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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1933
Page
1
Parents complain teachers send children home to collect money for weekly school savings deposits. The Gazette offers no explanation, calling for an end to pressuring kids. The piece also notes other local concerns about discipline and education.
Iowa legislators defer tax revision bills to a special August session per Governor Clyde Herring's request. In a 63 to 42 house vote and 28 to 22 senate vote the measures were sent to a committee for August reporting, as the governor urged postponement and continued study of revenue systems.
Berlin reports Nazi leaders fixed 10 am next Saturday as the start of a countrywide boycott against Jewish shops and professions. Pickets will warn the public, local committees coordinate with Munich, and authorities aim to avoid violence while asserting the drive targets lies abroad. The movement vows to end when its aims are met, with no permanent continuation planned.
The Alabama legislature passed a bill calling for a prohibition repeal convention after overruling Governor B. M. Miller's veto. The move sets a path toward revisiting Prohibition era policies within the state.
Road toll data for Cedar Rapids shows counts of accidents injuries and fatalities with unclear text. The readable portion indicates a focus on incident totals and human impact without complete figures or dates.
Harold Westermark won the police judge post in Iowa City on Monday but a new state law makes the position optional and appointive in first class cities. The city attorney ruled the election illegal since no office existed to fill.
Chicago breweries warn that hijackers threaten to stop early morning beer deliveries on April 7. Officials including Charles Ellman say 150 trucks may not run before dawn and armed guards are being considered as police brace for a high-risk night due to cash-heavy first deliveries.
Decatur Alabama AP Judge James E Horton in Morgan circuit court Tuesday afternoon dismissed a defense motion to quash the indictment against nine Negroes accused of attacking two white girls in the Scottsboro case.
AP reports the senate agriculture committee hears support for the administration farm bill from A B Blalock of the American Cotton Cooperative Association while opponents led by F E Mollin and C D Streeter voice objections. Streeter urges tax relief and mortgage relief, and House Banking Chair Steagall says mortgage refinancing legislation could be ready soon.
A passenger plane named City of Liverpool crashed near Dixmude Belgium. Fifteen people were killed instantly including twelve passengers and three crew members. Among the dead were one Belgian three Germans and eleven Britons. No Americans aboard. Eyewitnesses saw bodies fall as the flaming craft hit a farm on the outskirts of Dixmude toward Essen.
Deputies raided the Hollywood gambling casino, reputed to be patronized by celebrities, and arrested six men early Tuesday. Several gaming devices were confiscated while patrons in evening attire were not molested.
Iowa lawmakers defer tax revision action to next summer, trimming the session. A concurrent budget adjournment is targeted for April 8 with both chambers set to review the general appropriation bill and related measures. The Beatty Bennett tax revision report nears completion while Beardsley tax plans face delay.
Midwest officials request eight million dollars to fund a soil saving program along the Mississippi and tributaries. The plan aims to build erosion control structures and water diversion ditches across about 15,000 square miles in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota to halt rapid runoff and protect lands.
Barbara Wiles six year old daughter of Harold Wiles was found strangled in the basement of the Brooklyn tenement. Police questioned a barber who claimed to tend a sick man as officers swarmed the Bushwick building. The killer used a skipping rope and an iron spike to secure the strangling rope. This marked the fourth similar crime in the neighborhood in under two years.
In waste road tar the American Chemical Society reports great promise of a non habit forming morphine. The project uses phenanthrene from tar as a starting point to alter morphine’s habit forming properties. The work, by Dr. Lyndon F. Small and Dr. Nathan B. Eddy with the Virginia and Michigan teams, aims to separate medicinal aspects from the habit forming effects. (Continued on Page 10, Column 7.)
The Senate voted to grant the President authority to enlist up to 250 000 men from soup kitchens and bread lines for a two year forest work program at government expense. The measure, part of a larger relief package, passed in about three hours with a largely party line vote and moves to the House for action.
Representatives of the oil industry presented Secretary Ickes with a plan for drastic federal regulation to curb overproduction. A fifteen‑member committee urged a government official with wide powers to oversee enforcement, and discussed regulating interstate oil shipments. The plan remains tentative and unapproved by Ickes.
Curtis B Dall president Roosevelt's son-in-law joined the Chicago board of trade on Tuesday. He was welcomed by Peter B Carey president of the mart.
A literary critique voices disappointment with Bernard Shaw for mocking sacred beliefs in "The Adventures of a Black Girl in her Search for God" and calling Christ a conjurer. It questions whether Shaw, lauded for his prose and plays, has answered deep human questions.
London AP reports Lieutenant Baillie-Stewart was acquitted on three charges of attempting to gather military information. The court martial reserved the remainder of findings for higher authorities, with ten counts originally charged. The verdict aligns with the judge advocate general’s instructions and final results await another ruling.
Ohio received an emergency relief loan of 2,709,161 dollars from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The funds are earmarked for twenty two political subdivisions to be used during April.
President Roosevelt ordered a 15 percent salary reduction for government employees effective April 1 under the emergency economy act. He cited a 21.7 percent drop in the cost of living since 1928, with cuts limited to 15 percent and tied to living-cost data from the Labor Department.
Ralph O Hara was booked on a first degree murder charge Tuesday for the slaying of Fred Oser, rebel movie operator, last Friday in the headquarters of the movie operators union. Assistant State's Attorney Charles A Dougherty said he will oppose releasing Thomas Maloy on habeas corpus. Maloy spent the night in jail after surrendering to police Monday.
Washington expected new Roosevelt administration securities legislation to curb misrepresentation in new stock and bond issues. The Senate Banking Committee asked for a statutory compilation of violations and full disclosure of promoters assets and interests.
Russ Colombo, a radio singer, said Reno’s attitude toward divorce changed him after a New York society woman withdrew a planned marriage en route. He avoided naming the woman, denying it was Hannah Williams Kahn, wife of Roger Wolfe Kahn. He called them old friends in a strange city.
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