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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1938
Page
10
A story of twelve conferees carving a voting pool to pass a revised farm bill. They altered the Boileau amendment and added subsidies for cotton and a wheat crop insurance provision, plus a higher corn loan trigger, creating a strong bloc of cotton, wheat, corn, and tobacco votes.
A survey found 43 percent of the public is prejudiced against bankers. Nearly 1,000 bankers from ten states attend the American Bankers Association regional conference in Des Moines, with a first- of-its-kind depositors forum planned to boost openness.
AMES AP The Iowa Beef Producers association Thursday reelected Wayland Hopley of Atlantic Ia president. Also reelected were Earl Elijah of Clarence Ia vice president and R F O'Donnell Ames secretary treasurer.
Julius Richard Dixie Davis the Kid Mouthpiece for Arthur Dutch Schultz Flegenheimer announced he would waive extradition and return voluntarily to New York. He faces trial related to a $100,000,000 lottery racket. his attorney said the move was voluntary.
Governor Kraschel moved to publish notice that Warren Vandervoort 30 may receive clemency via commutation to a term of years for killing his father, a Methodist minister, in Parkersburg Iowa in 1927. Parole board favored leniency though the case drew clergy support and debate.
In Ottawa Illinois a surgeon said twelve women poisoned by Radium Dial Co metals are certain to die as the judge heard testimony. Mrs Catherine Donohue fainted as Dr Walter Dalitsch testified the disease is fatal. The women seek compensation but old Illinois law barred suits. a 1936 reform allows progress.
Hartford report says 70 year old Hen rietta W Pieper and 22 year old John J Lorencik’s planned marriage collapsed after relatives urged against it. Pieper said she was convinced to cancel. Lorencik left for farm duties and had planned news reel contracts.
Ames Researcher B H Thomas reports five year goat study showing a vitamin E free diet does not affect reproduction in goats. He notes larger animals may synthesize the vitamin or need it less, contradicting the belief vitamin E is essential for mammalian reproduction. A human application comment was deferred.
The senate judiciary subcommittee rejected Sen. Ed Burke's bid for a nationwide probe into the National Labor Relations Board citing NLRB Chairman J Warren Madden's plea. Burke argued maladministration union discrimination increased strikes and press freedom concerns. He acknowledged defeat and joined the panel in laying the measure aside.
Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West plans to resign and join a new federal mortgage agency created by the RFC. The $11 million unit aims to back first mortgages insured by the FHA and issue up to $200 million in debentures to spur housing. West is expected to submit his resignation next week and may take a high post in the new agency.
The Chicago board of trade announced new regulations for lard delivery contracts effective October 1, 1938. The rule, titled 1479-a-dating, specifies that lard produced January 1 to September 30 will be deliverable on regular contracts through the last business day of January following year, while lard produced October 1 to December 31 will be deliverable through the last business day of December following year.
Joella Reynolds, age 3 of Sayre, Oklahoma, died in Clinton after living nearly a month with her heart partly exposed following surgery for pericarditis. The operation occurred January 17.
A dense timetable lists NBC WEAF WJZ CBS WABC CBS programs by hour. Includes orchestras, singers, dramas, lectures, and multiple regional network chains with names like Arthur Godfrey, Frank Crumit, Henry T. Ginsberg, and Dizzy details of stations and times.
Bloomington Illinois Up report says Dean William Wallis of Illinois Wesleyan University censured the Alton railroad for naming a passenger train the Ann Rutledge. He called the name in wretched taste and said it insults Mrs Lincoln and should have honored Mary Todd instead.
The Iowa supreme court heard an appeal by the state from a Polk county ruling ordering Comptroller C. B. Murtagh to pay Ed ward L. O'Connor 2166.84 in back salary for a 26 month period ending May 1935. Attorney Charles Wilson argued lack of jurisdiction and urged legislative remedy. OConnor claimed demand was made May 17 1935 and asserted the comptroller must pay the back salary under the statutory framework.
Patricia Douglas, a 20 year old film extra, filed a half million dollar damage suit against Roach Studios executives in Los Angeles. The case, dismissed in state court, was moved to federal court and names Hal E Roach, Edward Mannix, David Ross and Vincent Coniff among others.
Mild weather prompts readers to check coal supplies and order coal from Want Ad section advertisements. The notice emphasizes acting now to avoid shortages as colder weather looms.
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