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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1936
Page
2
County auditor Robert Vesely provides 1934 and 1935 levies for Cedar Rapids area. State tax refunds, three point tax impact, and shifts in school city and county levies are analyzed, showing a 3.604 mill total increase and questions about benefits from the three point tax system under the Forty fifth general assembly.
Senator Charles L. McNary maintains a strong lead in the Oregon primary with 42,292 votes in 840 precincts, while challengers Sam Brown and Theodore Nelson gain support outside established regions. Ralph E. Williams leads the GOP slate for national committee with 28,740 votes. Borah tops Roosevelt on presidential ballots.
The Forty Fifth assembly shifts millage to full assessed value raising state levy to 3.50 mills. A comparison with the old 25 percent method shows 14 mills, higher than the former maximum. Cedar Rapids and Linn County taxes for state purposes rise while Iowa’s national debt looms at about $600 million for the state.
As major primaries wind down, convention battles heat up with New Deal backers and foes weighing 1936 issues. Oregon eyes McNary renomination while Ohio delegates shift with Taft Borah ties. Cummings hails Roosevelt as salvation. Brown accuses New Deal of being un-American. Pope touts improved business and farming under the New Deal.
AP and foreign diplomats studied Japan’s North China garrisons after Nanking protested Tokio. Diplomats cited the Boxer protocol allowing only protective forces. Japan’s nearly 10 000 troops could seize air fields and rail hubs. No incident justified the large force, despite 7 600 new troops arriving. A Soviet border clash near Manchukuo followed reports of fire on a Soviet patrol.
The Italian senate unanimously approves royal decrees annexing Ethiopia. King Victor Emmanuel is proclaimed emperor and Marshal Pietro Badoglio is named governor general and viceroy over the new territory.
Judge Dowell exonerates former Tampa Police Chief R G Tittsworth and Robert Chappell on directed verdicts. Five officers see counts quashed for defective indictments. Poulnot kidnapping left to jury while other charges dismissed. Case tied to flogging of Poulnot Rogers and Shoemaker. Shoemaker death noted.
Lady Deterding, wife of Sir Henri Deterding, noted oil magnate, was granted a divorce in Amsterdam according to the London Daily Express report published Saturday.
In Gordonsville Virginia two Negroes killed Sheriff William Young and wounded five others in a six hour gun battle that drew up to five thousand men. The pair died in a burning barricaded house after volunteers set the building ablaze as the siege ended.
Washington advisers tell Senate Finance Committee the new compromise tax bill would raise about 800 million dollars in revenue. The plan combines eight proposals, increases income and corporation taxes, taxes dividends, and imposes penalties on retained corporate income. It includes raising income tax rates from four to five percent and moving corporate taxes to an 18 percent flat rate with a seven percent undistributed income tax, plus a 25 to 35 percent penalty structure.
President Roosevelt signed the peace time $572,500,000 army appropriation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1937, funding military and non military War Department activities. He approved the four department bill for state justice commerce and labor and a congressional resolution authorizing U.S. participation in the Pan American Conference in Buenos Aires or another South American capital.
Cedar Rapids volunteers from Local 308 carpenters and other groups spent Saturday at Camp Good Health building cabin additions. Local 191 donated funds after the Golden Gloves to sanitary improvements, while Sigma Sigma and Roosevelt HS contributed. The camp relies on public donations to support undernourished and physically handicapped children, with admission by physician recommendation and ongoing medical checks.
Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt invited seventy inmates from the National Training School for Girls to a White House garden party acknowledging reforms and rehab hopes. She described conditions at the reform school as brutal yet emphasized balancing mercy with public safety.
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia reportedly received a film offer from Maurice Conn to star in a movie written for him. Conn, a young producer, said the invitation came as he pursued stories about the Ethiopian Italian conflict and hinted the emperor could command a high salary.
Wini fred Mayne Van Etten is awarded the $10,000 Atlantic Monthly prize for her first major work I Am The Fox set in Iowa. The book, to be published by Little, Brown and Company, centers on a girl raised in the Midwest farm belt.
The wounded Jess Cunningham, one of eight convicts who escaped from McAlester penitentiary, was captured Saturday by officers at a farm home one mile south of Antlers Oklahoma.
A young farmer living three miles west of Clayton Oklahoma was kidnapped Saturday by two fugitives from the McAlester penitentiary and forced to accompany the desperadoes who were on foot. Hugh Askew, a posse leader, reported to prison officials.
Claude Pugh, described as the brains of the McAlester state prison breakout, surrendered to a posse near Savanna Oklahoma early Saturday. He is the third convict captured of eight escapees after rioting led to prison brick yard supervisor C D Powell’s death. Pugh was sent back to the penitentiary and placed in solitary confinement. Night Sergeant Robert Bell said Pugh begged officers not to shoot him as officers faced a no quarter stance. Tensions rose over Powell’s slaying while fourteen convicts fled in a commandeered car.
Cedar Rapids recorded a 92 degree high amid dusty winds under a clear sky, tying the year’s peak. Temperatures climbed from 56 at 5 a.m. to 64 at 7 and 84 at 10, with Friday reaching 83 at 3 p.m. and cooler evening readings.
In a Vienna reply labeled by the INS, Benito Mussolini sent a note to Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg expressing good wishes and friendship. The message underscored Italy's commitment to Rome's protocol protecting Austria's political independence.
Confused and leaderless in the absence of Prince Ernst von Starhemberg, thousands of heimwehr in Vienna and the provinces began surrendering arms to civil authorities. Schuschnigg countersed by shifting leadership, appointing Edouard Baarenfels as deputy leader of the patriotic front while Germany’s influence looms over Austria amid ongoing Nazi and socialist activities. The government also denied reports that Austria recognized Italy’s Ethiopian annexation.
In Geneva the International Red Cross explained it would not provide gas masks for Ethiopians during Italian attacks. The letter to the League of Nations said the request would push the organization outside its proper role.
James A. Reed, veteran senator and fiery opponent of the New Deal, said Friday night he would not attend the Philadelphia Democratic convention next month, even as a spectator. The Kansas City figure has long opposed party policies.
Suit for $100,000 was filed in Los Angeles against screen actress Joan Bennett by Charles Kenneth Feldman Corp an agency. The agency claims she owes ten percent of her earnings since June 21, 1933 under a promised payment agreement.
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