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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1938
Page
5
Governor Kraschel opens a Democratic rally at the Fort Des Moines with 200 to 300 attendees. Absent were Senators Herring and Gillette and several Congressmen, while Labor Commissioner Peace and Highway Commissioner McKinnon attend. Kraschel seeks party unity and plans to read a Farley telegram. speakers include Peace, ISU’s Sweeney, and Hawley for agriculture.
Congressman Fred Biermann of Decorah said there are no factions in Iowa's Democratic Party and attended Governor Kraschel's rally. He plans to attend a banquet honoring Andrew Jackson and may join future conferences called by Senator Clyde L. Herring or other prominent Iowa Democrats.
Ray Reynolds, 45, of Shellsburg has been missing since Tuesday at 11 am. He was last seen in work clothes. Reynolds is married and the father of two. Sheriff John Franklin is handling the case.
LE MARS AP James Meade 21 of Cole died Wednesday as the fourth victim in an automobile train crash in Le Mars. Six Western Union college students had traveled to Sioux City to buy a class gift. Others killed included Neva Phelps Cozad Neb Mildred Menke Odessa Minn Claude Miller Callaway Neb. Vincent Buss Le Mars driver and Mae Ellen Nelson Hastings Neb were seriously injured.
Wilbur Gretson a 51 year old from Moline was injured Tuesday night when he fell about 14 feet from a locomotive tender in Iowa City. He remained in serious condition at Mercy hospital with a broken back and scalp lacerations. Doctors said he was doing as well as could be expected and not in immediate danger.
Special to The Gazette Manchester traffic on the Chicago Great Western main line from Dubuque to Owlse was rerouted via the Illinois Central after a derailment of twenty eight freight cars five miles north of Manchester Tuesday. The derailment left the front and rear of the westbound train intact and caused only two loaded cars, one with coal and one with feed, to leave the track while the rest remained derailed but uninjured. No cause for the accident was determined by Wednesday.
Ames ISU fall quarter graduation lists six Eastern Iowa graduates among 122 recipients. Notables include George W. Kansky Cedar Rapids forestry and Henry Browne Wallace Des Moines bachelor of science. Commencement speaker was President Charles E. Finley. Also mentions Lois H. Dirks Decorah and others in forestry nursery management landscape architecture home economics education mechanical engineering and home management. Decorah note of Mrs. Gertrude Hegg turning ninety eight with no planned celebration.
By a unanimous vote the Clayton county board of supervisors denied Louis H. Cook and related refunds under section 7164. The resolution cites about 534 taxpayers claiming refunds totaling roughly 24 100 and notes a Des Moines based Taxpayer's Research Bureau purchasing claims. If allowed, refunds could reach 106 000, forcing a $50 000 levy on property owners to fund agencies.
Mr and Mrs Sherman Wallace longtime residents of the Vinton area celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a dinner for thirty relatives. The couple and their family have deep ties to the Corbett and Wallace lines with four generations on the same farm and five grandchildren plus a great grandchild.
The Want Ad advertisement lists practical home gifts under classification 29 offered at bargain prices. The notice highlights affordable items for readers shopping for household goods.
Buchanan county resident B B Hayes 70 dies in local hospital. Earlville mourns Jennie Gould 78 with funeral at Methodist church. Wilton wedding ties Velma Sterner to W Homer Poor in Muscatine ceremony. Wilton sees Henry Seibert Relief Corps officers named. Williamsburg reports Blanche Schwarzing to Byron Powell marriage in Sedalia Missouri. What Cheer mourns Mattie Fay Connor funeral held. Anamosa funeral for Charles Fairbanks 49 and son Kenneth after Marion crash. Riverside Ida Owen 73 dies. services held at Swank church. Clutier lodge and Rebekah officers prepared for January. Fayette debaters crowned. Manchester Pythians set installation. Troy Mills school closes for Christmas. Belle Plaine church officers chosen.
Snow fell in Charles City and Dubuque signaling a white Christmas for Iowa. The sun reaches its southernmost point Thursday marking the start of winter with a nine hour seven minute daylight period. Temperatures range from nine below normal at Council Bluffs to eight below in Sioux City and a high of 48 at Mount Ayr.
John son county auto license officials reported a busy rush as motorists bought 1939 plates with over 100 passenger licenses sold and total sales reaching 1 500. Fifteen new members joined the Iowa City Kiwanis club at a noon meeting. Dean Emeritus Carl Seashore and his wife headed to Evanston Illinois for a family reunion hosted by Mr and Mrs Robert Seashore.
Recount shows Fred Wiebel, incumbent clerk of court, leading J. C Coonrod by 22 votes in Cedar County. Wiebel's margin widened from one vote after the initial tally.
Wesley Watson, 36, of Smithsburg Illinois, fatally injured in an auto collision six miles east of Burlington, died Tuesday in a Burlington hospital as funeral arrangements began on Wednesday.
DES MOINES AP A real threat hung over Christmas as highway and railroad deaths rose. The state safety council reported 23 highway fatalities in a week and 48 since Dec 1, with 15 from rail crossing crashes. It urged parents to curb kids riding with drunk drivers and set safe example.
Sid ney Share a student at the Iowa School for the Blind was treated in Vinton hospital for injuries from an automobile crash five miles south of Vinton on Monday. His car collided with a vehicle driven by Doug Wilson of Van Horne. Wilson and passenger Maxine McNally of Cedar Rapids escaped injury. Share was thrown through a car door glass.
E J Riley 44 of Tulsa formerly of Dubuque was killed when his car and a Greyhound bus collided on highway 66 thirteen miles east of Springfield Missouri There were no bus passengers and the driver escaped injury Riley was an attorney and a gas and oil operator.
A $5,000 blaze leveled a barn and corn crib on the Harold Smith farm west of Clinton Wednesday. No injuries reported. The Clinton fire department investigated the blaze that caused extensive damage to outbuildings.
Claire Taylor, 38, suffered a crushed left arm and a forehead gash when his car veered off a road four miles northeast of Greeley after he waved at another driver. The vehicle was badly damaged.
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