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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1937
Page
3
Miss Bertha Crossmore, housekeeper to Edwin Markham, refuses to tell the Academy of American Poets awarded him a 5000 cash prize. She questions the value of money to a poet and the thought stirs debate among readers.
A former King County Jail inmate identified a man boasting of bigger aims as a possible kidnapper in the Charles Mattson case. Seattle police questioned a dark swarthy man about 32, while authorities briefed Dr W W Mattson. A reinserted want ad named Mable as addressee and prompted federal involvement.
Ross Alexander youthful screen and stage actor shot and killed himself at his San Fernando Valley home. Friends cited grief over his first wife Aleta Friele and a recent remarriage to Anne Nagel as possible motives.
Cedar Rapids endured a brutal winter blast on Saturday night as temperatures plunged toward zero. Powdery snow swirled with a stiff wind while the day’s high reached 35 at noon and fell to 14 by 7 pm and 8 by 10 pm, per Inskeep company records.
The forecast covers Jan 4 to Jan 9 for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Expect considerable snow in the north and rain or snow in the south, with temperatures generally below normal.
A mother asks how to handle a seventeen year old son amid modern youth trends. She cites Sunday recreation and smoking by women, urges steadfast Christian beliefs or acceptance, and learns to avoid nagging while guiding through living example. The piece suggests counsel, not control, and emphasizes respectful influence.
Washington AP reports Secretary Perkins met with John L. Lewis while the General Motors strike deepened. In Flint about 700 sit down strikers in two Fisher Body plants defied a court injunction as Sheriff Wolfgott attempted to read the order again. GM says 135000 of 235000 workers face job losses next week. UAW president Homer Martin says union will follow attorney guidance with no fight against the law.
President Roosevelt announced Andrew W. Mellon offered his art collection and about 9 million dollars for a Washington gallery. The collection valued near 50 million dollars could go to the Smithsonian or the U S government for the people, with transfer to attorney general and Congress for approval.
The 332 Democratic members prepare for a Monday caucus to nominate for speaker as O Connor and Rayburn stake rival bids. Rankin remains a contestant while Bankhead seeks renomination. Rayburn chairs the Interstate Commerce Committee and O Connor leads the Rules Committee.
Mexico City based Excelsior reports exiled Russian leader Leon Trotsky aboard the steamer Ruth bound for Puerto Obregon Tabasco, with plans to travel inland to Villa Hermosa for a temporary residence.
Vatican reports say the pope rallied somewhat after a sinking spell but remains in steadily worse condition. Doctors including Prof. Nicola Pende treated him as rumors of further surgery and new venous blood grafts circulated.
A fierce winter blizzard hammered Sioux City with about 12 inches of snow in 24 hours. Streetcar service halted and taxi drivers stayed within business districts as winds reached 35 to 40 mph and visibility fell under one-eighth mile. Temperatures dipped from 23 above at 6 am to 3 above at noon, with 10 below forecast for Sunday.
A severe snowstorm blanketed eastern South Dakota southwest Minnesota Nebraska and northwest Iowa with heavy snow and gale winds piling drifts and closing roads across four states overnight.
The Iowa Electric Light and Power company begins re modeling at its D avenue and Sixth street NE powerhouse with a $400 000 to 450 000 project to install a high pressure boiler and a new turbine. The upgrade will raise capacity by about 7500 horsepower and significantly boost steam capacity. Two shifts will work on foundations, steel erection involves 175 tons, and coal use will reach about 19 tons per hour. Water cooled brick walls will replace refractory materials due to heat.
In Winslow Arizona an airplane flew Saturday to help locate about 200 Zuni Indians marooned and starving in snow blocked Zuni mountain mesas 75 miles south of Gallup New Mexico. Indiana superintendent E R Fryer and Albuquerque mail pilot Bill Cutter joined the mission directing land rescuers using tractors snow plows and trucks.
The Young Men's Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce will supply a pint of milk daily to undernourished Cedar Rapids elementary students starting Monday. Dr. A R Menary secured reduced pricing from milk distributors and the Cedar Rapids Cooperative Dairy to cover about 350 dollars monthly, with five hundred dollars advanced to start after January 1.
In Cedar Rapids activity, Today marks the Sun day Gazette debut of SHE SAYS YOU SAY with Harry E Boyd as illustrator. AROUND THE TOWN launches page 2, human interest features from eastern Iowa.
Mexican government orders stop to shipment from Vera Cruz of thirteen American airplanes licensed by the federal munitions board. Presid ent Cardenas reportedly directed the halt to avoid friction with the United States as Washington observes scrupulous neutrality in the Spanish civil war.
Spanish Ambassador Felix Gordon Ordas, his wife, and daughter escaped injury when a Lockheed plane overturned at Brownsville airport. The craft, part of a US fleet bound for Spain, survived with twisted propellers. Flight to Washington postponed until Monday.
The Spanish government ordered its navy to fire on any warships molesting Spanish ships amid rising war tensions. A British ship, the Newcastle ship Blackhill, flying the Union Jack, was reportedly shelled by Spanish insurgent craft in the Bay of Biscay after a chase by four trawlers that fired sixteen shells.
Paris reports a German naval buildup off Spain after the Koenigsberg shelled the Spanish steamer Soton, called an act of war by the Valencia government. Bayonne dispatches say a French merchant ship was attacked by nationalist war vessels, which fired over 20 shells but the ship escaped. Bilbao alleges more German warships massed at Guetaria alongside existing nationalist ships.
Berlin denounces the Bilbao execution of Lothar Guedde as a cowardly murder and threatens force against Spanish ships after the Soton freighter shelling and Aragon seizure. The foreign office warns force will be met with force as Germany demands the Palos passenger release.
Washington officials said the army navy and treasury were finalizing plans to transfer billions in gold to the Fort Knox repository in Kentucky. The transfer from Philadelphia and New York originally scheduled for early January may be delayed about a week to adjust other government services. Fort Knox is ready to receive the gold.
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