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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1938
Page
8
Washington ponders two paths for replacing Justice Cardozo who died after a long illness. Roosevelt may choose a New Yorker like Senator Wagner or nominate a western resident to balance the court.
Washington hosts the Democratic district committee meeting to nominate a successor to Rep. Edward C. Eicher. O F Bol of Washington elected chair. Charles Chansky Iowa City named secretary. Delegates number 253. convention set for July 21 at 10 am in Washington. Candidates include Wilmer Hart Iowa City LaMarster West Branch and Judge J Gaffney Williamsburg. Other contenders with endorsements: C L McKinnon Newton Henry County and M Stapleton Muscatine County. Rep. and Mrs. Eicher will host a post-meeting dinner at the Washington pantry club.
In Hollywood an intruder levelled a gun at Mrs. Frank Capra wife of the noted director in their home early today threatening death. The assailant fled without loot after the confrontation.
Notice of a July 22 1938 8 p.m. meeting at the School House to hear taxpayers on the proposed expenditures. District Secretary Jos W Holets notes estimated taxes per $1000 of value and mill rate, with district population and 1937 taxable valuation figures.
Adjourned city plan commission meeting set for Tuesday in city hall. Frank Cooke and his niece Rose Cooke traveled to Seattle. David Elderkin to speak on International Relations at Canopus Club luncheon. Byron Anderson attends Equitable Life Insurance convention in Hot Springs, Virginia. Mrs Carl Huffman fined for traffic violation. Mrs Charles Earhart hosts Trinity Methodist breakfast. Fire crews extinguish car fire at Fourteenth Street and Mount Vernon Avenue SE. Over twenty U.S. Army vacancies remain at local recruiting office. WPA recreation supervisor Peter Matgen visited playground commission. Police urged to locate Ralph Parkhouse regarding a family death in Maquoketa, with highway patrol involved.
The central station platform is being extended nine feet with new concrete at the rear measuring nine by sixty three feet. One door is blocked at a time during the new drive installation and work is expected to finish before August 1.
Chief of Police Alex Manson and Constable F O Roop brought Marion C Huisman to Grinnell to answer a forgery charge connected to several counterfeit checks. Huisman was arrested in Cedar Rapids Saturday at Manson's request.
Twelve Cedar Rapids police officers traveled to the University of Iowa in Iowa City to enroll in a peace officers training school session held this week. Chief Bob Vinch had excused thirteen, but Patrolman Leonard DeVore missed the opening due to illness. Officers will commute by private car, paying their own expenses, to attend the sessions.
The Rev Nelson A Mershon died at 11 15 pm Saturday at his daughter Mrs L W Dooley's home 1609 Grande Ave SE after a brief illness Born January 11 1858 in Jones county he served 37 years in the Upper Iowa conference as pastor of several churches and held leadership roles at Cornell college Upper Iowa university and the Hancher organization He was married three times and survived by his daughter a granddaughter and four sisters in Minnesota and Colorado
In La Porte City and nearby, families marked Frank Elwell of Long Beach and John Hagar of La Porte City's eightieth and eighty third birthdays with a gathering at Clarence Hagar’s home. Elwell and his daughter Miss Lucy Elwell plan a trip to Long Beach with return in August for teaching in Sibley.
Mrs Leetta H White of Yakima Washington and brother Charles E Mershon of Los Angeles mourned at services in Turners chapel at 11 am Tuesday with Dr Charles J Bready of St Pauls Methodist Church officiating. Burial followed at Becker Minnesota. Friends may call at the chapel.
Charles Smith 55 and Elizabeth Werner 52 married in 1904 and divorced 25 years later. Each remarried to former spouses who died. They met again at the home of one of their eight children last weekend and are now set for a second wedding.
More than 3,500 members of United Packing House Workers Local 51 attended the Sunday picnic at Ellis Park. The program featured races baseball games horseshoe pitching and other contests with prizes from local businesses. The crowd enjoyed 150 gallons of ice cream and 193 cases of soda pop.
Edward J. Neil, AP sports writer and foreign correspondent, receives a posthumous National Headliners award for his coverage of the Spanish Civil War. His widow will receive the gold medal. Neil died Jan 2 from wounds suffered in Spain.
Stanley Kuczek aged 18 and Eugene Dean aged 19, both of Chicago, pled guilty to larceny from a building and received five year sentences in the Anamosa reformatory. They were accused of stealing diamond rings valued at 600 dollars from Schneff Brothers jewelry store in Davenport. Leonard Robinson, 28, Chicago, remained in jail on the same charge with a 5000 dollar bond.
Eski mos natives in Barrow Alaska endured an unprecedented 67 degree day as fur clothing sweltered under an unusual Arctic heat wave Sunday. The record temperature marked the highest ever recorded in the remote outpost.
A rural highway crash near Belle Plaine early Sunday left Joe Plucher near death with severe head wounds after motorists rushed four other victims to a local hospital. Plucher, riding with Lewis Jackson and Moore, was found an hour later in darkness and required fifty stitches after the collision with a car carrying Mr and Mrs R. M. McCoy of Des Moines. The McCoys sustained back injuries and cuts while Moore escaped serious harm.
A thief slipped into an exclusive Southampton Beach club bath house and stole jewelry valued at 13150 from Mrs Emily Warner, daughter of former Governor Alfred E. Smith, and from her house guest Mrs Faye Staniford of Hewlett Park. The incident occurred Sunday through an unguarded side entrance.
Cedar Rapids boosted long haul taxi rates from 25 cents for two miles to 25 cents for one mile after a third reading of the ordinance. Violations bring up to 100 dollars fine or 30 days in jail. Attorney Guy Linville for Yellow Cab argued the change mostly affects riders over one mile and said fares were too low, causing bootlegging and driver losses last year.
Calvin Burtchy a 49 year old from Oskaloosa committed suicide by leaping into the Des Moines river in Ottumwa after Mrs. Katie Snider Check refused his marriage proposal. She also jumped in to try to save him, but was unharmed and held as a material witness.
W Howard Smith g radu ate from the University of Iowa law school and was admitted to the state bar in June. He has begun practicing law in Cedar Rapids with F C Byers' office and is a Grant high graduate, son of Mr and Mrs Warren S Smith. Ed Reed and Stanley Kolsto were fined for fighting in police court, Reed 25 dollars and Kolsto 100 dollars, after a Saturday incident near a beer parlor at First Avenue East.
Work begins on a new cement driveway in front of the central fire station to replace the old drive worn by heavy fire trucks. The replacement will measure 25 feet 6 inches by 81 feet as crews drill and prepare the site.
Benny Goodman performs on the Columbia Network with his famous clarinet. Tune in for sweet music and dynamic solos airing at 8:30 pm Eastern, 7:30 pm Central, 6:30 pm Mountain, 5:30 pm Pacific.
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