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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1937
Page
1
The Agriculture Committee voted to report a farm bill within a week and push crop control and commodity credit reforms. Representative Smith of South Carolina said the bill would advance regardless of a special session, with emphasis on cost of production and farm refinancing.
A Cedar Rapids inquest labeled the Linn County Derby fatality unavoidable. James H. Porter, 216 Beeth Street SE, died Saturday after being struck by a racing automobile during the bee derby at Central City. Deputy coroner Dr. R. In and Dr. Munden described the injuries as neck fracture and multiple body trauma. Witnesses say D Arcy and Otis Thomas lle helped after a pre race accident. George Clark’s car may have blinded others on the track as the fatal impact occurred.
In Ottumwa, Lewis head of the Industrial Organization committee declined an invitation to attend a CIO rally. The report notes ongoing plans and nearby activity as the news brief mentions local figures and positions while providing limited corroborating detail.
A 1937 newspaper clipping contrasts 19th century critiques with modern alarm over progress. It cites Harper's Weekly 1857, a 1694 book title, Lincoln era emancipation fears, and quotes Lord Macaulay while arguing moral panic persists. The piece labels such views as alarmist and echoes a recurring distrust of change.
A formal application for a Cedar Rapids bus franchise and an ordinance governing bus operation were filed with the city council by Don Barnes. Engineers will prepare material facts on street car trackage as City Engineer Young was asked to provide an estimate of the cost to remove tracks and repave streets. The proposed ordinance allows the city to salvage or dispose of tracks and grants the company rights to remove trolleys, feeders, poles and other overhead construction.
Merle Buck of Corona South Dakota pled not guilty at a superior court arraignment in Madison. He was set to stand trial Thursday on charges he piloted an airplane too low over a carnival crowd near Middleton last week, with a $200 bond posted.
Washington may 5 The house labor committee advanced the wages and hours bill warning of temporary losses and inconveniences to some employers while aiming to cure injustices. Southern conservatives vow a major counter thrust as eastern and midwestern lawmakers back the measure to curb migration of industry southward. Rep Eugene Cox and Dr Charles F Roos warned enactment could curtail employment, lower production and living standards, and reduce raw material consumption.
Windsor plans to return to England and reclaim a seat in the house of lords. Reports say Wallis Simpson will take a central role in London society as the duke resumes his political life. Sir Walter Monckton, his financial adviser, visited Wasserloonburg castle to discuss finances and plans for the future.
CHARITON AP el B Rheams 60 of Merion Pennsylvania was killed and his wife seriously injured in a highway crash four miles west of Chariton on No 34 Monday. The Rheams car collided with a bread truck driven by John Gilbert 23 of Chariton. Charles Rheams son of Carl Rheams and Gilbert escaped with minor injuries.
DES MOINES Iowa Monday the national bituminous coal commission opened a hearing to decide if some Iowa coal does not directly affect interstate commerce and thus should be exempt from the Guffey coal act provisions.
In Chicago Little Don ald Horst was returned to foster care from which he was abducted last week Judge Edmond Jarecki granted temporary custody to his foster parents while a full investigation into their fitness to rear him continues The boy was taken from his birth mother Lydia Lavin and her friend Constance Ewert requested representation to tell Lydia's story during the hearing set for Aug 23 and police will probe Horst's hotel past as part of the case
Washington AP The treasury said customs inspectors in New York seized 22 pounds of heroin valued at 150000 dollars from a steward aboard the liner Manhattan. Agents believe the narcotics were carried across the Atlantic several times with the steward unable to remove it due to tight surveillance.
Washington General revision of federal tax laws will be recommended to Congress in November by the treasury. Un dersecretary Roswell Magill told the house ways and means committee Monday. He urged adoption of senate-house tax committee recommendations to close loopholes and present full information on operations and improvements. The eight-point plan to close loopholes will aid the treasury if enacted, Magill said. He backed eliminating deductions for yachts and country estates and curbing personal holding companies and foreign trusts to ensure taxes align with ability to pay. He praised the plan to stop actors and artists from incorporating to dodge taxes.
In New York two confessed killers, Arthur H. Chalmers and Lawrence Marks, sat in adjoining cells trading details of their crimes. Chalmers, a police officer, seeks to extract more from Marks about the murder of an 8 year old girl and possible other slayings while awaiting his own trial for shooting Irman Pradier during a June car incident. The police view the Pradier shooting as passion driven, with key questions remaining about a second shot and missing bank cash.
Reports from Paoting Fu say a Japanese mixed brigade attacked two Chinese divisions defending the Namkou pass northwest of Peiping. In Shanghai the peace preservation corps sealed roads as clashes left one Chinese soldier and one Japanese dead. Peiping remains under Japanese control as negotiations falter and occupation proceeds with proclamations severing northern Chinese provinces.
Livestock buyers at the Chicago stockyards paid 172.5 dollars per hundredweight for choice 1522 pound steers Monday, the highest price here since 1928, as hog prices rose to an 11 year high. Choice 823 pound heifers reached 16 dollars, a seven year high, led by demand in the market.
AP reports floods in northern Korea have killed more than 300 people and injured about 150. Nearly 2,700 homes were washed away or demolished by the floodwaters.
Frank Buresh a 32 year old farmer near Oxford Junction was arraigned before U S Commissioner Ed McPartland on a conspiracy charge to violate the internal revenue act by operating an unlicensed distillery. A large still was found on his farm after a prior explosion and barn fire. Buresh was picked up in Anamosa and brought to court by Federal Agent Ed Miller. He waived hearing and was bound over to the grand jury under a $1,000 bond.
The Dionne quintuplets were confined to their nursery with head colds after a drenching rain on Sunday. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe canceled all personal appearances and barred visitors as Emilie, the middle child, and her sisters developed throat infections. The five babies, a world famous tourist draw, had their outings in the yard halted and two scheduled appearances canceled indefinitely.
Former president Herbert Hoover outlines a plan to revitalize the Republican Party ahead of the 1938 elections and 1940 presidential race. The strategy includes a national convention to unify anti New Deal candidates, plus a two year campaign against Roosevelt through press, radio, and magazines. House Minority Leader Bertrand Snell endorses holding a convention to assess public issues before the next elections.
Des Moines union heads and White Line Transfer and Storage Co officials were set to meet Monday night to discuss a settlement of a strike by mechanics at the firm’s two service garages.
Senator Royal S. Copeland charged President Roosevelt with causing Democratic discord and proposed a constitutional amendment to bar any president from seeking a third term. The move underscored factional tensions ahead of a harmony dinner Roosevelt invited Copeland to attend. Copeland’s break with the administration traces to the anti New Deal rift with Alfred E. Smith and Hyde Park conferences.
Arthur Bugs Baer notes both parties published souvenir books after their national conventions to finance campaign expenses. He mocks Sopwith about political memoirs and suggests avoiding a biography titled How I Finished Second. The piece satirizes party publishing during the 1937 period.
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