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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1933
Page
1
Report pieces recount National Farmers Holiday association protests near Sioux City and Neillsville, Wisconsin, where pickets halted trucks carrying cattle hogs and sheep and even blocked a liquor convoy guarded by a machine gun, prompting call for law and price fixing reforms.
The U S circuit court of appeals sent the case back to the U S agricultural commission for further hearings. It reversed a sixty day suspension order and criticized both the board of trade and the agricultural commission over the grain futures act. The ruling demands more evidence on the cooperative Farmers National Grain Stabilization and questions new clearing house rules aimed at keeping it out of eligibility. The opinion, by Judge Samuel Alschuler with Evans and Sparks concurring, urges inquiry into the co operative’s trading type.
Washington dispatch reports Gerard Swope Walter Teagle and James A Moffett will retire temporarily from the industrial advisory board of the recovery administration. Officials called it a rotation plan to free the industrialists for other recovery tasks and personal affairs.
A dynamite explosion at Five Corners Cheese near Appleton damaged the factory, four dozen windows broken, and residents alarmed. A note warned “Close up, or we’ll be back.” Factory manager John Steiner and his family were unhurt. Officials called the act isolated as farm strike movements gain support. milk receipts fell at Milwaukee dairies while Madison area was ringed by pickets and 2000 strikers manned road blocks.
Madison Wisconsin AP reports Attorney General James E Finnegan confronted about thirty farm strike picketers who halted his car on highway 18 near Madison. He briefly displayed a cap pistol to deter the gaggle of protesters.
An English paper reports on a new ray that turns a photographer's dark room into a light room by sharpening observers eyes. It argues faith and insight in science and art reveal hidden truths, guiding people from sorrow to hope and from fear to courage.
Arthur Schuessler of Lone Tree won the Johnson county corn husking contest with a net 1 979.5 pounds at the W R Hughes farm south of Iowa City. He defeated last year's winner Lloyd Burr who gathered 1 932.5 pounds. Ray Frank Hills placed third with 1 905 pounds Edward McCullough Lisbon was fourth with 1 755 pounds and Ivan Yoder Kalona fifth with 1 792.55 pounds.
Helen Clark Riordan died Monday after injuries from two auto accidents Sunday night Funeral services set for 10:30 am at Turner chapel Dr Robert Little of First Presbyterian will officiate Pallbearers listed Riordan daughter of Edward C Clark and Mrs Clark born in Cedar Rapids educated at Bennett Parsons later married John Edward Riordan They lived in Detroit before returning to Cedar Rapids active in welfare church and social circles. Continued on Page 9. Column 4.
Washington report states the Comptroller of the Currency issued a national bank call for condition as of October 25, the first since the July 2 call covering June 30 results. In Des Moines the State Banking Superintendent issued a condition call as of October 23.
The appellate court ruled Samuel Insull guilty of no fraudulent intent and refused the US request to extradite him to face bankruptcy law charges. At 74, Insull smiled as the ruling was announced while supporters applauded. Forest Harness led the US case. Insull, once a major utility magnate, sat through proceedings with an intent gaze.
Bridgeport Connecticut report states illustrator McClelland Barclay, jailed since Thursday under a body writ secured by his first wife Nan Barclay, was ordered released by Judge Frederick M Peassey on Tuesday. No reason given. no hearing reported. Earlier, Judge Peasley refused to vacate the writ issued by Judge Booth. Barclay faced alimony arrears with a $35,000 bail demand for release.
Adrienne Ames and Bruce Cabot, both screen stars, wed on the lawn of Armandine, the groom’s mother’s country home in Carlsbad New Mexico. The ceremony was witnessed by Miss Ames’s sister and Cabot’s close relatives. The justice of the peace read the marriage lines. Both had prior marriages. they left for El Paso and will honeymoon in Hawaii.
The Cedar Rapids toll statistics for the year show figures on accidents and injuries with a note on total deaths. The terse item records the counts and compares them to prior data, highlighting safety concerns in the local transportation network.
