Top News Headlines From the Great Depression of the 1930s

The official start date of The Great Depression is considered as October 29, 1929, when the Stock Market crashed (Black Tuesday).
The Depression was going strong when Franklin D. Roosevelt was sworn in on March 4, 1933.
We have searched the pages of the New York Times for the important daily news headlines of the year 1933.
Use the actual New York Times headlines below to compare President Roosevelt’s first year in office to that of President Obama’s first year.

Automobiles
Ford Cars Barred in Army Buying
Failure to Sign Code Shuts Him Out of $10,000,000 Motorization Program.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- None of the $10,000,000 recently allotted for army motorization will be spent with firms which have not signed the NRA automobile manufacturing code, the War Department stated today.

General Motors Earns $33,341,618
Profit for Quarter Ended on Sept. 30 Equivalent to 72 Cents a Common Share.
The General Motors Corporation reported yesterday for the quarter ended on Sept. 30 a net profit of $33,341,618, which was equivalent, after preferred dividends, to 72 cents a share on the average number of common shares outstanding. This was in contrast with a loss of $4,464,229 reported for the corresponding quarter of last year

Banks
Wiggin Gives Up $100,000 a Year
Under Criticism
His Offer on Retirement Pay Is Accepted by Board of the Chase National.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Albert H. Wiggin today asked the Chase National Bank to discontinue his salary of $100,000 a year for life, voted previous to his retirement last January as chairman of its board. The bank complied.

Copper
Copper Sells Here for 1/2c, Up 1/2c a Pound
Buying Abroad Active, With Rise Expected
Copper in the domestic market sold yesterday at 8 1/2 cents a pound, up 1/2 cent from Tuesday. Some copper, however, was available at 8 1/4 cents and the market was described as being 8 1/4 to 8 1/2 cents a pound for delivery to the end of the year.

Crime
Plans Registration of Machine Guns
Justice Department Also Considers Confiscation of Gangster Weapons.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- In a new effort to disarm the underworld the Department of Justice had under consideration today a plan for the registration of all machine guns.

Cuba
Home of Mendieta Bombed in Havana
Epidemic of Explosions Alarms Grau Regime Which Rounds Up 200 Labor Agitators.
C. Mendieta's home in Havana bombed; U S S Wyoming relieves U S S Richmond; Governmet denies reports of proposed change of form.

Drugs
Opium and Pistols Seized in 3 Raids
Seven Suspects, Including Two Women, Arrested -- Counterfeit Bills Also Are Found.
Raids in two uptown hotels and a private dwelling by headquarters detectives last night netted seven prisoners, three loaded pistols, opium and opium-cooking layouts and some counterfeit banknotes. Two of the prisoners were women.

Farming
State Boards Move to Cut Surplus Milk
Slaughter of Cows to Be on Large Scale -- Relief Use to Be Increased.
State boards move to cut surplus; plan large scale slaughter of diseased cows.

Grains Are Lifted by High Gold Price
Professionals Active; Public, Confused Over Situation, Restricts Operation.
CHICAGO, Oct. 25 -- The high price announced for gold today by the RFC was a factor in the grain and commodity markets on the Board of Trade here, and a rush of professional buying lifted grains sharply. Wheat at the top was up as much as 4 cents a bushel and corn 3 1/4 cents above yesterday's finish, recovering virtually all the loss sustained in the liquidation movement that started early this month.

Gold
Dollar’s Gold Value 66 cents
White House Warns Not to Expect Any Advance Hint of Its Plans.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- President Roosevelt today put into effect his plan for controlling the gold value of the dollar in an effort to laics commodity prices when $31.36 an ounce was set as the figure at which the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was prepared to buy gold newly mined in the United States and its Territories.

Price Was Expected in Paris
PARIS, Oct. 25 -- In fixing the price of gold at $31.36 an ounce, President Roosevelt almost exactly fulfilled predictions in Paris financial circles.

