Roosevelts reorganizing bill faces Senate vote
Readers urged to contact Senator Gillette to oppose centralizing executive power under Roosevelt. The piece argues the plan would let the president reshape agencies without Congress and calls for defending constitutional balance. It notes tax costs of the Bell system and questions Depression era policies.
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Guy M. Gillette
Washington
Senate
Congress
Gillette
Iowa
Roosevelt
Landis May Smash Cards Chain In Baseball Probe
Cedar Rapids cited in probe as Judge Landis may declare 160 players free agents Stanford O'Connor says up to 500 athletes affected. Investigation covers working agreements between the Cedar Rapids and Rochester clubs and other minor league affiliates.
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Belleair
Fla
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Landis
Leslie M. O'Connor
O'Connor
Cardinals
Cedar Rapids
Rochester
St. Louis
Chicago
Springfield
Branch Rickey
Red Bird
Rickey
City To Stay In Three Eye Says Harry Johnson
Cedar Rapids CEO Harry Johnson declares the city will remain in the Three-Eye League and keep its ball club despite looming sanctions. Reports tie Cedar Rapids to the Cardinal farm probe with lingering questions about affiliations with the New York Giants and potential punishments from Judge Landis.
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Harry Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Kenesaw M. Landis
Harry Grayson
NBA
Landis
Florida
Grayson
Cedar Rapids Raiders
Johnson
New York Giants
Bill Terry
Raiders
Giants
Cardinal
St. Louis
Leslie O’connor
O’connor
W. G. Bramham
Land
Winter and Spring Weather Collide in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids reports a weather mix as spring rain totaling .79 inches fell early followed by dense snow and wet flakes. By afternoon the ground was white, then rain returned, temps near 34, with preceding total precipitation at 1.64 inches and a 41 degree peak earlier. The Chambers Inskeep recorder notes fog and overcast skies into mid morning Wednesday.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Chambers
Recorder
German Troop Movements Stir Debate Over Spain
The piece claims large German forces in Spain at Mussolini’s request with Hitler awaiting Mussolini’s recall. It notes Chamberlain’s negotiating condition for a pullback, suggesting Hitler’s storm troops would fill the gap. The tone mocks both leaders for flexibility over liberty.
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Spain
Hitler
Mussolini
Chamberlain
Adolf
Benito
Senate Foes Of Reorganization Bill Express Downcast
In Washington AP report Senator Pittman urges changes to the administration reorganization bill calling for Secretary Ickes to stop meddling. Senate foes complain of slim hope for modifications after a test vote as Byrd vows continued amendments despite likely defeats. The body rejected Walshs bid to preserve the civil service commission three members. The bill would empower a single President appointed administrator for 15 years and limit immediate effect of reorganizing orders without congressional approval.
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Washington
Pittman
Nev
Senate
Ickes
Byrd
Walsh
Mass
Civil Service Commission
Wheeler (D
Mont
Congress
Extension Granted for Government Corn Loan Applications
Secretary Wallace announced an indefinite extension of the deadline for applying for government corn loans beyond the original March 31 date.
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Washington
Wallace
Security Markets Break Wide Open
World security markets broke wide open as heavy liquidation spread, signaling a deepening crisis in Europe. Mounting fear sent foreign currencies to new yearly lows while capital surged into the United States.
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New York
INS
United States
All Council Members Lead Primary Field
Four candidates for city office were eliminated Tuesday in the city primary election while five incumbent council members led their fields into the final lap toward the March 28 municipal general election. The mayoral race topped totals with 5,747 votes split 3,068 for Frank I. Hahn and 2,679 for J. Fred Currell.
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Frank IK
Hahn
J. Fred Currell
R L. “Doc” Whelan
Benton County
W. C. Benesh
L. D Burgus
J. A. DuBois
Earl Booth
Burgus
Dave Williams
Public Improvements
C.J. Anthony
Williams
Anthony
F. McLaughthin
Ed Stefan
Ed Sheffie
West Side
Robert Harger
George Holmes
L. J. Storey
Earl Miller
The Death of a Scientist and His Spiritual Vision
Charles Steinmetz, famed for electrical wonders, lived frugally, donated his wealth, and pursued a laboratory life. He declined lavish salaries and urged humanity to seek spiritual laws as the next step, warning power without vision could destroy us.
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America
Asmussen
Steinmetz
Pershing Sits Up In Wheel Chair
General John J. Pershing, recovering from heart trouble, sat up in a wheel chair for ten minutes under the care of Dr. Ronald Davison in Tucson Arizona. News earlier warned he had little hope for his life, but his condition improved enough to permit the brief sitting session.
