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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1933
Page
1
In Washington the President and the Russian Soviet commissar resolved a twelve year stalemate quickly. The two leaders reached direct agreement on recognizing Russia’s regime and limiting foreign propaganda. Bullitt’s Moscow mission is retooled toward a clearer, more promising path.
Police took Thurmond from a city jail to San Mateo bridge to indicate where he and Holmes dumped Brooke Hart into San Francisco bay after kidnapping for ransom. Two divers and an airplane joined the search for Hart's body near a bloodstain on the bridge rail and a concrete block Thurmond said was used to keep the body submerged.
In San Jose and San Francisco investigators press on as Brooke Hart's disappearance remains unresolved. Mrs Estensen recounts a rekindled love affair with Holmes and an alleged discussion with Mrs Holmes about the affair and Hart case. She places the couple with Holmes at her home the night Hart vanished and recalls their cinema outing and later football attendance. She says Holmes spoke of the Hart crime, calling any such act the lowest.
Senator Henrik Shipstead touring western Minnesota counties says conditions are desperate for thousands of farmers. Families lack food and livestock feed, with state funds already provided and a special session next month to consider additional aid.
Ninety million Japanese pray the emperor and empress will have a son heir to the dynasty. Doctors say the newborn could arrive late December. Wet nurse candidates are chosen from seven prefectures with two final picks. national rejoicing hinges on a prince.
A 1933 reflection recalls Lincoln at Gettysburg delivering a few words as poetry born of vision. It contrasts Everett’s oratory with Lincoln’s simple, immortal lines and notes a later reunion of blue and gray fifty years after the Civil War.
Thomas Rosenbaum of 2101 Washington Ave SE in Cedar Rapids recalls that Maxim Litvinoff once Walch and lived on the same street in Bialystok before exile. Rosenbaum notes Litvinoff's path from rabbinic schooling to socialist circles, Siberian exile, name change, travels through Europe, and return after Bolshevik rise.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian sympathizers clash with demonstrators as United States recognition of Soviet Russia sparks street battles. Police arrest six. bottles and rocks fly as designs, banners, and slogans fill the demonstrations.
Governor Henry Horner called a special session of the Illinois legislature to meet Wednesday morning to take action on liquor control legislation in Springfield.
North Carolina Supreme Court examines the Smith Reynolds estate tangled by a 20 million dollar fortune. Questions center on probate of a will, rights of a widow, a former wife, and two children born during marriages, amid disputes over allocations and proposed parities and a memorial endowment.
Paris officials call U S recognition a vital step toward world peace. A Quai dOrsay spokesman says France recognized Russia believing its leaders seek peace, and anticipates favorable repercussions restoring world confidence.
In Tamaqua Pennsylvania the national labor board ended a second weeklong strike of hard coal miners. About 6 000 workers across six Lehigh Navigation Coal company collieries were ordered to return to work Monday.
American correspondent Kinnosuke Adachi argues Japan seeks bean cakes from Manchuria to feed its population and outlines alleged Qing dynasty oppression. He cites 66 million Japanese across 147000 square miles with rice reliance and bean cake fertilizer as a key, detailing tax, arson, arable loss, and a 10 million arsenal at Mukden. He portrays a harsh Chang regime controlling farmers, markets, and a vast army as cause for intervention.
The midwestern farm strike collapsed as the Wisconsin Farm Holiday association and the Wisconsin Cooperative Milk Pool quit actions in a joint Madison meeting. They suspend withholding farm produce pending a program for Omaha talks and urged farmers to avoid further debt while supporting cooperative action.
In Decorah Winneshiek county the Farmers Union voted Saturday to join the farm strike and set up modified picketing immediately, with no prior local effort to enforce the farm holiday.
Eleven men were arrested in Sioux City on malicious mischief charges after alleged cattle dumping. Fourteen others released on 50 bond after Clinton arraignments for unlawful assembly tied to Clinton highway picketing. Davenport reports two men say pickets dumped about twenty cases of eggs worth 140 dollars near New Liberty.
Tipton Cedar county highways were reported quiet Saturday night after farm picket disturbances Friday night. With livestock and produce markets closed Sunday, no shipping occurred Saturday night.
The Public Works Administration allotted 4.5 million dollars for three irrigation projects in Utah at Deer Creek Moon Lake and Sanpete. The Deer Creek project costs total about 9.97 million with an estimated 80 000 man months of employment. Non federal projects include Minnesota Wyoming grant water at 1 4 00.
Government buys 30 million pounds of cured pork for January to aid the destitute and reduce hog surpluses. About 4.5 million dollars spent with bids from 32 meat packers. Contracts list pounds and prices per pound including tax for Armour, J I Becker, Dubuque, John Morrell, Rath, and Swift companies with processing impact noted.
Gov Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania and wife Cornelia Bryce Pinchot earned student pilot licenses after taking a rigid medical exam. Reported that Pinchot passed despite his eight years in office and Mrs Pinchot plans to form a women's auxiliary to the national guard air corps after vision correction.
President Roosevelt reached Warm Springs Georgia after a Georgia tour with receptions at railroad stations. He came from Savannah and was greeted at the Little White House by Warm Springs Foundation patients officials and Meriwether county leaders. He planned quiet rest through Thanksgiving and would meet Sumner Welles on Sunday to discuss Cuba. He travels with his mother Stephen T Early and Miss Marguerite Lehand.
Idaho Senator William E Borah will leave for Washington on Sunday to attend a banquet next Thursday in New York honoring Maxim Litvinoff Soviet foreign minister. He was invited to speak but had canceled a prior Omaha Farm Bureau engagement due to a lingering cold and hoarse voice.
Weather forecast for a period starting Monday November 20 projects generally fair conditions with moderate temperatures in the lower Mississippi and Missouri valleys. The northern portion may see occasional rain or snow and frequent temperature fluctuations.
The Chamber of Commerce of the United States adopted monetary resolutions demanding an immediate return to the gold standard and opposing monetary experimentation. Senators pressed for broader silver remonetization while President Roosevelt faced calls to expand the monetary base. The administration set a price for Reconstruction purchases near 939.56 per ounce.
Aberdeen South Dakota five individuals faced federal indictments after a grand jury found willful obstruction of the emergency farm relief program by illegal hog sales. Indicted are J H Benedette Aberdeen livestock buyer Frank King Idney A Johnson Milton E Schlesinger and Donald B McIntyre of King Pig Co St Paul Minn. The probe was led by James R Williams federal operator from the Department of Agriculture and Edmund J Kohler of St Paul officials said.
Special senate committee will continue the investigation into the 1948 Louisiana U.S. Senate race for two more weeks, ending the day before Thanksgiving. Chairman Tom Connally said Louisiana hearing would close then to avoid a protracted inquiry and to avoid forcing witnesses to testify.
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