25 Mar 1938
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1938
Page
1
The piece discusses Iowa Senator Gillette's vote on a reorganization bill and urges telegrams against it. It recalls Jackson’s 1834 Senate censure letter and contrasts it with President Roosevelt's TVA era actions, arguing for constitutional limits and impartial investigations amid political power shifts.
The Senate adopted a compromise joint Senate House probe of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Senator Barkley of Kentucky led the move with Bridges and Wing backing an 50 000 budget for a five by five committee. The measure awaits House action and President Roosevelt’s signature to become effective.
Renata Kremenak, 19, of 2001 E avenue NW, injured with a lacertion on the left hip and a bruise on the right leg after being struck by a car at 7 50 p m Thursday while walking east on E avenue NW between Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. Driver Ross L Rhodes, 30, of 309 He avenue NW, swerved to avoid her, stopped, and took her to St Luke s hospital.
A senate bill sponsored by Senator Van denberg of Michigan would block export of helium gas to Germany or any foreign nation for airship use. The measure aims to curb helium sales for military or strategic airship projects abroad.
The excerpt argues that Andrew Jackson claimed power to remove a secretary of the treasury without Senate approval. It warns that democratic survival requires adherence to Jackson's creed and the Jeffersonian-Lincolndemocratic tradition, not mere lip service to those figures.
Dr Campbell Morgan, famed London preacher, ends a month of sermons with a call to be of good cheer. He argues the world is grim and danger-filled yet urges courage through faith in God, amid wars, hunger, and unrest.
Paris Premier Leon Blum yielded to senatorial opposition by saying he would ask the chamber of deputies to approve the senate version of the finance bill. The proposal included moving 60 million dollars from the exchange equalization fund for national defense, a step seen as capitulating to the senate to avoid a cabinet resignation.
Opinion by Arthur Bugs Baer argues peace treaties are unreliable and suggests anonymous treaties with reinforced warnings. He says a threat is kept and a warning resembles a New Year greeting, asserting war clarifies ally choices more than treaties.
Washington The senate finance committee killed house approved estate and gift tax provisions in the revenue bill. No record vote. Chairman Harrison said the estate and gift levies in the existing law were preferable and the senate eliminated a merged exemption. The senate kept $40 000 exemptions for each tax and restored a $5 000 annual gift exemption, up from the house cut to $3,000.
Senator Clyde L. Herring joined the finance committee majority to strike the undistributed profits levy from the tax bill. New York Governor Lehman argued house provisions would cut state revenues from estates and intrude on state taxing power. The panel also altered capital gains rules, with Chairman Harrison predicting Senate approval and renewed pressure to repeal various taxes including whisky and radio levies.
The stock market fell to lows not seen since early 1935 as the railroad average dropped to its lowest since 1932. Traders blamed weak response to tax news, London declines, Whitney failure fears, and doubts about new reforms.
Cedar Rapids saw sun clash with clouds after showers dropped 0.27 inches. The day’s high reached 69F at 1:15 pm with a low of 49F at 8 am and 54F at 10 am. Clouds returned by afternoon hinting at more rain as temperatures fell from 70F at 2 pm to 66F at 2:45 pm.
Nearly 20 percent of Austria’s police were secret Nazi party members during the Dollfuss and Schuschnigg years. About 1,000 officers will wear a special emblem on their uniforms and be named on a roll of honor. Goering arrived to campaign for union with Germany ahead of the April 10 plebiscite.
At the state DAR convention in the Roosevelt hotel on Friday afternoon members urged telegrams to congressmen and senators to defeat or recommit the reorganization bill. Mrs. Vinton Earl Sisson said the bill concentrates power with the president and would abolish the civil service commission. Telegrams were to go to regents in other states and a Senate vote was anticipated Monday.
Gen John J. Pershing, 77, convalescing from a grave illness, is now able to walk about his cottage at his Tucson, Arizona residence.
London reports say the National Council of Labour called for a united diplomatic response to Chamberlain's foreign policy while the government seeks to mobilize labor and capital for wartime production. Plans target 1750 first line aircraft in six months and total 10000 planes, with conferences to double output and a pacific diplomacy to avert a doomed war.
In Brussels pledged guarantees to Belgium and France were welcomed and Chamberlain's Britain House of Commons declaration seen as a near promise to Czechoslovakia that it should not be abandoned by Great Britain.
Berlin reports say Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain delivered a foreign policy address that left critics unimpressed as the war issue loomed. The article notes continued coverage on page 2.
New York AP reports the sale of a seat on the New York Stock Exchange for 56000 dollars the lowest since 1918. The price dropped 4000 dollars from the prior sale and contrasts with higher prices paid for memberships in earlier years.
A record 697 attended the Linn county Farm Bureau and Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce dinner at the Shrine temple. Speaker James E. Gheen urged urban rural cooperation and five universal rules for progress, while Arthur Pearson noted the need to educate city citizens about farm life.
CHICAGO INS report about Lige Debowski a 35 year old hotel chef who survived a July liquor store shooting. He testified at an inquest walking on crutches saying he grabbed a gun from a robber and shot another, while doctors had feared he would not walk again. He plans to leave the hospital soon without crutches.
Gerald Tiu Verne Remer a 16 year old Center Point high school junior and son of Ross T Remer Center Point banker was found dead at his home with a shotgun wound to the chest shortly before 2 am Friday His body lay across the bed in pajamas with an empty 12 gauge shotgun and a discharged shell nearby A cleaning rod with swabbing cloth remained in his arm amid powder burns around the wound The youth had recent medical history including five mastoid operations and brain abscesses in hospitals at Cedar Rapids and Rochester Minn His parents said he had been recovering and appeared in good spirits recently The Remers and their sons had traveled to inspect a farm near Clear Lake and hunted there using one of the shotguns found in Gerald's room
The United States posted a February trade surplus of 100 million dollars as exports rose 13 percent from a year earlier while imports fell 41 percent. Exports reached 262,733,000 and imports 163,085,000, with several commodities showing higher export volumes including lard wheat feed grains seeds tobacco and machinery.
The house rivers and harbors committee tentatively approved a revised regional planning bill that abandons the little TVA plan for hydro electric power. The measure creates seven regional planning areas and a eleven member board to study conservation and development of the nation's natural resources.
London reports that Britain accepts Hull’s plan to aid emigration of political refugees from Austria and Germany with focus on Jews Catholics and Protestants. Roosevelt notes asylum could extend to oppressed groups in Russia Spain and Italy. Hull’s idea seeks private funding and a multinational study committee with no new legislation required and quotas merged from merged nations.
William F. Cummings 58 of Tama, a railway mail clerk on Rock Island train No 63, died at 11 30 am Thursday of a heart attack while sorting mail aboard the train en route to Palo from Cedar Rapids. The death was investigated by Dr R E Munden Cedar Rapids deputy coroner. The body was taken to Fry mortuary in Vin ton and will be moved to Mason mortuary in Tama where his brother Leo lives.
City Clerk L J Storey announced the city clerk office will stay open until 5 p m Saturday to accept absent voter ballots for the upcoming city election. Ballots may be cast until closing time Saturday. voters away Monday may also vote at City Hall third floor.
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