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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1933
Page
1
A Cedar Rapids reader questions federal authority and states rights amid the national recovery drive. The piece notes Roosevelt promises may clash with Congressional action and explores the balance of uniform federal law versus state sovereignty.
In South St Paul on a Wednesday, a gang of about five robbers used a smoke screen to seize a $30,000 payroll from bank messengers at the Stockyards National Bank. Policeman Leo Pavick was killed and John Yeaman wounded as the robbers fled in a car after gunfire and broken windows.
A 1933 reflection recalls England declaring war on slums, visiting London’s East End and Toynbee Hall. The author depicts poverty, vice, and decayed districts from Aldgate to Spitalfields, urging society to reform the bottom to prevent rot at the top.
Three bandits who abducted two shop employees during a robbery at Kline's ready to wear in Kansas City were chased across the state line into Kansas and captured shortly before noon. The two released girls were Lydia Steele and Alice Graham, cashier's desk staff.
Members of the International Pocketbook Workers' union staged a Wednesday strike in Chicago claiming employers violated the NRA code. It marked the third Chicago strike in two weeks and swelled total strikers to nearly 20,000.
James Kellogg of Washington Iowa is held by police as the man accused, with two others, of fleecing Gustave Knak of Sheboygan Wisconsin out of 34000 on July 14.
The twelve federal land banks closed 21.9 million in loans for the first seven months. The Omaha bank lent 7.074 million, about one third of the nation's total, with half of its loans in Iowa. Iowa thus receives one sixth of all money in the forty eight states. John Carmody, Omaha bank vice president, spoke in Cedar Rapids. Commitments for August near 233 thousand by Tuesday, Linn County Farm Loan office. month total may top 250 thousand.
Poplar Bluff Missouri reports Uncle Benjamin Hodges age 120 is recovering after surgeons amputated his left leg during an operation. The report notes Hodges underwent the procedure and is now expected to recover.
Professor Rex Tugwell of the Roosevelt brain trust and former assistant secretary of agriculture will publish a series in The Gazette starting next Sunday. He will discuss the New Deal and current U S economic topics with authoritative insight from his government service.
A visiting champion garners applause as she contemplates retirement after aiming for an American cup at Exmoor. The crowd praises her candid talk about talent versus glitter as she weighs the finish of a storied career.
Boston AP reports Hugh Johnson denying the NRA seeks czardom. He portrays it as a rules committee guiding business with workers and consumers to a fairer game. He urges buying under the blue eagle to lift the nation and warns no legislature can fix all troubles.
A Wednesday NRA report to 170 workers at a Cedar Rapids luncheon announced 1,341 new jobs created by 71,615 NRA employers. It notes 608 interviewed, 1,455 signed NRA pledges, and estimated payroll boosts of $69,732 monthly. Campaign includes 400 women canvassers and remarks by J Harold Horan and Mayor Stepanek.
New York AP report notes A C Bumenthal, ally of former mayor James J Walker, hinted during a Cannes visit that the Walkers desire a child. He would not confirm specifics but said both Jimmy and his wife are eager to have a child.
At the Iowa State Fair politicians from both parties met in Des Moines to discuss candidates for 1934. Talks signaled a probable GOP governor race with names like Robert Cal flesh and Ole Naglestad noted, while Democrats led by Governor Clyde L. Herring showed less talk of candidacies. Attendance on day five neared 35 000 as livestock champions were announced.
The Agriculture Department, citing a DC Supreme Court ruling upholding the AAA, issues a show cause order to Meadowmoor Dairies Inc. of Chicago to justify license suspension or revocation for seven alleged AAA violations. A Sept. 11 hearing deadline and possible punitive action follow.
Gov Lehman heard that Illinois plans to extradite Al Capone from Atlanta and try him in Chicago with Aaron Sapiro for a laundry racket conspiracy if Sapiro can be extradited from New York and federal permission granted. Grover C. Neimeyer disclosed the plan during a three hour hearing on the extradition application.
Reverend S. M. Morrow of Grande Avenue United Presbyterian Church faced a three hour battle against rising flood waters on a canyon highway between Trenton and Stratton Nebraska. With two companions also trapped, he escaped by swimming after abandoning his coat and shoes as the car was engulfed.
Clarence E. Martin of the American Bar Association warns at the fifty sixth annual meeting that delegating powers to Washington threatens the republic. He condemns the child labor amendment as a move toward nationalizing children and urges state rights and limited federal enforcement of criminal law.
Betty Burns and Michael Calabrese outlasted rivals in the final elimination to win the world endurance title by kissing for three hours and two minutes at Coney Island.
The sleeping sickness outbreak expands in Iowa with Anton Swanson a 40 year old packing house worker diagnosed as infected and linked to the St. Louis strain. Tests suggest he shares the same illness as St. Louis victims. A second Iowa case follows a death in Council Bluffs last week.
Detroit health officials report five encephalitis cases in two weeks with one death and two critical patients. Wisconsin reports two sleeping sickness deaths in scattered areas including Racine and Ashland. Delores Wirtz, 28 months, and Mrs Howard Jarvis, 33, are named as deceased.
Washington reports a delay in the master code to cover retail workers. Deputy NRA Administrator Arthur Whiteside announced the postponement as retailers’ representatives pressed for prompt action. The delay extends into mid next week, slowing industry wide coverage.
Interior Secretary Ickes will push for revising oil code price fixing to base prices on crude oil rather than gasoline. He will discuss this with the new oil planning and coordinating committee, created by President Roosevelt, amid expectations the plan will pass with minimal opposition. Roosevelt also named a fifteen member panel to govern the oil industry and pressed Ford to join the national recovery effort with James A. Moffett of Standard Oil of New Jersey as its head.
President Roosevelt plans to shift oil industry enforcement to the National Recovery Administration. Secretary Ickes remains oil administrator as General Johnson prepares a Ford cooperation report. A 15 member committee and regional operating panels will be created to study regional questions and guide enforcement.
Washington reports a landslide 316 064 to 132 359 repeal win from 1924 precincts securing the twenty fourth state to repudiate national prohibition. Wet momentum shifts toward state convention delegates and potential nationwide repeal.
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