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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1932
Page
23
The piece critiques Gov. Dan Turner for failing to keep open Iowa highways near Sioux City and for not enforcing state authority when deputies were attacked. It notes repeated promises of law enforcement remain unfulfilled, cites a university audit controversy, and asks which laws are truly being enforced.
Two Wisconsin girls Mae Bruss and Pauline Dunst, ages 12 and 15, spent two weeks in lavish living after taking $1,000 from a Germantown bank. They toured Milwaukee and Chicago, staying in hotels and renting an apartment in St. Louis. Police halted the spree after a tip, while $141 remained unspent. Mae admitted the robbery and described the escapade with a bellhop.
Cedar Rapids voters who did not register at their precinct during the three day period may still register at City Hall. Commissioner L J Storey announced that registrations will be accepted on the third floor to allow voting in the November election. He urged prompt action.
The National Association of Postmasters of the United States concluded its 32nd annual convention in Springfield Mass with Harold J. Mc Curry of Sacramento Calif elected president. The body also welcomed two women to the executive committee Mrs Dora Richards Sparks Nevada and Miss Anna Dixon Rock Valley Iowa.
President Hoover spent Saturday in conferences on the political situation deferring his Rapidan camp trip. Secretary Hurley returned for a White House luncheon and discussed the American Legion bonus issue in passing. Mills and Hurley outlined a campaign effort with speeches planned through November 8 as Republican hopes and Democratic chances are debated.
Oscar Mann was arrested in Hamilton on a milk theft charge. He wore three pairs of trousers and mixed clothing, and police found three pints of milk and various tools and items in his pockets. Mann admitted the milk theft but offered no explanation for the other articles. sentence postponed to September 24.
Wall Street traders faced a pause in political commentary as the exchange conduct committee reviews broker replies to inquiries about political remarks. The aim is a nonpartisan stance, with out-of-town members due to submit by Monday. Officials anticipate possible political raid concerns, while prices fell after the Maine election and the exchange shifted to weekly short sale reports.
In Chicago Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde condemned Franklin D. Roosevelt's rural tariff proposal as an empty sham. He argued the plan would not aid farmers unless it benefited wheat, corn, tobacco, and other groups and urged reliance on self financing and local administration.
Lincoln based Thomas Pat OConnor of East St Louis had his 25 year prison sentence upheld by the Nebraska Supreme Court after the daylight raid on Lincoln National Bank two years ago totaling 2.5 million dollars. The court denied a rehearing. OConnor was among the gang members convicted.
AP forecast for the week of September 19 calls for showers at the start and again later, with mostly moderate temperatures across the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys.
The Federal Power Commission urged Congress to enact broad regulation of utility holding companies. The report calls for public access to financial records and oversight of contracts between holding and operating companies, plus supervision of security issues. It notes 48 major projects under license to ten top firms affect 12,487 communities with over 42 million people, and highlights overlap among directors across the groups.
In a publicized letter found by attorney Jeremiah J. McAnarney, Charles E. Du Bois asserts his wife died by her own action and that he hid her body, claiming he feared people would not believe. He says he failed to tell all to protect a good, pure woman, and details his actions before his death and the wife’s removal.
In Chicago a Kedzie restaurant’s front window held four gold fish cherished by Chu Pigkown. While changing water, he cried three remained and searched the basement drain. An electrical shock from exposed wiring caused his death. the fourth gold fish was found alive on the floor.
Governor George White called an extraordinary session of the Ohio Legislature for September 27 to consider salary reductions for state employees and other economy measures.
Moscow reports cite passive resistance by the Soviet peasantry threatening winter supplies. Declining farm output, droughts, and redirected industrial effort have worsened food shortages as tens of millions of peasants withhold labor. A diplomat calls the regime faced with a broad campaign of non cooperation and widespread neglect.
J M Garlick 88, commander of the local G A R post, avoided amputation after a wrist fracture and laceration in a Tipton crash. He was treated at Tipton and then St Luke's hospital. other passengers Mrs Chord and Alma Owens sustained only minor bruises. The party was en route to the Springfield G A R encampment when the auto skidded and plunged into a ditch three miles east of Tipton.
In the Chaco conflict, Bolivian and Paraguayan forces clash over Fort Boqueron with about 9,000 Paraguayans and 2,000 Bolivians entrenched. Casualties exceed 1,000 Paraguayan dead in five days. Bolivian losses around twenty. A private truce was sought to bury dead, while allegations of massacres inflame tensions and a protest to the League of Nations was filed.
Fergus Falls Minnesota fishermen learned a method used by a local man who recently returned with limit catches. Spies watched as he attached a toy balloon to the tail of his first fish and followed the balloon to a school where his haul began. The watchers claimed to have witnessed him taking a limit again and offered affidavits.
Americans increasingly buying whisky from Scotch distillers amid talk of repeal of prohibition in the United States. Representatives of Scottish distillers indicated the trend may grow as prospects of American repeal become clearer, according to reliable authorities.
Governor Roosevelt plans a talk with Sen. George Norris during his western swing before delivering a railroads campaign speech. Norris will meet Roosevelt at McCook Nebraska on Sept 28 and plans to back Roosevelt over Hoover. Farley and Walker joined Roosevelt in Salt Lake City for talks with Utah Montana Wyoming and Nevada leaders.
President Roosevelt outlines a railroading plan in Salt Lake City advocating government support behind railroads in exchange for personal transportation reforms. He urges collaboration with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate, promote mergers, and encourage motor service where public interest requires, stressing fair treatment for workers and investors.
New Haven Connecticut AP Tad Jones a Yale football figure and later coach was unanimously chosen by the Republican party for the Congress seat vacated by John Q Tilson who retires after 22 years. Jones a coal dealer opposed prohibition and called for immediate repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead act. He pledged to press for repeal if elected.
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