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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1937
Page
36
Reports indicate the strike may be ending with a Monday start for negotiations between strike leaders and General Motors. Sit down workers were to return home as production remains halted and talks hint at further concessions.
GM tells UAW leadership it will not recognize the union as the sole bargaining agent for its workers. Evacuations, banners, and talk of a potential return to strike follow a 18 day truce. Knudsen and Boyson trade telegrams over representative rights as Ford hopes loom.
Town legislators are shown a slice of life beyond bills with a sample of women at work in the state house on page 4. The farm editor covers Sunday dinner mashed potatoes versus roast duck on page 3, and Otis Leefers discusses Cedar Rapids building boom on page 6 with Keswick’s first new house in fourteen years.
Supreme court Justice James T. Cross awarded Mrs. Bertha Gott Smith a separation from Alfred E. Smith Jr the former New York governor and 1923 Democratic presidential candidate. She received 200 monthly alimony and 105.25 in costs and may seek modification if her ability to pay changes. She testified threats with a revolver and a knife and an assault at a Syracuse party.
Justice Willis Van Devanter, 77, faced a possible federal game law charge for duck hunting without a $1 duck stamp in Virginia. The Biological Survey sent a case report to the Agriculture Department solicitor, with policy to prosecute all violations. The judge explained he obtained the stamp after the hunt.
Grace Moore and her husband Valentin Parera are named in a suit filed Saturday by architect Arthur Hutchinson seeking 3740 dollars for planning their new home. The action stems from a failure to pay for architectural services.
Linn county supervisors moved to ratify a $9,800 voting machine purchase made Dec 19 without public record entry. The deal surfaced after The Gazette queried County Auditor Vesely, who had not heard of it. The order for ten machines at $980 each was signed by Chairman Elmer M. Seevell in 1936 and arranged through G. A. Senninger of Marion.
AP reports a January period from the 18th to the 23rd for the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi valleys. Snow or rain is expected Monday and again toward Thursday or Friday with temperatures mostly near or below normal.
A reader laments rising divorce rates and a perceived moral laxity in marriage across cities. The essay links high divorce to prosperity, societal scrutiny of elites, and a shift toward self centered attitudes eroding commitment and stability in homes.
Blonde American star Ann Harding and Werner Janssen famed symphony maestro planned to wed in London after filing a notice. Janssen, New York restaurant owner’s son and first native New Yorker to conduct the New York Philharmonic, could not be reached. He was previously divorced from Elsa Smith with custody of two children.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette announces the Washington Merry-Go-Round column by Allen and Pearson resumes Monday. The pair routinely stirs debate with national Capitol coverage during Roosevelt’s early term, asserting impartial reporting amid controversy and predicted re election outcomes.
The London Evening Standard denounces rumors of a romance between the Duke of Kent and Mrs William Allen after a visit to a phrenologist. It notes anonymous letters and divorce gossip, calling such claims malicious and untrue while reaffirming happy marriages for both.
Democratic representatives from Missouri Iowa and Minnesota re elected Clarence Cannon of Elsberry Missouri to the House steering committee. The action solidifies Cannon's position among party leadership as a key parliamentary figure in the House.
Dr William W Mattson of Tacoma writes for readers to honor his son killed by abduction and to urge harsher laws. He thanks sympathizers, denies rumors, and pledges to reveal ransom details when publicly released. Cont'd on Page 2.
Stan Laurel, famed screen comic, filed a denial claiming he was never the husband of another alleged wife. Mrs Mae Laurel had alleged a 1919 New York common law marriage and sought monthly maintenance. Virginia Ruth Laurel later sued for separate maintenance and then divorce, which was granted after a property settlement.
Gov. E. W. Marland increased guards at the Oklahoma executive mansion after a longhand note demanded $5,000. The letter, signed Bilk, threatened violence to him and Mrs. Marland and ordered an advertisement in a city paper. A $500 reward was posted for the sender's arrest.
In Washington state investigators tighten the manhunt for the Charles Mattson kidnap killer after fingerprints at a Seattle service station and a blood stained mattress found in a well near Everett. The father of the boy denounces police bungling as federal agents and state troopers double their search through snow covered hills and abandoned ranch sites.
CEDAR FALLS AP Kenneth Benton 25 of Waverly died Saturday afternoon when his car hit a freight truck driven by Hilmuth Ball of Waterloo. Ball was uninjured.
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