Medical-Dental Bureau to Close Amid Funding Struggles
The Medical-Dental Bureau, created to aid workers unable to pay for essential medical and dental care, will be abandoned Friday after lacking promised support from professionals, employers, and social agencies. Critics say the plan shifts costs to patients and fails to address border-line cases, while broader tax and government spending debates unfold in Congress.
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Medical-Dental Business Bureau
Medical Andental Societies
Eforts
Medical-Dental Bureau
W F Severn Civil Leader Dies Founder Of Czech War Orphans Home
W F Severn 84 a Cedar Rapids business leader and founder of the WF Severa company died at his son in law and daughter’s home after a lingering illness He had long supported Czech youth and orphans in America and Bohemia Funeral services will be held at Turner chapel burial in Oak Hill cemetery Severn came to the U S in 1868 worked in Racine Belle Plaine and Cedar Rapids later building a drug business and founding Severa company He also helped found the Council of Higher Education for Czech students and supported education in his native land Continued on Page 2 Col 5.
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Jhen
Bohemia
W. F. Severn
America
Wisconsin
Jin
Cedar Rapids
Czechoslovakia
W. F. Severa
Turner Chapel
Joseph Bren
Melvin L. Welke
Oak Hill Cemetery
Severa
U. S
Chrudim
Severn
United States
Racine
Wis
Belle Plaine
Mr. Severa
WF. Severa
Council of Higher Education
April Showers In Preview for Cedar Rapids Weather
The Cedar Rapids forecast notes brief morning and afternoon showers totaling seven hundredths, with sun and clouds alternating. Temperatures rose from 47 at 7 am to 56 by 10 am then to 65 by 2:30 pm, with Tuesday peaking at 72 at 4 pm.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers Inskeep Company
Uncle Sam and the silver market plays a tough hand
The piece notes the treasury’s bid drop across two days after Mexico’s silver output was shut out, citing a rigged 45 cent price and a world market that weakens as Mexico gains leverage. It questions why the United States avoids using its stronger position more often and hints at strategic trump cards.
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Aexico
Washington
Mexico
United States Treasury
Treasury
Uncle Sam
Tornado Strikes Columbus Kansas Killing Two and Wounding Thirty Seven
A tornado ripped through Columbus Kansas killing two children and injuring 37 with many being students from Highland grade school. The storm damaged 30 buildings as it moved from the southwest bringing hail and rain across Arkansas Oklahoma Missouri before hitting the town.
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Columbus
Kansas
Kan
Jerry Grayson
W. J. Grayson
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Boone County
Republican
Chetopa
Ramona
Okla
Tri-State
Highland Grade School
Highland School
Woman School Bus Driver Lost In Alberta Storm Found Safe
Mrs. K. Brown, a Parkland area school bus driver, was found safe at a farmhouse after her bus went missing in a blizzard seventy five miles south of Calgary. Parkland garage operator Austin Nixon, who went to search for her, also was found safe. Mrs. Brown had started to pick up twelve children before becoming lost.
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Calgary
Alta
K. Brown
Parkland
Alberta
Here
Austin Nixon
Five Navy Flyers Feared Dead Off Oahu Crash
Five U S navy flyers were missing after a patrol bombing plane crashed off Waianae on Oahu during a scouting exercise. One unconscious crewman and another survivor reached shore as a heavy rainstorm set in. The seven aboard included Lieut L O Crane and Aviation Cadet W H Lear among the missing, with radioman V A Luciana also unaccounted for.
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Honolulu
U. S. Navy
Waianae
Oahu
Naval Base
G. J. Milles
H. F. Bartz
L. O. Crane
W. H. Lear
Naval Aviation
B. I. Windham
V. A. Luciana
G. H. O'Neil
Veto Private Utility Freedom From Probe
Washington reports the House rejected a proposal to exclude private utilities from the joint congressional investigation of the Tennessee Valley Authority as approved by the Senate.
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Washington
House
Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
Mussolini urges Italians to move from cities to countryside for war
Premier Mussolini addressed Italy urging mass emigration from urban centers to towns and villages to speed mobilization for air war. He warned against complacency, pledged greater armament despite costs, and asserted Italy could mobilize more units than in Vittorio Veneto.
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Rome
Mussolini
Senate
Il Dnce
Italy
Vittorio Veneto
Il Duce
Center Junction man fined for drunken driving after crash
R. C. Carpenter, 28, of Center Junction, was fined $300 and costs for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after his car crashed into a parked auto owned by Homer Andes at 608 First Avenue E. A 90 day jail sentence could follow if the fine is unpaid. Carpenter had a pint bottle of whisky and showed unsteadiness. a young woman rode with him but was not held.
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Cedar Rapids
R. C. Carpenter
Center Junction
Stearns and Weiland
First Avenue E
F. O. Ellison
Seventh Street
First
Second Avenues
Carpenter
Homer Andes
Roosevelt pardons Alcatraz inmate breaking precedent
President Roosevelt granted clemency to Rollie Rector, serving 20 years at Alcatraz for bank robbery and kidnaping. Rector, who pleaded guilty to avoid a 17 year Texas state prison term, becomes the first Alcatraz inmate to receive executive clemency.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Rollie Rector
Alcatraz Prison
Rector
Texas State Penitentiary
Prayer as silent light and shared struggle across life
A reader reflects on prayer beyond church walls, noting that prayer takes many forms. It can be thoughts, deeds, or silent longing, and true prayer includes listening for inner guidance. The piece emphasizes intercessory concern, responsibility to others, and the sense of companionship in striving for the good.
Senate approves peacetime navy appropriation record
The Senate approved a peacetime naval appropriation of 549.2 million dollars for the next fiscal year, with 140.6 million for warship construction. Of that, 119.6 million funds ships already under way and 18.4 million for new construction including two battleships. Senator Clark criticized the measure as fueling hysteria for the administration’s larger authorization bill.
