Old Timers in the Great Depression and Their Works
The column recalls individuals from the era, Isaac Sacks traveling to California in a covered wagon, John Turcich repaying relief aid, Mrs. Irene Davis refusing aid to farm her land, and Carter Glass warning against excessive presidential power in relief legislation. The piece contrasts self reliance with dependence and notes a veteran observer praising such \"old fashioned\" values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene Davis
Greenville
Ala
Alabama
Davis
Shakeup Hits AAA Legal Staff as Five Resign
Amid a broad purge at the Agriculture Department's AAA, five resignations including Jerome Frank and aides Lee Pressman Francis M. Shea Victor W Rothem and Gardner Jackson were announced. The shakeup, cited as policy differences, consolidates legal staff under Rexford Tugwell and an operating council led by Secretary Wallace and Administrator Davis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
AAA
Legal and
Consumer's Counsel
Jerome Frank
Frank
Felix Frankfurter
Lee Pressman
Francis M. Shea
Victor W. Rothem
Gardner Jackson
Fred Howe
Chester C. Davis
Davis
Seth’ Thomas
Department of Agriculture
Thomas
Rexford G. Tugwell
Florida
Tugwell
Wallace
Operating Council
Secretary of Agriculture
Office of
Consumer’s Counsel
Frederic C. Howe
Howe
Quick Witty Retorts Across History in Sharp Quotes
A collection of sharp responses and witty retorts from famous figures like Whistler Choate Disraeli and Borah. The anecdotes showcase clever exchanges about art religion humility and happiness with a light humorous tone.
Edlin Woman Sought in Ioma in Straub Case
Chicago AP report states Ellen Billie Edlin, friend of Melba Straub, is sought for interrogation in the murder of Louis K. Straub night clerk at Saddle and Cycle club. Detective Chief Sullivan said Edlin may travel to Clinton Iowa. two women linked to the case were detained for questioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ellen
Billie” Edlin
Iowa
Louis K. Straub
Meyers
Edlin
Colling
Edlin and Straub Apartments
Cornelius Perry
Josephine Daniels
Miss Daniels
Shirley Manno
Straub
Sullivan
Criminal Court
Morris Meyer
Aub
Milk fund sought to aid undernourished Cedar Rapids children
Cedar Rapids readers propose a milk fund to supply whole milk to malnourished children. The First Christian church Sunday school class contributes 10 dollars, a local donor commits ten dollars monthly, and a doctor offers ongoing support. If funds suffice, a regular purchase and distribution plan could be arranged to address the surplus milk available locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
First Christian Church Sunday School
Chamber Rescinds Move to Reopen Relations with Soviet Russia
In Brussels the chamber of deputies voted 87 to 78 against a proposal to resume diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia on Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Belgium
Chamber of Deputies
Russia
Labor Clash Over Donald Richberg In New Deal Row
The piece centers on Donald Richberg, adviser to the President, facing demand for removal by labor groups while the President hesitates. A televised or public confrontation seems likely as tensions rise and the fight shapes up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Row
Donald Richberg
Labor
Hamilton Offers Surrender After Gunman Chase
Raymond Hamilton fugitive bank robber offered to surrender to federal authorities and seek life imprisonment on Alcatraz Island to avoid the electric chair for murder. The offer came via his brother Floyd, who was arrested in Shreveport. U S District Attorney Clyde Yeomen declined the offer after a gun battle in Dallas left the brothers wounded and on the run.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Raymond Hamilton
Alcatraz Island
Floyd
Shreveport
U. S
Clyde Yada
Ofer
Hamilton Brothers
Raymond
Tooker Jr Former Cedar Rapids Resident Dies in Chicago
Stephen C Tooker Jr formerly of Cedar Rapids died at Michael Reese hospital in Chicago after an operation for appendicitis followed by pneumonia. He headed Tooker Storage and Forwarding in Chicago and was survived by his parents S. C. Tooker of Pasadena and Mrs Tooker, his wife Genevieve Thompson of Cedar Rapids, and their three daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen C. Tooker, Jr
Cedar Rapids
Michael Reese
Chicago
A. W. H. Lenders
Grande Avenue SE
