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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1934
Page
1
Article surveys rising municipal costs and proposed 61 million in new taxes including a 2 percent city sales tax and higher utilities. It notes unrest from strikes in Magogon City over non union labor and a broad debate on war veterans bonuses and currency expansion with implications for prices and living costs.
Vallejo California authorities reported no success in identifying Mr and Mrs J C Malone as former Vallejo residents linked to the bodies found near Carlisle Pennsylvania. Police planned a house to house canvass of the city.
Tourist camp operators identified Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Malone of Vallejo California as the couple linked to two deadly mysteries near Carlisle and Altoona. Their three foster daughters were found dead. a battered 1929 Pontiac was found in a cornfield at McVeytown.
The piece notes rising inflation erodes debt payments while wages lag behind living costs, predicting workers will be the first victims of hardship as prices climb faster than earnings. It cautions that those least prepared will suffer most.
A king pleads for a thief to spare him from hanging and the consuls insist on the law. The queen and court seek funds to pay the penalty but lack three ducats. The thief is found to carry three ducats, saving his life, teaching that goodwill within sustains at last.
The central executive committee of the communist party decreed ending bread and basic food rationing in the Soviet Union. Citizens may buy bread without restrictions as grain stocks are deemed sufficient for winter. Wages pensions and scholarships will rise to offset price changes. price differences between government and open markets will narrow as bread becomes affordable for all, effective January 1.
Police in Missouri and Iowa intensified their hunt for Elroy C McKeever 36 named by his brother in law Francis McNeiley Iowa farm youth as his accomplice in the slaying of two peace officers June 14 1933 Sergeant Ben O Booth of the state highway patrol and Boone county Sheriff Roger Wilson were killed when they tried to question several men at a highway intersection McNeiley is closely guarded in the city jail and first degree murder charges may be filed against McKeever if captured Adam Richetti linked to the Floyd gang is held in the same jail as the two Missouri patrolmen and is believed to be returned to Jackson county authorities for the Kansas City Union Station killings inquiry
Vienna police and auxiliary forces, steel-helmeted units, patrolled the streets as fears rose of another nazi putsch. Student riots had abated but pro-German demonstrations kept officials wary, recalling last summer’s failed coup that killed Chancellor Dollfuss.
In New York a federal agent shooting by Baby Face Nelson leads Dutch Schultz to seek safety in jail. He reportedly told reporters the incident settles it and he will turn himself in Albany on tax evasion charges at a U S commissioner's office.
Negotiations to end the Los Angeles street car strike collapsed amid a fresh crisis and renewed violence on Wednesday after a lockout halted talks and intensified tensions.
The Dionne quintuplets are six months old and in better health than since birth, with no organic disorders. Dr. A R Dave says they are healthy and large and should have the normal life expectancy of any baby and, as they grow, healthier than other children.
London brims with festivity for the wedding of Duke of Kent and Princess Marina. Crowds cheer as the couple visits a West End theater, while fog threatens to dim the day's grand processions but Buckingham Palace vows to keep to the schedule at Westminster Abbey.
At a late Wednesday meeting the local butchers union voted to end a two day strike at Jacob E. Decker and Sons packing plant. About 800 employees participated. The decision follows a Tuesday rejection and allows union and non union workers to resume duties beginning Thanksgiving with a half day.
Linn county faces a $20000 county outlay to meet an estimated $53380 aid bill for 2080 unemployed in December. State and federal grants total $33380, with county funds rising from one fifth to nearly two fifths of the total. Soldiers relief funds will cover former servicemen relief.
Washington reports urge congressional appropriations to aid widows and children of federal agents killed in action. No law currently provides pensions for families of those who died in the war against crime. Director J Edgar Hoover has attempted to assist by employing agents in clerical roles.
Washington announced relief grants from federal funds for December totaling 130 345 411. The allocations include funds for Iowa 1 990 600 and other states with varying amounts.
The 1934 proclamation designates Thursday November 29 as a National Day of Thanksgiving. Roosevelt cites courage, social justice, welfare provisions, and spiritual focus, urging renewed dedication to mankind and faith. The document is dated November 15 1934 in Washington with the presidential seal.
U S District Attorney E P Carville said two prominent Reno residents could be arrested within 24 hours by federal agents for harboring George Nelson alias Baby Face Nelson. Nelson’s body was found near Chicago yesterday and Carville noted he lived in Reno during 1932 33 and early 1934 using various aliases.
Justice agents sought about ten people linked to the George Baby Face Nelson flight near San Francisco and Reno last summer. E P Guinean, local DOJ chief, said investigators were checking persons known to harbor the fugitives.
The article recalls Federal Agent Herman E. Hollis famed for shooting Dillinger and notes his own death at the hands of a former Dillinger associate. The accidental disclosure points to Hollis as Dillinger’s killer before his murder, attributed to Baby Face Nelson and a companion believed to be John Hamilton.
The body of Herman Hollis, a federal agent killed in the line of duty, will be returned to Des Moines his birthplace for burial. Relatives say his parents, W F Hollis and Nora E Hollis, reside in Des Moines. Hollis attended local schools and universities before joining the Justice Department in 1927 and serving in Chicago Detroit and Oklahoma prior to his transfer.
The Mississippi Valley association reaffirmed its opposition to current St. Lawrence Seaway provisions and to federal regulation of waterways traffic at its convention. It argued competition will regulate rates and services, with only safety regulation deemed necessary. Col. Robert Isham Randolph of Chicago was re elected president.
The naked, bullet-riddled body of gangster George Baby Face Nelson was discovered in a ditch near Niles Center after a clash with federal agents. Deputized officers traced identity via fingerprints while authorities described the firefight that left agents Cowley and Hollis dead.
CHICAGO UP Embezzlement charges against Samuel Insull former utilities magnate will be pressed in state court State's Attorney Thomas J Courtney said Wednesday night A federal jury freed Insull his son Samuel Jr and 16 co defendants on mail fraud charges The state indictments accuse Insull of embezzling 66 000 from Middle West Utilities case set for trial January 7 Martin J Insull his brother faces trial next Monday on embezzling 350 000 from the same firm
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