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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1938
Page
1
The piece surveys Adolf Hitler and Franklin D. Roosevelt accusing the press of distortion amid rising totalitarianism and New Deal politics. It notes Roosevelt’s claim that about eighty five percent of the U S press opposed him in 1936 and critiques media censorship and government meddling.
London informed Germany that any interference with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg's independence plebiscite in Austria Sunday will be regarded as a hostile act. Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax conveyed the warning to Joachim von Ribbentrop during his farewell call at the British foreign office amid demonstrations for a conference.
German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop faced hostile demonstrations outside the British foreign office as he met with Viscount Halifax in London. The discussions followed an exploratory Anglo German push for European appeasement and centered on Germany’s imperial demands and colonial questions.
Linn county grand jury found no bill on Albert Kullander 64 of Marion charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The panel noted he pled guilty to a reckless driving charge in justice court and was fined $100. The report lists five secret indictments, approved by District Judge F O Ellison.
The Kansas journalist Mel Driscoll, long a familiar syndicated columnist, is introduced as a fresh Wichita editorial presence. A Kansan who moved to New York in youth, he brings city insights and a warm regard for local figures.
Vienna reports say Dr Alfred Seyss-Inquart resigned as interior minister to Chancellor Schuschnigg. Adolf Hitler sent Wilhelm Keppler as special envoy to Vienna to influence Austria’s stance on the upcoming plebiscite after talks at Seyss-Inquart’s office.
In Vienna, tensions rose as Nazis and the fatherland front rallied for Sunday’s plebiscite on Chancellor Schuschnigg’s independence policy. Police were deployed citywide, with up to forty injured and twenty-three detained amid clashes on Kaerntner strasse. German leader Hitler looms in the background.
Franklin High of Cedar Rapids defeated Abraham Lincoln of Council Bluffs 35-24 in the first round of the state high school basketball tournament. Mike Kanellis scored three late field baskets to seal the win as Albert Eddy led Franklin with steady scoring.
The House tentatively approved raising liquor tax from 2.00 to 2.25 dollars per gallon to recoup an estimated 30 to 45 million dollars lost by discarding a proposed tax on closely held corporations. Chairman Doughton suggested a second revenue bill might be needed if the tax on closely held corporations is dropped. Morgenthau outlined alternate proposals as backups.
A sedan driven by Otho R. Doolittle skidded on a slippery crossing at F avenue and Fifth street NW and crashed into a telephone pole. Injured were Emma Savage with a fractured collar bone and R. James with a neck injury. Both were taken to St Luke's hospital.
The commerce department reported January exports at 289.44 million dollars up from 222.67 million a year earlier while imports fell from 240.26 million to 170.76 million. The rise in exports and drop in imports occurred across all world regions.
Dr Newton protests the sale and demolition of Brick Church in New York after nearly a century as a city landmark. He warns the decline of central worship risks erasing a beacon on Fifth Avenue and urges preserving ancient shrines for the soul amid urban change.
Thomas J Mooney testifies before the California assembly declaring his innocence in the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing in San Francisco that killed ten and maimed forty. He again denies involvement, arguing he is unjustly serving a life sentence for a labor protest plot attributed to him and Warren K Billings.
Paris AP Leon Blum socialist former premier accepted President Lebrun mandate to form a new cabinet replacing Ca mille Chautemps. Chautemps resigned after 51 days, unable to win decree powers over finances. Blum seeks stable government rallying democracy with socialist backing and possible Communist support.
Berlin AP reports Reichsfuehrer Hitler reappointed Dr Kjalmar Schacht as president of the Reichsbank for four more years. His term starts March 16 as the current one expires. Schacht, a longtime influence on Germany’s finances, had resigned as economy minister last November 26 amid differences with Field Marshal Goering over plans for self sufficiency.
Paris dispatch reports Austrians vote Sunday on independence or union with Germany. Knickerbocker notes the ballot as a democratic challenge to Hitler, claiming it marks democracy’s boldest stand since dictators rose. The plebiscite asks if Austria should remain independent and Christian while rejecting anschluss.
Tom Holbert of Greeley plans an open house at his farm to gauge home folks and voters in Delaware County about a possible Republican bid for Iowa governor. He says he will spend only his own money and seeks honest reactions from Republicans and Democrats alike before any decision.
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee urged creating twenty one federal judgeships to ease crowded dockets and keep pace with rising litigation. The proposal, backed by Sen Ashurst and Sen Hatch, would add six circuit judges, twelve district judges, two DC court judges, and one DC Court of Appeals justice, with vacancies in southern New York and eastern Michigan held first.
The Cedar Rapids area saw a brief spring snow blanket weaken under strong sun. Temperatures fell to 19 near dawn from 32 Wednesday midnight, then rose to 48 by 2:40 pm. Winds and sun melted most of the half inch fall by afternoon.
Lancaster Missouri. Leo Dean, descendant of Henry Dean an archbishop of Canterbury, reports to health authorities that fourteen of his seventeen children are ill with measles. Dean is a farmer.
Secretary Ickes released a letter accusing Wendell Willkie of urging public works to conspire with him to delay PWA funded municipal power projects in the Tennessee Valley. He said PWA will continue loans and grants unless delays are chosen by local governments and TVA talks proceed. Senator Norris backs a congressional inquiry into TVA with limits on who can serve.
The piece notes three Albanian Zog sisters, of marriageable age, offering an American man a chance to marry into a Kentucky feud context. It portrays Zog of Albania as bold, resolute, and reluctant to foreign intervention, with humorous rhetoric about language barriers and bravado.
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