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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1933
Page
2
The Knights of Columbus council hosted a post holiday event at the Hotel Roosevelt with 165 attendees including members wives and friends. The evening featured bridge and five hundred from 8 to 10 then dancing with an orchestra from 10 to 12 followed by refreshments. Earl L Patterson served as general chairman.
Bob Pfeiffer who has been spending the holidays with his parents Dr and Mrs H E Pfeiffer at 2210 Grande avenue SE returned Wednesday to Lake Forest Academy where he is attending school.
Mrs W G Haskell and her daughter Mrs A O McBean of Winnipeg Manitoba are visiting Cedar Rapids for several weeks and are staying at the Hotel Roosevelt during their stay.
The Wednesday Social club held at Mrs W R Fair 348 Seventh Avenue SW presented a paper on American Folksongs by Mrs J E Cumberland Rol l Cal l. The program included song readings and ended with community singing and refreshments hosted by Mrs Fair with help from Mrs L L Davis.
Women of District No.5 St Pauls Methodist and their husbands and families surprised O Herrick at 1735 C Avenue NE for his birthday on Wednesday evening. A picnic supper was served as Grant Perrin played piano selections and games followed.
Mrs W H Bartells of 1341 D Avenue NW was surprised Tuesday evening by neighbors and friends. Five hundred was played and a picnic supper enjoyed. gifts given to the guest of honor. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Bartells, the Pickerells and daughters Velda and Betty of Marion, the Harrises and Mildred, the Gardners and Archie, and the M Macke family and Maryanne.
A farewell party honoring three members of the business office of t We Norinwesmer in Den Teenie will be held Thursday at the Hotel Roosevelt. Honorees include Mrs James Davis formerly Miss Irene Walrath who will reside in Waterloo and R B Morgan and Jack Helwig who are transferred to Des Moines. Bridge will be played after dinner with about twenty to twenty five members present.
The Misses Alice and Patricia Seda hosted a party Tuesday for their little brother Joseph Louis Seda to celebrate his first birthday in January. Attendees included Betts Sramek Richard and Robert Fisher Donald Walker Theodore and Dolores Pospis Jerome and Mary Trzil and Helen Seda with their mothers.
Mr and Mrs Georgie Rowrasy entertained at their Would land Court home on Wednesday in honor of grandson Mavn iid Rowray marking his eighteenth birthday. Guests included Marguerite Sampie, Robert Drehouse Barnes, Violet Taslor Lied, and others. Auxiliary members attended a meeting at Mrs Re Kauees home Tuesday to appoint new officers.
The Milwaukee Railroad War club holds regular session Thursday at 8 pm in the clubrooms. Valley Camp No 2136 RN A meets Friday at 8 pm in Odd Fellows hall with installation practice for officers. Juveniles meet at 6 30 pm, with Rose Stoddard asking children in drill to be at the hall by 6 pm for practice.
Miss Mary Jane Hubbard will portray the dancer in the IC Players production Remote Control opening Friday January 13 at 815 pm in the IC auditorium. The mystery melodrama set in a Chicago radio studio features a murder during a broadcast and the Ghost Gang terror in the city. The cast includes the IC girls sextet with Dolores Fagan Helen Muma Marion Grant Ruth Neary Esther Lattner and Mary Van Damme and radio announcer Walter Brokenchild played by George Lindeken. Hubbard recently appeared at the Junior Service League Popularity Ball.
Home Rebekah lodge No 79 met in 100 F hall Monday evening with district deputy president Mrs Julia Barta and Praha Rebekah lodge staff installing officers for the coming term. Gladys Mally as noble grand Hattie Gitt vice grand Floy Meredith recording secretary Viola Kopecky financial secretary Verbena Gos nel treasurer Elizabeth Barger warden Dorothy Clark conductor Edith Hunter chaplain Leota Kraut musician Gertrude Jack man inside guardian Anna Davis outside guardian Carrie Willey. Visitors from Cedar Rapids and Marion attended District Deputy President Bertha Barnes. A past noble grand jewel and saro were presented to Mrs Gladys Malin. Eleanor Havor ka sane sang during roses presentation to Mrs Hattie cate from Mr Gitt and son Richard. Mrs Cottrill presented Mrs Gitt with a basket of flowers from Jerry Dysert. Refreshments served at close.
Members of the Ida Mansfield chapter of the International Order of Kang met Tuesday at the PRs club for the annual lunch and election of officers. Mrs D McHatt and Mrs Fyerett Chandler led the event with a program including corsages and a plant sale, and plans were announced for a Letters Day program at the Chamber of Commerce with various department representatives present.
