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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1933
Page
12
The author filed a Tuesday amendment to the Willis bill excluding public educational institutions from its prohibitions. It allows dormitories cafeterias restaurants and cafes for students instructors and employees or their guests. The bill aims to bar government agencies from private business.
Special to The Gazette Judge James P Gaffney of Johnson county district court told Iowa City Chamber of Commerce members that friction between Iowa City and the University of Iowa should be wiped out He said the university has helped businesses reach success and that merchants have aided the university The judge noted both sides had moved to ease tensions over the Willis bill now before the Iowa legislature and called the current mood encouraging
West Liberty hosts the annual Muscatine County Legion auxiliary spring meeting on Wednesday. A pot luck dinner will be served. Mrs J W Laird Mount Pleasant first district committeewoman will speak in the afternoon. Frances Kelly Wilton county chairman will preside.
Cedar river flood near Ivanhoe and Palisades state park threatens structures as Ivanhoe bridge on highway 261 remains closed. One end under water detours avoid Cedar Rapids. Log cabin filling station occupants moved out as water breached windows. Palisades cottages see first floor seepage while river level nears 1929 peak by four inches. Livestock moved from nearby barns.
Special to The Gazette Tama Iowa John Richard Todd 20 of Kansas City Missouri sought work at the Louis Upah farm southwest of Tama. After ransacking the Upah home the suspect wore the owner’s suit and rode with a motorist he flagged for a ride. He was handed to Sheriff E O Harris at Toledo arraigned on grand larceny pled not guilty held for grand jury unable to post 500 bond in county jail. Missing were two wrist watches two men’s watches a cream check for 11 05 a suit and a horse. The horse was found tied near the Iowa river bridge south of Tama where Todd signaled for a ride.
Wheatland High School presents The Automatic Butler a three act comedy featuring fifteen cast members Donna Alexander Vera Petersen Anna Milota Elinor Holtz Hazel Sennett Marie Bicknese Ruth Gruenwaldt Elsa Ziegler Virginia Meves Franz Schneider Cedric Vankirk Vernon Lachansky Lloyd Schnede Wayne Witte and Wayne Wilmarth The production will be directed by Miss Marcelyn Malcolm during the last week of April.
Theodore Mootz and Margaret Mootz obtained a third marriage license from the Jackson county court clerk. They were first married Jan 23, 1923, divorced Jan 9, 1929, remarried July 5, 1929, and divorced again Feb 15, 1930. Both divorces cited habitual drunkenness and cruelty.
Iowa brief items report deaths and probate from Columbus Junction Maquoketa and Wapello. Gertrude Klotz long educator dies aged about 60s at her mother’s home. Matt Hoffman retired farmer dies in Maquoketa. William McCutcheon will valued at 35000 with substantial real estate. Louisa county district court convenes in Wapello with jurors listed and cases assigned.
Frances Hubbell of Des Moines Iowa married Hepburn Ingham of New York son of Harvey Ingham Des Moines editor Tuesday at the Ninth ward city hall Paris. Witnesses included Mrs Helen Curtis Cowles and Count Carl Wachtmeister. The couple will honeymoon through France Italy Austria and Germany then reside in New York.
Sioux City bank under restrictions since holiday will reorganize on a depositors agreement basis subject to depositor approval. Waiver agreements sent to 3,500. Those with 100 or less will be paid in full. those with more than 100 receive 60 percent in cash and 40 percent placed in a closed trust fund for eventual recovery.
Springfield AP reports bids on 3,300,000 barrels of cement for highway work at 1.62 per barrel were rejected as prices averaged 68 cents above 1932 levels. Gov Horner lamented the unanimity of bids and suggested the state may establish its own cement mills to obtain fair pricing.
Sigourney district court in Keokuk County opens on April 10 with Judge Frank Bechly of Montezuma presiding. The docket lists 204 cases including 54 probate matters. The grand jury is to be convened April 11 with jurors drawn from multiple townships and communities.
Des Moines AP reports a committee finishing a draft of bills to reform indigent admissions at the University hospital in Iowa City. The plans require county and state to split costs, cut examinations, and reduce escort per diem, with all bills passing the state auditor.
Gov Clyde Herring told the Poweshick County Young Democrats club in Grinnell that a beer bill would likely fail this session because Democrats disagree. He praised Democratic efforts to run Iowa government on a business basis and urged support for the bank depositors protective bill.
Delaware County taxpayers crowded the County Treasurer A L Clark's office over three days in a late rush to dodge a one percent penalty. Hundreds of letters with checks were filed, and a few taxpayers paid the full year’s bill. One payment of $1000 was tendered.
Claude Stanley twenty two of Panora Iowa, on parole from the Anamosa reformatory, disappeared Thursday night. Sheriff Harry Utley identified him as Harley Frieberg of Panora. Stanley confessed to stealing T D May s sedan eight miles east of Manchester after leaving Anamosa in a Dubuque truck. He walked Manchester for two hours and found the May car with ignition key in place. Stanley was sentenced to ten years in 1929 for breaking and entering at Panora and paroled last February to the Walton dairy near Anamosa. Local officials expect to return him to Anamosa to complete his sentence.
A J Hochberger assistant cashier at First National Bank has been named conservator of the bank. Citizens Savings Bank remains under operating restrictions.
The Van Horne American Legion auxiliary hosts the Benton county auxiliary units for their annual convention at the Legion hall on April 26. Department leaders from Iowa visit to speak, with registration at 9 am and about twelve units contributing acts. Local leaders welcome attendees, lunch is served by a church group, and over one hundred women are expected.
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