Mr. Tooker
Tooker Storage and Forwarding Company
S. C. Tooker
Pasadena
Calif
Grace Bryant Named State Relief Department Worker
Miss Grace E. Bryant, longtime Linn county relief visitor since 1931, accepts a position with the state emergency relief department and will report to Des Moines next Monday. She is a Coe College graduate of 1927, daughter of Prof. and Mrs. George W. Bryant of 212 Center Point Road NE, previously worked in Chicago advertising and publishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace E. Bryant
Linn County Relief Department
State Emergency Relief Department
Des Moines
Miss Bryant
George W. Bryant
Center Point Road
Coe College
Clas
Chicago
McSwain bill to end war profit in U S
The House Military Affairs Committee reported the McSwain bill on Wednesday to remove profits from war, acting without waiting for administration recommendations. The move targets profiteering related to wartime contracts and materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ins
House Military Affairs Committee
McSwain
Rayburn moves to end public utility holding companies
Representative Sam Rayburn introduces a drastic omnibus control bill in the house to eliminate registered holding companies within five years. It requires the Securities and Exchange Commission to force disposals or reorganizations after January 1, 1940, with rare exceptions for economic necessity or foreign status. A separate tax bill on holding company operations is also being drafted for the Ways and Means Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Securities and ‘Exchange Commission
Commission
Rayburn
Ways and Means’ Committee of the House
Robbery Suspects Captured After Hamburg Bank Hold Up
Two men named Theodore Payne and Wayne Jennings, both of St. Joseph Missouri, were captured on a Missouri River sandbar near Rockport after allegedly robbing the Iowa State Bank at Hamburg for 1600 dollars. Authorities found a matching amount on the pair and took them to jail, with the river bank scene described as willow covered. A bank-holdup story continues on page 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Bank
Hamburg
Missouri River
Here
Theodore Payne
Wayne Jennings
St. Joseph
Will Beatty
Watson
Rockport
Meisner Found Guilty in Labatt Kidnapping Case
David Meisner of Covington Kentucky was found guilty on all three counts in the Labatt kidnapping case in London Ontario. The jury returned verdicts at 4 46 p m and the judge imposed 15 year sentences on each count to run concurrently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Ont
David Meisner
Covington
John S. Labatt
Meisner
Labatt
Justice McFarland
Senate panel defeats rebel block over relief bill
A Democratic and Republican insurgent coalition failed by one vote to derail the $4.88 billion recovery and relief program. White House pressure secured a 10 to 10 tie that saved administration goals from major changes. Proponents of a $2 billion dole plan vow to push the issue to the Senate floor as a secret committee meeting discusses work on the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
White House
Senate Committee Votes on Dole Plan Substitute
The senate appropriations committee approved a motion to substitute a 2 billion dollar dole for the administration 4.8 billion work relief bill. Republicans Hale Keyes Steiner Dickinson Townsend Carey vote for the dole joined by Democrats Glass Adams McCarran Copeland. for the administration nine Democrats Hayden Thomas Byrnes Russell Coolidge Bankhead Mahoney McAdoo Truman and one Republican Norbeck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
ULP
Senate Appropriations Committee
Dole
Hale
Keyes
Steiner
Dickinson
Townsend
Carey
Glass
Adams
McCarran
Copeland
Hayden
Thomas
Byrnes
Russell
Coolidge
Bankhead
O'Mahoney
McAdoo
Truman
Norbeck
New Styles Bring Back The Corset
The streamline movement sweeping railways and autos is revived by corset makers who announced a corset show with full style event trimmings set for Wednesday in 11,4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
Measles Epidemic Hits City Schools With 436 Absent
A survey of public schools shows 436 of 5590 primary and intermediate pupils absent due to measles. The board of health reports 128 cases in the city this month and 927 in January. Dr. V H Hasek warns of dangerous complications and placards homes for two weeks. Buchanan school sees 110 of 290 absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
