Roosevelt's New Deal defense and local labor concerns
A column reviews Roosevelt's defense of the New Deal as democracy remains intact while critics claim power misuse. It notes union charges over PWA school construction labor, local job creation goals, and calls for investigation of out-of-town bricklayers. Also covers Iowa Exposition Week beauty winner Jo Anne Sonka and Hull's blunt reply to Germany's debt moratorium and a Chicago bankers link to the Insull affair.
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Des Moines
Uwlinois
PWA
Hull
Germany
Reich
Roosevelt Limits Bid Price Fixing to Lower Government Costs
President Roosevelt issued an executive order allowing firms bidding on government, state, or municipal contracts to cut prices up to 15 percent below code authority listings. The order preserves code authorities but loosens bid uniformity to boost competition and reduce material shortages, potentially lowering consumer costs.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Federal Trade Commission
Darrow Review Board
Will Hall
NRA
Roosevelt Actions On Farm Bill And War Veterans Aid
President Roosevelt finished work on key congressionally sent bills including the farm mortgage moratorium and compensation for widows and orphans of World War II veterans and the railroad pension bill. He held cabinet talks and issued vacation guidance before departing Sunday night for a Hawaii cruise and a Chesapeake Bay voyage aboard the Cruiser Houston.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hawaii
Congress
Stock’ Exchange and Communications Commissions
White House
Annapolis
Houston
Chesapeake Bay
Wilson Named Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Roosevelt appointed Milburn L. Wilson of Montana as assistant secretary of agriculture succeeding Rex Tugwell, who became undersecretary. Wilson led the interior division of subsistence homesteads, headed the AAA wheat section, helped draft the AAA act, and developed the domestic allotment plan.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Milburn L. Wilson
Montana
Rexford Guy Tugwell
Wilson
Interior Department
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Miss Sonka Crowned Exposition Queen in Cedar Rapids
Crowds of about 8000 watched Jo Anne Sonka of Swisher crowned Queen of the Made in Cedar Rapids Exposition of Progress. Dan Kruidenier, public safety head, placed the crown as cheers rose, the 112 contestants narrowed to one winner in a celebratory ceremony on Second Avenue.
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Guardian Angels
Cedar Rapids High
Public Works Administration
Naomi Doebel
Jo Anne Sonka
Swisher
Cedar Rapids
Second Avenue
Second
Miss Jo Anne Sonka Crowned Queen in Swisher Pageant
About the queen Jo Anne Sonka, 20, of Swisher, height 5 feet 10 inches and 135 pounds, with light brown curly hair and hazel eyes, wore light lipstick at coronation. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Sonka, she has two brothers and three sisters, including Charles Sonka of Solon and Rose Marie Sonka at 224 Eighteenth Street SE, with Francis and Tresa Ann Sonka at home.
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Jo Anne Sonka
Swisher
Bonka
Ane
Frank J. Sonka
Coronation Night of a Queen and Court at Street Dance
The street dance along SE streets halted at nine after a program started at 7 30 with the queen on a platform joined by her court eight of the prettiest contestants chosen by judges. Miss Sonka expressed a wish for a Great Lakes cruise as she prepared to depart. Francis Sonka, 13, watched from the crowd while his father Frank J. Sonka weaved through the mob with police escort.
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Miss Sonka
Francis Sonka
Frank J. Sonka
Winners in Cedar Rapids Bicycle Parade T
First prize went to Roosevelt Playground elephant float driven by 13 year old Robert Jungjohann. Second prize was Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe float driven by Eva Lee Boughan who painted decorations herself. Third prize Spirit of Cedar Rapids airplane float driven by Virginia Greer. Friday parade drew sixty cyclists and crowds in the Made in Cedar Rapids Exposition of Progress.
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Roosevelt Playground
Robert Jungjohann
Frank Junjohann
Ninth Street
Eva Lee Boughan
C. W. Boughan
Fifth Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Virginia Greer
Herschel Greer
First Avenue E
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll for 1934 Accidents and Deaths
A Cedar Rapids toll report for 1934 lists the number of accidents and fatalities. The document records total incidents and deaths, highlighting the toll of motor travel in that year.
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Cedar Rapids
Tugwell denounces grain interests at farm rally
Rexford Tugwell urged farmers to defend the Agricultural Adjustment Act at a drought battered Brookings farm rally. He attacked Thomas Wickham and Arthur Cutten, accusing the grain trade of deception and short selling while defending processing taxes and the act. Continues on Page 14, Col. 2.
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Brookings
S. D
Rexford G. Tugwell
Crain Trade
Thomas Wickham
Grain Committee On National Affairs
Arthur Cutten
Chicago
Wickham
Cutten
Jarehur
Tugwell
Friday's Major League Results Show Big Scores Across Leagues
Major League results list Philadelphia and Boston wins with strong offense, while New York and Brooklyn split. St Louis and Cincinnati deliver high scoring games. Pittsburgh notes a rain shortened end of eighth. Cleveland and Chicago play with low totals as Detroit at St Louis rain postpones. Only games scheduled.
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Detroit
St. Louis
Langer Sentenced In Federal Conspiracy Case
Gov William Langer drew 18 months in prison and a $10,000 fine in federal court for conspiracy to defraud the United States government. He and four others were convicted of soliciting funds from federal relief works for The Leader, an administration newspaper. Sentences ranged from four months to thirteen months plus fines for the co defendants.
