Senate Rejects Toll Plan in Eight Billion Highway Push
A Senate margin of two votes defeats the eight billion dollar federal highway program. Senator Bulkley of Ohio argues for immediate stimulus, while tolls to self finance draws fire as critics fear future tax funding. TESSE JONES seeks bank cooperation for loans to legitimate enterprises, urging borrowers to seek capital amid abundant money. The Gazette recounts corporate taxation woes that deter expansion and questions the timing of borrowing for plant upgrades. Editor Berry notes Colonel Knox's Tariff remarks and Grass Roots history, contrasting Iowa reception with earlier efforts.
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Senate
Quietus
Bulkley
Ohio
Tesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Jesse
Jesse Jones
Mr. Jones
Gazette Company
Jones
Indictment in Houston Ties W F Main Cedar Rapids Firm
A federal grand jury at Houston returned an indictment charging W F Main of Cedar Rapids and fourteen associates with conspiring to defraud via the mails. The action stems from trade practices of several vending machine firms including Main’s. Main and Miss Slavata deny knowledge of evidence. Defendants listed include Widner Arnold Machen Visel Troutman Ashler Underwood Homes Davidson Trader Pasteur Bobenmyer Shaw Arnold.
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Cedar
Main
J Stanzel
Miss Jane Slavata
Federal Grand Jury
Texas
Miss Slavata
E. L. Widner
J. A. Arnold
Frank E. Machen
H. A. Visel
O. F. Troutman
Philip C. Ashler
L. F. Underwood
Charles Homes
K. R. Davidson
H H H. Trader
H Pasteur
Charles Bobenmyer
E. L. Shaw Arnold
Machen
Wisel
Cedar Rapids
Weidner
Iowa City
Associated Press
W. F. Main Company
Appleton Novelty Company
New Specialty Company
Machen Company
Standard Mercantile Company
Standard Manufacturing Company
Restraining Order Keeps Amish From School Auction
In east Lampeter the Amish retain their red schoolhouse as a federal judge blocks the township sale of separate schoolhouses. The community objects to attending a WPA funded consolidated school, arguing it lacks Amish ownership and regards the new building as a luxury.
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Philadelphia
INS
East Lampeter
George A. Welsh
Touhy Seeks Supreme Court Review of Free-Om Case
Roger Touhy, once a Midwest gang leader imprisoned for kidnapping John Factor in Chicago in 1933, asks the Supreme Court to review his bid for freedom. The case centers on his pursuit of relief from a lengthy sentence and questions of legal procedure.
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Touhy
Supreme Court
Washington
LLP
Roger Touhy
John “Jake
Chicago
Supreme Aunt
Freeom
Editor in Lincoln room warns Hoover over Smoot Hawley tariff
On a Sunday in April 1930 an Iowa editor in the White House Lincoln room told President Hoover he would regret not vetoing the tariff bill. Colonel Knox disagreed with the editor's stance.
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Iowa
Lincoln
White House
Hoover
Midwest
Knox
Don Marquis Yarn Ends In Laughing Hearse Tale
Hristopher Morley recalls a late Don Marquis yarn about his Hollywood hospital joke. A hearse carried Marquis to treatment after a severe heart attack, causing two young women in a roadster to scream at the sight of the winked corpse and share a wild tale with an amused police officer.
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Hristopher Morley
Don Marquis
Don
Jost
Hollywood
Marquis
Cedar Rapids Receives Class Three Fire Insurance Rating
Cedar Rapids has been designated a third class city by the National Board of Fire Underwriters, a move that could cut fire insurance costs by 75 000 to 100 000. The shift aligns the city with Davenport Dubuque and Waterloo, placing it one class above Des Moines and Sioux City. Remaining inspections will cover mercantile and industrial plants public buildings churches and schools not sprinklered. dwellings are excluded. Advisory rate estimates will be provided after six weeks to two months.
