Iowa unemployment and civil service push faces scrutiny
A Des Moines announcement outlines a 32 office spread for Iowa unemployment compensation and merged state agencies with nine district and 23 branch offices. The piece notes civil service expansion, backlash to patronage, and warns of looming audits as lawmakers push amendments. It also flags fraud scares, liquor industry influence, and a Michigan judge predicting crime rises tied to social ills and absent parental guidance.
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Iowa
Des Moines
State Employment Service
Unemployment Commission
Land
Civil Service
National Social Security Commission
Civil Service Dan
New York Stock Exchange recommends major reorganization
A committee report calls for a salaried president in charge and a 32 member board down from 50 with three public representatives. It also abolishes the self perpetuating law committee and creates an executive committee of seven serving advisory roles. The plan aims to align the exchange with changing times and public interest.
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NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
Board of Governors
Committee For
Charles R. Gay
The
Exchange
William O. Douglas
SEC
Gay
Douglas
Washington
A. Berle, Jr
Stock Exchange
New York City
Old Law Committee
Missing Boy Finds Cold Old Vardy House Home
A twelve year old Cedar Rapids boy missing since January 20 sought shelter in the old Vardy house before moving to 2931 Bever avenue SE. He said he broke a cellar window to enter for warmth and slept in the attic prior to Tuesday night.
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Vardy
Cedar Rapids
Bever Park
George Higham
Second Street
Bever Avenue
George
Milo Nemecek
Don Cook
Nemecek
Cook
Stearns and
Shannon
Young Higham
Belief in Life After Death Debated by Dr Newton
A 1938 column presents Dr Newton arguing that immortality is intrinsic to the soul and beyond proof by human entities or energy. He contrasts heredity with personal immortality and cites Shakespeare and Lincoln to illustrate enduring influence beyond death.
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George Eliot
Shakespeare
Lincoln
TVA Policy on Private Utility Purchases Likely
President Roosevelt and Tennessee Gov. Gordon Browning planned talks to decide a potential TVA policy on buying private utility systems. Senators Norris and McKellar weighed state participation and direct TVA purchases, noting Congress may need to act. TVA authority currently covers only parts of systems tied to its program.
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Washington
Tennessee Valley Authority
Roosevelt
Gordon Browning
Tennessee
Browning
Norris
Neb
TVA
McKellar
Tenn
Congress
Wendell L. Willkie
Commonwealth and Southern
Far More Bankers Than Bank Robbers Get Prison Terms
Philadelphia reports Maj. W. H. Crane Lester of the FBI says in a forum that nearly four times as many bankers and bank employees received prison sentences last year as did bank robbers. He adds bankruptcy law violators are costlier criminals than kidnappers, noting 46 kidnappers and 139 bankruptcy violators caught.
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Philadelphia
W. H. Crane Lester
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Philadelphia Forum
Lester
J. Edgar Hoover
SEC Wallace Backs Draft of Farm Bill
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace endorsed the tentative compromise farm bill draft if crop insurance is included. The Senate bill adds a production insurance program for wheat, with conference leaders undecided on including it in the final report. Final agreement on principal features was reached, with votes possible next week and a presidential signature expected. Production and marketing controls would take effect for flue-cured tobacco and cotton this year, and referendums on quotas and acreage allotments would be held based on crop prospects and May 1 estimates.
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ULP
Henry A. Wallace
Senate
House
Department of Agriculture
Roosevelt
Wallace
Farm Administration
Mystery Air Fleet Reported Watching Japanese Aviators
TORIO AP Japanese navy spokesman says a large unmarked aerial armada followed and observed Japanese planes in China. No confirmed nationality, no battles reported, but Japanese craft chased the phantom observers and failed to locate their base.
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Torio
China
Japan Considers U S Trade Pact Talks
TOKIO AP Japan's commerce minister told the diet that the government is considering negotiations for a worldwide trade agreement with initial focus on the United States and Germany as the first step.
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Tokio
Japan
Diet
United States
Germany
Senator Steiner Quits Oregon Senate
Senator Frederick Steiner a Republican in Oregon resigns effective January 31. He had announced his withdrawal from public life after completing his second term as senator on December 3, 1938.
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Salem
Ore
Frederick Steiner
16 Year Heat Mark Ties 82-Degree Record
Continued warmth spread after a 10 year record was matched when the temperature reached 82 degrees on Wednesday in Los Angeles. The forecast called for more warm weather on Thursday.
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Los Angeles
Jackson Named Solicitor Gen Succeeds Reed
President Roosevelt nominated Robert H. Jackson of New York to be solicitor general of the United States. He will succeed Stanley F. Reed who joined the Supreme Court. Jackson, 46, heads the anti trust section and led major prosecutions including the gasoline price fixing case. He is from Jamestown New York and has long been outspoken against monopoly.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Robert H. Jackson
New York
United States
Jackson
Stanley F. Reed
Kentucky
Supreme Court
Reed
Jamestown
Department
Spring Creek
Albany
American Law Institute
Internal Revenue Bureau
Department of Justice
Wreck Hearings Extend For Waterloo Train Disaster
Interstate and Iowa commerce officials reopen hearings into the Waterloo wreck that killed Cedar Rapids men John G. Griggs and William Rose. Testimony from Waterloo switch crew members and yard foreman continues in a closed session, with reinforcements from Des Moines and officials from Iowa and federal commissions attending.
