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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1934
Page
1
The piece discusses federal price and tax shifts, nationalization of silver, and inflation fears. It notes officials and businessmen debating unemployment, taxation, and government action while warning of demagoguery and communist influence. It cites Governor Olson and court tensions over martial law and critiques economic policy leaders.
A union meeting in New Kensington Pennsylvania voted to picket the Aluminum Company of America plants in New Kensington Arnold and Logans Ferry at 1118 p.m. The strike orders came from William Green president of the AFL as workers seek recognition halting production at the company’s major utensil plants. About 3500 employees are affected with 500 to 700 attending the meeting.
Five men staged a daylight heist in Lowell as a man in a bank guard uniform retrieved two bags from an unguarded safety payroll truck. They fled in two black cars, taking 15 800 dollars from Royal Worsted and Lawrence Manufacturing payrolls before guards noticed the missing money.
Three outlaw suspects were killed in a police raid on the State Bank of Lebo Kansas, with the bodies taken to Emporia morgue. The leader tentatively identified as Whitey Williams, an escaped Texas convict and bank robber. companions unnamed. Authorities disputed earlier identifications of alleged suspects Raymond Hamilton Joe Palmer and Blackie Thompson.
AP reports two bandits robbed the Farmers and Merchants bank of Elmo Missouri near the Iowa line late Friday. Authorities traced the getaway car to Braddyville and believed the suspects headed toward Clarinda. One unmasked bandit assaulted the bank cashier and assistant cashier in the vault before fleeing in a car with a man and a woman aboard. About $200 was taken.
A 1934 reminiscence on judge Edward Fry linking astronomy and microscopy to faith. The piece notes Fry’s cosmic awe, moments of doubt, and renewed hope through study of tiny wonders, plus a digressive aside on Ruskin and Browning.
Washington AP reports the government spent 7.82 million dollars on the NRA since mid 1933 and industries face a requested 35 million to cover code operating expenses. NRA says codes add 3 billion to buying power and employ 3 million, with code budgets and hearings shaping approvals through end of 1934.
Anna Antonio, 29, died in Sing Sing electric chair after Governor Lehman refused commute. She was convicted with two men in a life insurance plot that killed her husband Samuel Feraci and Vincent Saetta. Antonio walked to the chair with Catholic chaplain Father McCaffrey beside her, praying as she went.
The fate of Governor Floyd B Olson's military rule in Minneapolis during the truck drivers strike rested with three federal judges. The judges took under advisement a petition by employers for a temporary injunction to end the military control. The legality of the proclamation and its administration was challenged as violating constitutional rights by restricting truck operation on public streets without guard permits.
Chicago to Midwest see impact of Roosevelt trip on corn and wheat belts as New Deal seeks to retain independent and progressive support. Roosevelt credits La Follette and signals evolving party alignments amid debates on a possible third party or Democratic amalgamation.
President Roosevelt returns to Washington after a sixteen hour Chicago to Washington trip. He reviews the monetary program and drought situation with Morgenthau Hull Ickes and Dern. The drought and business conditions loom as ongoing concerns during his tour and upcoming Hyde Park stay.
Senator William E. Borah spoke to a Meridian Mississippi farmer audience denying any aim to overthrow the New Deal. He urged restoring anti trust laws and criticized bureaucratic control and monopolistic combines affecting farmers as well as proposed AAA licensing that would regulate all farmers operations.
A historical note records an auto toll in Cedar Rapids for 1934 listing figures on accidents injuries and deaths though the OCR fragment is incomplete and the numbers are unclear. The item hints at a municipal record or public accident tally with limited readable data.
Regular corn and hog contracts for Linn county are released with first installments totaling about 465,000 to be sent to Cedar Rapids around Aug 21. The county’s total first installments approach 1,000,000 with second payments due in November and final in February. Early pay contracts in Town were also released for immediate payment amid a probe into hog production data led by John B. Wilson Jr. and A A A officials.
Friday results across the leagues show the Brooklyn and Cincinnati games ending in wins for Brooklyn 5 to 3 over Philadelphia and Cincinnati 7 to 3 over Pittsburgh. Chicago defeated St Louis 17 to 7 while American League games featured New York routing Boston 10 to 9 and Philadelphia topping Washington 8 to 6.
Roy Bowen and wife ponder a name for their fifteenth child born Thursday in Rock Rapids Iowa. Bowen says they will take another week to decide while Mrs. Bowen recovers well and the family discusses possible names, including a prospective nickname Eppy.
Secretary Wallace warned of very material changes to AAA crop restrictions next year due to drought. The crop report shows yields 22 percent below the past thirteen years, with corn the smallest since 1894 and wheat and corn under drastic revision though reduction theory remains.
The farm administration issued 31,560 corn hog adjustment checks totaling 3,079,229 in a single day, a new high. Cumulative first installment payments reached 28,270,561 across 294,409 checks as the program nears 130 million dollars.
The U S Treasury disclosed that silver certificates will be printed against metal held in the general fund at the full value of 1 29 per ounce. About 62 million ounces acquired via various means including foreign war payments amounting to roughly 46 9 million are affected. The certificates will total about 80 million in face value, issued against the metal cost for now, with the full 1 29 value under the silver purchase act pending nationalization.
Berlin reports the Austrian Nazi organization in Bavaria to be disbanded with Austrian members returned home in small groups. The Austrian section of the foreign political department of the Nazi party is closed and about 3000 to 4000 Austrians remain in Bavarian camps.
Decorah 30 year old Paul Heuser killed himself with a 32 caliber pistol in his apartment above the Wentworth barbershop Thursday night. Police reported no warning and no immediate motive given.
Ottawa reporting by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows a sharp decline in field crop conditions across Canada during July. The bulletin released Friday details significant drops in yield prospects and overall health of crops countrywide.
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