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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1935
Page
1
In Sioux City investigators pursue a man connected to a case as new information emerges. Police seek details and the public awaits developments in the ongoing inquiry.
The Gazette reports a federal inquiry into Woodbury county graft connected to Des Moines, with agents arriving in Sioux City. Editor and Robert C. Toms, plus Max Duckworth, Woodbury county attorney, coordinated witness delivery and faced delays as witnesses failed to appear. The piece details tense overnight efforts, grand jury plans, and the looming noon Monday climax.
Washington D C Guy T Helvering commissioner of internal revenue ordered a conference of alcohol tax unit officials to consider federal action over alleged attempts by Jews liquor stores to evade taxation The Cedar Rapids Gazette reported the issue after a Manley Iowa liquor centre commission letter told state store managers how to sell more than the five gallon limit Helvering ordered a study before action and said the letter showed a willful evasion of federal liquor laws
An intercepted letter instructs liquor sellers in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines to divide sales into multiple under five gallon transactions to dodge federal taxes. Commission member Manley denies intent to break law amid questions from reporters and a Gazette interview.
The writer assails the Legislative committee on its abrupt end to investigations into the Iowa liquor control act and the Iowa liquor control commission. It lists 17 questions about why key witnesses were not called, evidence not pursued, and potential graft not fully explored, naming Harold Cooper and other officials.
Three gunmen seized $3,000 from the College Savings bank in Ames at 12:30 PM. They abducted officers C. A. Knudson and T. E. Lavelle, later releasing them near the city edge. The robbers fled west on Lincoln highway in a Ford V-8, avoiding the bank’s time lock and not entering the safe.
Sioux City district court judge F H Rice criticizes editor Verne Marshall for a verbatim telephone report. Rice says the conversation was for press use and condemns Marshall for breaches of etiquette. He asserts Woodbury county can handle its own affairs and closes the matter.
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