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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1932
Page
1
A $5,000,000 famine relief drive left $900,000. trustees redirect $600,000 to Nanking University College of Agriculture seed funding after prior $300,000 spent on buildings. Commentary contrasts American aid with China farming advances and notes U S veterans costs and policy debates.
Washington leaders surprise by reviving the sales tax to balance the budget with President-elect Roosevelt guiding Speaker Garner. Collier cites need for 4500,000,000 in new revenue. Mills backs sales tax over bonds. Hoover veto on beer tax discussed.
In Linden Texas a case unfolds as Paul Oakley and Coy Oakley and Sherman A Clayton, the girl Bernice Clayton's father, face murder charges after the paralyzed, mute child died in an alleged prayer rite to cast out the devil. Sheriff Nat Cartwright calls the death brutal.
Police investigated the killing of 17 year old Ralph Pisano who was shot in the head as he walked toward a movie. Relatives said he had no known enemies and investigators pursued a motive.
Norman E. Mack longtime Buffalo Democrat chief and national party figure died at 74 in his Delaware Avenue home. A former publisher he helped found the Sunday Times and Evening Times in Buffalo beginning in 1879 and 1884. He served 32 years on the Democratic National Committee and was named committeeman emeritus. His influence touched state and national politics during the Wilson era and beyond.
NEW YORK AP William Dyk shorn 24 of Ironton Iowa a scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington shot himself fatally in the woods near the laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Long Island Monday authorities ruled the death accidental He apparently discharged one barrel of his shotgun after tripping over a stump associates said he often went to the woods to shoot crows.
Moscow AP reports a easing pace in Soviet industrial construction with 1933 capital investments planned at 18 billion rubles, down from 21.1 billion in 1932. The shift prioritizes heavy industry to boost productivity and cut costs, while expanding light industry for consumer goods.
French film star Maurice Chevalier and Mae Murray's husband David Mdivani face federal tax liens in Los Angeles. Chevalier owes 475 dollars on his 1930 return and Mdivani owes 72 dollars on his 1931 return, according to IRS filings.
Richard Joshua Reynolds Jr., eldest heir and sole surviving son of the tobacco magnate, announced Monday his engagement to Elizabeth McCaw Dillard of Winston-Salem. The childhood romance culminates in a formal betrothal.
A three day holiday period ends with at least 311 deaths across the nation. Traffic crashes dominate the toll with California and Michigan leading auto fatalities. Other incidents include a mine disaster in Newfoundland Labrador leaving 54 trapped and 39 bodies recovered, along with poison liquor deaths and various accidents nationwide.
Vatican City reports a 1933 jubilee year proclaimed by Pope Pius XI will feature monarch pilgrimages to Rome. Invited rulers include Belgium and Italy’s kings and former Brazilian president Pessoa, with ceremonies starting at Easter. The pope will ride in procession with Cardinals and guards to Santa Croce Church housing sacred relics.
Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti, ally of Al Capone, shows improvement at Jefferson Park hospital as doctors plan soon to operate to remove two of three bullets from a gun duel with a detective.
Gloria Winchell, 9, daughter of columnist Walter Winchell, died of pneumonia in New York Monday. The death was reported by United Press.
Washington senators move to amend the 3.2 per cent beer bill to immunize it from a potential Supreme Court ruling. A Blaine led subcommittee drafts changes repealing Volstead alcohol content definitions and fixing the 3.2 per cent rate. If constitutional challenges succeed, the new provisions aim to permit beer sales under existing law.
New York police report a 17 year old boy named John Phillips leapt from a 17 story window in his family apartment near Central Park. A maid attempted to restrain him but he fell to his death. no motive found.
Dr Squire P Bevier a wealthy 60 year old dentist is found dead in his garage after shooting himself in a case connected to the killing of Mrs Josephine Elder during an argument over her false teeth A note found on him reveals a belief an enemy sent patients who would not pay The earlier death of Mrs Elder was at her office with a mallet and a fierce struggle.
Norman H. Davis, U.S. delegate to the Geneva arms talks, told Albany officials that the Roosevelt administration likely will pursue a disarmament path similar to Hoover’s. He cited progress toward a pact banning submarines and weapons above six inches, plus moves on gas, aerial bombing, and security as credit foundations for international recovery. Davis outlined Geneva discussions and the coming London economic conference agenda as groundwork.
Dr. John Pease Norton proposed an electric dollar tied to kilowatt hours to stabilize prices and curb depressions. The currency would be legal tender for short contracts, issued by government through electric companies, and redeemable by future kilowatt hours, coexisting with gold currencies.
Santa Monica columnist notes Christmas folly under technocracy with boxes of deceit and shortages. Hoover fishing trips yield no fish as he waits. France toys with Shakespeare signals amid debate over paying and using the Yanks.
Ray Devine a 26 year old cement contractor was killed eight miles south of Vinton on No 218 at 830 pm Sunday when struck on the running board of his car by a northbound automobile driven by Willard Foster of Ottawa. Foster could not stop in time due to a rise and a southbound car forcing him to attempt a squeeze past. Devine suffered a fractured skull and his body was taken to a Vinton mortuary.
San Francisco woman Mary Alonzo aged 31 reports she became a grandmother on September 27 when her daughter gave birth to a son. Born March 24, 1901, she was 16 when her daughter was born February 20, 1918.
Police pursue two car license numbers as clues in the Rose Gendel murder case in Rock Island Illinois. The 22 year old sales girl and choir singer was found dead under the Rock river bridge. Her mother Mrs Jacob Mark is ill and at Mount Nebo cemetery burial attended by family. Rabbi Levitan condemns the attackers and demands confession.
President Hoover and a small party began serious fishing off the Georgia coast after two days at sea. They moved south toward Sea Island hunting preserve near Savannah and Brunswick for a ten day winter holiday outing with deep sea fish as the quarry.
Weary rescue workers found 27 more bodies in the blast wrecked tunnels of the Mowenqua Community coal mine. In all 39 bodies have been found, seared from gas and fire after the explosion trapped 54 men before Christmas.
A mine disaster in Moweaqua leaves 54 men dead with 11 more bodies recovered after days of rescue work. Families mourn as authorities plan Catholic and Protestant services and continue searching the south and north wings for further victims.
A. A. Humpheries, an illiterate Gainesville, Georgia farmer, was jailed in Atlanta on murder charges after human remains found on his farm were identified as his wife Maggie R. Humpheries. Deputies recovered the body from an abandoned well five miles southeast of Gainesville. The couple’s marriage and rumored cash vanished in December are noted in the case.
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