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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1936
Page
8
Washington AP reports that broad cost cutting drives push industry to test tubes and chemical research. A digest by Harrison E Howe outlines 75 notable advances from dehydratants to new plastics, blasting agents, rubber stabilizers, and vitamins B and C, highlighting research’s economic and human impact.
A five member committee reports petitioners urge funding for beautifying highway 161 from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City. They ask Roosevelt and other officials to direct money to restore all year road access for farmers. Petitions also target Senators Murphy Dickinson Congressmen Eicher Jacobsen and Governor Herring with a March 28 Iowa City meeting.
The Coe College military band led a Greenville Illinois parade of Independent Order of Odd Fellows members before a concert at Greenville High School gym. The band continues a ten day spring tour visiting five Illinois cities and a Veterans hospital in St Louis.
An organizing Townsend club will meet at Pierce school Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. Bungalow cooking school Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday advertisement Townsend club No 3 will meet Monday at 7 p.m. in the superior court room city hall. The city plan commission will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. in the city council room at city hall. Easter brings a demand for RABBITS. If you have them to sell advertise in the Want Ads. The Rev Blaine Hyten will speak on The All Perfect Life Wednesday at Iowa City. The El Kabir Shrine temple will hold its regular meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday April 8 refreshments will be served after the short business session.
Results from the district high school music contest in Waterloo list soloists and ensembles by class with ratings. Winners include Mary Walters Toledo and many others, plus sweepstakes points for Waterloo West, Charles City, Cresco and Traer.
Wilbur J. Carr informs Congress that rents for U S embassies legations and consulates abroad are rising as foreign currency appreciates against the dollar. Landlords will no longer accept American dollars and renewals must be in local currency. Annual foreign rentals would rise by about 60 000 to 1 450 000 dollars.
Washington AP report says congressional inquiry into the Townsend old age pension movement paused on Saturday while investigators awaited reports from Townsend field headquarters.
The condition of Frank B. Bald win postmaster after an operation at University hospital in Iowa City Thursday was reported satisfactory Saturday. Robert W. Hunter of Des Moines has been sent to Endicott New York for two months further training with a business machine company.
Ronald England of Belles Plaine told police someone took his wrist watch from the washroom at the Handler Motor company after he left it for about ten minutes. Apollo commandery No. 26 Knights Templar to meet at Masonic hall today at 1 p.m. to escort Cas sius M. Marshall's funeral at Bycatty funeral chapel at 1:30 p.m. Star of the West lodge No. 1 Knights of Pythias holds a picnic supper and entertainment at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the K of P hall for members and friends.
Arthur school boys and their parents will attend a meeting at Arthur school Monday at 5 30 PM to discuss forming a Boy Scout troop and related organization.
Donald Hadsell aged 33 of Cedar Rapids was sentenced to one year suspended to Fort Madison state penitentiary on a desertion charge for alleged failure to support his wife. The suspension was revoked and he was taken to Fort Madison Friday by Deputy Sheriff Dick Payn.
MGerald F Tigges 25 of Peter Syn has passed the Iowa state board exam for professional engineer and land surveyor. He graduated from Iowa State College in 1933 and led the slope control training party in Linn county. Residence 1230 Second avenue SE.
William Foster, 27, of Cedar Rapids, who was released after 30 days of a six month sentence for alleged larceny of a furnace model from Holland Furnace Company, was sent back to county jail at noon Saturday to complete five months. Sheriff James H. Smith ordered the return.
The defense filed a response following a complaint by the defendant's wife requesting a new commitment. The filing outlines challenges to the allegations and seeks dismissal or modification of the commitment proceedings.
John Winter the boys' secretary of the Davenport Y M C A is recuperating from a serious head operation at Davenport hospital. Formerly of Cedar Rapids he was a leader at Camp Wapsie for years and directed boys work at St Pauls Methodist church before rising to Coe College in 193.
The state resumes the Shoe maker flogging case in Bartow on Tuesday with a new jury venire drawn by Judge Robert T. Dowell. Eleven defendants, including former police officials, await trial as Bartow prepares for the April 13 reopening.
WETHERSFIELD Conn Saved from death two weeks ago because flood waters stood 18 inches deep in the execution chamber at state s prison John Siemborski 29 convicted of slay ing a policeman thirteen months ago Saturday night had one hope of escaping as the last victim of the state s antiquated hanging machine Siemborski reprieved four times as his counsel exhausted every legal means of cheating the noose will hang shortly after midnight Tuesday unless his plea for commutation to life imprisonment is granted at a special meeting of the board of pardons Monday His execution or life imprisonment will end one of the strangest legal tangles in Connecticut s long history which started last June when Governor Wilbur L Cross signed a bill making electrocution the legal manner of execution Siemborski was sentenced to hang forty five days before hanging was abolished but the supreme court denied his demand for freedom based on the contention that since he had been sentenced to hang he could not be electrocuted and since hanging was illegal he should be liberated When his case is decided the hanging machine on which Gerald Chapman and 53 others have swung since 1894 will be replaced by the hot seat
Rome reports Field Marshal Pietro Badoglio, Mussolini’s top production official, will be recalled from Ethiopia next month to direct Italy’s military preparations against a possible European war. General Emilio de Bono and Rodolfo Graziani to shift roles in Africa as Badoglio returns.
Daytona Beach Florida reports that 96 year old oil magnate John D Rockefeller may settle in Florida permanently. Speculation follows his long bid between summer and winter homes with guests at Ormond Beach leaving for northern residences. John D Rockefeller Jr Edsel Ford and family had stayed at the Casements this winter or earlier.
In Davenport a 48 year old farmer Ben Speth was killed and his ex son in law Irvin Faur 22 was wounded and near death after Speth confronted Faur at Mrs Jeanette Speth s home where he had visited since their divorce. Speth fired three shots hitting Faur and then shot himself in the chest after forcing entry into a locked bathroom.
British warships fired a salute to George Washington as they passed Mount Vernon in 1812. New flags were lowered to half mast as the ships passed and the ship’s shell was tolled in tribute.
Chicago reports Frank Knox lays out a six point program for the Republican party as he campaigns in Illinois. He pledges balanced budgets and local relief administration while condemning New Deal excess and federal bureaucracy. He warns of bankruptcy if spending continues and urges economic discipline and anti trust enforcement.
Bing Crosby will appear as a singer with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski. The concert will be broadcast on Crosby’s radio program on the night of April 30.
Clarence general store owner and Cedar Rapids shoe merchant Mr. Snyder dies after eighteen years in Clarence and fifty years in Iowa. Born December 30, 1848 in Schoharie County New York he moved to Iowa in 1870 and came to Cedar Rapids in 1892. Survived by two sons Rob and Jim Snyder a daughter Mrs Ann Snyder Van Vechten and a niece Mrs Ollie Boyd. Funeral plans not announced.
Two sharp tremors jolted Helena during a Saturday snowstorm. The first quake struck at 1 39 a m lasting four seconds followed by a second shock fourteen minutes later. The sequence raises Helena tremors to 1810 since last October’s major quakes.
Senate action moves the Black anti lobby bill to a conference after objections to the House version. Senator Couzens supports stricter registration rules for lobbyists and disclosure of employer names and earnings. Conferees named are Ashurst King Borah.
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