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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1933
Page
1
A 1933 column probes the meaning of democracy amid postwar upheaval and New Deal talk. It questions constitutional strength, social experiments, and the nation’s direction, noting unemployment, agricultural aid, industry critique, and the push toward broader social reform.
Senate banking committee to hear from Ferdinand Pecora as Wednesday resumes Morgan inquiry. Debate over potential Woodin successor including James Cox. Pecora expected to present list of Morgan clients who bought stock at bargain prices.
Cedar Rapids police answer to a prowler report found Clyde Perrigo by the Chapek home. Patrolman Bukacek, with Cop Condon, subdued Perrigo after a brief contact inside the yard. Perrigo faces charges of attempted break in intoxication and resisting an officer.
A reflective essay on grave sites and the flag as political religion. It links Memorial Day reverence to national ideals, recalling battles from Bunker Hill to Argonne and the duty to honor those who died for the republic. Copyright 1933.
Aberdeen Washington reports more than 1,000 workers back in the lumber industry on Tuesday signaling an industrial revival. Optimism rose as daily reports highlighted improved activity in the lumber producing center near Aberdeen.
Paris's government rejected immediate signature of the Mussolini pact citing insufficient guarantees for France. Daladier favored approval only with safeguards, but Parliament will be consulted, risking delays before the world economic conference in London June 12.
CHICAGO AP Daniel Gilday prohibition worker faced Judge Joseph Fitch as a verdict of $12,000 damages was upheld against him in a case brought by Herman Knol. Gilday shot Knol in a street encounter and an appeal bond of $13,500 was set as he contemplated an appeal.
The gold standard repeal bill, passed by the House 283 to 57, moves to the Senate where leaders forecast a partisan battle. Senator Robinson says action could come this week to allow removal of gold clauses from upcoming bond issues, with Reed and Glass leading the opposition, warning the move breaks faith with gold clause bondholders.
Washington report notes the House and Senate pushing emergency measures including a 50 percent cut for Veterans Administration and independent offices, new federal employment system proposals, and a gold standard bill gaining rapid passage. A proposed flat ten percent sales tax faces discussion amid debate on oil industry controls and public works funding.
Hollywood film actress Sue Carol announced on Tuesday that she and her husband Nick Stuart have separated permanently. Carol moved to an apartment while Stuart returned to his parents' home. They were married four years and have a year-old daughter, Caroll Lee. No divorce plans were announced.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt abandons a planned flight to Washington due to bad weather and travels by train instead, departing New York Tuesday morning.
Cedar Rapids paid tribute to its war dead with a morning ceremony, a veterans parade, water ceremony, and a memorial at Oak Hill cemetery led by Col. Co. B. Robbins, former assistant secretary of war. The event featured a marching parade, military bands, and a roll call of veterans from Civil War to Spanish American War.
Former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher denied reports of imprisonment at Kuestrin fortress and said he is at home leading a quiet life not involved in politics. He spoke by telephone in Potsdam.
Special to The Gazette reports Iowa lieutenant governor Nelson G Kraschel has withdrawn from all federal posts except potential head of the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation in Sioux City He remains in the race for that credit bank post while rumors link A Sykes of Ida Grove to the farm bill administratorship and customs collectors role Gillette notes Sykes was asked to assist Kraschel if appointed and to consider the position earlier Morgenthau was informed Kraschel still sought the Sioux City post.
Lansing Kansas dispatch reports Wilbur Underhill a 30 year old killer led an eleven convict jailbreak at the Kansas State Prison. Six taken hostages were freed. several others, including Robert Brady Frank Sawyer James Clark Alvis Payton Edward Davis and Kenneth Conn, were habitual criminals serving maximum sentences. Underhill faced two murder convictions with a third charge pending.
Police said vandals who stole traffic signals at a highway intersection caused a crash that killed John Walsh aged 55 and John Swartz aged 19. Three others were critically injured in Chicago.
Simeon Martin 87, one of Springville's last Civil War veterans, was believed dead after collapsing on Memorial Day. By 2 p.m. he was alive, had lunch, and in the cemetery at dusk had finished a checkers game at 5:12 p.m., proving the death report exaggerated.
London reports Ambassador Robert W. Bingham announces U S readiness to reduce tariffs immediately to revive world trade. He warns that high tariffs do not boost wages or prosperity and urges proper agreements to enable buying. The Prince of Wales cites Roosevelt in a toast to the ambassador.
Washington reports a tentative list for the London mission with Cordell Hull as chairman James M Cox as vice chairman Key Pittman Senator James Couzens Samuel D McReynolds and Ralph W Morrison named among the delegates and advisers pending departure plans
Balfe MacDonald, named as a suspect in the slaying of his mother in Flint Michigan, was arrested Tuesday while sleeping in a hotel lobby. He claimed to be Joseph Downey of Long Island and said he was 19. A technical charge was filed and Michigan authorities notified.
Fay Webb Vallee estranged wife of Rudy Vallee and Noel J. Saacayo, said to be related to Dr. Juan Sacasa president of Nicaragua, were recovering from injuries after their automobile collided in Hollywood Tuesday.
Rainy Memorial Day services mark the nation as President Roosevelt attends Arlington exercises. New York sees fifty thousand in parade while a naval squadron drops flowers for the Akron victims. Chicago unites old foes in a friendly gesture. Lincoln memorials, Gettysburg rites, and Century of Progress events feature orations, marches, and taps as Swanson and Dern reaffirm peace efforts.
A band of eleven inmates at the Kansas penitentiary escaped over the wall with Warden Kirk Prather and two guards as hostages and kidnapped a woman and two girls to act as shields. They led a wild chase across eastern Kansas toward Oklahoma with peace officers pursuing. leader Wilbur Underhill sought a hideout, and the siege involved heavy mobilization and gunfire.
President William Green of the American Federation of Labor summoned delegates representing five million organized workers to Washington Tuesday night to ensure the laboring classes gain all possible benefits under the national recovery act. He announced the convention would be held June 6.
New York firm reports two strong earth shocks recorded by Fordham University seismograph about 2,200 miles south of New York City, likely in Central America.
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