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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1934
Page
1
Secretary Wallace criticizes government and business figures who profit in bad times calling them ghouls fattening on disaster. He notes his own losses after buying a farm paper and frames the era’s politics as a test of leadership between politicians and business.
Paris and Rome nearing a comprehensive alliance covering politics military and economy Bank of France to underwrite 2 billion francs in Italian securities worth about 172 million dollars. The move aims to deter German expansion and cement a peaceful Danubian era with naval restraint and stabilized finances.
A 1934 column reevaluates the fable of the fox and the grapes. It argues the fox chose not to chase unreachable fruit and offered a wiser lesson about illusion, effort, and seizing open opportunities rather than dwelling on disappointment.
Chicago report states Ralph Stoltzmann president of the AFL affiliated bus union and seven others were indicted on murder charges after James Kelly a Chicago Motor Coach dispatcher was killed. Police say Stoltzmann received money to hire attackers. several named co defendants were indicted.
Milford inventor Simon Lake plans within ten days to use a huge vacuum device to lift nearly 5 million dollars in gold from the sunken British frigate Hussar in Hell Gate East River New York. The treasure, buried in silt since 1780, was to fund colonial troops and supplies. Treacherous currents have hindered prior recovery efforts.
Mayor LaGuardia signed two tax measures for New York City's unemployment relief program at City Hall on Saturday. The bills impose a 0.1 percent levy on gross business receipts and a 15 percent tax on income tax paid to the federal government. A decision on the municipal lottery bill was not announced.
Hollywood reports say Mae West refused an invitation to appear at the Chicago World Fair following advice from the Los Angeles district attorney. Officers have guarded her since she testified against gang members accused of stealing diamonds worth $17,000. West travels in an armored car, and investigators fear the suspect Harry Woller remains at large.
Washington reports indicate President Roosevelt will likely avoid promising curtailment of relief spending or ending monetary experiments in his Sunday night radio address. The speech is expected to outline the nation's recovery progress and explain the New NRA framework amid ongoing calls for confidence.
W T Schnell and his 11 year old son Richard were hit at Second Avenue and Third Street SE. Miss Ethel Jackson driving from Muscatine said Schnell walked into the car. Richard suffered facial scratches while Schnell had nose bleeding and head injuries. Both were taken by ambulance to St Luke's hospital. W B Robinson also injured, suffer ing a fractured right leg after slipping on the curb at Twelfth Street and Fourth Avenue SE.
Two death row gangsters Walter Legenza and Robert Mais shot three officers during a jail transfer in Richmond and fled in a mail truck then a parked car. They were hunted statewide as police pursued the sensational escape tied to the murder of BE. M. Huband.
In Washington AP reports the NRA board formed an impartial committee to investigate hours in the cotton garment industry. D. M. Nelson of Sears Roebuck Willard Hotchkiss head of Armour Institute and Haas on labor advisory board serve, with ten day report to the NRA and Roosevelt deadline by October 15.
Washington reports renewed price wars in fire and battery industries as the NRA declines a request to extend minimum floor prices fixed last August. The temporary schedule expires Sunday midnight and may be replaced by a new arrangement, but no permanent schedule was agreed with the code authority.
Weather outlook covers Chicago and upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys plus northern and central plains. Not much precipitation expected and temperatures near seasonal norms for most of the period.
New York. Bruno Richard Hauptmann's defense will call pathologists, handwriting and fingerprint experts to testify in the Bronx County extortion case. James M. Fawcett said the defense plans to present professional testimony and has located witnesses across New York state to support the approach.
New York UP reports a new witness questioned by District Attorney Samuel Foley as the Lindbergh kidnap case advances. A woman described as Latin or named Mary, said to be voluntary and not under suspicion, has not appeared before the grand jury and may become a key trial witness amid Hauptmann's medical exam.
In San Francisco the AFL faces a possible schism as executives clash with the building trades department over reinstating three large international unions. The carpenters bricklayers and electrical workers left the department years ago. The dispute centers on readmission and threatens unity ahead of the convention opening next week.
President Ignacy Moscicki issued an emergency decree establishing compulsory auxiliary service for men aged 17 to 60 and women 19 to 45. Units cover communications aerial and gas defense sanitation transportation and fire defense among others. Training may occur in peace time with non active members ordered to maneuvers. Mussolini in Italy expands military training beginning at age eight.
The Securities and Exchange Commission rushed final rules on Saturday night for temporary listing of unlisted securities on stock exchanges. The rules require applicants to meet all listing requirements and to appoint officers who will comply with exchange standards during the temporary period.
C exempt ki and chairman Joseph P Kennedy announced Jacob Gruber of New York as assistant general counsel to the commission. The same statement said the commission had denied or temporarily suspended registration of a few small securities.
State police superintendent Col Norman Schwarzkopf said New Jersey would pursue Hauptmann on kidnapping or murder charges independently of New York led extortion actions. He noted no NJ New York joint lunacy panel. New York may surrender Hauptmann for NJ murder charges when needed. Authorities withheld details as crucial evidence remains undisclosed.
Report from Cedar Rapids records shows 2255 accidents this year with 1318 injured and deaths totaling a number not specified. Officials emphasize road safety and enforcement efforts as data collection continues.
In Atlantic City the New Jersey annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church criticized a White House beer party, rejected a temperance report, and telegrammed President Roosevelt urging him to address liquor's national role. The conference disputed the report and defended its authors.
Attendees read a report as the Rev. Hand and delegates exchanged sharp questions. A White House party and Roosevelt references sparked dissent, with ministers demanding disclosure of sources and urging focus back to temperance instead of politics.
Senator Huey P. Long through his state tax commission announced over a million dollars in tax assessment reductions for New Orleans taxpayers. The move followed the Saturday deadline for payment of the 103 cent taxes and prompted widespread public notice by mail of the lowered assessments.
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