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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1933
Page
18
County and city officials and the Chamber of Commerce completed a campaign to deploy 1790 men on the government payroll in Linn County. A joint meeting with county city school and business leaders sparked feverish activity in the final days to meet the quota.
Linn County CWA disbursing officer J T McDonnell announced that 11 278 20 dollars in payroll will be paid today to 1 005 workmen on projects in the city and county. The office has operated at high speed to ensure checks reach workers without delay. Last Saturday about 6 000 dollars in payroll was distributed and the first checks two weeks ago totaled over 2 700 dollars.
Friday’s meeting of city and county officials led to immediate redeployment of workers to already approved projects to speed relief payrolls. About 300 men will begin drawing pay by Monday, with 200 plus assigned by the Federal Re employment bureau to close its quota. Additional crews were placed at the river road project, city barn, schools, quarry, and levee work as transfers planned to keep payroll under the cap.
The Iowa House approved an automatic foreclosure moratorium until March 1 1935 by a vote of 86 to 0. The measure, part of farm relief urged by Governor Herring, allows court action only if undue waste is shown and may require arbitration for income allocation.
A house party at Leander J McCormick of Chicago ends in tragedy in Whitchurch England as the Duc de la Tremoille and James H R Rodney die in a blaze. Rodney’s wife Frances Strickland Oldham Lovell is injured after leaping from a window. McCormick and his French countess wife escape in night clothes as fire destroys artwork and other valuables.
Illinois authorities say Mrs. Jeanette Latino of Rockford admitted partial involvement in a Joliet penitentiary escape plot. The note she allegedly wrote to a convict referenced a telegram and a package tied to the revolver found over the wall. Loftus faces questioning as investigators outline plans to use singers as shields and trigger a riot.
Washington AP reports the Roosevelt administration backing a national tax system where the federal government collects all revenues and distributes funds to the treasury states and subdivisions. A committee proposes 20 percent of liquor receipts go back to states to avoid double levies and aid broader tax simplification.
In St. John Que two men Arthur Kappel of New York and John Sullivan of Yonkers were seized by customs for alleged involvement in a six month smuggling ring. They possessed a 100 ounce gold bar valued at about 9000. The outfit is reported to have moved gold totaling about 1 million dollars into Canada from the United States.
Jack Odland of 931 Hull avenue SE was arrested on a breaking and entering warrant linked to the disappearance of four rifles from 1006 Sixteenth avenue SE six months ago. The rifles owned by Joe Hoffman of 640 Seventh street SE, who reported the loss this week, with two already recovered. Odland demanded a hearing before Justice Reed and was to be arraigned Monday. He remained jailed in lieu of bond.
President Roosevelt signed codes governing liquor wholesaling and rectifying industries on Saturday. Distillers had already signed their code and the document was sent to Secretary Wallace for signature.
Report outlines Cedar Rapids auto toll figures for the year with totals and breakdowns showing toll revenue and usage. Data indicates yearly totals and several transportation indicators affecting city traffic and funding.
Mary Pickford files for divorce from Douglas Fairbanks after thirteen years of marriage citing cruelty. She hints at possible Broadway appearance with stage plans in New York while continuing her film career.
Madrid reports indicate government forces crushed a leftist revolt in the northeast as violence spread with at least twenty dead and hundreds wounded. The only continuing clashes were in Zaragoza province where three were killed and thirty five injured. A state of alarm replaced the prior prevention measures as parliament’s coming session intensified security actions and telecom lines were damaged by terrorists.
Dr William Oxley Thompson, 78, president emeritus of Ohio State University and former moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, died in a Columbus hospital after a period of illness. He remained active after retirement, recently serving as chairman of the local NRA compliance board.
A baby girl was born Friday night aboard a train carrying her father’s body from Stockton California to Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. The mother Gertrude Arnold 28 refused to leave the train when it stopped near Buffalo and received medical care aboard. The husband was son of C W Arnold of Elmira New York and died in Stockton.
Berlin based report says the Aryan clause restricting non Aryans from church office will be removed from the Evangelical church law. Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller ordered dissolution of the Nazi German Christians as a church political body, ending a major factional dispute.
The cabinet of Premier Camille Chautemps won a strong confidence vote in the chamber of deputies with 403 to 63. The result clears a major hurdle in the budget balancing plan andFranc policy to protect the franc by reducing government employee pay amid ongoing political challenges.
Milwaukee report says Judge Edmund Gausewitz consulted with medical authorities as he weighs authorizing a jaw operation for a 14 year old girl whose ankylosis threatens to lock her mouth shut. The mother opposes surgery despite doctors warning of rapid progression and speech impairment. Dr. M N Federspiel offers to perform the operation at no cost.
Closing time is 8 P M for Want Ads in the Big Sunday Gazette. Call 2 1121 to place an ad or visit The Gazette office for special rates on 3 day and 1 day advertisements.
The United States issued formal notes to France Belgium Poland Estonia and Hungary reminding them of December 15 payments totaling millions. Finland Great Britain Italy Czechoslovakia and Latvia have made or proposed partial payments, but officials expect France and its allies to default yet again.
Public Safety Commissioner Dan Kruidemier announced a new fingerprint program assigning a dedicated officer to each eight hour shift. Patrolman Virgil Powell will handle prints on his shift, with R. R. Slade managing records and classification under Chief Karl Stanley. The move aims to align with metropolitan centers and improve cooperation with state and federal identification bureaus.
United States ambassador to Russia William C. Bullitt arrived in Berlin from Paris for a short stop at the American embassy. He will proceed to Moscow later Saturday for his new post.
United Press reports a tax and control clash over the reborn liquor trade amid high prices. Boots and politicians fear renewed gangster activity as whisky costs rise and repeal effects spread across Philadelphia Pittsburgh and national markets.
A National Association of Manufacturers resolution urged President Roosevelt to stabilize the dollar on a gold basis as soon as feasible and to assure this stabilization even if the gold content is altered. The group also praised his NRA leadership and pledged cooperation with congressional measures to address the economic crisis.
In Nashville AP reports Colonel Luke Lea former U S senator and his eldest son Luke Lea Jr lost in the Tennessee supreme court Saturday their bid to block extradition to North Carolina.
Col Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh will fly from Para to Manaos along Pan American's new Amazon river route to Trinidad then to Porto Rico and the United States taking off Sunday.
A Cedar Rapids snowstorm renewed Saturday morning with continued light snowfall by 10 4.m. Its precipitation totaled two hundredths of an inch. The thermometer climbed from Friday’s 30 degree high to 32 by 1 15 p.m. After a Friday night dip to 22 at 7 a.m. the day began rising from 24 at 7 p.m. and 23 at midnight, with a slow recovery throughout the morning.
On a courthouse roof in Fremont Nebraska a federal prisoner Victor Vavra 25 Crete Neb awaiting trial for stealing a mail sack was shot and killed by officers after an escape attempt with two cellmates.
Treasury officials probe leaks of domestic gold price used by foreign exchange traders to gain profits. Price announced in Washington around 9:30 to 9:45 a.m. and wired to New York, with London disclosures claimed by some services. No source found yet as Morganthau and Bailie coordinate the fixed price amid a dollar depreciation program.
Washington DC Justice Proctor dismissed a $220 million suit brought by Davis A. Olson against Andrew Mellon Ogden Mills and other former treasury officials. Olson claimed illegal tax refunds of $110 million were granted to foreign steamship lines under an old statute.
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