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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 09, 1937

Page

2

Wallace Wins Support for Granary Plan

Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace gained backing from national farm leaders and Congress for an ever normal granary and a plan to store excess grain with federal loans. Support varied on production control as constitutional questions loom.

Washington Henry A. Wallace National Farm Organization Wallace Supreme Court AAA L. J. Taber National Grange Taber Congress William Hirth Missouri Farmers Association Hirth E. D. Smith S. C Senate Agriculture Committee Senate Marvin Jones Tex House Agriculture Committee

Coat of Arms and Farm Policy Puzzles Linked

The article presents a puzzle list with terms and clues related to coats of arms and vocabulary. It then outlines farm policy goals and proposals by Wallace advocating production controls, price stability, farm credit, crop insurance, storage, and foreign markets, with tentative production level figures and a call for producer and consumer input.

Marmola Tablets Promote Easy Weight Loss Claim

An advertisement urges readers to slim down by eating sensibly and taking four Marmola Prescription Tablets daily until fat loss is achieved. It claims the tablets contain the same element doctors use to treat fat patients and asserts millions use them successfully.

Secretary Wallace Sketches Hypothetical Wheat Plan

Washington in a hypothetical example of the normal granary plan Secretary Wallace describes a normal wheat supply of 825 million bushels for one year. If the crop plus carryover exceeds 825 million, the government would loan producers on their wheat. In the next year if supply rises above 925 million, conditional payments would be offered to encourage farmers to store fertility in the ground.

Washington Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace

Iowa House Backs Tax on Public Bonds Amid Debate

The Iowa House approved four measures including a tax on new public bond issues after July 1 1937. Rep. Charles G Johnson argued it would not raise interest rates while opponents called it risky. The 64 to 37 vote prompted debate as other bills passed on drainage district refinancing school texts contest costs for county offices public records and state agricultural statistics.

Des Moines Iowa House Iowa Charles G. Johnson Marathon Johnson House Dean W. Peisen Eldora Roy J. Souis Charles City Senate HOLC Division of Agricultural Statistics State Agricultural Department U.S.D.A Story County

Deaths Isaac M Dripps 72 Cedar Rapids native dies in Hibbing Minn

Isaac M Dripps 72 former Cedar Rapids resident dies at home in Hibbing Minnesota Sunday night from complications and the flu. He is survived by his wife Belle five brothers Marvin Morris Minnesota William Anamosa Stanley Hibbing Clayton Olin Earl Cedar Rapids and sister Birdie Reynolds Los Angeles California.

Isaac M. Dripps Cedar Rapids Hibbing Minn Belle Marvin Morris, Minn William Anamosa Stanley Clayton of Olin Earl Birdie Reynolds Los Angeles Calif

Compromise measures debated over court reform plan

President presses judicial reform citing a landslide win and 50 proposed judgeships while liberals led by Norris Borah Wheeler Johnson oppose the method to reform the Supreme Court. Interior Undersecretary West and James Roosevelt meet Congress as talks continue.

Interior Charles West Congress Capitol James Roosevelt Supreme Court Circuit Court of Appeal Senate George W. Norris Nebraska

Nab Former Anamosa Convicts As Members Of Iowa Theft Ring

An Iowa theft gang linked to Porter was tracked to Missouri Valley where he stayed and arrested Saturday. Oscar Perrigo of Cedar Rapids, 32, jailed January 27 for suspended sentence violation, awaits action. Avis St Germaine of Marion, 22, arrested January 28 on vagrancy charges and given six months suspended jail term. The gang formed after Cassidy and Dickinson left Anamosa reformatory in December. Cedar Rapids police aided by Sheriff Eichorn in locating the gang, with state radio broadcasts.

Missouri Valley Porter Oscar Perrigo Cedar Rapids Avis St. Germaine Marion H. C. Ring Cassidy Dickinson Anamosa Pottawattamie Eichorn

Mistrial Declared In $100000 Suit Against Rubinoff

Peggy Garcia filed a breach of promise suit against violinist Dave Rubinoff for 100000. The case ended in a mistrial after attorney Halpern suggested proof would show why a new breach of promise law was enacted. Judge Cotillo denied the motion but ordered a fresh jury for a new trial.

New York Peggy Garcia Dave Rubinoff Supreme Court A. J. Halpern Rubinoff B. H. Sandler S. A. Cotillo Sandler Jurge

Parents Of Baby Bride Face Conspiracy Charge

In Watertown New York a mother linked to a 12 year old girl once alleged to be 18 on a birth certificate was charged with conspiracy to falsify the age. Also charged were the girl's father Joseph J. Roshin Sr and the girl's husband Stanley S. Backus. Backus pled not guilty and was released to an attorney. The mother faces arraignment.

Watertown N. Y Joseph J. Roshin Stanley S. Backus Backus Claude H. Dunk

Gillette Denies Plan To Shift Farm Powers

Senator Guy Gillette of Iowa denies a bill he introduced would strip Secretary Henry Wallace of powers and transfer them to the Farm Credit Administration. He says the FCA would remain under the agriculture department and his plan broadens efforts on soil erosion grain reserve surplus disposal and nationwide land use surveys.

Washington, D. C Guy Gillette Iowa U. S Senate Agriculture Henry Wallace Farm Credit Administration Wallace Gillette FCA Agriculture Department Department of Agriculture House of Representatives Maury Maverick Texas Clarence Cannon Missouri

Rebels Take Madrid Port City in Swift Victory

Spanish rebels isolated Madrid and seized a southern coast seaport with little resistance. Fascist crowds cheered as banners waved, and even vanquished socialists joined the celebration to blend in. US observer Norton reported in Malaga as authorities cleared surplus population and transformed the city into a military camp with air squadrons at the airport.

Arriba Espana Spain United States Norton Malaga

Principal Jabbed Him With Needle

Lynn Massachusetts AP The Lynn school committee faced a 12 year old pupil's charge that Principal Walter I Piper jabbed him six times with a needle as punishment. The pupil Amanda Gallo claimed another boy told her of the incidents and that Piper ordered a similar punishment for him.

Lynn Mass Walter I. Piper Piper Amanda Gallo Gallo S. Louis Earle Olive C. Pinkham

Fireman Killed As Passenger Train Sideswipes Freight

The Rock Island The Californian passenger train struck a freight train at Logan New Mexico twenty five miles east of Tucumcari early Tuesday killing fireman Ed Sutton 40 of Dalhart Texas and injuring engineer John Hulmind All passengers escaped injury and the locomotive mail and baggage cars were derailed

Tucumcari N. M INS Rock Island Railroad Los Angeles Californian Logan Here Ed Sutton Dalhart Tex John Hulmind

Elaine Barrymore Ends Stage Career After Play Closes

Elaine Jacobs Barrie Barrymore ends her stage career as the six day run of The Return of Hannibal closes in San Francisco. The interruption follows her romance with John Barrymore and a marriage she says was affected by that relationship.

Elaine Barrymore San Francisco Elaine Jacobs Barrie Barrymore Hollywood John Barrymore Hannibal Johns

Dark Eyed Miss Barrie Drops East Opening

The management said the show closed after a short San Francisco appearance to allow cast changes and script polishing before New York. The eastern opening will reportedly proceed without Barrie, even by marriage, affecting the cast.

Miss Barrie San Francisco New York East

Goat eats license and tag cited by bus driver

Milford Lehman from Lycoming county says his goat ate his operator's license and a bus inspection tag. He asked the state to duplicate the license and issue a new inspection tag as well.

Williamsport Milford Lehman Lycoming County

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