Anniversary Reflections On The Gazette And A Reporter
In January 1914 The Gazette welcomed a young reporter from Minneapolis, the staffer Jim Hruska among others, as the city of Cedar Rapids is described as a City With A Soul. The piece recalls a family debt and a father’s death shaping a journalist’s early career and the paper’s long history through war and change.
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Gazette News
Minneapolis
West Side
Jim Hruska
Jim
Iowa
Europe
Sarajevo
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Population and City Hall History Snapshot
The 1914 Cedar Rapids population stood near 40 000, rising to about 65 000 in directory estimates. Mayors and council members named include Louis Roth and Louis Zika with Pink Storey as clerk. The piece recalls city hall reporters, World War I era travels, and Cedar Rapids newspaper rivalries led by Cyrenus Cole and The Gazette.
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Mike Ford
Cedar Rapids
Louis Roth
Louis Zika
Allan McDuff
Jim Hughes
Fred Lazell
Will Chamberlain
Dave Beardsley
Pink Storey
Jim Carl
Burton Robbins
Maude Krebs
W. E. Vane
Hughes
McDuff
Zika
Minneapolis
The
Gazette
Plan for Sale of Securities by Independent Agencies
Washington (Ins) plans approved by President Roosevelt allow independent government agencies to issue and sell their own securities to investors without drawing on the treasury. The move aims to raise funds for activities while keeping the national debt and budget impact minimal, with guarantees by the government.
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Washington
INS
Treasury
Roosevelt
Congress
United States Housing Authority
Wvith
Wagner
N. Y
The
Commodity Credit Corporation
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Farm Credit Administration
Home Owners Loan Bank Board
Brazilian Foreign Minister To Visit U S For Parleys
Brazilian Foreign Minister Oswald Aranha will travel to Washington early next month as a guest of the United States government. He is to meet President Roosevelt and key officials to discuss monetary and economic ties between the two nations as part of strengthening inter-American cooperation.
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Washington
INS
Oswald Aranha
United States
State Department
Roosevelt
Hull
Treasury
Morgenthau
Germany
Getulio Vargas
Aranha
Mr. Roosevelt
Last Words Heard On Radio From Ill-Fated Pilot
Mrs. C. B. Chamberlain listened as the Northwest Airlines pilot radioed Dispatcher then vanished. The Miles City Mont crash Friday night killed four people, leaving the wife certain something had happened after the call.
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Northwest Airlines
Miles City
Mont
St. Paul
Seattle
Minneapolis
C. B. Chamberlain
Fleet gathers for greatest U S Navy maneuvers
The Pacific and Atlantic battle fleets converge on Panama Canal for mass naval drills testing defense of the canal and the southern coast. About 160 surface ships and numerous aircraft and submarines participate under Admiral Claude C. Bloch with the flagship Pennsylvania.
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Panama Canal
Balboa
Pacific
Cristobal
Atlantic
Canal
Claude C. Bloch
Bloch
Pennsylvania
Detroit
Lexington
Ranger
New York
Motorman Stabbed After Evicting Passenger in Des Moines
Des Moines AP reports L. R. Stoker a 50 year old motorman was hospitalised in critical condition after a passenger allegedly a young Negro refused to depart the street car. Detectives arrested Cletus Warrick 24 in connection with the attack after tracing footprints from the crime scene to a north Des Moines residence. Stoker suffered stab wound to the back a facial slash and head injuries.
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DES Moines
L. R. Stoker
Robert E. O’brien
Stoker
Cletus Warrick
O’brien
Warrick
Johnson Urges Armed Defense Backing for Roosevelt Plan
Louis Johnson, assistant secretary of war, warned Washington listeners there is a real danger of a globe spanning conflict. He argued reinforced defenses are needed to protect American rights and deter aggression, citing German World War records to show prior misjudgments of U.S. strength.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Louis Johnson
Johnson
National Sojourners
American Legion
War Department
Germany
United States
Weather Outlook for Jan 16 21 in Midwest Valleys
Weekly forecast for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys calls for temperatures mostly below normal early in the week, warming toward the middle, with little precipitation until later. Snow likely in the far north and snow or rain in the south as the period ends.
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Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Mrs Garner Rejects Promotion Talk in Washington
Mrs John Nance Garner, wife and aide to Vice President Garner, dismisses questions about moving from Second Lady to First Lady. She stresses independence, notes she would return to Texas if the Garners leave Washington, and highlights her role as a government paid working woman and chief secretary to her husband. Washington views the Garner partnership as the real power behind the vice presidency.