Washington reports the government raised the price of newly mined American gold to 32.12 per ounce, a 0.16 rise from Monday, keeping 91 cents above London’s world price. The London price stood at 130 shillings 7 pence, down from Monday. Roosevelt awaited British assurances on currency policy while preparations for foreign gold purchases continued, with the New York Federal Reserve named as agent for the Reconstruction Finance Corp. sale.
Washington AP reports the farm adjustment administration faces delays in a $500 million corn hog program as legal questions block contracts. Officials aim for one form covering corn and hog producers so mixed operations sign a single document for eligibility. Target reductions include 20 percent on corn and 25 percent on hogs amid disputes over tenants absentee landlords and missing past production data.
A 2-year-old boy, son of Mr and Mrs J R Anderson, drowned after falling into a neighbor’s two foot deep fish pool in Des Moines. The incident occurred Tuesday.
Washington AP reports Ford Motor Co will submit the wage and hours data required by the NRA code on November 6 or 7. The move follows NRA chief Hugh S. Johnson’s briefing with Alfred Reeves of the NACC. Johnson warned Ford could be referred to the attorney general if it failed to comply.
In Chicago at the Economic club a Dickinson West debate framed the NRA as both restraining and aiding recovery. Dickinson warned of centralization and unemployment while West praised morale, job creation, and rising purchasing power as essential to national recovery.
Wisconsin faced a serious milk shortage as farm strikers dynamited a cheese factory near Appleton and pickets extended to Milwaukee. Deputies mobilized statewide to quell protests, with many towns out of dairy products and some relief efforts for children and invalids.
DAVENPORT AP The Lisbon Co operative Creamery of Lisbon It was fined $50 and costs in federal court for violating the food and drug act. It shipped from DeWitt to New York last summer five tubs of butter deficient in milk fat.
DES MOINES AP Twenty five finalists representing Iowa’s elite cornhusking contestants were selected Tuesday night to compete in the twelfth Towa state cornhusking contest near Audubon on Friday. The lineup includes past champions such as Orville Wicks Lee Stogel and Clyde Tague along with a broad field of competitors from counties across the state. The chosen runners up and qualifiers boast strong records with husks rated by weight and quality, signaling a highly competitive event.
EDGEWATER N J AP To Gen Hughs Johnson Tuesday went charges of NRA violations on the part of the Ford Motor company After a meeting of a committee of strikers from the Ford assembly plant here Hugh V Reilly labor organizer and strike representative said specific charges and a petition for action had been drawn up Transmission of the documents was entrusted to Harry L Tepper chairman of the legal division of the state NRA The allegations were kept secret Reilly said however the Ford company has violated the principles of collective bargaining and resorted to coercion
President Roosevelt plans to spend Thanksgiving in the south. He will leave Washington around November 17 for Warm Springs, Georgia, to remain over the holiday. En route he may attend Savannah's bicentennial celebration and inspect the Tennessee Valley Authority project on the return trip.
The Harrison school district reports a diphtheria outbreak appears well checked with 36 total cases, mostly among children. two cases in Taylor district traced to Harrison contacts. Dr. Suchomel notes waning cases, with 16 in quarantine and four to be released by Wednesday. Immunization efforts aim to reach 400 children in Harrison within two weeks, with free treatment for those unable to pay.
Governors from five states and reps from five more conferred on farm relief measures to present to President Roosevelt. Proposals include cost of production pegged prices, mortgage refinancing at lower rates, embargo ideas, and higher import duties while Wisconsin calls off its Farmers Holiday strike pending the report.
Milwaukee AP reports attorney William B. Rubin for the Wisconsin co operative milk pool says the Farmers Holiday association strike's end probably leads to the pool ceasing non marketing activities as well.
Platinum blonde screen star Jean Harlow recovers from emergency appendectomy and is discharged from hospital to her Hollywood home. She plans to celebrate Halloween in familiar surroundings as she convalesces at home with rest and privacy.
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