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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1933
Page
1
The era's political currents mix with local schooling concerns as debates over senior high consolidation rise. Highlights include labor and international ties, railroad shifts, and a plan to replace aging facilities with shared junior high sites to create a six year high school system, with financial savings and logistical changes outlined.
Vienna reports Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, back in office after an assassination attempt, outlining a plan to build a new economic edifice for Austria. He praised Providence for surviving the shots by Rudolf Dertill, pledging unchanged policy and priority on economic reconstruction while warning against hindrance to the government's work for the people.
Cincinnati report says the Evangelical Synod of North America voted unanimously to union with the Reformed church embracing about 900000 communicants The merger awaits two years for adjustments and the creation of a new governing body to replace the two high councils involved on both sides of the denominations
Washington reports Dr. James Doran head of the bureau of industrial alcohol issued orders permitting American distilleries to raise annual whisky production by 7,000,000 gallons. Strong demand for medicinal whisky amid changes in prescription laws and possible repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment drove the decision, lifting medicinal whisky capacity to 18,000,000 gallons this year.
AP dispatch reports two persons died in a Kansas crash near McCune as pilot and plane owner Paul Calhoun and high school student Eugene Stotts, both of McCune, were killed. Student Thomas Lassure was critically injured after the aircraft plunged about 250 feet during approach.
In Bloomington, nine members of two families were injured in a Saturday automobile collision near the city. Injured were Robert Gephart and his family from Vincennes, Mrs. Tra Bryson and her daughter, plus Martin Isom and his family from Brown County. Three Isom sons in the car were unhurt.
Prior to a special election on taking a federal offer covering thirty percent of the actual construction cost for additions to junior high buildings, letters on the subject will be published and answered. The plan implies every elementary building would need an addition.
A reader asks how to keep mutual love amid life stresses and personal change. The piece warns that early and mid marriage are danger points as partners alter, sometimes toward tragedy, unless forewarned. It stresses faith, fortitude, patience, unselfishness, humor, and shared effort to keep marriage a lasting partnership.
Fiorello LaGuardia charges federal public works in New York City are blocked for political gain by Postmaster General Farley and Edward Flynn as Joseph McKee runs for mayor. A. B. Tuttle calls the claim unwarranted, noting all appointments are made. Tammany Hall axes Bronx leaders who backed McKee, removing Albert Goldman and Liebenau plus Louis Cohen and James Donahue from posts.
In Appleton Minnesota a farmer driven by money worries killed his 12 year old son and 14 year old daughter with a hammer, shot them, beat his wife and a 21 year old son, then fatally slashed his throat after believing all in the family were dead. The 43 year old William E. McKeever died. wife and son were wounded but expected to recover. Relatives note he recently bought five shotgun shells for his family.
The State Department drafts a Roosevelt era study predicting Russia after renewed ties would place about 350 million dollars in orders, employing over half a million, with raw materials payment and significant regional distribution across New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and other states.
INDIANAPOLIS IP Suspected of aiding six escaped convicts from the Indiana state prison four men and a woman were held in jail Saturday night Mrs Margaret Behrens 24 Indianapolis was taken into custody after officers were told she provided the convicts with money shortly after they escaped Ralph Saffell 33 said he was forced to harbor the six convicts in his home ten hours after the break He said a man and a woman brought the convicts to his house and kept them undercover for hours He identified the woman as Mrs Behrens and said she visited her husband and brother who are serving bank robbery terms
Washington report notes new federal legislation to curb stock market speculation and tighten Wall Street oversight. Administration and Senate committees push for ongoing investigations of leading houses while forming a study group headed by John Dickinson to report to the Senate Finance Committee.
A delegation from the National Farmers Union and the National Farmers Holiday Association urged President Roosevelt to declare a moratorium on farm mortgage foreclosures and evictions until farm prices reach cost of production. They also asked for currency inflation, price pegs for farms, and sympathetic NRA code consideration, praising the President as more than sympathetic and noting his offer to supplement farm credit relief with direct telegrams from farmers at risk.
Geneva AP report says Joseph Paul Boncour met Norman H. Davis after disarmament talks and indicated Germany’s claims of arms equality could be continued. Boncour did not disclose France’s official reaction, but France felt pressured as Germany did not share demands directly.
The steering committee of the world disarmament conference is summoned to a secret meeting in Askie ye Morday and Germany’s aim for arms equality looms large. Secretary Hull warns a critical stage depends on public opinion for no failure, while Germany seeks a 200,000 man army and disarming neighbors to a similar level during a trial period.
From Los Angeles County, Stanley Price 25 and Juan Garcia 22 were fatally stabbed in a Saturday prison fight at Folsom Prison California. A third prisoner named Harry Garcia from San Francisco stood in the incident and was not related to Juan Garcia.
CHICAGO UP scientists at the American College of Surgeons predicted the next century will shift medical focus from treatment to prevention. Leaders like Dr. Crile Dr. Jackson and Dr. Mayo argued surgery will peak with preventive medicine reducing needed operations. A 1833 hospital picture underscored past horrors while public meetings at Century of Progress and Chicago Stadium will showcase upcoming advances.
AP reports the week starting October 9 offers little precipitation across the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys plus the northern and central Great Plains. Temperatures will vary frequently in northern areas, with the week averaging near normal.
London AP reports a out of control car crashed into spectators during Buckingham Palace guard ceremony. Three RAF airmen were killed, four seriously injured. Driver F H Hills 45 suffered head injuries. The incident occurred as a band played and the king was in residence.
Mrs. Joseph McLaughlin mother of playwright Willard Mack died early Saturday at the Mack home in Beverly Hills California. Born Agnes Murray in New York City January 17 1855 she moved to Cedar Rapids with her husband and sons in 1875 1876 and 1908. Survived by five grandchildren and several cousins the family plans to inter her at a vault in Los Angeles before burial in Calgary beside her husband.
In Winnemucca Nevada Sheriff Lamb of Humboldt County was fatally wounded in a gunfight with a crazed cowboy Glenn Hibbs who then killed himself. The shooting occurred at the Pinson ranch where the sheriff and a posse had gone to arrest Hibbs for attacking his former wife and their child.
President Roosevelt ousted William A. Humphrey of Washington state from the Federal Trade Commission. George C. Matthews of Wisconsin was named to replace him, the second FTC appointment of the day after James M. Landis, a Massachusetts Democrat, was named to succeed Raymond B. Stevens. Stevens sought to resume duties as adviser on foreign affairs to Siam. No reason was given for Humphrey’s discharge, though he had been given opportunities to resign since July.
Washington reports President Roosevelt pressed steel company chiefs to grant captive mine workers the same union rights as regular pits. Recovery chief Hugh Johnson said the plan requires immediate collective bargaining, with the President ready to rule if talks fail and to deploy government aid as needed. The White House outlined eight points to govern captive mines and urged immediate negotiations with the United Mine Workers.
Independence report states Harry Knowles a well known farmer three miles north of Winthrop was found dead in a field on his farm Friday while plowing. A physician attributed the death to heart disease after his wife noticed the team standing still.
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