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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1934
Page
12
Des Moines reports heavy wind and rain damage across Benton to Jasper counties. Utilities work to restore power and communications as trees fall, roads close, and farms lose buildings and stock. Creston and Nashua face water and infrastructure impacts while weather forecasts promise clear conditions and warmer temperatures.
A late Thursday cloudburst and high winds caused flooding and property damage around Urbana. Creeks rose to flood levels, six inch rain-filled basins formed, and numerous trees blocked the river road causing a detour. Farm buildings on Kisling Burrell Brody Samberns and Cline farms were blown down and lightning hit the Sydney Black home and barn area.
In Vinton area heavy winds and rain damaged Elmer Mossman farm six miles south of Vinton on highway 218. A 22 by 56 foot machine shed and a 14 by 36 foot threshing shed were demolished, equipment scattered, and several house trees damaged. Nearby Springville and Anamosa reports note park rainfall and pension tax details in county relief and old age pension operations.
In a St Ansgar crash five Iowans died when pilot Fred Symington allegedly dove the plane to an unsafe altitude. Investigators say the fall was intentional and remote possibilities of fabric failure were ruled out. Funeral services for three victims were held, with a double funeral for Ed and Van Libersky.
The Most Rev Francis J L Beckman archbishop of Dubuque left Friday for a two months tour to Europe. He will visit Pope Pius XI in Rome during the trip.
Four people were severely injured and three cars demolished three miles east of Oelwein on Thursday night. Warren Waterton of Wadena suffered serious head injuries while George Kraft of Oelwein, James McConley of Oelwein, and Reed in the other car sustained multiple injuries. The Reed vehicle carried George A Reed of Aurora and his family. all escaped serious harm.
Dr A F Kuhlman of the University of Chicago urged a unified state and county welfare program under a public welfare bureau. He called for a trained social worker in every county and criticized crowded state mental institutions and parole supervision. He argued reforms would not expand the system beyond current scope.
Rain moved the Maynard Fourth of July events to the opera house with Rev. Fred C Lutz delivering an address and the town band directed by Arch Perkins providing music. After the shower the crowd gathered for kittenball games won by the married women 8 to 3 and a rain-delayed second game tied at 2 2.
The Shoemaker's Holiday opens a series of Elizabethan plays at the University of Iowa theater this Friday. Performances, including Shakespearean works, will be held in a reconstructed Fortune theater in London under director B Iden Payne of Chicago.
Thomas E. Watters 69 longtime cashier of the Niles and Watters Savings bank died after a lingering illness. He helped found the bank in 1880 and was active in the Anamosa Fair association Rotary Wapsipinicon Country club and several fraternal orders. Survived by widow Edna Knight Watters and two sons John and George. Funeral plans likely Sunday with burial in Dubuque.
Funeral services for Mrs. Catherine Richmann 72 were held Friday at Zion Evangelical church near Lowden. She died Tuesday after months of illness. Survivors include sons Harry Walter and Carl all at home, brothers Henry Lucht Iowa City Fred and John Lucht Grand Mound, sisters Minnie Lucht Grand Mound Helen Sarstorius and Mrs William Wigger Davenport.
Iowa marriages in 1933 reached 16 018 up from 8 014 in 1932 a rise of 49 to 50 percent The increase is linked to repeal of the five day marriage law while divorces rose to 3 656 from 3 354 an 8 increase The data show marriages per 1 000 population at 6 4 in 1933 and divorces at 1 5 per 1 000.
Leo Gaul was jailed in Decorah charged with attempted holdup of Burr Oak oil station owner E M Reed. Reed fired when ordered to surrender, wounding Gaul who then sought hospital treatment in Cresco. Gaul was arrested later and held for a July 20 hearing.
Miss Frances Long of Monroe a Cornell senior was Initiated Into the Cornell chapter of Pi Epsilon Delta. Prof. Clyde Tull presided. Long has led in several productions of the Cornell speech department including The Importance of Being Earnest Gold in the Hills and School for Husbands. She also acted in Death Takes a Holiday The Tempest and Riders to the Sea and serves as secretary of the Public Masquers.
In Indiana near Avery three men Edris Matthews David Thomas and Henry DeRoss were killed in a DeRoss Coal Mining shaft accident. Two dynamite charges exploded then a delayed blast as the rescuers entered the tunnel.
Official confirmation of Cloyd Level of Denison and William R. Sheridan of Keokuk for appointment as United States assistant attorneys for the southern Iowa district was awaited in Des Moines. Moon said the names had been sent to Washington for approval and declined to discuss the appointments. In Monticello, Mrs. George Rettig celebrated her eighty ninth birthday with many greetings and visitors at her home.
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