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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1935
Page
1
A Senate lobby committee warns that objections to the administration tax plan will be investigated and penalties applied. The piece argues inheritance levies rise and small business owners, including widows, could lose estates and payrolls as part of a broader effort to redistribute wealth.
Washington reports a growing clash over a proposed tax bill. President Roosevelt opposes exempting corporate gifts to charities while welfare leaders argue the stance could undermine private charity. House Ways and Means Democrats weigh altering corporate income taxes as tension rises in secret sessions.
Chicago police hold Eddie Schulman 29 for questioning in the murder of Louis Two Gun Alterie as investigators chase clues to Denver based on a tip from Harry Schechtel one of twenty two defendants in an alleged bucket shop fraud Schechtel said he was warned by telephone the night before the killing and believed the message came from Schulman
Washington report states the Senate passed the $310,000,000 second deficiency bill on Wednesday, the last of the needed appropriation measures. The bill moves to conference as other appropriation bills have been signed by the President.
In New Orleans the state motion picture board created by Senator Huey P. Long orders that films shown in Louisiana will no longer be the former-only type. The decision bars certain categories under the new board’s authority.
Milo R. Whipple 51 of Cedar Rapids died at St. Luke's hospital from a heart attack that followed a weekend prior to a planned northern Minnesota vacation. Funeral services are Friday at 2 pm in Turner chapel with Rev. Dr. Robert Littke and Dr. H. M. Gage officiating. Burial in Cedar Memorial Park. Survived by widow Jeanette Fry Whipple, two children William Perry and Dorothy, stepmother Mrs. W. P. Whipple, half sister Mrs. Louis P. Tobin, and aunt Mrs. Cora Kellogg. He had been a leading Iowa insurance man, active in business and civic life.
Washington AP reports the AAA will launch an extensive educational campaign to reassure farmers who signed crop control contracts about their validity amid tax suits. Officials fear misunderstanding may deter signers, threatening contract effectiveness as 1935 36 corn hogs proceed and four year wheat plans near two week timing.
The Des Moines Register argues the Sioux City investigation into bank records should uncover political contributions by liquor interests. It cites the Polk county case of the state chairman and urges completion of the record, even if innocent parties are drawn in, to reveal how money moved and who benefited.
Five Louisiana congressmen launched a bid to split the state Democratic Party into pro Long and anti Long factions. They expect the next national convention to recognize the split and set up a rump state to oppose Huey Long after his attacks on President Roosevelt.
Milwaukee authorities tentatively identified Arthur Dean Winslow Jr., 27, of Spring Lake Michigan, as the youth who died after plunging from the ninth floor of a downtown hotel. He had been missing since abandoning the scene of an automobile crash near Grand Haven in which his sister Helen, 19, was killed. officials said Winslow was not to blame for the crash caused by a blowout.
Des Moines social worker Miss Flora Dunlap was appointed Tuesday to head the intake and certification department of the new Iowa Works Progress administration. The clerical department will compile lists of eligible applicants for the government sponsored labor program. The salary was not announced. She is a Democrat.
A reader reflects on homemaking fatigue and the need for varied pursuits. She argues that loving work comes from managing life well and filling time with study, service, or sport. Encourages breaking narrow routines to live richly and stay energized. Copyright 1935.
Nazi sympathizers at a mass meeting in Schwaben Hall Brooklyn cursed Mayor LaGuardia for denying a German alien a masseur license. The protest was staged by Friends of New Germany, a Nazi organization, amid claims Jews in America face Reich discrimination.
Edward A. O Neal, president of the American Federation, told the Mid- West Farm Bureau conference that large corporate interests oppose the AAA and other national measures, claiming such opposition aids the growth of communism in the United States. He labeled proponents of the farm program radicals and warned against actions he called social security and commodity dollar programs backed by common people.
Federal Power Commission findings show rate variations up to 50 percent for some service classes in large Iowa cities and as high as 244 percent in smaller towns. Clinton and Dubuque pay about 50.4 percent more for 25 kWh than Des Moines, while Burlington and Waterloo cost 37.5 percent more for 100 kWh than Davenport. Burlington bills are 36.9 percent higher for 250 kWh than Des Moines.
In Muscatine eleven married women declared ineligible for public school teaching next year notified school directors they will appeal the district court ruling to the state supreme court. Appeals filed Wednesday by their attorneys after Judge D V Jackson’s district court decision last week.
City Engineer Don Russell’s dog Jack enjoys a cool moment near an electric fan in his office. On Wednesday the dog backed too close to the fan and got its tail waggier than usual, prompting a humorous incident.
A minister of agriculture report says definite advances against hoof and mouth disease have been made in the last two years but no satisfactory antidote has been found.
County Attorney Maurice Rawlings filed with the Iowa Supreme Court an amended abstract, full transcript and new brief in Joe Siegel’s manslaughter appeal. He also notified plans for an oral argument, saying the prior abstract contained more than 70 prejudicial errors.
Dubuque police say Marlon Heinz 29 confessed to strangling David Fox 6 as he attacked the boy Tuesday. The body was found in a stream near the Fox family farm in Holy Cross Iowa. Authorities report sexual mistreatment and pre mortem injuries with the child dead when discarded in the water.
Two prominent Kingston Rhode Island State College faculty wives obtained divorces in Nevada and Vermont in a secret arrangement aimed at letting one marry the other's husband. Captain J. E. Brady, military advisor to the ROTC, was divorced in Carson City on Monday, while Delmont Frederick Toottell, track coach, was divorced by his wife Anna Parsons in Yernington on Wednesday.
The House approved the federal alcohol control regulatory bill and sent it to the Senate establishing a federal alcohol administration in the Treasury to regulate the industry. Little opposition was noted as two must bills remain before the Ways and Means Committee.
Washington considers fortifying the Aleutians Guam and possibly other Pacific possessions after the Washington naval treaty expires on December 31 1936 An unofficial report says the United States plans to retain naval mastery of the Pacific Britain likely will not object Japan may protest but could not formally oppose The move could shape a new naval agreement and compel Japanese cooperation to avoid further rivalry
Washington reports Senate investigation of the Virgin Islands administration was postponed indefinitely as Lawrence P. Cramer took over as governor replacing Paul Pearson. Protests from the islands claimed Pearson acted as a tool of Lt. Gov. Cramer and urged that the appointment would not alter conditions. Senate confirmation likely delayed pending continued inquiry.
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