Moot Sinv hosted a birthday celebration for her daughter Merovet Tacit. Several guests attended including Minoba 7 vote Mary McCune Stolley Pratten, Virginia Vishek, Dorothy Dorothea Kibbie Germid Rose Clara Moore Janet Derris and Leonard Smith jr.
The American Legion auxiliary meeting in the Memorial building ordered 8,000 veteran made poppies for the memorial time. Reports included visits to Oakdale former service patients and thirty Christmas baskets plus clothing and shoes for needy children. Community service talks, a benefit card party set for Jan 26, and refreshments followed. Local post leaders spoke on legislation and service.
Sixty three young women registered for leisure time activities classes at the YWCA to start Monday. The registration party featured get acquainted games and refreshments. Miss Lucille Ladd directed activities and Mrs Wayne J Foster chaired the committee. The YWCA has two typewriters for girls to use during idle times and seeks loans of more machines.
The Twelfth Night party by the Cedar Rapids Woman's Club dramatic art department is postponed due to the illness of leader Miss Bertha Sargent.
Miss Loyde Urich daughter of Mrs Amelia Smid 938 Seventeenth street NE left Thursday morning for St Paul Minnesota where she is a student at the College of St Catherine not unused by any other details.
Daniels Park church announces a monthly social gathering for adults at the James Dunlap residence on Center Point Road NE. Friends of the church and community members are invited to attend.
Trinity Methodist Ladies Aid will meet Friday at 2 30 pm in the church basement. Division 5 will handle the devotions.
The Woman's Missionary society of the First Evangelical church will meet Friday at 2 p.m. in the church parlors. Devotions will be led by Mrs Earl A Chamberlin. Hostesses serving during the social hour will be Mrs August Meyer and Mrs Ralph Ford.
The Woman's Missionary association of the United Brethren church will meet at the home of Mrs D H Kurtz, 1250 Fifth avenue SE, Friday at 2 30 p.m.
Mrs WV Fiebig hosts St Elizabeth's guild at St Johns Church Friday at 2 30 pm. Mardi Gras committee chairmen must attend. Olivet Missionary society meets at Home for Aged Women Friday for a picnic lunch at noon with Mrs J D OConnell in charge. Women asked to bring usual provisions Nellie McDowell conducts devotions E K Easton leads program All women of the church invited.
The Young Business Men's class of St Pauls Methodist church will give dinner Friday at 6 15 pm at the church. The Rev W L Alexander is now teacher of the class and is recovering in St Lukes hospital from an illness. The regular teacher F A Johnson a state representative will leave this week end for Des Moines.
The Cen Park Presbyterian Missionary society will open its year this Friday at 2 30 pm at 1718 Bavene NE. Hostesses include Mrs L W Dunilap Mrs Richard Lord and Mrs Frank B Baldwin. Mrs Albert Bisomquist leads devotions and Mrs P W Jacobson conducts the program on The Changeless Christ In a Changing World. All women of the church are invited.
Marshal Chang Hsiao Liang pledged to work under Chiang Kai-Shek and refused to negotiate with Japan except through the Nanking government. Japan said it would hold Shanhaikwan until a settlement. Rail service resumed between Mukden and Shanhaikwan with limited runs to Tangshan and Chinwangtao.
The column critiques national wealth limits and Japan’s demand for an apology to China over wartime clashes. It notes political shifts in Des Moines with reductions in state payrolls under a Democrat leadership and recalls Governor Turner’s speaker bid. Senator Carter Glass receives a thoughtful birthday tribute as a principled statesman.
Chinese press denounces Marshal Chang Hsiao Liang for failing to anticipate or defend Shanhaikwan as Japanese troops seized the northern railway terminal. General Ho Chu Kuo is praised for his performance, while Chang resumes defense amid criticism.
The nationalist government in Nanking sent Akira Ariyoshi the Japanese minister a protest over Japan's occupation of Shanhaikwan. In Shanghai the Japanese legation said it had not received any protest regarding Shanhaikwan.
Hollywood Paramount and Marlene Dietrich settle after a clash. Dietrich to begin a new film directed by Reuben Mamoulian and a $182,000 breach of contract suit will be withdrawn. She had previously worked with Josef von Sternberg.