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Waterloo
John G. Griggs
William Rose
Cedar Rapids
C. C. Cunningham
Rock Island Lines
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroad Commision of
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Examiners
R. E. Blok
E. C. Horning
H. A Franklin
Iowan Commission
Des Moines
Co. I. Fry
PP. Hileman
Japs Demand Coded Book Copies From Shanghai Firms
The Japanese embassy in Shanghai ordered all commercial firms to submit copies of their code books to Japanese censors, regardless of nationality. Codes must be provided by Friday to allow coded-message transmission. violations risk suspension. Ambassador Shigeru Kawagoe sailed to Tokyo aboard the Shanghai Maru.
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Shanghai
Shigeru Kawagoe
Tokio
Mussolini to Send 50,000 Troops to Spain in February
The London News Chronicle reports well informed quarters believe Premier Mussolini plans to dispatch 50,000 regular Italian troops to Spain in February and March to aid the insurgents led by Franco for a quick victory.
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London
INS
London News Chronicle
Mussolini
Spain
Duce
Francisco Franco
Cedar Rapids Dairy Inspector Defends Local Milk Standards
Cedar Rapids dairy records show near compliance with U S public health service checks, despite a statewide report finding Iowa dairies below standard. Dr A R Menary notes Cedar Rapids uses stricter raw milk grading and higher pasteurized milk bacteria limits, contrasting with federal rules.
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Des Moines
State Health Department
Iowa
United States Public Health Service
A. R. Menary
State Dairy and Food Department
Cedar Rapids
A. TH. Writers
Public Health Engineering
U.S. P. HS
Menary
Think Up New Names For Short Selling
A columnist riffs on renaming short selling if outlawed by Congress. The piece imagines alternatives like repossessed value and uses satirical analogies from gambling, racing, and life insurance to critique market speculation and risk.
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Congress
Wall Street
Famed Honeymoon Bridge Survives Ice Jam Toll
Niagara Falls engineers report a slight sag and twisted girders in the Honeymoon Bridge as a fierce 30 year ice jam rages. A shifting wind saves the 1200 foot span from collapse while the Maid of the Mist and Ontario hydro plant endure ice damage and possible month long closure.
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Niagara Falls, N. Y
Niagara
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Niagara Gorge
Falls
Maid of the Mist
Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission
Jower Ontario
A. S Robertson
Commission
Lake Erie
Niagara River
Benesh seeks reelection and Harger for park post
W C Benesh incumbent commissioner of public safety at 316 Fifth Street NW begins circulation of his nomination petition for another term. The Cedar Rapids native and former police chief, who defeated Dan Kruidenier for safety commissioner two years ago, is a longtime Elks and Masons member. Robert Harger 509 Twentieth Street NE filed papers for the park commissioner race, a Cedar Rapids Business College graduate aged 34.
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Cedar Rapids
W. C Benesh
Fifth Street
Benesh
Ray Tapper
Dan Kruidenier
Elks Club
Robert H
Bob” Harger
Twentieth Street
Cedar Rapids Business College
Harger
Labor Dept Sought Truce Between AFL and CIO Leaders
In Miami Charles P. Howard announced plans to lead 80 000 Typographical Union members out of the AFL and CIO conciliator James F. Dewey arrived at the AFL executive council meeting to pursue a peace armistice. Dewey hoped to discuss the Steelman peace plan with William Green and John L. Lewis amid uncertain signals of peace or renewed conflict.
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Miami, Fla
Charles P. Howard
Committee For Industrial Organization
International Typograhical Union
A. F. of L
Miami
James F. Dewey
Department of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Dewey
William Green
John L. Lewis
Washington
John R. Steelman
Federal Conciliation Service
Steelman
Organ
Peuane-stite A. F
Green
Senate fails bid to invoke cloture on anti lynching bill
Senators Carter Glass and Tom Connally led a cross party bloc to defeat a cloture motion on the anti lynching bill. The vote was 51 against cloture and 37 for, far short of the two thirds needed.
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Washington
Senate
Carter Glass
Glass
Tom Connally
Tex
Iowans oppose rule in anti lynching bill vote
Washington AP reports 51 senators defeated a proposal to limit debate on the anti lynching bill by cloture. Iowa senators Herring and Gillette joined other Democrats in opposing the move.
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Washington
Herring
Gillette
Westerners Waver as Anti Lynching Bill Cloture Fails
Senator Neely led a vigorous plea to invoke cloture against the anti lynching bill but the measure failed for the eighth time since cloture was adopted. Senators Wagner and Van Nuys vowed to press the bill, while Western members wavered amid a rush of other legislation in the senate.
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M. M. Neely
W. Va
Robert K. Wagner
Frederick van Nuys
Ind
Senate
Chamber
Senate Cloture Vote Reported With Mixed Party Lines
The senate debate on cloture shows a split among Republicans and Democrats. The roll lists numerous senators from both parties along with factions like farmer labor and independents, indicating a high tension procedural vote.
Zero Temperature Holds With Clear Sky In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids recorded a zero degree low again with a clear sky. The mercury fell to zero at 7 30 am and stayed there until 9 45 am while readings later showed a rise to 8 at 2 30 and a prior peak of 9 at 3 pm. The Chambers Inskeep company recorder logged the temperatures.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Fire drives four from Minneapolis Up town Restroom
Four aged persons were carried to safety when a fire of unknown origin swept the Up town Restroom in Minneapolis on Thursday. Fire crews fought flames and kept the blaze from spreading to adjacent shops. The incident prompted immediate evacuations and a local investigation into the cause.
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