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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1936
Page
1
A Gazette reader recalls relief workers in Cedar Rapids denied aid for refusing farm labor while a man aged 78 in Iowa loses his state pension after earning extra as a porter. The piece criticizes policy linking benefits to work earnings and notes hardship among non relief households.
Rioting mobs sacked the imperial palace in Addis Ababa after Emperor Haile Selassie fled toward the border. Cable from Addis Ababa to the French foreign office reports widespread shooting and pillaging in the capital Saturday night.
The old age assistance act aims to aid the elderly but penalizes those who supplement pensions. A recipient earning $15 a month beyond a $14 pension loses aid, contradicting humanitarian goals and practical living needs.
A French official said Haile Selassie would arrive at Djibouti on Saturday en route to Palestine and later France. He would travel on a British ship, with France providing security for the rail trip and port stay. The emperor seeks refuge in Palestine to escape Italian reach, with possible return to France if exile becomes permanent.
A reader argues against hasty social programs and calls for restraint on new filling stations in Cedar Rapids. He questions local council leniency toward beer parlors versus filling stations and suggests pausing expansion to protect existing operators. He notes a parking surplus and warns against economic waste.
The State department announced on Saturday that a British offer extending protection at its Addis Ababa legation to all American nationals in case of trouble in the Ethiopian capital has been accepted by Washington.
Foreigners fled to the fortified British legation in Addis Ababa as Emperor Haile Selassie abandoned the capital amid looting and shooting. The legation, protected by barbed wire and five machine guns, houses 250 Sikh infantry under British officers and can withstand a siege for three months. News via Sir Sidney Barton described the crisis as one of the worst since the Boxer rebellion.
Emperor Haile Selassie escapes the advancing Italian forces by departing Addis Ababa on a special train to Djibouti with Empress Menen Crown Prince Asfa Wasan and family. Also aboard were Foreign Minister Herony Ras Kassa and other Ethiopian officials as the capital is abandoned to protect civilians. The government had planned a war capital at Mendi in Wallega.
A Senate finance committee session stretched into overtime on Saturday as witnesses from business circles voiced opinions on the administration revenue program. Democratic leaders hoped to finish work on the tax bill and the 1.5 billion relief request ahead of an early June adjournment, with other measures possibly delayed. Treasury officials noted the revenue target fell short of the president's request, and temporary processing taxes were forecast as a possible fix. The year’s federal deficit projection reached about 5.97 billion dollars.
Rep. Marion A. Zioncheck of Washington was arrested for speeding 70 mph on the North Carolina coast near Shallotte. It is his third legal scrape in two weeks, following a prior Alexandria, Virginia bail issue. he was released after local officials declined extradition and he paid a small fine.
A battle over relief funds between PWA head Harold Ickes and WPA chief Harry Hopkins heads to President Roosevelt for decision. Congress drafted a 2.3 billion relief bill while a bloc urged 400 million for favors to local projects with 45 percent grants for hospitals utilities and schools. Roosevelt offered no clear sides as he reviews spending options set by Hopkins.
North Central regional convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards approved a six point tax reform program including an overall limit on real estate taxes and basis on productivity. Delegates condemned federal housing laws for competition with private capital and possible eminent domain use.
The Gazette reminds readers that want ads must close by 8 PM tonight for the Sunday section. Ad takers can be reached at 2-1121 and at the Gazette office. Discounts apply: 25 percent per day for three day ads and 40 percent per day for seven day ads from the regular one day price.
Harold M. Cooper former liquor commission chairman sues for 50000 dollars in Johnson county district court. The Gazette of Cedar Rapids and four others are named as defendants for publishing and circulating a statement that Cooper perjured himself in a Cedar Rapids liquor law trial.
A Cedar Rapids taxicab driver plied the route to University hospital in Iowa City but a stork delivered the baby first. Mrs Hamp Clark of Clinton traveled with a nurse trainee to the hospital for confinement. A nine pound boy was born and both mother and son were reported doing fine.
Prince Harald of Denmark denied a report from London that King Edward VIII and Princess Alexandrine Louise of Denmark will announce their betrothal next autumn. He said the claim is imagination and knows nothing of an engagement or wedding. Princess Alexandrine, 21, is a third cousin of Edward.
An Oklahoma windstorm swept a farm community near Albert in Caddo County Saturday night killing 68 year old Mrs. Alice Lagton and Weldon Trull, 214. Eleven relatives from the Trull and Lane families were hospitalized with critical injuries.
Honolulu report says Lieut. William C. McCuddy and Chief Aviation Pilot J. C. Wilson died when their training torpedo plane plunged into the sea two miles off Barber's Point during a practice flight. Navy authorities offered no explanation for the crash.
Cedar Rapids endured a damp spell with 0.08 inch of rain Friday night. Temperatures fell to 52 at 7 am Saturday, rising to 53 at 10, and 55 by 1 pm. Friday peaked at 74 at 2:30 pm, then 58 at 7 pm and 54 at midnight.
The United States urges a new neutrality convention open to all nations and a tariff truce among twenty one American republics. It also seeks revision of inter American peace treaties and a broader restatement of neutral and belligerent rights under international law.
Fred Hunter and Alvin Karpis were captured Friday and stayed in a temporary federal holding cell in New Orleans on Saturday. Federal agents awaited word from Washington on the identity and record of the mysterious woman involved in the case.
Washington AP William Mahan rises to the top of the federal agents wanted list as Alvin Karpis faces arraignment for major crimes. Officials say Mahan is the remaining principal in the George Weyerhaeuser kidnapping and the net may close soon. The Barker Karpis gang tale nears its end with Karpis's arrest in New Orleans and Harry Campbell guiding the fugitive. Thomas H Rob son Jr remains hunted for the Berry Stoll abduction in Louisville.
Louis Silver, 45, once a business partner of John Torrio, was shot twice while sitting in a parked car on Broadway. Police say Silver testified last week in the Torrio case. Torrio faced tax conspiracy charges and was arrested by revenue agents before being released on bond.
The tally lists 166 accidents 107 injuries and no deaths for Cedar Rapids in 1936. No further context or details are provided in the fragment.
In St Paul Hoover, chief of the G men, praises the Alvin Karpis capture in New Orleans as cost free and denounces old man politics as public enemy No 1. He notes ongoing investigations into Hamm and Bremer kidnappings and hints Harry Campbell remains a key brain behind the Barker-Karpis gang.
Chicago police report Alvin Karpis's father John barred reporters from his basement flat saying he wants to be left alone. The elderly janitor warned reporters at the door and urged his wife to avoid contact as authorities pursue the notorious outlaw's family.
Harry Campbell is sought as partner in a $46 000 Garretsville mail train robbery. Alvin Karpis, No 1 public enemy, is brought from New Orleans to St Paul after a dawn arrival. He faces immediate questioning on the Bremer and Hamm kidnaping cases.
Congress rushed a record breaking 531 million navy bill to the senate amid armament critics’ warnings. The House passed it without a record vote after threats of a Saturday session, funding 84 warships, two 35000 ton battleships, 12 destroyers, six submarines, and 333 airplanes.
Federal agents will stand guard over Alvin Karpis at Ramsey County Jail in St. Paul. They prepared to provide their own watch, as they have in past cases involving dangerous criminals they have pursued for years.
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