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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1933
Page
1
The Cuban military and navy rebel against the post Machado regime as the De Cespedes cabinet resigns amid rising violence. American ships head to Havana to curb radicalism while debates push Washington to decide on direct involvement or withdrawal.
Unofficial reports describe a devastating hurricane sweeping the lower Rio Grande valley. At Matamoros the old cathedral collapsed killing about thirty. total deaths exceed 100 with victims in Brownsville San Benito and scattered communities as the storm crossed into Mexico.
Reported by United Press, the Houston area and Rio Grande valley felt powerful storms. Governor Quinn organized 100 doctors 125 nurses and relief trains as Brownsville Harlingen Raymondville and San Benito faced heavy destruction. Florida’s storm cut a $500 000 path through citrus while Texas endured 100 mph winds and widespread flooding with no confirmed deaths in Texas.
Five labor organizations in Des Moines filed protests with U S District Attorney Robert Calflesh alleging violations of NRA wage scales and related codes. Henry Joyce, president of the Des Moines building trades council, led the delegation with electricians painters team and truck drivers and laborers from carriers. Calflesh said he would forward the complaints to federal officials in Washington.
New Haven Connecticut professor Henry Walcott Farnum, a 40 year Yale faculty member and emeritus since 1918, died late Tuesday from pneumonia at age 79.
The report argues that profit gains will be large but require faster execution than the public works plan currently allows. It stresses urgency and efficiency to realize benefits.
NPEUONS of depositors would welcome freer spending if they could release money blocked in closed or restricted banks for months. The speaker urges immediate action by Uncle Sam to unlock these funds.
Dr. Joseph Fort Newton argues patience is the highest form of valor, citing Lincoln and Lloyd George. He contrasts swift, flashy acts with long, steady effort, urging believers to trust the process and endure the grind to win worthy goals.
An Erie passenger train collided head on with a freight train near Binghamton N Y causing an undetermined number of deaths and many injuries. Early reports say the passenger cars were telescoped and ambulances and medical staff were sent to the scene as both trains were traveling at high speed.
Cedar Rapids city council on Tuesday authorized immediate preparation of plans and specifications for a sewage disposal plant aimed at using local labor and enabling winter construction. The panel approved the Howard R Green Engineering study estimating a cost near 650000 dollars, with initial work focusing on final filter beds and a pre treatment unit funded by the packing plant. Louis J Zika announced the initial design will emphasize rock heavy final filter beds.
San Francisco report says Governor James Rolph Jr is recovering from bronchial pneumonia. Doctors issued a bulletin Tuesday predicting the crisis may come in three to seven days.
Meade Kansas police recount a dramatic highway park rescue when Mrs Anson Horning aided by Mrs T E Prather and companions subdued a bandit using a croquet mallet. The group fled in a car loaded with weapons leaving a kidnapped man behind and triggering federal links to the Underhill gang and the Urschel case.
Clista Millspaugh of Iowa 4-H health champion underwent a tonsil operation. She had lost points in the state fair health contest for not having tonsils removed and earned demerits for skin blemishes tooth fillings and a cracked leg bone. She plans further dental work and skin treatments to raise her score for Chicago national contest.
In Quinton Oklahoma residents participate in a corn cob fight as a lighthearted rural pastime. Neighbors mingle without sides and exchange volleys of corn cobs for entertainment and community camaraderie.
Des Moines AP report shows the Iowa board of railroad commissioners lowering intrastate coal rates by up to 20 percent. The new schedule, effective Sept 9, applies to single and joint line hauls and aims to align Iowa with neighboring states, benefiting western regions where coal is not mined. The commission labeled the old rates as unreasonable and directed charges for switching on joint hauls be included in the new schedule.
Vermont voters approved the Twenty First amendment repeal by an estimated 3 to 2 margin amid light turnout and optimistic forecasts from anti prohibitionists. The tally reflected 10 of 14 counties favoring repeal and followed Vermont’s 4-1 senate and 2-1 house votes for related beer measures.
Ford Motor Company, not under the NRA blue eagle, raised hourly wages for several thousand skilled workers a month ago in the Detroit area. Some workers report increases from $4.00 to $4.80 per day, while others say they have not received raises. Industry plans may bring about 81,000 idle workers back to plants as production targets rise.
Fourteen year old Peter Christopolus recounts his attempt to fit into the Strongs’ Paterson New Jersey home. He says the Strongs doubted his suitability and sent him back to Father Flanagan’s Omaha after a bus trip with the dye works manager.
Des Moines Iowa AP District Judge Allan A Herrick ruled that Insurance Commissioner E W Clark holds office legally and is entitled to salary. The decision follows an AG opinion that he was not properly named. Judge Herrick ordered a mandamus to obtain a salary warrant of 166 66 for the first half of August.
The Cedar Rapids city council unanimously repealed the all night parking ban effective 2 AM to 5 AM on business district streets. The measure aimed to prevent fire hazards and aid street cleaning but enforcement waned after a year. hotel owners and garage operators pushed for repeal citing lost customers and NRA conditions concerns.
Mrs l Schomberg and her 10 year old son Robert of 1632 Thirty second street NE were admitted to St Luke's hospital at 4 30 p m Monday with burns from a pan of jelly the boy spilled while his mother carried it from the stove to a table. The boy suffered burns to his right shoulder an arm and a foot while his mother burned on her left hand.
The national corn hog committee urged the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to levy a 20 cent per hundredweight processing tax on hogs to fund slaughter program costs. Packers warned any large tax would trigger unprecedented dumping of hogs and be a calamity.
Corporal John L. Sullivan, a World War II veteran and DSC recipient, says he is filling the President's shoes. As a member of the bonus army last summer he met President Roosevelt, who offered him a pair of shoes. Sullivan accepted and the shoes fit perfectly.
In Cuba a sergeant led revolt to seize army posts and topple the provisional government headed by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. The United States dispatched warships to Havana and Santiago while a five man civilian junta took power and US marines were not landed.
U S Navy balloonists T G W Settle and Charles H Kendal landed near Branford Connecticut after a long flight from Curtiss Wright Reynolds airfield. Settle, licensed to pilot any afloat craft, is believed to be among the leading balloons in the 1933 James Gordon Bennett race with Polish and American entries possibly far behind.
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