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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1938
Page
8
Japanese authorities protested the eviction of gendarmes and plain clothes police from the American defense sector of Shanghai's international settlement after a day of anti Japanese violence on the war's first anniversary. Eight Japanese killed, many wounded including a British soldier amid tit-for-tat clashes.
Official sentiment in Tokio led by Premier Konoye and key ministers signals a long campaign in China despite peace talks with Japan. The report notes stiff Japanese demands and the high command’s resolve to continue operations.
Washington report from the Federal Trade Commission to President Roosevelt states that the rise in living costs in late 1937 was largely due to monopolies price fixing and other business practices. The four month FTC study, submitted in April, supports earlier concerns about unwholesome competition.
CHICAGO AP Friday marked six years since the low point of the great depression on July 8 1932 as stock markets fell and prices tumbled. Editors focused on European dispatches while Lausanne fixed 750 million dollars reparations for Germany and a Moscow speed record crash was reported.
A daughter was born to Mr and Mrs E B Washburn at St Luke s hospital on July 7. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Harry A Billings at St Luke s hospital on July 7. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Lamir Barta at Mercy hospital on July 7.
Local brief notes report visitors and guests in Marion including the Kearns of Omaha en route home after a Fourth of July visit. Social items list Sunshine division activities and plans for the General Aid society. A garden record is noted by Donald Christie with improved golden bantam corn. Several families from Davenport Chicago Savanna and other places are guests or travelers.
Bluffs labor leaders threaten a strike to halt work at the Iowa centennial exposition over WPA carpenters being labeled as skilled. Gordon Beck says only five of 25 carpenters are competent. Leo Hintgen suggests admitting borderline workers or funding private carpenters to avoid delays. Exposition opens August 17. The Holland tunnel is 9 250 feet long.
Daisy Mittlestedt names Frank C Mittlestedt as defendant in a divorce suit alleging cruel and inhuman treatment. They were separated at Iowa City on November 24. Reply to Hay action involves John Wittkop and Nora E Wittkop as defendants in a real estate dispute brought by Clifford H Hay to enforce an allegedly accepted offer to trade property near Marion for a First Avenue East property. The Wittkops contest the agreement and question the value of the offered property and agent representations.
J D Peet and E M Peet sons of the late Ella Peet defend against Joseph Sadowsky administrator and intervenors to set aside certain realty conveyances. They file cross petitions Friday to quiet title. Intervenors include Leroy Newman and May Klindt grandchildren of Ella Peet claiming one third each and Carl Hendrickson guardian for Donald Milton Hollet minor great grandson.
William Phillips 24 of 601 Cobbancourt SE pled guilty to a nuisance charge from a raid on a Cedar Rapids area house off highway 30 near Cedar Rapids. He received a 30 day county jail term. Lillian Tompkins 25 and Margaret Evans 27 were fined July 1. Dr. W H Beshears 40 pled not guilty. May Goss seeks 4243 24 in damages in a two party personal injury and car damage suit against Edward Hutchinson.
Arthur C. Winne of Cedar Rapids obtained a temporary injunction from Judge C. J. Haas to stop the sheriff from selling a 1935 Pontiac sedan under an execution levy. The writ challenges an alimony judgment of under $100 against his former wife Martha A. Winne, claiming all alimony obligations have been discharged.
A defendant challenges a divorce judgment claiming no obligation exists and asks that the decree be nullified. The case centers on the legality of the judgment and the party's asserted lack of duty. Local court records note the plea and request for relief from the decision.
Bernard Anderson a federal inspector of prisons praised Sheriff James H. Smith and staff in a report to Linn county supervisors after inspecting the jail. Recommendations urge new washable mattresses and immediate removal of rear jail boxes and crates from surplus commodities storage. The sheriff says the containers come from the jail basement surplus warehouse. The Linn county jail is periodically inspected as a contract facility for federal prisoners awaiting trial or serving short sentences.
Clarence Reed, 31, a Toledo Ohio inmate, was found hanged Friday in the Ili nois penitentiary detention hospital. Reed had been sentenced in 1936 for parole violation and automobile theft.
New York dispatch reports Muriel Strong, 24, dangled from a Belmont Plaza hotel window on Lexington Avenue. Firemen formed a life net after alarms sounded, the girl fell head first but survived with a broken leg after the net cushioned the drop.
Eastern railroads will raise coach fares from 2 to 4 1/2 cents per mile effective July 25 under Interstate Commerce Commission permission. The increase covers New England and the middle Atlantic states east of Chicago and St. Louis, the inland region north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, and parts of Virginia and West Virginia. No change to the 3-cent base rate for Pullman transportation.
Boston officials opened an investigation after Mrs. Cathleen Lisenby received another mother’s baby girl born June 28, while her own son was the intended child. Identifications were confirmed by wrist tape tabs and hospital footprints. the mixup prompted a possible shakeup of staff.
Harrisburg AP reports Albert B. Bush, a blind man, asked on Friday that his $30 monthly public assistance pension be discontinued. He states his railroad retirement fund suffices for his needs and he has no dependents.
Kansas ministers wired Washington urging the Dies Committee to investigate Rev. Gerald B. Winrod of Wichita, a Republican hopeful for the U S Senate. They request inquiry into his record and the source of his lavish expenditures, citing fascist ideas and tactics in his Defender magazine.
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