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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1937
Page
1
The article discusses federal funding needs and debt outlook with Roosevelt's plans and deficits. It notes labor tensions involving the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization and mentions a potential labor truce. It also covers governors Kraschel and Horner denying lenient commutations and the infantile paralysis case of Frederick Snite with continued medical care.
President Roosevelt sent Norman H. Davis to the nine power conference in Brussels and insisted the United States has no prealleged commitments. He aims for a peaceful hastening of an end to the Japan China conflict and briefs Davis to enter the talks without commitments. Senator Hiram Johnson criticized new deal foreign policy and warned of a possible secret Anglo American agreement.
A government official close to the Roosevelt administration said the president has abandoned revival of his defeated Supreme Court enlargement plan unless future judicial rulings alter the course. The remark signals a pivot away from the court plan amid political and legal pressures.
The query questions whether a final judgment will address a tilization that confuses self with iron lungs and iron fists, seeking clarity on the outcome and its implications.
A mass gathering of about 3000 farmers from Iowa Minnesota South Dakota and Nebraska adopted a resolution urging an ever normal granary commodity loans crop insurance and production adjustment. The plan was presented to the Senate agricultural subcommittee to push for a new farm bill at the upcoming special session.
Seven Iowa congressmen sign a telegram to Secretary Wallace, urging a permanent farm program anchored by soil conservation, a near normal granary system, and commodity loans to stabilize income and prices. The measure reflects echoed support from a Midwest farmers meeting led by Elmer Tabor.
A humorous 1937 column critiques post office spending and postmasters plans for grand marble style offices. It questions the cost of new writing instruments and the postal service’s grandiose office designs while praising dedicated mail carriers.
Campbell of the FDA ordered federal agents to seize all quantities of an elixir of sulfanilamide linked to nine deaths in Tulsa Oklahoma and four in East St Louis Illinois. Canadian officials were advised to act. He cited misbranding as grounds since no other food and drug law covers the issue.
Chicago reports known deaths from a proprietary elixir containing sulfanitamiane reached 13 as Dr Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association cautioned against indiscriminate use of the drug.
FBI officials released the serial numbers of the $60 000 ransom bills after Mrs. Charles S. Ross urged action. Six FBI agents joined a nationwide hunt for the abductors who took Ross and failed to return him despite the ransom payment.
Robert Lee Bristow, 21, of Saluda Virginia, took over a debt-ridden farm and earned the Star Farmer of America title at the American Royal Livestock Show in Kansas City. The Kansas City Star sponsored the $500 prize and presentation at the arena.
A 1937 column reflects on kindness as more than feeling, citing Jesus teachings of the Second Mile and the Good Samaritan. It urges readers to go beyond duty, imagining a world softened by small extra kindnesses, and asks God to melt stubborn souls.
George A Ball of Muncie Indiana republican national committeeman since 1928 submitted his resignation to National Chairman John D M Hamilton in Washington He said he concluded it was advisable to resign and outlined his reasons in a letter to State Chairman John C Taylor of Danville Ind Ball argued that a strong honest militant minority party is necessary for good government and that the need is greater now than ever He noted there is no audit or policing of government possible in a democracy without such a minority party.
A United Airlines crash on Monday killed 19. The first bodies were pulled from the wreck high on the Uinta slopes Tuesday night wrapped in canvas and carried by pack horses to trucks for Evanston 27 miles away.
A search party found the United Airlines transcontinental plane wreckage in the Uinta mountains with all aboard dead. It was later confirmed the death toll was twenty because a passenger woman would have given birth to a baby, and 18 bodies lay scattered near the wreckage.
Frank Nelson’s new mystery novel features a baffling crime with a twist ending and a rare woven love story. The Brand of the Broad Arrow begins serial publication in The Cedar Rapids Gazette on Friday October 22, inviting readers to unravel the tangled identities and hidden motives.
The market rebounded from a two and a half hour tailspin as heavy volume topped 7.29 million shares the heaviest since July 21, 1933. Brokers shouted orders amid chaotic opening, prices slid sharply then recovered with Allied Chemical trimming losses and others rising above Monday’s close. Rumors of London buying and big investment trusts moving to buy suggested a tentative recovery.
The British steamship Reina was reportedly bombed and sunk by insurgent war planes raiding Gijon on the northern Spanish coast. The government war ministry said no Reina is listed in the maritime registry, noting two freighters named Reina registered in Panama. The vessel last appeared months ago on a Baltic voyage and called at Havre on Sept. 18.
Washington faces a clash at the FCC as five commissioners bar George Henry Payne from deliberations in ethics cases involving attorneys Paul M. Segal and George S. Smith. The motion cites alleged bias and unethical conduct in private-practice representation before the commission.
President Roosevelt at Hyde Park says he will balance the 1938-39 budget without new taxes. He returns to Washington for talks with federal officials and denies plans to close the stock market or use emergency powers. The SEC also denies blaming short sellers for the market drop.
Chairman Joln O'Connor of the House Rules Committee telegraphed the Federal Reserve Board requesting immediate action to halt the decline in securities prices on the nation’s stock exchanges. He urged an immediate lowering of margin requirements.
Alf M. Landon, speaking via a radio mass meeting from Topeka, compared President Roosevelt to Julius Caesar and urged the 17,000,000 Republicans who supported him in 1936 to unite to preserve the republic. He attacked the court enlargement plan and urged restoring checks on executive power while praising Chief Justice Hughes as a model for state insurance laws.
Frank B. Kellogg, former secretary of state and Kellogg Briand co author, declared that Japan's policy in China was incompatible with the peace pact both in letter and spirit. He expressed regret that any government would disregard its word, undermining the pact and mutual confidence essential to international society.
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