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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1933
Page
1
The governors of Maine and Pennsylvania threaten to stop purchasing Ford autos unless the auto code is signed. NRA officials reiterate opposition to boycotts and urge patronage of Blue Eagle businesses while warning that exclusive support risks broader economic harm. Prices, debt, and public works loom as federal actions shape relief, rail, and banking policies.
Adolf Hitler told a vast crowd at Zeppelin field near Nurnberg that the nationalist anti Jewish Nazi movement will survive for many generations. He said Nazis will meet again in Nurnberg in two four 20 80 or 100 years as white national socialism becomes inseparable from Germany and its people. The field held about 500 acres packed with brown clad supporters.
In Nurnberg Goebbels and Rosenberg urged measures against international Jewry warning bolshevism and chaos could follow. Franz Hofer, Austrian Nazi, was freed and brought to Italy amid a political challenge to anti Nazi forces. Goebbels claimed private talks over the Jewish question were under way across nations as Europe faced bolshevization risks.
The forecast calls for one or two showers at the start of the week with normal temperatures. Cooler conditions follow in the middle and toward the end of the week.
Disillusioned Joan Ormond faces a hostile stepmother and stern father as she navigates love and betrayal. The Gazette begins the serial How Joan Loved Through by Gladys E. Johnson, with the first chapter set to run Tuesday.
Everyday religion argues the brain is a vast telephone system linking to the soul. It questions whether people hear their own inner voice and warns many would fear or ignore the still small voice guiding what they ought to do. The piece praises soulful insight from poets, prophets, and saints and cites Jesus on inner kingdom awareness.
Vermont voters head to the polls next Tuesday in a special election on repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. The decision tests state keepers of prohibition against a wave of repeal mood sweeping other states.
United States gross debt increased by 488,626,262 in August to 23,098,514,910. Net general fund balance rose to 1,199,515,472. August receipts totaled 187,788,487 with income taxes 14,483,595 and farm processing tax 9,134,166. Customs receipts reached 32,690,281, and total expenditures for August stood at 309,716,804.
In Garrison North Dakota an 14 year old boy Shirley Knapp died during a house fumigation. Floyd Guenther 13 dragged him out but failed to save him. Guenther then pulled 10 year old Wilbur Tank outside where he revived.
The Department of Justice says Jenny Ingram Barrett the family maid confessed to attempting to extort $20,000 from Mr and Mrs Will of Piedmont threatening harm to their nine year old daughter Mary She will be prosecuted for the crime reported in San Francisco AP dispatch by the Justice Department.
Six top balloonists launched at dusk for the Gordon Bennett race in Glenview Illinois amid strong winds from the southwest. Roy Liggett of Omaha died in an airplane crash before takeoff as inflation problems and a torn envelope rent marred the start. The Goodyear IX led the field at launch with entries from the United States Germany Poland and Belgium amid ceremonial fanfare and sponsors. The winner will be determined by airline mileage and is expected to land northeast of Chicago around Labor Day.
Rexford Guy Tugwell analyzes New Deal era tensions across the western regions noting the eagle symbol over towns and the NIRA code, while warning of wage-inflation gaps and hidden gains by some employers under code provisions as General Hugh Johnson’s influence grows.
Kansas City AP reports Walter H. McGee was formally sentenced Saturday to be hanged on October 16 for kidnapping Mary McElroy, daughter of the city manager. Judge Southern overruled a motion for a new trial and an appeal to the state supreme court was granted, potentially delaying the execution.
Madison officials report that the American Pharmaceutical Association resolved to discourage beer and liquor sales in drug stores after repeal. Members urged restricting sales to preserve the profession’s tone and called for tighter food and drug act enforcement against misleading mouth washes medicines and cosmetics.
A combined eighty piece band, the largest in Cedar Rapids parade history, will headline the NRA jubilee procession at 5 p.m. next Friday. George Liddle leads the American Legion parade committee with cooperation from Walter L. Reitz, Benjamin Jansa, and Dr. T. A. Griffin in uniting for the event. Major C. A Russell will bring 200 Civilian Conservation Corps members from Palisades to march. Lieut. F. G. Crandall backs the Palisades corps, with arrangements to be finalized by Tuesday. The parade and Legion drum and bugle corps contest at Bunny Ball Park that evening are expected to attract many spectators.
Secretary Ickes fixed a daily oil production limit of 2 409 700 barrels under the NRA code. The allocation by state includes Texas 975 200 and Oklahoma 540 000 with others listed. effective Sept 8 at 7 am. No withdrawals from storage without Ickes order after industry commission approval. Imports limited to the six month average of 1932.
Eleanor Holm, noted swimmer and film actress, and Arthur Jarrett, singer, married Saturday in a quiet ceremony at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills. A wedding breakfast followed at Genevieve Tobin’s home before a honeymoon trip to Santa Barbara.
Cedar Rapids residents endured hot weather as the temperature peaked at 89 degrees around 3 p.m. after a high of 81 earlier. Skies stayed fair with little rain, while readings at 8 p.m. showed 78 degrees.
Claude Smith 21 of Watertown was killed and Howard Parsloe and Joe Reed Jr. of Clark were injured when their car overturned three miles west of Raymond while en route to a dance. Parsloe was listed as critically injured.
Auto toll data for Cedar Rapids shows 208 accidents, 249 injuries, and 13 deaths this year. Authorities note ongoing traffic safety concerns and call for targeted enforcement and road improvements.
Eleven people face federal grand jury indictments in the machine gun massacre of four officers and a prisoner at Union Station Kansas City last June. Named are Harvey Bailey Wilbur Underhill Verne Miller Robert C Brady Hebert A Farmer Esther Farmer Frances Nash Louise Conner Richard Tallman Louis Stacci Fritz Mulloy and others. Indictments allege conspiracy to free a federal prisoner and to conceal an escaped convict with Bailey and Miller identified as the actual gunmen. Mulloy bonded at 2500 dollars with Otis and Beardsley approving.
Harry Christie reports three men in a car attempted to hold him up on Mount Vernon avenue between Eighth and Fourteenth streets Saturday night. He escaped as one man poked a gun at his ribs and shouted to attract bystanders. Illinois license 104 654 tracked by Mount Vernon marshal.
Marquette Michigan Henry Ford holds to isolation at Mount Huron cabin as the NRA deadline nears. He may present his own plan or continue opposition. only brief calls to Dearborn offices surface amid growing expectation of a decision by next Tuesday. He talked with his son Edsel by telephone Thursday night.
President Roosevelt eyed a plan to let the Reconstruction Finance Corporation channel funds through mortgage companies formed by local businessmen to supply loans for increased payrolls under the NRA. The plan aims to aid financially strapped firms, with Johnson seeking agreement on coal code disputes and Ford’s stance on the automobile code keeping NRA progress tied to broader recovery efforts.
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