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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1936
Page
24
The Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie addressed the League of Nations in Geneva urging resistance to Mussolini. The audience applauded him as a symbol of independence and international morality amidst fears of another European war.
Floods in South Texas kill and injure many as homes are swept away and livestock losses top a million dollars. Dozens are reported missing, with multiple drownings in Plum Creek and surrounding areas near Nixon and Kyle. Names include Clarence Warnette and others. deaths cross border near Piedras Negras.
Herbert Benson 28 of Walker shot wife 25 at their Independence boarding house after weeks of quarrel. He then killed himself with a .32 revolver. Mrs. Benson died later at a hospital. he died at 3 p.m. Funeral plans were set for Mrs. Benson at a Methodist church east of Morley.
In Paris the Communist party gains clout as George Marrance, allied with Stalin, is elected to head the Seine department general council. Opera Comique staff, about 350 members, occupy the building demanding the director's resignation and new pay deals, with notable strikers including Carlton Gould and Giouseppi Lugo.
A terse note claims one half year has been more vicious than the era blamed on Tugwell and collectivist policies shaping American youth, contrasting harsher conditions with prior reforms.
A reflection on Psalm 46 10 urging readers to cease trying to bear the world alone and to let God act. It emphasizes quiet personal virtue, kindness, courage, and service, warning against brooding and trying to control others. The piece notes parents often overstep and should trust God while attending to their own affairs.
A Greyhound bus with 33 passengers overturned in a rainstorm near Natural Bridge Virginia. Five people died and 28 were injured many seriously as the vehicle skidded toward a precipice before landing upright with a lone signpost narrowly preventing a worse crash.
In New York AP report Secretary Henry A. Wallace denounces the court as aligning with the Republican Party and the Liberty League. His book Whose Constitution advocates a cooperative commonwealth and a society built on cooperative principles, arguing states’ rights at any cost.
Paris AP report says Mlle. Gabrielle Chanel announced that striking workers evacuated her establishment unconditionally after a 21 day siege. Negotiations continue with the employer who rejected a takeover offer and work will not resume until terms are agreed.
Washington claims Northwest Airlines broke faith by denying Congress member Marion Zioncheck a passenger seat from Chicago to Seattle. Kenneth Romney, House sergeant at arms, said Zioncheck was asked to leave a plane just before departure and that fares for both Zioncheck and Bishop were guaranteed.
In Seattle supporters expect a large crowd to greet Rep. Marion A. Zioncheck on Friday despite a flight delay after an airline refused to carry him from Chicago. Democrats planned to be away until his arrival, Police Chief Sears said a small patrol might manage the crowd, and six Democrats and seven Republicans filed for the office.
Rome reports the Italian government protests to Switzerland after eight Italian journalists were arrested in Geneva for kissing Emperor Haile Selassie during the League of Nations assembly.
J P Morgan, stricken with neuritis, was carried from his sister's estate in West Manchester Massachusetts to Mill Neck and then by private car and locomotive to his Glen Cove residence. His two sons Junius and Henry Morgan were at Mill Neck to meet him.
Richard Michael Doyle, 15, of Viola, drowned Tuesday night in the Wapsie River near Viola. He and two others were swimming when cramps struck. Doyle sank despite ambulance aid from Cedar Rapids. Police and deputies investigated as his body was recovered in six feet of water. he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J E Doyle, with four brothers and two sisters surviving.
Mrs. Edw in T Meredith of Des Moines Iowa was unanimously elected chairman of the Independent Coalition of American Women at the national convention in Toledo Ohio. The group aims to defeat the New Deal in November and Meredith is identified as a Democrat. Her husband served as secretary of agriculture in the Wilson cabinet.
Republican strategists shift their national headquarters from Washington to Chicago merging with the Midwest campaign unit. They plan to persuade farmers in the corn belt to prefer Landon over cashing AAA benefits, citing polling and farm sentiment turning against the New Deal.
Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead selected six Iowa congressmen to represent Congress at the funeral of Representative Bernhard M. Jacobsen in Clinton Iowa on Friday. Senators Murphy and Dickinson will attend as senatorial representatives. House members Gillette Eicher Biermann and Thurston were named.
In Nashville six guards face indictments related to brutalities at the State Training and Agricultural School. The grand jury was to return its final report on the investigation after testimonies of severe punishments including 95 lashes and a dying inmate.
Washington AP says the world wheat surplus as of July 1 was 388 million bushels, the smallest in nine years, with Argentina Australia Canada and the United States as principal exporters. Drought in the US and Canada spurred a broad rise in futures across Chicago Minneapolis Kansas City and Duluth markets.
Chicago police entrusted the seven year old son of Mrs Flor ence Thompson to her first husband James Bertrand Thompson to extract the truth about the crime. The boy witnessed a large masked assailant beating his mother in bed and provided confusing details. Detectives, after arresting several men, reopened the case to verify prints and the boy's account.
A 1936 Cedar Rapids toll report records 257 accidents causing 169 injuries and several deaths. Officials tally incidents and outcomes across the motorists’ toll period.
In Geneva the three powers Britain Russia and France push to strengthen the league of nations peace machinery after admitting anti Italian sanctions fail to save Ethiopia. Eden Litvinoff and Blum urge immediate military and economic measures and call for a stronger covenant and wider regional pacts.
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