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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1938
Page
1
A column notes Diagonal wins the Iowa high school basketball title, praising the Diagonal squad for their upset over Benjamin Franklin and celebrating small-town athletic merit while reflecting on broader world events and press protocols.
A storyteller cites a teacher who likens belief in God to a kite tugging at the unseen. He argues that a moral sense and religious faith arise from an inward pull beyond material sight, citing Emerson Woolman and Matheson to show how such a pull elevates humanity.
The Supreme Court denied the petition by Alphonse Capone's attorneys to review the one year jail term in Cook county jail after his Alcatraz sentence. The justices delayed a decision on the constitutionality of a 1935 act governing public utility holding companies and adjourned for two weeks. They also declined to hear cases on municipally owned utilities and the flag salute issue for want of a substantial federal question.
A sunny Cedar Rapids day saw a rapid temperature rise from 31 at 7 a.m. to 53 by 2:30 p.m. Monday, with a daytime high around 57 and a Sunday night low of 33, per Chambers Inskeep records.
The Senate approved Monday committee amendments to a government reorganization bill that would bar the President from abolishing the functions of any federal bureau.
Secretary Hull rejects a group of fifteen New England house members asking to delay or abandon America's trade treaty negotiations. He argues halting the program risks world economic warfare and harms U S foreign commerce, noting New England would suffer without the treaty benefits.
A purse snatcher during a Lenten Mass at Immaculate Conception church stole Miss Hazel Grady's purse containing 11 dollars and Miss Regina Collins's purse with one dollar. A well dressed young man was seen taking the purses from pews while masses were underway. Detectives opened an investigation.
President Roosevelt provided excerpts from press conference transcripts to show how he explained New Deal objectives during 1933 to 1936. The released material sheds light on his thought processes and terms like horse and buggy era and managed currency, while omitting the full record.
Chairman Vinson warns against tying the President’s hands over a 1 billion naval buildup as debate opens in the House for a week. Administration argues preparedness ensures peace amid European tensions and Far East fighting, even as San Diego mobilizes for 1938 Pacific war games. Republican and Democrat voices clash over disarmament and a call for a State Department probe into British influence.
Detroit readers report Father Charles E. Coughlin proposed a class government with distinct labor and capital representatives in Congress. The plan would convert the Senate into a sanctioning body of two members per state from labor and capital, while the House would allocate representation by craft or capital division.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Thurman Arnold, Yale law professor, to succeed Robert H. Jackson as assistant attorney general. The vote was not recorded as the committee met in executive session Monday.
Richard Whitney former NYSE president and head of Richard Whitney and Co pled guilty to a grand jury indictment charging grand larceny. He admitted stealing 10 500 from the estate of George R Sheldon father in law. Bail set at 10 000 while 25 000 on another indictment. a federal probe followed questions about Mrs Marjorie Pyle Montgomery related to the Whitney affair.
Senator Guffey announced after a White House conference that Charles F. Hosford has resigned as chairman of the national bituminous coal commission and that President Roosevelt will accept the resignation. The commission, criticized after the suspension of minimum price schedules, had twice been unable to have the move adopted.
New Rochelle New York INS reports federal agents and local police have taken charge of the Peter Levine kidnapping case. Murray Levine says authorities can no longer remain inactive. His son vanished over two weeks ago.
An old foe will speak at Clarence Darrow’s simple memorial in the Joseph Bond chapel at the University of Chicago. Judge William H Holly will address attendees as Darrow’s body is cremated. Darrow, who would turn 81 in April, died Sunday of heart trouble, famed for defending the underdog in cases from Debs to Leopold and Loeb.
The piece satirically mocks political dining at a congressional event with jokes on free oysters and champagne. It parodies the era's rhetoric by tying meals to budgeting and governance and cites the 1938 date and general wartime humor.
A crowd of about a million Viennese greeted Adolf Hitler on his entry into Vienna on Monday as Austria becomes part of the German Reich. He rode in an open car along six miles of streets to the Imperial hotel amid bells and cheers. Officials announced a formal welcome and speech in Heroes' Square the next morning.
Austria begins total alignment with Nazi rule as Hitler travels from Linz to a new provincial capital. Ordinances strip Jews from legal practice and judicial offices, impacting about 75,000 people, including roughly 70 percent of Austrian lawyers. Next targets include banning Jewish doctors, affecting about 60,000 physicians.
Delavan Wisconsin. Betty Crabb 19 thrice wed was found shot dead at her in law parents home. Her husband James 21 confessed to the killing claiming accident. State's Attorney R L Russell says further arrests may follow as special prosecutor John E Cassidy joins the investigation.
Voters flow into Cedar Rapids precincts with 736 ballots by 2 30 p m and 192 by 9 30 a m polls run 7 a m to 7 p m Heaviest turnout at fire station No 6 Fourth avenue and Seventeenth street SE which serves ninth and tenth precincts Only nineteen ballots in first and eighteenth precincts Candidates for school board are H H Hoadley Ernest Kosek William McCall and Alexander Ler Sampson
Prime Minister Chamberlain signaled a widening British arms program to match Germany’s moves after Austria’s annexation. He declined to promise aid to France in defending Czechoslovakia, insisting Britain would remain interested in central European developments and oppose pan German influence.
AP reports rising tension across Europe as Nazi stance shifts the region toward conflict. Vienna notes antisemitic frenzy amid Hitler welcome. Berlin outlines Austrian economic aims. London weighs crisis. Paris seeks British aid. Rome solidifies ties. Budapest eyes Burgenland swap. Vatican doubts Catholic safety. Prague warns of Hitler coup. Danzig seeks union. Moscow flags threat as Czechoslovakia viewed as next target.
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