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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1933
Page
1
A flood of pigs to market under a government farm relief plan prompts warnings from Carl Fels and others on natural versus human nature. The piece notes new Iowa wardens, Chicago murder case timing, Indiana beer revenue for schools, and a courthouse portrait mishap with Judge Ward's death.
Brig. Gen. Charles H. Grahl state adjutant general Iowa National Guard was named warden of the Fort Madison state penitentiary. Sheriff W H Frazer of Jones county was appointed warden of the Anamosa state reformatory. Appointments by the state board of control follow long sessions amid debate over patronage.
Roosevelt rejects inflation claims and U S bond buying as a step to widen credit. The plan aims to reassure the public there will be no price skyrocket while NRA boosts spur mass buying. Johnson says banks are too timid in lending to cover higher production costs.
The national recovery administration finalized a broad retail code affecting about 00,000 stores employing 000,600 persons. It sets forty hour weeks for most, wages by city size, and a no cut throat pricing rule with seasonal allowances. Advertising rules ban bait offers and price disparagement while a trade authority monitors compliance and reporting.
Harlan H. Jenkinson twenty from 1722 Elus boulevard NW died at 1 15 a m in a local hospital from skull and jaw fractures after an automobile left the road and overturned five miles northwest of Cedar Rapids on Covington road Paul Mingo twenty four of 915 L street SW escaped with possible internal injuries and a cut to the left hand Both men were found unconscious and taken to St Luke's hospital by Charles Madison Relatives said they had been at Shellaburg and the coroner set Friday for the inquest continuation on page 18 column
A wartime anecdote recalls L Atlantique's sinking rescue by the German steamer Ruhr saving eighty French seamen. Princess Ludwig of Bavaria recounts a German grave scene where an English private gift of a fir wreath bridges enemy divides. A German soldier's act shows shared humanity on a common ship Earth.
J C Lewis president of the Iowa State Federation of Labor criticizes the state board of education for buying 60 000 tons of coal from Indiana and Illinois mines claiming it will cost Iowa miners their jobs and violates the national industrial recovery act He urges taxpayers deserve an explanation and accuses officials of prioritizing outside sources over Iowa coal and local employment.
Des Moines native Charles H. Grahl, 39, appointed warden of the state penitentiary at Fort Madison. A World War I veteran, he served in Mexico and France, rose to captain and adjutant in the 133rd infantry, and later was state adjutant beginning Jan 1 1931. Married with two sons.
President Roosevelt on Friday ordered the next year’s budget to stay within this year’s economy limit and urged budget director Lewis Douglas to submit estimates in time for congressional committees to begin reviewing before the January session opens.
Special to The Gazette reports Johnson county 4-H livestock exhibitors won three grand championships at the Iowa State Fair and captured seven first-place blue ribbons with pigs and beef heifers. Howard Yoder of Wellman led a string of top awards, taking grand champion fat barrow and grand champion market litter in pigs, plus an Angus beef heifer blue ribbon. County groups also earned blue ribbons in multiple classes, with other Johnson county juniors placing in Holsteins, Herefords, and other cattle events.
Gov Clyde Herring said the Iowa legislature may convene a special session early in November with a Brookings Institute report guiding reforms. The inter im governmental revision committee, led by William F Riley, advances Brookings recommendations for statewide reorganization. Committee members include Senators Valentine and Kimberly and Representatives Dean and Speidel.
U S Senator Arthur Vandenberg denounces Hoover policy after Detroit bank holiday, urging standardized deposit insurance and criticising government intervention on bank closings. He tests before a one man Detroit bank jury, backing calls to review records of First National Bank Detroit and Guardian National Bank of Commerce. The testimony aligns with James Couzens on loan refusals from the Union Guardian Trust and federal involvement in the Michigan banking crisis.
Lester Falcon, a farmer from near Central City and Democratic committeeman in Maine township, received his appointment as postmaster of Central City on Friday.
Washington United States Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace is slated to reveal a 15 percent reduction in US wheat acreage to align with a global agreement reached at the London conference He warned of subsidized exports if other nations balked The move aims to cut surplus and stabilize prices for a multi year program benefiting farmers and national grain stocks
Anthony Yuska a 35 year old private watchman was shot to death early Friday while attempting to halt one or more bandits in a west side business district.
The U S department of justice disclosed a new federal indictment and request for Insull Samuel his son Samuel Jr and eight associates to be extradited from Greece under a treaty ratified in 1932 The action seeks to bring the former head of Corporation Securities to trial in American courts alleging bankruptcy act violations as the company collapsed in 1929 1930 and a legal process to extradite Martin Insull from Ontario proceeds amid creditor battles over remaining assets
An international agreement commits to a 15 percent acreage reduction for two years and sets to fix export prices. It aims to remove about 640 million bushels of surplus wheat and lowers grain tariffs as imports standstill production. Signatories include Germany Austria Belgium Bulgaria Britain Greece Hungary Irish Free State Italy Poland Romania Spain Sweden Czechoslovakia Switzerland Soviet Russia Yugoslavia Argentina Australia Canada France and the United Kingdom.
The 1994-38 negotiations adjourned at noon with Premier R. B. Bennett chairing as agreed recovery price set at 12 gold francs a quintal about 63.8 gold cents per bushel. Experts say about 84 cents current, with 10 gold cents rise needed to reach recovery price. Prices to be calculated at British ports. an international wheat advisory committee to decide future price fixing and crop cuts. Exporters vow 15 percent production cut for 1934-35. Soviets expected to accept an export quota. Frederick Murephy and associates credited for steering talks amid threats of a dumping war.
The Standard Oil company of Indiana ordered a half cent per gallon rise in tank wagon and service station motor gasoline prices effective Saturday. The increase follows a 10 cent per barrel crude oil price rise announced by Stanolind Crude Oil Purchasing company, per Edward G. Seubert, Standard president.
A Friday morning blaze at Chanute Field in Rantoul Illinois damaged the photographic and radio equipment buildings. Air Corps officials tentatively estimated the damage at more than $1,000,000 due to the large stores of film photographs equipment and chemicals.
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