27 Mar 1937
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1937
Page
1
The piece discusses former Attorney General Ed O'Connor and State Auditor Storms winning back pay, while noting wage cuts affected hundreds of state workers. It then shifts to aviation disasters, court-packing predictions by TIM FARLEY, Indianapolis pedestrian rights, a Iowa jury damage award, and a governor's push for farm to market road funding.
Lansing dispatch reports John L. Lewis and Walter P. Chrysler failing to agree on whether the United Automobile Workers should hold sole collective bargaining rights for all Chrysler employes. Gov Frank Murphy kept the talks open into Friday night as sessions extended beyond noon deadline.
Strikers from local 1374 of the Amalgamated Association voted to cancel walkouts at Bethlehem Steel facilities in Lebanon. Harry Greeninger said the move was sent to general manager J. H. Edmonds, who agreed to reemploy all workers without discrimination. Over 2,000 of 3,000 employees returned to work under police protection after a brief sit down strike.
Vice President Garner releases a telegram from Harvard’s A Lawrence Lowell and Boston business leaders calling for immediate federal action to outlaw sitdown strikes. The message warns the sitdown movement endangers business and government stability.
Iowa officials had taken no action by Friday night on a Iowa City city council resolution urging a state investigation to ensure an honest election next Monday. The governor and attorney general had not yet acted or commented on the case.
Prince Mohammed Ali, heir presumptive to Egypt’s throne and head of the regency, is reported seriously ill in Cairo. He is a cousin of King Farouk and holds key royal authority as president of the Council of Regents.
In a rough meet report Rebuh Vilantie 26 Cherphera Carrell 6 and Montuen 4 Reebuk OX M with Fred Mab Of Werth Reeh Os Sherer 16 Yer Momnetia of Valle Junction Sasha City 0 forfeits.
Washington reports a critical funds shortage endangering naval air force operations. Maintenance funds are exhausted for the fiscal year and new appropriations will not arrive until July, delaying overhaul and repair as parts stocks run dry.
Administration leaders claimed Friday night they have enough pledged votes to pass Roosevelt’s Supreme Court enlargement bill in the Senate. A confidential poll reportedly shows a majority for the measure, though opposition cites 42 definite votes and doubts remain about a dozen undecideds.
The Kansas House approved 75 to 36 a 3.2 percent beer legalization measure. The Senate had passed it and Gov. Huxman was sympathetic, moving the 50 year old prohibition toward repeal or its final veto.
Minneapolis AP reports February business volume and cash farm income in the Ninth Federal Reserve District rose to the highest level for February since 1931. Despite February being slightly below January, bank debits for the first half of March show an index not surpassed since 1930.
F L Maytag longtime Iowa industrialist and philanthropist died Friday morning at Good Samaritan hospital in Los Angeles from heart disease. He built the Maytag washing machine company in Newton in 1909, grew it into a world leader, and funded major gifts including 250000 to the Newton Y M C A and 1000000 in park endowments. He lived in California in recent years with a son who heads the Maytag company. Born July 14 1857 in Cook County Illinois he began life on a farm near Marshalltown Iowa. Continued on Page 2 Column 5.
Twenty two tailors from the Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor walked out Friday morning as negotiations with their employers continued over wage scales working conditions and union recognition. The newly formed union seeks a forty four hour week time and one half overtime and a seventy five cent base wage with closed shop recognition, aiming to speed up talks as a conference at the Roosevelt Hotel proceeded led by J M Levin of Syndicate Clothing.
A devout meditation on Good Friday describes the cross above the city gate as a profound, awe inspiring symbol. It asserts the cross exposes humanity at its worst and best and reveals a higher light guiding truth beyond human reason.
A Cedar Rapids man identified as 43 year old Alex Teslow, a section foreman for the Cedar Rapids and Marion City railway, leaped from the east side of the Cedar river dam at noon and died by his own action. Notes found in his coat and car led authorities to identify him. Mrs. Teslow confirmed the coat. An unidentified woman witnessed the jump and alerted onlookers nearby. Authorities searched the river as officials reported a body seen below the dam.
In Kansas City federal court Judge Albert L Reeves sentenced two Democratic precinct captains to three years each in Leavenworth. George Neeper and Frank Ditsch Jr received the terms while four women defendants were placed on probation for a year. Ninety indicted after voting irregularities in four of the citys 460 precincts from last November.
Washington reports the Bureau of Air Commerce moved quickly to determine all causes of the TWA crash near Pittsburgh. Colonel Harold Hartney and top inspectors were sent to the scene for an open, public hearing Monday. Officials note the landing phase may be crucial and vow full public disclosure.
Transcontinental and Western Airways officials blamed localized severe icing on the control surfaces for a crash near Pittsburgh that killed thirteen. The plane, about to land five miles from the airport, lost control as ice built up on the ailerons during descent in visibility of five miles and a 1200 foot ceiling.
Sen Tom Connally of Texas said he was drafting a constitutional amendment to force Supreme Court justices to retire at 75 as a substitute for President Roosevelt's court reorganization plan. He had not decided whether to introduce the proposal.
Edgar Brazelton 36, of Monticello at times, was among 13 killed in the TWA jet disaster near Pittsburgh. An inventor of a top for gas stores, he owned three airplanes and was active at Elmhurst Municipal Airport. His parents live in Indianapolis, with sisters in Monticello and Texas.
Iowa Attorney General rules former official Ed ward L O Connor is owed 2160 dollars in back salary and that the present legislature should appropriate the payment. The opinion also covers state auditor C W Storms for 1080 dollars. Both claims hinge on an invalidation by the state supreme court.
Twenty government engineers from Ohio Indiana Missouri and Iowa studied Dixon Springs agricultural experimental station. They planned a week of inspections and attended pasture and erosion control demonstrations. The project under the Resettlement Administration will cover 11 000 acres as a model in economic land use.
Two 16 year old DeKalb county boys cut block signal wires to wreck the City of Denver train in Sycamore Indiana. Allen Chatman planned the stunt for thrills while Charles Evans Parks attempted to stop the train to gain hero status. Special agents captured them after months of inquiry as the City of Denver halted at flare signals.
German diplomats to the Holy See skipped the Good Friday mass in the Sistine Chapel, signaling rising tensions over Pope Pius XI’s encyclical against Nazi church policy. Reports say the diplomats boycotted Holy Thursday and may skip Easter mass during the pope’s illness.
New York report says brothers William Rinaldi 25 and John Rinaldi 35 both of Philadelphia were detained on charges of professional flopping after feigning injuries on a bus to sue for damages from the bus company.
Britain, amid Easter holiday diplomacy, delays heavy actions over Mussolini in Spain. London denies loyalist charges of Italian volunteers aiding Franco. France and Germany weigh actions as Mussolini pledges no new volunteers if others stay hands off, while Britain and Eden push for deescalation and League of Nations options.
A four month old baby weighing eight ounces and under a foot long survived after birth at United Israel Zion hospital in New York. Doctors used oxygen through a rubber funnel to sustain the infant Friday night and records show no such preterm birth has lived. The child is the daughter of Mrs. Salvatoare Vita, wife of a Brooklyn fruit dealer.
SAN FRANCISCO AP reports E. H. Clark president of Homestake Mining Co announced plans for a five for one stock split. The firm owns the great gold mine near Deadwood South Carolina.
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