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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1937
Page
4
John L. Lewis supervises a bedside settlement in Detroit with GM attorney John T. Smith as the strike for recognition of the United Auto Workers nears a six month truce. GM agrees a five cent pay raise and exclusive UAW bargaining in 20 plants. Green of the AFL faces a power struggle with Lewis as the broader labor fight shifts to control of GM workers.
A German military Junkers plane plunged through a blizzard into a crowded Berlin market injuring and killing several, including a trolley conductor. Fire and panicked crowds followed as ambulances evacuated victims near Muellerstrasse and Zee strasse in Nordpark. Adolf Hitler was en route by train.
Sit-down strikers in General Motors plants at Flint will be evacuated between 5 and 6 p.m. today as union and GM reach a compromise on union recognition and bargaining with the United Automobile Workers. The agreement ends the 44 day strike and resumes production coast to coast with the union gaining six months of bargaining priority and a five cent hourly pay raise at 69 GM plants starting Feb. 15. The pact followed mediation by Gov. Frank Murphy and comes after President Roosevelt’s involvement and a lengthy conference in Detroit and Flint.
A sheriff asks federal aid to curb night riding and violent flogging of victims while threats via the mail target potential prayer subjects. The piece questions whether urging reform turns Uncle Sam into a pray-er of peril as the elderly man in the tale faces blame at home.
A columnist argues that blaming the government system for U S greatness ignores people’s role and warns that critics are labeled reactionary. The piece laments reduction of powers into a single federal authority feared to control legislative judicial and executive branches.
The piece critiques newspapers and individuals reacting to the Presidents push for Supreme Court control. It quotes Jay Franklin arguing that rapid world change renders old experience less useful, suggesting Washington scorns experience as a teacher and clarifying the issue.
An Ohio legislature member pushes a bill to create a state fund allowing new couples to borrow up to 1500 dollars to begin housekeeping. Critics warn of large future appropriations and government paternalism while noting public spending grows beyond prudent purposes. The piece contrasts such measures with tax-driven financing.
Red Cross plans months of rehabilitation work for families affected by Ohio and Mississippi river floods. Linn County has raised 21138.21 dollars as of Thursday with donations from Boise visitor Mrs. Marjorie P. Young and groups such as Center Point Robins Sokol gymnastic association Alpha Gamma Delta Kenwood Presbyterian Lodge Prokop Velky Z C B J Lerner shop Mission Society.
The passage hints that Iowa legislators, faced with a few cases of growing needs, may be asked to expand duties into marriage matchmaking. Officials appear puzzled by the proposal and its potential implications.
A reader questions guilt from charitable work with wayward girls. Dr Newton argues motives matter, not origins, citing Aldous Huxley on St Francis and framing instinct as motor with end goal. The reader is urged to resume noble service guided by God-given instinct. Copyright 1937.
The Senate approved a bill creating a disaster loan corporation with twenty million dollars for flood area rehabilitation loans. It would authorize liberal terms for loans to individuals and send the measure to the House for action.
Ruth Kimmel, a United Airlines stewardess from Morrill Kansas, and William Scott a reservation clerk at the airport had been secretly engaged for several months and planned to marry soon. The couple met in Lincoln Nebraska where she trained as a nurse and he worked at the airport.
News of settlement ending the GM strike boosted markets in London. General Motors rose four dollars from the prior close, U S Steel touched 110 percent, up four points, and rubber shares gained from three to six pence.
General Motors common stock opened 10 000 shares at 70 dollars, up two percent on the New York Stock Exchange. The initial block valued at 700 000 appeared on the tape 17 minutes after the opening gong.
Autopsy on pilot A R Thompson reveals drowning as the likely cause of death for the San Francisco bay airliner crash victims. Four groups investigate possible engine or pilot failure while seven bodies remain missing from the wreck three miles offshore.
The Cedar Rapids area saw temperatures climb through the day, reaching 35 at 2:30 p.m. Thursday after a low around 10 above zero at 7 a.m. The day featured a peak near 17 at 5 p.m., dipping to 14 at 7 p.m., then returning to 16 by midnight, per Chambers Inskeep readings.
In Rockford Illinois Laura Bryan pleaded guilty to adultery after revealing a wife swapping scheme with Homer Smith from Canajoharie New York. Smith admitted abandoning his wife and six children in Fonda New York and received a suspended sentence and support obligations.
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor condemns the agreement between John L. Lewis and United Automobile Workers with General Motors as a defeat for workers. He warns intra-labor divisions harm the union and stresses unity and solidarity to strengthen labor across the United States and Canada.
Federal agents and local detectives arrested Sam Plamens, 48, of 216 Fourth Street SE, Wednesday at 9 44 p m on a charge of violation of section 3 of the Iowa liquor control act. Plamens allegedly sold a quart bottle of Iowa liquor store whisky to an agent for two dollars fifty cents. Another bottle one third full was seized at the coffee shop where Plamens is proprietor.
A Capitol clash erupts as Congress debates Roosevelt’s proposal to expand the Supreme Court. Democrats split, Rep Harlan defends, Rep Bell calls for delay, judiciary hearing cancelled amid broad denunciations of CIO leader John L. Lewis and protests by Rep O’Connor. Senate leader McNary weighs Republican stance.
Iowa members of the House vote on the Sumners retirement bill shows Democrats Biermann Eicher Harrington Wearin voting for and Republicans Gilchrist Thurston Gwynne voting for while Democrats Jacobsen opposed. The record notes party lines and the roll call partial.
A private canvass suggests 40 to 43 senators oppose the President’s plan. He warned that if the tide continues, the President will be swamped.
President Roosevelt remains adamant against any compromise in his judiciary plan as Congress debates a voluntary retirement bill. He met with a new group of senators including judiciary committee members to discuss the program. Senator Ashurst signaled approval of the house retirement bill. Senator Andrews proposed a 72 retirement age as an apparent substitute.
In observance of Lincoln's birthday Cedar Rapids will close banks the Linn county courthouse and the city hall Friday. Lincoln's birth anniversary is a legal Iowa holiday.
Moscow reports that Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff is confined to his room by influenza after doctors ordered rest. The move limits his public engagements as he recovers in the capital.
Detroit dispatch reports the General Motors and United Automobile Workers union reached a peace agreement. Key points state recognition of the union as the bargaining agent, noninterference with union membership, and a plan to begin collective bargaining February 16 to settle disputed issues. The union will terminate the strike and evacuate occupied plants, with idle plants to be continued.
Detroit AP reports the peace terms include GM recognizing the union as the bargaining representative and agreeing to start negotiations February 16 over issues in a January 4 letter. The union will end the strike and evacuate plants while GM plans to resume operations quickly and workers return without discrimination.
Secretary of War and Mrs. Harry Woodring are proud parents of a seven pound boy named Cooper Coolidge Woodring. The child was born late Wednesday and named after Mrs. Woodring’s former Sen. Marcus Coolidge.
Mrs Hannah Williams Dempsey wife of boxing great Jack Dempsey underwent an appendectomy Wednesday at St Francis hospital Miami Beach. Dr H D Adkins who performed the operation gave the report and said she is resting comfortably.
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