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Washington
Senate
Secretary of the Navy
House
Clark
Used Refrigerator Wanted Ad Sparks Cedar Rapids Interest
Fred W. Hanvey reports 26 inquiring buyers after a March Want Ad in The Gazette. One sale from 26 suggests many readers still seek cheap units. call 2-1121 to place your ad.
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Fred W. Hanvey
F Ave
Four Acts for Dictator Bill Substitutes Moves in House
The House reorganization committee voted seven to two to report favorably four substitute measures for the Senate bill granting President Roosevelt broad powers to reorganize the executive department. Democrats carried the vote. Republicans opposed. The panel set to meet at 10 am Thursday to begin debate, with limited six hour discussion expected before open amendments.
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Washington
House Reorganization Committee
Senate
Roosevelt
Executive Department
John J. Cochran
Lindsay C. Warren
Fred M. Vinson
J. W. Robinson
Utah
James M. Mead
N. Y
Frank C. Kniffin
O. Harry P. Ream
John Taber
Charles L. Gifford
Mass
House
Cochran
Rep
Snell
New York
Edward R Burke
Ned
Narrow escape as car hits pole and tumbles into yard
Two men, C. E. Shakespeare and O. L. Pack, escaped serious injury when their car left highway 30 near Johnson avenue NW, struck a pole, plunged down an embankment, and overturned in the yard of Frank J. Flick at 2600 Johnson. Shakespeare had a head laceration, Pack a cut on the hand, and 2300 volt wires lingered nearby as light company crews arrived. Police were alerted at 3 03 am.
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Cedar Rapids
Johnson Avenue NW
Frank J. Flick
Johnson Avenue
C. E. Shakespeare
C Avenue NW
O. L. Pack
Eighth Avenue
Shakespeare
Pack
railroad head quits
Leonor F. Loree resigns as president and board member of the Delaware and Hudson railroad effective March 31 after a directors meeting in New York. He has led the company for years, and his departure ends a long tenure.
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NEW York
Leonor F. Loree
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Spanish Rebel Gains Slowed By Loyalists
Spanish rebel forces under Franco face stiff resistance as loyalist defenders halt a rapid advance toward Catalonia. Franco orders a new strategy with centralized command near Lerida while fronts from Teruel to Barbastro endure heavy fighting and risks to Barcelona power infrastructure.
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Bulletin Hendaye
INS
Francisco Franco
Barcelona
Hendaye
Catalonia
Franco
Lerida
Teruel
Barbastro
Fraga
Investigation Ordered Into Six Deaths After Cancer Serum
Dr I A Day president of the Orange County Medical association ordered an investigation into six deaths after serum treatments for cancer and additional patients placed under observation. A fourteenth patient was hospitalized with lockjaw symptoms amid fears the cancer serum may have mixed with anti tetanus preparations.
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Orlando, Fla
I. A. Day
Orange County Medical Association
Day
Duckworth
Doctor Links Florida Cancer Cure to Deaths
Dr Morris Fishbein editor of the AMA Journal stated deaths at Orland o Florida followed use of a so called cancer cure the association had warned against more than a year earlier.
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Chicago
Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association Journal
Orlando
Fla
Association
Senate Finance Committee Approves Capital Tax Exemptions
Washington The senate finance committee approved exemptions from the capital gains tax for transfers of securities and properties by holding companies liquidating under the death sentence clause of the public utility holding company act. The panel also set the flat 18 percent corporate tax on net income for investment trusts and moved to ease dissolution of personal holding companies by extending liquidation relief to three years.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Public Utility Holding Company Act
William ©. Douglas
Securities and Exchange Committee
Douglas
Commission
House
Guaranty Trust barred from voting rights in rail empire
Federal Judge Albert Coxe issued a temporary injunction restraining the Guaranty Trust Co from voting its 1,278,000 Chesapeake Corp. shares in a special meeting slated for April 4. Robert R. Young claims the bank aims to control the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, with Morgan interests and General Motors officials named as opponents.
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New York
Guaranty Trust Company
United States
van Sweringen
Albert Coxe
Robert R. Young
Texas
Cleveland
Morgan Banking
General Motors
Young
J. P. Morgan and Co
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
Guaranty Trust Co
Chesapeake Corp
Middle van Swerringen
Guaranty
Ilis
Blum Plans Temporary Paris Stock Exchange Closure
Premier Leon Blum signaled a temporary closure of Frances stock exchange the bourse if his financial reconstruction program is not adopted over the weekend He told a radical socialist delegation that new finance bills must pass before Monday otherwise the bourse will remain shut to curb speculation.
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Paris
Leon Blum
Frances Stock Exchange
23 Die in Train and Gas Truck Collision Near Valencia
In Spain, twenty three people were killed and ten gravely injured when an electric train collided with a gasoline truck near Valencia on Tuesday.
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Barcelona
Valencia
Borah Dishes Out Real Wisdom But He Has Only One Vote
A 1936 column notes Senator Borah delivers sharp wisdom in congress yet fails to move action as the party tally silences reason. The piece likens Borah to a faithful Idaho potato facing a system that counts heads over logic.
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Borah
Tor
Idaho
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New Deal
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Coolidge
Czech War Orphans’ Home
Masaryk
Drug Co
Cedar Nanlds News
Mercury
Cedar Rapids News
Duce
Geneva
Alcatraz
Dr. Newton
Railroad Head
van Sweringen Lines
van Swermogen
Chesapeake and Ohio
Donaldson Brown
General Motors Corp
John Thomas Smith
Frank F Kolbe
Charles JL. Bradley
John P. Murphy
Chesapeake
Brown
Blum
Arthur
Bugs
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