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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1935
Page
9
A crew member describes guiding lifeboat 13 as the Lusitania sank. Alfred Vanderbilt perished and a 14 year old aided the rescue. The boat carried about ninety people, but the sea was calm and a patrol boat picked them up at Queenstown. Chisholm remains hopeful as a four week search continues.
Charles Courtney, veteran treasure hunter and locksmith chief, weighs plans to recover the Lusitania. He envisions divers in steel armor lowering from the Orphir to blast open a safe door, then hauling gold and jewels from the sunken liner off the Irish channel coast.
Rufus Lee, longtime entrepreneur and community leader, dies after a career spanning Wahoo, Clarinda, Council Bluffs, and Omaha. He founded Lee Electric, led Continental Gas and Electric, and headed Rufus E. Lee & Co. Survivors include his widow, two daughters, three grandchildren, and siblings. Funeral services scheduled with relatives traveling from Clarinda and Denver for the ceremony.
The Linn County Abstract Company reports July sales of 355 new cars and 59 new trucks, up from 1934 figures of 190 cars and 21 trucks. Earlier July data show 1933 with 214 cars and 28 trucks, 1932 with 103 cars and 19 trucks, and 1931 with 229 cars and 34 trucks.
France faces a widening deficit with six billion gold francs in the current budget and billions more needed for rail debts and military spending amid Laval’s New Deal. Austerity cuts hit railroad workers teachers and civil servants while the government seeks to lower living costs by reducing bread rents coal gas and electricity prices. Funeral services are set for William Kinrade in Delmar with burial in Delmar cemetery. The national forest reservation commission approves purchasing 102713 acres to expand two North Carolina forests.
A newspaper ad touts Narito as a fast acting, non narcotic cure for rheumatic pain including rheumatism lumbago neuralgia and neuritis. The claim emphasizes no opiates and offers a money back guarantee if two to three doses fail to relieve pain. Available at all druggists.
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