11 Oct 1934
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1934
Page
1
Reports from Europe describe a grave Jugoslavian crisis with no troop mobilization as factions debate peace prospects. The piece notes an 11 year old newly proclaimed king in exile and France hosting the Jugoslav king amid Barthou and Alexander efforts.
Anti Italian demonstrations were reported from Slovenia with crowds accusing Italians as the brains behind King Alexander's assassination. Police dispersed most protests without bloodshed as guards were stepped up at the Italian embassy and the consul general late Wednesday night.
Belgrade rumors of a Serbian controlled coup grow as artillery regiments reassemble. The threat of national disunion looms with Gen Zhivkovitch and Gen Kostvich seen as potential rulers before the boy king returns from England. If power slips from the cabinet a Zhivkovitch premiership could emerge.
Young King Peter II of Yugoslavia, 11, arrives in Paris from an English school to meet his mother. He is escorted from the train near Saint Louis with his grandmother Dowager Queen Marie of Roumania and hidden from crowds, then proceeds by car as officials and throngs await at the central station.
President Roosevelt said at a press conference that prices must rise before stabilization but wages should stay in step with the higher cost of living. He pledged strong action against runaway price increases and noted real wages may lag, but the worker’s pay should be fattened to meet higher prices as stabilization approaches.
The note considers whether the German push for order could provoke backlash against religious discipline. It weighs the tension between societal control and spiritual constraint, suggesting potential tensions between state or culture and church authority.
The article discusses Naboclish from Sir Walter Scott via John Morley, urging readers to ignore trivial disagreements and maintain proportion. It likens the philosophy to Carlyle praising Scott, urging calm and focus on real facts rather than small annoyances. (Copyright, 1934.) DR. NEWTON.
The Community Chest drive at Hotel Montrose raised seven thousand seven hundred ninety eight dollars and four cents in new pledges bringing the total to forty thousand four hundred eighty four dollars and four cents toward a sixty five thousand dollar goal. A third luncheon with a program was planned for Thursday to push towards the target with many teams still to report.
Ernest R. Moore and A. E. Chase of Cedar Rapids and Dr. D. R. McCreery of Alburnett were named jury commissioners effective Oct 1 by District Court Judges Ring Clark Moffit and Ellison to prepare lists of grand and petit jurors and salesmen for 1935 to 1937.
The NRA extended until January 11 the minimum prices fixed on four popular cigarette brands at 13 cents per pack or two for 25 cents. State taxes are not included. The measure, declared an emergency by Hugh S. Johnson, set these prices through October.
Iowa corn production dropped by 18 million bushels in September while overall condition rose 2 percent. National figures show a drought driven decline with corn at 41.5 percent of normal and wheat production edging upward despite the drought.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt reaches her fiftieth birthday on Thursday. The White House prepares a family party at tea time despite her quip that birthdays should be forgotten. The First Lady enjoys riding, driving, flying and a birthday cake ritual with her children.
Chicago based dispatch reports Indiana voters likely to reelect Arthur R. Robinson to the U S Senate and elect six Republican nominees to Congress. Edwin P. Morrow, former Kentucky governor, told western GOP HQ that the New Deal proves unpopular with industry and business and that NRA blue eagles are vanishing from shop windows.
TIME discretely notes Europe faces peril as political assassinations threaten Jugoslavia and the Balkans. An unnamed central European statesman warns Alexander’s death could trigger civil war, regional instability, and wider European crisis.
Four armed men robbed the Pershing Coal company mine payroll near Knoxville Iowa at noon seizing six thousand five hundred dollars from the paymaster and forcing a witness to guide their escape route. They fled in a dark blue 1933 Buick toward Oskaloosa after disabling phones and forcing workers to spread the alarm.
A jury of ten men and two women in Nevada received the case of Paul Eggers, former Simpson College athlete, charged with attempting to rob the Roland bank.
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli opened the thirty second international Eucharistic congress in Buenos Aires as the continent’s largest gathering began.
Mrs Berry V Stoll 26 wife of Stoll Refining vice president was abducted from her Louisville home by a man who escaped in a car. A ransom note was found, and Stoll, treasurer of the Louisville board of trade, was identified as “next on the list.” The maid was bound and the scene drew police. The abductor, 30 to 35, 5 ft 8 in, 130 pounds, wore a grey striped suit.
Miss Ora Elizabeth Miller lifelong Linn County resident and sister of Clarence L Miller died at her Cedar Rapids home 524 First Ave E Wednesday at 2 pm after a lingering illness. She helped found the Cedar Rapids Gazette with Fred W Faulkes and served as president of the Iowa Board of Lady Managers for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Survived by two Cedar Rapids sisters, a niece and two nephews.
Washington officials say the death of price fixing under NRA codes has been postponed indefinitely. The National Industry Recovery Board issued a statement after coal industry authorities objected to applying price fixing elimination in the bituminous coal sector.
Captain Jacques Bosch who led Catalonian civil forces during the brief insurrection was condemned to life imprisonment in Barcelona. The ruling marks the end of the early rebellion and assigns the rebel leader a maximum sentence under the court.
The Senate banking committee's sixth report on Wall Street probes urges federal regulation of investment trusts and holding companies to curb wealth concentration. It cites J P Morgan and Company and Dillon Read and Company and proposes a national incorporation act requiring interstate firms to obtain federal charters.
A fragment notes a Czech citizen with an unissued passport. The text suggests a single odd statement about a person named Kale men and a missing formal document, but details are incomplete and the context is unclear.
Paris police conducted rapid raids in Yugoslav quarters to uncover clues about King Alexander's assassination. They seized documents and photographs to illuminate any organized plot.
The body of King Alexander of Yugoslavia is carried from Marseilles to Belgrade after an assassination. The royal procession moved through Marseilles on the bier, placed aboard the Jugoslavian warship Dubrovnik, with Queen Marie and French dignitaries aboard for the last rites.
Queen Marie of Jugoslavia arrived in Marseille in mourning attire to oversee her husband King Alexander’s body. The shotgun assassination shattered the royal’s life as preparations were made to send the monarch’s remains to Belgrade aboard the Jugoslav destroyer Dubrovnik at 3 p.m. local time with French President Albert Lebrun and cabinet members in attendance.
Jack Britt, 41, listed as lieutenant in the Shelton gang, died Wednesday at St. Mary's hospital in East St. Louis. He had been in ill health and was twice tried for a $2,500,000 Lincoln bank robbery, with juries failing to agree and charges later dismissed.
Washington reports the Department of Justice withdraws from the Lindbergh kidnapping case after completing work on Hauptmann’s finances and brokerage records. DOJ accounts for 46 681 dollars passing through Hauptmann since the 1932 ransom night, with 26 016 deposited but not clearly linked to the ransom.
Governor Lehman granted extradition of Bruno Richard Hauptmann to New Jersey to face murder and kidnapping charges. James Fawcett, his Bronx carpenter lawyer, said he will seek a writ of habeas corpus in Bronx County courts to delay transfer. Hauptmann, indicted in Bronx for extortion, remains jailed in New York.
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