WPA Relief Controversy Sparks Debate Over Beer Versus Family Needs
A WPA beneficiary explains in police court he spent 45 cents on beer instead of supporting his family, sparking a larger discussion on relief policy. The piece ties tax waste, railroad costs, and public utilities to job creation and morale, noting fear and political strains in America.
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WPA
Washington
A. J. Engel
Michigan
Post Office
Congress
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Presider
NLRB Orders Sitdown Workers Rehired at Fansteel
The NLRB issued its first sitdown strike ruling directing Fansteel Metallurgical Corp of North Chicago to reinstate about ninety CIO members. The board overruled the companys claim that participation in a sitdown bars reinstatement and held the company responsible for illegal conduct that disrupted bargaining. Back pay was denied.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Fansteel Metallurgical Corp
Chicago
Committee For Industrial Organization
CIO
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America
Henry Horner
NLRB
Tilford E. Dudley
Rare Metal Workers of America
Will Rogers Talk in town and frame of the world
A 1938 reminiscence recalls Will Rogers visiting a town, chatting with locals after a lecture. The cowboy philosopher ponders what’s the matter with the world, blaming people and urging individual improvement as the path to a gentler wiser humanity.
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Jewton Dillaway
Will Rogers
Josh
Rogers
Browning
God
No Human In Darrow Case Sent To The Chair
A 1938 remark recalls Clarence Darrow at the Scopes trial in Tennessee and denies any client of Darrow being executed. The piece mentions Darrow’s courtroom lapses, Bryan’s Dayton stance, and a quip about a chimpanzee and a barber chair, ending with a copyright notice.
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Darrow
Hoadley and Kosek Win in Cedar Rapids School Election
Herbert Hoadley and Ernest Kosek won Cedar Rapids school board seats in a light voter turnout with 2 226 ballots cast of 23 000 registered. Hoadley 1 271 votes and Koseli 1 191 led a slate that included William McCall 645 and Alexander Sampson 505. Stepanek unopposed for treasurer with 1 447. A property disposal measure for the skating rink east of Roosevelt High passed 1 112 to 256. Hoadley resides at 1421 A avenue NW and ran Cedar Rapids Typesetting Co. He first joined the board in August 1934.
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Herbert H. Hoadley
Ernest Kosek
Cedar Rapids
Hoadley
Koselli
William McCall
Alexander Sampson
Ervin F. Stepanek
The
Peoples Savings Bank
Roosevelt High School
A Avenue NW
Cedar Rapids Typesetting Company
Arthur Hurtt
Roosevelt civil service reform bill survives key Senate vote
Washington insiders report the Senate defeated Senator Walsh's amendment to the government reorganization bill by 50 to 38. The measure would have blocked abolishing the three man Civil Service Commission and creating a single civil service administrator with an advisory board.
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Washington
INS
Senate
Roosevelt
Walsh
Massachusetts
Civil Service Commission
Rebels Open Victory Drive Rumors Stir Editorial Column
London reports thirty thousand German storm troops en route to Spain to strike at the loyalist government. Paris denies rumors of capitulation as insurgents push toward Catalonia. Insurgent forces advance from Alcaniz toward Tortosa and Valencia while Barcelona vows to raise 100000 volunteers to defend Catalonia.
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London
Spain
Hendaye
France
Raimundo
Valencia
Barcelona
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Catalonia
Alcaniz
Terraccilla
Tarragona
Castellon de la Plana
Tortosa
Castellon
Iran
Caspe
Voters Endure Rain as They Line Up for City Election
Persistent rain kept voters at home early Tuesday but they began marching to the polls by mid morning. A lightning strike at 929 Fourth Street swept a window from the M Gowan residence but caused no fire and minor damage. Mary Ann McGowan narrowly escaped harm.
