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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1938
Page
10
In a four part 78 minute Nazi Party rally speech Hitler urged self determination for Sudeten Germans and warned Prague to negotiate quickly. He claimed massive fortification works on the French border began May 28 and would be finished before winter. Tens of thousands cheered as the broadcast noted Anschluss as a possible outcome.
Tensions rise as Sudeten crisis prompts Czech defenses to prepare to blow roads and rails. France and Russia pledge aid if Germany attacks Czechoslovakia, with Roumania rumored to allow Russian passage. Britain likely to back France. Russia silent amid embassy withdrawals. Hungary starts border maneuvers and French reserves called up in Tunisia.
Paramount faced a comic miscue as Champ Clark the Missouri mule, touted as the glamour star for the Bob Burns film I'm From Missouri, ended up with a mixed herd headed south. News telegraphs sought the prized animal in Louisville to keep the publicity stunt alive.
Premier Mussolini warned that Europe will plunge into war unless Germanic Sudeten minorities are allowed self determination. He backed Hitler’s demands and said Prague must accept the Sudeten eight point Carlsbad program or face conflict.
L. E Sharp, 26, of Marshall town, was fined 25 dollars and costs in police court after crashing a private party at the Country club. He sat in on a friendly game and argued with a man, swinging at him. The citizen countered with a punch, and Sharp was brought to the station while his accomplice escaped. Sharp appeared in court with a black eye and pleaded guilty.
Britain plans a cabinet meeting to discuss views with the big four on rejecting an extra parliamentary session. Prime Minister Chamberlain faces rising war anxiety while defense funding for India increases with an annual grant of 2 million pounds and a 5 million pound capital boost for military re equipment.
Judge H C Ring told nearly 100 women at a Town State Policemen's auxiliary luncheon in the Roosevelt hotel that police should be trained as a profession as honorable as English policing. He praised Cedar Rapids officers as honest and incorruptible.
Six people died and thirteen were injured when a Greyhound bus from New York to Boston collided head-on with a truck trailer on a rain swept highway. The wreck blocked the road as fuel tanks burst but no fire occurred. Police and a doctor were alerted. five victims were named from Medford and Boston. The bus driver Theron Bustin, 27, of Melrose, survived with non serious injuries.
Delegates at the Iowa police convention discuss clarifying civil service status under the city manager form, addressing potential loopholes for arrests and dismissals. Leaders urge professional training, FBI files use, and stronger public trust, while debating expansion of the executive board and unifying with the Chiefs of Police group. King Thompson to speak at Tuesday banquet.
In Waukegan area, 65 year old county highway worker Scott LeVoy and his 26 year old daughter in law were found dead in a farmhouse 10 miles northwest of the city. LeVoy died from buckshot in the chest, Mrs LeVoy from a bullet to the brain base. Son James Le Voy discovered the bodies as he returned from milking. An autopsy by M F Schryver suggested the elder Le Voy likely killed himself.
Voters in Arizona Colorado New Hampshire Utah Vermont and Washington chose senatorial candidates on Tuesday while the New Deal faced little opposition in most contests. In Louisiana voters approved Sen John H Overton renomination as Democratic Leader. Michigan focused on Gov Frank Murphy’s renomination bid with President Roosevelt backing him. South Carolina held a run off for governor and three House seats.
Mexico City hosts a joint session of the senate and chamber of deputies with foreign delegates at the International Congress Against War and Fascism. U S Minister Josephus Daniels attends as Mexican legislators condemn US policy and allege a war of foreign chancelleries over agrarian and oil expropriations and American consular actions.
Federal Judge John P Barnes upheld two government subpoenas ordering the Borden company to produce records for the grand jury inquiry into an alleged milk trust in the Chicago area. The ruling supports ongoing government probes into dairy industry practices.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie J. West widow of Thomas F. West who died at her home on Monday after a brief illness will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in Turner chapel with Rev. Grant F Anderson and Rev. Richard V. Clearwaters officiating. Burial follows at Linwood cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Funeral services for Harry G Harman, 52, of Lisbon, will be held Wednesday at 2 30 p m at the Johnston funeral home in Mount Vernon instead of Wednesday morning as announced. Four brothers Laur en Ray Oliver and Nelson live in Cedar Rapids. Funeral arrangements for August Siemering 301 Thirty first street SE have not been made. Friends may call at the Rohn chapel Tuesday evening.
President keeps own counsel on affairs plans depart for Hyde Park by midnight or stay till Wednesday. Mayo doctors urge later return to spend time with James at the hospital where the President and son joked about a secret service bath mix up. An unplanned auto ride through muddy roads ended near a farmer’s home for a chat on agricultural conditions.
New York congressman Robert Low Bacon 54 a Republican since 1922 died of a heart attack Monday night. He represented the second largest U S district and had been unopposed for renomination in the Republican primary September 20.
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