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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1936
Page
2
Chicago reports a surge in corn prices as September futures hit a seven year high after a four cent limit gain. Traders cited drought forecasts and a private crop estimate placing 1936 domestic yield at about 1.586 billion bushels, roughly a billion below normal.
Chicago reports indicate farm income for 1936 may reach a six year peak as drought pushes prices higher. Government data show first half income up 335 million dollars from last year, with gains in wheat, corn, hogs and other major commodities offsetting crop losses.
The drought grips the nation as staple foods face higher winter prices. Markets surge as the drought devastates the middle west corn crop, fading at a sharp rate while forecasts warn of shortened crops and rising costs for housewives.
In Evening Shade Arkansas AP report recounts George E Marlin a Maxville farmer who after a clerical error received a $200 government check intended as a Townsend pension payment. He spent it on a patched merry go round and converted the windfall into a self start in the entertainment business with plans to buy another ride.
At the Linn county Democratic convention in the courthouse sixty five delegates were chosen to attend the Second district congressional convention in Clinton on Aug five. Delegates will vote independently rather than as a unit. The list names delegates by supervisor district including William Olds W H Ryan Carl Ross Mary B Palmer Charles Werner Catherine Hardy Edna Gaffey Dr B G Broghammer R D Reynolds Charles Supple Velma Danner L A Fuhrmeister Emil Kolda Mary Yaneba Emma Felter Theodore Suchomel Sam Dale Elizbeth Thoman Robert Milota Mayme Flynn Fred Bur and others. (Continued on Page 2 Col 5)
Cedar Rapids records show a 22 degree fall from 80 at 7 p.m. to 58 at midnight. The day’s high reached 94 while early morning readings dipped to 52 at 6 a.m, with skies remaining dry. Subsequent hours marked 87 at 10 a.m and 71 at 7 p.m as temperatures rose.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture placed 35 southern and western counties in emergency drought status enabling drought relief. Governor Herring announced from Washington as Iowa officials urged federal inclusion. Relief includes higher Works Progress Administration allotments for small projects and cash loans from rural rehabilitation funds repayable when public-work opportunities arise.
Clarence L. Sullivan a 42 year old backwoods farmer from near Tampa was found on a highway with self inflicted wounds after telling officers three women and two men in a big sporty automobile robbed and mutilated him. He later confessed to partly emasculating himself with a small knife saying something kept telling him to do it. He is under treatment for a tubercular condition and no charges will be filed.
Seminole Oklahoma police station will be without a telephone until a $200 account is paid, the telephone company announced.
Washington reports the $100 million shelterbelt plan may be revived after government agencies urged continuation. About $3 million has been spent. 24 million trees planted in two years survived 81.2 percent despite drought. Forest Service officials say completing the belt would save water, prevent desertification, reduce wind erosion, and shield livestock from harsh winds aiding crops.
President Roosevelt stood atop a $1 350 000 flood control dam on the Winooski river near Montpelier Vermont and praised it as a fine example of state and federal cooperation in preventing disaster. He learned engineers said March floods would have surpassed the dam’s top by eight feet. He then met Gov Charles M Smith Gen Edward Markham and Vermont officials to discuss additional federal funding for flood prevention.
Robert Samardick, demoted from Omaha police chief to patrolman, resigned effective immediately. He was placed on leave after months of dispute with Mayor Dan Butler, who opposed his leadership since Butler's previous role as finance commissioner. John J. Pszanowski, the former chief, had been brought out of retirement to replace Samardick.
In Greenville California a male rescue party was dispatched to a mine after reports two men were entombed by a slide. The trapped men greeted the rescuers as they arrived about a turn from the slide and said the reporters should have called for help sooner.
Sterling W. Powell a 16 year old farmer boy pled guilty to attempting to extort 25000 dollars from Shirley Temple's father and waived a preliminary hearing. U S Commissioner A F Streitz set bond at 1000 dollars and bound him over to the federal district court for a term starting June 8 1937. Sheriff Howard Bechtel signed bond for Powell and he left for Grant with his parents and Bechtel.
Sterling Walred Powell, 16, will face a U S commissioner in North Platte charged with using the mails to extort after admitting he wrote to Shirley Temple’s father demanding 25000. Investigators traced the paper to Grant Nebraska and tied the note to a planned drop near that town.
The forecast calls for increasing temperatures in Iowa with no rain. Inwood reported 94 degrees Friday while Marshalltown dipped to 48 for the low. Saturday highs may reach around 95 degrees with Sunday near the century mark.
Madrid strengthens defenses as rebels bolster militia at Roblegardo to push on the capital. France probes alleged Italian aid by air and armaments, while public sentiment leans toward neutrality to avoid wider intervention. Evacuations of Americans seeking to depart Madrid are completed in the latest update.
From Tetuan Gen Francisco Franco announced that he authorized the Italian government to send aircraft to Spanish Morocco to help repatriate Italian subjects.
Fresh columns of leftist troops reportedly moved to encircle Zaragoza while Madrid braces for fascist attacks. Aerial flyers seized in French Morocco claimed to be sent by a private Italian concern to aid Franco’s rebels. France allows volunteers to travel with regular passports but forbids bearing arms on French soil. Madrid strengthens defenses and orders fresh offensives north and south of the capital.
Reports from Nanking indicate severe clashes Saturday between Kwangtung and Kwangsi troops along the provincial border. The fighting follows a split between the two provinces over support for the Nanking central government, signaling a new crisis in the South China situation.
United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis denounces Alf Landon labor policy in Washington as making strikes illegal and pickets lawbreakers. He accuses Landon of bowing to manufacturers and seeks to isolate workers from unions, warning that employer power would erode labor rights and sanctify company unions.
Warner Brothers Pictures has asked ASCAP for reinstatement to end the six month music copyright war and dozens of suits totaling about two million dollars. ASCAP directors meet Monday to act on the application, with Warner retaining seniority if readmitted. The dispute began in January when Music Publishers Holding withdrew to form its own rights society, affecting NBC and CBS broadcasts.
Four Kenosha residents died and two others were injured when their car struck a concrete bridge abutment two miles west of Hebron Illinois early Saturday. State police named the victims as Mrs John P Casazza and her children Sarah 19 Freddie 9 and Raymond Barnes 17. An additional Casazza child Sam 12 remained unconscious and Patricia 8 was in Harvard hospital both listed in critical condition.
Gladys MacKnight 17 and Donald Wightman 18 were held without bail after arraignment on murder charges for killing the girl's mother, Mrs. Helen MacKnight 47, with a hatchet. Police say MacKnight confessed after Wightman initially did, then recanted, and the pair planned to flee to Canada before surrendering.
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