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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1938
Page
4
Des Moines reports July gasoline tax receipts at 1 524 212 71, a new all time high. Wegman notes a 29 896 29 rise from June. Beer tax climbs to 111 110, cigaret tax drops slightly to 156 571, inheritance taxes fall to 71 004 from prior months.
Phil Howard, 43, in SIOU TM City, asked police to lock him up as he reported seeing and hearing things. He injured himself by headbutting prison bars while resisting a jailer during a bid to hang himself. He was placed in jail again for safety and later rushed to hospital after the head bump.
At the fifth annual Scandinavian-American day picnic in Des Moines Governors Elmer A. Benson Minnesota Leslie Jensen South Dakota and Nelson G Shraschel Iowa spoke on the impact of Scandinavian people on American life Jensen warned against dictatorship citing the Scandinavian race’s forward looking yet grounded outlook Benson praised social progress in Scandinavian countries including taxation methods for wealth distribution and cooperative enterprises.
The Lutherleague met in church parlors with fourteen members and five visitors including William Turkle Marie Jensen Louis Fiderstein Lauren Freyermuth and Ruth Rhodes Dorothy Morrison led the business and devotionals Carla Christensen guided the July topic Christian Relief Plans were made for the league picnic set for Sunday Evening games on the church lawn provided amusement Lunch was served by Bertha Kruse and Freeda Geertz
Captain George Freeman and Mrs. Freeman of McGregor celebrate their sixty third wedding anniversary with a quiet family dinner. The Rob Roy ferry remains idle at the levee after the Marquette Prairie du Chien bridge reduced ferry service. The couple recalled their Dec 28 1875 marriage in Decorah and verified the record with a notarized copy.
An eleven day mystery over Floyd E. Doubleday III’s disappearance near Fort Dodge seemed resolved after he telephoned he would return there. Police had conducted a wide search while his Kansas City parents awaited updates as he had stored his car in a Sioux City garage.
Radio drama Youth Against War by University of Iowa student Rodney Errickson will air on WSUI at 8 p.m. Monday. John L. Keller receives his second camp appointment as first cadet sergeant at Fort Des Moines. Daniel J. Doherty sends autographed photo to Roy L. Cope for display. Local women organize a boycott on Japanese goods to pressure China war relief.
About 2000 people attended a Sunday evening concert by the Dubuque high school band at the Thrill park pavilion in Manchester. Directed by Prof Ferdinand Di Tella of Dubuque the event featured a trombone solo by Donald Cooper national high school champion. The concert was a cooperative effort of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce park commission and City Federation of Women's clubs with lunch organized by the Manchester Band Mothers' club.
Special to The Gazette details describe Henry Otte 23 suffering a broken leg after a freight train struck his car near Lowden. Esther Twachtman escaped injury by jumping free. Another incident reports Elizabeth Warren seriously injured in a motorcycle crash near Greeley, with Verne Frieden unhurt and seven Kellogg car occupants safe. Iowa’s weekend toll includes three deaths: Robert DeLoss, Joe Givens, Julian Beacom, and Ralph Smith Jr. from separate accidents and drownings.
Boone AP reports Theodore Moore a national guard sergeant age 2 died Monday at Little Falls Minnesota from injuries after an automobile accident Friday nearby. Oxford funeral services for Mrs Johanna Oakes 82 held at home Sunday burial North Liberty. She died Friday after years long illness born Burnt Cabins Pa September 23 1833 came to Johnson County with parents aged one and a half. Survived by daughter Florence son William B two sisters six grandchildren three great grandchildren two great great grandchildren.
Mrs Davis Paris 80 longtime Delaware county resident died Saturday night at her son Del Paris’s home after two paralytic strokes. Funeral Tuesday at 2 pm at the Methodist church Delaware with Rev. Bostrum officiating. burial Pine View Cemetery. She was born June 28, 1858 in Rockford Illinois and married David Paris in Delaware in 1877. Surviving are two sons, fifteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren. she belonged to the Baptist church and Royal Neighbors.
A low turnout was expected at the Iowa state Democratic judicial convention in Des Moines with about half of the 2 619 delegates likely to attend. Four state supreme court seats await nominees with incumbents John W. Anderson Maurice F. Donegan John W. Kintzinger and Ernest Miller expected to be named. O A Byington was named permanent chairman Don Reel temporary secretary and James Kelly permanent secretary. Republicans nominated WL Bliss Oscar Hale Frederick M Miller and RA Oliver for six year and two year terms.
Decorah honors Richard Bucknell 72 former mayor with funeral services after his death Saturday in an Iowa City hospital. Bucknell born November 4 1865 in Bluffton township married Rose Rima October 10 1889. survived by son Richard in Cedar Rapids and daughters Mrs. Millicent Stoddard and Merton Bucknell Decorah. He served on city council before becoming mayor in 1919 and is predeceased by six mayoral predecessors.
LeRoy C. Schroeder, former Maquoketa city attorney, becomes mayor after W J. Pendray resigns due to ill health.
A special election will be held here on a bond issue for a new gymnasium. The school board hopes for WPA aid. If approved the addition will be built on the south side of the high school and extend beyond the front of the existing building.
Newton officials say a box found at the city dump proved to be an old container holding bones used for medical study. Initial hopes anchored on the missing Water Robinson case, but authorities confirm no link to the 10 year old disappearance.
North English Lloyd Ti don Claypool 9 percent son of Mr and Mrs Layton Claypool died Friday evening from peritonitis after a ruptured appendix. Survived by parents three brothers Harold Jean Winston and a sister Miriam Doris who died three months ago. Funeral services held Sunday afternoon at the Christian church. Millersburg Trinity Evangelical church held mission festival Sunday with Rev W Krueger Wellman in the pulpit and Rev I Joeckel Williamsburg delivering the 2 pm service. Lunch served by Ladies Aid in the church basement. E A Lazarz student acting pastor with Rev R P Young supervising pastor since Rev A E Krause went to Waterloo church. Coralville Mirs L C Sebern hosts Coralville Heights club at her home with Mrs Frank I Matt and Mrs A J Roberson in charge of afternoon entertainment.
Two Des Moines men were hospitalized after a plane crash Sunday near Creston during an air show. Pilot Charles Watrous sustained a fractured jaw and several broken teeth when the aircraft struck a telegraph pole near the landing field, while passenger Sterling Boyce suffered a cut and bruises. The plane, owned by Boyce and Sterling's brother, sustained undercarriage and propeller damage.
Special to The Gazette reports a torrential rain Sunday washed out a concrete and stone bridge on Mary Road No 218 south of Iowa City. Minor damage to highways south of Iowa City followed as traffic detoured. Water levels rose to 34 percent above mean at 5 in the hydraulics lab before receding.
Weather reports indicate pleasant, clear conditions returning to the state as Iowa City and the eastern half see milder air. The Weather Bureau expects temperatures to rise above normal in most areas on Monday with cooler readings in the south and east by Monday morning.
In Manchester on Sunday, weather kept attendance down by about 100 at the No eastern Iowa Luthor League event. Delegates from Clayton, Dubuque and Delaware counties gathered, attended church, and enjoyed a picnic at Ti park. Afternoon games saw Dubuque and Guttenberg teams clash, Guttenberg besting Dubuque 16 to 1.
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