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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1936
Page
5
The Iowa senatorial contest splits along party lines with Utterback and Herring in the Democratic race, while Republicans focus on Guy Linville as the standout to challenge Dickinson. Linville is praised for experience, courage, and a record as a self-made lawyer and farm owner.
Italian troops along the Austrian frontier were reported as Musso’s government spiked rumors of support for Prince Von Starhemberg and Heimwehr moves. Rumors followed Austria’s Nazi activity, with Mussolini tightening vigilance while Vienna and Budapest balanced a Rome pact bridging trade and politics.
Police raided Nazi headquarters across upper Austria after claims of an attempted assassination on Prince Von Starhemberg. In Waxenburg castle near Linz, a trap killed two Nazis and eight were captured as Schuschnigg’s government pressed to prevent weekend clashes between Nazi and heimwehr factions.
Miss Mae Hoagland and Miss Mary Risacker hold Naseby ticket BD-48838 in the Irish Hospitals sweepstakes. If Naseby wins at Epsom Downs next Wednesday they would share up to 150000 dollars, with 75000 for second and 50000 for third, while all holders receive about 1000 dollars regardless of result. The ticket cost 2.5 dollars and 1.25 dollars were spent by each woman.
In a Paris garret a French sculptor dies freezing to protect his clay masterpiece. His act is honored as a sacrifice for art, showing that giving life for truth or dream can preserve life’s value beyond death.
Oregon Illinois. The 55yearold Romeo Guy M Tallmadge shot his wife Bessie to death on a country road to marry a redhead behind a drug store counter He plans a vigorous fight to escape the electric chair State's Attorney Crowell will seek Monday arraignment and possible grand jury action then speedy trial and sentence Knight says the accused will contest every step Tallmadge confessed plotting the murder for weeks bought a secondhand gun and drove to the crossroads last Tuesday night to shoot his wife in the back of the head He previously claimed a tattered bandit killed her
Washington reports the Senate finance committee plans to vote on Monday a sugar sales tax and petroleum vegetable oil starch and textile import tariffs to raise additional revenue. Revised treasury estimates show a 560 million dollar yield and a 66 million annual sugar levy.
Walter Storms announced that Thomas Starr 29 confessed to killing Mrs Lillian D Guild in her Y W C A hotel room in Chicago on May 9 Starr had been interrogated after a prior denial and a later re enactment described as suspiciously accurate by a detective sergeant The case involves Starr who also faced questions about an alleged attack at St Lukes hospital nurses home in Reinbeck Iowa as authorities seek motive and connections
In High Point North Carolina the general conference voted 142 to 39 Saturday to join with the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church in the union effort. The decision confirms a major step toward church unity among the three denominations.
Dale R. Louthan 22 of Maywood Illinois died when his Plymouth coupe left Highway 30 at the Linn Cedar county line two miles east of Lisbon, rolled over, and stopped in a pasture. He suffered a basal skull fracture and a broken neck. The crash was found by Raymond Puffer and Louis Hud echek near Mechanicsville who saw the burning headlight and running motor. Officials believed Louthan was thrown from the car and staggered to the crash site. His license and a photo identified him. he will be taken to Johnsons funeral home in Mount Vernon as authorities contact relatives. No inquest is planned.
The coronation of Edward VIII is scheduled for May 27 1937 the Sunday as declared in today’s editions.
Postmaster General James A. Farley outlined plans to use the U S post office system after June 15 to pay the 2 235 billion veteran bonus via 45 000 offices 241 paying offices in designated areas and 59 central offices Payments will be sent as registered bonds to addressees only and may be cashed at local post offices if certified by the postmaster or a designated employee with witnesses required if not personally known Fingerprint impressions may be taken at the post offices at the discretion of postmasters
A thin recovering boy nicknamed Donald, recovering from pneumonia, needs rest, milk, and quiet at Camp Good Health. With a family income under 15 dollars weekly, funds are requested to cover nutrition, lodging, and care for Donald and two younger brothers. Donations support The Camp Good Health Fund via The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa.
AP forecast shows generally fair conditions early in the week with scattered showers midweek and into Friday. Temperatures are expected to be near or above normal in the south, with central and northern areas near or below normal early, rising to above normal midweek, then cooler at the end.
The Gazette lists a wide array of content for readers including news features, editorials, serials, exams, health notes, society items, and comics. It highlights Driver license questions, Dionne quintuplets coverage, editorial columns, world and national features, sports results, bridge and theater notes, and a full comics section across multiple pages.
An armed Arab mob stormed the Acre police station near Jerusalem. British troops and heavy gunfire repelled the attack, one native policeman wounded, Arabs' casualties unknown. Britain warns of large scale action amid renewed Arab terrorism.
Sioux Falls AP says Jack Suppli a 38 year old Sioux City bank robber and prison breaker is to be deported as a habitual criminal. Paroled from the South Dakota penitentiary he was taken to St Paul Friday and will ride a deportation train to New York Newark border. Suppli was sentenced to 735 years in 1921 for bank robbery in northern South Dakota. He escaped, was recaptured in Texas and given another penitentiary term.
Jackson reports a widow alleging a Bilao Legion flogging caused her husband’s death and spurred a state probe into the terror group. She claims guard Ra Ernest led the flogging after the man missed Black Legion meetings and later died of illness. Police questioned Ernest and others as officials prepare a one man jury.
Detroit authorities learned that the Black Legion, blamed for terror in the city, is part of a nationwide vigilante network. Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea was told the group includes people from varied backgrounds in every state.
Detroit's Prosecutor McCrea probes rumors that Charles A Poole was killed by the Black Legion for beating his wife. He notes other mob terror cases and says Michigan police check unsolved murders as two Jackson officers investigate a recent death.
Chicago police say Joseph Dvorak admitted firing three shots at a Burlington railroad engine after disturbance from the noisy switching. Fireman Joseph Kotar was grazed by a bullet fragment as he fired back. Dvorak cited engine noise as his reason for the attack.
Twenty three eastern railroads filed a federal suit to enjoin the interstate commerce commission from enforcing orders establishing new passenger rates of 2 cents a mile for coaches and 3 cents for Pullman cars in New York.
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