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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1937
Page
4
The column discusses a proposed Alabama senate bill making it a serious crime for political candidates to violate recorded campaign pledges with felonious penalties and possible removal from office. It questions federal enforcement, political chaos, and the impact on governance and elections.
Senator Borah proposes a constitutional rewrite to confine due process to enforcement of state laws and adds a parallel First Amendment protection for states. He suggests repealing and reconstituting the Fourteenth to expand states’ powers while preserving citizen rights.
A 1937 essay argues that calling Hamlet insights dated is a failure to grasp ideas. It condemns fashionable jargon from Marx or Freud and warns readers against modern mind vanity. The piece questions whether later readers truly surpass earlier understanding.
Belle Plaine The farm home of Walter Ruhl one and a half miles north burned about 8 p m Wednesday The blaze started when a rubber shoe was placed in the stove to aid combustion blowing out an upstairs flue The local fire department saved outlying buildings with chemicals and some downstairs furniture though the upstairs was destroyed Insurance covers the loss
The article questions who conceived the lawsuit and why, warning the young clerk may bear the blame unless the court finds otherwise. It notes she faced much counsel before appearing in court and headlines, stressing that the advice did not come from plumbers.
Speaker LaMar Foster ends the struggle over a spring rest period by recessing the Iowa House until Wednesday noon. The move halts immediate homestead tax talk but leaves old age pension and relief funding in flux as the Senate had resisted a five day recess. The constitutional curbs on adjournment without Senate consent are highlighted amid ongoing cross chamber tensions.
In Santa Monica California six hundred sit down strikers evacuated the Douglas Aircraft plant as peace officers prepared to storm the facility with tear gas. National Labor Relations Board director Towne J Nylander appealed to workers prompting most to leave. four hundred surrendered to arrests on warrants for forcible entry and detainer while reinforcements were released.
The Murray manufacturing group, employing 5 000 to 10 000 workers, makes bodies for Ford but is not Ford’s sole supplier. Richard T. Frankenstein, a union organizer, telegrammed Murray president Clarence Avery demanding a wage conference and addressing alleged discrimination against union members, with talks set for next Monday or Tuesday.
Groups of sit downers quit Santa Monica Los Angeles Decatur Philadelphia and 107 other places as Gov Wilbur Cross ordered no sit down strikes in Connecticut. Disputes rose across more than fifty firms idling over 27 000 workers. In Detroit four new strikes hit Swift and Company Bondee Golf Ball Detroit Delivery Service and Mitchell and Smith Inc auto gaskets. About 200 WPA workers camped at Spokane WPA HQ. Night crew protests spread to about 200 members.
Walter H. Rhodes 31 confessed to murdering his wife Mabel 31 with a dynamite loaded shotgun after tricking her to pull the trigger. Trial is scheduled March 15 by District Judge James P. Gaffney. County Attorney plans to seek the death penalty. defense weighs change of venue.
Mrs Florence Orcutt 59 wife of Rev O C Orcutt of Dallas Center Ia suffered serious injuries when her automobile collided with a delivery truck in Rockford. Her husband was not injured.
Riverside California UP coroner Ben F White said lack of powder on clothing indicated Pearson was not shot at close range. He questioned self murder theory as despondent friends noted. Widow irrational, police questioned as inquest postponed. gun had two bullets with one slug entering near the heart and another missing.
The Iowa Senate confirmed George Keller as WPA administrator without debate to replace L. S. Hill. Protests had been raised by Hubert Utterback and Iowa labor groups, but support came from Senator Clyde Herring.
The state board of education approved the resignations of two University of Iowa professors. Harold E. Wessman will join New York University as structural engineering professor, and W W Herrmann will become assistant president in internal medicine at the University of California. The board also noted a $1000 Carnegie grant to graphic and plastic arts and a $300 gift to geology from Fred O. Thompson.
The Senate voted 58 to 24 to extend the life of the reciprocal trade treaty act to 1940, defeating amendments aimed at curbing President Roosevelt’s authority. The measure, already approved by the House, goes to the White House for Roosevelt’s signature.
Myron L. Koenig history and geography instructor at Coe College was named acting dean of men by President Harry M. Gage to replace the late L. Myron Boozer. He will serve the rest of the semester alongside teaching duties. Koenig, formerly of Vinton, joined Coe in 1935 after Grinnell College and the University of Iowa degrees, and is pursuing a PhD thesis while guiding students as dean of men.
A New York woman claiming to be Kathleen Larocca testified in the district attorney’s office leading to an arrest order for Peggy Garcia on bigamy charges. Larocca, who says she married Michael Larocca in 1934, says he told her in 1936 he married Peggy and would support their three children.
In FUENFKIRCHEN Hungary twenty one striking miners escaped a dank pit where they had been kept by strike leaders who vowed to die rather than concede to wage increase demands. Relatives awaited news as the group fled Thursday night.
After hours underground the miners remained resolute. A socialist spokesman urged a delegation to negotiate with the owners, but the strikers declared they would die rather than surrender if all demands were not met. The mine director later contacted them by phone, but they said they would only talk if all demands were granted.
The Iowa Board of Assessment and Review ruled that about 4000 federal employees from ten agencies are exempt from the state income tax while about 2000 workers from ten other agencies must pay. Exemptions apply to agencies including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Works Progress Administration, while subjects include the Federal Land Bank and the Federal Housing Administration with U.S. army officers exempt.
A twenty inch eight pound fish arrived with the trawler Plymouth in Boston. The creature was a golden haddock, a rare albino variety of fish, nicknamed the "daddy of all goldfish."
Merle Vandenbush known as public rat No 1 was arrested in Katonah New York as he fled in a coupe after an alleged bank robbery of 20 dollars. Two other men accused of holding up the Northern Wastechester bank were arrested with him. Vandenbush dyed his hair to disguise himself. Sheriff George Casey identified him as sought by federal agents linked to a prior kidnapping case involving William Turnbull.
Police say three men tied to a Katonah bank robbery were captured after a confrontation with officers near a police booth. The suspects, initially claiming different identities, were charged with first degree robbery and assault as part of a three-man operation aided by a fourth in a waiting car.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace called government sponsored crop insurance an exceedingly significant part of a broader program to bring greater economic stability for farmers and consumers. He testified before a Senate agriculture subcommittee weighing the administration bill. He said the plan would place farmers on equal footing with other industry groups amid weather driven crop variability. He warned of injustice to both farmers and consumers if stability is not pursued.
The Indiana General Assembly House approved a pari mutuel betting bill on all races by a 51 to 46 vote. The measure moves to the Senate for further consideration.
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