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Tucson
Ariz
INS
John J. Pershing
Ronald Davison
Pershing
America
Seadlund Gives His Version In Ross Kidnaping Case
In Chicago a federal jury heard John Henry Seadlund recount his role in the Charles S. Ross kidnapping. Seadlund had pleaded guilty to the ransom murder of the 72 year old Chicago manufacturer for fifty thousand dollars, a crime that drew a government bid for the death penalty.
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Chicago
John Henry Seadlund
Charles S. Ross
House Panel Moves to Create Shipping Commission
Washington group defies maritime authority and votes to report the Welch resolution to keep three large liners running between New York and the Pacific coast.
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Washington
INS
Maritime Commission
House Merchant Marine Committee
Welch
New York
Pacific Coast
Franco Lines 10 Fall Back 30 Miles Near Caspe
Stubborn government resistance stops Franco's drive to the sea as insurgent forces pull back thirty miles to Caspe to defend their left flank. Government reinforcements rush to Caspe while fierce fighting rages at Chiprana and the Ebro crossing.
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Hendaye
France
Francisco Franco
Alecaniz
Caspe
Catalonia
Spain
Aragon
Ebro
Alcaniz
Valderrobres
Chiprana
Franco
Jesus Hernandez
German Embassy Denies Troop Deployment Report
The German embassy in London dismissed as false a report from Spain's news agency claiming 30,000 German storm troopers were en route from a German port to Spain to aid in ending the civil war in favor of the insurgents.
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London
Spain
Massachusetts Politicians Urge James Roosevelt for Lieutenant Governor
Massachusetts Democrats plan a White House visit to press James Roosevelt son of the President for the lieutenant governorship this fall. The 30 year old White House secretary may consider the bid but observers doubt he will run this year while remaining focused on his duties and a 1940 plan.
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Washington
Massachusetts
White House
James Roosevelt
Bay State
Roosevelt
Congress
Marine Corps
Charles Maliotis
Democratic State Committee
Maliotis
Boston
Harvard
Tory Row
Framingham
Sen James
Mussolini vows Italy will defend frontiers against Germany
Rome AP reports Mussolini told a packed chamber that frontiers are sacred and Italy will defend them. He also blessed Hitler's absorption of Austria, saying Austria’s German statehood could not remain anti-German.Broadcasts urged calm as fascists gathered to hear the duce address growing fears over the Brenner pass and German expansion.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Adolf Hitler
Austria
Duce
Chamber of Deputies
Italy
Brenner Pass
Mussolini
Grand Council
I Duce
Blum Pleads For Truce in Spain and Wider Europe
Premier Leon Blum appealed to Neville Chamberlain to join Britain and France in seeking an immediate Spanish armistice. He urged concerted action to counter the influx of Italian and German troops aiding the insurgents while Franco-Soviet ties firm up the defense of Czechoslovakia.
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Paris
Leon Blum
Neville Chamberlain
Blum
Britain
France
Mediterranean
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
Praha
People’s Front
Premer Blum
Chamber
Senate
Jacob Suritz
Joseph Paul Boncour
Russia
Czech
Paul Boncour
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Hitler
Spain
Chamberlain Holds Line on Colonial Demands in European Crises
Britain faces a tense moment as Chamberlain refuses to commit to changes over Germany’s demands. He notes France and Britain coordinate to avert a crisis while warning against premature announcements on potential Nazi threats to Czechoslovakia.
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Chamberlain
London
INS
Germany
Austria
Neville Chamberlain
Berlin
House of Commons
France
Britain
Clement Attlee
Spain
Czechoslovakia
Fuehrer Returns in Role of Hero Bulletin
AP report from Berlin states the Reichstag convenes Friday at 8 p.m. as Adolf Hitler, the Fuehrer, appears to address the assembly. The article notes Hitler commands an audience of about 74,900 and frames the moment as a propaganda milestone.
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Fuehrer
Bulletin— Berlin
Reichstag
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
der Fuehrer
Hitler returns to Berlin amid Polish ultimatum rumors
The Berlin crowd welcomed Hitler as Goering and field troops greeted the honored return. An army source cited a Polish threat against Lithuania as the reason for his hurried travel from Munich and Vienna. Details followed on page 3.
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Austria
Berlin
Lithuania
Germany
Hitler
Munich
Greater Germany
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Goering
Vienna
Europe Map Makers Write in Sky Over Europe
By Arthur Bugs Bat. The piece notes Europe’s map makers operating in sky writing as a metaphor for shifting power. Mussolini is described as second in the dictator class, while England clings to old Gladstonian proclamations. Germany’s clocks are said to have stopped in 1914 and turned back by 1938, implying upheaval.
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Arthur
Bugs” Bat
Europe
Sky
Mussolini
England
Germany
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NEA Service
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Carrell
Cedar Rapids News
Charles Steinmetz
Electricity
DR. Newton
Seadlund
Ross
House Group Floats Shipping Commission
Dulleting
United Press
Premier Blum
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Viscount Halrfax
Warsaw
Poland
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