
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Donald Kessler
J. A Kessler
Cedar Rapids
Northwestern University
Exanston
Percy Granger
Washington High School
Dominick DePaprio
Chicago
Donald
William F Vesely
St Luke's Hospital Maps Financial Drive Plans
Executive committee informal meetings for the St Luke's Hospital campaign to open May 2 were held last week. Members include Morris Sanford Warry A Palmer Robert J Safely Dr J P Van Horn Rev A A Brooks and S R Hawkins. Fifty workers will attend the May campaign dinner at St Luke's Hospital where prospects will be named for support in raising 12000 to cover the 1937 operating deficit.
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St. Luke's Hospital
Morris Sanford
Warry A. Palmer
Robert J Safely
J. P. van Horn
A. A. Brooks
S. R R. Hawkins
Linn county garden committee hears state setup plan
Linn county residents heard A. D. Thornburg outline Iowa relief garden operations at the first committee meeting in the courthouse. The program covers unemployment relief gardeners with 5000 square feet minimum plots and includes seed distribution, county and state funding, and a May 10 plant start. 11 names listed as new committee members.
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Linn County
A. D. Thornburg
Des Moines
State Relif Garden Department
Thornburg
CWA
E. S. Smith
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Board of Education
Trinity Lutheran Church
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Dows Realty Company
Wilder Grain Company
State Department
County Relief Committee
Alice Ferber
Benjamin Tait
Elmer Seevell
Board of Supervisors
Leroy Kling
Chamber of Commerce
Young Men’s Bureau
J. L.rhea
The
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Joseph Carberry
AFL Asked to Account for Defense Fund in Court
In Pittsburgh AP report, Aluminum Workers union seeks a cross bill in federal court demanding accounting of the federation defense fund showing a possible $200,000 shortfall. The move comes as federation officials face an injunction over treasury transfers to the CIO and alleged fund diversion for current expenses.
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Pittsburgh
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
Aluminum Workers Union of
New Kensington
Nelson McVicar
William Green
Aluminum Workers
Committee For Industrial Organization
Lewis
Industrial Organization Committee
Lewis and Green Forces
Pittsburgh Central Labor Union
Anti Speed Signs Erected On First Ave 11th to 16th Streets
White enamel speed limit signs reading 25 miles per hour were installed along First Avenue from Eleventh to Sixteenth streets under traffic sergeant Gordon Hughes. He warned Saturday that the rule will be enforced with traffic officers in the zone. Eleven signs will be in place with glass reflector buttons to aid nighttime visibility.
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First Avenue
Eleventh
Sixteenth
Gordon Hughes
Hughes
U S May Admit Goods As War Debt Payment
U S officials weigh offers from debtor governments to settle war debts in goods or services. No offers are expected soon, with about 12 billion in defaulted debt seen as a political insurance against new European war involvement.
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Washington
United States
State
Treasury Departments
Sen. J. Hamilton Lewis
Ill
State Department
Europe
Cordell Hull
Finland
Missing Watkins girl found by mother in Waterloo
Hazel Meyer, 19, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray Meyer of Watkins, had been missing from home since Thursday. She walked past police headquarters in Waterloo with her mother and returned home Saturday evening. Her sister Helen Meyer and Margaret Swick had gone to Waterloo to seek jobs. The girls said a motorist in an old model Chrysler coupe with Iowa license plates gave them a ride to Waterloo. Relatives had been in the police station in Waterloo earlier.
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Waterloo
Hazel Meyer
Ray Meyer
Watkins
Hazel
Helen
Margaret Swick
Blairstown
Helen Meyer
Miss Swick
Oelwein Teachers Reelected After Supt Withdraws Charges
At a Saturday night school board meeting a large group of citizens heard Supt Ferrell withdraw charges against three teachers to restore harmony. The board unanimously reelected all teachers who served last year with salary increases in most cases.
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Oelwein
Supt
Ferrell
Harmony
Farm Tenants Seek Ownership in Referendum Results
DES MOINES AP The Town Farm Bureau federation released preliminary statewide results showing tenant farmers want to become landowners and buy small farms with 20 to 30 year amortization. They seek low interest rates and support a strong farm organization. The referendum backs controlled production ever normal granary and a national farm security administration with long term purchaser leases.
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Des Moines
Town Farm Bureau Federation
National Farm Security Administration
Linn County Music Festival Plans Complete
Preparations finished for the third annual Linn County music festival at the Memorial building featuring 600 rural and grade school pupils. Afternoon events start at 1 with choruses and solos, then band and vocal groups from 1:30 to 4. Critics include William Vesely, Prof. Paul Ray, and Alan Richardson. Evening program includes mass chorus and band, solos by local teachers, and classical titles. Admission is free.
