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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1936
Page
3
Government officials warn an additional 300 million dollars may be needed to finish the fiscal year as drought relief costs climb to about 5.9 million monthly. WPA RA expenditures drive the shortfall while farm aid demands rise, with only partial availability from PWA and CCC funding.
Wilbur Wheelock, 44, received a ten year penitentiary term from Judge A B Lovejoy in Independence for breaking and entering the King garage at Otterville last April. He has been jailed in Waterloo after a recent escape from Buchanan county jail. His 17 year old son Densel was sent to the Toledo juvenile home for involvement in a filling station robbery.
Ensign George Whitaker Jr. of Franklinton North Carolina died after being swept by a riptide off San Diego. Navy ships and planes searched Thursday for his body as two giant seaplanes tried to rescue him. one plane was swamped during a landing attempt, the other rescued two men from the water.
In San Francisco AP report, Ann Cooper Hewitt, heiress to the Peter Cooper Hewitt estate valued between 1.3 million and 10 million dollars, is expected to testify against physicians Tilton E. Tillman and Samuel G. Boyd in a mayhem case stemming from her sterilization. A jury of eight women and four men was qualified for trial.
A three story frame warehouse housing Des Moines Ice and Fuel burned Thursday in Des Moines. The blaze started at lunch and within forty five minutes the structure was a total loss. Firefighters faced ammonia explosions injuring three, as thousands watched from the riverfront.
Linn county board of supervisors approved a 250 dollar grant to aid a state health department mass diphtheria immunization program for Cedar Rapids and Linn county children. Targeted are those nine to twenty four months old. free service will be available to city and rural children. Materials supplied by state health department. funding from the poor fund. relief families receive treatment at the courthouse basement clinic.
Frank Moses, 43, a Chicago taxicab driver, was shot three times and dumped in a Stickney ditch Tuesday by two men who forcibly took him from a west side stand. He died Thursday from his wounds as police search for the pair, convinced the driver was a mistaken victim.
Dale Larson an 18 month old boy, the son of Palmer Larson, drowned in a horse tank at the family home in Bloomfield Nebraska. His mother had died the previous January.
Ice cream social tonight. Townsend club No. 4 meets Friday at 7 30 p.m. in the superior court room. Elmer Nemecek has a permit to build a 2000 dollar dwelling at 1200 Thirty third street SE. Cedar Rapids Airhawks meet at city hall Friday at 7 p.m. Used car prices cut up to 50 percent in Want Ad section. Mr and Mrs S A Mittan return from trip to Cheyenne Wyo and through the Rocky mountains. Ambar Grotto and Knights of Pythias bands rehearse at K P hall Friday at 8 p.m. with refreshments. City council files resolution ordering oiling of K avenue NW from Third to Fourth and Twentyeth avenue SW from C to D streets.
The Cedar Rapids Saengerbund will meet Friday at 7 30 p.m. at Ben Hur hall on First street SW. Members will rehearse songs for next Sunday's picnic.
Lumir Bena of Lincoln Heights reported a spare tire and wheel stolen from his automobile while parked near the circus grounds on Wednesday evening.
Richard Rudd of 802 Avenue NW pled guilty to speeding in police court and was fined $10 plus costs. The report notes Cyrus Metcalf of 617 First Avenue E was another case in the proceeding.
Firemen responded to the W. L. Green home at 935 L Street SW at 11:58 am Thursday when a gas stove being cleaned caught fire. Short-circuited wiring in the basement of Bionde Brothers store at 2700 Mount Vernon Avenue SE caused insulation damage and an alarm at 8:45 am Thursday.
A 6 30 p m community picnic at Lincoln Playground invites children and parents to attend. Attendees should bring sandwiches and a covered dish. A peanut hunt is planned for the youngsters and church leaders will oversee the event. The Rev Mr Winn and Mrs Winn will lead evangelistic services at Foursquare Gospel Tabernacle 609 First Avenue W this Friday evening. The Rev Mr Winn and Mrs L E Meyers and Harold Meyers will speak at Lake Harbor Camp Michigan during their absence.
The Rev. P. L. Bornhoeft attended the synodical conference in Indianapolis from August 6 to 11 and served on the elections committee. Dr. L. Fuerbringer was elected president and Rev. E. Schlueter of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, vice-president.
Paul Smith who runs a restaurant at First Avenue and Tenth Street SE told police he received a counterfeit check around August 5. The instrument was presented by a man over six feet tall with a heavy build and odd eyes.
A petition signed by about twenty residents urged the city council to consider Frank Chadima a candidate to succeed the late Milo Hronek as captain. The matter was discussed with the city council on Thursday.
Floyd Redding of Lyons Nebraska told police Thursday morning an attempt was made to break a window of his parked car. Police on Wednesday received a report of two men seen going through cars near the scene but could not locate them.
Dr. Thomas Suchomel will describe his west coast trip at the High Twelve luncheon Friday noon at Hotel Roosevelt. The first annual High Twelve golf tournament is set for Friday 3:30 p.m. at Kenmore followed by dinner at the Kenmore clubhouse attended by members' wives and friends.
Jim Wait of 2708 Mount Vernon avenue SE was detained by police Wednesday for an investigation but released after owner John Zrudsky of route 4 produced proof that Wait had permission to use the car.
N Harold West Cedar Rapids Scout executive and Dick Frost assistant director of Scout camping in the British Isles formed a friendship at the national Scout executives conference in French Lick Springs Ind last spring Frost sent West an English Scout belt of gunmetal leather bearing the British Boy Scout emblem
The city council on Thursday referred to the public improvement department a petition from Grace Episcopal Church asking for extra illumination by means of enhanced street or building lighting.
Signia notes Frost and his superior J S Wilson, British Scout camping chief, attended the conference and West met both during the event.
Two strangers visited a beer parlor at First avenue and Eighth street W and orchestrated a $5 net change by paying with a $10 for two glasses. One man collected $9.80 in change and claimed the $2.50 owed, while the other laid down three $1 bills with two more ones and asked for a $5 bill before returning the $10.
The bartender receives a $10 bill and gives back five ones plus his own $5 bill. Separately, tortoise eggs take eight to thirteen months to hatch.
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