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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1933
Page
1
The piece notes lynching acts in California and Missouri as governors mediate amid fear of widened mob justice. It also surveys political clashes from Huey Long to Coughlin and Roosevelt, with warnings on law, order, and national diplomacy.
Detroit police tied a nude body found in a roadside ditch to gangster Verne Miller using fingerprint analysis. Miller, linked to the Urschel kidnapping and the Kansas City Union Station shooting, was identified by Dr D W Johnson as killed about 24 hours earlier. The body showed blunt force injuries and was wrapped in two blankets and tied with a clothesline. Police believe Miller was killed away from the ditch. a spate of gangland killings in Detroit followed with Abe Axler and Edward Fletcher slain, Walter Tylezak shot, and James Doretti wounded in a car-riding incident.
Lily Banka Gaines is freed after a Spokane jury acquits her of murdering her husband Dr James I Gaines last August 15 in the driveway of their home. Prosecutors had argued for an insurance and property motive. She was released from custody late Tuesday night.
A Los Angeles municipal court jury found Alfred C. Read Jr. guilty of petty theft for stealing $11 from actress Claire Windsor's purse. Read, acting as his own attorney, faces up to 180 days in jail and a $500 fine if sentencing proceeds without a new trial. The trial featured heated exchanges, including Windsor calling Read a liar and cheap thief.
Hog sales men at the Sioux City stock yards ended a buyer seller walkout after negotiations reached a compromise top of 3.25 a hundredweight for best hogs. The price topped the Omaha peak by five cents, as reported.
Washington AP reports Czechoslovakia offered the United States $150,000 as a token payment on a debt of $1,680,812 due December 15. The note accompanies a critique of ongoing armament spending and a speculative line about Hitler altering the world scene.
The Roosevelt administration appointed Joseph H. Choate to lead the new Federal Alcohol Control administration to oversee distillates, wines, and brewing codes as repeal aims to boost foreign trade. Officials forecast sharp import increases and quotas negotiations with foreign powers to reduce tariff barriers.
The Iowa attorney general filed a removal petition in Wapello County District Court seeking the ouster of Ottumwa Mayor Edwin C. Manning and commissioners W. L. Disbrow and John Davies. The charges include willful neglect of duties, misconduct, and corruption tied to budget transfers, bond payments, official travel, golf course deals, and city gasoline purchases for officials and employees. The petition, supported by exhibits, outlines multiple alleged irregularities and financial actions.
Detroit AP Father Charles E. Coughlin, a fierce Roosevelt supporter, denounces Alfred E. Smith as banking minded and criticizes his alleged visit to J P Morgan for a loan. He defends his New York address and clashes with Brooklyn Bishop Belford over the Morgan incident.
The Iowa House defeated the Moscow dam to authorize a Cedar River diversion and a $10 million hydro electric plant by private interests. The bill would have allowed state revenue share, Iowa labor preference, and a twenty year project recapture. Representative Metcalf urged safety, flood control, and other questions in a bitter two day debate.
Berlin reports the government has convoked the new Reichstag for December 12, exactly one month after the national parliamentary election.
A reflective critique of people who choose misery over happiness, treating joy as sin. The author laments heavy souls who burden themselves and others, urging them to smile and lift the land, lest heaven feel unfamiliar to their stern virtue.
Four Touhy gangsters acquitted by a federal jury of one kidnapping waived extradition to Illinois. They will be taken to Chicago likely Saturday to face state charges for abducting John Factor, known as Jake the Barber, for a $70 000 ransom last July.
Dr. Alice L. Wynekoop was indicted in Cook County for the murder of her daughter in law Rheta. On the eve of the indictment she denounced her prior confession saying there was no compulsion and she wished to tell the truth. A red ink letter claimed another man killed Rheta, absolving Wynekoop and Earle.
An Iowa House investigating committee presented a report alleging waste and mismanagement in state road building. It cites a 1929 purchase of 141 acres for 56500, war surplus supplies, and costly cement highways, urging limits on miles and cost per mile and deployment of a traffic based evaluation system. The commission and Chief Engineer Fred White denied misdeed.
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of War Dern issued orders banning army purchases of almost all foreign food within the continental United States. Only five foreign items are exempt: tea, coffee, cocoa, chocolate and spices, none produced to any great extent domestically.
Gov. Guy B. Park ordered a state inquiry into the Tuesday lynching of Lloyd Warner a 19 year old Negro accused of assaulting a white woman William Sawyer of Jefferson City was sent to Buchanan County to lead the probe Attorney General McKittrick said the office would assist in prosecution if responsibility is fixed Mob violence was condemned as harmful to government and law enforcement quiet returned after the mob of about eight thousand stormed the county jail and hanged Warner with the body burned before thousands. No arrests were reported.
Sacramento AP reports Governor James Rolph Jr. remarking that St Joseph Missouri lynching cases are not parallel to the San Jose lynching last Sunday night. He notes kidnaping was not involved in the St Joseph incident.
New York AP reports Gary Cooper a film star is engaged to marry Veronica Balfe known in movies as Sandra Shaw. The announcement links Cooper with Balfe amid Hollywood rumors and confirms the couple plan a wedding.
Former President Hoover and 24 prominent civic and church leaders in California sign a strongly worded statement denouncing the lynching of two men in San Jose and criticizing Governor Rolph’s stance. Sheriff Emig hints at identifying mob leaders as grand jury investigates the case.
In Princess Anne Maryland the eastern shore celebrated the discharge by local authorities of four men held on charges tied to the Armwood lynching. Judges freed the prisoners amid crowd cheers while Governor Ritchie faced strong local denunciations and a tense atmosphere.
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