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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1933
Page
1
In a fragmented column, debates spark over NRA policy, business role in recovery, and Ford's stance. Strikes affect hosiery workers, while Commissioner Kruidenier reshapes police. Fort Madison prison issues under Haynes loom as White critiques board control. A Benton County rep faces fallout from illegal refunds probe.
Police and federal agents raid Chicago streets arresting over 134 public enemies including Edward O Donnell and Mathew Capone under a new vagrancy statute. Warrants seize gang chieftains, bodyguards, and liquor runners as prosecutors push broad criminal reputation prosecutions. Several murderers and criminals convicted or scheduled for long terms in separate court actions.
Washington leaders prepared to inject millions into the credit stream to spur recovery. A definite policy emerged after talks among President Roosevelt, Jesse H Jones, Eugene Black, and Dean G Acheson.
A new romance by Gladys E. Johnson writing as Ann Forrester will appear as the Gazette's next serial. Titled How Joan Loved Through, the story follows the author of Spite Wife, a novel popular with Gazette readers. It will begin next Tuesday in The Gazette.
A reader question inspires reflection on religion linking daily life. Religion is a faith and spirit guiding work, sorrow, joy, and play, not an afterthought or side show. The piece urges integrating worship and inner life to avoid losing the soul amid modern rush.
In San Jose California prosecutor Allan Lindsay rested the state's case against David A Lamson sales manager at Stanford University Press accused of first degree murder in the death of his wife Allene. Adjournment was taken until 10 am Tuesday.
A 19 year old former reformatory inmate in Robinson Illinois signed a confession admitting he and two others invaded the Weldon farm near Newton killing the elderly sister and beating Weldon and his niece into unconsciousness during a robbery attempt. The youth John Allen of Danville named Henry Shelby of Tilton and cleared Harold Peck of Indianapolis.
The Austrian cabinet under Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss voted to issue a decree for immediate training of 8,000 military reserves. The move came after Nazi incidents along the German border as Dollfuss rushed to a hospital for his wife’s appendicitis operation.
Henry Ford plans to publish a code offering to share profits with about 40,000 workers and to raise wages 15 to 20 percent. NRA head Hugh S. Johnson has urged him to submit a formal code, but Ford is set on presenting his plan to the public if the deadline passes. Ford aims to position himself as a worker ally while challenging the administration’s program in a potential sustained campaign.
Marquette dispatch says Henry Ford, the leading independent industrialist without the blue eagle, will meet with executives of his numerous enterprises Friday to announce his stance on President Roosevelt's national recovery program.
A Ford Motor Company executive, requesting anonymity, dismissed claims that Henry Ford would publicly implement a profit sharing plan with workers. He said, Those are Mr Ford's ideas, and that Ford intended to act regardless of NRA pressure, recognizing the dispatch as Ford's concept.
A late night milk company office robbery in St Paul ended with a bandit killed and another wounded, along with Policeman William Boeck seriously hurt. Four suspects forced employees to the floor as the manager opened the safe, loot recovered and all bandits captured.
Washington AP reports the American Federation of Labor credits the recovery program with adding about 5 billion dollars in purchasing power, predicting a 17 percent rise in retail sales as September begins. The survey notes wage gains, rising farm income, and renewed worker re-employment through July and August, with further action on coal and gasoline prices under consideration.
The American Railway Association reports for the week ending August 26 carloadings at 631,998, down 2,847 from the prior week. The total is 94,23? cars above the same week in 1932 but 131,553 below the corresponding week two years earlier.
President Roosevelt views Germany under Chancellor Hitler as pivotal to disarmament efforts. He favors unreserved acceptance of MacDonald plan for an international commission to inspect armaments and coordinate worldwide limits. Norman Davis heads U.S. push to persuade Berlin, Paris and London to join, with inspections and production controls under international supervision.
A day’s search among 3,000 inmates at Stateville Prison near Joliet Illinois uncovered pink silk underwear finger nail polish cold cream perfume and a home brew recipe. Authorities documented the items found during the sweep to assess contraband and possible organizing schemes.
Professor Rexford Tugwell will write a weekly series in the Cedar Rapids Gazette titled Design For Government. He will analyze what the Roosevelt recovery administration has achieved, what may come from emergency laws, and whether the current upswing in business and employment will continue.
Six hundred coal miners at Rock Island No 3 mine in Chariton Iowa declared they will not return to work until operators agree on a code under the National Industrial Recovery Act and urged solidarity with miners in Iowa Illinois Indiana Michigan. The unanimous resolution, signed by Robert Lee and local union leaders, calls the President and NRA to enforce fair wages and shorter hours to aid unemployed workers. Similar action was planned for Mine No 5.
The national convention of young Democrats rebels against party control after postmaster general Farley leaves for Washington. Delegates scrap the sanctioned program, form a new agenda, while leaders attempt to talk down the revolt. Tyre Taylor and George B Freeman withdraw to clear the path for a dark horse candidate.
Iowa 4-H baby beef sale at the state fair pavilions drew attention as Lieut. Gov. Nels Kraschel auctioned. Joe Dean Miller of Bloomfield sold Tailor Made, the grand champion Hereford, for 23 cents a pound, a Des Moines cafeteria bid boosting the price well above Chicago steer rates. The reserve grand Angus from Arthur Daniels of Adair earned 14 5 cents a pound, and Lawrence Gross of Greenfield’s Shorthorn sold to a Des Moines packing company for 11 5 cents a pound.
A tropical storm hit Cuba and the Caribbean, disabling a British freighter and injuring five in Havana as winds toppled trees and damaged roods. The Josephine Gray sent a distress message about drifting 100 miles east of Havana while the Abel Foam prepared aid once seas calm. Waves lashed waterfronts as the storm center moved north of Havana by night.
Washington reports reveal a split in the NRA over labor policy as Dudley Cates accuses an effort at forced unionization could spark civil war while Hugh S Johnson defends neutrality under the recovery laws. Johnson says craft unions are obsolete but must protect existing unions. The exchange signals ongoing tensions within the NRA as Cates resigns.
Seven thousand four hundred nineteen Cedar Rapids housewives pledged support to NRA members by Friday at 2 p.m. The canvass covered three of twenty three precincts with 401 signers in fourth, 476 in twentieth, and 284 in twenty third. Reports from other precincts reached 1 p.m. under Mrs. J W Ballard.
ST LOUIS UP six deaths in 24 hours push total to 53 in the epidemic. Health authorities report no new lead on the carrier or a serum to fight the encephalitis germ, with about 400 cases in one month. COUNCIL BLUFFS IA report notes two and possibly three new cases.
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