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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1934
Page
18
Waterloo investigators tracking Dillinger gang associate Tommy Carroll confront him as he tries to draw, and he is killed by Iowa officers who prove accurate and quick with their marksman skills. The incident underscores how criminals evade politics and protect their illicit networks.
President Roosevelt dedicates administration to a new economic creed stressing home security and individual rights. He urges urgent passage of the housing bill while delaying old age and unemployment insurance. He calls for a national development plan for waterways and soil, to enable home location and productive work, promising further steps next session.
President Roosevelt proposed a congress time frame for housing and natural resource development plus unemployment and old age insurance. Officials said steel talks progress as workers threaten strike while a separate labor board is contemplated. Reconstruction Corp may buy closed banks assets as drought aid and farm reports show wheat at its lowest since 1893.
Washington UPS peace talks progress as the Iron and Steel Institute backs Hugh S Johnson plan creating an industrial relations board to oversee mill elections and grievances. Union leaders led by Big Mike Tighe say concessions exist and hope for an early settlement before next week’s threatened strike.
Washington report notes a partisan clash on the house floor likely ending the Gilchrist bill to transfer non navigable lake beds to the state for parks refuges and recreation. Introduced by Rep. Fred Gilchrist the measure would place lands under the state conservation board and allow governor selection. It faces unlikely action before adjournment.
DES MOINES AP State departments have begun collecting the old age pension head tax from their employees. The old age assistance commission started the process, followed by the office of A. G. Whitney the state code editor.
Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, via telephone to the Chicago ILGWU convention, urged labor and capital to sustain industrial peace. He faulted Republicans for a lack of social program and warned patience with recovery limits, likening their plan to a “kippered herring.”
After a bitter delay the Senate voted to instruct its agriculture committee to report Tugwell’s nomination as under secretary of agriculture. Leader Robinson shifted to a by Tuesday noon deadline while Smith and Byrd blasted Tugwell as usurping Congress powers and criticized the brain trusters. The panel plans to meet Monday to prepare a report.
A 1934 piece urges treating the mind as a well maintained engine. It warns against overemphasis on pride and rash speed, promotes steady reflection, proper fuel and ignition, and avoiding impatience on life’s road.
Cedar Rapids news reports Linn County boosts average family relief for June to 22 dollars due to more federal funds. May’s average was 17 dollars. Wages set at 50 cents per hour for all, raising counties disparities from 35 to 50 cents. Total 43,834 dollars allotted for 2,239 families. 637 direct relief and 1,602 work relief. Federal funds 36,443 dollars. county share 7,391.
The Faber Millen murder case was placed with the jury at 5 42 p m Friday after Superior Judge Nelson P Brown spent nearly three hours charging the panel.
In Des Moines J A Nelson of Decorah regained the lead for Iowa lieutenant governor after a 9000 vote transmission error in Scott county was corrected. The adjustment moved George Patterson ahead of G E Cross, altering the top three standings: Nelson 67402 Patterson 63088 Cress 61915 Thompson 61330.
The agriculture department estimates the 1934 drought slashed winter wheat production to 400.357 million bushels, far below the 632.061 million average, with only 55.3 percent of normal condition on June 1.
American efforts under Norman H. Davis revived the Geneva disarmament conference after its collapse. Davis brokered a compromise between France and Britain to revive future procedures, improving chances for Germany to return to talks.
University of Iowa historian Dr Forest C Ensign told 339 graduates that Flaming Youth can illuminate the world and banish fear as the nation faces crisis. He urged graduates to pursue purposeful lives and warned the job market is crowded, urging realism over glamour.
Chicago report says federal judge ordered Jean Crompton 21 moved from Waterloo Iowa to Alderson West Virginia federal prison for probation violation. In Waterloo police search eastern Iowa for Dillinger gang members after the death of Tommy Carroll 37 shot by officers. Carroll allegedly hid Dillinger before dying and Crompton claimed to be his wife.
Waterloo police recount the shooting of Tommy Carroll after he grabbed for a pistol. An officer and partner confronted Carroll near a beer tavern, fired when he resisted, and Carroll was hit multiple times. Police say they had been pursuing Carroll for an hour and only then acted.
Torrential rains hit western Town and eastern Town in the midwest, with thunder and lightning. Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas saw heavy downpours after 8 pm Friday, ripping branches but causing no major damage. The heat wave eased as temperatures dropped from 98 to about 68 in two hours, with Benton County and Week Union also reporting rain and dust storms earlier in the evening.
Torrential rains eased drought fears from the upper lakes to the Pacific coast but caused flood and windstorm damage in Iowa South Dakota and Minnesota. Four deaths occurred in Iowa and South Dakota as a twister wrecked a barn near Tripp South Dakota and a farmer and son were killed. Floods and eroded soil endangered homes and halted rail traffic while the Floyd river flooded East Sioux City. Experts valued the drought relief at about 50 million dollars across North Dakota Minnesota and the Dakotas with improved crop prospects and pasture gains, though northwest areas suffered losses to small grains.
A man dressed as Mahatma Gandhi in sandals loin cloth and white cape walked into the senate gallery in Washington. He stunned Capitol police and the sergeant at arms before being ejected. The man gave the name W. H. Goodell and refused to provide an address.
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