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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1934
Page
6
Adeline Taylor details a Cinderella turn for cotton as the season shifts from frocks to gowns. She highlights cotton house dresses, suits, sport frocks, and evening formals with new designs, pre shrunk fabrics, reduced wrinkling, and bold color trends.
A Cedar Rapids retiree Mr John Machacek senior reports long standing stomach and kidney troubles relieved by Gly-Cas. He says digestion improves meals are tolerable kidney nights are restful and he can work again praising the tonic as a new lease on life. The Gly-Cas Man promotes the remedy at Thrifty Drug Store corner First Street and Third Avenue SE.
In Washington, the Pennsylvania primary pits Reed against Pinchot over Roosevelt policies and New Deal relief, with Reed highlighting federal farm funds vs state tax contributions. Pinchot supports the recovery program, while results are seen as a gauge of eastern GOP sentiment ahead of the general election. Democratic registration shows growth but remains far behind Philadelphia Republicans.
Samuel Insull, 74, in St Luke's Hospital, says he went down with his ship and fought to save investors. He disputes charges of mail fraud and bankruptcy law violations, blaming bad judgment but denying dishonesty. He recalls his rise from $200 to facing a major legal battle.
Peace came to southwestern Arabia Monday after months of fighting between Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and Imam Yahya of Yemen. An armistice was announced on terms set by Ibn Saud as his forces held most of Yemen. Envoys planned talks at Tailf in the Hejaz mountains to establish a permanent peace while Sana awaits a Saudian advance.
Washington dispatch reports a federal program to launch garden and farmstead projects for unemployed families. The plan aims to provide home gardens, tools, livestock, and part time work, linking rural roads and subsistence homesteads to county relief efforts and potential PWA and FERA funding.
Vincent Okaren 20 of Rockdale one of three youths held after the inquest into the Staging of grocer John Ball in Dana Illinois escaped from handcuffs while being transported from an inquest to Ottawa. Police pursued through a field but Okaren eluded arrest. Ball was killed during an attempted holdup.
Hollywood notes Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. are free to remarry after their divorce decree became final. The pair had won an interlocutory decree a year earlier on cruelty charges but waited the required year under California law before the marriage ban lifted.
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