21 Oct 1932
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1932
Page
1
A 1945 date frames the debate as Governor Roosevelt argues that World War II veterans’ bonuses await a balanced federal budget with a cash surplus. The piece notes speculation on alternative spending moves and questions about federal funding and education spending amid national welfare debates.
Col C B Robbins head of a new Des Moines home loan bank outlines its aim to create a nationwide cooperative system for rediscounting long term mortgages including farms and homes. He cites past foreclosures and credits the bank with keeping bonds near par value while noting private home loans cap at forty percent of appraised value. Henry A Wallace discusses US economic prospects.
Akron rubber company executives deny the charge that workers were intimidated into voting for President Hoover. Three Democratic leaders who investigated the claim said it has no foundation and sent their finding to James A. Farley.
Mrs. Irma May Weitzenkorn won a divorce from Louis Weitzenkorn film director on cruelty grounds after the husband withdrew his cruelty charges in a cross-complaint.
Count Boni de Castellane, once husband of Anna Gould and famed Paris society figure, died after a long illness. His estranged wife, now Duchess de Talleyrand, did not visit him. three of his sons were at his bedside along with his brothers and mother. Funeral planned for Saint Philippe du Roule. Jerome de Castellane built a pink marble palace on Boulogne and amassed a famous art collection financed by the Gould fortune.
The New York Board of Estimate increased the 1933 city budget by $1,000,000 at a stormy meeting. Mayor Joseph V. McKee denounced the move as funding a political racket and said he would call for an investigation.
Secretary Mills charged that Governor Roosevelt avoided answering whether he would pay the World War I bonus. He questioned if Roosevelt would sign a bonus bill expending 2.3 billion dollars and noted Roosevelt’s stance on admission certificates.
Norman Thomas, socialist candidate for President, urges a nationwide capital levy on all personal wealth as essential to end the low mood. He asks for a Twentieth Amendment empowering Congress to tax total wealth, with payments in cash or securities and inheritance tax style assessment.
The Gazette straw vote shows Hoover leading for president with 3 248 votes to Roosevelt 2 003 while Turner tops the governor field with 3 308 votes. Field leads in the senate race by 827 over Murphy as Brookhart drops below ten percent. final returns due Sunday.
Washington AP Secretary Doak said Senator Norris is not to be believed on his oath and Norris’s 1931 Nebraska nomination affidavit is false. Doak cited Norris’s refusal to back Coolidge or Hoover as contradicting the sworn statement affiliating with the Republican party.
Ballot totals show 5285 votes with 34 12 and 35 votes for unlisted President Senator and Governor candidates. Many ballots left offices unmarked.
Governor Albert C. Ritchie speaking in Cleveland challenged President Hoover over the Hawley Smoot tariff and its impact on the nation’s economic downturn. He argued the tariff worsened the mood and urged action sooner, contrasting Hoover’s defense of the measure with his own view.
President Hoover telegraphed to Republican headquarters in Butte Montana that the United States would fully deal with the silver question as a condition for participation in the world economic conference to be held later this year.
Montagu Norman head of the Bank of England warned at a banquet that the world is in the grip of a vast economic disorder with no clear solution. He said conditions are out of control and nations must plan for a long stop, while hoping for light at the end of the tunnel.
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt urged Indiana voters to ignore intimidation threats and support his bid, drawing an estimated 75 000 to 100 000 people. He promised to seek beer repeal funding and criticized Republicans while praising Democratic aims.
Sen. James E. Watson a Republican floor leader and re election candidate criticized Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelts Indianapolis speech as abounding in generalities. He said the talk offered theoretical government ideas without specific criticism of Hoover policies or concrete plans.
Will Rogers complains from Buenos Aires about lack of U S news in papers since leaving Brownsville Texas. He notes English control over the country and asks if an election has been called off while describing the Ireland England dispute as the big news.
Pelham D. Glassford former army general resigns as Washington DC police chief after a dispute with the district commissioners over his proposed personnel changes. They approved some shifts but refused to remove Inspector Frank Burke as chief of detectives. The commission accepted the resignation without comment.
AP reports the Republican National Committee said President Hoover will deliver an address in Madison Square Garden in New York around Oct 31 or Nov 1, with possible plans for a Boston appearance also under consideration.
Mrs. Kenneth Pawley and Charles Corri, British nationals held by Chinese bandits for weeks in MUKDEN Manchuria, were released on Thursday according to AP dispatches.
The 1933 sessions of the grand lodge grand encampment and Rebekah assembly of the Iowa Independent Order of Odd Fellows will meet in Council Bluffs in October Invitations were extended by Waterloo and Council Bluffs with the latter chosen at the Thursday morning grand lodge session. Officers to be elected next June were nominated including Grand master D. E. Danielson Cherokee and other state officers. The day included greetings from visiting dignitaries and a lengthy constitutional revision expected to continue Friday.
Rioters at Portsmouth penitentiary released fellow inmates, swelling numbers to about 220. Guards and Royal Canadian Horse Artillery fired on the rioters, ending the outbreak with casualties and heavy damage to cell blocks.
CHICAGO UP Eric Rudolph Diez the first man confined in Illinois under the new federal kidnapping and extortion law was sentenced by Federal Judge E Woodward Thursday to twenty years in prison and fined $4 000 A jury found Diez guilty of writing threatening letters demanding money from the parents of society girls about to be married beyond the excerpted portion
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