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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1935
Page
1
Washington notes that the relief program will remove non workers while Iowa counties curb direct relief. The Gazette faces libel suits over charges of official corruption tied to the Linn county testimony and a broader graft inquiry, while bracing for further legal action.
Medford reports an air plane identified as the Lockheed Orion bearing Wiley Post Mrs Post and Will Rogers in a flight toward Seattle signaling a possible first leg of a Russia hop. The takeoff in Burbank followed by a planned mystery flight and a 260 gallon gasoline load suggested a long trip.
Sioux City public safety commissioner Gordon C. Hollar appointed G. F. Wheelock chief of detectives as police chief to replace Earl Morgan, who was removed after seven weeks in office. Morgan had been named chief May 31 after Henry C. Kuhlmann quit as safety commissioner and was suspended amid graft probes.
DES MOINES UP reports a two phase raid on Polk County beer havens and night spots led to three arrests after deputies searched forty seven establishments on Wednesday and eleven more later. Sheriff C F Keeling doubts claims Polk County is wide open despite Senator Gallagher's gambling and liquor law violations charges.
Ben Kramer 35 part owner of a loop tavern confessed at a police station that he shot to death William Cunning on the night of July 20. Kramer said Cunning with a police record tried to shake him down for 75 dollars, and the fatal shot came during a scuffle.
Georgia Power President Preston S Arkwright says the utility helped the Warm Springs Foundation at Roosevelts personal request but could not grant a special rate. The company donated funds to fix a failing distribution system now part of Georgia Power. In Washington, Texas Power and Light President John W Carpenter recalls his son gifting cigars to Rep Patton and mentions books on livestock, while lobby testimony highlights spending on opposing the utilities bill. A witness, Bernard B Robinson, denied entertaining congress members.
Three masked robbers held up Pioneer Savings Bank in Sergeant Bluff Iowa near the river bottoms. Two entered the bank at about 2 p m, locked four inside a vault, and took about 368 dollars before fleeing in a sedan. State Agent Gruber and local officers pursued an intensive search for the getaway car.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette editor Verne Marshall is praised for exposing public graft in Iowa. His work prompts resignations and fear among officials, with comparisons to graft lessons from other states and a call for continued reform.
General Motors reported second quarter net earnings after charges of 49,494,912. For the first half of 1935, GM earned 79,140,728, up from 64,997,503 in 1934. Bethlehem Steel posted second quarter income of 1,800,909 and a first‑half 1,193,611, with a 1.75 dividend on 7 percent preferred stock.
DES MOINES AP Gov Clyde L Herring longtime Iowa governor and possible third term candidate reveals he has been blind in his right eye since 1907. Doctors say new glasses will restore about 80 percent of sight in that eye as cataracts have gradually improved.
Adrienne Ames won an interlocutory decree of divorce from film actor Bruce Cabot in Los Angeles. She testified he did not love her and was not cut out for marriage. The pair married in Carlsbad New Mexico on October 31, 1933 and separated twelve days ago.
President Roosevelt pressures a House revolt to win a partial victory on a graduated corporation income tax in the tax the rich bill. The tentative plan omits inter corporation dividends and increased capital stock tax, with a net gain of about 200 million dollars.
A robber entered a Chicago grocery, tied up manager Cornelius Schoondermark and took $11 from the register. Minutes later the thief returned the money, untied the manager, and said he was only practicing before fleeing.
Federal Judge Frederic H. Bryant ordered four Dutch Schultz henchmen detained under government subpoena in Malone New York during the income tax fraud case against the former beer baron. Charles Miller and three others were held after Miller evaded questioning. defense sought mistrial but was denied.
Special to The Gazette. Two Clarion truckmen were injured at 1 pm Thursday when a heavily loaded beer truck skidded on rain slick highway 30 a mile east of Lisbon and fell off the road. Gilbert Miller 18 suffered a crushed and fractured left arm a deep gash in his right arm and bruises. C C DeVore 30 suffered broken bones in his right hand and extensive bruises. They were attended by a Lisbon physician and taken to Clarion. The driver said brakes failed causing the loss of control.
Acting on appeals from North and South Dakota senators Rexford Tugwell resettlement administrator promised to ask President Roosevelt for immediate allocation of work relief funds to loans to middlewestern farmers to assure harvesting of their crops.
An explosion at the Giridih colliery of the East Indian Railway on Wednesday night killed 33 workers and injured 76 as news began to arrive on Thursday.
Orphir, the British salvage vessel, sails from Old Head of Kinsale to locate the Lusitania wreck torpedoed May 7, 1915. Captain Russell and crew face angry seas, quick squalls, and shifting conditions as data from Lusitania’s captain and U-20’s commander guide the hunt. A one man submarine with remote lights and two detection systems will aid underwater filming and mapping.
The Senate acted without a record vote to approve title I, the deposit insurance feature, of the administration’s omnibus bank bill. A major amendment by Sen. Louis Murphy would have exempted insured banks from Federal Reserve membership but was defeated. Debate then moved to title II, the controversial section proposing changes to the reserve board setup.
Iowa Senator Murphy announced Mrs Florence Kerr of Iowa has been appointed by Harry Hopkins as regional director of women's work for the relief program. She will oversee efforts in North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Minnesota Iowa Missouri Wisconsin Illinois Indiana and Michigan.
Boardman and Cartwright attorneys for Harold M. Cooper filed a $50,000 libel suit in Marshalltown district court against Verne Marshall editor of The Cedar Rapids Gazette The Gazette Publishing Co Marshalltown News Agency and A H Burnstein alleging publication of false and malicious statements including claims of perjury and graft related to Cooper and his liquor law trial. earlier the pair also filed a separate $50,000 suit against the same defendants.
Verne Marshall says The Gazette will defend its reporting on Cooper of the state liquor commission and asserts the paper will not retract its assertions. He notes the suit involves Marshall county venue and access to newsboys as co-defendants, challenging legal right to sue them.
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