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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1937
Page
18
A Tennessee governor signals a near-term change to the law permitting young marriages as public uproar rises over a 22 year old marrying a 9 year old. The note follows a doll gift to the bride and critiques federal action on social policy.
Detroit AP reports GM executive Knudsen aims negotiations with United Automobile Workers as soon as sit-down strike-enders vacate Fisher Body Plant No. 2 in Flint. Sheriff Wolcott reads injunction at the plant prompting orderly evacuation by 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Washington report says John L. Lewis, head of the union, moved toward Detroit to assume control of the 1,000 sit-down strikers ordered to quit General Motors plants in Flint Michigan. The injunction required abandonment of the plants and the action was kept unusually secretive as the dispute continued.
Postmaster General James A Farley announced extension of transpacific airmail from Manila to China with a tentative first flight from San Francisco set for March 24 or soon after. The move, combined with the Hindenburg summer schedule, aims to close the last gap in a world circumnavigation by air.
Snow covered the Pacific coast from San Francisco to British Columbia on Tuesday. Portland Oregon faced a blizzard with downtown streets piled two feet deep and residential drifts six to eight feet, disrupting daily life.
Paris deputies vote 405 to 186 to back Premier Leon Blum's government and a vast four year defense program. Daladier cites rapid, modernized arms, expansion of the Maginot line, a second mechanized division, fast roads, and doubling tank and anti aircraft production as France prepares for possible German invasion.
Iowa leaders in rural electrification return from Washington with plans for a central generating plant in Franklin county costing about 250000 dollars. The plant would serve farm customers along 1000 miles of distribution lines across Franklin Hardin Grundy Butler and Wright counties, financed from 418000 dollars already allocated to the Franklin cooperative with expected REA funds next year.
New York report says 21 year old Private Harry Venable an artilleryman at Fort Totten Fort Totten New York fired about fifteen shots at police after wounding another soldier before killing himself. He was besieged by police and bombed with tear gas during the confrontation.
The toll rose to 13 with eight bodies recovered at the barge sinking site confirmed Tuesday night by Coroner L A Richards. Cairo Illinois faced the Mississippi flood as sandboils and a ruptured gas main disrupted the northern section, with a 63 foot high river wall guarding a city of about 140 residents.
In Headland Alabama Wes Johnson an 18 year old Black farm hand accused of assaulting a white woman was lynched by a mob. Earlier about 50 men stormed the Henry County jail at Abbeville and seized the prisoner. Sheriff Corbett said a special grand jury would investigate and Governor Graves ordered an inquiry by Attorney General Carmichael.
Hastings Ne AP Sheriff Worthy Wood said Frank Braddock age 64 forced entry Monday night killed his 88 year old father in law Abel Esterbrook with a crow bar then killed himself with a shotgun in the basement Wife escaped and is safe Monday night incident occurred in Hastings Nebraska
A motivational piece argues life gains meaning through four pillars: contribution, cooperation, concentration, and consecration. It stresses sharing, teamwork, goal setting, and dedicating work to a worthy cause as paths to fulfillment and moral living.
Senator Norris urged TVA to end its contract with Commonwealth and Southern and stay out of certain power markets. He said renewal isn’t justified while TVA faces injunctions, a view stirring nationwide debate as Willkie and TVA directors begin talks in Knoxville on the expiring agreement.
Four people were in delirium and an unknown number endangered as a sudden botulism outbreak spread after consuming home made canned tuna. The county health office ordered an immediate source investigation as physicians warned danger to others exists.
A severe snow, rain and wind storm swept most of Western Japan on Tuesday, crippling communications and damaging property as Kobe reports heavy disruption and regional transit halted.
Willow Springs Missouri police linked the week old missing person case of Dr James C B Davis a 67 year old physician and political leader to a ransom kidnapping. A bag of medical instruments was found in a stream about 14 miles west of West Plains heightening fears of a murder. The family had received a 5000 ransom note and an unknown man drove away with the doctor after an emergency call.
A note postmarked from West Plains Mo described a ransom for Dr. Davis. G men and Missouri officers swarmed Willow Springs as a fogbound delivery failed search for a white flag. The kidnapper, a likely juvenile with Ford V-8, is described as 25, 135 pounds, gray hat, bath jacket, dark trousers.
The American Newspaper Publishers Association filed a brief with the Supreme Court in Associated Press v National Labor Relations Board challenging the National Labor Relations Act as unconstitutional. The dispute centers on reinstating Morris Watson, blamed for activity in the American Newspaper Guild, with broad claims about press freedom.
A 15 year mystery over William Desmond Taylor's murder was shattered when a woman, Mrs. Adam Deane Tanner, presented evidence against the theory that Taylor's brother killed him. Handwriting and photographs proved Deane Tanner and the supposed killer Edward Sands are different men, ending the long suspect arc linked to Mabel Normand and Mary Miles Minter.
The New York State Senate on Tuesday night adopted a resolution ratifying the federal Child Labor Amendment. The legislative vote stood 38 to 12 in favor of the measure.
William F. Seaman returned to his Brooklyn apartment to find his wife Margaret Seaman dead in a tub with water. Police saw no marks of violence and noted the body was nude except for undergarments, with a fur coat and an unpowered electric iron nearby. Authorities consider natural causes possible as a citywide bathtub murder wave unfolds.
Rudolph E. Shank a 45 year old Cedar Rapids rail way mail clerk was found shot in his hotel room in Omaha. A note in his belongings suggested he shot himself due to ill health. A maid heard groans and summoned the janitor who found him in bed in night clothes with his service pistol nearby.
Secretary Henry A. Wallace said on a radio address that corn limits will be retained for 1937. The Iowa corn limit is set at 10,700,000 acres with county and individual limits not yet announced. He declined to directly say whether acreage caps under the 1937 agricultural program would be discarded.
The corn limit program aims to provide enough corn for both animal and human needs and to create a carry-over of 350 to 450 million bushels, three to four times normal. It also promotes growing early maturing grains like barley and oats to stabilize feed through 1937 and reduce livestock liquidation risk, with oats and barley usable as nurse crops for clovers.
Leo Holub of Prairieburg was found guilty of assault and battery in Justice Churchill's court and fined 100 dollars plus costs. Earlier, the information against him was dismissed on condition he pay court costs. The charges stem from a November 3 altercation with Frank Power of Prairieburg hours before the general election.
HAMMOND Ind. UP Mrs Helen Hormanian 67 wife of a Chicago physician was killed and four Hammond firemen were injured Tuesday in a collision between an automobile and a fire truck at Harvey Illinois. Injured were Clinton Tea garden 38 Carl Stanger 32 Ellis Fredman 35 and Floyd Paff 36.
Washington AP says on Tuesday John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, announced the appointment of William R. Castle former under secretary of state and William Hard radio commentator as assistants to the chairman.
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