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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1937
Page
1
A lengthy analysis critiques Roosevelt’s supreme court proposal as an attempted seizure of judicial independence. The piece cites Senate opposition and warns the plan could undermine Congress and the judiciary, urging a fearless court defending the people. It also surveys national debt, taxation, social security, and foreign loan issues shaping fiscal policy debates.
Francoist forces breach Bilbao and encircle the Basque capital as defenders begin abandoning the city. Reports say Aguirre may have fled toward Logroño, while insurgents bomb the road to Bilbao Santander and press a northern push. Fighting rages in streets and suburbs with air strikes and artillery.
General Jose Miaja of the Madrid defense announces an immediate evacuation of the civilian population. The move signals anticipation of a renewed insurgent assault on Madrid in the coming days.
AP report from Detroit details Eva the three and a half ton circus elephant who died after eating a pair of shoes. A keeper left his shoes near her, they disappeared, and Eva's condition worsened over the following week before her death Sunday night.
President Roosevelt signed a bill extending for two years the Connally hot oil act. The act bans interstate shipments of oil produced in excess of quotas set by state law. The extension was approved by the House and Senate, which previously favored permanency for the act.
Fragment comments on seeking billions for future spending amid international upheaval while praising those involved as honorable. The text critiques policy excess and imparts a tone of disillusionment with elected figures and governance.
The piece warns that Hurry Worry and Indecision plague daily choices. It notes decisions suffer when made in haste fear or worry and cites the Scythians testing care with intoxication and fasting before final judgment. Emphasizes balancing thoughts and using best judgment despite uncertainty.
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan depart Massawa Eritrea for Assab on a world flight leg with plans to reach Aden if weather allows. The volatile Red Sea crossing will test the famed aviatrix on her perilous circumnavigation attempt.
Port of Spain Trinidad reports large scale escape plans from the Devil's Island penal colony. Ferdinand Geriat, an escaped convict, details groups of six to eight escaping and finds asylum in Trinidad. Louis Liotard sends a letter to the deputy mayor praising hospitality and warning of fugitives. Local citizens plan protests to London authorities to rid the island of convicts.
AP dispatch reports Monroe Michigan leaders urge citizens to enroll and gather ammunition to defend the city against possible CIO-initiated invasion. Representative Hoffman warned he would bring armed citizens if needed, amid mass steelworker meetings and threatened coal embargoes affecting 600,000 UMW miners nationwide.
In Johnstown Pennsylvania violence flared on the Bethl hem Cambria plant picket lines as coal miners joined steelworkers in the strike. Two men and two children were injured and three non striker cars were overturned at the Wooddale and Franklin gates of the 15 000 worker site. Coal miners from captive pits joined in clashes with non strikers attempting entry.
John Waszak a 54 year old Muskego farmer pled guilty to the dynamite deaths of his wife and eight children after three alienists ruled him fully sane. Circuit Judge C M Davison immediately imposed life imprisonment at Waupun state prison.
Dublin Irish Free State parliament approves De Valera's constitution by 62 to 48 and severs ties with Britain. De Valera dissolves the dail and calls elections for July 1 with the new assembly to convene July 21. A plebiscite will be held with the general election to decide if the constitution becomes law within 181 days.
Torrential weekend rains washed rich surface soil from Linn county fields and swelled creeks. A Sunday electrical storm dropped 1.40 inches and another storm added 0.40 inches, raising the Cedar River from 3.7 to 6.2 feet by Monday noon. Damage was heaviest north of Cedar Rapids with flooded fields and washed small grain. Highway crews removed earth islands from slabs as fields became lakes and grasshopper threat eased in some areas. Continued on Page 2.
Soviet officials warned top union authorities to speed up farm reorganization and fix machinery repair schedules within two days. An intensified control commission threatened trial for lagging parts supply and crime in delays, naming Dybetz and Meyers as targets. A similar rebuke hit Director Borisoff for agricultural delays.
London reports Soviet war commissar Klementi Voroshiloff seen as Stalin's next victim amid a crisis in Russia. Eight top generals executed, chaos spreads from Riga to towns and villages. Mass executions, uprisings, and worker strikes feed demoralization under suspicion.
Moscow reports twenty eight persons were convicted and executed at Svobodny in the Soviet Far East for wrecking the Amur railroad. The charges mirrored those in three earlier trials at Svobodny and Khabarovsk in the Far East.
The Senate Judiciary Committee issued an adverse summary rejecting the court reorganization bill as a dangerous attack on constitutional principle. It argues the measure would not dismiss age from the bench or curb judicial power, but would centralize control under Congress and the President, eroding judicial independence and enabling executive interference across districts. The report warns the proposal would redefine the Constitution and threaten democratic traditions, urging emphatic rejection to prevent its reappearance.
Washington announces that Secretary Morgenthau will reveal names of alleged wealthy tax dodgers at the first joint congressional hearing on tax evasion. Senate Finance Chair Harrison and House Ways and Means Chair Doughton briefed President Roosevelt after White House talks.
The judiciary committee reports against Roosevelt's bill for reorganizing the Supreme Court and federal courts. It states the measure fails to meet objectives, undermines judicial independence, breaks with constitutional precedent, centralizes the federal judiciary, and should be rejected. (Continued on Page 9, Column 3.)
Delwein butter from Ames is selected as one of four Iowa entries for the Berlin international butter competition during the World's Daily congress next August in Berlin. Albert Harms is maker. other Iowa entrants include Oral Bonstead Graettinger O J Kloeck Garner and N E Fabricius Ames. Judging panel from Ames and Mason City highlighted best among eighteen entries. butter not scored, judged likely to withstand sea voyage.
The Senate Judiciary Committee urged defeating Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan as a threat to minority rights and constitutional balance. It argued for an independent judiciary as essential to American democracy and proposed options including aging retirement for judges to refresh the federal bench. The report, supported by several Democratic senators, warns against expanding the court and endorses restraint and orderly change.
A 1937 Baer column mocks weekly news as recycled events. It riffs on the Supreme Court vacation split, eight Russian generals, and coincidences in war debts and income taxes, noting the gravity of headlines with satirical punch.
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