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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1932
Page
1
Chicago mourns Edith Rockefeller McCormick as cancer claims the noted heiress. In Mulvane Kansas Dr Shelly, aged 76, recalls aiding hundreds at births, illustrating life’s fragility beneath wealth and privilege. The Great Leveler spares no one.
President Hoover calls for concrete actions to create more jobs at a conference of business leaders. The speech text appears on page 18 of this edition.
A 32 member executive committee was elected to direct Cedar Rapids Unemployment Relief Fund activities for 1932 33 at a Chamber of Commerce dinner attended by 125 leaders. The fund reported 127731 38 raised with 121688 19 spent leaving about 5843 19 balance and 1800 in pending obligations. The list includes John C Reid Mark Anderson Metta Burd Robert Vesely Mayor Stepanek and others.
Edith Rockefeller McCormick dies of cancer at Drake hotel apartment after illness. Funeral scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday in the drawing room of her Lake Shore Drive mansion where she once entertained notables. Family members, including two estranged daughters, observe death as relatives gather at bedside in this high society obituary.
Dr Wayne Foster and his son John were riding in a taxicab after a Cubs game in Chicago when a heavy sedan struck their vehicle in Cedar Rapids. Foster suffered a wrench to his back and a scalp wound needing stitches. The son was uninjured. Foster, a former University of Iowa athlete, and John had traveled by pullman to see the Cubs in a week of travel that included a delayed night in Cedar Rapids.
In Des Moines and Council Bluffs a lull settles over the National Farmers Holiday strike. Reports say roads into Des Moines will be picketed Saturday morning while in Pottawattamie county violence subsides. Debates over milk prices continue as coroner investigates a deputy’s death and a deputy wounded amid Thursday’s clashes.
Under prevailing conditions people reflect and speculate on life’s uncertainties and its vague purposes. They question if this is all there is and search for something better, becoming less interested when times improve.
The writer imagines Dr. Shelly in Mulvane interviewing all 1000 babies he delivered, asking how they felt about his service as they drew their first independent breaths. The piece closes with a musing on gratitude and reluctance to depart.
Amelia Putnam leaves Los Angeles Wednesday and lands in Newark Thursday morning, establishing a new trans continental record as no woman had completed a non stop flight before.
Twenty five years ago would have foreseen such feats by Amelia Earhart Putnam. She recently flew solo across the Atlantic and now has crossed a continent in a single hop. Aviation and wireless have leapt ahead of land transport.
Rockefeller amassed millions and gave to his daughter Mrs McCormick while pursuing philanthropy. She loses most of her fortune as cancer takes her life and the family dissolves in discord. Dr Shelly couple ushers in new lives as wheels of time roll on.
While Mrs. McCormick lay dying in an Illinois city, more than 20 000 marching miners threatened to close coal pits. State troopers broke up the miner army as they rode in their own automobiles.
Picketing farmers in Iowa clog roads to block food and livestock deliveries while Milo Reno, the advisor to their movement, pushes direct action after years of waiting for experts to reveal profit from better soil and farming.
The text notes that peaceful action is acceptable while condemning violent forms of protest. It argues that a farmer's picketing in several instances crosses the line, and that Reno warns against violence while noting human nature’s tendency toward aggression.
A commentator warns that banning both coal digging for fixed pay and a farmer selling produce risks social chaos if lawful adjustment is abandoned for violence. The piece stresses that orderly adjustment, though sometimes futile, matters to social stability.
In a retrospective remark Roosevelt appeals to the masses for money since the party has no clear favorites for cash. The statement notes John J. Raskob, once the Democratic angel of the exchequer, still owed him hundreds of thousands.
Daniel Willard president of the Baltimore and Ohio told the President's economic conference that the Reconstruction Finance corporation proposed a general plan to the nation’s railroads. It envisions an extensive replacement program and employment for thousands of workers across major lines.
President Hoover told a broad assembly of bankers and business leaders that the nation has overcome the major financial crisis and urged extended credit at vital points and wider job distribution. He called for employer employee cooperation with agriculture and labor and promised government support through new agencies. Mills outlined a plan for a central business committee to coordinate actions among banking and industrial groups.
DES MOINES AP L A Andrew state superintendent of banking Friday approved a 60 day suspension of mortgage foreclosure policy saying it has operated for months in the banking department and that it is better to wait for obligations to be met than seize homes or life savings in the crisis.
