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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1935
Page
3
The Brooklyn Dodgers top the Grapefruit league standings with six exhibition wins and are undefeated against American league teams. National league entries overall trail the American by 8 games as spring play continues. only the Phillies and Reds post above .500.
Riverside announces plans for a local baseball club this season after a meeting last week. The group combines former Hills players with Riverside, with George Schnoebelen as manager, Joe Mellecker and Wilfred Bouquet as assistants, Bouquet as secretary treasurer, and Cletus Mellecker likely as pitcher. Potential players include Willard Mellecker, Edmard Mellecker, Wilfred Bouquet, Rochus Knebel, Edward Knebel, Harold Gringer, Edward Mannion, Norbert Kephart, Everett Cummings, Bernard Kloppfer, Gene Miller, Lester Scott, Marcus Swift, and Harold Beranck.
A Des Moines conference with Gov. Clyde Herring and the old age assistance commission led to the Mesquakie delegation returning home with news that about six members of the Tama reservation will get Iowa old age pensions. Only eight tribe members qualify. pensions may total $6 to $7 monthly per applicant.
The Tama county spelling contest will be held April 13 in the Toledo high school assembly room. The oral reading contest follows at 1:30 pm. Judges include Mrs. Ruby Van Meter C E Lambert and H K Bennett superintendent of Traer schools.
In Montreal, the Maroons defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4 to 1 to clinch the 1935 world hockey championship and claim the Stanley Cup as world hockey champions.
Funeral services for Dan D Kleineck lifelong Linn county resident who died Tuesday at his farm home five miles east of Mount Vernon will be held at his home Thursday at 2 p m Burial will be Campbell's cemetery He was Bertram township Farm Bureau president for years a trustee twenty five years member of Y O O F lodge at Mount Vernon for forty five years born December 10 1853 near Ivanhoe married December 20 1890 to Alice J White who survives with five daughters two brothers two sisters and twelve grandchildren
Luther College baseball opens Friday at Decorah against Carleton College Northfield with Crimmings likely on the mound Luther will also start Raade in Saturday’s game Nebraska University visits April 17 Other home dates include Simpson May 11 Iowa University May 15 Upper Iowa June 4 State Teachers matchups pending dates Coach Roque seeks games with Purdue and Northwestern Traveling schedule features Minnesota trips April 26-27 Carleton April 29-30 and Upper Iowa May 30 One State Teacher game to be held at Cedar Falls.
Clarence high opened with hor rorless ball to shut out Bennett 3 to 0. Tucker edged Miller in a pitching duel as Bennett ace struck out nine while Miller fanned seven. Clarence tallied four hits to Bennett three.
Marie Rasputin, daughter of Russia's mad monk, is hospitalized in Peru Indiana after a black bear attack in a circus arena. She required twelve stitches to close wounds on her right arm and left leg.
GAMBIER O MS Expulsion from school and further court action was threatened Wednesday against Kenyan college students allegedly involved at a Psi Upsilon fraternity house party on Mount Vernon campus Saturday night that ended in a near riot and an attack on Deputy Sheriff Harold George. Dean Clarence Gould said all students would be expelled. Jack Critchfield, 23, a senior and football star, was fined 50 dollars and costs and given a suspended 60 day sentence for assaulting the deputy. Gessmer Brown, 23, another football player, will have a hearing Friday. other names are not known.
Washington reports a 150 million dollar federal soil erosion program is nearly certain to start July 1 to prevent dust storms and land ravages. Lawmakers from Texas Oklahoma Kansas Colorado and New Mexico push to secure the funds with Secretary Wallace backing the plan and H. H. Bennett detailing an urgent remedial program. Bennett says 800 to 900 experts are ready once money is provided, building on a 14 million dollar allocation from last year. The note adds U S Forest Service airplanes patrol Michigan forests to guard against fires.
C B Murtagh approved the transfer of 2700 from the emergency to the poor fund and 10800 from the emergency to the general fund of Wapello county. Marengo P T A officers elected included Mrs R A Reece as president and multiple vice presidents, secretary and treasurer.
WAUKON announces a speech contest at St Patrick’s High School in May with participants Mary Collins Bernice Folsom Margaret Link Ella Mae Long and alternates Lorraine Schulte Mary Deviney. Boys include William Dougherty Donald Hutchinson Thomas Kaveny Curtis Pigott with Walter Keenan as alternate.
The Tama Parent-Teacher association planned a high school auditorium gathering to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the first American secondary school founding. Talks by Mrs. Earl Spooner and Mrs. L. J. Price, a student play directed by Miss Doris Towne, and world travel talk by Miss Hazel Walker were on the program. High and junior choirs also planned to sing.
The Young Democrats of Clayton County are called to meet at the courthouse next Friday evening. County chairman L. J. Ehrhardt asks members to complete a county organization and to select seven delegates to the state convention.
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