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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1934
Page
1
A miscellany of 1930s Washington notes shows Lindbergh’s waning symbolism, senators probing his lone eagle stance on merging air services, and legislative absences delaying action. Other items cover Robt. Cornish dog revival experiments, Pat Patterson’s political bid, and calls for public utility rate relief.
The Insull brothers Samuel and Martin face larceny and embezzlement charges linked to the collapse of the Insull utilities holdings. Samuel fled toward Crete aboard the Maiotis as Greece ordered the ship to return. Martin was extradited by Canada’s Chief Justice and will be sent to the United States. Greek authorities plan to place him on the first America-bound steamship or train. Mrs. Insull and a governess are classified as undesirable aliens and expect removal. The case highlights cross border efforts to bring Samuel and Martin Insull to trial.
Charles Lindbergh urged mail flying return to private lines pending collusion trial. Hugh S Johnson engineered a five day truce in auto labor dispute. Roosevelt seeks reciprocal tariff powers and quick New York relief bill passage. Telegraph firms called to code conference. Justice Department delays action against Martin until illness charges trial. Senate panels probe munitions. Veterans benefits and federal pay fights persist. NRA code cases appealed to Supreme Court. Rainey pledges Monday vote on two silver bills. Wallace enforces evaporated milk marketing pact.
The NRA and the national labor board deferred to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce to avert a threatened strike as the first major constitutional challenge to the national industrial recovery act approached the Supreme Court. General Johnson urged industry self-government while union leaders delayed action for 24 hours to seek terms.
In Washington the House narrowly approved sending the veterans payments and independent offices supply bill to conference by a 190 to 189 vote after a late reversal. Rep Kennedy of New York changed his position, salvaging administration backing as debate over the 15 percent federal pay cut lingered. Earlier, a motion to recede from the Vinson amendment failed 225 to 161, keeping the full 15 percent restoration alive in the Senate version.
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation seeks power to operate a general banking business. Jesse H. Jones will address the Senate Banking Committee to urge legislation granting RFC broad authority to lend to industry, include foreign trade, and assist private banks with up to five year loans to firms employing ten or more, under NRA compliance.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt returned to the United States at 12 45 p m Friday as the Pan American seaplane carrying her from San Juan Porto Rico landed in Miami Florida The visit marks a brief domestic return from a Caribbean leg of a wider goodwill tour balanced with her duties in the presidential family.
A reader credits a Sunday Gazette want ad with selling an entire five room household including rugs and curtains the same day. The ad promotes furniture for sale at 373 15th St SE with dial numbers for placing ads in the Big Sunday Gazette before 8 p.m. Saturday.
The piece argues that moral living must expand beyond thrift and honesty to social virtues. It calls for cooperation, service, goodwill, mutual understanding, toleration, sympathy, sharing, and justice to align individuals with the common welfare. If practiced, these shifts could usher in a brighter era.
Police hunt suspects in two Thursday night raids at Voorhees hall and the Y M C A. Thieves struck while residents were in the dining hall, taking about $200 from students and faculty and more than $330 from the Y M C A general office. Chief Earl Stanley notes timing and entry suggest planned access.
Curtis-Wright Corp files a $200,000 libel suit against Brig. Gen. William Mitchell in U S federal court Alexandria Virginia. The papers were filed Friday declaring the intention to sue with further filings to follow.
Hollywood actress Dorothy Dell III was stricken with laryngitis while filming and Friday remained at home as studio scenes were shot without her.
Port Huron Michigan federal and local officers hunted John Dillinger after Herbert Youngblood was mortally wounded in a storefront battle. Youngblood admitted Dillinger was nearby as authorities swarmed the Michigan thumb region with state police, justice agents, and deputies from multiple cities.
Cedar Falls AP reports George edged Martelle by 27 to 26 in the second round of the state high school basketball finals Friday night. George held a narrow lead throughout the tense game as Martelle fought back, but the final margin favored George.
Fragile OCR fragment notes Cedar Rapids auto toll for 1934 with counts on accidents injuries and deaths. Specific figures are unreadable. No clear names, dates, or institutions are identifiable from the readable portion.
Obituary notes Justice Lightner of Cedar Rapids dies at 69 after long public service since 1904. He served as alderman and later justice of the peace, guiding many disputes with a philosophical outlook and steady community presence. The article also covers Senate testimony by Lindbergh and Chamberlin on air mail contracts and private operation shifts.
Adrian R. Lynch 36 of Cedar Rapids was killed instantly when his car swerved and left the highway one mile west of Davenport. Lynch, a former Western league pitcher with Des Moines Omaha and a brief stint with Washington and Boston, was a salesman for CertainTeed in Omaha. Surviving: wife Mrs. Lynch, two sons Adrian Jr. and Robert, daughter Nancy, his father J. J. Lynch, sister Cecilia, brothers Vernon and Dr. J. J. Lynch. The family moved to Cedar Rapids four years ago from Des Moines.
Speaker Henry T. Rainey announced plans to force a House vote next Monday on the Fiesinger remonetization bill and the Dies bill for silver payments on abroad commodities. He would suspend rules, limit debate to forty minutes, and indicated both measures could gain a majority, with the Dies bill having a better two thirds chance. If defeated, Rainey pledged a revival on the first suspension day in April.
Lindbergh, nervous yet firm, condemns cancellation of air mail contracts and opposes limits on mail carried per flight. He argues for large planes and broader aviation growth, while committee probes payments and possible improprieties connected to air mail subsidies and stock trades.
In El Ferrol Spain Mia Manuela Cabrera Fildago aged 109 died after a fall from stairs Friday. Friends had heard she planned to reach 115 years old.
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