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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1936
Page
1
A columnist argues the United States faces another decisive year with persistent crises from Washington to Roosevelt. He questions lab like reforms, warns of undermining constitutional bases, and weighs proposals such as the Townsend plan amid fears of global conflict and shifting economic systems.
Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican National Committee urged broadcasting firms to allot time for a GOP reply to President Roosevelt's message to Congress. He argued the address would be a political speech and sought an equal slot at a later date to uphold fairness and free speech.
In the Mediterranean off Alexandria Egypt two unidentified bodies were recovered as crane tugs worked to raise the Imperial Airways liner City of Khartoum. Nine passengers and three crew remain missing after the New Year’s Eve sinking. Pilot Vernon Gerry Wilson survived after five hours in the water and was treated aboard HMS Brilliant. One victim is American, James C Luke of Philadelphia. the rest were Britons and an Italian.
An unofficial estimate places Iowa highway fatalities for 1935 at 556, twelve more than last year. Des Moines accounts claimed fifty lives in local crashes.
A fragmented line comments that the era is not the Great Depression and that each new year is not the nation's most critical in history. No identifiable people or organizations are readable.
A reader shares reflections on living fully through the years of 1936. Citing Justice Holmes and Sir James Barrie, the piece urges courage, faith, and kindness, noting time’s relentlessness and the value of making life meaningful for loved ones.
Two street car crashes, a truck train collision, and several auto accidents were reported to police as the year ended. Notable injuries included 13 year old Donald Quaas with a fractured nose after a G avenue collision and Irene Burch treated for shock after a Third avenue crash. The truck train crash occurred at the First avenue Fourth street crossing.
An explosion leveled a four story brick tenement in Buffalo’s Italian quarter. At least one woman died, two men are known buried under debris, and seven others, many in critical condition, were hospitalized.
Paris reports France and Great Britain vow not to seek separate land or air force treaties with Germany. They worry Russia could reach 5,000 planes and 1,000,000 pilots by year end, fueling talks on a new arms limitation conference including Germany and possibly Russia.
Mrs Eugene Talmadge joined Alfred E Smith in declining a White House invitation saying her Telfair county cotton plantation needs attention and she must start the 1936 crops. Mrs Roosevelt had invited her for Jan 8 after a Democratic committee meeting. Talmadge became Georgia finance chief after the 1935 legislature failed to pass 1936-37 appropriations.
In Iowa near Bedford on New Year’s Day two cars collided on a wet highway, killing Walter Van Houten aged 52 of Lenox and Jane Jostes, eight, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Ben H. Jostes of Chicago, with six others injured. The day was mild with clouds and slushy ground and light precipitation expected to continue.
Twenty conventions are slated to attract about 10 000 visitors to Cedar Rapids in 1936. Hugh E. Orchard of the Chamber of Commerce announced the favorable start and noted many groups plan meetings here. Key events include the Town Water Well Drillers convention March 10-11 at Hotel Roosevelt with 350 expected, plus exhibits. the Iowa Hotel association January 24-25. February meetings of the Tri State Credit association and the National Hair Dressers and Cosmetologists association. March’s convention of the Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance company with 400 expected. April the Iowa Federation of Music clubs. June the Iowa Gideons and the Iowa Retail Harness Makers. July about 500 for the State Federation of Post Office Clerks. August Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters. September National LoS srethe and National Soybean associations. October four conventions: Red Cross conference, Eastern Iowa Veterinary association, Iowa State Grange, and Iowa Baptist convention. December lists the Town Engineering sales conference and Linn county Farm Bureau meeting for 500 attendees.
CHICAGO AP. Senator-designate Elmer A Benson, a Minnesota farmer laborite, told a radio audience he believes capitalism is doomed and urged production for use and public ownership. He spoke en route to Washington to take the seat vacated by the late Thomas D. Schall. Benson warned against more government business and said only social ownership of key industries can save the nation.
The soil conservation service promoted R. E. Uhland to regional conservator for Iowa Illinois Minnesota Missouri and Wisconsin with headquarters likely in Des Moines. He previously ran two erosion control projects in northern Missouri and southern Iowa from Bethany Missouri. Boatman of Iowa State College is named state coordinator.
A Roosevelt ordered nationwide NRA reaction survey reports mixed industry moves after the Schechter decision. Data collected by NRA field workers show some employers cut wages and hours while many maintain or exceed NRA-era wages and fair trade practices. the report aims to map industry responses and is being prepared for Roosevelt with details on conflicts between code limits and competitive pressures.
Joseph Stancel, 52, a farmer living near Western, died by hanging in his barn. Deputy coroner Dr. R E Munden said the act stemmed from worry over ill health. There will be no inquest. He is survived by wife Lottie and eleven children. Funeral arrangements will be announced from Polansky's mortuary.
Special prosecutor Havner hunts Charles O. Fouts, once a Waterloo slot operator, on a conspiracy warrant amid reports he slipped out of Waterloo to evade investigators. Police seized books, deposits, and letters in Fouts hotel room as an associate Zon Atwood testified. no return yet on the search warrant.
The search for Alvin Karpis shifts to Iowa after a cabin camp proprietor tied a man seen with Homer Fanning to the fugitive. Officials press the hunt despite lacking definite evidence, noting Fanning’s long history including an Iowa insanity ruling and recent release from Anamosa reformatory.
Reno reports 3088 divorce suits filed in 1935 with couples from New York and California constituting more than half. Seven Iowa couples were among those divorced.
Italian government reiterates the Monday aerial bombardment in the southern African front was fully justified by the alleged beheading of two Italian aviators. French ambassador de Chambrun urged peace while noting Red Cross misuse and Ethiopian tactics against civilians. The incident sparked Swedish protests and widespread New Year vigils.
Three University of Chicago doctors announced the discovery of a new germ named bacterium necrophorum. They reported it as the apparent cause of chronic ulcerative colitis in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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