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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1936
Page
31
Mussolini's abrupt departure from the Rome express leaves the League in confusion as Italy insists it can only obey the order. Without Japan, Germany and Italy, even League supporters doubt the Geneva institution can continue.
Rome reports strong hints from authoritative quarters that Italy will leave the League of Nations if the Ethiopian dispute is not settled to Rome’s satisfaction. Sanctions against Italy and the Ethiopian delegation Wolde Mariam at Geneva may drive a final severance between Mussolini and the League, as Italian circles await the league’s final decision on its conquest of Ethiopia and Africa’s empire.
The Iowa City case ends after Gatschet and Tucker reach a friendly settlement. Tucker agrees to remove the pole within a week if pilots stop clipping tree branches. Korab warns of hearings if pilots are reported. Witnesses include Hinshaw Crum Whiting and Swaney.
Crum testified before the commission that the city and federal government plus private airlines have spent about $175,000 to purchase and improve Town City airport. The field was first used for landing in 1920 and the city bought the land in 1929.
A jailed Lenox spoke of his love for music as officers investigated the death of a 60 year old farmer in a murder plot tied to Minnie Hines and Pearl Shine. Confessed lovers Lenox and Shine claimed Jim Hines planned to marry Pearl and deed her 80 acre farm to cover the crime. Co defendants include Howard Hines and Albert Cornwell as authorities seek to complete the case.
Thousands gathered in Baton Rouge to witness Richard W. Leche sworn in as Louisiana governor succeeding the late Huey Long. The oath was to be administered on the state house steps, near the Capitol gardens where Long was buried after his fatal Septem ber shooting in the building.
U S District Attorney Bunk Gardner announced plans to seek Robinson’s trial at the earliest date after his Glendale arrest. Federal agents moved quickly bringing in the suspected kidnapper, who used female disguises, from California to Winslow before a Louisville flight. An informant from Pasadena aided the breakthrough.
Thomas H. Robison Jr. confessed in California to merciless violence on Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll while she was his captive. FBI Director Hoover cited lead pipe abuse and noted Robison was her third kidnapping target after failing to seize her father in law and son. He carried $2,360 of $50,000 ransom and five firearms, and Hoover stressed G men sole credit for the arrest with no outside tips.
Federal agents seize Thomas H Robinson Jr in Glendale after a raid on a bungalow described as a love nest. A young woman who was with him is released but kept under surveillance. Robinson, known to wear women’s clothing, is secured and flown to an undisclosed location amid tight security.
A 15 year old Lenox boy, Max Cochran, confessed to starting three fires near Lenox Iowa including a barn blaze on his father’s farm and two fires at the Lenox school. No charges filed as sheriff investigates and postcards found in his school books are linked to the case.
The House voted 220 to 153 to discharge the rules committee on the Frazier Lemke farm mortgage refinancing bill. Proponents argue it would refinance farm debt at 4 percent and could issue up to 3 billion dollars in federal reserve notes. Opponents expect a Roosevelt veto and see the measure as inflationary. Iowa members split on the discharge, with 159 Democrats and 51 Republicans voting to discharge. 114 Democrats and 39 Republicans voting against.
Wallace outlines a plan for processing taxes to fund farm programs with a continuous revenue source. He details tax rates on sugar cigars wheat hogs and other goods and argues large meat packers would benefit most if windfall taxes pass.
Harry Campbell, once a Barker-Karpis gang member, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the January 17, 1934 Bremer kidnapping. He pled guilty to kidnapping and conspiracy after 21 days as a chauffeur and guard earning between 6000 and 7000 dollars. Only Alvin Karpis remains to be punished for the crime.
IOWA CITY AP Merile Miller of Marshalltown won the $20 freshman public speaking prize at the University of Iowa on Tuesday. Ames’ Jack Chase finished second and Albert Williams of Liverpool England took third.
The accord lowers export rates for autos and parts with new quotas for passenger cars and bodies and supplements quotas for other auto parts. It reduces duties on wines perfumes cotton lace and consumer goods while easing tariffs on fruit lumber films radios and machinery. Secretary Hull praises the treaty as mutual and patient diplomacy with a note about a 1935 discovery of an African type lion skull in Alaska.
Thirty-one University of Iowa senior liberal arts students were elected Tuesday night to membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Elected members include Arthur Barnes Eagle Grove Katherine Fisher Yankton S C Florence Hobstetter Tipton Gertrude Aitken Newton Edwin C Albright Iowa City Elizabeth Broders Davenport Erwin L Buck Grand Junction Rae M Casterline Tipton Louis Harold Cook Des Moines Ann Crow Burlington Ellamarie Dalen Calmar John Donahey Panora Donald Foerster Iowa City Olivette Holmes Red Oak Stuart Tinker Brooklyn J Edward Luney Clarion Esther K Martin Cedar Falls Willard C Mattheis Holstein Carl D Metz Burlington Thomas Miller Iowa City Catherine Newbold Keosauqua Ruth Newbold Keosauqua Clark D Paris Manchester Marjorie Pratt Washington Phillip L Ray Clinton Robert E Reich Montclair May Regan Iowa City Robert R Rieke Blairstown Naomi Sacks Sioux City Frederick Schmutz Little Rock Ark Jay N Stonebraker Webster City
At Lakehurst Dr Hugo Eckener defends US hospitality and vows a 40 hour flight to the English Channel while rejecting criticism of primitive arrangements. Captain Ernst Lehmann praises the welcome in Lakehurst New York and Washington.
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