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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1937
Page
1
Editorial urges sustained support for social security and critiques Iowa’s early unemployment compensation setup. It notes Governor Kraschel's push for a full time three member board at 4500 dollars annually, arguing the role demands full time work and qualified leadership.
The nude, mutilated body of two year old Eugenio Pereyra Iraola was found in a pigsty a mile from La Sorpresa ranch. Police linked the case to the Gordillo gang while probing ransom and abduction leads amid widespread search efforts and a note of mystery.
The Senate and House clashed over a state wage bill with the House setting board member salaries at 3000 dollars and employee limits at 2400 dollars. The Senate refused those limits, and pressure from the governor's office warned lawmakers they risked jeopardizing the security program if the 3000 dollar board member salary stood.
The governor insisted on well qualified citizens and argued for higher pay than 3000 dollars a year. The house withdrew wage amendments on Friday, and Kraschel sent his appointee list to the senate. The bill authorizing salaries had not yet reached him, so the list was sent informally for formal resubmission on Saturday. The senate is expected to confirm by Monday.
The article names Walter F. Scholes of Council Bluffs as two year appointee representing employers, Col. Claude M. Stanley of Corning as four year appointee representing employers, and Peter J. Kies of Dubuque as four year appointee representing the public.
A former state senator Col. 4 Stanley is described as well-to-do and highly capable though slated to represent employers. Kies, a long-time county auditor and recorder, is praised for loyalty to the party. Scholes, a skilled boilermaker and president of the Council Bluffs Central Labor Union, shows leadership potential. all three may prove strong as commissioners.
The passage suggests Dubuque county may pay its auditor $4,500 annually and that Mr. Scholes could earn $4,500 from his railroad job. It adds Col. Stanley may understand a $4,500 income, though the tone remains cautious about these figures.
The speaker questions why board members refused lower pay and warns that similar appointment practices for inspectors and auditors could damage Iowa's unemployment compensation program and state administration.
The writer shares a four year reader perspective praising and critiquing articles, urging plain sense over thrills. He muses on life’s cycle from youth to old age, the futility of grand plans, and the need to do good daily while trusting in simple religion and quiet confidence.
A Friday fire at Troy Mills destroyed the school gymnasium and the Harlan Cook home next door. Losses totaled about 5000 dollars with 3000 for the gym and 2000 for the house, both insured. Firefighters from Quasqueton and Center Point could not control the blaze. the board will meet Saturday to plan future school needs.
Grey skies brought frequent snow flurries over Cedar Rapids on Saturday and kept temperatures from rising. The day peaked at 27 degrees at 1 30 p m after a low of 18 at 7 a m Friday. Previous highs reached 25 with 21 and 20 later in the day.
Washington expected the Supreme Court to respond to a new law allowing voluntary retirement at seventy with full pay. Critics including Senator Donahey urged consulting the people, while administration hopefuls expect retirees to shift court decisions. Rumors say two justices over 70 might retire. opponents vow to beware. Hearings on reforms were postponed after Roosevelt announced a radio address planned for March 9.
Hollywood star Mary Pickford will depart for London tonight, likely to wed orchestra leader Charles Rogers. She sails from New York on the Berengaria and plans a continental stay before a probable England wedding and return on the Bremen.
Pittsburgh AP reports anticipation of a wage rise in the steel industry as Carnegie-Illinois Steel weighs demands from 50,000 workers for 10 cents an hour extra pay, an 8 hour weekly reduction, seniority rights, and time and a half overtime. If granted two thirds of the requests, pay would rise about 71 cents per hour, matching a prior raise.
Wilbur Glass twenty six of 155 Sixteenth Avenue Southwest suffered multiple injuries including lacerations to the hip and behind the left ear and a bruised face while working at the Iowa Electric Light and Power plant. He was caught between a belt and pulley as coal moved from the dump to a bucket conveyor and is confined at St Luke's hospital.
Dr Francis E Townsend asked a federal court for a new trial on contempt of the house charge after his Wednesday conviction. He argues Judge Peyton Gordon erred by not allowing his reasons for walking out of a house committee inquiry into old age pensions.
Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 65, a key figure with Wayne B. Wheeler in Prohibition era politics, remained in critical condition after a Friday cerebral hemorrhage. Retired last year as general secretary of the Methodist Board of Prohibition Temperance and Public Morals, Wilson helped shape temperance sentiment and national prohibition and later opposed repeal during the New Deal era.
Two CIO organizers J R Weber and Melvin S Pitzele were arrested in Lake County jailed in Waukegan for conspiring to defy a Feb. 18 injunction order against Fansteel Metallurgical sitdown actions. Meyer Adelman remained at large amid efforts to halt the clash with deputies during the Fansteel plant dispute.
Tensions rise as sitdown strike methods draw opposition from state officials and factory owners. Arrests and evictions signal a crackdown while governors Horner Cross and Hoffman condemn sitdowns in their states. Homer Martin comments on Ford Plant union drive.
A Danforth Michigan blaze at the Nels Johnson farm home killed six people Mrs Johnson and her children Robert Arthur Roy Ruth and granddaughter Barbara Williams. Roy Johnson woke to the heat and roused his sister Evelyn as Barbara could not be saved. They leaped from a window to escape.
In recess, a Senate agriculture subcommittee continued hearings on a crop insurance bill. The Senate passed and sent to the White House a bill permitting retirement of Supreme Court justices at age 70. The Senate also took up Pittman neutrality bill.
President Roosevelt writes to forty eight governors urging nationwide soil conservation to prevent erosion. He cites federal programs begun in 1935 and recommends adoption of the standard state soil conservation districts law to organize districts and regulate land use for erosion control.
Police guarded Alexander Meyer inside Chester county jail after he confessed to running down 16 year old Helen Meyer and throwing her body into a well. About thirty officers stood watch as an angry crowd of steel workers gathered near the jail and shouted for his release. An intoxicated man was arrested for disorderly conduct.
Two U S Army Reserve pilots were killed when their low wing monoplane crashed near municipal airport. The victims were Second Lieutenants John Pen Berwyn and Clyde H Wood of Chicago. Cause undetermined though loss of flying speed during approach is suspected.
A blaze ripped through the upscale S. I. and G. Gump Co store in downtown San Francisco on Friday destroying rare paintings and etchings valued at about 200000 dollars. Investigators surveyed the scene for causes as the firm’s inventory and customer displays were lost.
President Roosevelt called on the 48 states to join a federal soil conservation act to curb floods dust storms and drought via land-use regulations. The plan outlines soil conservation districts created by referenda with state and federal funding, penalties for noncompliance, and boards elected by land occupiers to oversee terraces check-dams and approved cropping practices.
Gov. Kraschel announced he will present a broad program of land use regulations to curb soil erosion to the Iowa legislature. He aims to model it on Roosevelt’s proposals and will act after receiving the President’s official copy, with intent to have the measure enacted by the forty-eight state legislatures.
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