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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1933
Page
1
The column lashes at embargo policy critics and Roosevelt era aides. It notes Akron Macon airship test delays amid disaster, comments on ambassadorial postings from Daniels to Warsaw and Curley’s Rome bid, and critiques Iowa court politics and a looming shift toward socialism.
President Roosevelt mapped international talks to begin late next week with Prime Minister MacDonald to pursue reciprocal tariff treaties and reduce trade barriers. The move aims to resuscitate world trade while domestic bills on farm relief, Muscle Shoals, and banking reforms proceed in Congress.
A devotional meditation celebrates Easter as the Day of Eternal Life linking Jesus Spirit with spring. It speaks of faith overcoming doubt, the unity of life and hope, and the sacramental grace awakening love among the living and the dead.
Four bandits entered the Chicago apartment of 82 year old Lena Strubell Saturday and stole $2. She was so frightened that she died, authorities report.
Senator Connally of Texas urged senators to skip golf and baseball to attend duties as Easter visitors cheered the call. Florida Senator Trammell criticized administration leaders over the 30 hour week bill while other members debated and gallery remarks echoed demands for more floor activity.
Akron AP report says the U S Macon will not make its first flight before Monday. Captain Alger Dresel said Monday’s flight depends on weather developments between now and 11 pm EST Sunday.
New York AP Deputy Chief Inspector James S. Bolan was appointed police commissioner to replace Edward P. Mulrooney, who resigned to head the state’s beer and wine control board.
Winnie Ruth Judd showed hysterical outbursts and tears as her sanity hearing advanced with five days left before the scheduled hanging for the murder of Agnes Ann Leroi. She threatened to throw herself from the two story courtroom window and called the jurors gangsters. The hearing paused as the state sought two alienists to examine her without lawyers present.
The AP forecast calls for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys and northern and central Great Plains. Not much precipitation early in the week with possible showers later. Temperatures expected to run below normal.
Opal Hill’s 17 year old son Stuart was detained by police in the death of Philip Thelen 30 killed in a motor crash. Thelen’s wife and son Donald were in the car with him when it collided with a second vehicle that fled the scene. The other car was recovered later in a garage. Hill and three companions were arrested for investigation.
David A. Brown publisher urges President Roosevelt to appoint Hoover ambassador to Germany. Brown calls Hoover mentally and temperamentally fit to save 60 million people from Nazi persecution as ten thousand Jews flee Germany per Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society reports.
Henry Owns 24, a Denver basketball player last season, lay near death after being shot by E. P. Merrick at a filling station near the State Capitol. Merrick said he fired five times during a quarrel sparked by Geneva Merrick who claimed Downs attacked her.
Washington reports rising tension as Henry S. Harriman of the United States Chamber of Commerce condemns the Tennessee river valley project. Attorney General Cummings argues government authority over policy, signaling a broader push for a sweeping reform program amid national crisis.
The Christian world marks Easter with celebrations worldwide as rain dampens New England and the eastern United States while the South enjoys fair weather. About 100,000 visitors gather in Rome for the Pope blessing from St. Peter’s loggia, and New York faces a damp Fifth Avenue Easter parade.
Governor Horner says the Rockford youth Russell McWilliams who is doomed to die in the electric chair on April 21 will have his fate determined Wednesday when the state pardon board renders its recommendation in the case.
High School Travel Opportunity campaign in Cedar Rapids partners with The Gazette and local businesses to send four top students to the Chicago Century of Progress for ten days all expenses paid. Local leaders include John Maney and Lillian Smis with Vernon Schirm from Newhall as top out of town voter. Votes flow from cash purchases with one vote per dollar, and a box filled as closing weeks approach drives store and public interest.
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald sails from Southampton aboard the S S Berengaria en route to Washington. He expresses strong confidence that his talks with President Roosevelt will advance world economic peace and recovery. He notes sunshine as an omen of hope and expects general Anglo French collaboration at the Washington conferences.
In Wabash Indiana the county grand jury refused to indict Loren Miller a World War II veteran for the slaying of Walter Ridenour during a moonlight duel in Miller’s orchard on April 9 over Miller’s wife Jessie. The panel found Miller acted in self defense and reported a no bill to Judge Hurd Hurst after hearing testimony and reviewing over twenty love notes between the lovers. Coroner Russell Myers had ruled Ridenour died from a buckshot wound from Miller’s shotgun, probably in self defense.
A second petition was filed in the Senate on Saturday afternoon calling for the removal of Louisiana Senator Huey P. Long, a Democrat.
William E. Collins, 43, of 1637 F Avenue NE, remained in Cedar Rapids on a bank robbery charge. Police say evidence links him to the United States bank holdup on March 20. Collins questioned Saturday denied the crime, but admitted use of Illinois plates later tied to the robbers' car. He claims plates were returned to Lindquist in a Lincoln hotel alley and credit certificates missing. Police note the plates were stolen. He offered an unclear source for $185 in cash used that evening in Iowa City. Collins said he earned the money selling a diamond to a man known as Wooly at the Grand Hotel. He had worked in Cedar Rapids as a poultry magazine salesman with several companions before the robbery.
Jerome Factor, son of John Factor also known as Jake the Barber, was abducted near his home in an exclusive district and is being held for 50 000 dollars. He is a Northwestern University student on vacation. He telephoned his father to state he is being treated well and pleaded for the ransom.
The report describes Jerome Factor’s abduction attempt near home by four men after years of security measures. It links the Factor family flight from Morgan Park to a planned kidnap for ransom amid suspicions tied to a $1,300,000 copper mine settlement and past dealings with Jake the Barber and Legs Diamond.
In Chicago Mrs Walczynska sold rags and books to a junkman for 10 cents. She later found $4,000 in her money hidden inside a book. Police questioned many junkmen with descriptions, but the thief remains at large.
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