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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1932
Page
4
The 1933 Chevrolet on display at Rapids Chevrolet features a longer wheelbase, lower body, and no draft ventilation. It includes a larger motor, improved ventilation, stronger frame, better fuel economy, and new Starterator ignition start feature.
Detroit report shows Dodge Brothers retail deliveries rising 16.4 percent for the week ending December 3, with Plymouth sales up 1.5 percent and trucks up 85.2 percent. The gains mark the fourth straight week of growth, placing Dodge third in year to date deliveries.
Reo Motor Car announces two new heavy duty Speed Wagons, 2-ton and 3-ton, expanding the most complete line in company history. Charles Jones notes the range starts at a 1½ ton model and climbs to an 8-cylinder 4-ton tractor-trailer unit introduced in August.
A historical Sunday crossword list with numerous clues across and down items. Includes names of Greek gods, letters, common nouns, and phrases, with notes that answers appear on Page 5 Section 3 of the edition.
Attorney O'Shea vows to prove nurse Jill Hatch innocent as police pursue Merkle gang links. Jill’s tense confession and Holden’s risky romance drive the case amid hospital hold up rumors and a citywide search for a missing link.
A 32 000 pound gross load rating accompanies the new trucking line. Reo builds four 6 cylinder Gold Crown engines and one eight cylinder unit with displacements from 230 to 358 cu in. Major components include dry plate clutches, transmissions, full floating rear axles, cam in lever steering and hydraulic brakes, designed similarly across the line with varying sizes and safety margins.
Graham-Paige Motors reports that twelve months of sales for the Graham Eight more than doubled the prior year. The firm notes the Graham is the only eight with a sales gain this year over 1931. Hopkinton relief agent W J Kirkwood will distribute Red Cross flour from St Louis to needy families, with applications to Kirkwood.
A dense list of radio programs across CBS NBC WABC WJZ WLW WEAP WMAQ and others. Entries include music, talk, and theatrical shows with times from morning through late night, naming hosts and participating networks. The fragmentary schedule covers concerts, recitals, vaudeville acts, sermons, and variety items, reflecting a bustling 1940s era airwaves lineup.
In a hot basement O'Shea and McNabb uncover a paper bag from a suitcase with torn shirts and a faint laundry mark. A tiny envelope scrap with an R fragment is saved in O'Shea's notebook while they discuss a possible unseen woman in the apartment. McNabb notes the caretaker’s denial of a woman in residence.
Oelwein Iowa city notes the Eastern Star annual election held at the Masonic Temple naming Worthy Matron Lorraine Ashby and other officers. A joint Commandery and Eastern Star installation is scheduled for January 4 with Mrs. Anna Blowack of Grand Junction as installing officer.
Funeral services were conducted for William Henry Huffman 67 at the J M Huffman home east of Wyoming with burial in East Ridge cemetery. He was born in Pendelton county West Virginia and moved to Iowa in 1876 settling in Jones county where he lived. Survived by two brothers R D Huffman Anamosa J M Huffman Wyoming and one sister Mrs H Dixon Wyoming.
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