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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1936
Page
3
The King and Mrs Simpson face a royal crisis as debates over wedlock intensify. The King consults ministers and advisers while Mrs Simpson offers to renounce their love to save the throne. Labor leaders and press comment shape public mood as demonstrations continue and imperial concerns loom.
Wheeler questions Ball about the Van Sweringen brothers regaining control of the Missouri Pacific Erie and Chesapeake and Ohio railroads for ten years at little or no upfront cost. Ball confirms the brothers would stay to manage the properties, and he intends to keep the organization in place for the present.
Mrs. Simpson announces a pivotal statement after a London call and a lengthy discussion with King Edward. Rogers sits beside her as Lord Brownlow arranges the framing at the Villa and Hotel Majestic setting. Reporters are summoned while crowds cheer outside.
DES MOINES AP Assistant Polk County Attorney Al Adams said Governor Clyde L. Herring will not be summoned to testify in the grand jury probe of payoff rackets. Adams said the governor offered to testify if called but the panel decided there was no specific information he could provide. Parks Commissioner E. Lee Keyser testified, and more witnesses were to be heard before a Monday recess.
Mrs. R. F. Hayek of 3030 Bever Avenue SE was burned about the waist and legs after a coffee pot lid came off spilling hot coffee at Mrs. Ed Fleagle’s home 1302 Second Street SE. She was taken home by ambulance and a doctor said she suffered some second degree burns.
Anthony Capoldi, 28, awaited transfer to the Illinois Security hospital after escaping trial for the slaying of Antonette Tiritilli, 5. A sanity jury ruled him feeble minded and Judge Benjamin Epstein ordered confinement at Menard with return to trial if found sane.
New York patrolmen James Armstrong and William Forrester pursued a runaway horse through Sunrise Highway in Ozone Park, Queens for two miles before overtaking it in a patrol car. The exhausted animal collapsed and died.
Duke the wire-haired terrier owned by Ray Barnett saved when F H Carmichael a Milwaukee railroad engineer halted his train on the ice covered Crescent bridge in Rock Island Illinois to avoid striking the dog. Carmichael carried the frightened dog to safety and handed him to the drawbridge tender who fed him and notified the owner.
Peter Koteros was sentenced to six months in Cass county jail after pleading guilty to conspiracy to extort money from opera stars using obscene pictures. He was brought to Fargo from Buffalo, New York, and appeared before Federal Judge Andrew Miller.
Federal mediators hoped for a break in the six week maritime strike as ship owners and unions held a public debate in a San Francisco civic auditorium. Edward F. McGrady forecast progress in coastwise vessel negotiations while Roger D. Lapham agreed to debate the issues at the city mass meeting Tuesday night.
Louise Stewart, 23, a strip dancer, pled guilty to indecent exposure and was fined 25 dollars. Her attorney said she must perform tonight. fellow troupe member James Allatin, 34, also pled guilty to indecent performance and was fined 25. The theater manager Hal Bronson waived a state obscenity charge, bond set at 500 dollars, and city case adjourned to December 21. State charges against Stewart and Allatin were dismissed.
About 180 motorbus drivers from the eastern Michigan system and the Flint Trolley Coach, Inc., walked out Tuesday morning, leaving thousands in Flint and hundreds of other commuters without their usual transport.
A 22 year old convict Fred Turner and two cell mates escaped via a 140 foot tunnel from Missouri penitentiary hidden behind walls. They had installed 14 light bulbs and used tools to dig while Turner stayed hidden for weeks until guards confronted them at the tunnel exit.
The 1937 farm conservation program to be announced by the AAA Wednesday sets a limit on corn acreage in areas where corn is a major crop. Soil conservation payments will be reduced slightly from this year and include 6 per acre for reduced soil depleting crop, 3 per acre for old seedings and new seedings, 80 cents to $1 for soil building practices. Bases for soil depleting and conserving crops will be set per farm with 1936 revisions to improve equity. The program aims to balance soil conserving and depleting crops, covering corn wheat oats barley soybeans flax vegetables and truck crops, with total corn acreage expected to be slightly less than this year.
David Freedman, a top joke writer and playwright, died early Tuesday in New York after a heart attack. He had been to appear in supreme court to press a suit filed Monday against Eddie Cantor for $250,000 plus interest on an oral contract.
In Kingston Jamaica David Lloyd George the wartime prime minister heads to Bristol aboard the Carare to address an ongoing constitutional crisis. He plans to rush back to England today.
Paul F. Jones a 30 year old Cedar Rapids attorney returned from Los Angeles to face charges of child desertion embezzlement and cheating by false pretenses in district court. Judge H C Ring granted until 9 am Saturday to enter a plea on each charge. Jones was moved to the county jail with bonds totaling 3000 dollars.
Robert Lewis Gardner twenty from Anamosa Iowa, a tap dancer, was jailed on a federal charge after a free performance in Rockford. Investigators say Gardner split a dollar bill with his fingernails at a bus station en route from a dancing engagement in Elkhorn Wisconsin and was ordered held for arraignment before U S Commissioner Robert Eckner on a charge of mutilating currency.
Governor Alf M Landon of Kansas will attempt one more deer hunt in Florida before leaving for New Orleans and then Topeka. A companion, L E Phillips of Bartlesville Oklahoma, shot a deer on Monday. Landons party hunted on St Vincents Island as rough Gulf waters halted a planned fishing trip.
The Seyhan river floods Adana in southern Anatolia killing 300 people and leaving about 50 000 homeless. Authorities report terror-stricken residents including women and children wandering in severe cold.
The Standard Oil Company of Indiana said prices for three gasoline grades to tank wagon customers and dealers in ten midwestern states would rise by three tenths of a cent per gallon, effective Wednesday December 9. The move applies nationwide within its service area.
A listing of midwest states includes Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas northern Michigan Minnesota Missouri North Dakota South Dakota and Wisconsin as shown in the article segment.
Washington AP. Resettlement administration to issue direct cash grants to 250000 drought area farmers discharged from WPA relief jobs. Acting head Will W. Alexander said plan with WPA officials. direct grants average about 21 dollars a month, replacing WPA relief of about 45 dollars.
Louise Magee recently chosen Nebraska sweetheart by university students becomes engaged to Philip Oxnam of Omaha. Magee is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter J Magee of Lincoln. Oxnam is the son of Bishop and Mrs G Bromley Oxnam of the Omaha area. Bishop Oxnam was formerly president of DePauw University.
Eyewitness recounts a deadly blaze at MgRegor where seven people perished. The survivor describes flames, smoke, and a struggle to warn others as neighbors helped evacuate, with Alice and Erwin among those not saved. Frank Curiel alerted the fire department to aid the victims.
Mrs Belle Edgeton and Jay Davis of Brandon were married by Mayor Alice at Vinton on Saturday. They plan to reside in Brandon after the ceremony.
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