10 May 1934
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1934
Page
1
Secretary Wallace indicates abnormal weather in the wheat belt could affect 1934 production. he denies predicting a 450 million bushel crop, saying it is too early to estimate drought impact. a crop bulletin due Thursday will carry the report.
A brief heavy downpour cooled Des Moines and Waterloo with scattered totals of .2 inches in two showers, while Cedar Rapids logged .06 inches. Heat and dust persisted across Minnesota to Nebraska as drought lingers in the Midwest and Chicago forecasters warn of limited rain and ongoing dryness.
Clouds brought light showers across two Iowa areas then cleared to sunny skies as heat peaked with 100 degrees in Inwood and mid 90s elsewhere. Weatherman Reed predicted cooler nights and fair days ahead with a possible dust storm from Dakota winds. Waterloo saw 0.03 inch and Dubuque 0.20 inch. Creston declared a water shortage and enacted a misdemeanor water-use ordinance.
Box score style recap lists results from games between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Brooklyn and Chicago, Boston and Cincinnati, New York and St Louis, Washington and Cleveland, plus St Louis versus New York and Detroit versus Boston. Standings show runs scored by each team, with pitchers noted for each contest.
A light dinner hour shower brought Cedar Rapids relief from a day of intense heat and dusty winds. Rainfall measured six hundredths of an inch, and the temperature fell from a high of 95 at 4 pm to 82 by 6 30 pm, with clouded skies signaling more rain overnight.
A wind driven fire on Wednesday swept through the grain elevator and coal yards of Wabasha Minnesota endangering the town. Ten large buildings were destroyed with damage estimated at 300000 dollars. The blaze began in the J D Dill company grain elevator.
Captain William Woods Smyth 54 a Marion native and Coe college graduate died at sea Tuesday aboard the battleship Tennessee where he was commander The nat ural death occurred aboard the hospital ship Relief during Caribbean maneuvers He advised the American delegation at the London naval conference and is survived by his widow in Philadelphia Born October 5 1879 he attended Marion public schools graduated from Coe college in 1899 and earned a naval commission after entering the US Naval Academy He held multiple commands and staff posts including executive officer on the Powhatan and command of the Hancock and Hannibal
The Gazette urges an honest exchange as Cedar Rapids weighs a three day standstill at the T. M. Sinclair plant. About eleven hundred workers are idle while officials, strikers, and a federal conciliator seek a settlement. The paper notes wage and hour disputes versus farm relief pressures and emphasizes the plant as Cedar Rapids' key industry.
Washington AP The House passed the Johnson bill to bar utility firms from seeking federal injunctions against rates set by state Public Service Commissions and added limits on challenges in municipal or sub-division agencies courts. The 201 to 19 vote sends the measure to the Senate.
In Calamata, Peloponnesus, police and harbor workers clashed during riots from Wednesday night into Thursday. Nine people died as striking stevedores and allies opposed the new grain-discharge elevator on ships, with corpses paraded and banks and buildings attacked. More reinforcements arrived to restore order.
A stick of dynamite was thrown from a speeding car at the Debardeleben Coal corporation commissary in Coal Valley Alabama early Wednesday. The blast shattered windows in surrounding buildings within about 200 yards and caused extensive damage.
Washington reports the farm administration will help beef cattlemen and draft a relief program but not impose it. Agriculture officials note a 6.5 million head overhang linked to low prices, proposing a 15 percent production reduction and a method to dispose of excess stock without breaking the market.
In a French airliner crash over the English Channel six people were reported lost after the aircraft, operating from Le Bourget to Croydon, disappeared in thick fog. The wreckage was later found with four Frenchmen a Swiss and a British steward aboard.
President Roosevelt, speaking on national policy, urged Congress to pass oil production control legislation during this session. He emphasized the need to regulate output and stabilize markets amid ongoing energy concerns domestically and internationally.
In Washington a Morgenthau meeting with Senate silverites produced diverging drafts on a mandatory silver reserve policy. Senator Borah withdrew, while other Democrats pressed for language forcing treasury action to acquire silver to reach 25 percent of the monetary reserve. The White House signaled support for a mandatory policy and discussions continue with additional senators and aides.
Judge Will M. Sparks granted a writ of habeas corpus for Samuel Insull and set a 9:30 a.m. Thursday hearing after Judge Alschuler refused to hear a petition to reduce a $200,000 bond. Floyd E. Thompson said Insull’s confinement endangers the 74 year old’s life and that friends could post only $100,000. Insull will be arraigned in federal court Friday on two federal cases including mail fraud and bankruptcy violations.
Griswold Iowa with 1139 residents will welcome Griswold State Bank after a two year absence. The bank opens Thursday morning and the Griswold Community Club plans a civic celebration to mark the event.
President Roosevelt said the United States will collect war debts while offering hearings to distressed nations. He signed the sugar production control bill, cut the sugar tariff by a half cent, and urged letting a new silver policy develop under his timing. Secretary Wallace hinted wheat output may fall due to bad weather.
The piece profiles Fred Robertson a preacher of marked sensitivity and restless ambition. It contrasts his failed army path with a vocation that yielded influence despite personal unhappiness. It argues happiness comes not from seeking but from giving and living for others. Copyright 1934.
President Roosevelt signed the Costigan Jones sugar control act and issued a statement explaining its effect on the insular possessions of the United States.
Rome reports the creation of a fascist corporative state with a three group guild system Agriculture Industry and Credit and the professions Each guild will have an executive committee with three fascist party members and equal representation from workers and employers The plan aims to replace parliamentary elections with deputies chosen by guilds under Premier Mussolini’s program to modernize Italy.
John Pryor of Burlington was named editor and Mary Briley of Washington Indiana was named business manager of Frivol the University of Iowa humor magazine by the board of control of student publications at the annual election Tuesday night Pryor is a junior in the school of journalism and Briley a sophomore in the liberal arts college
Union members of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen’s union will vote Thursday morning on quitting a strike that has paralyzed the T. M. Sinclair and Co. packing plant since Sunday night. Company officials say they favor collective bargaining and a possible guaranteed minimum work week, with open consideration by Chicago officials. Police were reinforced to protect workers returning to the Cedar Rapids plant as talks continue.
Dust shrouded St. Paul early Wednesday afternoon hiding the sun and hampering air traffic in the area.
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