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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1934
Page
1
The column cites Col. Lindbergh’s stance on air policy, critiques lawmakers for voting patterns, and notes concerns over mortgage moratoriums and credit. It also covers wage issues in industry, the air corps readiness, Dillinger parole history, law enforcement aviation plans, and narcotics disappearance at Joliet prison.
The March 1 planting intentions report shows corn to fall ten percent from last year with tobacco down nearly 26 percent. Spring wheat and rice are forecast to decline two to four percent, while oats barley flaxseed and several crops rise.
President Roosevelt issued a long executive order placing full authority with the NRA to regulate government contractors. The order extends NRA code requirements to all contracts and purchase orders funded or assisted by federal agencies and allows IRS approval for specific exemptions. Penalties include a $500 fine and up to six months in jail for false certification.
John A. Simpson president of the National Farmers Union died in emergency hospital after a heart attack. He was 62, a vigorous farm leader who urged organization and legislative aid for agriculture. He died following testimony before the senate finance committee. Simpson hailed from Oklahoma City and was born July 4, 1871 in Salem Nebraska.
A reader asks if forty marks failure or a turn toward success. The piece cites Lincoln's midpoint doubts and later rise, Ibsen, DeMorgan, Beecher, Gladstone, and Smetham to argue success is defined by purpose and integrity, not worldly gains, with a 1934 copyright note.
Four Byrd expedition flyers on the Blue Eagle and Miss American Airways escaped serious harm when the single motor Fokker crashed at Little America during a test southern flight. Pilot Lieut Commal Isaac Schlossbach and three passengers Zahn Dustin and Young were dazed but unhurt as the plane skidded and rolled to a halt amid snow.
Washington AP reports railroad managers proposed extending the 10 percent wage cut through April 30 1935 to support national recovery in 1934. The plan would suspend negotiations until January 1. About 1 500 union reps attended as a conference committee withdrew a 15 percent cut proposal.
Cedar Rapids area's temperature rose from a Wednesday low of 40 to 64 degrees by 2 30 p.m. Thursday with 41 at 7 a.m and 50 at 9 30 a.m. Ideal spring weather prevailed after a Wednesday high of 48 and a 41 degree evening.
The discovery that thousands of gallons of alcohol disappeared from the university supply in Iowa City led to a concealed scandal as officials kept the matter quiet. No public inquiry was launched and details remained undisclosed.
The text questions the defensibility of allowing state owned narcotics or alcohol to be obtained by prisoners or students, noting disbelief at the disappearances of state owned materials from both prisons and universities.
A twelve member committee was appointed to represent the retail and service trade industries in code modification negotiations. Rivers Peterson chairs the committee with broader NRA structure for general negotiations alongside durable and consumer goods groups. Members include retailers wholesalers and laundries cleaning and dyeing restaurants and hotels.
Maj. Gen. Foulois, chief of the army air corps, says the service must be fully organized equipped and trained to meet any national emergency on twenty four hours notice. He calls air mail tests a peace time gauge and urges federal funding to cut aviation accidents and strengthen training.
Washington AP telegraph companies nationwide summoned to a code hearing set for April 2 under an industrial code law. The skeleton code, submitted last August, was deemed wholly unsatisfactory by the NRA. Senator Dill to push a Senate inquiry into American Telephone and Telegraph and its subsidiaries within ten days.
C. O. Cunningham a Northwestern Bell lineman from 1101 First Avenue East suffered a severely sprained right leg at 3 p.m. Wednesday when a Third Street SW pole rotted at the base fell during repair work. A cable caught him and he was thrown to the paving, then taken to St Luke's hospital by ambulance.
Washington AP Hugh 8 Johnson recovery administrator assumed task to keep peace between employers and workers in the auto industry after the industry defied unions. The national labor board adjourned without action awaiting Wagner bill to empower enforcement. Knudsen of General Motors conferred with Johnson and labor board members as talks continued. William Green AFL testified to more company unions since the recovery law and urged defense of workers rights to organize and bargain.
General Motors informed the national labor board it would not recognize an AFL union. William Green warned of possible auto industry strikes. Lindbergh agreed to testify on air mail legislation. Roosevelt tightened NRA compliance rules for contractors. Dill urged a Senate inquiry into AT&T. Darrow NRA board authority faced challenge. Morgenthau cited disinterestedness in silver advocates. Snell questioned Walter J. Cummings’ treasury appointment. Cohen left the White House amid chairmanship talk. Bankhead cotton control bill nears House passage.
Col Charles A Lindbergh again refuses to join Secretary Dern’s air corps investigation board citing desire to avoid indirect involvement in military backed private aviation. Clarence Chamberlin joins the panel while Eddie Rickenbacker is expected to testify. Air mail operations remain grounded as debate over private versus government control intensifies.
A Kansas City taxpayer asked the federal collector Dan N. Nee to pay his four cent income tax in four quarterly installments. Nee replied it was permitted under federal regulations. The man then slapped a copper coin on the desk saying he preferred that method.
Glen Roy Wright, 34, linked to the murder of Tulsa attorney J Earl Smith and robberies in Coffeyville and Stillwater, was captured with seven others by a 20 member posse near Mannford. They were jailed in Sapulpa. Wright and fugitive Harry Campbell are tied to Smith’s death in 1932.
The Norwegian S. S. Norviken reported looted by twenty two pirates early Tuesday off Turnabout Island in Formosa strait sixty miles southeast of Foochow. There were no casualties aboard.
A brief item notes 61 accidents with 277 people injured and no deaths listed. Further context unknown due to fragmentary text.
Samuel Insull, the Chicago fugitive, vanished from his Athens apartment on the eve of forced departure. His wife was deemed an undesirable alien and ordered deported while police questioned her after she disclosed his flight. Reports said he may have boarded the Orient Express car near Piraeus and headed north toward Paris.
Greek authorities questioned Insull associates after a nationwide hunt for the steel and energy magnate spread across Europe. Rumors placed him from Luzemburg to Thebes with theories he fled disguised as a woman or sought refuge with Mount Athos monks, while authorities warned Greece-wide and abroad and searched Insull's Athens apartment.
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