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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1933
Page
1
The piece argues farm price support and production cuts funded by processing taxes may aid national buying power, with Iowa poised to collect up to 70 million in farmer compensation. It criticizes state university construction requests totaling around 600,000 and questions board oversight and funding authority.
The British cabinet decided to seek France's consent to publish the inside story of Geneva arms talks. The move accompanies a push to continue disarmament negotiations with France and Italy before the conference reconvenes, amid Berlin accusations of misinterpretation and Hitler delaying a test of force.
President Roosevelt intends to push for higher farm income as farm prices rise 32 percent since the year ending March but are still deemed insufficient. An economist from the executive council showed the President that farm product prices in September were 32 percent higher than the twelve months to March, while farmer costs rose 18 percent in the same period.
The outlaw strike, started weeks ago in Hudson Coal and Penn Anthracite mines, spread to 20 000 workers at Glen Alden Coal company. The new call followed a Tuesday night grievance committee meeting in Exeter.
Hugh Bancroft aged 54, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal and Boston News Bureau, died Tuesday night after an eight month illness. Funeral services are planned for Thursday in Cohasset, Massachusetts.
A Cedar Rapids tally reports traffic tolls this year with data on accidents injuries and fatalities.
A youth group mocks old fears and taboos while a white haired elder answers with wit and wisdom. She recalls Goethe and the constancy of life and love as externals change. She contrasts fear with a broader horizon, urging courage to live fully.
A mob of over 1000 people dragged George Armwood from a Somerset county jail cell in Princess Anne Maryland after overpowering state police. They shouted lynch slogans and surged through the town as Armwood was removed from custody.
Senate investigators exposed Albert H. Wiggin, former head of Chase National Bank, earning 320000 in 1931 including a 75000 bonus and 320000 salary, while he recommended wage reductions for industrial labor in 1931 to boost labor buying power.
Senate inquiry exposes Chase National Bank stockholders using the Metropolitan Corporation to handle 900 million dollars in stock trades from 1928 to 1932. A 121 percent stock dividend on August 23, 1929, distributed 500,000 shares when values exceeded 100 dollars, yielding about 50 million dollars to holders.
The federal trade commission seeks company disclosures on executive pay amid headlines of six figure salaries and near 1.5 million totals for Chase National Bank’s former chair. Noted figures include Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel and George Washington Hill of American Tobacco.
Federal Trade Commission asks 2,000 companies to provide salary data for executives and directors after Roosevelt's look at movie pay. Officials privately forecast steps to limit big business pay scales.
In Bloomington a four way death by own action theory emerged after investigators found all gas stove jets open and a party in a city apartment ended in four deaths. The victims are Claude A. Hicks Marie Baxter Madelaine Van Ordstrand and James McCabe. Hicks once served as athletic director at a state institution.
Washington AP Hugh S Johnson Wednesday approved regulations for the cotton textile industry. No new productive machinery may be installed except for replacement or to bring existing machinery into power unless he certifies permission.
Washington ap reports that a two year processing tax on corn and hogs begins November 5 raising prices for pork chops sausage ham bacon and corn meal. hog tax rises from 50 cents to 2 dollars per hundred live weight by February 1 1935 with expected revenue of 348 million. processors unlikely to absorb the tax leaving consumers bearing the burden. assurances of anti profiteering and price controls accompany staff studies on impact.
Washington officials report the Roosevelt administration has moved recognition of Soviet Russia toward final Cabinet discussion. Informal talks with Soviet representatives are reportedly underway to resolve impediments, with renewal of diplomatic relations possibly before November 1.
Linn County's 1932 taxes payable in 1933 show favorable results versus 1931. Through Oct 17 more than 80 percent of 1932 taxes were paid, while over 84 percent of 1931 taxes collectible in 1932 had been received. Total 1932 collections reached 2,529,792.90 of 3,130,324.59, vs 3,110,983.93 of 3,666,321.07 last year. 1932 outstanding taxes were 600,531.69 with 555,337.14 delinquent for 1931 on the same date last year.
Six Nazis from Saalfelden armed with revolvers attacked an Austrian auxiliary frontier defense corps detachment in Salzburg. One Austrian defender was wounded and one Nazi, Riedelsberger, was injured. the group fled into Bavaria leaving him behind.
Art Stumpf of Rockwell City won the Calhoun county husking derby with 2 326 pounds of corn. Clarence Pitstick took second with 2 177 pounds. Nine contestants entered the event held at J C Morris farm east of Rockwell City. The average yield was 70 bushels.
Chicago Tribune publisher Col. Robert R. McCormick tells Inland Daily Press association that newspaper men carry a great duty to defend press freedom for all people. He traces press control efforts from early English history to modern code attempts and urges scrutiny of government influence.
Chicago editor Phil S. Hanna warned at a Midwest press conference that the NRA could steer America toward dictatorship. He urged that democracy rests on a free press and stressed newspapers as a check on bad government.
The T. M. Sinclair company received a city permit Wednesday to remodel its hog house at an estimated cost of 15000 dollars. The roof will be raised and redesigned into a saw tooth pattern to improve light and ventilation. Loomis Brothers are the contractors.
President Roosevelt announced that the treasury bond issue of 500 million dollars was over-subscribed nearly four times. Subscriptions reached about two billion dollars as mail subscriptions continued after the cash issue books closed Tuesday night.
In Waco Texas UPI reports T B Bean shot at an osprey and killed the bird. He then found a live 13 inch bass clutched in the osprey's talons proving the fish had been hunted by the bird.
Charles E. Hearst president of the Iowa Farm Bureau urges farmers to study and back the corn hog program as an emergency measure to restore buying power for corn and hog producers. He warns against overproduction and warns that continued imports could bankrupt farmers, calling for temporary limits and coordinated farm policy.
The Interstate Commerce Commission fixed the valuation of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific system as of December 31, 1916, at 413,537,295 dollars. The total Rock Island property value is 331,059,132 dollars, with 78,115,000 dollars in property leased from others and operated by the company. It also owns 1,059,132 dollars of property leased to other railroads and 7,800,291 dollars of non-railroad property.
Ford Motor Company says it is not negotiating settlement of the Edgewater New Jersey strike through the National Labor Board. The board reports difficulty in its first meeting as Ford managers doubt their authority to confer with strikers.
Four northwest railroads including Great Northern Northern Pacific Soo Line and Milwaukee railroads said they would abide by federal law and ship wheat, challenging Governor Langers embargo order and denying state power to block export. The decision followed an all day conference as Langer ordered the National Guard to enforce the embargo at midnight.
A late Wednesday hint from Dawson suggests North Dakota wheat embargoes could be reduced to a few hours. Gov. William Langer issued a proclamation for midnight causing speculation on rescinding the embargo before shipments proceed.
Rebel forces retreat northward while government troops reclaim Donmuang airport after rebels evacuated it as their first base. A seventh plane was downed in three days on the grand palace roof. the pilot died. Rebels led by army and navy officers demand Premier Phya Bahol’s resignation and seek to separate the army from politics. The king remains at his summer palace near the Burmese frontier.
A 1934 jubilee Passion Play cast is selected by a committee including local priest and village council. Alois Lang is chosen for Christ, Anton Lang to speak the prologue, Anni Rutz as Mary, Klara Mair as Magdalena. Alois is 44, an accomplished wood carver and beekeeper who served as a private in World War I.
Norfolk, Va. Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, bed bound at the Monticello hotel due to throat infection, shows steady improvement. Doctors expect he may be able to leave his room late Wednesday or Thursday and join his flagship Jacob Ruppert at Panama if infection clears in time.
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