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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1935
Page
19
About forty DeMolays Masons and friends attend the Linn chapter installation in Marion. Officers include Master Johnson senior councilor Filack junior councilor Edwards and others. The report also notes deaths, social events, club meetings, and community notices around Marion.
The Methodist church presents a one act drama The Forgotten Man by Jewel Bothwell Tull of Mount Vernon at 8 this evening in the church auditorium. Cast includes Jienny Arp jr Arline Schenken Ray Stanton Margaret Zak Dick Starry Elizabeth Self and Stanley Kellams.
The Anamosa Baptist church youth will stage Convincing Mr Brown on Tuesday at 8 p m in the church. Cast includes Clarence Barker Mrs Ethel Barker Keith Bauser Mary Wilhelm Helen Barker La Vera Miner Willard Bauserman Ludena Wells. A male quartet of Keith Bauserman La Vera Miner Clarence Barker and Harold Sunday will provide music. Admission is free. a silver offering funds delegates to a Baptist assembly in Iowa.
Cedar Rapids city Y M C A plans a second annual boys camp with forty five enrollees. The three one week periods run Monday to Saturday with Leslie E Crabbs as director and William Kelly as assistant. New tents dining tent refrigerators added. Open free to boys eight to fifteen. Participants to bring own food and gear. Camp runs nature study handcraft hiking swimming athletics and campfire programs.
Anamosa Baptist church plans a play Convincing Mr Brown to fund Iowa Baptist assembly delegates. Cast includes Clarence Barker Ethel Barker Kieth Bau ameen Mary Wilhelm Helen Barker La Vera Miner Willard Bauuserman Ladema Wells with a male quartet. Other brief items cover lectures in Bertram Norway Lenox New church reunion Grinnell death of Mrs Chifford Stufflebeam Calmar Flaskrud reunion and Edward Panther’s death in Anamosa from peritonitis after appendicitis surgery.
SPRINGFIELD IL The Doering commission urges folding all Illinois relief and welfare duties into the state department of public welfare and abolishing the relief commission. It calls for coordinated county and state welfare administration. The report, led by Otto C Doering, assumes the federal government will fund and handle those able to work yet jobless.
Circulars distributed at a Wallburg North Carolina gathering branded Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia as the boll weevil menace. The leaflets urged the crowd to boo the menace back to Georgia and blamed labor unions for the distribution. The unauthenticated pamphlets claimed organized labor and other groups planned to exterminate the pest.
In the sea four miles southwest of Oahu an army attack plane lost control and crashed. Sergeant John A Haley was killed instantly. Lieutenant Douglas M. Cairns escaped by para chute and was rescued by a Japanese sampan crew shortly after.
In Budapest two men were sentenced to death for spying on Hungary’s military secrets. Lajos Szeldeczki, a Czechoslovak citizen, and Miklos Szamossalvi, a Hungarian army corporal, faced the gallows after a four day trial that ended Saturday. the execution time was not set.
In Oklahoma City Archie the cockroach fought for 24 hours against a black widow, tarantula, scorpion and centipede in a glass cage at a sporting goods shop. The centipede delivered a fatal punch. Archie finally lost a leg while the widow tarantula and centipede remained. The crowd watched as three fighters survived the deadly bout.
The Argonaut corporation plans to salvage the Lusitania using the Clyde-built Ophir at a cost of 75006 dollars. Divers will work from a depth of up to 400 feet with newly patented equipment after filming the wreck eight miles off the old head of Kinsale.
Police in Chicago offered an alarm clock service, waking Clement McNellis at 4 am so he could attend his 8 am wedding. McNellis, 28, said he needed help to avoid missing his own wedding and soon married Miss Albertina Schultz, 26, of Granite City.
About a hundred lepers at San Lazaro hospital rioted on Saturday after learning the legislature passed a bill easing restrictions on leprosy patients. They demanded immediate release to Contion Island, the noted leper colony, following the law's adoption.
A delegation of American radicals led by playwright Clifford Odets returned from Cuba after being arrested in Havana and deported aboard the S S Oriente. They accused U S and Cuban officials of conspiring to block their probe into alleged conditions and pledged further protests and larger missions with support from congressmen and senators. They claimed mistreatment in Cuba and planned protests against Cuban consulates in New York.
A description notes that Laplanders average between four and a half and five feet in height. The statement highlights height as a typical characteristic without additional context or details.
Vatican City AP reports the German Hospice near St. Peter's Square is a centuries old, tiny German state. Its independence rests on the Lateran treaty of 1929 and is administered by a single rector.
Paris amid Anglo American Press association protests the foreign ministry under Pierre Laval ordered immediate discontinuation of censorship on outgoing news messages. Censors at cable and wireless offices must stop delaying and treat control as nonrestrictive. Telephone calls faced no censorship while U S dispatches now move unimpeded.
Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey granted a temporary injunction to stop the Inland Milling company from collecting 35768 in processing taxes in Des Moines. A hearing is set for July 20 on the suit challenging the AAA wheat processing tax as unconstitutional with potential restitution to customers if ruled unconstitutional.
Nick Meade abandons the Anamosa Cedar Junction to Maquoketa line and John Fegan takes over a Monticello Maquoketa route in a week of postal service reassignments.
Manchester Everett Leigh ton chairs a booster stock party to support the Delaware County Fair society. The event takes place Tuesday night at the fair grounds, July 16, with proceeds aiding the county fair.
German psychologist Dr Koehler reports that anthropoid apes display surprisingly human behaviors in jungle experiments. Chimps imitate dances, solve reach problems with tools, and remember buried food, though they struggle with basic spatial reasoning and static tasks. He notes their high memory and problem solving but limits in planning.
LeMars police held two Sioux City men, Charles Alberts and Leo Larsen, as suspects in a spree of robberies at more than half a dozen residences. Officers recovered 2947 dollars in cash and arrested Larsen after a reported robbery, while Alberts was chased from Jess Edwards home and captured in an oats field near Merrill. Both have prior sentences at Anamosa reformatory.
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