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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1937
Page
1
A national relief appeal describes widespread floods and accompanying disasters in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. It calls for urgent Red Cross aid, noting escalating needs and doubled local quotas to support evacuees and damage relief.
France's Socialist Premier Leon Blum proposed aiding Germany to ease economic woes if Berlin shows willingness to cooperate on world peace. He said settlement of political and arms issues must come with economic recovery and rejected any bargaining. Germany and Italy pledged to bar foreign volunteers from Spain, awaiting London non intervention steps.
The Linn County Chapter of the American Red Cross seeks contributions to exceed the initial roughly $1,000 quota. Mrs Metta Burd reports a “gratifying response” but notes no final success without a doubling of the original goal. Red Cross HQ is Room 206, new post office building.
Cedar Rapids and Linn county residents gave generously to aid flood victims in the Ohio and lower Mississippi valleys. By 2 30 p.m. Monday the Linn county chapter reported 472 10 in contributions, with the national Red Cross doubling its quota to 2090. Notable gifts came from The Cedar Rapids Gazette $100 Kilia company $50 Cedar Rapids Automobile association $25 and more.
A Florida Everglades bus crash left nearly a score dead with at least one Iowan among the deceased. The Tamiami Trail Tours coach carried 31 aboard when it veered into a canal beside the highway. Survivors were initially estimated at 12, with some badly injured. The list of known dead includes M. R. Evans of Red Oak Iowa and others from New York City Yakima Walla Walla and Coral Gables among towns and states. Rescue workers described the passengers trapped under water for minutes before escapes.
After a Sunday snow and sharp warm break Cedar Rapids saw a drop as the state weather bureau warned of a new cold spell. Readings could plunge to 25 below in the northwest and 10 below in other areas with daily lows from Sioux City to Des Moines recording subzero or near zero temperatures.
A 1937 tribute extols Robert Burns for lyric joy and moral courage. The piece praises his compassion for labor, the lowly, and nature, hailing Burns as immortal in Scotland and a beacon of humane song.
Detroit AP report says General Motors prepares to reopen some plants while awaiting a Washington peace conference with UAW leaders. The company aims to return about 95 000 of 125 000 idle workers, focusing on facilities previously shut for material shortages, with 17 plants remaining on strike or limited.
Heavy rain and melting snow sent a new surge of water down the Ohio River reaching Cincinnati and beyond. A Mill Creek Valley fire and a North Bend blaze, sparked by gasoline on water, caused about 2 million dollars in damage and prompted evacuation of Brashears Street residents as several plants including Crosley and Standard Oil burned.
Residents with kin in flood zones face cut telegraph and telephone links. People listen to rescue broadcasts as boats are requested. Frank E. Katterjohn seeks news of his Owensboro family while others reach Florida or travel from St Louis to escape floods.
Evansville ordered evacuated as rising Ohio River waters flood Jeffersonville and New Albany. Inundation leaves only rooftops visible, with Clarksville deserted and refugees crowded along riverbanks. City hospitals struggle, power and water cut, refugees housed in casino and other dry spots.
Paducah residents appealed to federal and state authorities for an amphibian airplane to rush in medical supplies and necessities as Ohio River flooding forced 30 000 people to flee. Typhoid serum food clothing and medicine were urgently needed amid power outages and closed communications.
U. S. Army engineers detonated a levee on the Missouri side just below Cairo Illinois to lower the Mississippi River level. The blast was described as part of ongoing river control measures with the operation continuing into the next column.
Vatican sources report Pope Pius XI rested better after a new stimulant helped ease his pain. Doctors said the treatment aimed to give the pope much needed rest to stay alive while he endures illness as celebrations begin for the conversion of St. Paul.
Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, former lieutenant governor, accused of murdering his fiancée Verna Garr Taylor, had his trial postponed to the April term after flood conditions stranded witnesses and the defendant from reaching the New Castle courthouse in Shelbyville Kentucky.
Food shortages loom in flood swept Louisville with twenty five square miles submerged. Disease breaks out with chicken pox measles mumps and scarlet fever among refugees and 200 children in a southern junior high school. Typhoid inoculations begin in hotels and theaters while hundreds of Kentucky towns face similar misery and 200 000 residents are homeless statewide.
The American Red Cross doubled its relief quota for Ohio Mississippi flood areas to four million dollars and ordered divisions to meet the new target. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, the Red Cross chairman, wired all divisions to double their prior quotas from two million.
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