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Fargo
N. D
William Langer
United ‘States
Langer
The
Leader
Oscar,Chaput
Frank Vogel
R A. Kinzer, Sr
Federal Emergency Relef Committee
North, Dakota
Harold’. McDonald
Bismarck
President Roosevelt Delays Sailing To Sunday
The White House announced that President Roosevelt will sail from Annapolis Maryland at 7 p m Sunday night on a West Indies and Hawaii cruise. The Saturday morning date was changed due to heavy last minute government business and to allow him to say goodbye to his son James arriving from Boston.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Annapolis
West Indies
Hawaii
White House
Goodby
James
Boston
Sermon Rubbing In A Lesson From Scots And Twain
A humorous meditation on how overdoing zeal in preaching and teaching wears people down. Anecdotes about Scot voices in church and Mark Twain’s funds plate contrast with Quaker John Woolman and domestic irritants. The piece cautions balance in communication.
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Scotland
Sandy
Mack
Mark Twain
Mark
John ,Woolman
Burglar Shatters Shop Window Steals Nugget
In Montreal a thief broke the window of an old gold shop and fled with a dazzling nugget. The proprietor lamented the glass damage but noted the nugget was painted coal, making it hard to value.
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Montreal
Que
Roosevelt Proclaims Arms Embargo on Cuba
President Roosevelt announced an immediate arms embargo on Cuba citing bloodshed and political turmoil. The action, under a January 31 1922 joint resolution, allows the secretary of state to regulate shipments and requires export licenses for U S manufacturers with Cuban approval anticipated.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Cuba
ABC
Mendieta
Congress
Emba
United States
Chaco
Secretary of State
U. S
Heat Wave Eases As Clouds Bring Slight Rain Chance
Intense heat in Cedar Rapids eased Friday afternoon as clouds gathered and a light shower cooled the day. The mercury fell from 103 at 12:30 pm to 100 by 2:50 pm and 89 by 7:00 pm, with a peak of 107 earlier in the week and 108 matching the season’s high. A cooling west wind and predicted showers offered modest relief.
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Cedar
Rapids
Mercury
State Weather Bureau
Italian Woman Granted Reprieve in Double Reprieve Case
New York Governor Herbert Lehman granted a reprieve to Mrs. Anna Antonio mother of three saved from the electric chair for the second time in 24 hours. The reprieve extends until July to allow a full review of a late statement by a co-defendant in the life insurance murder case.
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New York
Anna Antonio
Herbert H. Lehman
Tehman
Antonio
Mfe
Roosevelt Forms Panel on Social Legislation
President Roosevelt established the committee on economic security to draft social legislation for the next Congress. The panel includes Morgenthau Perkins Wallace Attorney General Cummings and Harry L. Hopkins. An advisory council of 15 to 20 national leaders in labor welfare industry and government was authorized along with a technical board to aid data gathering.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Morgenthau
Perkins
Wallace
Cummings
Harry L. Hopkins
Program to Succeed NRA Rule Drafted
Washington report notes business advisory council recommends a broad post NRA program to shape labor relations prices and monopolies. It calls for a presidential commission to draft policy, a private construction committee for the $1 billion housing act, and a nationwide unemployment questionnaire. Lincoln Filene led the three point proposal.
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Washington
Business Advisory and Planning Council
Roosevelt
NRA
Secretary of Commerce
Daniel C. Roper
White House
Lincoln Filene
Boston Department Store
Richard Dix Weds Secretary in Jersey City Ceremony
Film star Richard Dix and Virginia Webster age 24 of Los Angeles married in Jersey City Friday by Municipal Court Justice Markley. Webster served as Dixs secretary.
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Jersey City
N. J
INS
Richard Dix
Virginia Webster
Los Angeles
Dix
Municipal Court
Markley
Strikers Meet to Ratify the Peace Draft
Milwaukee electric strike ends as three AFL unions are ordered to meet at the Elks club to ratify a tentative, mediator aided agreement after three nights of violence and plant walkouts. A separate Lakeside plant walkout endangered Friday night power supply.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company
American Federation of Labor
Elks Club
S. B. Way
Utility
Lakeside
Morton J." Sloat
Electric ‘Company
Tricsand Railway
Wisconsin
Nitta
Public Service
Stu
Electric
Aernoon
Gherttl
Joseph J. Shinners
Wertters
Gunman Copeland Sentenced in Greencastle Case
Indiana man Harry Copeland 38 of Muncie linked to the Dillinger gang was sentenced to 25 years in the state prison for robbing the Central National Bank in Greencastle. He received the term Friday after his conviction on the bank robbery charges.
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PorLicies
Greencastle
Harry Copeland
Muncie
Dillinger
Bing
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Iowa
Sam Insull
Reynolds
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Arthur
Sam
Insull
Frazier
Swisher Girl
Kruidenier
BY Adeline Taylor
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AAA
National League
Philadelphia
A. Moore
Johnson
C. Davis
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Spohrer
Togan
Brooklyn
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Carroll
Lopez
Fitzsimmons
Bowman
Richards
Cincinnati
Carleton
Lindsey
Mooney
Pittsburgh
Malone
Root
Warneke
Tate
Bush
Hartnett
Swift
Hoyt
Chagnon
Lucas
Padden
Cleveland
Harder
L. Brown
Myatt
Tietje
Gallivan
Shea
Newport
R. I
John Jacob Astor III
America
Ellen Tuck French
Dedham
Mass
Trinity Church
Astor
H. St. George Burrill
DR. Newton
Burglard
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Reteweene Sean
Ces Cece Ees
Pam
Eseaennes
MD Gobed
Cedar Rapids News
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Railway and Licht
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