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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1933
Page
1
A financial writer argues consumers are the forgotten class in the New Deal. The piece cites changes to the cleaners code and milk codes, NRA discounts, and the impact on small businesses like dairymen, with comments from James M. Beck on constitutional rights and labor pricing.
In Washington AP officials briefed that the farm administration considers government buys of surplus pork for distribution to the needy to raise hog prices. They cite corn loans at 45 cents per bushel lowering hogs’ market value and discuss freeing hog prices toward a $4.50 per hundredweight target by adjusting corn-hog parity.
Edmonton dispatch says Tagish trading post in the Yukon froze at 84 below zero and other Yukon stations recorded 60 to 70 below. Cold spell across Alaska and Yukon hits new world files as radios report extreme readings.
The forecast covers the Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys with mainly fair conditions. Precipitation is expected in the north portion around Tuesday or Wednesday and again Saturday. Temperatures trend colder Monday and late week, warmer Tuesday and Wednesday.
A passage critiques societal reluctance to defend against a growing birth rate of individuals deemed mentally unfit, arguing for stronger safeguards and public policy responses.
A 1933 meditation on Christmas Eve describes the hour as sacred and transformative. The piece contrasts restless urban anxiety with shared giving and secret longing for mercy, ending with reverent thanks for the season’s gentle, mystical mood.
President Roosevelt will address the first national dinner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation from Washington next Thursday at 9 30 p.m. CST. The nationwide telecasts will coincide with 124 Wilson clubs nationwide honoring Wilson. Roland Morris will preside. attendees include Mrs. Roosevelt Mrs. Wilson and Vice President Garner along with cabinet members and the Supreme Court.
Patricia Maguire, long recovering from a sleeping sickness-like condition since February 1932, showed signs of improvement Saturday. She opened her eyes briefly and adjusted to double vision as relatives and doctors grow hopeful for renewed consciousness and a happier holiday season. A decorated Christmas tree stands outside her door as the family nurses her through recovery.
Cedar Rapids area bids on the Wilson Junior High School addition totaled 134 002 base dollars, with O F Paulson Construction the low general bidder at 106 580. Electrical bid 86 474 from Cedar Rapids Electric Supply. plumbing 19 260 from Wheatland. ventilating 5688 from J P Grissell Cornice. Alternate selections could shift final cost toward the architect’s 135 313 estimate.
A 12 year old named George Jr. was struck by a Chicago Great Western railroad freight train while on a Christmas shopping trip for his parents. He died after a blood transfusion despite efforts to save him. The family home in St. Paul will display a Christmas scene with a bicycle under the tree in his memory.
Ronald Finney, the central figure in a Kansas bond forgery scandal, pled guilty to thirty one counts of forgery before Judge P H Heinz. Sentencing deferred to next Saturday after doctors found him capable of standing trial. The case links to forged municipal bonds and the state treasury dealings. former treasurer Tom Boyd and employer Leland Caldwell also face charges.
In Miami two women flyers Helen Richey and Frances Harrell Marsalis sought an air endurance record while sunbathing nude at 2000 feet. Photographers chased them in a plane but Marsalis dived into a cloud and remained hidden until Richey dressed, ending the attempt to photograph them.
Cedar Rapids police pressed on Saturday to identify the bandits who robbed the Sears store Friday afternoon and escaped with nearly 500 dollars. Police circulated photos of suspected Indiana convicts and checked employee identifications while downtown stores heightened security, though officials doubted a repeat visit in Cedar Rapids.
The Chicago city council committee on railway terminals urged a single consolidated terminal and the re-routing of eight railroads into it. The proposed station would cost 20 million dollars and would replace four older terminals.
Mayor-elect Fiorello H. LaGuardia announced Austin H. MacCormick as commissioner of correction for New York City. MacCormick is assistant director of the U S bureau of prisons and acting superintendent of the U S industrial reformatory at Chillicothe Ohio.
Chicago police arrested Hilton O Crouch 29 a member of John Dillinger gang confessing to participation in an Indianapolis bank robbery with Dillinger and Harry Copeland about 25000 taken. Police also killed three suspects in a raid on a north side apartment as officers closed in on Dillinger squad. A woman Miss Violet Barretta was seized for questioning and lived at the same Surf Street address as Crouch.
Harold Jirsa a 23 year old Cedar Rapids junior medical student at the University of Iowa is in University hospital with a severe scalp wound from a car collision five miles north of Iowa City. Starry and Edmond also suffered minor injuries while Hazel Oswald was his passenger.
Kit Allen seeks wealth and status while HAL CLODE pursues her as Edith remains in his class. John Bowers wishes Kit for himself, and Bessie Miller hides a crush on Hal. The new serial by Julie Anne Moore begins next Tuesday December 26 in The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Washington Senator Thomas estimates depreciation of the dollar has moved about 100 billion dollars in value from creditors to debtors in the United States under Roosevelt era monetary policy. He cites the currency expansion amendment and predicts further shifts as land and commodity values rise while gold bids increase.
Justice officials in Washington announced on Saturday that the former public enemy No 1 will stay at Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay rather than be moved. The decision cites his status as a model prisoner despite his gangster past and bleak Alcatraz reputation.
Frank Hurt Jr. of Tama died after his father was struck by a car in Cedar Rapids and he suffered a heart attack. The two were to have double funeral services in Montour Tuesday officiated by Rev. W O Eckler. Survivors include two brothers and three sisters all of Tama. The driver, Harry Hayden, was absolved of blame after an investigation.
Porto Rico lawmakers report twenty three dollars left in the treasury to fund government salaries on Christmas eve while five hundred thousand dollars more are needed. Merchants say Christmas trade is thirty percent below last year and seek a government bank loan to spur a late rush.
Armando Infante, a Cuban exile, was beaten in his New York hotel room by two men police suspect as agents of a revolutionary society. One man claimed the name John Ayala and said he came from Key West to kill Infante for a price. authorities linked him to the deposed Machado regime.
A Paris region wreck near Lagny in heavy fog kills about 100 people and injures many as the Paris Strasbourg night express stalls two miles from the station. Among the injured are notable politicians and a French Senator Nachet.
Washington UP reports that about fifty NRA codes were postponed until after Christmas to ease holiday chaos for job seekers and well-wishers. President Roosevelt is expected to sign the documents on Tuesday, including codes for the construction industry and newspaper publishers.
The world marks Christmas with family gatherings and prayers as Pope Pius XI gives benediction and urges devotion, President Roosevelt spends time with his grandchildren at the White House, and the British royal family gathers at their country palace amid church music nationwide.
Miss Margaret Peevey a 22 year old deaf mute was beaten attacked and shot three times through the head and found in a meadow beyond Grand Rapids Identification by Patrolman Thomas Marshall and later by her father Edward G Peevey Frank Zuidema a farmer found the body which had likely lain in the field for a day or more the girl had been missing since Thursday and her mother is dead
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