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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1937
Page
1
The Cedar Rapids bus franchise win sparks bids to court public service fairness. Analysts note the Toonerville Trolley was not offered the franchise and may affect Tuesday's election result.
The Des Moines interim committee voted to investigate the $500000 state emergency conservation fund overseen by the governor. A subcommittee chaired by Rep Gustave Alesch will focus on emergency conservation work and allied appropriations, with scope extending to past administrations.
Des Moines AP reports Senator Roy Stevens chairing the interim committee urged members to take criticisms to him personally rather than to the press. Representative Morgan Enaney opposed a chain letter style procedure for committee business and Stevens defended acting on his own resources to save about 400 dollars.
The American Medical Association announced that deaths from a sulfanilamide elixir have risen to 67. The latest verified deaths include five in Bentonia Mississippi and one each in Rocky Mount North Carolina Allenton South Carolina and Osage Oklahoma.
Charles F Hosford jr, chairman of the seven member coal commission, announced Wednesday he will resign and return to private business about the first of the year. The panel has been split four to three for months over personnel and policies.
The passage frames opponents and Tammany cronies amid a charged scene. It hints at political tension around LaGuardia and a desire to justify a beating, presenting it as a debating alibi or a factual claim. The text remains ambiguous and rhetorical.
Major honors for quality butter entered in the state contest at Cedar Rapids went to southern Town creamerymen. C. L. Wilson of Williamsburg and Claude Harris of Lamoni won gold medals with top scores of 95 and 94.5 respectively. Silver medals went to Edwin Stoll of Lamont and George Gilmore of North English. Bronze medals went to North Iowa dairy manufacturers. Entries totaled 105 statewide. Section 7 won the loving cup for top judging team.
The state presented an elderly poison victim to confront Anna Marie Hahn as the defense rested its case. The cross examination left Hahn paled while the tally of alleged mass murder deaths rose to five, with Hahn accused of five deaths and two more poisonings.
National City Lines aims to start bus service in Cedar Rapids by Sunday after voters approved the move 6 491 to 5 771 in Tuesday’s election. Charles Haller and Don Barnes discussed plans. 25 buses from an order of 75 will be sent, and former street car barns will become a temporary bus depot. Stewart Moore to direct spring operations and oversee former street car workers switching to buses.
Washington AP reports the National Highway Users Conference estimates that ownership and use of motor vehicles account for about one sixth of total taxes collected by all government divisions.
Federal loans for this year’s bumper corn crop are limited to farmers who met the 1937 soil conservation program requirements. Loans target Illinois Iowa and portions of Indiana Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Ohio South Dakota and Wisconsin at four to five percent interest. RFC funds aid through the Commodity Credit Corporation with banks handling loan origination and par buyback by September 1938. County AAA committees will verify eligibility.
DES MOINES AP The state commerce commission ruled rural electric lines must pay for materials and telephone companies must pay for installation when power and telephone lines run parallel. The decision, a change from 1916, aims to prevent interference with telephone service, with several cooperatives protesting support costs. The Federal Rural Electrification Administration has delayed allocations to Iowa cooperatives pending the outcome.
E M Montague recalls Benjamin Jowett’s sermon stating that the average life at twenty one is about 13 000 days. He and friends calculate one third sleeping one third earning leaving four thousand three hundred thirty three days to do worthwhile work and vow not to waste time.
The Duchess of Windsor will gain official British recognition of her status in Paris with a luncheon at the British embassy hosted by Ambassador Sir Eric Phipps. The couple, sailing to New York on the Bremen, will attend a dinner at the U.S. embassy with diplomatic and society leaders.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt announces she will be away on a lecture tour during a White House luncheon or tea hosted for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. She expresses regret at missing the event while the president receives the royal couple.
Dan Young, a Mallard farmer, suffered severe hand injuries when his hand was caught in a mechanical corn picker on Wednesday. The injuries required amputation of a thumb and forefinger.
Britain moves to salvage the Far Eastern peace conference as Japan refuses to join and Italy pledges to shield Japan. The United States Britain and France clash with Italy after Davis warns that war threats endanger world peace while the nine power talks near a decisive Thursday discussion.
At a Chamber of Commerce meeting merchants voted to decorate the loop district with lights and evergreens for the holiday season. Committees will raise funds from Loop-area merchants and complete the effort by November 15. The Electric Motors Company won the bid to erect the lights and work will begin next week to be ready for the November 26 Christmas parade. The local electrical union will donate eighty man hours of labor at no cost. Thatcher-Stanbery Productions, Inc. will provide the parade on Friday November 26.
In Madison, Judge Patrick Stone admonished federal prosecutors in a gas price fixing case after a tense exchange over witness transcripts from the grand jury. Special Prosecutor Lewin insisted he sought to refresh recollection of Tulsa market checker John Steiger, while the judge warned that the transcript could go into the record.
Senator Frazier of North Dakota charged that administration spokesmen counted about 75 percent of witnesses at Senate Agriculture Committee hearings. He said county agents soil conservation and farm bureau officials steered the session to support the ever normal granary plan while others testified on related bills.
The British cabinet agreed to include a token payment on World War II debt to the United States in the April budget. This move aims to restart regular debt payments under new terms and opens formal negotiations for a commercial treaty with the United States following preliminary talks with London Washington and dominions.
George S. Forbes 57, head of the Forbes grain commission firm, collapsed on the Chicago board of trade floor and died a half hour later on Wednesday.
Senator Borah denounces Herbert Hoover’s proposal for a midterm Republican convention as a flat usurpation of power and a bid for dictatorship. Senator Townsend warns such a move could jeopardize GOP lawmakers in 1938, while party leaders weigh polling candidates before any decision.
Rep. Joseph W. Martin of Maryland, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, urged the national committee to oppose a proposal for a Republican national convention next year and said about 90 percent of party members in Congress oppose the plan.
North Carolina Democrat Robert R Reynolds said in a Wednesday interview that he believes President Roosevelt will be tendered a third term nomination as a courtesy if nothing else. He added that the decision on a successor would largely be up to the President if he declines the honor.
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