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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1936
Page
1
Monday a federal court of appeals in New Orleans handled a new filing. The brief notes current comment and ongoing proceedings in the appellate court.
The National Labor Relations Board ruled the government must reinstate certain workers and the secretary of the interior cancelled a $40 million steel contract amid disputes over identical bidding. The editorial argues executive attacks on courts threaten liberty while praising labor rights and warning against constitutional erosion.
Senator Duncan A Fletcher longtime Florida Democrat and former Jacksonville mayor died at 77 after a heart attack in his Washington home He had expressed his wish to die in harness and had warned friends to take it easy His death came amid the loss of another Florida senator this year and prompted immediate tributes on Capitol Hill by colleagues including Senator Robinson and Loftin Fletcher chaired the Senate banking inquiry from 1933 to 1935 and investigated J P Morgan and other great houses with Ferdinand Pecora
United States treasury checks totaling 117 750 issued for adjusted service bonds surrendered by World War veterans were mailed in Cedar Rapids. About 270 checks were issued Tuesday with 150 more certified Wednesday morning, as 725 men lined up the previous day. The office planned to stay open to 9 p.m. Wednesday with ongoing certification and check writing through the week.
Ontario trains and highway travel halted as mass caterpillar infestation spread across a 175 mile front. Loco motives failed on rails covered with crushed insects and trees were stripped bare while camps closed and damage ran into thousands of dollars. Lead arsenate sprayed in Fort William to curb the invasion.
East Orange police closed the Moore homicide case after Daniel McFarlan Moore's daughter positively identified Jean Philip Gebhardt as the man who tried to see her father Sunday night. Gebhardt, who shot himself Tuesday, was found at the Red Bank funeral home after his suicide.
Riga Latvia death toll from Monday munitions plant explosion at Tallinn Es pie Wednesday rises to seventy. The blast at the Tallinn Es pie plant killed and injured workers as authorities investigated the cause.
John D. M. Hamilton announced the Republican campaign will be run from three headquarters with Chicago as the principal office and New York City for the eastern unit. Joseph Martin will direct the New York office, Hamilton will lead the Chicago operation, aided by J. K. Bradley and Harrison E. Spangler at the western headquarters.
A Kansas Republican circle shows a turnover with seven new members on the state executive committee. John D. M. Hamilton becomes chairman and C. B. Goodspeed treasurer as Landon Knox campaign operations resume with plans to raise funds in New York.
A severe electrical storm struck Cedar Rapids Tuesday evening after the day reached 98 degrees. A lightning bolt felled a cottonwood at 2109 Mount Vernon Ave SE and damaged service wires while a boy, Vernon Petranek, 11, was knocked unconscious by a clothesline wire. City crews cleared a blocked street at Eleventh and Sixth after a tree strike. Local utility lines reported brief trouble but no long outages. Temperatures peaked at 98 Tuesday with a night low near 67 and Wednesday clouded but warming into the 90s.
A 1936 meditation describes how individuals bury old selves like funeral rites within life. It cites Robertson of Brighton choosing ministry over military glory and Paul’s rejoice in dying with Christ, urging readers to stage inner funerals to shed fears sins grudges and regrets for new growth.
Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps, heiress to two fortunes, filed for divorce from Henry Delafield Phelps of New York on cruelty charges in Reno Nevada. A hearing on the decree was set for late Wednesday behind closed doors at the Washoe county courthouse.
The British cabinet, led by Prime Minister Baldwin, vows to back abolition of league sanctions on Italy at Geneva sessions and push the movement through the League Covenant. Eden to Geneva to press abolition amid bitter Commons debate with expected speeches by Lloyd George and Austen Chamberlain. Rome dispatches say Italy will seek not only sanction abolition but revocation of the aggressor verdict.
Albert C. McDowell aged 51 of Peoria Illinois died of a heart attack on his front porch as he waited for the morning mail and his soldier bonus bonds. The incident occurred Wednesday with a postman delivering the bonds.
The National Civil Service Reform League adopted a resolution urging President Roosevelt to restrain Postmaster General James A. Farley from using his office to solicit campaign contributions from postmasters. The group also urged strict Civil Service Commission enforcement to prevent abuses as Farley arrived from Philadelphia.
Post master General James A. Farley stated a likely over zealous individual may have used his rubber stamp signature on letters soliciting campaign contributions from fourth class postmasters. He issued the denial after departing for Philadelphia and refuted charges by Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana in the House hearing.
Otto of Hapsburg, backed by Benito Mussolini, proclaimed he awaits the Austrian people’s call to return to the throne. Mussolini’s approval for monarchy restoration was reported, with close cooperation between Italy and Austria. Chancellor Schuschnigg focuses on restoration as salvation amid Little Entente opposition. A monarchist gathering at Lienz honored Archduchess Adelaide and Archduke Eugen.
Wally the killer elephant of the Fleishhacker zoo faces execution by firing squad for the murder of Ed Brown, a 47 year old keeper. Brown was attacked Tuesday while moving the nine foot six ton animal to a new corral, his body mangled and trampled as guards and workers fought to subdue the jumbo. The elephant was chained and restrained after a lengthy struggle with chains and guards watching for a stampede.
Teaneck New Jersey fed observes John J. Appel a lifelong Democrat finds a 15 pound turtle with Alf Landon name painted on its shell The turtle is being prepared for the soup kettle as Appel calls it a plot by political opponents to embarrass him.
In Washington the Black-Smith anti-lobby bill was unexpectedly killed by the house after a sudden drive by the American Federation of Labor and supporters of Father Coughlin and Dr. Townsend. The house tabled senate amendments by 263 to 76, ending the measure for the session. A separate compromise on the 2.43 billion deficiency-relief bill was reached by conferees and to be brought up in the house for swift approval.
Senate and House tax bill conferees met in secret discussions to review four compromise plans. The plans, mainly altering corporate tax rates, are variations of the Senate offer aimed at breaking the deadlock and allowing adjournment by Saturday. Treasury estimates on the yield of each proposal were requested after Tuesday night’s session failed to resolve the dispute.
George Boone, 45, Otis road, suffered cuts on his left back after a branch from a downed tree shattered a car window on Otis road SE below the North Western tracks at 11 30 p m Tuesday. He said he tried to go around the tree by skirting the upper branches.
Ruth Richie and Tom Owen both of Marengo were held after their car struck a street car on the Third Avenue bridge. Neither was injured. Richie was fined 100 dollars and costs for reckless driving with half the fine suspended. Owen was fined 25 dollars and costs for intoxication with 10 dollars suspended. police found considerable beer in the auto.
Five men died and a sixth was seriously injured when a car slammed into a steel bridge abutment in Maple Heights on Wednesday. The victims were Steve Wysopal 34 Melvin Bodalski 24 James Lar 26 William Petrikowski and Frank Tokorsny all of Cleveland.
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