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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1936
Page
1
Paris reports Premier Blum promised to negotiate a new war debt agreement to secure U.S. monetary cooperation for currency stabilization. Washington insists a global pact cannot arise while war debts remain unsettled. Amsterdam says Netherlands joins Switzerland and France in gold embargo.
The United States moves to defend the tri power currency stabilization plan by using 2 000 million dollars to buy one million English pounds sterling after Russia dumped currency on the market. Morgenthau ordered the purchase following a phone call with President Roosevelt at Hyde Park. The Russia raid lowered the pound from 5.02 to 4.91 as France England and the United States seek rapid world economic recovery and peace.
A daily Cedar Rapids item explains a grapevine network among Ellis Park children, housewives, and Boy Scouts. Scouts can mobilize the entire community within thirty minutes in emergencies, a yearly practiced system.
A reader argues that deep questions of life resist discussion yet fellowshipping with others can clarify thoughts and reveal shared struggles. The letter reflects on personal spirituality, the limits of teaching church doctrine, and the value of indirect influence like St Francis.
Paris reports say the Daladier and Salengro plan extra measures to curb disturbances the moment devaluation of the franc begins. Prefects in France and Algeria are told to make exemplary arrests if needed as Blum seeks passage of monetary reform to protect consumer purchasing power.
The union progressive party national and state ticket won placement on Illinois ballots as Justices Jones Orr and Stone acted as substitute electoral board overruling objections after the objector failed to appear. Led by Congressman Lemke for President Newton Jenkins for senator and William Hale Thompson for governor.
Daylight saving time ends tonight in New York City and many regions across the United States and Canada. At 2 a.m. clocks revert to 1 a.m. as the nation returns to standard time, with about 30 million people affected.
Chicago and many suburbs stayed on eastern standard time rather than ending daylight saving. City hall clocks follow eastern time while a city-wide referendum in November will decide whether to keep permanent daylight time, return to central time, or adopt central standard time. Over 486000 voters signed the petition backing the referendum.
The Italian cabinet plans to discuss Italy’s monetary status at a Tuesday meeting. The lira has been devalued externally and Italy may not devalue further due to lack of gold, with no effective participation in an international stabilization agreement.
London commentary lambasts the league of nations leadership over Japan's Shanghai incursion. The piece denounces Eden and Blum for pre deciding league paths and mocks the era’s diplomacy, calling for reform and warning of treachery in Geneva.
Reid R. Russell 28, a guest at Gouverneur Morris's estate in Manhattan Beach California, was found dead with a .32 pistol in hand on a lawn swing. Investigators probe unusual bullet holes and corroded rifling while noting prior despondency over job loss. Russell had been in good spirits on leaving Los Angeles Thursday but carried manuscripts Morris lent him.
The city received 1.21 inches of precipitation from early morning through Saturday night in Cedar Rapids. Temperatures cooled from 58 to 57 degrees by mid afternoon and remained 57 into the evening, per Chambers Insurance company records.
Carrie Wilson 53 and her daughters Emma 33 and Anna Lee 24 were struck fatally Saturday at High Hill eleven miles east of Montgomery City by a Black man identified as Carl Davis 35. Davis fled in a car after the killings following an argument over one daughter refusing to go squirrel hunting, officers say.
One more day for entries to The Gazette office by 5 p.m. Monday Sept 28 to compete for prizes. Five classifications include moderate cost dinner menus Iowa cereals economical meat recipes winter vegetable recipes and gelatine recipes. Entries must be on one side of paper with classification and contestant name and address. Judge is Jeanette Beyer. In case of a tie duplicates prizes may be awarded.
Thirty thousand insurgent Moors and members of the Spanish foreign legion stormed Toledo as Madrid eyed future victory. An insurgent radio from Corunna said Reds were routed after the Alcazar siege and the key city fell into insurgent hands, with explosions and flight reported.
Bilbao endured a second day of brutal aerial attacks as rightist forces bombed the city. Thousands fled to the hills while fires raged in business districts and government blocks. The consulates and depots were damaged and a naval blocade threatened a looming battle near Santander.
Basil O'Connor, once a partner of President Roosevelt, arrived at the summer White House with his wife for a weekend visit hosted by the Roosevelts at Hyde Park New York.
In today’s edition the Sunday Gazette highlights football coverage with stories and scores from college contests. It lists sections on late world and local news, features on Iowa topics, theater notes, health and social pages, and city updates across Cedar Rapids and eastern Iowa.
Winter weather moved into the Rocky Mountain region after a Friday night dust storm. Snow fell across Wyoming and northern and central Colorado with low temperatures and strong winds. In Casper heavy wet snow dropped temperatures to 25 above zero. Rawlins saw a foot of snow. Pueblo reported a 50 mile wind and dust storm that disabled street lights and toppled trees. Two deaths in Denver were attributed to the dust and wind.
The period Sept 28 to Oct 3 calls for generally fair weather early in the week with showers midweek. Temperatures start below normal, rise toward the middle of the week, then run above normal toward the end.
Governor Alf M. Landon called for a common sense pay-as-you-go old age pension during a Milwaukee speech, attacking the New Deal social security act as unjust and wasteful. He outlined a plan for state-administered pensions for Americans over 65, with a three-part approach including unemployment insurance and non compulsory pensions.
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