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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1935
Page
1
A special prosecutor will likely be selected Thursday to handle the removal actions against Henry C. Kuhlmann, Sioux City commissioner of public safety. Judges consider new appointment after grand jury graft probe. Marshall and Shull request release due to practice needs. decision on a new prosecutor to be made Thursday.
City officials met in secret at City Hall to discuss Tuesday’s grand jury report on graft and Kuhlmann’s removal as public safety commissioner. Mayor Hayes and councilmen Murphy Small and Kuhlmann attended. action on removal was deferred pending potential district court steps.
Woodbury county grand jury has urged ouster against Henry C. Kuhlmann, commissioner of public safety. County Attorney Max Duckworth said he awaits district court instructions and Kuhlmann vowed to resist any proceedings to the utmost. Continued on page 2.
Des Moines AP Attorneys for Harold M. Cooper state liquor commission chairman and the state agreed to advance the appeal hearing to the May term of the Iowa supreme court. Cooper was convicted of allowing J LeRoy Farmer to possess liquor illegally, fined 1000 dollars, and appealed.
A reflective essay on how public perception shapes a man’s image. It discusses Bernard Shaw as an example, noting the contrast between public caricature and private character. The piece argues that fame is built from a held impression rather than a full reality.
The SEC issued 16 new rules to restrict excessive trading by brokers, firms, and partners and to curb price manipulation. Directors and officers of hundreds of corporations had their stock holdings made public. Short selling at a price lower than the previous sale is forbidden. The rules are mandatory for exchanges and must be adopted and implemented immediately.
Frank Jeosawaido aged 17 suffered a broken back in a mine accident north of Centerville on Wednesday. He was injured while working at the Iowa mine facility.
The Iowa house appropriations committee drafts a biennial budget of 12,951,249 dollars per year for 1936-37, totaling 46,331 dollars less than the governor and comptroller recommended but 1,087,564 more than the last assembly. It funds general expenses 3,249,000 and state institutions 3,637,524, with 5,564,725 for education, including 1,800,000 to the University of Iowa and 570,000 for Iowa State Teachers College.
Best heavy weight steers rose to a new five year top at the Chicago stockyards. A load fat cattle fed by Fred Attebury of Mitchell Nebraska sold for 15.50 dollars per hundredweight, the highest local price since March 1930.
Louisiana lawmakers vote to take control of federal relief funds, empowering the highway advisory board to oversee public works. The move, championed by Senator Huey Long, faces opposition from Interior Secretary Ickes who threatens to withdraw relief. The bill carries penalties for contractors and officials who act without permission. The plan positions Long to influence 1936 elections by enabling appointment of precinct officials.
Washington UPI reports Huey P Long’s declaration of war against the United States after a New Deal session. Public Works Secretary Harold Ickes warned of rescinding federal construction allotments if Long’s legislation passes, while officials vowed to keep spending funds in the state.
Supervising Captain Thomas Condon said Joseph Bothe a 35 year old hospital inmate was identified as the thin man seen with 4 year old Richard Perrot when he vanished thirteen days earlier. Mrs Rose Sparr former landlady identified him at the state hospital Elgin after confronting him. Bothe had escaped from Elgin years ago and was detained April 8 for questioning but released April 9.
Chicago police announced at noon that Richard Max Perrot, a mute since birth who vanished April 4 after being taken to a candy store by a "thin man," is alive and would be returned to his home within hours. Capt. Thomas Condon said investigators have established the fact. Father Max Perrot rode in one of the squad cars as it left the North Damen avenue station.
The Iowa House voted 73 to 25 to substitute the House liquor control measure for the Senate beer bill. The House bill creates a state permit board with review power over licensing and regulating retailers, while the Senate proposal would shift authority to local officials. Major amendments make permit issuance discretionary for cities and counties, with a state permit tax and a new inspection force.
Washington reports an angry House debate on Japanese textile imports with Secretary Wallace as the chief target. Rep Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts sought to respond to Wallace's attack on cotton processing taxes, raising questions of personal privilege.
The Pan American Clipper landed at Pearl Harbor at 10:21 a.m. PST after an 18 hour 2400 mile flight from Alameda California. The four motor Sikorsky monoplane completed the hop in triumphal fashion over Honolulu.
Lieut. Harry P. Canaday, junior flight officer on the Pan-American Clipper, is a Cedar Rapids man and son of Mrs. Edna Canaday, 1003 D Avenue Northwest.
The Clipper plane flies from Alameda to Honolulu and back in about 31 hours setting a new speed record for the Pacific route. Crew volunteers extra time to let crowds view the aircraft, beating old marks by hours and 17 minutes. The voyage carries the first mail aboard a Pacific crossing, with six Navy planes previously holding the record.
Geneva UP reports League of Nations circles believe the council will fight if Germany violates the Rhineland demilitarized zone by fortifying or reinforcing the area after rejecting the Versailles treaty.
Berlin reports Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler will not accept the nations' denunciation of German re armament and plans a further reply to the League of Nations council resolution within a few days.
The Illinois House approved a bill requiring all teachers in public and private schools to take an oath to support the Constitution and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. Foreign teachers employed for up to one year are exempt. The measure passed 126 to 5 and moves to the Senate.
Governor Horner commuted the death sentence of Gertrude Puhse of Granite City Illinois to 99 years in prison. She and Thomas Lehny were convicted of murdering her husband Charles in January 1934. Lehny's sentence remained death with electrocution postponed to next Tuesday.
Chicago police report a 36 year old identified as a minor hoodlum with a long record was killed when a man fired a shotgun from a car in front of his home Tuesday night.
The Woodbury county grand jury faults local protection rackets and calls for removal of Sioux City Commissioner of Public Safety H C Kuhlmann. The Gazette ties the case to Des Moines bondsman Joe Gagen and Iowa liquor control revelations, noting Max Duckworth as Woodbury county attorney and predicting possible prosecutions.
Iowa state senate approved the administration’s anticipatory warrant bill without opposition and sent it to Governor Herring after the House earlier passed it. The measure would let the state issue refunding warrants against the sinking fund for public deposits and require public sale of warrant issues, with private sale only on terms no less favorable than best bids. It follows a prior $3.5 million refunding warrant move tied to the Carleton D. Beh Co. deal and a legislative inquiry into the private sale.
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