In Waterloo Iowa a district court jury found Pat Griffin guilty of first degree murder in the death of Deputy Sheriff W F Dilworth. The panel recommended the death sentence after deliberating a little over two hours. This marked the second first degree murder conviction in the same Dilworth case following Elmer Brewer’s earlier verdict.
Franklin L. Saemann Jr seeks custody of 4 year old Myrtle Saemann known as the million dollar baby. He files a petition claiming since the January 1932 divorce the mother has shown herself unfit and unable to care for the child.
Representative Martin of Massachusetts pushes a bill to require all foreign goods for sale in the United States to bear the country of manufacture. He argues the mark helps American buyers choose domestic products and promotes national industry.
The narrative follows contradictions in the Schildhauer case as Miss Holland reports the couple arguing after finding Mrs Schildhauer and Bradberry in pajamas. Investigators note a late October Memphis trip by Mrs Schildhauer and Bradberry’s parallel journey, with Paul Walton sought across four states and car-seat stain examinations underway.
Fred Lutz son of Mrs. Alice Lutz of Louisa has returned from Sumatra where he represented Goodyear Tire and Rubber. He plans time in Chicago and will report to Akron on February 7. In the Orient he traveled on company business and met Douglas Fairbanks who hosted him on hunting expeditions in India.
Bertha Sargent custodian of the art room at the public library suffered a severe pelvic injury in a fall on library steps early Wednesday evening. X rays show no fracture. She was taken to St Luke's hospital and reported resting as comfortably as possible Thursday afternoon.
The French liner L Atlantique, blazing and abandoned, was sighted eight miles off Portland Bill en route to the Isle of Wight. Cherbourg reports put deaths at eighteen, though the captain earlier cited about thirty presumed lost by fire or drowning.
Plymouth Vermont report indicates Calvin Coolidge probably will be buried in the Plymouth Notch cemetery where five generations of the Coolidge family lie buried including Calvin Jr and his father Colonel John Coolidge. The article notes a remaining grave space between Calvin Jr and Calvin senior.
Washington report says the house expenditures committee on Thursday adopted a resolution disapproving President Hoover's regrouping recommendations. The move signals congressional opposition to the president's proposed financial regrouping plan.
Chicago news reports a 13 percent drop in automobile fatalities for 1932 from the National Safety Council. Preliminary figures indicate motor deaths fell to about 29,000 from 33,000 in 1931.
Frank Pavek, 22, of Palo, fined $10 and costs in police court for intoxication. A bankruptcy petition filed in federal court by Charles J. Kasischke of Hubbard lists liabilities of $8,466.28 and assets of $100.50 with $334 of personal property exempt. Soup luncheon at People's Church Friday. Dr. David Wright, veterinarian, contact Tel. 27679.
Prof. W. Ross Livingston of the University of Iowa history department will address a special gathering of the First Presbyterian Men's club at the First Presbyterian church Friday at 7 36 p m on The British Commonwealth. Refreshments will be served.
The city council on Thursday approved a voluminous set of rules for the local fire department. The rules, long in effect as common law and uncodified, were recently compiled and classified by Fire Chief Emil P. Kohout.
The Thursday evening service at First United Presbyterian Church has moved from 7 30 to 8 p m. Rev W Greer McCory will speak on Under the Blood. This week Rev McCrory preaches. next week Rev W J Giffen of Morning Sun will preach.
Recently elected Mizpah lodge officers were installed Wednesday night at the Masonic hall with Floyd Philbrick as installing officer and C A Beems as marshal. The wardens include Karl Schmidt worshipful master Halsey Wildman senior warden G F Joliff junior warden Jess Kitterman treasurer Ralph E Muma secretary Rev L D Stubbs chaplain Alan I Dunn Bernard Wilder deacons Ben Z Moats J Ward Lentz stewards Ben Benish tyler.
A three class study course for committeemen and leaders on the adolescent and family conflicts will be held Wednesday evenings January 11 18 and 25 at 730 in the boys room YMCA basement. It is under the Y MCA Boys Welfare council and will be instructed by Mrs William H Morgan of Iowa City. Registrations may be made with City Y Boys Secretary Charles Filip by January 9.
Norden lodge officers were installed by District Department President K. Wallin at the regular meeting Wednesday night of Norden lodge, Vasa order. Appointed and elected officers include Past President Mrs. A. G. Carlson, President O. E. Anderson, Vice-President Mrs. Christine Peterson, Recording Secretary August A. Peterson, Vice-Secretary Harry W. Johnson, Financial Secretary Carl M. Ahlgren, Treasurer Oscar Soderlund, Chaplain Mrs. C. M. Ahlgren, Master of Ceremonies Mrs. C. M. Wood, Vice-Master of Ceremonies Mrs. Harry W. Johnson, Inner Guard Charles C. Renstrom, Pianist Miss Ellen Renstrom, and Trustees Gust Kullander, T. G. Barlow, John Lundeen.
