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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1933
Page
1
The Navy awards contracts for building thirty two warships as part of a vast up building program funded from public works. Total cost near three point two billion dollars with construction totaling about two hundred thirty eight million. The drive seeks employment while bringing the fleet toward treaty limits under a Big Navy administration.
Washington will issue weekly lists of fair prices for essentials to guard against profiteering. Frederic C. Howe says the AAA and the agriculture and labor statistics bureaus will compile data from 50 cities. Early focus will be on bread milk meat and other foods with later inclusion of clothing and textiles.
Washington reports the creation of a unified federal statistical agency named the central statistical board by executive order of President Roosevelt. The move aims to guide national recovery and future economic planning toward a balanced economy with stabilized production and consumption.
Iowa fur and hide dealers meeting at Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce voted to implement the President's blanket code and prepare for a 48 hour work week with current pay, pledging a 60 to 70 hour week in peak times. Payrolls are expected to rise about twenty percent with the national code, while August to October may see 40 hour weeks at full pay. Forty delegates attended. about 1,000 workers are employed statewide. Frank Mitralsky is president. W R Rumbaugh is secretary.
The piece argues Mary Borden favors early home life over extended honeymoons while others defend romance. It notes joys fade but memory of that glow can bless a long marriage, and warns against expecting perpetual ecstasy. Life, not romance alone, carries marriage forward through changing seasons.
Nearly 2,000 new jobs have been created in Iowa as the NRA program widens. Ten city reports show 1,690 formerly unemployed workers now earn wages, driven by employers adopting NRA codes for shorter hours and higher pay.
The Navy Department announced a historical ship building program awarding contracts for twenty two ships in private yards and ten in government shops funded by a 238 million dollar public works allotment. The plan raises fleet capacity and provides thousands of jobs while implementing a five day forty hour work week for civilian shore station workers.
National and American League games were played under rain affected conditions. Scores note stalled or called games with teams such as New York, Philadelphia, St Louis, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Key pitchers included Dean Wilson Swift Finney Derringer Manion Bush Campbell Grove Cochrane Pen nock Devens Dickey Welch Brown Andrews Johnson Weiland Ferrell Whitehill Russell Sewell Harder Putlak Wells Shea. Chicago Detroit game postponed due to wet grounds.
The recovery administration ruled it could not abrogate collective bargaining contracts. Employers with fixed hours may keep them. those with pay per hour must adjust to avoid reducing earnings. Blue Eagle approvals hinge on conforming to the wage and employment goals.
Bearded gunmen and dancers roam Deadwood streets as the town replays 57 years of the 1876 gold rush. Garbed in period outfits, crowds watch gamblers, saloon scenes, and historical characters including Poker Alice Tubbs and Calamity Jane in the pageant opening parade led by Mrs. George Murray Jr.
A nurse at Ivy Cottage near Rochester says an intruder tried to enter the second floor nursery about 3 a.m. Tuesday to kidnap the three Mayo children under seven. The man fled after the nurse spoke, with vehicles seen at the road and front of the house.
Albany reports threats to kidnap the wife of Edward J. O Connell or one of his brothers uncles and father of John J. O Connell Jr. The family camps at a mountain site 20 miles from the city are guarded by police and private guards after Butch O Connell’s 24 day NYC captivity. Intermediary Manny Strewel is questioned and John Oley is sought as arrests loom.
A partial note reports Cedar Rapids auto toll figures for the year including counts of accidents injuries and fatalities and references a numeric figure line with 180 StL 12 as an unclear data fragment.
A partial survey reports 130 new workers added to payrolls in Cedar Rapids as firms sign 40 hour week and minimum wage certificates under the NRA. Auto and food sectors lead hiring. larger industries not included. Chamber seeks notices from firms still hiring to relay accurate totals to NRA HQ.
Washington AP reports recovery officials estimate about half of the nation’s workers are now affected by the industrial program. Joseph Eastman and Hugh Johnson direct efforts to bring railroads and coal mines under wage and hours codes, with a stock-taking division to measure progress and next steps. Johnson also seeks settlement of Pennsylvania coal strikes as part of the broader push.
The War Department announced an allotment of 11 1/2 million dollars for upper Mississippi channel development. It funds locks at Alma Wisconsin Fountain City Wisconsin and Canton Missouri and a lock and dam between Rock Island Illinois and Davenport Iowa. Construction could start when funds become available as part of a nine foot channel plan to St Paul Minneapolis involving 26 locks and dams with two completed and two under construction.
Oscar Sutro, general counsel and vice president of Standard Oil of California, told the recovery administration that Hugh S Johnsons oil trade code is no solution to the industries problems. Sutro said the code increases burdens and fails to carry out liberal administration aims, accusing Johnson of flinching on price fixing.
President Roosevelt shifts Ray mond Moley from foreign affairs to crime issues after a clash with Secretary Hull. Attorney General Cummings backs the move to have Moley lead a probe into kidnapping and racketeering, easing a looming confrontation.
Louis Johnson head of the American Legion appeals to 10 000 posts to rally behind President Roosevelt in a drive to restore prosperity. Roosevelt replies that loyalty of Legionnaires will mirror the Argonne victory and calls for immediate action to support the recovery program. The president also orders rapid action to protect homeowners with Vincent Dailey directing the Home Loan Administration to set up aid within a week.
Iowa City AP report quotes Sen. L. J. Dickinson predicting parts of the federal farm bill and the national recovery act will be unconstitutional. He argues the processing tax for reduced acreage targets farmers and doubts the McNary-Haugen plan is dead, while noting tensions with Johnson and Peck.
George Hofferber of Cedar Rapids lost a fat purse on a downtown Lincoln street after stepping from his car to attend a show. A person identifying as George Jones turned in the purse to police and it was returned, but Hofferber could not locate Jones who provided the lead. The amount in the purse was not disclosed.
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