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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1934
Page
10
The administration outlines a social program to replace seasonal factory jobs with productive field labor, aiming to eliminate waste and remove poor lands from agriculture while supporting small local industries. Roosevelt proposes a long term plan of twenty five years or more with large annual appropriations. Congress faces debate over costs and potential expenditures.
Will Rogers recalls a Hollywood set scene with Irvin Cobb as they joke about England and France seeking U S influence to collect debts. He notes Congress adjournment and Armistice Day comparisons, mentioning ticker tape in New York.
All boys and girls ages 6 to 16 in Cedar Rapids and within forty miles may compete for cash prizes in a parade scheduled for 2 p.m. on June 29. Send entries to the Bicycle Parade Editor at The Gazette Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Yale conferred 12 honorary degrees including President Theodore Roosevelt and James Bryant Conant of Harvard. Frederick Keyes of MIT and Dr Adolf Meyer of Johns Hopkins were among other honorees. President Angell presided as Phelps announced candidates. Roosevelt to speak at alumni luncheon before leaving New London on Sequoia.
Berlin AP reports 132 festival fires blaze from Brocken mountain to remote corners signaling the coming of summer. Hitler youth coordinate six fire lines reaching borders, with rockets signaling next hills amid traditional sauerkraut and song celebrations.
Thieves raided the Bemis and Schlick headquarters at the new sewage disposal plant over the weekend, taking seven shovels twenty five pounds of high pressure grease a twenty five pound pail of transmission grease and about fifty gallons of gasoline from two cranes. Police were notified Tuesday night.
Baron Maurice de Rothschild told the U S House committee Nazi propaganda hearings that Jews in Germany are cut off from relief and dying of starvation. He predicted the Hitler regime would eventually fall, noting Germany lacks funds to obtain raw materials and citing the Romanian assassination claim as linked to Nazi agents.
Not only in Germany but in Czechoslovakia Poland and other countries they all look to the United States where there is tolerance, the speaker said. He emphasized freedom and acceptance as reasons for seeking asylum or opportunity.
In Minnesota, Henrik Shipstead won the former labor nomination by a nearly 100000 vote majority in the state primary. Einar Hoidale and N J Holmberg were named opponents for the senate seat, while Floyd B Olson led Republican gubernatorial contenders and other incumbents drew nominations. Lightning killed twenty one cattle near Pierre South Dakota.
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