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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1936
Page
5
Voters in Iowa City approve the reconstruction of the former American Legion hall gutted by fire last summer. The project costs 35000 with 1462 yes votes, 861 no, and a 60 percent threshold required. the deed will transfer to the city for rebuild. The measure had previously failed in a different form at the last general election.
Special to The Gazette. West Union sheriff and Mrs. Nehring drove to Griffin Georgia to recover Reuben Miller 23 and Ruth Crain 14, missing since Sept 9. Miller, once of Elgin, married a Crain farmer's daughter and has a two year old child. They disappeared after helping on the Crain farm, reportedly with little cash. A Wisconsin town message followed two weeks after Ruth wrote home.
DES MOINES AP Sheriff C E Wicklund of Marshalltown was elected president of the Iowa Sheriffs association to succeed C A Knee of Adel. Other officers named were Ed Leemkuil Primghar first vice president Fred Nesper Muscatine second vice president Tom Lacey Bedford third vice president Henry Nehring West Union fourth vice president and Roy Wilson Clarion secretary treasurer. The group also passed a resolution condemning paroles or commutations for major crime cases including aggravated robbery and murder.
Maynard won first place in the Friday one act play contest with Undertow. Cast included Juanita Tokheim Beatrice Hoehne Evelyn Watenpaugh Myrna Parke Marthabelle Prickett Phyllis Schulz Evelyn Sorg Ruth Fratzke and Lillian Cummings.
An Iowa City display at the University of Iowa fine arts building features reproductions of old masters and moderns to form a lending library of prints. Exhibited by the school of graphic and plastic arts, the show runs through December with duplicates for sale by the Students' Art Guild. Orders for Christmas prints should be placed before December 15.
In Des Moines a jury awarded Grace Findley one third of the estate portion to executor George A. Wilson about 117000 in securities held in two banks. The sister Ricka Findley receives about 7000 from bank accounts while the remainder goes to Mrs Mary Findley and other heirs.
John Mowery of Traer after thirty eight years in the ice business announces a new cold storage locker plant on his East Traer property. The facility will house refrigerated lockers at fifteen degrees above zero with individual keys for private access to store meat fruits and vegetables long term. Additional rooms of varying temperatures will support meat processing and year round farming butchering. C W Stipp of Des Moines will speak at a library basement meeting next Tuesday to present the proposal.
Alice Longworth lauds Prime Minister Baldwin for guiding Britain through the abdication crisis. The piece credits his courteous, steady leadership and rejects fascist or communist extremes, affirming democracy under central government as the British path.
IO WA news in brief reports Solon resident Harvey A Beuter 36 was committed to Johnson county jail by Judge Harold D Evans on a contempt charge for non payment of alimony and support to Mrs Marcella Beuter on ch 9.
West Union ships black walnut logs to Ohio including a remarkable sixteen foot long log with a twenty seven inch small end. Ray S. Mitchum of Oskaloosa bought standing timber from the Kleppe brothers of Dover township and sawed it into lengths for shipping. The carload, used for household furniture and bathroom fixtures, contains logs eight to ten feet long and fourteen to fifteen inch diameters as the bulk.
Edward Arnold's portrayal of Barney Glasgow in Come and Get It drives the period tale from 1884 to 1907 with forest greed and wealth pursuit. Frances Farmer and Joel McCrea star alongside Walter Brennan in a drama noted for spectacular logging sequences and a lively supporting cast.
A light verse about Christmas preparations and practical shortages. The speaker laments lacking proper night attire and gifts, yet resolves to endure until Christmas Day while others urge patience and thrift. The poem uses humorous self deprecation to comment on holiday expectations.
Springfield Illinois AP reported Governor Homer Horner announced the state will not levy a property tax for 1936. It marks the fourth consecutive year without the tax as revenue shifts to funds from the retail sales tax during the Horner administration.
Original notice lists Vida Wilson as plaintiff and Charles L. Wilson as defendant in Linn County Iowa District Court. It claims cruel and inhuman treatment endangering life and health and warns defendant to answer by the next January term failing which a default decree may be entered.
Author discusses a hypothetical monthly crime cost charged to every citizen. He estimates U S crime costs at about thirteen billion dollars yearly, equating to roughly 100 dollars per person and around 200 dollars per average adult, implying a heavy financial burden if enforced.
The booklet explains rules for a good memory tested by science. It covers remembering names dates lessons and books and offers the service of enrichment. Send 10c for costs and a stamped self addressed envelope to Albert E Wiggam care The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Request MEMORY.
The Sunday horoscope foresees an anxious period with sudden disruptions and disintegrating tensions in ordinary matters. Birthdays may see a year of rapid change, culminating in progress and altered fortunes, while a child born today could show talent in unique or untested directions, including science and adventure, with an enjoyable private life.
The Iowa theater plays two features to large crowds. The Smartest Girl in Town with Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern charms audiences with romance and humor. Helen Broderick Eric Blore and Erik Rhodes shine. The Plot Thickens with Zasu Pitts as Hildegarde Withers also proves a hit. Two and a half hours of light comedy and lively thrills draw Friday night crowds at the Iowa theater.
At Theaters Iowa features Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern in Smartest Girl in Town plus James Gleason and Zasu Pitts in The Plot Thickens. Paramount presents Come and Get It with Edward Arnold Frances Farmer and Joel McCrea. New State offers Midsummer Night's Dream with Dick Powell Olivia de Havilland and 3 Married Men with Roscoe Karns William Frawley Lynne Overman. Palace shows Mary of Scotland with Katharine Hepburn Fredric March and Love Begins at 20 with Hugh Herbert Patricia Ellis Warren Hull. Rialto screens Ride Em Cowboy with Buck Jones and Murder By An Aristocrat with Lyle Talbot Margaret Churchill. Sun features Edward Arnold in Diamond Jim and Don t Get Personal with James Dunn Sall y Eilers.
John F. Stepanek will lead the Sunday 11 a.m. service at First Reformed Church. The church school children rehearse at 2:30 p.m. for a Christmas program on Sunday evening, Dec. 20.
In Sigourney Mayor C A Lyons set bonds for Lamont Pug Durian age 27 of Wellman at 1500 on charges of intoxication and driving while intoxicated with his companion H C Meyers 25 of Wellman charged with illegal possession of intoxicating liquors. They were taken into custody near Kinross after allegedly driving into a ditch twice.
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