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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1938
Page
1
The piece notes Mussolini’s pivotal role in delaying Sudeten crisis mobilization and shaping potential peace, while Chamberlain and Daladier meet in Munich. It contrasts U S political worry with Cubs baseball drama and a rail news item on federal benefits in Linn County. Gabby Hartnett's late home run looms as a historic Cubs highlight.
Charles G. Grabin of Yale Iowa signed a statement in Linn county jail admitting the fatal shooting of his employer Ed Skalsky 55 on Skalsky aunt Agnes Skalsky farm east of Ely after a dinner table quarrel. Grabin pleaded not yet to plead and was held without bond awaiting further action. An inquest is set for Friday after a coroner's post mortem confirmed two gunshot wounds and death from the vena cava. The incident marks the third violent death on the Skalsky farm in 26 years with prior fatalities in 1912 and four years ago. The account aligns with Mrs Skalsky who denied an axe was used and said Skalsky was fleeing unarmed.
Cedar Rapids city council votes unanimously to push ahead with a $139,000 garbage incineration plant tied to the sewage disposal system. H. R. Green Engineering to design and manage details for a four percent retainer. bonds to be issued per Chicago bond experts approval.
The Czecho slovak nation said Sudeten German concerns could go to President Roosevelt if talks fail. In Washington officials expressed cautious optimism for a four power Munich outcome and noted the US would not shoulder transfer duties. Morgenthau praised markets as gold moves explained. policy aims to fund government needs and keep future gold out of idle reserves.
Cedar Rapids volunteers in the 1939 Community Chest campaign sought interviews today to have encouraging returns ready for the first report meeting. The luncheon will be at 12 15 p m Friday in the Ter race room of the Montrose hotel with A L Smulekoff presiding and Rabbi David Polish giving the invocation.
The United Automobile Workers announced a strike vote for Buick division workers at General Motors in Flint Michigan. Grievances cited include no collective bargaining, seniority violations, and wage cuts plus plant-wide speedup causing one fifth of members to be laid off.
A tornado struck Charleston South Carolina causing at least 25 deaths and about 340 injuries in under a minute. Homes were leveled and historic buildings damaged including St. Michael's church and the city hall roof. Emergency crews rushed to Roper hospital as debris cluttered the Battery and market area.
Belgian Ambassador Count Straten Panter conferred with Sumner Welles and said Belgium would stay out of a European war He praised Roosevelt's peace appeals and believed they had some effect on public sentiment in the United States
Prague announced it would meet Hitler halfway and accept with reservations the British proposals for gradual evacuation of the Sudetenland as four power talks opened in Munich. A government communique said the plan was accepted in principle with reservations and forwarded to Britain before the conference.
Two thousand northeastern Iowa teachers reserve for the Iowa State Teachers association convention in Cedar Rapids with nearly a thousand more expected. Opening session features Dr Walter B Pitkin and Dr Frederick Rand Rogers. Fred J Kluss presides. Coe College military band to perform. public admission begins at 8 p.m.
Arthur Bugs Baer argues that a covert conflict is forming in China and across the world, comparing it to bumping into a door in the dark. He notes signs of belligerency and critique of complacent politics amid a world tense with unspoken war.
Four power talks in Munich edge toward a token German occupation of the Sudetenland with Hitler’s troops to enter Oct. 1 and 2 in a limited show of force. Key figures include Adolf Hitler and Prime Ministers Chamberlain Mussolini Daladier as Czechoslovakia is excluded from the talks.
In Warsaw government spokesmen warned that Poland would attack Czechoslovakia by Saturday unless the 20 mile area around Teschen was ceded. Despite earlier talk of a peaceful settlement, negotiations remained unfinished as fighting continued along the border.
At the Republican state convention in Saratoga Springs Thomas E. Dewey was named by acclamation as the party’s candidate for New York governor. Delegates attacked the New Deal in a liberal platform while Lehman hinted at a possible fourth term.
The sun broke through scattered clouds in Cedar Rapids on Thursday with a temperature rise to 72 at 2 30 pm from a morning low of 51 at 7 am. Earlier the high reached 78 at 5 pm before falling to 64 at 7 pm and 53 at midnight.
Czech envoys at Croydon airport were granted permission to fly to Munich two hours after the four power conference opened. They had been held by Germany’s land landing denial, leaving them stranded as the Munich talks began.
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