23 Aug 1938
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1938
Page
1
Areader questions hidden taxes funded by relief and pension checks in Iowa. The piece cites 1100 Iowa residents holding federal liquor stamps, notes enforcement rosters, cites President Roosevelt’s potential NLRB revisions, and criticizes political campaign fund efforts by WPA workers targeting Rep. O’Connor.
Dies committee asks President Roosevelt to back the un American inquiry citing a $25 000 fund and no executive branch help. Rep Starnes says a full probe needs federal aid while the panel notes other committees have received government assistance. Margaret Kerr testifies listing James Cagney as a Lincoln Brigade sponsor and names Rep Bernard as a speaker at a Los Angeles League for Peace and Democracy event.
Prof Edward S Fenlon of Brooklyn College testifies before the House un American activities committee alleging a Stalinist directed American Youth Congress received a 1936 Roosevelt letter praising democracy. He cites a Vassar World Youth Congress as radical and warns of communist activity in colleges including Brooklyn College and the Teachers Union CIO. He names four communist active student groups and implies Mrs Roosevelt involved via previous witnesses.
A fragment questions Hopkins authority over WPA plan execution, asking why he cannot act against those who carry out the plan and why this lack of action persists. The text hints at tension between leadership and workers in the project context.
President Roosevelt denounced Republican intervention in Democratic primaries as a threat to the direct primary system. He cited Idaho where 10,000 to 15,000 Republicans voted in a Democratic senatorial primary and noted similar pressure in Georgia and Maryland. He also supported denying cross party support for Rep. John O Connor.
Mrs. A. G. Minor, aged, suffered a lacerated eyeball when her car and a second vehicle driven by O W LeVan collided at Fourth street and Fifth avenue SW. Minor’s glasses were shattered in the crash and the injury was treated by a physician.
A series of five earthquakes centered in the Delaware river valley shook Philadelphia and nearby New Jersey Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania Monday night into Tuesday. Thousands of residents rang police and fire stations with frightened inquiries as tremors rattled beds and windows.
Four convicts who staged hunger strikes at Philadelphia county prison died from suffocation. Coroner Charles H. Wersch blamed prison officials and ordered microscopic tests to determine if water, vapor, gas, or another cause induced the deaths. He said responsibility lies with prison officers and would pursue the facts regardless of findings.
Cedar Rapids experiences a scorching day as the sun drives the temperature to 93 at 2 45 p m after a 72 degree morning. The day also saw a previous 89 high and cooler evening readings around 81 and 77 by midnight.
In Cleveland a thief selected Helen Netzler, a waitress, from among over a million residents as a potential buyer for two stolen suitcases. She identified the items as hers after inspecting them and exclaimed they were hers. The suitcases had been stolen two days earlier from a parked car and the thief escaped.
The anti monopoly committee issued subpoenas to major insurance firms as the first concrete step in probing financial power. Investigators seek records on investment portfolios including railroad holdings, purchase dates and prices, and potential cross-directorships with other companies. The effort aims to place insurers on equal footing with other big players and may extend to steel, cement, copper, oil, and more.
Ogden Utah residents received word that the bodies of two Ogden men killed in a plane crash near Laketown Utah about 90 miles northeast of Ogden were being brought to the city on Tuesday.
LA PORTE Indiana. A new bicycle court opened its first session with Judge Joseph Daley 17 on the bench. Prosecutor Fred Dunham 14 read charges as about 40 youthful traffic violators were scheduled for arraignment. The mayor and safety council backed the experiment to curb juvenile bike offenses and promote respect for traffic rules.
Chattanooga report says Jo Conn Guild Jr, president of Tennessee Electric Power Co., blamed sabotage after four main feeder lines were cut and a substation near Brainard dynamited. The outages left twenty towns without service as linemen from the CIO and AFL unions faced a long-running labor dispute and work stoppages.
German claims that Captain Thomas Kendrick former British passport officer in Vienna confessed to espionage were officially denied in London after a long conference between Kendrick and Foreign Office officials. No formal confession was made.
Hollywood AP reports hundreds of Valentino admirers visited his grave on the twelfth death anniversary. Flowers and letters arrived from Philadelphia, London, Great Falls, Kansas City, and Indianapolis as fans recall the iconic star and legends of the mysterious woman in black.
A new $250000 plant in Cedar Rapids will start operations soon for Honeymead Products. The facility includes a $150000 processing plant and two storage elevators. It will process 60 to 70 tons daily of soybeans and 40 tons of flax seeds using a petroleum solvent extraction method. Dr. M Banotto and Allis-Chalmers team oversee testing and construction. the Cedar Rapids Grain elevator houses initial raw materials.
Political cartoon commentary by Arthur Baer mocks the Republican party’s decline as Democrats seize advantage in 1936. The author satirizes party unity and traditions, referencing figures and terms of the era with sharp, humorous critique of GOP and its prospects.
New York Journal-America reports President Roosevelt won CIO approval for Wagner Act revision and support from John L. Lewis' labor group for changes that would curb the national labor relations board’s power. Roosevelt says talks with labor, employers, and the NLRB may occur this fall as Congress contemplates amendments favoring craft unions and labor’s Magna Carta.
London sources say the Anglo American trade agreement nearing completion lists beneficiaries in the United States including motor car manufacturers fruit growers and wheat producers. The plan contemplates substantial concessions on automobiles fruits and vegetables wheat meat and flour yard hams women’s shoes clothing and some electrical machinery.
New York transit commission faulted Motorman Salvature Cota for the subway crash. The report cited a rule violation that no train should enter a station until the preceding tram has cleared it. Cota was fatally injured in the incident.
Genree Weinberg testified in the conspiracy trial of James J Nines that Dutch Schultz demanded 60 percent of policy racket profits to fund the gang and to pay Jimmy Hines. He said Schultz ordered a policy bank to be left alone until Hines returned, noting Hines received $500 weekly. Weinberg, under Dewey’s cross examination, said he feared for his life after turning state's evidence and sought protection and leniency.
Attorney General John J. Bennett announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor after addressing the state convention of the New York State Federation of Labor in Buffalo. The proclamation marked his entry into the race.
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