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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1937
Page
18
Washington AP reports the House passed crop control, aiming to clear a legislative jam blocking Roosevelt’s special session. Senator Barkley predicts Senate approval of a farm bill next week with limited differences, while the House moves to wage hour legislation and then housing stimulus measures.
Washington AP reports Iowa House members split on the parsinist reign crop control bill. Voting for the measure were Biermann Eicher Harrington Dowell Gilchrist Thurston and Jacobsen. Gwynne voted against.
Secretary Wallace criticized the senate measure as too restrictive yet signaled support for the house bill which would impose farmer approved compulsory controls on marketing of wheat corn cotton rice and tobacco built on soil conservation and benefit payments. House leaders approved the four point program 267 to 130 while a separate effort to overhaul the bill failed 206 to 197.
Washington AP reports the house tally on the farm bill with 267 voting for it and 130 against. Democrats led the yes side with 244, Republicans 12, progressives 56, farmer laborites 5. opposition included 56 Democrats and 72 Republicans among 130 against.
A 1937 piece contrasts moral mores with natural law. It cites Charles Darwin and Kant, arguing morality stems from social instincts shaped by habit and intellect, leading to the Golden Rule. The author defends Darwin against shallow readings and upholds an inner moral law.
Emily Chadbourne of Kingston New York, heir to a 10 million dollar fortune, shielded her longtime secretary Howard P Bishop 75 from suspicion as he confessed to stealing 449000 in cash and bonds. The theft surfaced during a bankruptcy hearing revealing untold debts and failed investments.
Laura Blackman was walking on Fourth avenue in Cedar Rapids when a youth estimated at 15 to 17 snatched her purse near Seventh street. The thief fled east then turned south on Eighth street with the large black pocket book containing $3.25, letters and cosmetics. Blackman chased him but details of capture were not provided.
Police expanded the search around the St. Cloud villa for four more possible victims of Eugene Weidmann the confessed slayer of American dancer Jean DeKoven. They probe a murder for profit syndicate and seek three women known as Jeannine Caroline and Josephine and a missing blonde.
Paris authorities ordered the exhumation of an unidentified girl’s body, suspecting a link to Eugene George Weidmann, the infamous murder kidnapper. The victim died mysteriously at Gardie near Saint Cloud, close to Weidmann’s villa.
Thieves entered the home of Rev A A Brooks pastor of St Pauls Methodist church 1328 Third avenue SE Cedar Rapids between 6 30 p m and 11 10 p m Friday and took 175 from a purse on the dining room table The Rev Mr and Mrs Brooks returned to find the house ransacked with no other items missing Entrances gained through a small pantry window in the rear Patrolmen Simon and Stusak investigated.
In Twin Falls Idaho 83 year old Mrs Julia Mills was struck by a car and killed after a high school class presented Death Takes a Holiday at an auditorium. The incident occurred shortly after the performance.
The State Department demanded a 24 hour report from the Soviet government on the disappearance of journalist Donald L. Robinson and his wife in Moscow. Officials say Robinson vanished December 2 from a hotel and attempts to locate him in a hospital were blocked by Soviet officials.
Charles A Dieman 67 a former Cedar Rapids architect died in Milwaukee Wisconsin after a stroke. Born August 31 1879 in Milwaukee he trained with Josselyn and Taylor and later worked for them before starting his own practice. He lived in Cedar Rapids twenty five years Denver six years and Santa Fe six years before his death.
A Treasury proposal perfected by administrator Herman Oliphant would let businesses obtain an advance tax liability decision on specific deals. The plan aims to cut the number of tax suits, with the treasury issuing an administrative order detailing the tax due for the proposed transaction. If the deal changes, the order can be revoked.
In Weston West Virginia Barney a 12 year old mongrel and longtime companion of Monsignor Thomas E Quirk who served three generations in the hill country is said to guard the deserted rectory. Three months after the priest died at 93 Barney trots to the small church across the road at mass time each Sunday and keeps vigil on the porch.
The ICC tightened pace on rail rate case by shifting closing testimony to January 17, delaying no immediate rate rise. Rail executives warn winters loan aid may be needed if lines face distress next spring while shippers await their position.
Opera star Grace Moore called a girl's right to boyfriends a constitutional guarantee as she urged her New York attorney to aid Stella Chirella, 20, and Betty Sarkesian, 18, two Detroit girls placed on five year no romance probation after theft of a WPA check.
A 1937 column by Arthur Bugs Baer notes the week’s government loan was heavily oversubscribed, arguing there is abundant money in the country if you ignore the treasury. Baer jests about borrowing, bankers, and the endless cycle of federal financing.
Japanese forces reported the capture of Wuhu sixty miles up the Yangtze from Nanking as fighting raged around the capital. Officials said occupation would hinder Chinese retreat and aid a march toward Hankow while siege conditions persisted and a safety zone near Shanghai was taken over following sniper fire.
Virgil Sorrell faced a six month sentence for beating his wife in Connersville Indiana. In court Saturday his wife handed him a razor strop and the judge suspended the sentence saying she deserved the beating for talking out of turn.
The transpacific Dollar Line liner President Hoover, valued at 8 million, ran aground on a sunken reef off Formosa. All 500 passengers were landed on Hoishoto island. an emergency hospital was set up. Sister ship President McKinley races to scene as salvors work to refloat the 33,800 ton vessel amid high seas.
Misty fog hid the sun in Cedar Rapids Saturday morning while temps edged up. The mercury climbed from 0 at 8 a.m. to 16 at noon, with Friday's high at 15 by 3 p.m., then fell to 12 at 7 p.m. and 7 at midnight per Chambers Inskeep records.
The House roads committee led by Chairman Cartwright voted against reducing federal highway funds in response to President Roosevelt’s request. The vote signals Congress may reject trimming highway authorizations for 1940 and 1941, despite Republican plans to support the budget balance effort.
In Kansas City Missouri police halted a saloon and gambling robbery as two bandits and a customer died. Detectives Lou Myers and C F Raisbeck shot two bandits while a third fled, with Eddie Crocker 42 killed among the customers as Henry Floyd Doc Shoemaker was identified posthumously.
In a heavy blizzard at Castlecary near Glasgow, an Edinburgh to Glasgow express crashed into a stationary Dundee to Glasgow passenger train Friday night. At least 32 dead and 57 injured were reported as rescuers battled snow and wreckage stacked thirty feet high. Some 26 bodies lay on the platform awaiting removal. Officials could not yet determine the cause, with signals likely jammed by snow.
In the English Channel the liner American Banker rescued two survivors from the Gothic, a 160 ton London motorship that capsized in the gale during the storm.
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