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Washington
John Nance Garner
Ettie Rheiner Garner
United States
Texas
Garners
White House
Uvalde
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Garner
Congress
Capitol Hill
Roosevelt
Eastern firm not abiding plane export policy named exception
The U S department said United Aircraft of East Hartford Conn is the sole outstanding exception to a six month old policy barring American aircraft from aiding nations bombing civilians It issued a December license for 600 propeller blade forgings worth 102000 to Japan The policy was reinforced by Hulls July 1 letter condemning civilian population bombing and the department noted no arms embargo applies to Japan
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Washington
State Department
United Aircraft Corporation
East Hartford
Conn
Department
Japan
Hull
National Munitions Control Board
Senators Repeal La Follette Administrative Shakeup
Wisconsin Senate voted 20 to 11 to repeal the 1937 reorganization act and all government shifts enacted by executive order under former Governor La Follette. Departments and bureaus will revert to prior status once legal formalities are finished. The coalition described the move as a funeral for the reform.
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Madison
Wis
State Senate
Philip la Follette
Senate
Temperature Stay Below Freezing Across Cedar Rapids
Weather reported continued sub freezing conditions in Cedar Rapids with temperatures bottoming at 22 by noon Saturday and hovering near 23 into the evening. Forecasts warned that lower temperatures were certain to persist Sunday.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Hitler says independent Ukraine needs no backing
London report quotes Hitler telling Polish Foreign Minister Beck that Russia faces an internal downfall making German sponsorship of Ukrainian independence unnecessary for now. He says Germany would assist only when the time is ripe, and notes ambitions for 1939 include colonial territory redistribution and a conference before year’s end.
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INL
Hitler
Joseph Beck
Russia
Germany
Sunday Times
Times
Beck
Soviet Union
Nazifuehrer
Ukrainia
Roumania
Carol
Iron Guard
Fuehrer
Three Children Die In Ky House Fire
Three young children aged 17 months to five years were burned to death in a Kentucky home near Indian Run across from Ironton. The fire occurred while parents were briefly absent and their charred bodies were found together in a front room. Victims are Billie five, Audrey three, and Delbert seventeen months, children of Mr and Mrs Albert Albright.
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Ironton, CO
INS
Indian Run
Ohio River
Ironton
Albert Albright
Billie
Audrey
Delbert
Radio performers threaten nationwide strike over wages
The American Federation of Radio Artists led by Eddie Cantor told 6,000 members to refrain from work with advertisers unless their code of fair practice is signed. They seek a $15 minimum for 15 minute programs, $25 for 30 minute shows, $35 for an hour, plus $6 rehearsal pay. ACFRA calls for action before January 22 affecting NBC CBS and Mutual.
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New York
INS
American Federation of Radio Artists
American Federation of Labor
Eddie Cantor
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
Mutual Network
Hull Cabled Counsel Offer To American In Reich
Morris A. Greenbaum, counsel for a Roth defense committee, said Secretary Hull personally cabled an offer of American counsel for George Joseph Roth, a naturalized American citizen sentenced in Germany for treason related charges. He claimed the German courts avoided a high treason charge after Hull’s personal intervention.
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New York
Morris A. Greenbaum
Roth Defense Committee
Hull
George Joseph Roth
Germany
Greenbaum
Subway workers probed in $250 600 nickel theft case
Seventeen New York City subway employees are under investigation for allegedly stealing 250000 dollars in nickels from fare boxes over the past year. The probe centers on how the coins were diverted and the scope of the scheme within the municipal system.
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NEW York
INS
Senate panel urges single department to run relief programs
A Washington senate committee proposed consolidating WPA PWA CCC and NYA into a new department of public works under a single president appointed head. The plan calls for federal aid based on state unemployment and population, raising local contributions to about one third, with adjustments by income. It also urges unemployment insurance reform and prompt weekly benefits.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Public Works
Sene
House
Roosevelt
WPA
PWA
Civilian Conservation Corps
National Youth Administration
Department of Public Works
Preacher Defends Doctor Over Auto Seizure Fatal Shootings
In Pittsburgh a preacher delivered a funeral sermon for Dr. Charles C. Stanton who killed himself after wounding a constable and two real estate agents during a dispute over seizing his car for two months of rent. The Rev H M Eagleston argued that debt seizure harms a professional’s ability to work and that the doctor fought to protect lives.
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Pittsburgh
H. M. Eagleston
Charles C. Stanton
Budget Statistics Assume Bedside Bulletins
Budget statistics mock the era as bedside bulletins. Bugs Baer lampoons taxation and profit, noting the need to borrow against future prospects to meet income tax. He argues that a man must earn twice his worth to live only half as well as before.
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Inez Robb
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