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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1934
Page
8
Iowa foresees a landmark year as the federal recovery program nears completion in 1934. Key items include $40 million more in 45 cent corn loans, a corn hog reduction drive starting in Ames, rapid mortgage refinancing, chinch bug eradication, and extensive public works spending to aid unemployment.
The new year brings sub zero readings across Iowa with Sioux City recording four degrees below zero the coldest in the state. Davenport reached 28 above zero the warmest in Iowa as snow flurries occurred statewide and forecasts call for colder east and warmer west conditions followed by a warming trend later.
Maquoketa’s oldest Civil war veteran Mortimer Rice turned ninety two on Monday. He winters in St Petersburg Florida but cold may keep him home this year. His daughter Mrs E B Brown and her husband care for him. Rice was a retired dry goods merchant who enlisted in the Thirty fifth Iowa infantry serving throughout the war. Other Maquoketa Civil war veterans I W Knight James Sutton and John Huff are all over ninety.
Fayette County officials and courthouse attaches gathered in the supervisors' office to honor W. K. Humphry as his twelve year term as chairman ends. Auditor J. H. Cline presented a gold headed cane, and Harry J. Humphrey of Arlington succeeds him. The Humphrys plan a two month visit to relatives in California and Oregon.
Des Moines reports a sharp drop in inheritance tax receipts for 1933 with $761,065.69 collected versus $934,176 in 1932, a difference of $173,110.92. State Treasurer Leo J. Wegman announces the figures.
State Comptroller C B Murtagh reports an average tax cut of 103211 per Iowa county for 1934 versus 1933. Woodbury leads with a 530814 reduction. fifty-one counties together total 5263795 in expected tax reductions, with figures listed for Adams Appanoose Black Hawk Carroll Cass Cedar Cerro Gordo Cherokee Clarke Clay Decatur Clinton Dallas Dubuque Floyd Hamilton Hancock Howard Humboldt Ida Towa Jasper Jefferson Johnson Keokuk Kossuth Lee Linn Lyon Madison Marshall Mills Monroe Montgomery Muscatine OBrien Osceola Page Palo Alto Pottawattamie Poweshiek Ringgold Sac Scott Shelby Story Union Warren Wayne Wright.
O. G. Rife former assistant cashier of the People's Savings bank at Shellsburg and examiner in charge of the Exchange bank at Granville has been named cashier of the Iowa state reform atory at Anamosa. He began duties January 1.
Lieut. Col. Ralph Bates of Bloomington Illinois attempted to stab himself with a pen knife in a railroad coach washroom on Saturday. His condition remained unchanged and serious at Sacred Heart hospital Monday, attendants said.
A State Comptroller report shows Iowa received federal highway funds despite total revenue of 1 068 544 and expenditures of 1 509 000 for construction, with regular aid of 64 876 and a first 400 000 installment of a 10 000 000 recovery grant. Additional payments on the grant bolster the fund as a legislative bill allows spending on secondary roads and city streets.
Davenport Iowa reports writer Alice French 83 known as Octave Thanet is seriously ill with heart disease complications. The author endured a first attack two years ago and a resurgence last summer. she published numerous novels from 1887 to 1917.
Iowa collected 441916.93 in beer taxes and license fees during the nine months of 1933 when beer was legal. License fees total 93365 and taxes amount to 348551.93 at 1.24 per barrel, with about 8713000 gallons consumed. Monthly totals peaked in August at 67419.08 and April at 66695, after the first month of legal beer in April.
A wave of automibile and train crashes across Iowa before New Year’s Day claimed seven lives and left four injured. Victims include Mrs. Alice Frush of Des Moines and Nels Jacobsen of Danbury, among others. multiple crashes occurred in Des Moines, Davenport, Boone, and Ruthven with various drivers cited for limited visibility and vehicle collisions. The report also notes a separate Davenport derailment and a Westchester club election of Relief Corps officers.
In Des Moines AP reports Speaker George Miller plans to ask the Iowa House within days to back an appointment of a steering committee with Lieut. Gov. Nels Kraschel likely to follow. Gov. Herring and lawmakers held conferences as the executive seeks faster passage ahead of final adjournment. Some House opposition is possible to creating the steering panel which would set calendar priorities and bill handling. Majority leaders say enough votes exist to grant speaker authority.
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