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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1937
Page
1
Funds are running low for Camp Good Health which keeps the program open for under-nourished and under-privileged children. About $7,000 is already spent and several hundred dollars more are needed for camp maintenance. Citizens are urged to send contributions to Camp Good Health care of The Gazette.
In Paris, Camille Chautemps indicates he will announce a new popular front government to replace Blum and tackle France credit and labor unrest. He meets with Blum, Daladier, and Herriot as crowds and troops gather in anticipation of political change. The socialist and communist parties indicate support in principle, despite doubts from the Popular Front committee.
Aler i Chekaloff and navigator Alexander Beliakoff flew nonstop from Moscow to the United States via the North Pole in a Soviet airship route. They reached Vancouver Washington after a 6000 mile flight that fell short of San Francisco. A co pilot was unused and forecasts warned of instrument failure in polar air.
Urbana Illinois AP E G Mc Kibben associate professor of agricultural engineering at Iowa State College says graduate research can yield technically valuable results for farm problems. He outlines seven steps: selection of the problem survey of literature formulation of investigation plans carrying out plans analyzing results interpreting the analysis and publication of findings.
English actor Colin Clive remained in critical condition at a Hollywood hospital on Monday after two weeks with a pulmonary ailment. He is known for stage and screen work.
An earthquake along the Peruvian coast rattled structures and caused walls to crack. Witnesses reported damage to church bell towers and crosses during the tremor on Monday.
A reflective essay warns against delaying dreams and duties to the future. The author notes modern people burden plans with postponed goals and urges living in the present, citing Cervantes and a Persian prince as contrasts to wasted time.
Washington AP reports the Senate confirmed Louis A Johnson of West Virginia as assistant secretary of war. The chamber also confirmed Lawrence W Cramer of New York as governor of the Virgin Islands.
Six men were burned in an explosion at the Keystone mine near Jackson Ohio, with three brothers among the injured and possibly fatally harmed.
Washington AP reports six more citizens will be named Tuesday before the joint congressional committee on tax evasion and avoidance for reducing income tax payments through deals with a foreign insurance firm. Internal Revenue figures show total tax collections rose 25 percent to 3.825 billion dollars in the first eleven months of the fiscal year, with income tax up 39 percent to 1.592 billion, boosted by higher top bracket rates and a new surtax on undistributed corporate profits.
Detroit reports eight dead after Sunday electrical and wind storm. Severe damage disrupts power, homes, and business property across southeastern Michigan as communities begin rehabilitation efforts and assess losses.
Three Soviet aviators Valeri Chekaloff Alexander Beliakoff and Georgi Baibakoff completed a non stop 5300 mile flight from Moscow landing at Vancouver Washington. They received honors at Vancouver barracks and Portland reception before heading to Oakland and Washington to study American aviation. Ambassador Troyanovsky said Russia plans further flights based on this mission.
Three Russian airmen ended a record breaking passage from Moscow to this Pacific coast city as their giant monoplane touched down at 8 22 am local time. They began from Moscow 63 hours 17 minutes earlier and were 592 miles from Oakland at touchdown.
Arthur Baer notes last week's income tax intake far surpassed expectations and the public's burden, with a 70 percent rise over the prior year. He compares the budget mood to a Ben Hur chariot race on a treadmill and jokes Morgenthau’s standing among treasury secretaries.
In Chicago five railroad union leaders urged a Monday vote to authorize a strike as a means to compel negotiations for a 20 percent wage increase. An authorization vote was planned for Tuesday. J A Phillips of the Order of Railroad Conductors said the vote might not mean a strike but would push railroads to bargain. He warned a strike date could be set if the ballot passes and the government could act as mediator if talks stall.
NUREMBERG Germany Julius Streicher Nazi editor and Nuremberg party leader urged executions for priests convicted of immorality. He spoke before a crowd of about 200000 during a summer solstice event, later revealing he would have been killed by Helmuth Hirsch, the American citizen who died on a Nazi guillotine in Ploetzensee prison on June 4.
Washington reports the World Wheat Crop estimate for July 1 at 3.8 to 3.85 billion bushels, about 3 billion more than last year. Old wheat stocks stand at 530 million, with world use around 3.765 billion. U.S. stocks for most wheat classes are down, especially hard red spring.
Government mine exploded Monday in suburban University City where 3,000 insurgent troops had held siege for three months. General Jose Miaja said the blast split the hospital in half and intensified fighting before easing. Insurgents still held the wrecked building though weakened.
In Rome the Mussolini cabinet ordered higher state contributions to Catholic clergy. The council of ministers also decreed an eight percent salary rise for state employees amid wartime tensions with Germany over church schools in the Reich.
A three judge U S circuit court unanimously held sit downs are not strikes and illegal under the Wagner act and Sherman act. It ordered immediate eviction of 256 sitdown strikers at Apex Hosiery in Philadelphia and returned the case to a federal judge for enforcement. The AFL CIO affiliate and defendants plan to appeal to the Supreme Court and seek a stay.
Washington AP secretary Henry Wallace expressed a unfavorable view of a congressional panel proposal for federal loans on the present wheat crop to stabilize prices. Representative Henry Luckey said Wallace urged more legislation and noted the ever normal granary plan could achieve similar results. A meeting group planned to reconvene later in the week to outline stabilization bills with lawmakers from Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Iowa Kansas and Oregon.
Police and striking oil workers clashed again on Monday in Point Fortin and across Trinidad. The walkout halted the island’s petroleum industry as reports confirm multiple fatalities.
Charles Holman of the American Institute of Cooperation told the 13th annual cooperative conference at Iowa State College that private business regulation is extending to agriculture. He noted cooperatives served 3,660,000 members handling $1.84 billion in commodities last year and warned on how farmers steer their policies amid encroachments and help devices.
Denver AP reports a new farm map type showing from air view what to plant and how to till. Maps scale four to eight inches per mile and use airplane photography to show gullies cultivated sand pasture woodland slopes and soil topsoil thickness and erosion risk with symbols for wind soil types and chemical qualities.
Lester Brockelhurst 23 of Rockford Tl allegedly killed three men in three states before attempting suicide in his jail cell in Lonore Arkansas. The incident drew a quick response from the jailer who found him with a cord tied to a blanket light fixture. Brockelhurst’s girlfriend Bernice Felton 18, also jailed for murder, alerted staff by banging on her door. He remained unconscious Sunday night and showed no lasting injuries by Monday.
The 27 nation non-intervention committee will ask the United States and other nations for help after Britain called the current Spain crisis unsatisfactory. Lord Plymouth warned that lack of cooperation on halting munitions flows could push Britain to reassess its stance. Germany postponed a London visit by Baron von Neurath, citing attacks on German ships.
SWOC leaders warn Roosevelt and Governor Davey of “horrible bloodshed” if Republic Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube reopen their plants on Tuesday. Chiefs Frank Griggs Thomas White and Jack Wilson urge intervention as region faces high tension, walkouts, anti-picketing actions, and police mobilization amid the four week strike.
The federal peace parley to settle the steel strike collapsed Monday night as representatives from four independent steel companies abruptly left after a one day session. John L. Lewis remained with the mediation board. The move came before the planned reopening of Republic and Youngstown Sheet and Tube plants, a step feared to heighten violence in a strike that has already claimed 12 lives.
Representative Eugene Cox of Georgia urged federal intervention to stop a wave of terrorism after Republicans accused President Roosevelt of condoning strike activities by John L. Lewis and the Committee for Industrial Organization. President William Green of the AFL was cited in the discussion.
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