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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1936
Page
3
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Columnist reports L M Peet of Des Moines accused of offering Koob $2000 for leaving the contest and a $3600 salary for six years, sparking questions about Iowa code. The piece urges voting straight Republican to oppose the new deal and Tammany graft, while noting Sedlacek’s cross-ticket dilemma for loyal Democrats.
Madrid reports a fleet of American airplanes and new warships arriving to aid the government. Premier Largo Caballero orders a general offensive at dawn as raids across nationalist territory claim success. Loyalists claim several bombing planes destroyed at Seville while fronts near Madrid see heavy artillery and air bombardment.
The Cedar Rapids case argues that voter intimidation claims are false since Linn County uses an open voting machine with two external counters and a single bell. Voters cast ballots on any open machine, and the precinct board holds keys to the machine back, ensuring voter privacy and secrecy. The Gazette condemns intimidation and links it to broader political propaganda from the new deal era.
A dense listing of radio programs and guests across networks. Northern Cedar Rapids host Verne Marshall presents graft and corruption in Iowa, with bids and remarks from Gov. Alf Landon and other political figures on WMT WJZ NBC and related stations.
A Wisconsin farmhouse in a storm sparks a shy boy’s dream to become a doctor after watching a physician treat a sick sibling. The future bacteriologist, famed for infantile paralysis research, vows to bring light and hope to families. His life centers on healing and knowledge.
In Blair Nebraska an Iowa Nebraska Oil warehouse was robbed Wednesday. Four men blew open the safe and escaped with 126 dollars in cash and checks totaling 140 dollars. Local police investigate the break in and review nearby security footage.
Des Moines AP L. M. Peet state union party chairman said his life was threatened during a telephone conversation with Verne Marshall Cedar Rapids Gazette editor and urged police guard until after the election. Marshall denied real threats saying the exchange was figurative throat slashing and noted Peet contradicted himself.
Verne Marshall editor of The Cedar Rapids Gazette will give three more radio addresses revealing further information from last year's investigation into political graft in Iowa. The schedule shows WMT Tonight 8:15 to 9, WHO Friday night 8 to 8:15, and WMT Sunday night 7:45 to 8.
Congressman Clifford R. Hope criticizes Secretary Wallace for proposing price control on corn at one dollar. He warns the policy uses foreign imports to regulate U S farm prices and questions if butter, wheat, and livestock would also be controlled. The article notes dairy and pork imports have recently pressured market prices. Continued on Page 14, Col. 7.
Four Iowa City firms Racine's cigar stores Gibbs drug store Pusateri grocery and Whetsone's drug stores had defaults in Harold M. Cooper's $50 000 libel suit against The Cedar Rapids Gazette set aside by Judge James P. Gaffney in Johnson county district court. The defendants were taxed with costs after the clerical error excuse.
W M T in Cedar Rapids will air at 9 tonight an address by W H Lightner a leading local contractor. He will explain why he opposes the new deal detailing political and economic concerns for listeners.
Verne Marshall outlines unpublished 1935 graft testimony at a Cedar Rapids meeting. He urges voters to back Alf M. Landon and anti New Deal candidates, criticizes Des Moines Washington racketeering, and names Linn county figures for or against the reform effort.
President Roosevelt told a Harrisburg crowd that Republicans emptied the national market basket and that the New Deal has filled pockets faster than food prices rose. He warned against campaign promises in cities and rural areas, urging support for his administration as prices and wages shifted since 1932.
Wallace M. Short former labor candidate accuses L M Peet state manager of the union party of acting under Carleton Beh Des Moines banker Peet backed Kraschel for governor at a Des Moines convention Short warns that if Kraschel wins Beh would be real governor with Peet as water boy of the administration The convention allegedly occurred as a private affair under Peet’s hat
A telegraph endorsement dated Oct 18 from Rev. Charles E. Coughlin in Detroit approves George W. Koob of Dubuque for Congress in the Second district on the union party ticket. This marks the NUSJ’s sole endorsement for that district.
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