Three young Cedar Rapids bootleggers tried to hijack an 800 gallon liquor load hidden in a barn near the city. The real owners appeared with firearms, the hijackers fled, leaving the truck and alcohol. Police later found the abandoned truck, wheels gone, two days after the theft was reported.
Cedar Rapids records show Ed Swatosh of Hawthorne Drive SW among suspects named in December federal grand jury indictments in Dubuque. Swatosh was arrested by U S Deputy Marshal R L Whelan on a conspiracy to violate national prohibition laws charge. Bond of 2500 was posted for Swatosh before U S Commissioner Don Hutchison. The conspiracy defendants are described by prosecutors as members of a large Iowa liquor ring, with trials set when federal court convenes April 4.
A special committee appointed by the mercantile bureau met at the Chamber of Commerce to draft a program for the coming year. The plan will be submitted to the bureau’s executive committee for approval. Members named by John Carey include A. L. Kilian Carl Ettinger Joe Miller J J Studer Jack Levin and N J Leonard.
New York AP reports John Hamill repudiated his book Strange Career of Mr. Hoover Under Two Flags in supreme court records. He said material was true but used to mislead about the President and admitted fault in slant and interpretations. The suit by James J. O'Brien seeks profits accounting from Hamill and publisher William Faro Inc.
Cedar Rapids chapter of the Order of DeMolay will install new officers Friday at the Masonic hall. Needham Young will preside with Basil Waddington Ray Stuff Ben Padzewsky Stanley Moore Jr. and Fred Witousch assisting. A dance for DeMolays and friends follows. Paul Grier will receive the past master councilor jewel and Wayne Bain will be honored with a presentation.
Germany informs Washington it cannot meet its $8,262,500 due March 31, covering $5.1 million in mixed claims and $3.1625 million for American occupation costs. The notices rely on an escape clause allowing postponement with interest at 5 percent on mixed claims and 3 1/2 percent on occupation costs.
Gilbert Colgate longtime president and chairman of the Colgate company died in his sleep of a heart attack in his Park Avenue apartment. He was active in religious social and child welfare work.
Special to The Gazette Manchester evidence shows Martha Tesch cared more for stepson Luther than her husband. Chester Ward testified that on June 18 the pair visited his farm and she claimed not to know Louis Tesch's whereabouts. Luther is serving a life term for the murder. other witnesses included Sheriff Utley and matron Frentress.
Philip K Meskel Democrat who was declared clerk of the Fayete County court after the official canvas and later defeated by Edgar A Traeger Republican in a contest petitions contends ballots were stored in an unsafe attic location and seals on eight Traeger gain precincts were mutilated He calls for the contest count to replace the official canvass in those eight precincts claiming a 129 vote advantage for Meskel
Dr Earle Baker superintendent leads spiritual retreats this week for forty five pastors across five groups in the Davenport district. Anamosa group met Wednesday while Mount Vernon and Tipton groups gathered Thursday and Maquoketa and Clinton groups were to meet Friday in DeWitt. About twenty pastors and wives joined an all day session for guidance for the coming year with Bishop Nicholson assisting.
Louis Schaefer and Helen B Sutcliffe both of Cedar Rapids. Kenneth E Byers and Marguerite Hansen both of Cedar Rapids. Willam Fairbanks of Anamosa and Oma Knapp of Cedar Rapids.
Linn County board of supervisors reduced salaries for the county engineer and staff, overseer of the poor, county home superintendent and attendants, and courthouse janitors. Key cuts include county engineer William Behrens from 3400 to 2400 annually and several assistants and clerks receiving reduced pay while board and lodging are provided for county home workers. Court workers see smaller hourly caps and jail cooks are assigned fixed monthly salaries.
Ronald Moore 22 of 703 Ninth street SW was arrested after a 12 45 am attempt to break into a filling station at Third street and A avenue NE. Police traced him from a cafe burglary at Savoy cafe 113 Third street NE where a $50 overcoat and $20 in currency were taken. He wore the stolen sweater and had the overcoat hidden outside a house at 212 A avenue NE. Moore was identified by residents and placed in a squad car after a chase and search by Officer Hrabetin and others.
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