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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1937
Page
1
Governors Earle and Murphy urged the CIO to purge communists while praising recent liberties. Iowa marks a quieter Fourth with record traffic deaths, drownings, and hazardous children with explosives. overall nationwide deaths from auto accidents rise despite safety campaigns.
An AP report notes US Department of Agriculture estimates that 3000 dollars suffice to turn a tenant farmer into an owner operator, a claim disputed by examples of sold ownership schemes. The piece covers resettlement costs, Tugwelltown project expenses, and farm habitat sizes, plus Roosevelt’s push for court-packing and constitutional debates.
President Roosevelt directed all department heads to cut at least ten percent from current year appropriations in hopes of balancing the 1938 budget. He aims for about 200 million dollars saved, with independent agencies summoned to White House. Noting limited scope to cut salaries, he warns some programs and fixed expenditures will still require trimming.
British authorities ordered wholesale deportations of Jewish communists from Poland and Hungary in Palestine to curb possible riots after a royal commission report on partition is issued. Over 8,000 British troops are deployed and many others taken into custody under a prevention of crime ordinance to prevent Jewish Arab disorders.
A second body was recovered near the Western Air express plane wreck on a mountain peak southeast of Salt Lake City. Identified as John F Wolfe of Chicago, the remains were found intact after the earlier discovery of Mrs Wolfe’s body amid the December 15 crash that killed seven people.
Plans for a world peace conference to be held in Washington are taking definite shape under President Roosevelt. A preliminary European conference may precede it at The Hague or Brussels, proposed by Roosevelt and advanced to Prime Minister Chamberlain by Belgium's Premier Van Zeeland. Roosevelt insists must follow a series of political and economic steps among European nations before any Washington meeting.
In Somerset Pennsylvania a 19 year old Willard Beers died after stealing a light airplane from the Somerset county airport and crashing in the business district near the county courthouse. He regained consciousness briefly at the hospital and told officers he had taken the plane to return to a CCC camp near Salisbury Maryland.
Aberdeen, South Dakota executives of Farmers unions met to map an aid program after declaring a crop failure across parts of five Midwestern states. They drafted resolutions urging the administration for broader federal grants, seed loans, and a breathing spell for farmers owing money to the federal government.
Generalissimo Francisco Franco issued an ultimatum demanding recognition as a belligerent in the Spanish conflict. The note warned Britain and France that they risk economic repercussions if they reject recognition, telegraphed from Salamanca and broadcast tonight.
A satirical mock definition by Arthur Bugs Baer about political islands. It contrasts democratic enclaves with patronage seas, imagining Jefferson Island as a Republican neck or isthmus amid elite theater and cabinet parodies, amid weather cracks and garbled wordplay.
Blocked reopening of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube plant at Indiana Harbor due to a dispute over grievance adjustment procedures. Gov Townsend said Inland Steel accepted a three point plan with labor arbitration, while Sheet and Tube rejected the plan and walked out saying they would not sign any agreement.
In Cleveland 1500 national guardsmen ended a 41 day strike by securing three Republic Steel plants. With machine guns at the gates they maintained vigil as hundreds of workers returned to work carrying lunch pails, marking a decisive return to production and shifting leverage to independent steel producers.
Federal Judge in Sioux City took under advisement a government petition to forfeit a 5250,000 appeal bond posted by Oscar M. Hartzell in December 1933. Hartzell, jailed in an insane asylum, sought to appeal a ten year sentence in the Sir Francis Drake estate fraud case but failed to surrender in Chicago in January 1935.
DES MOINES AP The Independent Order of Foresters Toronto Ontario Tuesday notified 1700 Iowa members it will cease operations in the state The order holds about 2 000 000 life insurance in force in Iowa The move follows Iowa Insurance Department interpretation of an old statute taxing fraternal beneficiary society premiums at 24 percent
Clark county sheriff said five inmates escaped from Clark county jail between midnight and 2 a.m. Monday. The group included four men and one woman. Local authorities are investigating and recapture efforts are underway in Neillsville Wisconsin.
A reflection on the scarcity of new truths and the value of reusing basic ideas. It argues genuine originality lies in living the truth rather than merely presenting new words, noting that religions and folk tales recur with renewed form across generations. Copyright. 1937.
The House sent farm tenancy legislation to a conference committee of senators and representatives Tuesday to iron out differences with the Senate. Democrats and Republicans on the agriculture committee aimed to block a Senate plan for government purchase of farms resold to tenants, favoring instead liberal loans to tenants for farm purchases.
President Roosevelt and Sen. Burton Wheeler met in a White House conference to pledge a hard fight over the supreme court reorganization as Senate leaders began stormy debate on the administration bill. Wheeler urged withdrawal. Roosevelt refused. Wheeler reported to anti court bloc peers including Sen. Homer Bone and other Democrats after the talks.
Senate hearing Tuesday featured Washington Democratic Leader Robinson arguing for the administration’s judicial reorganization bill. He asserted judges more than 75 years old should be reviewed, as debate continued across columns and pages.
The article argues Britain will spend about £4000 per minute on arms for five years to save its empire of nearly 500 million people. It claims rearmament reshapes world politics, deters aggressors, reassures the weak, and may enable future limits on armaments as Britain grows stronger. It notes vast financial capacity and impacts on U.S. policy and global balance.
Three Kellogg union workers from the International Machinists union asked Acting Governor John Valentine to ensure peace as farmers in the county align with company union workers at Midwest Stamping Co. They alleged a threatened invasion of picket lines and planned renewed picketing to press for a contract. The delegation, who declined to name themselves, claimed 100 of 180 Kellogg employees supported their union and warned of armed farmers aiding the others.
James Mickey, 24, died Tuesday of infantile paralysis in an iron lung after being rushed 250 miles from Lincoln Nebraska to Kansas City Sunday night. He was the son of Professor Clark E Mickey head of the civil engineering department at the University of Nebraska.
In Dublin the Free State general election failed to give President Eamon de Valera a majority as Fianna Fail won 69 of 138 seats. He will rely on 13 cabinet members for support while the plebiscite backed the new constitution by about 160,000 votes. Observers see the result as a blow to de Valera’s prestige and to his push for an all Irish republic.
Washington article says President Roosevelt will not respond to Representative Fish of New York who urged the tax committee to investigate the president’s income taxes. At a press conference Roosevelt indicated no reply to Fish’s statements.
President Roosevelt ordered full coordination of all agencies for a broad search around Howland Island after Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared. The Navy, led by flagship Colorado, will deploy planes from Sunday to Tuesday, with help from Japan and New Zealand vessels. Messages from Earhart were uncertain but raised hopes. coast guard Itasca and carrier signals prompted cautious optimism amid ongoing hunt.
DES MOINES Iowa Chief Justice W H Hamilton said he would ask Judge P J Siegers of Newton to conduct the removal hearing for Polk county treasurer Allen Munn. Assistant County Attorney Al Adams sought an outside judge. Judge Rus sell Jordan ordered Munn suspended while an audit proceeds after state auditors found a roughly $16000 shortage in cashier J T Dyke's accounts.
Hollywood star William Powell reopens his film work after a month in seclusion following the death of fiancé Jean Harlow. Powell resumed shooting before the cameras on Tuesday, returning to the production and public life he left behind in grief.
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