Dollar Advances Despite Gold Price
Washington Move Accompanied by a Paradoxical Trend in Foreign Exchange.
The establishment yesterday by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of a buying price for newly mined gold at $31.36 an ounce, slightly higher than the world price, had the paradoxical effect of increasing the value of the dollar in foreign exchange.

Health
Tuberculosis Toll at Lowest Point
Death Rate, Put at 56.3 for 59 Cities in 1932, Is Compared With 174.4 in 1910.
An average pulmonary tuberculosis death rate of 56.3 for each 100,000 population, the lowest figure on record, was achieved by fifty-nine American cities in 1932, Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, consulting statistician, writes in today's issue of The Spectator, business insurance paper.

Indians
Indians ask for Gold Promised Them in 1855
U S Senate subcommittee asked for gold promised by U S Government in treaty of 1855.

Japan
Japanese Buy Four Ships
Obtain the Lapland and Three Freighters for Breaking Up.
LONDON, Oct. 25 -- It was revealed today that the Red Star liner Lapland, which had been reported as sold to wreckers, had been bought by a Japanese concern for demolition.

Jews
Arab Demonstration in Jaffa Forbidden
But Leaders Plan to Defy Ban on Protest Friday Against Jewish Immigration in Palestine.
JERUSALEM, Oct. 25 -- A stern warning was addressed by the High Commissioner for Palestine to members of the Palestine Arab Executive during an interview in which he cautioned them to avoid clashes with the police at Jaffa Friday, when they intend to demonstrate against alleged excessive Jewish immigration.

Churchmen Score Reich “Hysteria”
But Dr. Richter Holds Wave of Anti-Semitism in Germany a Passing Phase.
The persecution of Jews in Germany was condemned last night by leading Protestant churchmen, including a German theologian, at a dinner of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America at the Riverside Church.

Labor
3,000 More Strikers Return to Silk Mills
Jacquard Workers End Lay-Off of 7 Weeks. Conference With Wagner Today.
Jacquard workers return to work; another Labor Board Conference arranged.

Roosevelt to Seek End of Mine Strike
He Is Expected to Order Quick Settlement of Deadlock With Frick Company.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Intervention by President Roosevelt was expected tonight if a prompt settlement is not made soon in the "captive" mine controversy involving the steel corporations and their soft coal mine employees.

Miscellaneous
Time Off Upheld for Militia Duty
Employer Dismissing Employee for Attending Camp Guilty of Misdemeanor.
Attorney Gen Dennett rules employer who refuses employee time off for duty is guilty of misdemeanor, in case of Sergeant L F Carlson and Board of Utilities, Jamestown.

Gets $12,000 Award for False Conviction
Joseph Weaver Occupied Death Cell in Ohio Penitentiary for 22 Months.
CLEVELAND, Oct. 25 -- Old and bent, shoulders stooped and his hair a snowy white, Joseph Weaver obtained an award of $12,000 compensation today by a vote of the county commissioners for the twenty-two months he spent in the Ohio penitentiary "death row" before he won freedom on a murder charge.

Movies
Movie Producers Assail NRA Code
Goldwyn Declares That Salary Regulation Will Throttle the Incentive of Artists.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 25 -- Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists, and Samuel Goldwyn, film producer of that company, who on Monday announced their resignation from the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., last night said that they also would resign from Motion Picture Producers and Distributors, Inc., headed by Will H. Hays in New York, if necessary, in their battle against provisions of the proposed NRA film code.

Edwina Booth Sues Over African Film
Says Work in Jangles Ruined Her Health
Edwina Booth, film actress, filed suit in the Supreme Court yesterday against the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation for 1,000,000 damages on the ground that her health had been ruined through the alleged negligence of agents of the company in the production of the film "Trader Horn," in which she was starred.

Nazi’s
Repudiated by Goebbels
Spanknoebel Represents Neither Hitler Nor Party, He Says.
BERLIN, Oct. 25 -- An emphatic disclaimer was made today by Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, that Heinz Spanknoebel, alleged in America to be in charge of Nazi activities in New York, holds any mandate whatever either from the Hitler government or from the National Socialist party.

