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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1937
Page
1
Disjointed excerpts discuss a 33 year old from Kansas nearing parole, labor contract dynamics with the CIO and UAW, and political stances on Mr Roosevelt Wagner Act, steel, and automotive contracts. Mentions pinball laws, farm bill talks, and congressional budget concerns amid national policy debates.
Paris reports Hitler, facing Britain France and Russia rearmament, amenable to talks on halting Nazi armaments. Beck arrives to join high level diplomacy with Gamelin and plans for London talks. Eden and Neurath fuel efforts toward a general arms limit and a new security framework in Europe.
A reader defends King Edward's abdication as a complex tragedy of temperament not character. They praise his courage and kindness, note his charm and sympathetic care for the poor, and argue history must judge with limited facts. The piece concludes a king may choose humanity over myth.
Arthur Bugs Baer jokes about global turmoil with a satirical take on Albania and political revolutions. He notes Zog’s one day revolution yielding 192 prisoners and imagines a world tour of unrest. The piece critiques soil conservation funds and farmer expectations.
Washington reports leaders of senate forces opposing Roosevelt’s court packing plan accepted a swift vote. They drafted plans for a 56 senator meeting to form a steering committee. Senator Wheeler of Montana is expected to be chosen as spokesman for the opposition.
Iowa City's first board of motion picture censors viewed a health education film and unanimously ruled it fit for residents. The screening triggered a dispute when Mayor Myron J. Walker urged facility closure, while theater manager Robert Griffith defended local theater autonomy. The panel included ministers, prominent women, and doctors.
Soviet authorities disclose White Russian President Cherviakoff killed himself amid a widening purge. Minsk conference cites Trotzkyite conspiracy. arrests and potential treason trials follow as eight Red Army leaders were executed. Pravda notes delays at Moscow and Gorky auto plants.
Los Angeles UP Jean Harlow the platinum blonde glamour girl of the screen left her entire estate to her mother Mrs Jean Bello The will filed late Wednesday in probate court lists property valued between 100000 and 1000000 and awards all personal and real property to Mrs Bello If the will is contested a $1 payment is provided to the contesting party The document omits any mention of her father Dr Monte C Carpenter or stepfather Marino Bello.
Madison Wisconsin AP says the Norwegian synod of the Evangelical Lutheran church elected the Rev. Christian Anderson of Belview Minnesota as vice-president at the convention's final session after a seven day meeting.
United Press wires show American League results with Sewell Newsean Desautels for Cleveland and Knott Huffman Hayes for Philadelphia among listed box scores. Games Brooklyn at Cincinnati and Beston at Chicago postponed due to rain as delays stretch into the night.
Miss Emma Wilson of Prairieburg, 18, told Sheriff James H. Smith and Deputy Dick Payn that a stranger, about 35 to 40, beat and choked her at the Eiza McQueen farm near Prairieburg around 4 pm Tuesday. She described the man as 5 feet 2 or 3 inches, 135 pounds, with dark hair and eyes, wearing dark trousers and a blue shirt, hatless, carrying a brown suitcase. Neighbors saw no one matching the description. two reports noted a car entering and leaving the farm drive near the time of the incident. Miss Wilson appeared not seriously hurt.
In Berlin Chancellor Hitler assured Mussolini of Germany’s loyalty to the Nazi fascist front while addressing 1,300 Italian Balilla leaders. He cited joint defense against Bolshevism and pointed to Italo German cooperation amid diplomatic unease over Neurath’s London trip.
Amelia Earhart Putnam and navigator Capt. Fred J. Noonan survey a gateway to northwest India aboard their $80 000 flying laboratory during an overhaul. They plan a dawn departure for a non stop flight to Calcutta across central India while riding camels.
Basque and Asturian defenders withdrew from Bilbao as nationalist forces led by Davila closed in. The outskirts burned and towns like Munguia were almost ruined after explosions and dynamiting by insurgent units and their women brigades.
London dispatch reports Germany and Italy formally rejoining the international non intervention patrol to prevent arms and men from reaching Spain as insurgents tighten the siege of Bilbao or besieged city photos and reports indicate continued military activity.
Rep. Robert L. Mouton of Louisiana pulled out of a planned hog hollerin contest with Rep. Otha D. Wearin of Iowa. Wearin said the event began as fun and would end as a moral victory for Iowa with his planned match of calls against Mouton’s.
A coroner's inquest in Woodbine concluded that Halding Ahlstrom aged 21 from Rockford Illinois died in an unavoidable accident near Woodbine on Tuesday. The inquest held Wednesday determined the death was not due to foul play.
Iowa Attorney General John Mitchell rules the new law effective July 4 outlaws nearly all slot machines. The opinion instructs officials to seize machines that could be used for gambling, except those for merchandise vending. The ruling clarifies possession standards and sets up potential court challenges from slot machine interests.
Riot squad manned Wilshire Methodist Episcopal church for the film colony wedding of Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond. Crowds gathered along Wilshire boulevard, traffic diverted, as police kept watch on the ceremony set for 9 oclock. A repeat of a famous past Hollywood wedding was feared by onlookers.
President Roosevelt approved a treasury plan to publish about one hundred millionaire tax dodgers. Secretary Morgenthau will unveil the list before the congressional investigating committee as hearings loom. The White House conference included Undersecretary Magill and lawmakers as details on evasion methods were prepared. Tax payments in the second quarter rose sharply with a June 1 to 15 tally of 469.8 million compared with 277.0 million prior year.
President Roosevelt signed a 126 million dollar appropriation bill funding the justice, labor, commerce and state departments for the coming fiscal year. The measure, approved in Washington, provides the four departments with the annual sums needed to operate.
Washington reports an emergency conference of steel leaders as the labor dispute broadens. Bethlehem Steel rejected a proposal for a company board election among 208 Cambria plant workers to settle the strike. CIO leaders in Youngstown mobilized to block back-to-work efforts while Bethlehem Steel lines guarded gates in Johnstown.
Alvin A. Rhomberg, 35, who had been Dubuque county engineer for nine years, was named city manager on Wednesday, succeeding Roger M. Evans who resigned after the council selected Rhomberg for the post.
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