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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1936
Page
4
Chicago dispatch notes stronger hog prices despite ample supply with top hog at 10.20 and weekly net gain of 42 cents. Cattle mixed with mid range and good cattle around 11 dollars, sheep and lambs steadier with bids up to 10.75. Receipts reached about 28,000 hogs and 11,000 sheep and lambs, with 8,000 direct hogs.
A Cedar Rapids market list shows prices for grains, seeds, and livestock including oats, rye, barley, corn, shelled corn, yellow corn, soybeans, and New Car corn. Also listed are heavy hens, leghorns, ducks, geese, hides, and wholesale fruits and vegetables with various crate and per hundred weights. Prices reflect standard offerings like Navel oranges, grapefruit, lemons, Jonathans bananas, head lettuce, celery, cabbage, onions, and standards.
Chicago markets show a mix of steady to firm prices across products. Butter and eggs command varied receipts and daily changes, while poultry remains steady with hens and toms showing modest gains in value.
Wheat prices fell on the Chicago board as long traders moved to selling amid cautious flour demand. May wheat slipped while July and deferred months also weakened. corn oats and rye followed wheat with scattered selling and a brief rally after a court decision. Chicago cash provisions showed mixed No 3 red and No 1 hard wheat prices and diverse corn and oats quotes across markets.
Local hog market shows a small uptick in prices with steady bids on the morning report. Trade remains cautious as buyers weigh supply against demand in the regional market.
Margo Early 18, a film actress also known as Mourga Gordis, was killed when a car plowed into a coastal embankment near Santa Monica. The driver, Grace 18, reportedly lost control after a dinner party at the residence of Miurion Dasies. concussion and facial injuries were noted among survivors.
Foreign exchange quotes show Britain at 497, France 664, Germany 4046, Norway 2497, Sweden 2569, Denmark 2220, Switzerland 3271, Spain 1376, Poland 1902, and Czechoslovakia 43R with various other listings. Commodity markets report raw sugar, refined prices, textile fibers, and wool market notes with limited changes and regional commentary on shipments and prices across Boston Minneapolis and other centers.
U S government bonds showed modest gains while rail equities led advance with Erie and New York Central up 1 to 2 percent. Treasury issues edged higher as Bankers and investors welcomed hints from Jesse Jones on continued rate easing policy under ongoing financing programs.
Indianapolis patrolman halted a Lessing game after observing children using human skulls as balls and bones as markers near two abandoned cemeteries, interrupting play in a macabre scene.
Wall Street reports mixed gains led by packing, oil and specialty shares while a TVA ruling delay curbed utilities. Cotton dips then recovers as Bankhead act case is dismissed. grains and cotton show weakness. Transfers total around 2.4 million shares with rail bonds and U.S. securities in demand.
Three directors of the Cedar Rapids Country Club will be elected at the annual membership meeting to be held Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. at the club house. Dinner starts at 6 30 with reservations. E. J. Carey will preside. Expiring terms are George Carey D M Taylor and Dr Fred W Bailey. A 50 member quorum is required.
The Most Reverend Thomas O'Donnell, archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Nova Scotia, died Monday after several days of illness. He had been ill since last Thursday.
John Menea aged 45 and his son Albert 13 died in a car fire after a collision with a northbound Southern Pacific Limited in Redwood City California. Also killed were James Griffen 9 and his brother Conrad 8. Investigation pending by local authorities.
Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, a top Chicago vote getter, wins backing from the Illinois state Democratic organization for the gubernatorial race. The group breaks with Gov Henry Horner and supports Bundesen while promising non Chicagoans for two congressmen at large. Incumbents Lewis and Kerner remain in place. Horner vows to run in the independent Democratic nomination.
Mrs Chester Tubbs 25 of 723 Fourth Avenue SE suffered a forehead cut and shoulder bruises when the car she rode in hit the rear of a preceding auto on Johnson Avenue near Seventeenth Street NW. She was taken to Mercy Hospital for treatment. Passenger Charles Byers 723 Fourth Avenue SE was traveling behind H R Page of Newhall. Page said he applied brakes while passing another car, but Byers could not stop in time.
Army officers prepared to pursue a possible new clue in Lieut. John Helms disappearance after L E Gish reported seeing what looked like an aircraft wing high on the Tehachapis canyon wall. Helms vanished during a flight from Hamilton Field near San Francisco to March Field Riverside.
Albert B. Crispin died Saturday afternoon. Services set for Tuesday at 9 am at Immaculate Conception Church conducted by Father John Molloy. Burial in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Body at Monahan chapel with viewing Monday evening. Family requests no flowers.
Eugene McCulley 76 of near Shellsburg died at home after a lingering illness. Born July 10, 1859 in Ohio, he moved to Benton County in 1865 with his parents. A member of the I O O F for 55 years, he married Clara Rambo in 1905 and had one child, Eugene Donald, who lives near Shellsburg. Survived by two sisters in Seattle and Urbana. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Urbana Methodist Church with Rev. L. W. Inman officiating.
