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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1933
Page
1
The column surveys international views on motherhood, conscription motives, and pacifist ideas. It notes awards for poets under the New Deal programs, discusses Roosevelt birthday events funding the Warm Springs Foundation, and comments on profit versus societal aims with quotes from economists and policymakers.
New York report identifies Lydia Stahl a Russian student at Columbia as part of an alleged European espionage ring seeking to buy secret U S Navy plans. A Brooklyn navy yard draftsman was offered 1500 for confidential specifications, triggering surveillance by justice and naval intelligence.
New Orleans AP report says renowned speed pilot James R. Wedell flew a five month old from Houston to Johns Hopkins for an emergency brain operation. He departed near 2 PM and pressed on through hazardous weather despite landing risks, aiming to reach Baltimore by night. The patient, Sue Trammel, daughter of Mr and Mrs W B Trammel, Houston, became seriously ill Sunday. Doctors urged surgery by Walter E Dandy at Johns Hopkins.
L G McBurney a 65 year old resident of San Pedro California died after a two week heart illness. His will left $1000 to Joseph Stalin and $1000 to Franklin D Roosevelt each. Five other heirs received $1. Police reported McBurney was known for communist leanings and found the will during a search of his effects.
Key idea from Count Keyserling in Book of Marriage is that happiness should not drive marriage. The tension of adjusting two lives, not happiness, builds character and personality. Happiness is earned, not conferred, and life requires self sacrifice and discipline to reach true fulfillment.
The Cedar Rapids board of education rejected all out of state bids for four junior high additions due to certified checks drawn on Minnesota banks. Frail bids from Fleisch er Son of Minneapolis and Ring Construction were disqualified, with Max Mildenstein of Cedar Rapids as next lowest bidder at 168 885. The board paused on public works recommendations until all bids are received and considered.
Washington officials indicate the Reconstruction Finance Corporation may assist railroads during a $2.3 billion refinancing period. Plans could use the RFC or a railroad aid unit, with a small government share in meeting maturities. Major roads like New York Central and Illinois Central seek help. banks’ involvement and state of bond renewals raise concerns.
Theodore G. Joslin former secretary to Herbert Hoover wrote a book titled Hoover Off the Record an informal memoir to be published next spring It promises an inside view of White House decision making and Hoover involvement in crises and numerous problems facing the nation.
Negotiations are under way at the White House for a new Roosevelt book titled On Our Way. The volume will carry forward the story of the Roosevelt administration and cover highlights since the inauguration on March 4.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania argues only President Roosevelt can stop inflation trends on Capitol Hill with direct currency expansion likely unless the President opposes it. He says Congress lacks votes to curb inflation without the President taking a stand and outlines GOP plans for the coming session.
Committees in over 2,300 communities plan balls for President Roosevelt's birth anniversary on January 30. Proceeds fund a permanent endowment for the Warm Springs Foundation as a birthday gift to the President.
From the White House mail bag and Capitol Hill offices come strong signs that Congress will not push changes to the President's recovery program. Officials note 1,620,000 pieces of mail since March show growing public confidence in the President as the man to help them, with November and December surges seen as more than holiday mail.
President Roosevelt has directed the collection of up to the minute business reports as part of ongoing economic monitoring. The directive emphasizes timely data from federal agencies and market sources to inform policy decisions.
Miss Bessie Rolph niece of California governor James Rolph married Roy Kolb of Des Moines Iowa in Atchison Kansas Probate Judge F P Wertz performing the ceremony both parties listed as over 21 years old The wedding drew local attention as a notable union between a prominent political family member and an Iowa resident
Europe presses motherhood campaigns to swell birthrates for 1950 draft lists. France offers subsidies and civil servant bonuses. Germany loans and child grants. Italy promotes mass weddings and bounties. Mussolini hosted mothers with 1310 children among them.
Four inches of snow and sub zero temperatures sweep Cedar Rapids with a Christmas storm. Temperatures fell to 10 below zero after a day with a high near 8 and a low near 5 below. City workers, including 75 unemployed men, shovel snow under Walter Markle’s direction while county CWA crews stay on job. Statewide sub zero readings reported. Fort Dodge and Mason City reach 17 below.
Secretary Ickes returns to his Interior Department desk after a naval hospital confinement from injuries after slipping on an icy pavement.
Paris AP report says former premier Edouard Herriot’s call for France to honor war debts to the United States was met with little public or government attention. Herriot warned of consequences if Britain and France defaulted again, urging closer US ties amid a European war risk.
Clayton Blackford aged 39 of Marion was near death in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a self inflicted gunshot wound to his left lung. He had been out of work and despondent and admitted the attempt on his life. A neighbor found him unconscious in his Marion home at 3 p.m. Tuesday. He is divorced from his wife and has a young son.
Figures from the Omaha R F C office show Iowa farmers received 2 222 075 42 dollars in corn loans through last Saturday. Nebraska total 589 280 dollars and South Dakota loans 900 dollars had begun arriving.
A massive blizzard and cold wave killed eight fishermen in Lake Michigan and caused numerous highway accidents across a dozen states. Temperatures plunged below zero in the Midwest as snowfall disrupted shipping, transit, and power, with New York, Montana, and New England hit hard and crews in Des Moines reporting subzero readings.
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