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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1933
Page
1
Verne Marshall reports Cedar Rapids civic leaders and federal officials discuss subsistence homesteads for industrial workers amid concerns about need and political feasibility. Prof J B Davidson seeks local demand evidence while others warn of government overreach and tax burdens. wider Iowa cities considered.
Federal taxation of church and non profit incomes is the target as Congress reconvenes the Seventy-third Congress. The House Ways and Means Committee already moves toward revising income tax laws with religious and benevolent groups holding over a trillion in security investments and 160 million in 1922 income. Church leaders urged tax exemption curbs, arguing that automatic exemptions for entire classes have been abused and place burdens on ordinary taxpayers.
In San Juan Puerto Rico traffic stopped at noon Thursday as a broad consumer strike against gasoline prices took effect, disrupting daily life across the island.
Mrs Mary Robinson reports thirty responses to her Beautiful Handmade Flower Garden Quilt in The Gazette Want Ads and complete sale. A E Ratner notes twelve skaters answered his Want Ad for Shoe Ice Skates Size 4 and sold quickly. Prospective buyers are watching Want Ads. start a Want Ad to earn extra cash. Dial 2-1121 Ad-taker.
A 1933 reflection on human folly, contrasting sin and ignorance with broad stupidity. It argues much misery stems from callous, dumb minds rather than depravity and cites Socrates, Jesus, and wartime folly to condemn narrow thinking and moral blindness. It calls for self examination and mercy.
Washington grants $6,000 to Dairydale in a 30 percent share of projected costs for a new four room school building. Voters previously defeated bond measures, and the district now faces an election on floating $14,000 in bonds to qualify for the grant amid rising material costs.
Washington AP says Representative Robert L. Doughton of North Carolina, head of the ways and means committee, will likely be named by President Roosevelt to the federal tariff commission within weeks to fill the Col Her vacancy left by the late James W. Coler of Mississippi.
Secretary Wallace told an American Economic Association gathering that social discipline could guide American agriculture. He cited Western wheat farmers accepting production revision figures as proof, urging farmers to align individual interests with the community and consider production as a whole rather than single crops.
Sue Trammell, five months old, is resting at Johns Hopkins after a long flight from Houston. Brain specialists will decide and likely operate later in the week to save her life. Parents Mr and Mrs W B Trammell, watched by James R Wedell who flew through a snowstorm. Dr Paul Kunkel and Dr Walter E Dandy are involved.
Des Moines AP reports the house agriculture committee approved a measure to appropriate 5000 dollars as an emergency fund for the state department of agriculture under the national corn loan program. The act requires the state to bear certain expenses.
WASHINGTON LLP Second Assistant Postmaster General William W Howes will succeed Joseph C O'Mahoney as first assistant postmaster general O'Mahoney has been appointed to the senate seat left vacant by the death of Senator Kendrick Democrat Wyoming
Speaker Rainey told reporters in Washington that the meat packing industry defies the recovery program by taking the processing tax out of producer prices. He proposed government commandeering of plants and operation, with agents pricing all plants and setting minimum meat product prices so farmers receive fair pay and tax costs are borne by the industry. He singled out Chicago packers as chief offenders and contrasted the industry with others complying with the program.
Chicago meat packing firms led by Swift and Company expressed dignant surprise at charges of non compliance with the President's recovery program made in Washington by Speaker Rainey. Officials said the industry would study the claims and respond with full cooperation.
Temperatures rose to 10 above briefly at 1 15 pm Thursday before falling to 7 by 2 30 pm signaling a renewed cold wave. The Wednesday high reached 14 above at 3 pm, then fell to one above by 7 pm. statewide readings include Charles City 15 below at 1 am and 9 below at 9 30 am, Mason City 8 below, Burlington 12 above, Clinton 8 below then 7 above, Iowa City 2 below, Dubuque 10 below then 4 above, Muscatine 12 above at 7 am.
London AP reports Henry Watson Fowler, renowned lexicographer, died Thursday at his home in Hinton St. George Somerset. He was 75 years old.
Eugene A. Gilmore, dean of the University of Iowa law college, argues at the Union League Club in Chicago that the people and the courts must decide whether the federal recovery program is constitutional. He warns against passivity and urges citizen action to test the program before the Supreme Court, noting risks to liberties if inertia prevails.
William E. Lee a Republican from Moscow Idaho was elected chairman of the interstate commerce commission for the coming year The commission rotates the chairmanship among its members Each year the chairman previously was Patrick J Farrell
In Des Moines the Iowa state senate invoked an inquiry after charges that a party or group probed the political affiliations of senate employees their home counties and patronage sponsors. Senator Byers led calls for investigation amid reports that Lieut. Gov Kraschel's page gathered such data for Democrats.
Frances Marsalis and Helen Richey established a new women’s endurance flight record in Miami, surpassing 196 hours and 5 minutes by about an hour. The pair planned to stay aloft beyond 10 full days if the plane held, while noting fatigue from long hours and multiple emergency repairs.
Two gunmen who robbed the First State Bank of Marlin of 410,000 were chased near Rogers, Texas. They released M. V. Bradshaw the bank’s vice president and two other employees who had been kidnapped during the raid, after the trio reached a farmhouse and sent word they were freed.
Washington AP reports E R Heaton of South Dakota was selected as the Farm Credit Administration candidate for president of the Production Credit Corporation in the new Omaha based farm credit system. Officials in Nebraska South Dakota and Wyoming await official nominations for all major posts in the regional credit body.
The judiciary committee recommended passage of the state monopoly control bill by 12 to 2, removing local option provisions and various special licenses. The bill would place all liquor under state control, permit state stores, set prices, allow manufacture of liquors, and require a $1 purchaser permit with purchase details. Amendments introduce penalties for violations, while floor amendments may reinsert local option elements. The measure remains subject to further floor action.
INDIANOLA Ind AP Rev Edmund M Holmes D D who led Simpson College from 1889 to 1892 died at his home. He had served as a Methodist Episcopal minister in Iowa for 53 years.
Washington the treasury ordered all gold held in the United States, with minor exceptions, be delivered to the treasury via federal reserve banks. The move, extending last spring’s order, aims to reinforce prior limits on private holdings and potentially enable a future gold-backed currency expansion.
CEDAR RAPIDS NEWS reports the school project contracts totaling 754217 were approved by the board of education and recommended to the public works board in Des Moines. Low bids were listed for general electrical plumbing and heating and ventilating work. Two low bidders failed to meet bid ad requirements due to missing certified checks from Iowa banks. Benjamin Franklin general is awarded to Max Mildenstein for 171872, with Franklin electrical to Carsten Brothers of Ackley.
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