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Cedar Hrounds
Chambers Inskeep Company
M. J. McGowan
Fourth Street
Mary Ann McGowan
Lindberghs Plan To Return To United States Soon
Plainfield Courier News reported from an authoritative source that Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh, en route to England, planned to return to the United States and make their permanent residence at the Lindbergh estate near Hopewell.
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Plainfield
N. J
Plainfield Courier News
Charles A. Lindbergh
England
United States
Lindbergh
Hopewell
City Primary Returns From Cedar Rapids Returns
Cedar Rapids voters will hear results from the city primary election as ballots come in directly from City Hall. Polls close at 8 p.m. tonight and returns will be reported as precincts transmit them.
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Cedar Rapids
Gazette
Cedar Rapids Chamber Plans Farm Bureau Dinner March 24
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce and Farm Bureau prepare their annual dinner on Thursday March 24 at the Shrine temple. James E Gheen humorist and philosopher from New York City will be the principal speaker. Tickets for Chamber members include guest Farm Bureau member. Rex Conn will collect reservations and 4 H club talent will perform.
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Chamber of Commerce-Farm Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Rex Conn
Farm Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Linn County
Marguerite Michel
Evelyn Aschenbrener
Billy Boston
J. J Shepard
Gheen
Weather And Low Turnout Slow City Primary Vote
Rain and cold wind kept Cedar Randals voters away as early counts from 22 of 23 precincts showed 1702 ballots in seven hours. Officials projected totals near 4000 to 7500 final, with only four precincts over 100. Final tallies awaited at City Clerk L. J Storey’s office for March 28 results.
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Cedar Ranlds News—o
Pam
L. J Storey
Rail Conferees See No Pay Slash
Washington AP Chairman W M W Splawn of the Interstate Commerce Commission said after a White House conference the general consensus is railroads should earn enough to pay employees without wage reductions or layoffs. He noted no wage-cut solution was discussed and workers would need care if economies involved layoffs.
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Washington
W. M. W. Splawn
Interstate Commerce Commission
White House
Splaawn
Roosevelt
Chicago
George H. Harrison
Association of
Railway Labor Executives
Wheeler
Mont
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senators Seek Joint Probe Into TVA Administration
A coalition of senate and house critics introduced identical resolutions for a joint congressional inquiry into all aspects of the TVA act of 1933. The measure calls for a 10 member panel, five from each chamber, to report with expenses set at 50 000, aiming to avoid separate investigations by the two houses.
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Washington
Senate
House
TVA
Congressional
Bridges
NWU
King
Utah
May
House Military Affairs Committee
Andrews
N. Y
Norris
Federal Trade Commission
Barkley
MceNary
Ore
Congress
Bennett Man Waives Hearing On Drunk Driving Charge
W Pollock of Bennett Iowa waived preliminary hearing on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after arrest at 1 30 am March 8 on U S highway 6 west of Atalissa by two highway patrolmen. He was released on 500 bond. Pollock was previously fined 30 plus costs at Stanwood for reckless driving and speeding after a collision involving a patrol car and a truck that left Patrolman Harold Parr with a broken left leg in a Cedar Rapids hospital.
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Cedar Rapiids News Co
W. Pollock
Bennett
Atalissa
Justice Court
Tipton
Cummings
Daley
West Liberty
Pollock
Stanwood
Harold Parr
Edwin Freese
Cedar Rapids
Mechanicsville
Parr
Boy 3 Found Alive After Wandering In Kentucky Woods
Ralph Orville Wright aged 3 wandered in the hills near Lebanon Kentucky since Sunday afternoon and was found alive Tuesday by Ralph’s uncle Bluford Wright and farmer Michael Hays. A search party of about 400 people combed the rugged knobs to locate him. Ralph cried for help when spotted and identified his uncle. He had gone into the woods with his 15yearold brother William who was chopping wood.
