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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1934
Page
1
The column reviews the Roosevelt administration’s stance on banks and industry, noting hostility from business leaders, a crash in the Morro Castle inquiry, farm tax issues under the corn-hog contracts, and debates over repeal effects. It also mentions county attorney King Thompson on drunken driving cases and repeal anniversary reflections.
Gazette Farm Editor Ray F. Anderson notes cash corn in Iowa mixes with Chicago prices as 9 cents freight, 1.11 in Chicago, and a Chicago forecast of 1.25 before spring. He warns feeders may not pay 1.25 due to livestock market weakness and widespread surplus from shellers.
Two Hastings beer truckers Jim McGammon and John Parkinson walked over a mile from a broken down truck in Nebraska City to a farmhouse to drink water. They worked for a beer company based in St. Joseph Missouri and explained their thirst after the breakdown.
Rural physician Dr. A. R. Dafoe is skeptical of science yet valued for his patient care. The piece notes the U S government payroll of 680,181 workers with monthly pay over 100 million dollars for October, with hundreds more hires since then.
A weary man near seventy recalls a life of longing and pain. A stray dog’s plea for love rekindles hope, and in one fine hour he finds meaning, forgiveness, and happiness as he faces his final moment.
Navy search continues for Lieut. Charles T. P. Ulm and two Australian aviators lost after a Tuesday flight from Oakland. Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith urged keeping the search as hope endures. Navy planes re-sweeped areas while surface craft combed seas near the Hawaiian group.
Washington AP reports the board of temperance and morals of the Methodist Episcopal church demanded abolition of all liquor profits on Thursday. The call targets nationwide prohibition of profits from liquor sales and stresses moral reform.
The United States declared it will not accept Japan’s demand for naval parity. Norman H. Davis, chief American delegate, stated Washington may pursue an unrestricted naval race if Japan repudiates the Washington and London treaties. Japanese officials said the remark merely supported their stance.
The piece explains confusion over equality of security versus armaments and recalls the 1922 Washington conference as the first successful effort to curb naval races. It notes Britain Japan and the United States acknowledged that binding limits could not be achieved by academic debates on needs or national pride alone.
James A. Moffett told the Construction league in Knoxville that the federal housing administration character credit experiment has succeeded. He predicted bankers will continue such loans without government insurance and cited a market for at least five million new homes, with annual building of 500000 to 700000 possible once the shortage is solved.
Helen Gillis widow of George Baby Face Nelson was jailed in Dane County awaiting arraignment as a probation violator before Judge Patrick Aren in federal court Friday.
The Senate munitions committee said there is no evidence in State Department files about who inspired the Hoover 1925 conference. Witness Stephen Raushenbush testified there was no record regarding the conference, despite Hoover claiming the State Department initiated it. Senator Clark questioned the investigation.
Governor Herring says Iowa must raise the old age pension tax to three dollars next session to fund tens of thousands of applications. Only 3,000 of 60,000 applications have been acted on, with 39,000 dollars spent monthly for these recipients. The state seeks 317,000 dollars to cover 3,000 pensions at 13.25 dollars monthly through July.
President Roosevelt outlined a plan to employ millions on direct relief and consolidate emergency spending into a broad program. He expected Congress to authorize emergency funds over 4 billion dollars with a possible 500 million for land and water conservation. Hopkins stressed relief remains steady while the aim is to shift four million jobless on relief to work.
A touring Iowa girl asked for a hair from Princeton Neptune, the Prince of Wales' prize bull, at the International Livestock Exposition. Walter Little noted the prince's ranch life and royal questions while the girl collected a cheeky token amid chatter about royal marriages.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace told a New York dinner that the economic hierarchy could do more harm than the Bourbons, urging a broader social outlook and responsibility by the roughly 36,000 families with average incomes of 75,000 dollars or more a year.
Trwin Backes, 12, son of Mr and Mrs George P Backes of Luzerne, is in Mercy Hospital with a fractured skull and other injuries after being kicked in the head by a horse on his father’s farm. He grew worse Wednesday after a tranquil day Saturday and remains in serious condition.
Unconfirmed reports say Paraguayan troops captured forts d Orbigny Cucurenda Primiguarenda Puesto Bolivar Algodonal Carossi Las Vacas in the Pilcomayo sector and advanced sixty miles in a new push on the Gran Chaco front. Fort Carossi controls the highway to Curuvenda near Villa Montes and forts Bolivar Las Vacas defend that area.
Hungary demands reasons for mass deportations of thousands of ethnic Hungarians from Jugoslavia. Budapest sent a sharp protest to Jugoslavia and notified the League of Nations. Two Hungarian commissions were sent to the border to document the refugees and prepare a detailed report.
Reports describe brutal treatment by Jugoslav police as Hungarian refugees mass evacuate after 24 hours notice. Hundreds cross the border panicked with few belongings, while scores of homes are looted. Arrival at Szegeden includes an 86 year old blind resident.
The Yugoslav government announced an expulsion order targeting Hungarian residents. The move affects thousands of wage earners whose presence was said to deprive Jugoslavian workers of jobs. Officials stated independent means travelers with valid passports are not touched.
Walter Brauner, 53, was sentenced to up to fifteen years in state prison after pleading guilty to first degree bank robbery for the $1800 Dayton Minnesota bank raid in 1930.
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