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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1937
Page
12
Financial leaders from key agencies gather at a confab to weigh a new administration plan aimed at reshaping budget priorities. Participants discuss potential impacts on programs and fiscal strategy across departments.
Report notes push to remove a Japanese colonel after attacks. Mentions official lines, a West Asia context, and ongoing debate over leadership and responsibility amid military and political pressure.
Highlights outline a two trip sequence and a potato contest with details read from the session summary. The report emphasizes activities, participants, and outcomes from the event, noting objectives, results, and notable moments.
Washington United Press reports the White House East Room will echo with a dance named the big apple on December 30 as Mrs Roosevelt says she will not ban it. The President is to host a reception next week for the youngest child of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt amid family guests.
In Huntington West Virginia three men associated with Dr James Sederman were found guilty of kidnapping and sentenced to death by hanging on March 21 in common pleas court. Anett Booth 46 Ja Travis 27 and Orville Adduo 24 showed emotion as Judge Worth imposed death sentences. Sederman died from exposure after being trapped in an abandoned Wayne County mine for ten days before discovery.
A partial AP report describes a dementia patient treated with insulin shock as a cure. The fragment mentions hospital staff and a small group attempting the treatment, with unclear details and context due to damaged text.
Police report two dairy safes robbed in one night. Searles Dairy at 215 A avenue NW and Whiting Dairy at 1612 E avenue NE yielded $818.90 total with notable tear gas at Searles and a window entry from the roof. Detectives say the method resembled professional safe cracking.
Chinese sources report over 1,000,000 laborers rushing a Hirat military highway across central Asia to link Soviet Russia and China. The 3,000 mile route would run Turkestan to west central China with a branch to Ulan Bator, replacing the cut Ulan Bator Kalgun line.
Fragmentary report notes university trained Chinese engineers involved in a road project. It mentions a completion timeline of several months and the road enabling shipment of war supplies from Huspit to the heart of China, with reference to nighttime movement and two giants.
Congress enacted five minor measures in a special session. The moves include payments for transportation of lawmakers, salaries for pages, and loans of Washington paintings for an art exhibition. They also authorize agriculture information on a pesticide linked to several deaths and exempt federal credit unions from certain charges.
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