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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1937
Page
65
Coldest Iowa night since 1936 gave way to a sunny day with temperatures rising from 28 below to above zero in many counties. Des Moines up from 6 below to 5 above as northwest regions battled blizzard drift blocks and lingering icy roads.
Delaware County supervisors reimposed a fox bounty effective December 15 to curb losses to poultry. In two weeks ending January 1 hunters reported 55 foxes trapped or shot and collected 110 dollars in bounties. Notable collectors included Edwin Dempster, Jess Imloff, Joseph Mesch, Ed Gibbs, E M Moser, J E Dodds, Boyden Musser, and Fred Hilsenbeck.
Guests at a Des Moines hotel reported smoke Saturday morning triggering a fire response. Firemen found smoke emanating from a belching stack on the building next door, prompting emergency checks and evacuations.
Six boys aged 14 to 16 were jailed on charges of staging twenty five break ins at Audubon stores in the past two months. They confessed to breaking and entering, admitting shoplifting and stealing cash totaling over 125 dollars.
County Attorney Maurice Rawlings prepared evidence for the district court grand jury in Sioux City on the $37 000 W A Ehlerman Jewelry Co safe robbery of December 22. Two written confessions and several statements are included. one confession by Harry Slim Reeves aligns with a prior explosives robbery conviction and a forty year sentence. The other confession is by Mrs Helen Sieler, reported to be recovering from eight bullet wounds in a Sioux Falls hospital after the New Year powder house blast linked to Harold Baker.
Des Moines bankers warned merchants to watch for counterfeit twenty dollar bills described as so expertly made that an expert is needed to tell they are fake. Several notes have been passed in Des Moines during the past week.
Saturday selected Rep Roy J Sours of Charles City as candidate for house speakership. Sours a farmer begins his fourth Floyd county term. Democrats chose LeRoy S Mercer of Iowa City after a long battle as party workers predicted a vote split in the 54 54 deadlock.
Fred Bruene, Democrat, becomes state representative from Tama county after farming with his father near Gladbrook. George Hathaway wins Buchanan county seat, former town council member and dairy farmer. Dr. Frederick C. Schadt, Republican, serves as senator for Iowa and Johnson counties with a Methodist ministry background. Harry E. Morrow, Republican, newly representing Delaware county, is a Iowa State College graduate with ties to Buck Creek rural parish.
Gov Clyde L Herring urged Iowa House members to quickly elect a presiding officer to avoid a drawn out session amid an even split of power. He will deliver his final State address next Tuesday before leaving Friday for Washington to be sworn in as U S senator.
Icy snow caused five train derailments Friday night and Saturday in southern Iowa and northern Missouri. Brakeman Roger Spencer of Moberly, Mo., died near Glenwood at 1 a.m. Saturday. Brakeman Henry Stroebel of Centerville died in a derailment near Milan on Friday afternoon. Several crews were injured in the other wrecks, including engineers and firemen from Moberly, Centerville, and Bloomfield, with additional derailments reported near Atlanta and between Tracy and Moulton.
Senator Byers of Cedar Rapids representing Linn county was assured Saturday of election as president pro tem of the Iowa senate, the third ranking officer in state government. With Republicans in the majority, his selection secures victory. Byers, a veteran legislator, will preside over the senate when Lieutenant Governor-elect John K. Valentine is absent.
Puchanan County Sheriff A. W. Hammelman named Herbert Buckingham of Independence deputy sheriff to fill the vacancy from James Mc Donnell’s resignation. Mc Donnell becomes an agent for the state bureau of identification after three years as deputy. Buckingham, a longtime Independence native, previously worked ten years at a local drug store.
G A Holland aged 61 former Polk County Democratic chairman died Saturday in Des Moines of heart disease after a yearlong illness. He was in the insurance and investment business and a native of New London Iowa.
Iowa Daily Press Bureau reports the December 1936 tax box score showing the average farmer paid 244.55 in direct taxes with 21.63 refunded, net 222.92. The series compares farmer and town resident tax burdens, notes indirect levies, and cites 1935 figures for context.
Rep. John Ryder of Dubuque, ill but possibly able to attend, may be carried to Des Moines on a stretcher to vote with his Democratic colleagues for speaker. The house is evenly split at 54 Democrats and 54 Republicans, and his absence could enable a Republican to win.
The Toledo Cooperative Corn Canning company held its annual meeting in Toledo Saturday. L. C. Davis of Tama joined the board, H. H. Lichty was reelected president, William Blazek of Tama became vice president, Charles Brandt of Toledo was secretary treasurer, and George Kelley remained manager. Only 35 attended, with 350 of 650 acres signed for next year. Kelley said 11 dollars per ton was paid in 1936 and the entire pack was sold, and Ed Dyas of Ames spoke on hybrid corn.
Chris Ruthenburg a Toledo mechanic employed by Tama county has been missing since Tuesday night and has not been heard from since Saturday He left for Tama in his working clothes and is believed to have a wife in Toledo awaiting his return
CCC workers from the Marion soil conservation camp place about seventy five feeding stations for quail pheasants and other birds across Linn county. The effort aided by hardware firms and local businessmen supplies 1600 pounds of feed from the state game conservation commission. CCC crews also built roughly 350 game shelters in cornfields and thickets as drought and harsh winter reduce wildlife cover.
John Charles Thomas of the Metropolitan Opera will headline Cornell college May Music Festival in Mount Vernon Iowa. Dr. Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra return for their 35th year, with Bach B Minor Mass selections and an unpublished Stock work. Hans Lange to conduct the Little Symphony Orchestra in chamber music from classic to modern pieces. The weekend festival runs May 13 to 15 with a special Saturday afternoon centennial Stock performance.
Democratic state representatives in Iowa chose LeRoy S. Mercer of Iowa City as their candidate for speaker after a three hour closed door session Saturday. Mercer will face Republican Roy Sours of Charles City in a floor vote Monday as the chamber sits split 54 to 54. Mercer, a Johnson county representative, is an advertising executive and former city councilman, and a University of Iowa graduate.
In Des Moines Iowa Republicans nominated Rep Roy J Souis and Democrats chose Rep LeRoy S Mercer after a lengthy 54 54 deadlock as the 50 member Democratic caucus backed Mercer with 26 votes Foster led Democrats for speaker pro tem while Republicans picked Hickenlooper for speak ers pro tem The Senate tabbed Byers for president pro tem as party lines hold in advance of Monday vote.
Iowa City report states one third of University of Iowa students are employed. Of 2,177 workers, 918 are in NYA positions earning about 10 monthly for undergrads and 22 for grads. Board jobs add 514, mostly men. 391 work for cash from university funds. 351 in cooperative dormitories.
Pupils at White Rose school in Nichols await possible snow blockade as roads remain uncertain. Children attended during Christmas break to avoid study delays if winter conditions recur.
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