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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1932
Page
1
The Senate passed a compromise tax measure aimed at raising over a billion dollars yearly to balance the federal budget in a few years. It rejects a straightforward sales tax in favor of a higher peacetime income tax, while party leaders pivot to general political campaigning after Iowa primary activity.
Clayton Blair 23 drowns in the Iowa River near Ellis park after swimming toward a midriver barge with companion Harry Slutsky. Blair, a Cedar Rapids resident, was exhausted in 10 feet of water. his body recovered about an hour later. Coroner cites exhaustion. no inquest planned. Blair survived by parents and two sisters.
Emil P Kohout, long time Cedar Rapids fire department member, was named fire chief by the city council on Dan Kruidenier’s recommendation. He succeeds Paul F Dolan who resigned effective immediately and was placed on the fire pension list. Kohout, age 43, has spent his life in Cedar Rapids except for a brief Cresco period and ranked fifth in the recent chief candidate exam with 176.5 points.
Virgil Harris a 26 year old Cedar Rapids resident with a long criminal record was sentenced to fifty years in Springfield Missouri after Saturday's bank robbery conviction. He faced charges in Iowa Nebraska and Missouri tied to a string of robberies and a 1930 murder investigation.
Voters crowded polling places in Des Moines and across Iowa as open hour turnout surged for the state primary. Forecasts predicted heavy Republican and Democratic participation, driven by the senatorial contest between Brookhart and five rivals and early voting in Polk county precincts. In Bloomfield township and Sioux City, lines formed and early totals rose quickly.
The Rev. Thomas E. Green national Red Cross speaking service head and former Grace Episcopal rector delivered the commencement address to 141 college graduates. He urged youth to choose a path beyond Alps to Italy of peace and warned education faces rugged barriers. He received an honorary doctor of laws. two other honorary divinity degrees were awarded to J Renwick McCullough and William Norris Wysham.
Sheriff Joe Petrus and Deputy Larry Condon arrested George Sanders and Russell Chase after an extended May spree of safe blowings. The duo face legal trouble for illegal possession of burglar tools and burglary. Evidence included chisels crowbar and sledge hammer found in Sanders car and prints linked to the Searles Dairy crime. Police tie a third man to the burglaries as the investigation continues.
The Senate accepted the conference report on the 1,118,500,000 bill, sending it to President Hoover for signature. The measure raises individual and corporate income taxes and adds several temporary excise taxes to balance the budget and fund new revenues. Roll call totals: 46 for, 35 against with Farmer-Labor voting against.
The piece argues that voter attention centers on leadership quality rather than party labels as elections approach. It notes Senator Moses predicting a Republican platform including a prohibition plank, and warns that without such a plank the convention would lack a clear platform.
Moses told reporters S/E discussed tariff money bonus and prohibition planks Fifteen present and fifteen views offered A decision to sleep on them indicates a resubmission plank may come under party pressure tests next week The report notes the anti prohibition plank faces stronger scrutiny.
Senator Borah warns the Geneva arms conference faces virtual failure amid public fatigue and economic strain. Municipal finances in Detroit and Chicago strain the Treasury, with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation asked to lift its capital by 1 billion dollars to aid cities and states. A Chicago teachers delegation seeks federal relief for 14,000 educators months behind in pay.
The weather page notes a 92 degree high at 2 30 p m with earlier readings from 66 at 5 a m to 80 at 9 a m 84 at noon and 86 at 1 30 p m. Holiday heat sends crowds to parks beaches and highways with similar readings reported Sunday night.
Louise Homer, famed opera star, was awarded the honorary Doctor of Music by Russell Sage College at its fifteenth commencement in Troy New York on Monday.
Voters cast 3,373 ballots by 1:30 pm across 23 Cedar Rapids precincts, the heaviest primary in years. East side precincts led, with Seventh, Ninth, and First totaling 237, 233, 225 respectively. West side lagged, with 77 in Twenty third and 97 in Eighteenth. Polls close at 8 pm.
Despondent over inability to find work W. H. Wear, 71, died at St. Luke’s hospital from poison taken Sunday night in a Pullman hotel room. He slashed his left wrist, was found unconscious, and died after hospital pumping failed. Wear lived at 705 First Ave SE until Saturday. He left two letters and said he would not become a county charge. Body to Pioneer mortuary. no inquest.
The Gazette will compile primaries quickly with telephone bulletins and extra editions. Polls close at 8 p m and fast tabulations are expected to show Linn county results within about an hour. An extra edition will follow, with a Tuesday morning update on county and state races. Call 2 1121 for bulletins tonight.
An unmasked robber in a Fifth Avenue SW area theft demanded $2.50 from A Crawford at 2 a.m. on Monday near Sixth Avenue SE. The man, about 5'10", slender, dark complexioned, with a thin face and brown coat, carried a blue steel gun and left after finding no more money.
Chicago reported that Samuel Insull will resign as head of Commonwealth Edison Peoples Gas Light and Coke and Public Service company of Northern Illinois. James Simpson of Marshall Field and Company would succeed him. Insull’s health, strained by duties, necessitated rest.
Washington dispatch reports Speaker Garner warning to clear the house galleries after applause from unemployed veterans during debate on anti alien communist exclusion. Representative Blanton sparked the demonstration, prompting Garner to order order and threaten gallery clearance. In Kansas, bonus marchers were fired on while attempting to board a train at Emporia. Sheriff Dailey shot at a group of more than 40 men from Wichita.
Will Rogers comments from Santa Monica as he notes the Senate vote and a president restoring Democratic control. He mocks leaders in Germany and laments political cynicism while hinting Congress moves fast toward a costly convention and a looming tax burden.
New York police rushed to a six story apartment building after reports of a robbery by a gang of thugs. Five radio cars, police and detectives pursued and captured two youths aged 14 and 12 while they were stripping portable contents from the premises.
The Cedar Gazette reports the Camp Good Health Fund has surpassed the $1,000 level. The campaign aids physically handicapped children by funding a cooler, accessible camp with breeze filled housing, a refreshing creek, and outdoor activities under the Public Health Nursing Bureau.
Washington lawmakers report the house rules panel will compel a vote on the Garner unemployment relief bill Tuesday under the strictest rules ever adopted by the committee.
President Hoover outlined a complete program for federal aid to employment agriculture and business. He called for expanding the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to 3 billion dollars and extending its reach to agriculture, creating a home loan bank system, widening industry and finance committees of the federal reserve, and enforcing pay as you go government spending.
Polish American flyer Stanislaus Hausner disappeared three days after departing New York for Warsaw on a solo Atlantic hop. Bad winds and rain over the ocean are believed to have caused his death. He had no radio and no wireless contact with ships.
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