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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1936
Page
1
The article highlights Senator Norris advocating congressional curb on the supreme court overturning constitutional limits. It warns of legislative lunacy if Congress ignores the Constitution, and discusses risks of powerful lobbying, a possible large federal deficit, and political maneuvering around the 1930s era.
Explosion and fire at a Swift and Company stockyards plant in Chicago killed two men and injured 12 others, two critically. Firefighters searched the ruins as bricks and glass flew across nearby buildings. Eyewitnesses reported the front of the building collapsing and the blast heard a mile away. Chief Fire Marshal Corrigan attributed the blast to nitro glycerine in oxygen tanks used in gas manufacture.
AP reports three fires and two explosions cause 23 deaths and 76 injuries. A New York restaurant fire leaves five dead and 41 injured. Lakewood New Jersey raises Victoria Mansion hotel deaths to 15 with 20 more hurt. Chicago tunnel explosion kills two and injures seven. Montreal convent fire burns three nuns. Maroon Illinois explosion kills one and wrecks three buildings.
A terrible explosion in Mattoon Illinois rocked the downtown business district on Thursday destroying three buildings. One woman was killed and at least five others were injured. The blast occurred in an empty store building and is believed caused by escaping gas. The dead woman was 23 year old clerk Catherine Lesever from a neighboring store.
Physicians feared the death toll would rise beyond five after a blaze at Lum's Chinese American restaurant on Fifty ninth Street and Lexington Avenue. About 300 people were dining and dancing when panic sent many to a narrow stair with a sharp turn, causing smoke and injuries as they fled.
U S Secret Service Captain Thomas B Foster said a cache of counterfeit bills and counterfeiting equipment was found in the ceiling of San Quentin prison’s engraving room. The search also uncovered the printing plate used by prisoners to print the false money.
A reader laments declining youth spirit and religiosity, noting less sentiment and more fatalism. He contrasts past vigor with present lassitude, warns of a defeatist mood, and urges strong beliefs and ideals to revive energy and resolve.
Senator L. J. Dickinson of Iowa announced his bid for the Republican presidential nomination but ruled out seeking pledged delegates. He said he wants to be nominated by voters who believe he is the right man and will campaign for Senate re election in Iowa with the June 1 primary approaching. He plans to visit other states to gain support while avoiding compulsory delegates.
In Washington the appropriations committee clashed over Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood and WPA outlays. Parks of Arkansas condemned Hagood's remarks saying the episode smeared Roosevelt and warned against politics in bill discussions. Blanton and Parks traded barbs as partisan tension rose amid Army supply funding talks.
Washington lawmakers clash over a $543 million War Department supply bill as Rep. Vito Marcantonio accuses army manuals of guiding strikebreakers and Rep. John McCormack defends limited use of regular forces to maintain order.
Woodbury county graft grand jury records will be delivered to federal income tax agents by February 25, per County Attorney M. E. Rawlings. Federal Judge George C. Scott ordered the delivery as investigators seek evidence against Attorney General Edward L. O Conn or and two dozen others.
Gov Clyde L Herring and Iowa mine operators urged John L Lewis to authorize Saturday operation to avert a coal shortage. Lewis granted clearance after a telegraph from Herring, as Frank Wilson warned some large mines would halt without it. Emergency mining to continue until Iowa builds coal reserves, with towns forming committees to distribute coal and prevent hoarding.
Eleven people were injured when two cars collided on Highway 117 east of Wyoming. Mrs. Carl Gnade of Maquoketa suffered a badly fractured kneecap while six guards from the Anamosa state reformatory and other pallbearers sustained injuries as the pallbearers’ car, returning from Cyrus C. Irwin’s funeral, collided with the Gnade vehicle en route to M Maquoketa.
Dreary skies spread snow as Iowa faces potential wind and more snow Friday depending on a Wyoming South Dakota storm. Des Moines reported 20 above as drifting stockpiles threatened towns and a man in Manson died of heart disease while shoveling drifts.
Republican leaders show tepid response to Senator Vandenberg’s coalition proposal against Roosevelt while Democrats rebut. Ickes attacks Hoover’s criticism of the New Deal as boogy phobia. Fletcher says GOP funds total about 200000 and a pay as you go campaign is planned.
A German seaplane carrying thirty passengers reportedly crashed near Ponta Delgada in the Azores. The British carrier Furious, anchored nearby, was ordered to depart at once to aid in the rescue of potential victims. The Azores lie about 800 miles west of Portugal in the Atlantic.
A government release of federal tax protest records names financiers, authors, a senator, and a convicted kidnapper among those challenging internal revenue bills. Notables include William Randolph Hearst, the Edison estate, Bruno Hauptmann, P. G. Wodehouse, Doris Duke, and Irving Fisher, with amounts ranging from thousands to millions in 1925–1933 income.
The region reported warmer weather in Cedar Rapids on Thursday but faced fresh snowfall of about one and a half inches. Temperatures rose from 4 above zero to 26 by mid afternoon. Main roads in Linn Jones county were passable though several routes remained blocked with eleven foot drifts north of Martelle. WPA crews aided highway workers to clear No 261 and plan work on gravel roads in Jones county.
A 12 year old identified as Jack Kirk of Chicago was killed in Kenosha county when he jumped from a speeding Milwaukee road train Wednesday and his head struck a signal post.
Samuel Leibowitz, famed criminal lawyer, emerged from Trenton State Prison smiling after a one hour interview with Bruno Hauptmann. Leibowitz said Hauptmann cried like a child and suggested he would see him again Sunday. No confession was disclosed and the lawyer refused further comment.
In Pardeeville Wisconsin residents petition merchants for 7100 000 to rescue dying fish trapped in an ice bound lake. Workers labor overnight chopping six foot holes in 22 inch ice as the hydroelectric wheel at Pardeeville Power and Light Co is shut down. Anglers say lack of ice fishing contributed to the crisis and call for broader efforts to restore oxygen.
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