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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1936
Page
2
Italy faced a pivotal moment as Mussolini prepared a policy statement on the League of Nations amid Ethiopian affairs. The Austrian coup by Starhemberg alters Italy’s calculations, signaling a more deliberate approach rather than immediate withdrawal, with Schuschnigg’s fate adding regional tension.
Fred Hansen Sam Bongiorno and Philip Dimenza were found guilty by a federal jury of robbing the St Charles National Bank in Illinois on January 31, with over 15000 dollars taken. Each faces up to nine and a half years in prison.
In session notes, the Finance Committee frames tax bill while the Foreign Relations and Foreign Affairs panels meet on the London naval treaty and embassy protection. The House takes up the treasury post office appropriation conference report and reviews the revenue bill. An appropriations subcommittee hears Harry Hopkins explain WPA setup as the Frazier Lemke farm mortgage refinancing bill is defeated 235 to 142. The Foreign Affairs panel issues an adverse report on a resolution seeking State Department guidance on protecting the American legation at Addis Ababa.
Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of the District of Columbia supreme court barred in court the disclosure of confidential letters by President Roosevelt. He upheld government attorneys who refused to produce correspondence between Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes amid a bid by Dean Aschen to obtain letters for a case against PWA funded power plant construction.
James Edwards was trapped in a stream for 90 minutes when his tractor smashed through a bridge. His wife kept his head above water as neighbors hauled heavy jacks from miles away and built temporary bases to lift the machinery and free him. Edwards began recovering Thursday in Greenview Illinois.
The highway body adopts No 30 routing from First Street SW to Mount Vernon Road SE and plans to build an overhead crossing at Sixteenth Avenue over rail lines using federal funds. A Cedar River bridge at Eighth Avenue is proposed when funds allow, with a temporary route to remain until a permanent modern path is funded and ready. traffic will continue on the current route via B Avenue NW until then.
The Hearth stone club met Tuesday at the president Mrs. H L Frazier home and elected officers for the new year. President Mrs P E Phelps vice president Mrs C L McDonald secretary Mrs Milton Edleman Jr treasurer Anna Seyfert corresponding secretary Mrs D L Cressey library custodians Polly Ludwig Velma Ruggeberg and Mrs W C Rutenbeck program committee Helen Deal Mrs James Gilroy Jr Mrs Sabina Miller Mrs Leon Schmidt and Mrs L R Schubert.
In Kalona and Winthrop baccalaureate services are planned with local clergy and music by school groups. Mount Vernon alumni announce banquet committees for May 29 at the high school gym. Winthrop, Urbana, Reinbeck, Grinnell and Elberon note commencements, class days, and address details with various officials and performers.
Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, vice chancellor and leader of the Heimwehr, has been ousted amid a cabinet shakeup in Vienna. Chancellor Schuschnigg consolidates power, with Starhemberg and several allied ministers removed while new posts shift authority and signal any shift toward Britain and France.
Dave Bowers a farmer two miles east of Lisbon suffered severe face and head injuries Tuesday when kicked by a horse. He was found unconscious by family members and needed several stitches to close a facial gash.
West Union jurors in Judge H E Taylors court ruled for the defendant in seven and a half minutes in the case of E J Kelly of Buchanan county against Miss Nellie Quinn Clermont A custody dispute over an infant girl led to the speedy verdict touching adoption and care claims dating from 1915 through the girls adulthood now Mrs Lawrence Lappe Independence
Iowa Conservation Commission in Mason City set the catfish opening date from June 15 to May 15 for inland waters. The move follows petitions asking to align with previous years. Authority HQ in Des Moines reported the decision.
Police search for a lanky armed man who terrorized nurses at St. Luke's nursing home near Little Harlem shortly before dawn. He fled to the roof after a brutal assault on nurse Lois Rickert and a gash across her head. The attack follows the killing of Mrs. Lillian Guild at a YWCA hotel two days earlier, with a brick wielded by the unknown assailant.
The Brooklyn Commercial Club met at Hotel Brooklyn on Monday night with Mr. Lannon of Grinnell speaking on Changing Philosophy of Business and William Shendler presenting on Iowa Poultry Marketing Association.
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