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Cedar Rapids
Emil P. Kohout
Harry Corcoran
Des Moines
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Kohout
Davenport
Dubuque
Waterloo
Sioux City
Iowa Insurance Service
Frank Powers
Powers
Iowa Insurance’ Service Bureau
Defendants in Russian trial reveal pleas and plots
In Moscow's treason trial Nicholas Krestinsky renounced a prior confession and pleaded guilty, admitting pay from Germany and forming a spy ring. Co defendant Nikolai Buchanin accused of seeking Britain’s help to dismember the Soviet Union and plotting Lenin’s death, then confessed to planning a rightist group with Alexis Rykoff but denied spying for foreign powers.
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Moscow
Nicholas H. Krestinsky
Krestinsky
Hans von Seeckt
Germany
Russia
Reichswehr
Nikolai Buchanin
Soviet Union
Britain
Nikolai Lenin
Buchanin
Joseph Stalin
Tartly
Andrei Vishinsky
Alexis I. Rykoff
Vishinsky
Bucharin
Soviet timber chief testifies on plot to hand forests to British
Moscow filed treason trial reveals Vladimir Ivanoff, once chief of the Soviet timber industry, says since 1934 he spied for British intelligence to reward British aid in overthrowing the Soviet regime. Twenty co-defendants face treason charges as proceedings continue.
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Moscow
Vladimir T. Ivanoff
Russia
Ivanoff
Cedar Rapids Snowy Turn Drops 27 Degrees in March
Cedar Rapids records show a wintry March swing with temperatures falling from 48 at 3 pm Wednesday to 21 by 10 am Thursday. Drizzle early Wednesday gave way to cloudy skies as the mercury continued to slide through the night to 22 by 7 am Thursday.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Mercury
Chambers Inskeep Company
Rickenbacker Eyes Purchase of Eastern Airlines
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker seeks to buy Eastern Airlines for about 3.5 million dollars in cash from North American Aviation. Negotiations are ongoing with J. H. Kindelberger confirming the talks look promising but not finalized. The Bulletin cites a Journal American report from New York.
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Bulletin— New York
INS
Edward V. Rickenbacker
Eastern Airlines
Journal- American
Washington
Eddie Rickenbacker
North American Aviation
J. H. Kindelberger
North American
Navy Increase Bill Approved By Committee
The House Naval Affairs Committee approved a 1.1135 billion expansion bill to add 46 combatant ships 22 auxiliary vessels and 950 planes. A non aggression pledge was adopted and the panel backed Pacific coast shipbuilding facilities for national defense as President deter mines. The measure heads for floor debate next week with three dissenters named.
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Washington
House Naval Affairs Committee
Vinson
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Naval Committee
Wrewster
Church
RHR
Cole
N.Y
Attempt to Kill Japanese Labor Leader Sparks Censorship
Four armed men raided Isao Abe head of the social labor party in Tokyo injuring him slightly in an assassination attempt. The Konoye government responded with immediate censorship measures then allowed brief factual cables later to be sent amid parliamentary turmoil.
Man Is Nabbed For Threats With Knife After Row At Cafe
William L. Perrego of Cedar Rapids was arrested at 1240 am Thursday after Walter Bates said Perrego pulled a butcher knife on him and threatened to cut out his gizzard during an argument in a cafe on Third Street NE. Police confiscated the knife and Perrego was held for investigation. The incident followed a lunch room quarrel at 124 Third Street NE, with Vincent Bechelli coordinating ejection of Perrego, while Bates, Sidney Smith, Edward Mealy, and Kenneth Taylor assisted.
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Cedar Rapids
William L. Perrego
Walter Bates
L Street
Perrego
Third Street
First
Avenues
Herbert Brown
Vincent Bechelli
H Avenue NW
Bates
Perrezgo
Sidney Smith
Mount Vernon Avenue
Edward C. Mealy
Kenneth Taylor
Fifth Avenue
Red Crown
Bechelli
Friday Deadline for Voter Registration and Candidates
One day remains to register voters at City Clerk L. J. Storey office with books closing at 5 p.m. Friday before the March 14 school election and March 15 city primary. Registration reopenings follow March 16 17 and 18 before another closed period until after the March 28 city final election.
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Cedar Rapids
L. J. Storey
Mystery scar on mountainside fuels search for missing airliner
Snow and floods hindered salvage efforts for the Transcontinental and Western airliner missing since Tuesday night. 22 planes mobilized as searchers probe a 200-foot gouge in the Sierra near Huntington Lake and a marked scar on the mountainside may mark the crash site. A witness reported hearing a plane at 560 feet and a flare near 11:40 p.m. Tuesday.
