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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1939
Page
2
Dr Andrew H Woods warns the speaking out could reveal a sleeping volcano as state mental hospitals remain dangerously understaffed. The piece contrasts Spain's civil war, press responsibility, and D A R debates over Marian Anderson with broader cautions about government and media.
Nationalist dispatches say Franco decided to attack the Madrid sector after Madrid defense council failed to stop ex premier Negrin and other deposed government members from fleeing. Casado reportedly pressed for negotiation while Franco demanded unconditional surrender as Loyalist forces crack down on communists and authorities claim to have suppressed the uprising across Cuenca Albacete and Guadalajara provinces.
Cedar manias News Dan Cerny, driver for Hladky's grocery, fined 25 dollars and costs on a reckless driving charge in police court. The 14 year old crash victim, Vernon McDowell, lay in Mercy hospital in critical condition. McDowell was a passenger in Edward Simon's truck when their vehicles collided at Second avenue and Crescent drive SE.
Irving Olds, a Japan born American and son of missionaries, says U S partnership with Japan aids its war on China. He warns continued supplies of precision tools, steel, and oil will support Japanese subjugation and close the open door to Chinese trade.
In Burgos on Tuesday a Franco government spokesman said Madrid does not want or need any outside help to end the civil war. He rejected third party conditions and warned democracies to mind their own business while Franco advances toward the Mediterranean and into Madrid without surrender terms.
Influenza and other illnesses hit local public schools with 1 172 student absences and 21 teacher absences reported to the school board by Superintendent Arthur Deamer. The breakdown lists absences by campus including Cleveland Garfield Hayes Johnson Lincoln Polk Roosevelt and McKinley among others with varied counts.
The Slovak government reaffirmed allegiance to the Czechoslovak republic at an extraordinary cabinet meeting. It addressed reports of a radical cabinet faction seeking an independent Slovakia under German protection, following Prague’s demand for a clear declaration of royal cooperation.
Dr A H Woods, director of the state psychopathic hospital in Iowa City, told lawmakers that mental institutions face an emergency due to inadequate inmate care. He urged proper appropriations to improve facilities and increase cure rates, noting overcrowding and staff strain at state hospitals.
Paris dispatch notes a close friendship forming between Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Ambassador Bullitt helped spark gatherings at the American embassy with a shared avoidance of the spotlight.
A student asks how to find God and the essay links God to humanity. It argues God is our best self and that our faith, hopes, and morals arise from the shared life of humanity, nurtured by home, school, church, and country.
The Iowa House voted 74 to 21 to approve a constitutional amendment that requires all pension bills to be put to a public vote for final approval, excluding the blind, aged, and war veterans. The measure must pass two consecutive legislatures and voters to take effect. Rep Bar C Fishbaugh Jr urged the change as democratic.
An opinion by Arthur Bugs Baur argues for limiting foreign loans to five million dollars and criticizes past aid strategy. He compares business models to a cash and carry store and cites Woolworth as an example of modern retail practice with the bell sound signaling sales.
The Omaha welfare board approved an edited version of the film Yes My Darling Daughter after a private showing on Monday. Board members placed no limitations or conditions on the screening.
In Rajkot and Magkot negotiations, Mahatma Gandhi, 69, ends a four day fast by drinking orange juice after Thakore Saheb agrees to reforms including a constitution and advisory council. Gandhi’s health, weakened by the abstinence, improves as authorities from India and Britain facilitate the settlement.
President Roosevelt designated Joseph P. Kennedy ambassador to London as his special representative at the coronation of Pope Pius XII in Rome. Kennedy travels to attend the historic ceremony and represent the United States in a diplomatic capacity.
In New York the WPA admitted a wrecking crew razed the wrong structure under a slum clearance program. Title Guarantee and Trust had requested 158 Belmont Avenue in Brooklyn be demolished, but the crew cleared 160 Belmont Avenue instead, leaving 156 and 1986 unscathed and prompting an investigation.
Federal Judge Ralph Jenney denied a motion for a direct verdict of acquittal for Mikhail Gorin Natasha Gorin and Hafis Saheh. The judge ordered the Gorins to defend against one conspiracy count while granting the Gorins full acquittals on the other counts. Saheh and Gotin received directed verdicts on all three counts.
The Homer Moat faction of the United Auto Workers met in Detroit to form an independent union disavowing CIO ties. The convention, claiming 105,000 members, completed the split into dual UAW unions and called for a referendum on future affiliations.
Washington report on a final plan to subsidize surplus food purchases for relief clients. Relief workers may receive cash or orange stamps exchangeable for food, plus blue stamps worth half the orange value for surplus items. The plan aims to boost food purchases by about one third and reduce farm surpluses.
The CIO proposed uniting AFL and four railroad brotherhoods to end the labor war. Roosevelt called leaders to White House for peace talks with a plan for a joint American Congress of Labor and new conventions in April. Proposals include equal board representation and life tenure for Green and Morrison.
Des Moines AP Iowa Senate debates the public safety department bill to merge police and inspectional services under one head. Minority Leader Breen moves to split the bill and create a separate motor vehicle and highway patrol department. Lieutenant Governor Hickenlooper weighs a point of order as the chamber recesses for lunch.
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