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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1939
Page
2
A long dispute over 250 million in farm parity payments and a 150 million WPA request unfolds in the U S House. Iowa delegates split along party lines while the lumbering budget battles prompt warnings of broader war-time consequences and political reprisals. The debate hinges on farm aid, WPA relief, and administrative costs as Congress weighs cuts and preserves aid.
The House appropriations committee approved 25 to 13 a emergency WPA fund of 100 million dollars, a 50 million reduction from Roosevelt's 150 million request. This marks the third rebuff to the president this session on relief funding as Congress earlier trimmed another 150 million from an 875 million request.
The dream of peace has become a nightmare of power politics on the continent and partisan strife at home. He stands as the key figure whose choices, more than Hitler’s, could shape the outcome of a vast crisis.
Dr Newton discusses R Richards Cabot ideas that honesty courage and good will form a noble life. He argues truth telling is essential with patients and in faith, warns against polite or medical lies, and stresses courage to act on truth.
Linn county supervisors confront a surplus of soap and chemical bills from Universal Laboratories of St Louis and Huntington Laboratories of Huntington. Invoices dated 1936 to 1938 total over 1500 dollars with credits and updated statements. board contemplates demanding return of items while tightening courthouse purchasing rules.
The French government has placed orders with Pratt and Whitney of United Aircraft for 1000 airplane engines in six weeks, totaling about 14 million dollars according to a reliable source.
Nationalists claim control of all Spain's fifty two provinces after Madrid capitulates. Valencia falls and key towns such as Cuidad Real Cuenca Murcia and Cartagena are occupied with little resistance. General Miaja flees to French Algeria as Franco prepares to enter Madrid amid celebrations and prisoner tallies nearing half a million.
Washington chair Mary T. Norton introduces amendments to the wage hour act. Proposals would exempt white collar workers earning 200 dollars a month or more from a 44 hour week. telephone operators in small exchanges and remove production area exclusions in agriculture and processing.
The Iowa House passed a bill repealing the ten mile tax and revising motor carrier laws by 78 to 24. The measure shifts fees to large operators and allows a certificate fee set at 2 percent of the truck license fee, about 675 for large trucks, to be charged under public interest provisions. The bill now moves to the Senate.
Harry A Gabbert, 40, traveling rep for Peck Beauty Supply of Des Moines, died when his car struck a Milwaukee line train on US 149 near Amana. His car wedged between the engine and a coach, trapping him. Coroner said no inquest planned. He leaves wife, son, and two sisters. funeral plans await arrangements.
Delia Bogart 17, a rising film actress, was struck by a heavy club in Hollywood early Wednesday and suffered a fractured skull. Police believe the attacker may be linked to the Anya Sosoyeva case on a Los Angeles campus last month. Surgeons say her chances of recovery are slim.
San Francisco AP reports Richard Halliburton author and ten other men aboard the Sea Dragon, a gasoline powered Chinese junk, feared missing after last Friday while en route from Hong Kong to San Francisco. The vessel was to reach Midway Island on April 5 and had averaged 150 miles daily.
Mrs Frank Rubeck, 67, weighed 225 pounds before illness. She was carried by Harold Skinner and three assistants on a stretcher over mile of snow covered hills to reach a highway for transport to Cedar Falls. Relatives in Cedar Falls agreed to provide care. The ambulance crew faced harsh terrain and limited help at the isolated hill home.
Polish official Col Boguslaw Miedzinski says Germany asked three concessions: Danzig sovereignty change, a motor road through the Polish Corridor, and adherence to the anti Comintern pact. He notes Poland will defend its integrity and backs Foreign Minister Beck amid anti Nazi demonstrations.
Paris Premier Daladier said France would negotiate its differences with Italy if Italy presents definite proposals and that Paris will honor the 1935 accords but will not concede territory or rights. He condemned Italy's Ethiopia claims and denounced the Czech crisis, urging peaceful, united action against aggression.
Fran Gerardo Machado of Cuba 67 former president who fled after the 1933 revolution died during an operation for a small tumor at St Francis hospital in Miami Beach He had lived there with his family since last fall He was overthrown as dictator amid corruption and violence during his presidency and faced exile in his later years
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced in Parliament plans to nearly double Britain's territorial army to about 600 000 men, strengthening the home defense and augmenting overseas service. The move follows cabinet talks on uniting nations against Nazi expansion, with talks of compulsory national service under discussion with France.
Cartoonish 1939 Walter Baer column critiques a Supreme Court ruling on taxation. The piece envisions mutual taxation between states and the federal government with satirical imagery of turning turnips and water on shoulders. It riffs on taxation versus representation and references the Stamp Act era.
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