A Macon county prosecutor set prelim hearings for three Texas men Archie Jenkins C J Hester both of Houston and Ralph Arnold of Waco in the slaying of Angelo Sivigliano whose body was found on a highway Aug 13 First degree murder charges were filed against the trio and bullets from Jenkins gun matched those in the Kansas City victim’s body
Albany AP Russell T. Sherwood, lawyer's clerk and mayoral financial agent for James J. Walker, depicted at the ouster hearing as a busy businessman. Witnesses sought to link his large accounts to Blauvelt firm. Sherwood has been missing since the Hofstadter probe and ignored a Mexico City subpoena.
Edwin C. Groh of Los Angeles sues Coe College Cedar Rapids Iowa in federal court for 103500 damages claiming a forced cross country race on Oct 29 1929 caused a fall on a steep incline into a ditch delivering a sprained back. He was 19 and a student at the college seeking 3500 for medical bills and 100000 damages.
Forest Ritgers Coe College track coach testified that Edwin Groh a former student was not forced to run in a cross country meet on Oct 26 during Coe Cornell dual meet. Ritgers said Groh 21 reported for the freshman team and trained voluntarily all fall.
Milo Reno of Des Moines resigns as Iowa chairman of the Farmers Holiday association to serve as national chairman. John Chalmers of Boone, state vice chairman, becomes Iowa state chairman and takes over duties for the farm produce holding movement.
August 28 to September 4 marks Rental Week in Cedar Rapids. Prospective renters will read free Rental Want Ads featuring an easy to read FOR RENT sign with every ad. Call or visit The Gazette Want Ad counter for ad placement and rates.
Unsettled Thursday gave way to clear skies and rising temperatures on Friday. Precipitation added to totals earlier in the morning, reaching four tenths of an inch. Temperatures climbed from 61 at 3 a.m. to 81 by Thursday noon and up to 80 by 1:20 p.m., with midmorning readings in the 60s and 70s.
Chancellor Franz von Papen plans a trip to Neudeck to request President Hindenburg sign a decree dissolving the Reichstag. He seeks to avert a Nazi centrist coalition and gain support for a massive reconstruction program that would employ several million unemployed at full pay.
Fred Pabst the Milwaukee brewer attending President Hoover’s conference said he would not discuss beer with the President, claiming he is invited as a cultural representative rather than a brewing industry figure. He quipped that he also makes cheese.
Will Rogers comments on Bishop California once fertile now desolate due to Los Angeles water demand. He notes Democrats rallying locally with the lone Republican postmaster voting to switch sides. He claims politics are settled for four years.
Gov Pinchot demands Davis resigns after federal indictment for alleged Moose lottery. Davis, in Cleveland attending a Loyal Order of Moose event, says he will respond after about a week and plans no statement before then. He is among several indicted and will enter a plea next Tuesday.
Eight 100 pound sacks of sugar were taken in a Wednesday night breakin at Gordon and Butters grocery and market in Central City. An entrance was gained through a back window and a large sack of miscellaneous merchandise was abandoned. Deputies pursue suspect leads.
Clyde Lee and John Bochkon attempt the Green Mountain Bay crossing from Harbor Grace to Europe. As afternoon becomes evening with low clouds and fog over the eastern Atlantic, searchers fear bad weather may have doomed the venture and wonder if they reached England unseen.
Adverse weather along the Reno to Cleveland route postpones the Bendix trophy race, a dawn to dusk flight from Los Angeles to Cleveland, opening the 1932 national air races. Six famed pilots were set to depart Los Angeles for Cleveland, while James Doolittle, last year’s winner, will not enter due to damage from a previous crash.
The body of a man believed to be Louis Tesch, about 50, a Hopkinton farmer, was found in the Wapsie River two miles north of Central City. A gunshot murder is suspected, with a driver's license on the body identifying Tesch. Authorities investigated footprints, bloodstains, and a possible auto removal.
In Mineola New York two of five county police officers had first degree manslaughter indictments over prisoner Hyman Stark’s death dismissed on motion of the prosecution Lieutenant Jesse Mayforth and Detective Sergeant Charles Wesser were cleared while Deputy Police Chief Frank Tappen remained indicted and his case moved forward on assault charges connected to Stark’s death with Wesser held on bail.
William Ernsting, a Chicago banker missing since last Saturday, has reappeared. He telephoned his wife from Michigan after waking from amnesia, recalling only being in Washington Park, Chicago, before the spell. He had been in Bensenville prior to vanishing.
In San Bernardino California an eight month old infant Charles Hudson died Friday from burns after turning over a pot of hot coffee causing severe scalding injuries.
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