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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1935
Page
19
The federal treasury must raise 12 480 968 650 dollars by Jan 1 to cover creditors and expenses, at about 37 202 dollars per minute for eight months, via taxation new borrowings and exchange of new securities for old. The request accompanies a 4 880 000 000 dollar work relief appropriation.
Godfrey Toman 30 of 1336 Fifth Street NW received a 25 year indeterminate term in Fort Madison state penitentiary after being found guilty of robbery with agravation. Co-defendant Frank O Dea 35 of Los Angeles faced related charges stemming from a March Cedar Rapids incident.
A district court jury was impaneled before Judge F O Ellison Tuesday morning to hear an appeal by Charles E Heaton and Mildred G Heaton from a condemnation jury award for property condemned by the state highway commission for the Fairfax viaduct site on primary highway No 149. The Heatons claim a large road embankment faces their home.
Plaintiffs claim a road embankment blocks light and air and drains onto their property. They estimate damages to be 9,250 dollars.
In district court Monday judge A B Clark approved the thirteenth and fourteenth reports of receivers in the receiverships of the Coggon State Bank and the Farmers and Merchants State Bank of Marion. D W Bates state banking superintendent is receiver and OU Conwell is examiner in charge for both banks. Cash on hand at Coggon Bank March 31 was 14638.30 with twenty percent dividends paid to depositors. The Farmers and Merchants receiver was authorized to pay five percent to depositors bringing total dividends to 100 percent. Cash on hand March 31 was 7887.86.
In district court Tuesday Judge John T. Moffit presided over a $13,781.44 contract suit brought by Harvey Chismore as administrator of the C. B. Chismore estate against Marion Savings Bank. The defendant’s testimony proceeded with a jury present.
Coggan received a $2,000 judgment from a district court jury on Oct 31, 1932. Judge H C Ring sustained a motion for a new trial. Chilmore alleged the bank breached an agreement to resell foreclosed property to him.
Judge A B Clark approves the fourth quarterly report for Wapsie Valley State Bank Central City showing cash on hand of 25529.60 and a 10 percent depositor dividend paid in December. Judge N C Ring approves the sixteenth report for Linn County Savings Bank Center Point with cash on hand March 31 of 14464.0. V O Conwell is examiner in charge of both banks.
The will of Meri Hoffman who died April 15 was admitted to probate in district court on Tuesday. Bequests are made to granddaughter Onalee Hart Russell three daughters Mary Hoffman Walkerman Julia Hoffman Clark and Anna Hoffman Thompson and two sons Joseph Hoffman and Edward John Hoffman. The Peoples Savings Bank is confirmed as executor. The will was made July 14 1932.
Ed Pokoy aged 30 and J D. Augustine aged 45 of Cedar Rapids pled guilty in district court before Judge F O Ellison on illegal possession of alcoholic liquor. They withdrew not guilty pleas from April 6 and sentencing was deferred until May 14 after a liquor raid at Pokoy's premises by state and federal agents.
Judge John T. Moffitt in district court Tuesday approved the receiver's third quarterly report for the Commercial Savings Bank of Marion. The report shows cash on hand as of March 31 at $45,735.72 and notes a 15 percent dividend has been paid to depositors to date. D. W Bates is receiver and O. A. Conwell examiner-in-charge.
D W Bates as receiver of Commercial Savings Bank of Marion settled and dismissed the $65418 promissory note action against Paul Holst before Judge John T Moffit at plaintiff’s costs. Attached property released. Ruth Probasco seeks divorce from Willard J Probasco on cruel and inhuman treatment. they were married November 27, 1919.
The House Military Committee moved toward near approval of a bill to create a federal department of air amid strong army and navy protests. Democrats predicted a two to one committee vote in favor, supported by a membership survey.
Marriage licenses issued for Frank J. Sadilek of Cedar Rapids and Donna Carvey of Fayette. City of Cedar Rapids invites sealed proposals for exclusive rights to operate refreshment stands in Bever, Ellis, Daniels, and Riverside Parks from May 1 to November 1, 1935, with Labor Day restriction at Ellis Park. Proposals due April 26, 1935. bids require certified checks. City reserves right to reject bids.
National officers Farrar Newberry and Mamie E. Long spoke at the joint opening of the Woodmen of the World Iowa session and the Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle convention in Cedar Rapids. The event featured 146 banquet attendees, veteran jewels ceremony for 108 local members, and addresses by national directors Mooney and Miller.
INDEPENDENCE Frank Conly, a New Hampton attorney, and Mike Ung, also from New Hampton, were injured when their car left the pavement two miles north of Independence. Conly suffered a broken left arm and chest injuries. both men were scratched and bruised, in shock, and unable to explain the accident. Their car skidded on highway 11 near the Weepie farm, threw them from the vehicle, and they were taken to People's hospital by a passing beer truck crew. They were en route to Chicago.
Fred Blink, 43, a farmer from Joliet, was executed after killing five people in a dispute over $40 worth of vegetables. He prayed during execution and blamed his crimes on poison liquor and Timothy Carrick, husband of one victim, who he said served the drink.
Thomas J. Lehne, 42, former Venice Illinois policeman, was executed after pleading to bury a picture with him. He and his paramour Gertrude Puhse, 44, had been convicted a year earlier of murdering Puhse's husband Charles W. Puhse. Lehne had a four day reprieve. Mrs. Puhse's death sentence was commuted to ninety nine years.
Washington report states Felix Bernstein of Columbia University announced a sign of death in the eye. He linked eye lens elasticity with life expectancy, noting that greater elasticity in middle age correlates with longer life if death arises from brainstroke or heartstroke, which account for about half of deaths.
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