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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1933
Page
1
The piece denounces Congress and the Senate for failing to balance the federal budget this session, blaming poor leadership and political antics. It criticizes Roosevelt and Democratic forces and warns of dire consequences after March 4. It also notes Linn county officials seeking funds to aid the poor and a public appeal for timber to provide relief work.
President elect Roosevelt, Secretary of State Stimson, and Norman H. Davis met at the Roosevelt hotel canvassing the Far East crisis. Stimson declined to discuss specifics but said the group covered broad questions including war debts and the world economic conference. The meeting aimed to bridge policy between administrations as Hoover and Roosevelt prepared for Friday talks at the White House.
The Overseer's duties should be confined to supervision of investigation and actual relief with help from those able to weed out undeserving applicants. Japan postpones new advance into Jehol until spring, hoping to avoid conflict as international tensions persist. Washington hopes Japan and Uncle Sam remain cautious allies while world leaders seek real peace and revived intelligence. Mrs. W. W Walker dies after a pioneering Mississippi Valley career, noted for dauntless serenity. Governor Herring cites tax reduction as the administration's prime objective to ease burdens on Jo ra. some lawmakers worry risk of forgetting. A St Paul reader credits ads with funding her Gazette subscription. Federal Commerce Dept resists Buy American aims, urging debtors to export to pay what they owe. Economic policy shifts hinge on European debtor actions. Texas politics see Mo Ferguson push for a sales tax to ease real estate burdens amid mixed reactions.
Milwaukee reports federal officials revived charges against Elmer S. Huckins, promoter of an investment scheme, and seek to resolve the action. Huckins, wife Amelia, and secretary Martha Kiley are indicted for using the mails to defraud. Once wealthy in Hancock Wisconsin, he drew thousands though many investors earned 26 and 52 percent. others lost. He was convicted in Cedar Rapids on a state charge, freed on appeal, and a federal warrant served there but invalid because he was then in custody.
Washington reports General John J Pershing will serve as grand marshal of the Roosevelt inaugural parade on March 4 Admiral Cary T Grayson announced.
In Royal Oak Michigan a trio who robbed a grocery store counted the $38 taken from the drawer then returned several pennies Canadian nickels and other coins to the owner with the terse remark We cant use them. The report notes the thieves offered no further explanation and left the scene.
Des Moines AP reports the Forty-fifth Iowa General Assembly begins tax reduction efforts with Senate passage of a secondary road levies bill made optional, a first test for mandatory levies. House delays on mileage allowances and juror excuses. committees approve 12 of 75 interim tax measures. Savings projected at about 5 million annually.
British aviatrix Lady Mary Bailey, reported missing on a flight from England to Cape Town, was found safe about fifteen miles southwest of Tahoua in Niger, French West Africa, on Thursday.
Miss Alma Preclik of Solon was struck by a automobile while alighting from a street car on First avenue E at Eighteenth street. She rallied slightly in St. Luke's hospital Wednesday night and regained partial consciousness at intervals. her condition remains serious as of Thursday.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman McNary said the panel would try on Friday to decide which products the allotment farm relief bill should cover after House passed language. Members doubt a favorable report unless the bill is restricted and simplified, and some call the fight a sham given likely Hoover veto. McNary plans to fix public hearings scope and commodity list, with the bill covering wheat cotton tobacco rice peanuts dairy products and hogs.
President elect Roosevelt pressed congressional leaders in late night conferences to push a broad farm relief bill, repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, and quick budget balancing. He backed extending relief to wheat, cotton, hogs, and tobacco, citing campaign commitments while hinting at a special session if needed. He favored outright repeal per the Garner plan, contrasting with Senator Allison D. Smith who urged limiting strikes to wheat and cotton.
A Soviet order uproots 45000 people from Poltavsaya Medvyedevsky and Ur upskaya in the Kuban region. Every family, man, woman and child is exiled to northern lumber camps or mines as punishment for failing to cooperate with agricultural quotas. The three Cossack villages lose lands and homes, redistributed to the red army and loyal elements.
