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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1933
Page
1
A Zion City leader clings to flat-earth views while a receiver takes control of Zion Enterprises. The piece also critiques societal sins, rural decline, and a citizen drive to return to fundamentals amid references to Culver bank robbery and state inquiries into public safety.
The Senate Banking Committee explored four cut rate stock favors to lenders as J. P. Morgan and Co. profited millions from warrants and Mohawk Hudson Power securities. The United Corporation, a Morgan holding entity, controlled about 22 percent of U.S. electric power and offered stock at 75 dollars later valued at 99. Names on the "preferred" list included Kean and Taylor and Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, with Hoover association questioned.
The American delegation led by Secretary of State Hull sails from New York to London for the world economic conference. They carry months of data and aim to stabilize currencies, lower tariffs, and raise global prices to lift world trade and pay debts. Arrival is expected June 8 before the meeting of 50 nations.
A 1933 religious column argues Stoic and Christian teachings warn that unchecked selfishness destroys both individual health and the common good. It likens self centered living to a cancer that saps the body and harms others, urging shared well being over personal gain. Jesus and Paul are cited to defend communal interdependence.
Washington AP reports House and senate conferees reached full accord on the gasoline tax and postage bill. The Senate adopted shifting the three percent electric energy levy from consumers to producers and kept a one cent per gallon gasoline tax for another year while postage favors remain. The electricity tax for producers is delayed until September 1.
New York won the first game 12 to 0 in nine innings and the second 9 to 7 with Ruffing Pennock and Jorgens among the pitchers. Washington split the twin bill, failing in the opener and taking the nightcap before a limited slate as rain affected other NL games.
Washington reports a broad improvement across heavy and consumer industries based on twenty two trade association findings. Production payrolls and sales advance for the first time since a downturn, with better collections noted in eight teen states and renewed activity by firms previously out of the market. Auto output in April rose 22 percent from a year earlier.
Washington AP The administration's bill to coordinate all federal farm lending agencies under one head and fund the new setup with 122 million dollars passed the House on Wednesday and goes to the Senate.
Warden Kirk Prather and two guards were forced to accompany six of eleven convicts during a Memorial Day escape at the Lansing Kansas penitentiary. Underhill led the group in a bid to overrun towers and seize vehicles, injuring guard John Laws. The escape ended with the convicts fleeing toward Welch Oklahoma after a gunfire incident.
Two inmates serving life for murder hijacked guard Tom Baskin at the Oklahoma penitentiary in McAlester. They seized his car and gun, using Baskin as a shield, then fled toward the highway before Baskin suffered minor injuries. Authorities pursued as reports of fugitives spread toward Kansas.
Selina Hoge eighteen, daughter of Mr and Mrs John Hoge, was killed in a two car crash near Marion at 825 p.m. Tuesday. Four Springville high school juniors in her car were injured though not seriously. The Headlee vehicle, carrying Alice Post and Lucy Harris, collided with a Dubuque driven car as they neared the intersection of Highways 13 and 161.
United States Argentina Australia and Canada representatives opened negotiations in London under Henry Morgenthau Jr to seek a four power wheat acreage restriction before the world economic conference. The United States favors a restriction over 10 percent, with Canada and Australia likely resisting reductions of even 10 percent for two years.
An armistice was signed by Chinese and Japanese military reps at Tangku to demilitarize the area north of the Great Wall and bounded by Peiping Mukden and Peiping Suiyuan railways. It provides for dismantling volunteer forces and resuming Peiping Shanhaikwan rail trade.
Spring stayed strong in Cedar Rapids with bright sun and only white clouds. Memorial Day brought a brief late afternoon shower. Temperatures rose from a midnight low of 60s to 70s by afternoon with 78 at 2:30 pm.
Washington AP reports the Senate doubled the $1,000,000 veterans hospitalization fund in the independent offices bill and authorized use of the new money for treatment of non service connected disabilities.
Brecsenndoge Long, newly named U S ambassador to Italy, presented his credentials to King Victor Emmanuel at the Quirinal Palace on Wednesday.
President facing opposition as protests erupt over cuts in veterans benefits under the National Economy Act. Democrats defend Roosevelt and push for amendments to ease reductions while considering hospital funding boosts and protections for service-connected injuries.
The New York American reports Russell V. Sherwood, longtime fiscal agent for ex mayor James J. Walker, has returned after 21 months missing to resolve matters with the federal government and New York Supreme Court. He testified to reporters amid his attorney present, with Walker denying Sherwood acted beyond routine bookkeeping.
The document outlines a sequence where Walker did not order his disappearance and left voluntarily to avoid inquiry into his private life. It notes a $49,000 income tax claim, a $50,000 contempt fine, and Walker's financial ruin with his home seized. Mrs Sherwood remains with him during their two-year wanderings in the United States and Mexico.
Paul R. Evans 19 of 1419 Third Street SE was held up at the Milwaukee freight depot by a bandit who hid in wait as he left. The robber fled with 271 cash after pushing Evans down two basement stairs. Evans had earlier retrieved currency at the Merchants National Bank and was on a bicycle delivery run.
Judge Charles A. Walsh denied both F Frazier Jelke and Eugenia Jelke absolute and cross petitions in their prolonged divorce case. He ruled both sides guilty of extreme cruelty and dismissed all petitions, leaving each free to appeal to the Rhode Island Supreme Court. The decision was read in an empty Newport courtroom after a two and a half week trial.
Mayor W H Stepanek said state fish and game officials would send deputies to Cedar Lake to survey the disaster harming game fish via the slough polluted water. He expected surviving fish may be moved if unharmed, and purification steps will wait until fish are removed. The Waltonians offered help to save the fish.
Edgar Rickard said it was outrageous to capitalize his association with Mr Hoover and drag his name into the Morgan inquiry in Washington He confirmed participation in the United corporation as a personal matter and offered no further comment on developing proceedings.
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