19 Oct 1934
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1934
Page
1
The piece outlines how the Nazi government plans income tax rebates based on children, with first child a 15 percent rebate and six or more children exempt from tax, while childless individuals face higher taxes. It contrasts this with Washington's approach and discusses broader views on government’s role, prosperity, and policy experiments amid elections and other political moves.
Springfield investigators found the getaway car used by Thomas H. Robinson Jr in the Alice Speed Stoll kidnapping case. A $5 bill tied to a rooming house led to new sightings while a special grand jury was ordered to indict Robinson, his wife, and his father. The elder Robinson was arrested in Nashville on a federal warrant with bond set at $25,000.
A newspaper column recalls gold seekers dismissing blue rock while missing the Comstock Lode of silver in daily deeds. It praises humble acts and steady duties as richer than grand quests, citing Birrell and Lamb, and ends with a nudge to notice small kindnesses that brighten lives.
Justices Van Devanter and Butler of the Supreme Court held that compulsory military training is not required in land grant colleges under federal law. The ruling arose during the case seeking to exempt University of California students from mandatory drill.
A large barn on the William Andrew farm three miles north of Lafayette was destroyed by fire at 10 30 am Thursday. The blaze started from spontaneous combustion and Dolph Notbohm saved the cattle and horses by guiding all stock from the barn. Soy beans hay and a silo with corn fodder inside burned. the fire drew a large crowd from a nearby farm sale at the Glenn Wagner farm a mile away.
Davenport authorities say Mr and Mrs Myles Robinson were arrested on counterfeiting charges and linked to a series of robberies across eastern Jones county. A search of their East Moline home yielded stolen items from Jones county schools, an Oxford Mills store, and Wyoming Iowa homes. Federal agents are on the case. prosecutions depend on counterfeiting charges.
An man resembling Pretty Boy Floyd was pursued by vigilantes from Oskaloosa to near Albia about thirty miles away. The pursuer laughed as he was caught and claimed he was often mistaken for Flesh. He said he was an Oklahoma farmer and refused to give his name.
Queen Marie sobbed as Alexander’s coffin was laid in the Topola family chapel. King Peter, 11, wept with his mother and regents leading the royal procession. Half a million Serbians waited all night as Alexander’s body moved from Belgrade cathedral to Topola for burial beside former Serbian kings.
New York Senator Royal S Copeland head of the senate crime committee condemned releasing inmates from insane asylums with anti social attitudes. He spoke after the arrest of the kidnapper of Mrs Berry V Stoll and the murder of Nancy Costigan, noting both had psychiatric hospital histories.
Washington report says the AAA set October 26 for a hearing in Dubuque Iowa on a proposed milk license for the area.
Washington AP reports forty inexpensive house designs by federal subsistence homestead officials to aid decentralization of industry. Plans cover three to six rooms with blueprints available on request. Construction costs range from 1800 to 3000 dollars, with designs echoing New England farmhouses and southern bungalow styles.
Ce dar Rapids stores report strong sales on Dollar Day with thousands of dollars added to tills. Out of town shoppers and city buyers fueled a steady all day rush. parking surveys show about 1 000 vehicles from other counties. Men's wear and farming departments posted record or near record gains, with overall sales up about a third from last year.
The Esposito family of Bronx law student Louis Esposito said a ransom note demanding 20 000 dollars was received Wednesday after he was kidnapped Monday night. The family confirmed the note and appealed to authorities for help.
English disciple of Gandhi Madeleine Slade met First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House and spoke of a democratic atmosphere. She said the visit lasted over half an hour, with warm questions and a quick flurry of photographers on the steps outside.
In New York appellate court Hauptmann's counsel wins leave to move for introduction of new evidence in the extradition dispute to New Jersey over the Lindbergh kidnapping. Justice Francis Martin took the motion under advisement as Friday’s hearing on habeas corpus dismissal was set.
A man resembling Thomas H. Robinson Jr of Nashville Tenn the federal identified Stoll kidnapper visited a Maquoketa lawyer seeking financial help Wednesday noting he was from Ohio and that his profession was being good. The incident prompted a countywide manhunt and was reported to Park Findley head of the Iowa bureau of criminal investigation.
WASHINGTON INSSecretary Morgenthau approves a Los Angeles bank policy of advertising for borrowers calling it constructive for recovery The Security Trust National Bank led by Henry M Robinson shows loans to individuals under the national housing act including real estate and commercial loans aimed at hiring labor and buying materials
Frances Robinson, charged in the Alice Speed Stoll kidnapping, told lawyer Clem Huggins that federal agents and Tennessee officials directed her to pass the $50,000 ransom to her husband in Indianapolis. She later gave $500 of her own money for unmarked bills to the husband.
Louis E Roddewig of the state board of assessment and review reports the board’s ruling excludes Christmas seals from sales tax. Gov Herring asked about the issue during a Cedar Rapids visit as Public Health Nursing supporters opposed taxing Christmas seals though the order covers only cards stickers and other tangible personal property.
A rebellion within the Nazi church movement challenges Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller and Dr. August Jaeger. Christian Kinder protests Jaeger after pressuring the Reichschurch government. bishops Coch and Thom back Kinder. The Reichschurch council dismissed protesting pastors and Fritz Engelke resigned as Hamburg mission director. Hitler cancelled a planned audience with Mueller.
Berlin report says a tax decree allows six children to offset income tax. Reductions scale from 15 percent for one child to 100 percent for six, applying to incomes up to 100000 marks annually. Children are counted until they reach age 23.
Reginald S. Tracy of Manchester and Mrs. Flossie Fear of Farley pleaded guilty to murder charges tied to Mrs. Tracy’s death on Oct 3. Judge A B Lovejoy set Tuesday at 10 am for sentencing Tracy and Fear, with potential penalties ranging from death to ten years. Tracy’s counsel included Francis Ellis and Don Barnes. Fear’s attorney Irving D. Long appeared.
Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin, cautions that postwar shifts in world trade and rising nationalism threaten the economy. He argues against self contained nationalism as a dangerous venture in madness in America's Hour of Decision.
Geis Botsford submitted his resignation as state manager of the Home Owners Loan Corporation in Iowa. Ivors MacFarlane has been sent to Iowa to assume duties temporarily as HOLC considers the resignation. The HOLC referred questions to Botsford for the reason.
Los Angeles and surrounding areas faced more flood waters and an earth shock amid wild storm conditions. Six people died in traffic accidents linked to the storm, two were missing and presumed drowned, and hundreds fled rising waters. Damage was estimated at 150000 to 200000 dollars.
Mrs Anna Ponchurak obtained a court order for Joseph Ponchurak's release from county jail where he had been jailed last September for failure to pay alimony. She says he is "having the time of his life" after release, playing handball daily and dining well while avoiding work and payments.
Arrangements were completed for the sale of a seat on the Chicago stock exchange at 2700 dollars, 200 dollars above the previous sale. The report notes the price as the latest record in the exchange’s seat sales.
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