In Honolulu Hawaii a fire of unknown origin gutted the army 23rd pursuit hangar a parachute building and all contents damage estimated at 150000 dollars one army bombing plane destroyed the blaze was controlled but reignited when the planes gasoline tank exploded no injuries reported
New York report says Marjorie Rochefort will stand by James A. Stillman in a $200000 alienation of affections suit brought by Luc Rochefort Montreal politician. Rochefort had named Stillman a love pirate in Brooklyn court arguments.
About 800 farmers from Benton and nearby counties stopped a forced sale on the A. J. Hasley farm north of Watkins Iowa. Cattle and grain sold, but organizers and buyers faced delays. sale intended to recover rent owed by Hasley to E. W. La Plant Cedar Rapids. Farmers planned to return property to Hasley so he could resume farming elsewhere. Neighbors and friends gathered without any single organization.
Gov. Paul V. McNutt signed a bill declaring a moratorium on tax delinquent property sales in Indiana until the second Monday in February 1934. The measure, passed nearly unanimously by both houses, becomes effective immediately due to an emergency clause. Tax sales were set to begin January 27 statewide.
Iowa lawmakers ready to convene in executive session to pass a stabilizing bank aid measure. The bill, backed by Senate and House banking committees, would empower the state to take control of troubled banks, suspend withdrawals, and reorganize institutions with state and federal cooperation.
Washington dispatch says the Interstate Commerce Commission on Thursday overruled the Chicago Board of Trade plea to dismiss the Western grain rates investigation. The ruling opens the rate inquiry to continue in federal oversight, impacting grain traders and shipping costs nationwide.
Linn county supervisors watched the Des Moines legislature as the county neared paying unpaid poor fund warrants by issuing future payment bonds. A $337,000 warrants overdraft and $19,500 1932 overdraft loom. seven coal firms offered aid after 71 unfilled orders and a $5,800 stamped warrant were returned. Overseer Mrs. Lillian Landmesser organized woodcutting to ease coal shortages and urged timberland cooperation to supplement relief.
Beverly Hills columnist Will Rogers opines that the Philippines should gain freedom in twelve years with a constitution suiting both parties, while warning they must settle debts and stay clear of Japan. He jokes that the offer is a “sporting.”
Japan plans earlier naval maneuvers this year with likely war games near South Seas mandates. The grand fleet would move up to August with drills around Caroline and Marshall Islands, near the Philippines, under Admiral Kobiyashi.
Gov Clyde Herring issues a proclamation urging mortgage holders in Iowa to delay foreclosures and refrain from pursuing pending suits until state and federal legislatures develop remedial laws. The order targets real and personal property with liens while urging debtors to protect assets and prevent waste. It notes rising hardship for farmers and workers and seeks to calm unrest until action by the Iowa General Assembly and Congress.
Funeral services for Mrs W W Walker a prominent pioneer woman of Cedar Rapids and mother of Mrs A W Lee will be held Friday at 11 a m at the First Presbyterian church Rev Robert Little will officiate Miss Eleanor Taylor will play the organ Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery Pallbearers are Joy Morton II Bud S Weare John Johnson Dr B F Wolverton Haven Y Simmons and John M Ely The body will be in state at the Shuren from 9 a m to 11 a m Friday
Henry A. Wallace, editor of the Wallaces' Farmer of Des Moines, urged controlled currency inflation by raising gold prices during a talk to farmers and homemakers. He proposed dollar devaluation followed by a monetary conference among the United States England France and Germany on money issues tariffs debt currency and tonnage quotas.
Phoenix AP report says John J. Halloran's counsel challenged Winnie Ruth Judd's competence as witness in his preliminary hearing on a charge of being an accessory to murder. They argued she is of unsound mind unable to comprehend the oath and not a voluntary witness.
A coroner's jury in Knoxville Iowa found probable negligence by one or more crew members of train 179 as the cause of a Des Moines river crash near Panneley that killed five people. Witnesses said no speed reduction was noted before the northbound collision at the switching point.
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