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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1932
Page
1
Walker quits the mayoralty as pressure from Tammany Hall grows. Rubio also resigns as Mexico's president, unable to act as figurehead for former President Calles. Albany testimony reveals a $246,000 fund to support Walker’s lifestyle, prompting sharp questions about public funds and governance.
Mexico City AP reports President Pascual Ortiz Rubio has resigned amid clashes with Plutarco Calles. General Abelardo L Rodriguez, then secretary of war and former governor of northern Lower California, is seen as likely successor if Congress accepts the resignation.
Gar Wood’s Miss America overtook Miss England on Lake St. Clair to win the 35 mile Harmsworth race amid choppy water and rain. Don handed Miss England a mechanical setback but praised Wood and prepared Miss England for the next heat.
Three people were injured in a trio of auto accidents Friday night and Saturday morning. John Campbell, 19, fractured right leg and scalp wound after a collision on River road toward Manhattan Beach. Mrs. T J Sutter, 218 Seventh street NE, bruises and a severely cut ankle after a Second avenue and Twelfth street SE crash. Floyd Harris, driver for Hutchinsons Ice Cream, suffered minor cuts as a truck overturned after colliding with a street car on Third avenue.
Charles Herfel of Allen Nebraska, a farm strike blockade runner, is in serious condition at the Methodist hospital in Sioux City after falling from a truck and striking his head on pavement on highway No. 20 between Crystal Lake and South Sioux City. Henry Sherman of Sioux City accompanied him.
The piece contrasts organized political log rolling with self-proclaimed saviors of the people led by Gov. William H. Murray of Oklahoma and Milo Reno of Des Moines, noting their salvation efforts are equally costly.
A circular shows Alfalfa Bill and eighteen relatives holding political jobs in Oklahoma with a combined annual income of 53 197.45 dollars. A second circular details Milo Reno's many salaries as the Moses of hard-hit farmers, each payment contributing to his overall earnings.
The circular claims TX 1928 Reno led five organizations for farmers and drew 17 600 dollars annually from four posts while income from the fifth is listed as Unknown. He remains financially unscathed and urges salary payers to strike.
Mason City editor Earl Hall praises a writer as a mainstay of support for the university, then notes the university has not been attacked and that friendship remains strong in the editor’s office. The piece frames a respectful rebuttal to an ebullient compliment.
A reader credits qt with revealing how the public’s millions are mishandled by the university administration. The piece argues Hall and the Jessup crowd paint questioners as enemies and asserts taxpayers have equal or greater interest in the university’s conduct.
The passage compares the new mayor to a Tin-Pan Alley graduate and hints the ex-mayor may stage a comeback. It frames modern politics as a cycle of short terms and perfunctory roles, with emphasis on educational background and public perception.
The article notes the Soviet regime’s harsh response as twelve men convicted of stealing government materials are executed. It contrasts this with what it calls milder sanctions in other lands, arguing for a middle ground between severe punishment and light penalties.
Yesterday the legislative committee on retrenchment and reform gave the state fair board 20000 toward its deficit. The two committees work to conserve the public interest and cash, even as irony lingers over the funding.
G 2 Wood takes the first heat of the Harmsworth speedboat contest defeating English challenger Kaye Don in a slow run. The writer recalls Wood beating Maj. Seagrave in a similar past race, noting a change in mood and interest since then.
Inland Water go Corp, owned by the federal government, asks Uncle Sam to join independent boat lines in a campaign against railroad rate cuts. The rate reductions strain the subsidized firm and the broader freight system, impacting midwest industry and western agriculture.
Dr A K Gifford of Cedar Rapids suffered a dislocated shoulder when his automobile overturned near Sioux Falls South Dakota on Friday. He and Mrs Gifford were enroute to visit their son and continued their trip after treatment and car repairs.
Jack Ruell of Cedar Rapids was arrested for disturbing the peace after a quarrel with his wife. He allegedly threw a butcher knife and threatened her, was released after promising to behave, then rearrested and fined in police court before being sent to jail.
Col George Hutchinson his wife two children navigator photographer radio operator and mechanic landed at 10 p m in a Sikorsky sky amphibian at Godthaab Greenland after a Labrador leg bound for Angmagsalik then London authorities denied any order to land and offered full assistance while the ocean flight was said to be incident free.
Roy McAtee 23, of Troy Mills, was killed when a low wire swept him from a nine foot hay load on highway No. 13 near Manchester. The driver saw the wire too late. McAtee landed head first on the pavement and was crushed. He rode on top to signal low wires, and two Troy men were aboard the truck. The body was taken to a mortuary in Manchester for burial.
Inter state Commerce Commission granted a 30 cent cut in steam coal freight rates to Cedar Rapids Tama and Marshalltown through March 31 1933. Illinois Indiana and western Kentucky lines may lower rates to Missouri Kansas Nebraska Iowa South Dakota Minnesota and La Crosse Wisconsin to meet gas competition. Household coal unaffected says Cedar Rapids Chamber traffic manager. Local industries save about $15 per car. reductions vary by destination including Atlantic Indiana 31 cents and Redfield Adel Ames Des Moines and Fort Dodge 32 cents.
In Quito 800 people are reported dead with many buried in debris after fierce fighting between rebels and loyalists. Loyalists claim victory, taking control of much of the capital as a week long battle ends. A congressional ruling later deemed Dr Neptali Bonifaz ineligible due to his Peruvian descent.
O O Ryan 62 mayor of Eldora and father of Prof. Ethel Ryan of Coe College was found dead in his car on the Harned farm near Eldora late Friday. Death believed from monoxide gas. Prof. Ryan and Dean Mary Bell of Coe College arrived in Eldora an hour after the body was found. He was a longtime Hardin county figure serving as county recorder and Eldora postmaster. Funeral services set for Sunday afternoon.
In Newhall California a film actor's ranch home was destroyed by a blaze that began when a lantern ignited a gasoline line tank. Mrs Carey and two children at home escaped unharmed.
Indiana postal clerk Ben H Kerr fired after introducing a Legion resolution for immediate soldier bonus is reinstated by Postmaster General Brown after Hoover disavows requests to influence civil service. Brown cites serious postal-law infringements but upholds right to express political views. Hoover, via correspondence, denies pressuring employes and clarifies policy.
Will Rogers notes in a tongue in cheek column that Mayor Walker has resigned in Bishop California and mocks New York's ability to track such news. He urges readers to send flowers or wreaths to Amon G. Carten of Fort Worth Texas, urging sympathy for his political campaigning against Jim Ferguson amid a heat wave.
New York AP report cites lingering doubts over James J. Walker's for November election. Resignation prompts talk of a special election to fill the mayoral vacancy and district posts amid Tamany Hall comments and Democratic leadership uncertainty.
Abolition of the property tax in its present form was urged by a committee of the United States Building and Loan League at its 40th annual convention. The panel urged building and loan associations to back a unified tax plan and the federal incorporation of such associations.
Major James G. Doolittle of St. Louis set a new world land plane speed record at 296.287 mph over a three kilometer course in Cleveland. He piloted the Gee Bee sportster during the Thompson Trophy trials, surpassing the former 278.45 mph mark held by Bonnet of France since 1924.
An auto giro and a pusher type plane piloted by Al Wilson of Hollywood collided in midair before the grandstand at the national air races in Cleveland. Wilson’s biplane, a 1910 Curtiss replica, was wrecked and he was badly injured, taken to a field hospital.
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