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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1932
Page
1
The piece notes Earl er and Brow ns William Z Foster backing a hunger march toward Washington. It mentions New York officials seeking a salary cut for public officials and Roosevelt facing possible special sessions. Manchuria violence and U S war and Hawaii policy are noted amid a flood of mixed political concerns.
International News Service reporter Edward Hunter visited Fushun Manchuria and confirmed Chinese claims that Japanese machine gunners killed 2700 Chinese men women and children in three villages after residents were suspected of harboring Chinese soldiers. The scenes described include charred ruins and desolate villages with no survivors.
Dallas authorities sought the writer of a note saying you dont love me as the probable strangler of Mrs H Buchanan 28 found nude in her apartment. Her husband in the film book business arrived from Oklahoma City to help investigations after she was last seen leaving a party at Miss Jo Norwood's room.
City Clerk S T Irvine announced receipt of an application to sell beer in Red Wing Minnesota. The applicant noted the pre prohibition license fee was 500 dollars annually and stated a desire to get in on the ground floor.
Mrs. M. E. Guyer of 811 Camburn Court reported her Gazette Want Ad in Good Things To Eat sold 400 pounds of popcorn, type Big Squaw white and Sunburst yellow cas. Buyers called soon after the ad appeared. Dial 2-1121 for three or seven day ads to bring cash buyers to your door.
President Hoover proposes a flat ten percent pay cut for federal workers and a general sales tax to balance the budget amid Congress debates. Administration and Democratic leaders clash over methods to trim the treasury deficit.
In Toledo Ohio two machine guns opened fire on an automobile where 26 year old Louise Bell sat with 24 year old alleged bootlegger Jack Kennedy. Miss Bell died later from wounds while Kennedy was detained for questioning. Police link the shooting to a bootleg feud. Gunmen fled in a car with Michigan plates headed toward Detroit.
Arizona Governor George W. P. Hunt, 73, known as the "cowboy governor," remained in grave condition after a relapse. He was stricken with pneumonia election day as Dr. B. B. Moeur, a Democrat, defeated him in the primary and took office. Relatives were summoned to his bedside Wednesday.
Speaker Garner meets hunger march group led by Herbert Benjamin and William Reynolds but declines parade permit for Capitol Hill demonstration next week. The marchers threaten to press their request via the Senate. They deliver a three-point statement seeking bread first, plus food lodging and an assembly area, with a Capitol Hill program and demands.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas pledged speedy Senate action on prohibition repeat and beer measures after House action. Fresh from Warm Springs talks with President-elect Roosevelt, he said a Democratic conference would map a short session program focusing on prohibition, farm relief, war debts and federal economy.
Minority Leader Snell shifted to support direct House action on the repeal resolution as Republican anti prohibitionists planned a caucus of over 90. Beck and La Guardia said the GOP could provide about 125 votes for passage. The Justice Department and Prohibition Bureau asked funding equal to this year’s for enforcement. Garner indicated prospects for approval when Congress convenes Monday.
In Los Angeles three sisters Dolores 1 Evelyn 5 and Genevieve 6 were killed when their parents car collided with an electric train. Harriet 4 and parents Mr and Mrs Harry Rother suffered injuries believed fatal later. Martha 9 was unhurt.
Judge Peter Schwaba overruled a motion for a directed verdict in the suit brought by William Kuhn against Marion Wright her father and the Secret Six staff charging false arrest Kuhn sought 100000 damages Closing arguments were ordered with two hours allowed per side and a jury decision expected later Thursday
City of Cedar Rapids shows $2 059 000 in bonds outstanding excluding water works. The paper explains the debt per capita, retirement schedule, and that water bond debt is self liquidating with water revenue. Major issues from 1919 to 1928 will retire mainly by 1936 and beyond.
Former governor Alfred E. Smith told the Hofstadter committee a plan to abolish the 64 member board of aldermen and five borough presidents, creating a city assembly of 23 and a city senate. A vice mayor would preside over the senate and a speaker over the assembly, with a bill drafting commissioner to handle early legislation. The reform targets Tammany Hall's grip as Lehman seeks budget relief amid city debt.
The Gazette will publish a new illustrated feature by Albert Edward Wiggam titled Let's Explore Your Mind. Beginning Monday, the series will address questions on character, morality, gender, love, suppression of desires, and the balance of capital and labor.
Chicago AP report says Solomon A. Smith bank president and director of two utilities received a mail bomb that exploded in his wife’s hands. She was uninjured. A threatening letter demanding 1500 was later received, threatening harm to the family if Smith did not comply.
New York dispatch reports Cosmopolitan magazine published quotes from President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt written for its January issue. He asserts that debts owed by foreign governments to the United States must be paid and opposes cancellation as impractical and dishonorable. He says world finance stabilizes with clear obligations and warns against favoring foreign private loans.
Beverly Hills letters lampoon college life as students rush to choose a major amid talk of the Eighteenth Amendment. Will Rogers humorously imagines professors pressed to decide their life's work while exams and political change loom.
The British note argues delaying debt payments would avoid deepening the global downturn and could help revive world prosperity. It suggests that resuming payments might produce an unfavorable reaction in U S farm circles and stresses timing considerations for revival.
The text argues a link between reparations and war debts, noting American moratoriums and British share of debt payments. It claims discharge of international debts would require transfers of goods or services, with current trade imbalances and tariffs affecting Britain's ability to export manufactured goods.
A burglar broke into a Washington hairdressing shop and took a single blonde wig valued at 40 dollars. Police consider the motive possibly tied to the phrase gentlemen prefer blondes.
Houston authorities probe vice among high school age youths with Kenneth Haygood charged for operating a disorderly house. Investigators anticipate further indictments including a frame on high school girls and a nurse to be charged. The case highlights widespread debauchery and urges parental vigilance.
Congress and the public oppose cutting European debt payments. Rep Louis McFadden, ranking Republican on the House Banking and Currency Committee, spoke after reviewing a British debt note. Paris seeks postponement of 30 million dollars in interest due December 15, with French premier Herriot presenting the request to Ambassador Del in Washington.
Britain appeals to the United States for postponement of the December 15 debt installment amid fears that resumption of war debt payments could worsen world business troubles. London rejects Hoover’s currency deposit idea and warns that restoring payments would require measures to tilt Anglo American trade in Britain’s favor. The 6,000 word note was delivered to Secretary Stimson and discussed by Hoover Mills and Stimson. Congress shows little appetite to alter current policy against postponement.
Donald Nesbitt from Quemedo New Mexico secured 2450 points to win the Rodeo Association of America annual title. He claimed state titles in Nebraska and South Dakota and was proclaimed the world champion cowboy for 1932.
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