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Fresno
Calif
Here
Sierras
Fresno County
San Francisco
Albuquerque
N. M
Los Angeles
Huntington Lake
San Joaquin
C. G. Landry
Big Creen
Lumber car derailment at Hall plant sparks probe
Milwaukee railroad officials in Marion probe the derailment of a lumber car at Hall Manufacturing on the plant spur amid ongoing picket lines. Investigators seek whether strikers or trainmen caused the incident as union relief offers aid to striking Hall workers.
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Hall Plant
Cedar Rapids
Milwaukee Railroad
Marion
Hall Manufacturing Company
Hall
Ealy
United Production Workers Union
Packing House Workers Union 51
CIO
Wayne Elliott
Lewis Clark
Clo
Man Hangs 17 Hours From Torn Hand In Freight Car
George Kanellis a 25 year old from St. Joseph Missouri escaped after 17 hours trapped by a torn hand in a freight car hatch in Davenport Illinois Central switchmen freed him. He suffered severe lacerations and possible arm amputation with rescue occurring after the train began moving Wednesday afternoon.
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Chicago
George Kanellis
St. Joseph
Peter Anders
Kanellis
Davenport
Henry Bush
Illinois Central
Kamellis
James
Indianapolis
Unofficial List Of Dead In Southern California Floods
Casualties reported unofficially in southern California floods with identifications from Long Beach Los Angeles and San Juan Capistrano. Names include Johns Croft Lynn Stewart Fred Wise Rachel Whitman Donald Whitman Joseph Randall Leonard Randall Simeon Bathgate Charles Parks Charles Yount and others. Unidentified dead include a woman about 50 in the Los Angeles River and victims of bridge collapses in Los Angeles and Bell. Missing and feared dead names include W Atherton and an unidentified man washed away near Muscatel.
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Los Angeles
Cal
INS
San Francisco
California
Johns Croft
Long Beach
P. E. Kay
Lynn Stewart
Fred Wise
Rachel Whitman
Donald D. Whitman
Joseph Randal
Leonard Randall
W.E. Stone
Charles Porter
Simeon Bathgate
San Juan Capistrano
Senators demand complete senate inquiry into TVA
Senators King and Bridges press for a full senate inquiry into the Tennessee Valley Authority with a five senator special committee, power to subpoena records, and a $50,000 fund. House leaders Snell and Maverick join in calls for cross chamber probe as TVA Chairman Morgan denounces agency policies and faults.
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Washington
King
Utah
House
King Bridges
Bankhead
TVA
Arthur E. Morgan
Federal Agency
Morgan
H. A. Morgan
David E. Lilienthal
Authority
Norris
Neb
Berle Nomination Favored by Senate Foreign Relations
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday reported favorably the nomination of A. A. Berle Jr. to be assistant secretary of state.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
A. A. Berle, Jr
Santa Ana river floods Southern California towns
In California, the San Ana river breached levees flooding Atwood Fullerton Buena Park Anaheim and Garden Grove. Eighteen dead and eighteen missing were reported as a four day storm produced unprecedented rainfall. A bridge collapse near Long Beach sent spectators to the ocean with about forty five aboard feared lost.
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Anaheim
Calif
San Francisco
Santa Ana
Atwood
Fullerton
Buena Park
Garden Grove
Los Angeles
California
Long Beach
Radio Only Link To Outside World In California Floods
Frantic efforts to reach Los Angeles were hampered by washed out lines and shattered services as Santa Ana river floods Riverside and Santa Ana towns. Radio provided the sole contact while many residents took refuge in treetops and churches opened as shelters.
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San Francisco
Los Angeles
California
Riverside
Santa Ana
Huntington Beach
Citrus
Big Bear Valley
Baruch Parodies Govt Attacks as Charlie McCarthy
Arthur Baer reports Barney Baruch mocking the administration with Charlie McCarthy like jabs at unemployment policy. He scorns Bergen's consent and contrasts poultry farming metaphor with political reversal while sparring with big business amid the 1930s press voice.
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Barney Baruch
Charlie McCarthy
Bergen
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