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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1934
Page
15
A chaperon and four Orange City girls drowned at West Okoboji lake while attempting to rescue a friend after slipping from a rock reef. Two other girls were saved. Miss Margaret Blackburn 28 taught at Northwestern Junior College and Grinnell alumna. The tragedy echoes the 1929 resort disaster at the same lake.
Katherine Tofti of Houghton Mich traveled 880 miles to wed Donald Shaw, a jewelry store burglar, before his ten year prison sentence began. She said ten years is not long to wait when you have something to wait for. Authorities allowed the marriage as Shaw prepared to depart for imprisonment.
B Iden Payne a noted Shakespearean actor and director from Chicago has been named head of the Shakespeare Memorial theater in Stratford on Avon. The appointment was announced in Iowa City on Saturday night. Payne will wrap up his summer work at the University of Iowa with Cymbeline and other plays in August and start the new post December 1. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 188x and began as a boy at the Theatre Royal Worcester before joining the stage.
The university theater plans a Cymbeline production with a cast including Mr Paynes. Performances start this week on the stage, featuring a full cast and period setting.
An Atlantic Iowa wreck injured four people including Elsie E. Wright Velma Carter and Velma Case after a car veered into a ditch. The same group had earlier survived a Hamburg crash two weeks prior with Velma Case suffering severe arm injuries.
Burlington judge T G Garfield reserved decision after arguments on a motion to dismiss the indictment of Joiner Davison and Roy McCullough, former Wapello bankers, charged with receiving deposits while the bank was insolvent. A tentative trial start date of August 27 if the motion is overruled.
A drenching Friday and night rain in Muscatine County caused property damage feared in the thousands of dollars. Lightning lit up the area as totals reached 1.80 inches, the heaviest since Sept. 1, 1933, with showers continuing into Saturday.
Des Moines authorities investigated the death of an unidentified man found on a street. Coroner William Carpenter said the victim appeared struck by a motor vehicle with multiple cuts and a fractured skull. Officers noted drag marks extending about 150 feet in the street.
Des Moines AP report states Fred H Wray director of the retail sales tax division warns retailers to guard against paying tax to unauthorized persons. Field men carry credentials to be shown to retailers. About 5,000 permit applications have been received in the last ten days.
Francis Martin, 70, long time Cass County resident, died Saturday from injuries after a bull attacked him June 2 on his farm near Atlantic. He leaves a widow and one daughter.
Three generations of Spears horsemen live in Tipton. 91-year-old Alex Spears led a farming family that owns about 1600 acres. Fred Spears and son Jack breed and train horses across seven Iowa farms and remounts for cross country. Barbara and Captain Stone polo ponies wow crowds on the family course.
HY STAFF REPORTER notes a hobby of Della Gray and J F Crawford collecting antique china dolls. Many originate in Amana colonies with pedigreed outfits, some over a century old, including portraits of varied ages and attire, reflecting a faded Amana heritage and Depression-era histories.
The Cornell summer theater presents The Importance of Being Earnest directed by Albert Franklin Johnson. Cast includes John Ross Winnie, Frank Alyison, Frances Long, Anna Doud with Mrs Franklin Battin as Lady Bracknell. Curtain raiser The Boor features Verne Klimp and others.
Burlington school board received approval for an exemption of 25 069.66 under the Beatty Bennett law and the 1934 levy. State Comptroller C B Murtagh approved a resulting levy of 29 274.42, about 193.725 less than the 1930 figure used for reductions. The exemption stipulates no increased allowance will fund salary hikes or extra teachers.
Petition for rehearing of the appeal before the state supreme court was fled Saturday for Pat Griffin and Elmer Brewer condemned to death for the 1932 murder of WF Dun worth of Waterloo. The supreme court overruled the first appeal from the district court several months ago.
Special to The Gazette Maquoketa former Dubuque mayor and U S representative candidate Martin B Andelfinger was stopped by Deputy Cahill in Zwingle amid a local anti speeding drive spurred by a fatal crash He promised to appear Monday and was released He earlier ordered the Dubuque fire department to save property when Zwingle burned four years ago
The forty second annual Iowa Baptist assembly opens today at Iowa Falls for a 12 day outdoor session. Charles A. Wells will discuss travels in Russia and Martin Tarbell and Parker Burroughs will report on youth conferences. Registration of 500 conferees and daily courses by a 40 member staff will run July 22 to 27 with tent living and recreation plus a resident choir and orchestra.
Addison Parker a local attorney was appointed by Federal Judge Charles Dewey as supervising conciliating commissioner to oversee the Frazier Lemke farm mortgage moratorium act administration in southern Iowa. He will supervise the conciliating commissioners across the 48 counties in the federal district.
A petition requesting an investigation and accounting of Webster City's municipal finances was filed with the state auditor by Fred H Clagg and about thirty local property owners. They allege past due accounts totaling about 32 41049 dollars, unpaid notes for utilities, unpaid coal sales, and losses in the electric shop, blaming city officials for failing to enforce collection ordinances.
Iowa Republicans meet in Des Moines for a state convention to nominate three state office candidates and draft a platform. caucuses by congressional district begin at 10 a.m. with nominations likely for lieutenant governor attorney general and secretary of agriculture from four candidates each.
Des Moines District Judge Joseph E. Meyer cut the 30 000 verdict against Evert Weeks to 21 000 in the Leslie Shutes estate case. If Shutes estate accepts the reduction the petition for a new trial will be overruled. otherwise a new trial will be granted to Weeks. Shutes died after a collision with Weeks driving a car.
Mr and Mrs Wood er celebrated their golden wedding with open house at their Hale home Thursday. A son from San Francisco and a daughter from Clermont visited unexpectedly. Born in 1862 and 1868 respectively, they have eight children, four living.
Decorah clothing merchant Ben Bear and his wife Antonia mark their golden wedding anniversary. Bear, born 1853 in Germany, moved to America at 13 and settled in Decorah in 1876. The couple’s family and notable friends gather at their daughter’s home in Springfield for the celebration.
Gov Clyde L Herring named fifty county directors to run Iowa rural rehabilitation efforts aiding distressed residents off relief and toward self sufficiency. The list includes J Weaver Cooper Adams Logan Urice Benton M C Bankman Storm Lake E G Kothe Parkersburg and others in 33 counties with district meetings set to start July 17 at Fairfield.
Des Moines AP reports Assistant Attorney General Lehan T. Ryan states the special pension levy for police and firemen is not covered by the Beatty Bennet act because the levy was enacted after the act. The legislature aimed to fund all obligations, and the levy cannot be reduced under Beatty Bennett. A separate opinion says mere labeling a medicine with a trademark does not make it proprietary under Iowa law.
Dubuque contractor Charles C. Pape says his contract with Warner Construction was canceled for not posting a price with the NRA district manager. He argues he submitted his price for rock in late January before the crushed rock code took effect and only learned of the posting requirement recently. He details employing 40 men at 30 hours weekly on rip-rapping work and claims he complied with NRA rules once informed.
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