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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1935
Page
2
A desolate Flemington scene returns to calm after the Hauptmann trial days. Troopers, investigators, and locals recount a tense period as perjury cases loom and residents face the financial fallout from alleged sensational events.
Fragmented OCR shows a dense list of NBC CBS and other station tags with program notes and personalities. It references NBC WIZ WENR WEAF and WMAQ among many others with notes on concerts dramas and morning and afternoon lineups.
National crackdown yields 1 747 arrests in narcotic raids with MarylandBaltimore and states Louisiana Mississippi Alabama reporting dozens of arrests. Treasury agents directed by Secretary Morgenthaus office seized thousands of lottery tickets and counterfeit bills. Several suspects confessed to mailing drug letters while others linked to a counterfeiting scheme in New York City.
The article notes Sen Robert F Wagner and others opposing the prevailing wage amendment as AF L leaders urged new compromise. Wagner warned against futile debate while workers suffer and supported Russell substitute. AF L council rejected the compromise and urged McCarran to withdraw. La Follette planned to follow Wagner, accusing some lawmakers of forcing the amendment to provoke a White House veto.
The Senate recorded party line tallies on the McCarran prevailing wage amendment. For the amendment the tally included 38.1 Democrats and 18 Republicans with a few absent or not paired. Against the amendment were 14 Ashurst supporters and 5 Republicans with various party alignments. Senator-elect Holt has not been sworn in.
An 1879 Indian liquor statute is revived to prosecute bootleggers across western Oklahoma. The Territorial era law imposes up to seven years in prison for liquor offenses as federal courts take violators from counties including Custer, Caddo, Washita, and Beckham.
Davenport based Charles Pasche of the Davenport Besler Corp says the potential demand for new machinery, built up during five depression years, could provide full-time jobs for virtually every unemployed durable goods worker for two years if translated into orders, erasing unemployment nationwide.
Unfavorable weather in Oakland delays the take-off of a mystery plane en route to Honolulu. The test aims to prove a robot pilot and a new radio compass, with departure postponed until conditions improve.
District judge F O Ellison granted clemency to 24 year old Zeta DeNio of Cedar Rapids on a vagrancy charge and opened the case to new sentence considerations Friday afternoon.
County officials said the woman made an urgent plea for mercy before Judge Ellison. He warned that if she becomes intoxicated or remains in vagrancy she will be jailed. Police arrested the defendant and then released her.
In Phoenix the Arizona alien land bill advanced Friday as the senate, acting as a committee of the whole, recommended passage by 11 to 6. Senator Smith urged action, noting local demand from Salt River valley and Maricopa officials and warning delay could restart conflicts between white farmers and aliens.
Federal Agent R H Taylor and Deputy Sheriff Dick Payn seized a pint bottle and a half pint bottle of alleged alcohol at the Vahl garage in Marion operated by Harold Vahl. A man believed to be Vahl disappeared when officers arrived for the inspection.
Arkansas officials educators and leaders debate remedies for sharecroppers. The Southern Tenant Farmers Union calls for abolition of sharecropping with equal contracts and living conditions, while some favor government aid and return to the old system. Federal scrutiny of acreage contracts continues as education and reforms are urged to lift tenants from poverty.
Hollywood AP reports the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy have separated after seven years. Hal Roach said Stan Laurel did not sign a new contract due to inability to agree on stories. Oliver Hardy will stay at the studio star of domestic comedies.
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