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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1935
Page
1
The Michigan governor and state war commission chair push strict enforcement of liquor and gambling laws. Fitzgerald promises drastic measures, including removing sheriffs or district attorneys who fail to comply, urging public support to defend the Constitution and uphold government authority.
Sioux City mayor W D Hayes lost his bid to halt a removal hearing and to strike the Woodbury county graft grand jury’s removal recommendation from district court records. Judge F H Rice declined jurisdiction, citing potential delays to the ongoing trial, as the grand jury’s probe into graft broadens with indictments against dozens, including state officials.
London AP reports parliamentary circles supportive of Lloyd George see a real chance he could grab the balance of power in the coming general election. The veteran leader backs a non party New Deal and a strong peace policy via the league of nations. Some signers allege he is using the plan for personal political gain.
After earning broad respect among regulars and serving as a colonel in the regular army during 1917 to 1918, he retires with that rank and with the heartfelt good wishes of thousands of his former "boys" from the war era.
Dr Newton argues that while human nature includes selfish acts and flaws, it also encompasses greater goodness. He cites blizzards, cannibalism history in New Zealand, and daily acts of courage to urge breaking free from fatalist views. Believe in the best in our fellows and strive for a decent world.
Prosecutors prepared to file first degree murder charges against Mandeville Zenge connected to the death of Dr. Walter J. Bauer, as a sixth witness linked him to the crime. A cab driver identified him, and Bauer, in a dying statement, accused “Jones” of abducting him in Ann Arbor and forcing him to Chicago for the brutal act.
Federal investigators disclosed a nationwide racket selling fake naturalization papers. After three months of sleuthing Special Prosecutor Samuel H. Kaufman said ten Ellis Island government employees are poised for indictments and that the outside organization’s brains remain at large. The scam charged aliens 50 to 2500 dollars for falsified records, extending from Ellis Island to major cities.
Alexis Mdivani who died in a Spanish car crash was buried in Palamos after Catholic services at San Juan church. Baroness Mdivani lay gravely ill, initially unconscious then improving, while Baron von Thyssen and family arrived at Gerona hospital. The prince had divorced Barbara Hutton in Reno three months earlier.
Soviet aviators led by Sigmund Levanevsky fail to complete a non stop Moscow to San Francisco hop. An oil-distribution line fault caused oil leakage eight hours after takeoff, forcing a return to Leningrad after an 875 mile segment over the Barents Sea. Co pilot George Baidukoff and navigator Victor Lychencko accompanied the flyer aboard the U R S S 25 on the 6,000 mile attempt.
Dakota county Neb officials say they will file gambling and liquor charges against Harold Walter and two employees, Joseph Williams and Raymond Meyers, after a raid on a Crystal Lake road house. Walter formerly ran the Valley Gardens nightclub in Sioux City area.
Senator Carter Glass, a New Deal critic, plans to run for re election in 1936 on the Democratic line. He said he has not left the party and remains a strong democrat despite others leaving or considering third party ties.
Cedar Rapids enjoyed a cool evening as the temperature fell from a 92 degree afternoon high at 4 p.m. to 82 at 7 p.m. and 74 by 9:30 p.m under clear skies, per Chambers Inskeep company readings.
New York police pieced a tale of unrequited love guiding Prince Abdul Kerim, a 31 year old Ottoman prince in Chicago, to take his own life in a Times Square hotel after proposing divorce to a married woman. A note in Arabic confessed his distress over Mrs. Kadir’s refusal to leave her husband. The consulate confirmed Abdul Kerim’s royal lineage, tracing back to the Ottoman sultanate.
In Phoenix a search for three boys who fled a city recreation camp led to two bodies found in Cave Creek desert. Tony Acosta 12 and Leo Coronado 13 were rescued or found, with Coronado delirious from thirst. The third boy Raymond Flores 11 was found dead, police report.
Six Houston newspaper men were found in contempt in Angleton and fined for refusing to publish testimony from a murder trial. They were released on bonds of 200 dollars each, with appeals court review slated for October.
Anne B Sibley heiress daughter of a Chicago lawyer vanished July 3 from Antioch College Yellow Springs Ohio and was found in Coney Island working as a barker at Wonderland Museum of Freaks earning 12 dollars weekly over 12 hours a day She admitted her identity to Detective Bonanno and said she enjoyed the work police notified her father and released her She planned to visit a college friend Ruth Rabinoff once with her during the disappearance
Relatives of Anne B. Sibley, the missing Chicago co-ed, say she was found working as a Barker in a Coney Island freak show. They expect she will return to Chicago soon with her brother Dr Joseph Sibley. Her father, Joseph C. Sibley, is a prominent LaSalle Street lawyer.
The treasury plans nearly 2 million dollars in coming months to protect its gold and silver hoard. A 1 225 million dollar mint will rise on San Francisco rock plateau with a Fort Knox depository contract set for August 22. Fort Knox vaults will feature bombproof granite roofs, four machine gun pillboxes, 24 hour guards, electric mine cars, floodlights, gas and radio gear and emergency power.
The forecast covers August five to ten for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. It calls for generally fair conditions early in the period with showers arriving by Tuesday or Wednesday, then fair again Friday and Saturday, with rising temperatures early in the week and cooler conditions by Saturday.
The Japanese foreign office asked Ambassador Saito to protest to the U S State Department over a Vanity Fair cartoon allegedly ridiculing Emperor Hirohito. The home office banned circulation and sale of the August issue in Japan, with nationalistic papers deeming it an international incident.
New York reports Ambassador Hiroji Saito of Japan said he will go to Washington to formally protest a Vanity Fair August issue cartoon mocking Emperor Hirohito. He stressed the image of the deity revered emperor pulling a jinrikisha cannot be lightly viewed in Japan, despite looser satire here.
Washington discussions focus on a Vanity Fair caricature of the Japanese emperor. Japanese envoy Yoshiezawa sought clarity at the state department while Tokyo awaits foreign office reports. Editor Crowinshield calls the drawing good-natured. the piece includes other satirical figures on a page titled Not On Your Tintype.
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