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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1938
Page
1
The piece surveys the Roosevelt administration's battles over court control, praising resistance to court packing and noting Justice Sutherland's resignation as a watershed. It discusses funds flowing from Washington to Iowa projects and hints at upcoming elections while warning against intellectual immorality in politics.
President Roosevelt prepared to urge Congress to approve a vast peacetime naval buildup surpassing World War I figures. The plan calls for a new five year expansion replacing Vinson Trammell, creation of an Atlantic fleet, five 35000 ton battleships, two aircraft carriers, multiple fast light cruisers, and overall defense spending near 1.2 billion dollars. Two 35000 ton battleships are already under construction along with about 70 other warships.
Waldo C. Long, 26, of 2020 Third Street SW, changed pleas from not guilty to guilty on a reckless driving charge in police court. He was fined $25 and costs, suspended on payment of costs, after an accident at First Avenue and Third Street E involving his truck and Mrs. Guy E. Curran’s car. Curran, driving north, stopped for a signal. Long, also northbound, tried to pass and cut in front, causing front-end damage. Long was ordered to appear. City Attorney Starry Johnson sought clemency noting Long is married with four children.
A U S Navy VP seven bomber vanished Wednesday afternoon off the southern California coast. Search by surface ships and aircraft from the Navy and Coast Guard expands. Capt Alva Bernhard and Rear Admiral Ernest King declined to identify the seven crew.
Prince Michael of Roumania, 16, faced a dangerous sea voyage from a torpedo boat bound for Athens. A heavy storm damaged the vessel and an SOS was sent after hours of tossing by furious waves. He returned home unharmed aside from seasickness.
Revelations of huge graft and bribery in collecting the state's 3 percent sales tax from Chicago merchants were reported as state finance director 5 i. Nudelman hurried to Chicago. The inquiry had been four months in progress after he disclosed suspicions to Gov. Henry Horner.
The Iowa Wallace for President club formed Wednesday at the YMCA after the Cedar Rapids Production Credit meeting. Twenty charter members including Welcom W. Reams and farmers from Linn Benton and nearby counties signed on to back Henry A Wallace in 1940.
Co. M. Robert Guggenheim son of the late Daniel Guggenheim copper king and Mrs Rebecca Pollard van Lennep were married in Miami Beach Florida on Thursday.
The NLRB asks the Covington federal appeals court to compel Ford to comply with its ruling reinstating 29 workers and halting certain practices. Ford vows to challenge the Wagner Act as unconstitutional, signaling a nationwide labor dispute with broad legal implications.
Sylvia Kingsley, writer, files in federal court against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and writers Guy Bolton and William Anthony McGuire. She claims the motion picture Rosalie was pirated from her original musical comedy, seeks 100000 dollars in damages, profits accounting, and an injunction against further showings.
A 1938 dispatch notes Democrats plan a Jackson Day dinner with 1000 prominent members, broadcasting speeches as food spoils. The piece mocks the event as a talk show from soup to nuts, criticizing the Democratic speakers and timing.
A 1938 guide argues nervous breakdown stems from threatened self esteem. A top student fails to outgrow peers, breaks down, showing pride and vanity as underlying causes. Cure lies in living for something enduring, often tied to religion, beyond fleeting vanities.
The national labor relations board announced that legal limits on the right to strike would be unconstitutional. It argued the Wagner act aims to eliminate strike causes and promote peaceful dispute resolution, amid calls to amend the act and tensions between labor groups.
SAN FRANCISCO AP The San Francisco Examiner said Thursday agents of the Duke of Windsor have been negotiating to lease the 50 acre San Francisco peninsula estate of Leon F. Douglass, noted inventor.
The House Judiciary Committee urged President Roosevelt to nominate Rep. Sumners to replace Justice George Sutherland who will retire January 18. Senators expect a liberal majority on the court and will demand careful scrutiny of any nominee. Reed heads speculative list alongside Minton Schwellenbach Bratton and others.
Washington AP reports the communications commission is studying newspaper ownership of radio stations. Representative Wigglesworth asked for a report during 1939 appropriations hearings. Commissioner Craven said no report now but data may come later.
A coroner's jury in Chicago urged a grand jury to indict Harold L. Patterson Jr., 21, for manslaughter in the death of Ralph W. Thompson, 31, editor of the National Safety Council magazine. Patterson admitted a scuffle at the scene and said he learned of Thompson's death only after reading about it.
Washington demands immediate information on the fate and location of Mrs Ruth Marie Rubens while Moscow notes a Soviet arrest of Mr and Mrs Adolph Rubens misidentified as Mr and Mrs Donald Robinson. Soviet officials refuse to disclose charges or exact whereabouts despite U S consular inquiry.
Joseph B. Davies, former American ambassador to Soviet Russia, will not return to Moscow. He will be reassigned as ambassador to Belgium in Brussels. Davies is on leave in the United States. Hugh Gibson, nearing retirement, will succeed him in Belgium and return to duty in the state department.
Light morning snow left a thin powder across Cedar Rapids with a sharp breeze and cooler temperatures. The temperature rose from 11 at 8 30 am to 16 by 2 45 pm, with highs around 33 and a low of 20 by midnight as recorded by Chambers Inskeep Company.
Stuart A Rice, chairman of the central statistical board and a lead figure in the unemployment census, told a House subcommittee that the results lacked reliability. He argued the count was a registration, not a census, and that voluntary registration would not yield accurate figures despite theEfforts of the organization led by John W Biggers.
A House tax subcommittee approved a plan to modify the undistributed profits levy while retaining current rates for about 500 to 1,000 closely held corporations. Chairman Vinson said these firms will see a small tax cut but their effective rate remains near their current combined corporate income and undistributed profits tax. About 200,000 corporations have taxable income, with roughly 199,000 set to gain from the reform.
GM president William S. Knudsen told the Senate unemployment committee that stabilizing production through industrial conferences may not curb downturns. He argued that controlling sales, not production, is needed and cited GM layoffs of 30,000 workers in December. He later met Roosevelt to discuss the automobile outlook.
New Jersey court of pardons refused to grant a pardon to John Hughes Curtis a Norfolk Virginia boatbuilder convicted of obstructing justice in the Lindbergh kidnapping case. Curtis was fined $1000 after confessing his assertions that he could reach the actual kidnappers were untrue.
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