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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1934
Page
1
The paper notes 250000 youths in Italy swearing an oath to fascism while critiquing dictatorship tactics. It also discusses baseball's World Series, Iowa football travel, farm feed funding doubts, religious principles in industry, and U S Supreme Court actions on gold hoarding and dollar devaluation.
Spain begins drafting recruits as revolt grows with loyal troops occupying Gijon after heavy fighting. General Lopez Ochoa leads forces toward Trubia while reports confirm 52 troops killed in an Asturias province bombing.
The besieged Spanish government orders mobilization of railway employees aged 20 to 38 as deserters face court martial with death or life imprisonment. Northern Spain descends into chaos as loyal troops edge toward rebel strongholds while Oviedo falls to revolutionists and communications fray amid fierce clashes in Bilbao.
Governor A. Harry Moore announced there will be no radio or television coverage of the Hauptmann murder trial in Flemington. He asserted the proceedings will be orderly and dignified and that Justice Thomas W. Trenchard will not permit a burlesque.
In Chicago AP report, Ardrath Gertrude Atkinson 23, last year’s California spelling champion, disappeared after leaving Chicago by bus August 6. Her parents launched a 2500 mile search along highways, planning bus stop inquiries from Chicago to California.
Sir Robert Baird who led the Belfast Telegraph and allied papers and who served as dean of Irish journalists died suddenly in Belfast at age 79. He was knighted in 1921 and chaired several press bodies.
Mrs Maude Garhart died Monday after being stung by a bee in a Spearfish drug store. The shock appeared to trigger a heart attack. Her husband John Garhart is an aplarian.
Sir Austen Chamberlain honors his father with a memorial at Highbury, arguing that living by example outshines words. He cites Francis of Assisi and a Twain anecdote to illustrate how actions teach truth, urging personal integrity over eloquence.
At the AFL convention in San Francisco, delegates endorsed a five day thirty hour week with no wage cuts as the sole constructive remedy for unemployment relief, prompting thunderous applause.
Washington AP reports the government will hire 25 000 workers to conduct a January 1 1935 farm census to assess changes from drought and depression. Director William L Austin calls the effort unusually significant and key to recovery. AAA data shows farm income in mid 1934 rose to the highest three month level since 1933 downturn, about 3 percent below pre low.
The Gazette Want Ad section rushes with hunting equipment ads including shotguns rowboats outboard motors and dogs. O L Gerdle 367 2nd Ave SW notes strong responses after listing a Remington 12 gauge pump with ribbed barrel and full choke. Dial 2-1121 to place or inquire about ads.
An exclusive Moscow dispatch reports Josef Stalin, after praising Roosevelt, doubts a planned economy can end unemployment without overthrowing capitalism. He says true relief requires proletarian revolution and that a reformist path would threaten his reelection.
DES MOINES AP Counsel for J. M. Conway former auditor and clerk of industry at the Anamosa reformatory filed notice of appeal from Conway's embezzlement conviction in Jones county court. Judge Ring overruled a motion to set aside the jury verdict. Conway was sentenced to ten years in Fort Madison penitentiary and to pay 478.70 dollars.
President Roosevelt directly oversees NRA revision at the White House outlining future policies. He aims to strengthen economic recovery while signaling cautious changes to reassure business leaders amid ongoing code enforcement and production controls debates.
Ray Murray state secretary of agriculture received the first shipment of seals used for 1935 corn loans. The 6 250 seals were made at Fort Madison penitentiary and will be sent to sealers to seal new corn promptly.
Nevada insurance man Paul Eggers rested with the state presenting its case in the Rolland bank robbery indictment. A motion for a directed verdict was overruled as the trial proceeded in Taub Township.
The Broadway Tabernacle Congregational Church yielded to picket pressure and delayed eviction of an unemployed WWII veteran from a Bronx basement home. The church will assist finding a new residence for him, his wife, and four children after back rent issues. The pastor cited tenant noncooperation and the church’s support for the family during a difficult period.
In Havana a left wing general strike turned violent with one killed and thirteen wounded as radicals urged forceful reopenings of closed workplaces. The strike, backed by the communist confederation of labor, caused arrests and sporadic disorders across several cities.
The Supreme Court rejected Frederick Campbell's appeal against Roosevelt era gold hoarding regulations. Campbell, NY lawyer, challenged both a bid to force Chase National Bank to return 27 bars of his deposited gold and a bid to stop federal prosecutors from proceeding on his indictment.
Edward Coffin 22 of Greenfield faced execution for the murder of Deputy Sheriff Harold Amick during a Clark county arrest. Coffin declined clemency as he awaited electrocution at Indiana State Prison after the late night deadline. Accomplices John Pfaffenberg and Robert Neal were killed in a chase, while Laceyl Long received a life sentence for their role.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Detroit Tigers 4 to 3 to tie the series at three games each. Paul Dean earned the win on the mound and drove in the decisive run with a seventh inning single off Schoolboy Rowe.
Republican national committeeman John Hamilton charged Democrats with vote buying by threatening relief and public works favors. He warned that Democratic politicians tell distressed voters they must elect Democrats to get benefits, calling it a vicious, coercive attempt to control the franchise. He contrasted the Roosevelt era relief costs as settings for such tactics.
Linn county delinquent tax sale of 1932 taxes was postponed for the fifth time as no bidders appeared at the courthouse. The next sale is set for December 3 at 10 a.m. Treasurer Frank L. Williams reports $331,360.45 collected during deferments and an outstanding delinquency of $105,478.17, with about 97 percent of 1932 taxes paid. 1933 taxes collectible in 1934 total $2,067,862.02. $2,289,059.14 has been received.
President Roosevelt and the five directors of the new NRA spent an hour discussing the recovery program but reached no conclusions on price fixing or production control. They signaled a cautious retreat from these theories, with industry reluctant to abandon price controls amid higher wages and longer hours. Clay Williams led the briefing. Donald Richberg was absent, underscoring board independence.
Two federal agents left New Bedford with information linking Bruno Richard Hauptmann to the Lindbergh baby ransom. Col. Lindbergh reportedly identified Hauptmann’s voice as the man heard at the Bronx cemetery during the ransom drop, in talks with New Jersey officials and Gov. Moore.
Colonel Lindbergh testified before Hunterdon county grand jury in Flemington as Hauptmann’s indictment for the Lindbergh baby murder was handed to Circuit Judge Thomas W. Trenchard. Extradition steps, led by Attorney General David Wilentz, were to follow with Gov. Lehman likely served next day.
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