Town to Retaliate for Swastika Fires
Kufstein, Austria, to Imprison a Leading Nazi Each Time Such a Blaze Is Lighted.
VIENNA, Oct. 25 -- To discourage the Nazi practice of lighting fires on the surrounding hills in the shape of swastikas, the Kufstein District Council has announced that, for every such fire, a prominent member of the former Austrian Nazi party will be confined in a concentration camp.

Ban on Nazi Rally Upheld By O’Brien
Leader is absent
After a Hearing, Rules Germans Fail to Assure Peaceful Assembly.
After hearing for almost three hours yesterday how Heinz Spanknoebel had taken control of the United German Societies here in the interests of "The New Germany" in the last month, and after considering what he had heard for three hours more, Mayor O'Brien finally decided last night he would not rescind his prohibition of the annual German Day celebration

New Deal
“Stand Pat” Tariff to be Mixed With New Deal
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- It now appears that to raise internal prices of commodities and keep them up, the President will be required to mix an ancient stand-pat Republican tariff doctrine with the assortment of Left Wing policies of the New Deal. Of all the interesting developments of the administration's economics, this is one of the most striking.

NRA
NRA Will Function in Four Divisions
Each Will Have One Administrator and Assistants and Will Be a Complete Unit.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- The long expected reorganization of the National Recovery Administration was announced tonight by General Johnson.

Oil
Oil Output Brings Warnings by Ickes
He Hints at Use of Licensing Powers Nov. 1 Unless 'Hot' Oil Ceases to Flow.
CHICAGO, Oct. 25 -- Pointing to improvement in the oil industry since it began operations under the NRA, Secretary Ickes warned the American Petroleum Institute today that more drastic regulatory powers would be used unless cheating was stopped and production held down to figures prescribed by the government.

Prohibition
Liquor Dealers Ask Firm Control Laws
But Warn Excessive Taxation Would Foster Bootlegging and Prolong Rackets.

Representatives of the Federal Government joined with representatives of retail beverage dealers of the metropolitan area yesterday in urging establishment
of a system of dispensing liquors to meet new
conditions after repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment

Puerto Rico
Mountain Home of Gore Bombed
Puerto Rican Governor Also Reveals Warning of Plot to Poison Him and Family.
SAN JUAN, P.R., Oct. 25 -- Governor Robert H. Gore revealed this afternoon that he had been advised the Governor's Summer home at Jajome Alto had been bombed Sunday night, and also told of a warning he had received of a plot to poison himself and his family.

Roosevelt
Roosevelt Gives Press Interview in Bed
Continues Work Through Slight Illness
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- President Roosevelt set a new mode in White House press conferences this morning by receiving a small delegation of correspondents in his bedroom when a slight indisposition kept him from his desk in the executive offices for a second day.

Unemployment
Quick Action Urged for Job Insurance
Miss Parkins Says Conferences Should Be Held in States for Preparing of Bills.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Secretary Parking suggested today that supporters of unemployment reserves or insurance hold State conferences soon to lay the groundwork for early submission of bills to legislators.

Jobs Decreased in Early October
Decline Followed Increase to Mid-September, Reserve Board Reports.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Preliminary reports for the first half of October indicate some decrease in employment following an increase of employment among factory workers between mid-August and mid-September, the Federal Reserve Board reported today in its monthly business and financial review.

To Create 8,000 Jobs
Geodetic Survey Will Spend $4,500,000 on Map Work.
To expend $4,500,000 in map work; 8,000 will get jobs.

Tons of Beef Sought for Destitute Idle
Surplus Relief Corporation Asks Bids on 15,000,000 Pounds.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- The Federal Surplus Relief Corporation called for bids today, returnable Nov. 6, for the purchase of 15,000,000 pounds of domestic beef that will be added to the larder of the nation's destitute unemployed.