29 Apr 1937
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1937
Page
1
A Morton tribute in Congress sparks a warning about majorities voting away minority rights. Des Moines notes discuss federal spending, impounding ideas, jurors’ hours, and tax equity. The piece laments funding gaps for a new police station and explains homestead exemptions for readers.
Representative Hamilton Fish introduces a resolution to bar the treasury from buying foreign gold above 25 dollars per ounce, opposing Roosevelt era gold policy. The move follows a record 11.7 billion in gold holdings and amid market turmoil with falling stock prices and signals of policy shifts. The treasury says imports and sterilization efforts continue as inflation concerns persist.
National League results show Boston Philadelphia and Brooklyn New York Cincinnati Chicago Pittsburgh St Louis Washington Cleveland Detroit incomplete lines indicate run totals and pitching lines with names MacFayden Weir Frasier Lopes Paseau Atwood Mungo Moore Schu macher Smith Gumbert Mancuse Derringer Lombardi O Dea Cascarelis VanAtts Cohen Millies Rigney Sewell Harder Putlak Lee Tietle Hemsley Lawson Cochrane and rain postponement for Philadelphia Besten.
Harry Mercer a 61 year old Philadelphia man was sentenced to two and a half to five years in Sing Sing Prison after pleading guilty to attempted grand larceny in the second degree. He obtained 1750 dollars from Herbert H Hunter of Fair Haven New Jersey last December by misrepresenting a race track project in Mexico.
A reader shares deep sorrow after the death of a mother and a lifelong friend. The piece explores ongoing loneliness, the ache of waiting for the absent, and the search for meaning through faith and enduring memory. Dr. Newton offers comforting reflections on healing and humility.
Reports from Rio Grande do Sul indicate General Flores da Cunha seized railways and telegraph lines in Rio Grande with clashes possible against Vargas loyalists. Uruguayan frontier dispatches warn peace is menaced as Da Cunha seeks to solidify control.
Firestone Tire and Rubber officials announced a settlement of a two month strike that idled 9,000 workers. The agreement was signed by Firestone and United Rubber Workers of America negotiators, the first such pact with URWA. Goodyear and Goodrich pulled support from company unions as negotiations closed.
A temporary injunction was issued by Judge F O Ellison preventing the state highway commission from taking possession of property to build the Sixteenth Avenue SW viaduct on Highway 30 in Cedar Rapids. Property owners Ernst J Wenig Helen Wenig Horan Bertha I Spencer and Carrie W Denlinger sought to void the condemnation and filed a $500 bond. Defendants include highway officials chief engineer F R White contractor W L Lundeen and others.
The notice lists for sale farmland supplies and livestock including tractors seed corn sows gilts Holsteins Guernseys oats hay mules horses Jersey cows heifers ewes portable hog houses baby chicks pullets feed lightning rods coal ranges stock foods and other farm items offered under Farmers' Market Place in the Gazette Want Ad section.
Iowa's House and Senate adjourned after a day of debate over farm to market road funding and welfare program support. The House approved adjournment 50 to 45, with the Senate returning for closing formalities, while discussions centered on a state office building and federal welfare aid. Senator Roy Stevens criticized the adjournment, citing potential savings and missed aid for dependent children.
Norman Foerster announced Paul Engle a Cedar Rapids poet as a special lecturer in the University of Iowa school of letters for a one year term. Engle will begin work at the university in September.
Washington President Virgil Jordan of the National Industrial Conference board denounces the Roosevelt administration for building a vast political organization to sustain itself in power. He argues government machinery threatens private enterprise and may lead to irreversible state capitalism within a decade. He warns the state would replace enterprise and impose subjection to the state, with constitutional obstacles being removed. Continued on Page 3 Col 2.
A foreign correspondent describes a six month confinement in a Spanish Civil War death dungeon in San Sebastian. He details prison terror, arbitrary charges, and the hidden brutality behind the front lines as he witnesses the war from inside.
London reports a pact in principle at the International Sugar Conference enabling Norman Davis to push a formal convention. The plan keeps a free sugar market while setting quotas and a control board to oversee reductions. Davis will report to President Roosevelt after May 8 aboard the Manhattan.
Tom Slowie of Clinton, secretary to Rep. W S Jacobsen, is elected secretary of the Federal Communications Commission. The appointment, to be announced Thursday, comes with a salary of 7500 dollars and marks a significant promotion from his congressional post. Slowie learned of the selection Monday and was told at the White House by James Roosevelt and Steve Early that he would be elected at the FCC’s Wednesday session.
Rebels capture Durango, 16 miles southeast of Bilbao, as Gen. Emilio Mola’s forces advance toward the Basque capital. Reports say loyalist gunners were killed or captured, and many battalions taken. Evacuation plans and shelter construction intensify in Bilbao amid looming siege tensions.
A satirical conspiracy flicks between Pershing and generals about a coronation coat with gold embroidery and epaulets. The mock piece jokes about wearing no pants, lapel innovations, and burying the coat at Fort Knox after the event.
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