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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1934
Page
1
A reader reports on ongoing discussions about parole, reform, and the prison system. The piece critiques the unfairness of parole grants and condemns abuses by officials, lawyers, and public employees while urging true rehabilitation and accountability.
Federal court issued a temporary restraining order halting removal or scratching of names from New Orleans voter rolls under Huey Long's control. Plaintiffs Brain and Miller allege a conspiracy involving Senator Long Governor Allen and Adjutant General Fleming to deprive qualified voters of their rights in the September 11 primary.
The piece notes warm start to the school year with summer tones and hints of autumn routine. Wet conditions linger from heavy Monday rain totaling 2.08 inches since Sunday, with a breezy Labor Day featuring persistent clouds and showers.
Ernest Eret, 26, arrested Saturday night at Waterloo and brought to Cedar Rapids for the daylight theft of twenty five rooms in the Coe women’s dormitory last March 15. He pled guilty to larceny in district court and was sentenced by Judge H C Ring to up to five years at Fort Madison penitentiary. Police had pursued him for five months after a tip from a jilted woman.
Dr Newton reflects on happiness as a common art. He contrasts Milton's abstract pursuits with practical acts of kindness that build joyful homes. He argues happiness comes from within and from small, daily gestures, not grand writings or divorces.
Washington dispatch reports the National Retail Coal Code authority resigning in a body over NRA changes to the coal and coke code. Administrators Johnson and subordinates faced accusations of vacillating policies and unworkable rules as price data review shifts sparked the mass resignation by the authority supervising 700 trade areas.
The Rt. Rev James De Wolf Perry, bishop of Providence and presiding bishop of the Episcopal church in America, escaped injury when his automobile was wrecked by a skidding bus in Worcester Massachusetts on Tuesday.
Five people die and a sixth is critically wounded as Fred Blink, a Fulton truck operator, shoots from a farmstead to a bridge approach near Fulton Illinois. Patrolman Frank Kustes and an oil station attendant witness the firefight and Blink is captured after wounding himself.
The nationwide textile strike gained rapid momentum with widespread picket action and National Guard presence in several states. Early tallies by AP reported about 199,200 on strike out of 649,600 workers, while union leaders claimed up to 300,000. industry leaders called the effort a failure, citing most cotton workers not participating. Additional reports note garment workers in St Louis and Kansas City preparing to strike.
AP reports Chancellor Solon Polo died suddenly in Lima Peru on Tuesday night.
In Holdenville Oklahoma Daly one of W A Dowdy s milk cows produced a calf missing a tail an unusual birth noted by the farmer officials recorded the oddity as a rare livestock event in the Dowdy dairy.
France demanded full payment for the Saar and warned it would keep the valley’s rich mines and other properties in French possession until Germany pays gold. Paris asserted fair administration for Saar residents who vote for French nationality, while urging Germany to show fair play.
Wanda Cardinet 13, daughter of candy maker E H Cardinet, vanished after leaving home Monday to see a movie in California. Police suspected kidnap but later learned she stayed at a Piedmont hotel Monday night, checked out Tuesday, leaving two rings to cover the bill.
Officials from Electric Boat of New London testifying before the Senate munitions committee outlined a world dominated by British and American firms in submarine construction. Sir Basil Zaharoff allegedly received 766000 dollars from Electric Boat for lucrative contracts via Vickers, with bribery suspected.
National League results show New York and Philadelphia splits with varied scoring in two games. Brooklyn and Boston games feature pitching notes and final scores. American League action lists Cleveland over St. Louis with strong Brown and Berg wickets as Detroit visits Chicago amid rain.
Washington AP reports the administration plans to ask Congress for a $500 million tax bill in January as part of relief and other programs. The plan was disclosed by a friend of Lewis W Douglas, former budget director who opposed the action.
Nine tons of stolen dynamite and powder, enough to cause massive destruction, were cached for months near Mary Pickford’s Pickfair estate in Hollywood. Police traced the cache from an abandoned garage and warned an accidental detonation could endanger hundreds of homes and celebrities. The dynamite was stolen May 11 from Hercules Powder company near Newhall and kept secret in Los Angeles.
Hyde Park dispatch reports Harry Hopkins, relief administrator, said while visiting President Roosevelt at the summer White House that the government has no intention of underwriting the nationwide textile industry strike.
Adolf Hitler inaugurated the Nazi party congress with a three minute address in Nuremberg as the Reich prepares for a major gathering. Hanfstaengl pressed anti Semitic policy and the race principle as leaders outline a intensified Nazi drive against Jews ahead of the convention. Hitler arrived by plane to a tremendous ovation.
Dr. William Wirt rejected on Tuesday any involvement with a third party movement proposed by Col Charles A Lindbergh as presidential nominee. The denial follows a congressional inquiry into charges of a red revolution associated with the allegations.
Upton Sinclair after a two hour tea at Hyde Park said the New Deal and his epic plan are the same. He praised Roosevelt as a tonic to the nation and said production for use is being followed in California and other states. He urged support for the President and discussed the epic plan versus the New Deal with reporters.
In Hutchinson Kansas Jim mie Sappington age 12 was rushed to a hospital with streaks of red oozing down his face after a load of watermelons he was sitting on was struck by an automobile. He was pronounced physically fit after the melon juice was washed off.
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