27 Mar 1938
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1938
Page
1
A civic editorial laments the fate of political refugees including German and Austrian exiles, rebukes the Roosevelt Hull position, and warns that the executive reorganization bill risks democracy. It denounces campaign tactics, defends Mayor Frank Hahn, and recalls a personal memory of wartime service fueling support for local leadership.
RFC chief Jesse Jones asks Congress to authorize a near unlimited government lending program. The plan lets the RFC make long term business loans, buy private firm securities, and lend to states and municipalities for projects. Jones says Roosevelt approves. Glass confirms intro of related legislation.
New York AP reports political commentator Walter Lippmann married Helen Byrne Armstrong of New York on Saturday. Armstrong had divorced Hamilton Fish Armstrong in Reno last month. Lippmann had divorced Faye Albertson last year.
Navy officials said a Pearl Harbor aircraft was forced down at sea during ongoing Pacific fleet maneuvers. The incident occurs as maneuvers are slated to advance toward Honolulu, with expected preparations for a potential attack on the city.
AP forecast for March 28 to April 2 calls for frequent precipitation. Temperatures near or slightly above normal in the north and mostly above normal in the south valleys.
A reader reflects on a friend who unexpectedly risked his life for a cause, challenging quick judgments about others. The piece urges turning to a second voyage of understanding to see unique, divinely lovely qualities in everyone and to express life with the artistry of living.
Representative Dies of Texas urged Secretary Hull to relocate persecuted and jobless Europeans to Paraguay where vast unpopulated lands exist. He warned the United States would otherwise be flooded with refugees if other nations do not join in relief efforts.
Alton Draper a 35 year old Seneca Indian from STAR LAKE New York announced a 30 day back to nature stay in the southern St. Lawrence county wilderness. He will enter without food matches or a gun to prove nature remains man’s friend. He will carry a jackknife and plans to fashion weapons and tools, catch fish with bare hands and use a club to hunt porcupine for his diet.
MAYETTA Kan AP Potta wattomie Indians decided Saturday by a large majority vote 80 to 23 that they wouldn't appeal to congress to make legal 3.2 beer sales on their reservation near here. The women's faction observers said caused the downfall of the beer proposal.
Temperatures in Cedar Rapids fell from a 57 degree high at 3:30 p.m. to 48 by 7 p.m. and 38 by 10 p.m under a fair sky. The day had earlier rebounded from a low of 34 around 7 a.m.
New York customs officials on a Staten Island harbor seizure halted a Chinese smuggling operation aboard the S S Lassie Bank. Eleven Chinese detainees were found in a ship hold after blow torches revealed them hidden behind cargo. Immigrants boarded at Penang and were to be smuggled into the United States for 200 dollars each.
Mrs. Howard Dennis reported her husband 45 years old missing since Thursday afternoon after they went to the business district. He purchased building material for 150 dollars and was last seen leaving with his wife wearing a light grey overcoat blue suit and grey hat. He is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall 160 pounds brown hair gray eyes.
London dispatch reports Hitler warns Czechoslovakia against further suppression of German minorities. In Leipzig he says Germany will not tolerate restrictions on Germans living abroad and demands a quick settlement granting autonomy to Czechoslovakia's 3.5 million Sudeten Germans amid plebiscite campaigning.
Field Marshal General Hermann Goering addressed about 50,000 Austrians in Vienna declaring Jews must depart. He hailed the gathering with a chant of Our Hermann as he warned that Vienna is not a German city, framing the plebiscite campaign in stark terms.
Police recount a grocery store holdup in Detroit ending with two detectives dead, Patrolman Hiram Reno and Detective Seymour Lawler, both age mid thirties, and two patrolmen wounded as the assailant is killed by other officers after arrest.
Edison Marshall returns with a romantic adventure serial in The Stolen God. Two American youths Ned Holden and Virginia Griffin chase the stolen emerald Buddha amid Oriental political plots as a Siamese festival nears. Opening chapters start Monday in the Gazette.
Detroit March 1933 Walter L Fry founder of Fry Products urges 26 million small businessmen to form Little Business Inc to sway policy fight Hoover era depression. He outlines a 12 point program and slogans urging workers and executives to back a new administration that runs industry as a major business.
City voters head to twenty three precincts Monday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. to decide five leaders for the next two years in a campaign seen as quiet yet intense by observers. Incumbent Mayor Frank K. Hahn faces J. Fred Currell after a close primary. tabulation by City Clerk L. J. Storey will begin after polls close.
The nation will begin paying higher railroad and truck freight rates Monday. Railroads will implement increases averaging just over 5 percent at midnight, while the American Trucking Association plans matching increases. The railroads anticipate about 175 million dollars in new revenue based on 1936 traffic, while trucking officials have not estimated their expected income.
The final precinct captain reports were tabulated at the Democratic organization headquarters. James P. Aylward, the party chairman, said the results conclusively showed the machine would sweep next Tuesday's municipal elections.
Washington lawmakers endorsed a 484 million dollar federal highway plan over 1940 and 1941 despite President Roosevelt opposition. The Roads Committee approved 125 million yearly in general aid plus funds for grade crossing removal farm to market roads Indian park forest roads flood replacement and other purposes ensuring continued federal aid for several years.
Minneapolis police trapped George Anderson, 26, the suspect in thirty drugstore robberies, by shifting their lunch hour. He was shot twice and seriously wounded when surprised in an outlying store after he claimed he operated from 3 to 4 am.
Police ponder motives after interior decorator Emanus E. Linhart, 45, reportedly ended his life on the stage at the Hollywood Bowl. He left no note, and investigators sought to determine causes behind the fatal act in the famed venue.
A front page by Arthur Bugs Baer claims the FBI uncovered a “sucker list” of 2,500,000 distinguished Americans. The piece portrays many as gullible for tips on a powerful boss and suggests buying the list from the G-men. The author jokes about forming a clubhouse for the suckers.
Insurgent forces reported encirclement of the Alcubierre mountains near Sarinena and Tanaja as their sweep toward the Mediterranean continued. Government troops, claimed by insurgents to be routed on sections of the Aragon front, faced advancing columns from Bujaraloz and Castellon province.
London reports say Franco’s rise to power in Spain was foreseen as France joins Britain in a hands-off policy. Interventions are feared to prolong conflict and spark wider European repercussions. Czechoslovak sources note no diversions or pressure soon if UK and France remain noninterventionist.
London dispatch reports Loyalist Spain says its position is grave and makes a fresh appeal to Great Britain and France for the right to purchase airplanes. The plea emphasizes urgent need for military aviation matériel amid ongoing conflict.
The Osterbergs of 1320 First Avenue West were robbed Saturday night after burglars gained entry through a basement window. They found 18 silver spoons, $4 to $5 in lodge money, 15 to 20 old coins including a $2.50 gold piece, old greenbacks, and a pearl necklace missing. adjacent apartment of L W Rose untouched. Police Peter Funcke Dan Kruidenier and Detective Jack Haberle investigated at 706 East.
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