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Lebanon
Ralph Orville Wright
Michael Hays
Ralph
Bluford Wright
William
Wright
Britain Warned Reich She Might Aid Czechs
Paris reports alarm at Germany’s Austria annexation and Franco-British war footing as Chamberlain resisted full mobilization while signaling readiness to aid Czechoslovakia if Hitler annexes the German minority. Mussolini hardens stance against peace talks as Britain weighs response.
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Britain
Reich
London
Chamberlain
Adolf Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Hitler
Austria
House of Commons
Cedar County Supervisors Fight Ouster Order Publicized
Four Cedar county board members John P. Jensen Fred G. Daut G. D. Goldsmith and Louis Hansen challenge ouster orders after a grand jury probe alleging improper purchases lax record keeping and gasoline shortages The motion claims lack of authority and deprives them of fair trial while exhibits allegedly owned by the movants are cited as unlawfully withheld Supervisor J H W Maurer of Tipton is cleared.
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Tipton
John P. Jensen
Fred G. Daut
G. D. Goldsmith
Louis Hansen
Cedar County Board of Supervisor
John T. Moffit
E C Halbach
Clinton
Edith Hill
E. A Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Ray Potter
Howard S Hamilton
Movants
J. HW. Maurer
Naval policy clash in U S Navy bill debate
Rep James Wadsworth blasts Europe’s dictatorships as a Monroe Doctrine challenge as House critics push to strip or alter the policy provision of a billion dollar naval expansion bill. The liberal progressive and farm labor coalition vows a showdown on maintaining a two coast navy and protecting commerce and nationals abroad.
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Washington
INS
Europe
James Wadsworth
New York
House
United States
PLEA 10 MEET RESPONSIBILITY MADE BY HITLER
Adolf Hiller arrives in Munich by special plane at night returning from Austria. A mass trial of about twenty people for high treason against Czechoslovakia will start soon before the peoples' court in Berlin. Germany assumes control of Austria and prohibits Jews from voting while Hitler calls 7 000 000 new subjects to meet their duties.
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Austria
Germany
Hitler
Vienna
Roosevelt
Munich
Adolf Hiller
Berlin
Czechoslovakia
Peoples’ Court
Hitler declares no immediate union. Vienna dispatch reports
From Linz Hitler spoke from a balcony amid cheers of one folk one state one teacher. Ward Price of the Daily Mail quotes Hitler saying he does not intend to proclaim immediate union, despite reports of a planned Anschluss with Austria.
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London
Adolf Hitler
Austria
Germany
Linz
Ward Price
Daily
Maal
Vienna
Price
Hitler
Austria Falls Under German Rule Simultaneous With Nazi Occupation
News recounts Austria’s absorption into Germany led by Hitler and Goering. Seyss-Inquart becomes governor. voting rights extend to Austrian citizens aged 20 with Nazi Jews barred. Austria declared a fortress of national socialism as crowds cheer in Heroes' Square. Continued on Page 13.
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Joachim von Ribbentrop
Forestry Office
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Interior Ministry
War Department
Seyss-Inquart
Kurt Schuschnigg
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Hitler
Heroes’ Square
Austria
Germany
Vienna
Roman Cays
Schuschnigg
Heroes
Foreign Newsmen Prisoners As Fuehrer Speaks
About thirty five members of the foreign press corps almost missed Hitler's speech in Heroes square when they found themselves prisoners in the chancellery. They tried to leave but were blocked by an SS trooper who ordered them back and warned he would shoot if stairs were not cleared. The world press sought aid from the press section and representations to the American legation before release as Hitler spoke.
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Vienna
Hitler
Heroes’ Square
Foreign Office
World Press
Legation
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Iowa
Uncle Sam
Westinghouse Electric
Westinghouse
DR. Newton
Arthur “Bugs” Baer
Tennessee
Bill Bryan
Young Scopes
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Dayton
Kosek
Cedar Rapids News
F. D.R. Civil Service
Paris
David Darling
Lindys
U. S
C. OF C. Farm Bureau
Bulletin
Fuehrer
Nazi Germany
Wilhelm Wolf
Shout
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