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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1934
Page
6
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Honolulu report says a nationwide effort to combat gangsters will start at a Washington conference in early December. Police chiefs from two dozen states will attend to plan unearthing underlying conditions that breed crime and to establish a national clearing house for crime data and social factors.
The dollar slid sharply in London trading, dropping to $5.09 by early afternoon and then to $5.097 percent by 5 p.m. The move came amid speculation over US silver policy and potential foreign-market purchases to lift world prices. Brokers could not confirm the stunt’s impact on the India silver market.
Mineral producers in the far West remain hopeful that a potential 50.01 cent price for silver could lift demand. The Roosevelt order nationalizing silver did not deliver immediate value, with silver priced the same as before the order. Some see a spark from treasury purchases and hoarded bars, possibly boosting new silver into Idaho and Utah where by products are common. The core issue remains copper, lead, zinc, and other non ferrous metals. silver acts mainly as a by product.
In Camden New Jersey a chilling inflation ritual strapped twelve candidates into a chair for a small electric shock. Candidate 13 Samuel A Wilson died after the jolt while Dr M I P Wheatland called the event a case of being scared to death.
Dor a Lockart an 18 year old woman leaped from a third story window in Los Angeles and landed on telephone wires two floors below where she hung suspended until students and police rescued her. A student lent an overcoat while others called an ambulance. She said she leaped to escape a man who had entered her apartment. She recently came from Utah.
A long scanned price list from a city grocer details numerous items with prices including sugars, butter, cheese, canned goods, flour, coffee, tea, cereal, and fresh produce. The ad lists specials for Saturday through Thursday with free delivery and a downtown address at Third Avenue Southwest and a phone number 7155.
Paris reports the French cabinet approved a strong export subsidy program to support wheat markets. A $28 million subsidy fund is in use, with aims to ship wheat abroad at world prices and denatured flour for export. A blue-dye rule for poor wheat to be used as cattle feed was revived.
Police in Washington scoured the Potomac river shores and bottom in an investigation. An officer is the subject of the search as authorities pursue leads and gather evidence.
Lieutenant Edward T. Harney, commander of the harbor police precinct, vanished from a cabin launch Wednesday while asleep below deck. George Boyd, friend and retired detective sergeant, says the launch drifted four miles downstream from Marshall Hall as investigators found a burned cigarette on the rail.
Pope Pius XI elevated four Mobile diocese priests to the rank of domestic prelate with the title monsignor. The Mobile honorees are Rev. Philip Cullen chancellor and pastor of St Patrick's, Rev. John R. O'Donoghue pastor of St Mary's, Rev. Lester J. Carroll superintendent of parochial schools, all of Mobile, and Rev. James B. Rogers pastor of St Peter's in Montgomery.
A wartime style pitch promotes Shredded Wheat as a cool, nourishing breakfast and lunch option. It claims whole wheat content aids clarity and energy, with messages about digestion and weather resilience and benefits for children.
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