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Linn County
Linn County School Masters Club
Memorial Building
William Vesely
Roosevelt High
Paul Ray
Coe College
Alan Richardson
Wilson High School
A. C. Fullerton
Iowa State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Roy Sawyer
Central City
Coggon
Roy Schwab
Springville
J. B. Piersol
Center Point
Lifer To Be Paroled In June After Murder Claim Reconsidered
Amos Harper, 28, once sentenced for the 1931 murder of Marshall Lee, will be paroled from Fort Madison prison around June 8 after the Iowa parole board concluded Lee did not die from poison but natural causes. Harper pleaded guilty under belief his father would be punished, leading Governor Herring to commute his sentence to thirty years.
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Des Moines
Sam D. Woods
Iowa
Amos Harper
Marshall Lee
Sioux
Rapids
Farmer
Fort . Madison
Woods
Harper
Lee
Parole Board
Clyde L. Herring
Labor strife zones quiet as national guard patrols continue
National guard troops patrol the strike areas as nineteen factories face stoppages. Seven CIO leaders face trial on injunction violations while a Ford plant in Richmond California evacuates after a sitdown strike. Stockton and Jamaica incidents leave several injured and hospitals treating riot victims. About 1100 workers at Parker Dam strike for CIO recognition and a one dollar daily rise.
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National Guard
CIO
Ford Motor Co
Richmond
Calif
Stockton
Long Island Daily Press
Jamaica
N. Y
Parker Dam
San Bernardino
Winter Lingers as Train 821 Strands in South Dakota Blizzard
Rock Island freight No 821 on the Ellsworth to Watertown branch is marooned ten miles south of Watertown as a blizzard piles snow drifts. Temperatures fall to ten degrees below zero and the crew seeks shelter in farmhouses. The train may be held until spring if warm weather does not return.
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Rock Island
Ellsworth
M. J. Kelly
Rock Island Railroad
Watertown
South Dakota
Newton Newspaper Editor Elected Jr Chamber President
E. J Van Nostrand 30, Newton Daily News managing editor, was elected president of the Iowa Junior Chamber of Commerce at the state convention in Council Bluffs. Thad Churchill and four others were named vice presidents, with honors and a green yellow overseas cap adopted for future national conventions.
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Council Bluffs
E. J van Nostrand
Newton Daily News
Iowa Junior Chamber of Commerce
Kenneth Goodrich
Boone News-Republican
van Nostrand
Thad Churchill
Churchill Manufacturing Company
Sioux City
Churchill
Fritz Beck
Mason City
Harris Coggeshall
Des Moines
J. E. van Ness
Burlington
Iowa
Denver
Colo
Spring Setback as Cold Drizzle Yields Snow Evening
Cold drizzling rain Saturday gave way to snow around 10 30 p m after a day of intermittent showers. Temperature hovered near freezing with 36 degrees at 9 30 p m while the day’s high reached 68 at 1 a m.
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Chambers
Elwood Community Club Elects New President
Elwood selects Herman Schultz as club president at Friday meeting. Officers sworn in include Vice-president Mrs. Scott Hun secretary Mrs. Margaret Scott and treasurer Charles Mortensen. Program features planologue tap dancing student productions and school exhibits.
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Elwood
Herman Schultz
Scott Hun
Margaret Scott
Charles Mortensen
Betty Jane Leitz
Aline Goddard
Ruth Specht
Gail Schultz
Evelyn Ruggeberg
Owen Wagner
J W Wilson
Living Pictures
Doris Hansen
Helen Herkelmann
Verlyn Ruttenberg
Lois Clarke
Renaid Adrian
Donald Speclz
Betty Jene Leitz
Willard Jansen
Lucille Meinke
Maquoketa
Harold Hicks
Winfiela
Rimmer
Danny Tubbs
Robert Pooley
Limited 1937 Farm Program To Extend Two Measures
Congressional leaders said economic pressures would limit the 1937 farm program to extending soil conservation for two years and maintaining marketing features of the AAA. Farm tenancy and crop insurance bills were at risk, though sponsors stayed confident of enactment.
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Washington
Congress
John B. Bankhead
Ala
Wallace
AAA
Supreme Court
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Richards Pharmacy
Hedges Company
Canton
Rainbow Meeting
S. C. Viles
B. A. Hershey
Muanicipal
W.D. Hannaan Company
Merchants Bank
U. 5. Treasury
N. U. Band
St. Luke’s Hospital
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U.S
Linn Music Festival
U. S
Roosevelt Hotel
Newton
Jr. Chamber
Elwood Community Club
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Bankhead
James P. Pope
Ida
Henry A. Wallace
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Okinow
Charles Greenberg
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