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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1933
Page
7
Campaign troops are being organized in Cedar Rapids with captains named to lead a door to door canvass of the business district. The group will distribute government notices and explain codes while avoiding spying or removal of blue eagles under orders from Washington.
Foreign mail of gold from the United States is prohibited unless Treasury authorization is granted. Postmaster area Hahn was notified of the rule. The notice appears dated Thursday to Bet e 6 in the transcription.
A puzzle grid lists clues for a themed horizontal line about a man of royalty and related words. Across and down entries include terms for kinship, titles, actions, and objects, with references to a sovereign figure and associated words.
Dorcas circle of Calvary Baptist church opens a Century of Progress on a miniature scale to the public Friday at 2 p.m. at Mrs. H. C. Montgomery’s home. No admission, all are invited. The exhibit features science and religion halls, Indian Japanese and African villages, the progress of light, music, transportation, quilts, paintings, old dishes, a 100-dog international display, and wood carvings by Henry Geiger. An offering will be collected.
U S industrial output rose to 98 percent of the 1923 25 average in July the strongest level since May 1930. Steel plant activity climbed from 46 to 59 percent capacity as freight traffic rose while department store sales fell with seasonal patterns.
Elmer Briles, 23, a parolee from the reformatory at Anamosa, appeared at the city jail Sunday night and asked to be sent back to prison. He was granted the request Thursday and turned over to a parole agent. Briles has about two more years of a five year larceny sentence. He cited unemployment and trouble with a girl as reasons.
Linn County officials led by Supervisors James Kennedy and B C Busby oppose state rules that cap hospital beds for indigent residents at the University of Iowa. They argue quotas ignore emergency needs and local costs. State funds for Perkins and Haskell Klaus laws are cut ten percent, while per patient day costs and transportation costs at University hospitals drop.
Cedar Rapids building managers expect the NRA code for office facilities to take effect this week. Elevator operators and janitors will be limited to 48 hours weekly, with a 30 cent hourly wage. Some new hires and wage increases anticipated, but few additional jobs.
West Side Mutual Fire Insurance Association donated 50 to the city fire pension fund, the largest such gift in years. Fire Chief E P Kohout received the donation, praised for the department’s actions at the O Brown farm fire near the west city limits.
William H. Woodin Jr., son of the treasury secretary, remained in critical condition Thursday in the Tucson sanatorium oxygen room after suffering a heart attack during a northern flight last spring and another recent episode. His Buffalo, New York, wife traveled here by plane to stay with him.
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