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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1937
Page
1
State comptroller projects full homestead tax credit may be available if total city and state valuations stay under 400 million dollars and if next month’s receipts meet expectations. The homestead relief fund stands at 10.3 million with potential 25 mill credit for qualified owners.
In Monroe Michigan three hundred special police and five hundred workers broke a CIO picket line with gas and clubs to reopen Republic Steel subsidiary Newton mill after a 15 day shutdown. A 20 minute battle left many injured and tear gas lingering along Elm Street as Governor Murphy sought a peaceful outcome.
A 1937 column riffs on honesty temperance and fame urging caution in pride and speech. It notes that wisdom stalls change and bold thinking drives progress while mocking bores and vanity in everyday life. It ends with reflections on impressions recorded by time and memory.
ARTHUR Bugs Baer reports Haile Selassie seeks return of Ethiopian railroad bonds amid a Paris suited dispute with Mussolini. The piece mocks the war as a stock scheme, notes the umbrella holder in Paris, and lightly ridicules Selassie’s strategic moves and timing.
Senator Guy M. Gillette urges a permanent solution to farm problems by breaking bottleneck control of middle men and distributors. He cites Federal Trade Commission findings that farmers receive only 29 cents of each consumer dollar and argues monopolistic distribution and processing firms drive exploitive costs. He vows to push antitrust legislation to curb monopolistic control of farm products.
Washington The House approved a bill by Rep Martin Dies to deport aliens convicted of crimes in the past five years. Chairman Samuel L Dickstein said the measure would deport about 93000 racketeers, with exemptions possible for long-time residents and close relatives.
Britain rejects Moscow protest over Spain nonintervention, recalls Soviet delegate, and defends four power talks limited to naval patrol safety. It denies Soviet claim that four power discussions were authorized and insists no change to the control system.
Britain France Germany and Italy reached practical agreement on a plan to bring fascist nations back into the non intervention scheme to prevent the Spanish war from spreading abroad. Continued on page 2 column 4.
The Iowa Lamb Feeders association approved a non compulsory one half cent per head levy on all lambs marketed in Iowa to fund mutton promotion and the association. J C Peterson and Leroy Gettings were reelected president and secretary. The year’s reports tout successful 4 H club lamb feeding projects and plans for publicity to boost mutton consumption and larger cuts. About fifty feeders attended.
Washington AP reports a Senate appropriations subcommittee rewrote the administration relief bill to require local communities to cover 40 percent of project costs. The panel rejected a move to reduce the total to 1 billion while keeping unobligated balances from existing relief funds, estimated up to 223 million, available.
Cincinnati beat Boston 7 6 in a rain interrupted game with Vander Meer Hollingsworth Grissom and V Davis among the pitchers. Philadelphia defeated Detroit 3 4 as Caster and Brucker led the scoring. New York held Chicago 9 7 with Hadley and Dickey on the mound. St Louis beat New York 6 9 in a postponed rain game while Washington swept St Louis 9 6 and Boston at Cleveland and Chicago at New York were postponed.
Des Moines AP says prospects for Iowa crops are better than a year ago. Winter wheat on 920,000 acres may yield 18.4 million bushels the largest on record. Corn on 11,036,000 acres stands at 86 percent of normal with generally good prospects despite winter killing in some areas.
Lester Brockelhurst former Sunday school teacher, who admitted three killings, was sent to the state hospital for the insane after a judge learned defense plans an insanity plea at the upcoming trial.
Four men died when sand slid into a work pit near St Croix Falls Wisconsin. Three civilian conservation corps enrollees named Kock Fischer and Beidel and county workman Tom Simmons were buried. Alvin Golberg foreman was rescued. Efforts to revive the others failed after about two hours. Authorities conducted a camp roster check for other possible victims.
General Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven other high Red Army officers were charged with espionage for a foreign power. The eight confessed to aiding a foreign state and undermining the Red Army. The trial, presided by Wassily Ulrich, will begin at 11 a.m. in the military collegium.
London reports say a sweeping purge in the Red Army and industrial sectors may herald a new military dictatorship or a serious revolt against Stalin. Reuters notes expected revelations within days, while foreign capitals view the purge with puzzlement as Britain and others watch for important events.
Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan flew 1200 miles from Dakar to a Niger river outpost on the edge of the Sahara landing after seven hours and fifteen minutes. They planned to push north toward Anglo Egyptian Sudan to span Africa in three or four days following the equatorial route.
Milton Hill a farmer near Badger Iowa sustained serious back and neck injuries Thursday after the team he was driving ran away and threw him from the wagon.
Chicago report says Margaret Montgomery a 27 year old nurse admitted the sensational plot against John Rockefeller Prentice was a fabrication. Jealousy motivated the hoax and she admitted making threatening calls and arranging a date with Prentice before backing down.
A federal grand jury in Kansas City ordered seven defense lawyers bondsmen and city election commissioners to appear Friday in connection with the November 3 vote theft probe. The judge suggested the panel seek who funds defense fees and bonds and to probe for arch conspirators or higher-ups if present. Indictments earlier targeted minor party workers and precinct officials, with 41 convicted.
Albert A. Couch of Des Moines was elected president of the Iowa Federation of Labor defeating Walter F. Shadle of Cedar Rapids 230 to 129. J. J. Brown of Dubuque won secretary treasurer over incumbent R. J. McAnally 184 to 167. Four executive board members were chosen: William Hottell 261, George Peterson 222, G. E. Beck 205, L. E. Garnett 182. Charles N. Savage of Sioux City became vice president, with George Hartnett Des Moines and George Sharp Burlington as auditors. Council Bluffs will host the 1938 convention.
William H Parsons called off g men and reporters as he sought his kidnapped wife’s release. A ransom of 25000 reportedly raised and ready for payment. Parsons claimed cooperation with law enforcement, while police tested a bloody axe for blood type, later deemed fowl.
Washington AP The Senate judiciary subcommittee approved a Wagner Van Nuys anti-lynching bill as a substitute for the Gavagan bill. Chairman Van Nuys said full committee action could come Monday, moving the measure toward the Senate floor amid past southern filibusters. The subcommittee members Wagner and Van Nuys backed the change, Gavagan agreeing in principle.
Two men and two women not previously linked to the William Desmond Taylor case were questioned by investigators in Los Angeles. The Examiner located the witnesses and turned their names over to authorities in a renewed probe into the film director's 11 year old killing.
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