V. H. Hasek
Buchanan School
Footprint in Cemetery Tied to Hauptmann Size
Plaster cast from a fresh grave in St. Raymond's cemetery links the footprint to a man wearing shoe size 9 or 9 1/4, the same size Hauptmann is said to wear. The print was found near the site where $50,000 ransom was paid to Lindbergh kidnapper suspect Bruno Hauptmann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flemington
N. J
Thomas H. Sisk
Department of Justice
Sisk
Washington
Reilly
Cummings
Large
John F. Condon
Ralph Hacker
Hauptmann
Condon
Man on relief pays back $55 saved in two years
Chicago report describes John Turcich and his four member family on relief for one month in 1933. After finding work in an electric supply plant he repaid the $55.04 cost of aid in silver and small bills, stating it took two years to save the money and that they are now square.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jealid Glama Lil Bagorsi
Tay
Isaac’ Sacks
New York City
California
Tucson
John Turcich
Chicago
Turcich
Relief Headquarters
Glass charges Roosevelt plan aims to create a central bank
Senator Carter Glass charges the Roosevelt administration is using subterfuge to replace the federal reserve system with a central bank. He says the bill, backed by the Federal Reserve Board, the Comptroller of the Currency, and the FDIC, avoids responsibility by sending the measure to committee chairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Carter Glass
Secretary of Treasury
Federal Reserve System
Glass
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Comptroller’ of Currency
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Roosevelt
House
Senate Banking and Currency
United Press
Senate panel rejects liquor probe resolution in Des Moines
The senate appropriations committee defeated 15 to 14 a joint resolution to probe the liquor control commission. Alesch pushes for separate house inquiry as delay angers lawmakers. $5,000 was trimmed to 3,000 then set unlimited before decision not to report. Pendray and Knudson split from their blocs on the vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Senate Appropriations Committee
Liquor, Control Commission
Senate
Carolyn Pendray
Maquoketa
Knudson
Ellsworth
House
Rep
Alesch
LeMars
Liquor Commission
Karpis Reported Near Lincoln Area
Armed guards were posted around the Virginia Dredging company property six miles northeast of Lincoln after reports that Alvin Karpis, public enemy No. 1, had been seen in the district during a California sighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
Calif
Virginia
Lincoln
Alvin Karpis
Brunos Friend Admits Isidor Needed Money Trial Testimony
In a New Jersey courtroom defense and state witnesses clash over payments linked to the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Gerta Henckel’s testimony shifts from defense to potentially aiding the state as details emerge of Isidor Fisch and money motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruno
Isidor
Gerta
Henckel
Furtier
Flemington
Bruno Richard
Hauptmann
Tyes
Gerta Henckel
Isidor Fisch
Manhattan Island
Ed. Reilly
Fisch
Lindbergh
Flach
Reilly
Satory
Ger Henckel
David T
Wilentz
Charles A. Lindbergh
Germany
Believe More Lindy Ransom Bills Found
REIDS GROVE Md. Postmaster Julian Brinsfield handed over $15 in bills to federal authorities. He said the serial numbers matched Lindbergh ransom notes. He believed the bills came from truck drivers who had received them in New Jersey and New York in marketing produce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reids Grove, Md
Llp
Julian B. Brinsfield
Lindsbergh
Brinsfield
New Jersey
New York
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Ana
United States
America
R. G. Fraker
Dairy Section
Alger Hiss
Senate Munitions Committee
Thomas C. Blaisdell
Emergency Council
Joseph Fort Newton
Whistler
Joseph Choate
Joseph
Choate
Joseph Parker
Elinor Glyn
Charlee
Chaplin
Michael Arlen
W. S. Gilbert
Punch
Disraeli
Senator Borah
Newton
Clinton
Ques
Tioning
Cabbie
Woman Returns
James Dwyer
Dwyer
Helen Straub
Cooper
Iowa Liquor Control Commission
Gazette
King Thompson
Thompson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Organized Labor
R. Roosevelt
the Auto Workers
Hamilton
S. C. Tooker, Jr
Cedar Rapids News
Grace Bryant
Bill
Cedar Rafids News
Yorkville
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