In Detroit Shirley Tapp a 17 year old girl remains unconscious on a blanket davenport after a five night trance described by her parents as being slain by the power of God. They believe she will awaken on the seventh day with her lower nature destroyed and her character purified. The family belongs to the Full Salvation Union.
Richard Blakey 46, Mrs Richard Blakey 36, and Vincent Shepherd 23, all Negro, faced illegal liquor possession charges after police raid at 1216 Eleventh Street SE. Judge H C Ring set bonds at 500 dollars each and gave until Thursday to plead. Detectives intervened when Mrs Blakey allegedly dumped a container. the sink was drained.
The Paramount theater building in Cedar Rapids will be sold January 20 at 10 45 a m by Sheriff James H Smith's office under a judgment of about 558000 from a trust indenture action. Herman Strauss of Chicago is trustee against the Century Building Company. A prior execution was returned unsatisfied after a sale was voided.
John W. Davis labeled the New Deal utility holding company act a manifest violation of the Constitution. The brief, prepared for the circuit court of appeals, argues the act seeks to seize sweeping powers. The case stems from trustees of the American States Public Service Co appealing registration under the act.
The Cedar Rapids city council on Monday transferred 4587.98 from waterworks to sewage disposal to cover December sewage rentals. It approved first and second readings to alter the fifteenth precinct boundaries to include the airport area annexed since the last election. A wildlife preserve sponsorship deal with the Cedar Rapids Fish Game and Restoration club and the Cedar Rapids Woman's Club was adopted. The council also authorized settlement of a personal injury suit by Robert Bernhardt for 375 toward his 551 hospital bill after a fall on Twenty first street NE January 31 1935.
Mrs Willis I Luse died at the family home 1400 Thirteenth avenue Sunday at 1 40 am after a fifteen months illness She was born Myra E Dunn Oct 20 1856 near Big Rock Scott county and married Willis I Luse May 28 1886 They had seven children Esther Bentley Francis E Clark Charles R Nellie Jane and Lettie Lillian Two daughters died in infancy She survived by husband children one sister Mrs Lillie M Thompson twelve grandchildren Funeral at Yocom chapel Wednesday at 2 pm conducted by Rev C J Biddle Burial in Shi Joh cemetery Other items note births illness club meetings rental ad and a lyceum event
Funeral services for John Isaac Dripps 67 who died after a heart attack in Chicago on January 9 will be held Tuesday at 2 pm in Yocom chapel with Rev. W E Fisher officiating. Burial will be in Linn Grove Cemetery. He was born in Linn township April 8 1868 and lived most of his life there. He leaves three children Muriel Renthel and Allen of Tacoma Washington, two sisters Olive and Maggie of Cedar Rapids, and two brothers Joe of Springville and Walter of Marion.
A slight gain and hope for recovery followed burns suffered by 2 year old Jon Trimble after an oil explosion killed his mother. He is hospitalized at St. Luke's as the community notes local activities including club meetings and a church guild session.
Prospect of private ambulance service here would relieve the city of the work. John G. Morrison, local garage man, told the city council he plans to undertake the service from his motor storage and garage at Fifth street and Second avenue. Morrison was referred to the John B. Turner company, which has operated emergency ambulance service and has announced its withdrawal from the field.
The fourth expedition joined three other rescue parties in Georgetown British Guiana seeking Paul Redfern the missing U S flyer from 1927. The group from the American Legion Albert S Ward post sailed Sunday for Trinidad and Paramaribo and will not return until the mystery is solved.
Born Jan 11 to Edmund and Marie Hick 1921 Mount Vernon Ave SE a daughter Carla Marie at University Hospital Iowa City. Also a son to Julius and unknown mother at Mercy Hospital and several other births in Iowa City Mercy and St Luke's hospitals including Stookey and Hoepner families with multiple dates Jan 11 12.
In a national radio address Rev. Charles E. Coughlin announced a weekly tabloid from his National Union for Social Justice to launch March 1. The paper will be mailed free to readers to spread the union's message and support legislative action against the Federal Reserve Act with a court challenge. Senators Elmer Thomas Rep. Wright Patman and ex Senator Robert L. Owen will join the legal effort.
In Joliet Illinois an odorless gas seeped through four rooms of the Wetzel home turning it into a deadly chamber. Leonard Wetzel 28 rushed to unlock doors and windows after his family collapsed and carried his wife and three children and a neighbor girl to the car. Dr. Holt revived them and warned the gas would have killed them if exposure continued. Wetzel a small scale milk dealer said he had no enemies.
London reports say Greta Garbo and Noel Coward did not romance each other and never attended a Stockholm party that sparked rumors of a perfect couple. Both principals denied the alleged relationship, clarifying there was no meeting that inspired the chatter.
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