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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1933
Page
1
NRA compliance advice remains limited as a small store owner seeks wage guidance and many grocers cut hours. Prohibition teams wind down with federal agents reassigned, while Iowa lawmakers eye a fall session to regulate liquor traffic and wage profit controls loom nationally.
National machinery to settle labor disputes was created by General Hugh S. Johnson. Simultaneously 1,000,000 more workers were placed under temporary codes in banks electrical manufacturing and related industries. Arbitration boards will handle complaints in the cotton textile sector and aim to prevent strikes and production stoppages. The move covers banks 14,000 members of the American Bankers Association and thousands more banks and retailers, with state boards and factory committees to implement the plan.
The author argues that complete socialization in the U S is near and questions if that would be the millennium. He admits the loss of profits would remove incentives for intensified corporate endeavor and would cause incalculable damage to employment.
The piece rebukes Darrow’s advice to quit when life is hard. It praises his own persistence, recalling Lincoln, Jeanne Chaix, and a pasteboard factory girl who fought adverse conditions and triumphed. Religion, faith, and resolve drive victory over hardship.
Mrs. Fred Christie rescues her unconscious husband after he turns on gas burners at 1115 Third Street. she also saves their child before neighbors call emergency services. Christie was revived without an inhalator and jailed for Sanity proceedings.
James M Cox sailed unexpectedly for New York on the Hner Europa becoming the last American delegate to depart London from the world economic conference. He had planned to stay until mid August but business reasons prompted the earlier departure. Mrs Cox and their two daughters remained at the Stanmore estate and planned to leave in a week or so.
Six or seven Oklahoma bandits raided Weir Kansas locking 22 jailed, then fled toward Coffeyville amid gunfire. A bank safe was taken but recovered before opening. Officers fired on the bandits car tires. machine gun fire hit a police car with no injuries. National Guard unit activated to pursue through five miles of river bottomland.
Open court investigation into last November's Louisiana general election reveals discrepancies in vote tabulations for a constitutional amendment in New Orleans. Boxes of ballots were counted by twenty four court appointed businessmen, showing 1545 for the amendment and 214 against, contradicting official tallies of 1910 and 60. Long allies including Governor Allen faced scrutiny as martial law issues swirled through the city.
The Federal Home Loan Board selected Davenport, Dubuque, Sioux City and Fort Dodge as Iowa branch offices for the Home Owners Loan Corporation. Des Moines is the state headquarters. Staff for the offices may be announced Thursday.
Washington AP reports the three major branches of the motion picture industry were urged by the recovery administration to unite and submit promptly a wage increase and hour regulation agreement.
In Leighton Iowa parishioners at Ebenezer Reformer church prayed for rain to save crops. Pastor Rev. C Witt led the service and, on the way home, the congregation was drenched by a downpour measuring about half an inch, as weather observers reported.
The directors of Penick and Ford Ltd declared a quarterly dividend of fifty cents a share plus an additional fifty cents a share from Jan 1. The dividend is payable Sept 15 to stockholders of record Sept 1. Directors said retiring securities allow a greater distribution of earnings than in the past.
Cedar Rapids reports 673 firms filed compliance certificates with the National Recovery Act by 5 30 p m Wednesday signaling adoption of the President's wage and hour codes. Insignia awarded as proof of re employment code compliance with planned code distribution to doctors lawyers and dentists.
Paul Doland, 20, of Fayette, was released from the county jail after being held in the slaying of Nels Lourving. Lourving was shot as he approached his back door after closing his night station. Doland claimed he was in Maynard Indiana and Oelwein when the shooting occurred, supported by Tom Boysyn of Oelwein. He remains under bond on an assault with intent to do great bodily injury charge from April.
Fourteen thousand banks and 6,000 nonmembers join the industrial recovery drive under a temporary wage code. The plan sets 40 hour weeks with wages from 12 to 15 dollars weekly depending on city size, and excludes guards from the hours limit.
Cedar Rapids records show 180 accidents 201 injuries and 12 deaths this year in local auto toll incidents.
The Navy postponed awarding contracts for 21 new warships amid an investigation into bid irregularities. Senator Park Trammell charged four major builders shared bid information on two cruisers, naming Bethlehem Shipbuilding and others. Secretary Swanson ordered a full departmental probe as three high officers met Roosevelt at Hyde Park to discuss the contracts.
AP dispatch reports recovery administrator Hugh Johnson said his assistants’ ruling that newspapermen are professional workers and exempt from hour limits under the voluntary agreement may not be final. He indicated further study is needed and no final decision on union contract compliance has been reached.
President Roosevelt asked Raymond Moley, assistant secretary of state, to conduct a special study of kidnapping and racketeering while retaining his state department post and returning to it in the winter.
CHICAGO Henry Salmon a 73 year old farmer from Millford Wisconsin became the seven millionth entrant to the Century of Progress exposition. He received a gold medal and concession passes as officials announced the 7 000 009 attendance on the 68th day of the fair.
American League games featured the Chicago and Detroit matchup with pitchers Jones Berry, Starberry Pasch and Hogsett Hayworth contributing. Other contests saw Gaston Berry Frasier and Ferrell Connally Pytlik Blacholder Hebert Stiles Shea in diverse scoring bouts.
The fragment lists multiple teams including Brooklyn Boston St. Louis and New York with scattered scores and player pairs like Beck Lopez Hogan and Mungo Lopez. The data resembles a jumbled box score page with incomplete innings or periods and echoed team pairings across cities.
Farm administrators assemble for August 10 to craft an emergency plan under the farm act aimed at aiding hog producers facing heavy marketing at low prices due to anticipated feed shortages. Possible tools include bonuses for young pigs, a hog tax, and minimum price measures while a permanent corn and hogs program is postponed to fall.
A F Whitney president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen says a meeting will be held by the Railway Labor Executives association to discuss a national code for railroad workers. He cites complaints that railroads are not following the President's program and are cutting employment to save costs.
In Altoona Germany four communists were executed by beheading after a trial convicting them of killing Nazi demonstrators on July 17 1932.
Lieutenant Governor N G Kraschel proposes using state or federal funds to purchase low yielding erosion prone land in southern Iowa to convert from corn and hog production to cattle grazing. He envisions millions of acres shifting from cultivation, with public works support possible, as a long term measure to raise prices and curb overproduction.
Sixty unemployed workers striking on a street repair project protested relief allowances in Marion Indiana. The group advised by NRA officials to take their grievance to the county commissioners board for action.
The body of well dressed Mrs. Lillian Bermejo, 40, identified by her brother Walter Lane, a South Park policeman, as the victim slain Tuesday night. He believes purse snatchers killed her in Chicago.
In St Louis a hotel clerk named George Perry killed hotel owner Samuel Murta in his lodging house operation. Police confronted Perry at the Erie Hotel as he barricaded a room and opened fire, prompting fifteen riot squads and widespread machine gun fire across adjacent buildings.
Los Angeles report says actor Adolphe Menjou denies infidelity and cruelty in the Kathryn Carver Menjou divorce suit. He does not attack her plea for divorce but contests her claim to the community property worth 600000 dollars.
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