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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1937
Page
1
Governor Kraschel argues for temporary relief for unemployed while warning against permanent programs and accuses social welfare workers of obstructing. A state relief administrator resigns after a dispute, and counties may report partisan relief-worker affiliations to the emergency relief administration.
The Supreme Court rejected Albert Levitt and Patrick Henry Kelly against Justice Hugo L. Black, ruling Black’s appointment valid and denying petitions claiming ineligibility under Article I. The decision clears Black to serve, with Levitt signaling possible future challenges.
Gov George H Earle failed to broker a deal between Panther Creek Valley miners and Lehigh Navigation Coal Co officials. He went to Coaldale to urge 38 stay down strikers to exit the pit after seven days huddled underground.
The group known as contributors to Uncle Sam had incomes from 10 000 to 150 000 a year with a total 1035 income tax payment of 54 132 000. Only 4 575 012 persons filed income tax returns in 1935. The piece argues all public officials and employees should pay income tax to ease public payroll burdens.
Shanghai reports call the front China's Verdun as Chinese commanders order savage counterattacks to halt a new Japanese drive. Hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides enter what could decide the fate of Japan's middle China invasion with renewed resolve.
Shanghai dispatch reports Japan's northern army pierced Chinese defenses and seized the vital Shinkiachwang railway junction trapping about 100000 Chinese troops. The Chinese 200000 army had fallen back to the Huto river along a 90 mile front for a final stand under General Count Juichi Terauchi.
General Li Tsung Jen, leader of Kwangsi, is en route to Nanking to offer the government 3,000,000 soldiers from the south of China, including 200,000 already armed. Chinese informants say Li will tell Chiang Kai-shek that these troops are ready to march to the front, marking a potential turning point in the war.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to reconsider its eight to one ruling from May 17 limiting government refunds of 963 million dollars in processing and floor stock taxes tied to the invalid agricultural adjustment act. The decision required taxpayers to prove they bore the tax without passing costs to consumers or others.
Attorney General Cummings challenged recent Supreme Court decisions at a Pulaski dinner, arguing social and economic needs must be met and criticizing cases from the Civil War era to 1923. He defended child labor limits and questioned to what extent constitutional reform is needed.
Italian high command readies a large air and ground assault in Spain aimed at Barcelona Madrid Valencia and Minorca as Premier Mussolini increases massed forces in Africa near French and British fronts. About 5700 Italian troops departed Naples bound for Tripoli amid weather delays.
Paris and London discussed a peaceful naval occupation of Minorca as a pressure tactic to force Mussolini to withdraw Italian volunteers from Spain. The plan, aimed at countering Majorca, would use warships and planes, with Port Mahon as a fortified base.
In a Monday letter from R. J. Thompson counsel for the Iowa Emergency Relief administration in Des Moines County Auditor Robert M. Wesely was told to disregard Letters of Sept 18 and Oct 6 asking him to identify political affiliations of Linn county relief office staff. The attached list included 24 names led by relief director Mrs. Alice Ferber. Thompson confirmed that the letters were sent by mistake per IERA secretary Ralph Kittinger.
A reader recalls a neighborly lesson about letting a child run errands alone. The mother learns to unseenly supervise from behind and trust the child to grow, drawing a parallel to divine restraint for personal development.
Berlin dispatch reports the Duke and Duchess of Windsor began a two week stay in Germany as Buckingham Palace urges them to cancel their planned trip to the United States. The couple intends to proceed despite royal family opposition and pressures from Britain.
Moscow reports the USSR central executive committee approves secret ballot elections to be held December 12. Campaigning opens Tuesday. The vote will elect a new parliament and administrative officials under the Stalin constitution granting new civil rights.
Two men die and a third is injured when a loaded elevator crashes seven floors at the Thomas E. Wilson company. Victims named are Joe Barczak 40 and John Grennan 28. Frank McBride 45, identified as a Black man, is hospitalized with injuries.
The American Federation of Labor delegates empower its executive council to expel the ten CIO unions allied with John L. Lewis if peace efforts fail. The convention also invites CIO members to desert and rejoin the AFL. The council could act at its first post convention meeting and may immediately expel United Mine Workers and Amalgamated Clothing Workers.
Cedar Rapids man S W Wilder opens the Grain and Feed Dealers session in Dallas criticizing federal actions in the grain industry. He cites government failure to regulate trucker competition and says higher distribution costs are the industry's main problem.
AP report says District Judge James Deland sentenced G. V Ward to seven years in Fort Madison penitentiary after his conviction for obtaining grams from Farmers Elevator Co at Lake Park by false pretenses. The crime occurred last week and the case was prosecuted locally.
In Washington Ins. reports President Roosevelt Secretary Morgenthau and Acting Budget Director Bell expect a revised federal budget next Tuesday showing more than 500 million dollars in spending reductions. The move aims to balance next year’s budget as debt and guarantees strain borrowing capacity. Treasury halted new borrowing for October and November to ease market stress after the stock slump.
Chicago AP reports a sensational grain collapse with wheat corn oats and rye hitting fresh price lows some levels dating back to 1933. December wheat fell five cents per bushel within the immediate trading limit under exchange rules.
Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt marked her 53rd birthday at a White House dinner with twenty one candles on the cake. She noted she no longer celebrates birthdays but observes them, and revealed gifts including a wrist watch from her husband designed for swimming after a prior watch stopped while she wore it in the water.
A group of army generals planned a move to seize power in Yugoslavia and topple Premier Milan Stojadinovich's cabinet. Led by Serbian nationalists, the effort followed his defiance of church policies and failed Vatican talks. The plot intensified after Stojadinovich departed for Paris to discuss a Franco Yugoslav pact. Secret meetings reportedly revived the Black Hand network tied to prewar terrorism and Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination.
Former State Supreme Court Justice Floyd E. Thompson urged revising the Illinois constitution to overcome archaic restrictions he says hinder the state from adapting to social and economic change. The appeal was made Monday in Chicago.
The federal bureau of agricultural economics estimated Iowa corn as of Oct 1 at 469,030,000 bushels, up 11,000,000 from Sept 1, with projected yield of 42.44 bushels per acre. Yields run above average in several counties despite earlier weather setbacks. soybean production is 3,340,000 bushels.
Washington's Department of Agriculture predicts huge surpluses in major crops with corn at 2,563,936,000 bushels and wheat at 86,895,000 bushels, alongside cotton at 17,573,000 bales. The figures intensify pressure for a new crop program and a special congressional session.
A 1937 reflective piece by HY Arthur Bugs Baer questions traditional wars for wealth in the New World, suggesting borrowing as an alternative. It muses on Columbus and Roosevelt while pondering European entanglements and the lure of wealth, mixing history with satire.
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