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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1936
Page
9
Washington AP reports Works Progress Administration figures show more semi skilled workers than unskilled on relief rolls amid a slump. The study covers 6,385,740 individuals certified for jobs, with 1,021,275 in semi skilled industry roles and 960,397 unskilled workers.
The report notes no unemployed women seeking jobs in any category while men show unemployment across every classification. It highlights seventeen unemployed men listed as taking in washings, underscoring gender disparities in work availability.
Albert Kremers cites Editor Gazette remarks on the New Deal delaying recovery and notes General Motors 1930s sales and earnings, contrasting with 1931 32 prosperity claims and questioning private initiative as a recovery driver.
Hollywood stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr and his bride began life as a married couple with a return to work. Fairbanks, resuming his film producing duties, arrived back in Hollywood after a European honeymoon.
Lady Sylvia Ashley and her companion appeared radiant as they deplaned at Grand Central Air Terminal. A midnight greeting drew movie fans and autograph seekers amid a transcontinental journey.
ATLANTA AP The guard turned away and Joe Wood a Negro trusty drank from a whisky bottle found in the city jail. The bottle was caustic poison held as evidence in a death by own action case. Clarence Twenty three members are in the graduating class to receive diplomas at commencement exercises Thursday evening May 21. The class roll includes Selma Kline Thelma Harness Alberta Young LaVonne Baltisberger Irene Meyer Henera Sonnemaker Evelyn Steffens Fernand Ruth Winey Lavern Bergman Elwood Bunge Kenneth Crist Frederick Decker Eldon Feddersen Richard Goldsmith Leroy Hansen Lawrence Hartig Herman Helmold Robert Long Lester Rix Lawrence Rither Marvin Tucker Mearl Toerber.
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