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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1936
Page
4
The AP reports a high pressure northwesterly flow foresees cooler weather across Iowa on Wednesday with no rain signals. Dakotas and Nebraska already cooled, with top temperatures around 90 or lower. Monday showers and clouds kept many places under 100, though Keokuk reached 106. scattered southeast showers were meager.
Chicago reports scattered showers bring some relief to heat oppressive Midwest. Rain is light in most areas, with heavier bursts in parts of the lower Missouri, middle Mississippi and Ohio valleys, Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska and western South Dakota. Fresh precipitation expected Tuesday in southern Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas and Wednesday in parts of the Dakotas and western Minnesota.
Mason City reports the Iowa state safety council warns drivers to stop flicking cigarette and cigar butts from windows. W Earl Hall notes fires have destroyed unharvested grain and fields, with losses running into hundreds of thousands of dollars. He calls for responsibility and caution across drought touched Iowa.
DES MOINES AP Bernard E Manley chairman of the Iowa liquor commission said he was glad not to attend the state Democratic convention. He explained a delegate took his hotel room, and the next day he heard politicians called him nonstop seeking guidance on operation, requests to open stores, or a drink.
Gov Clyde Herring and Senator L J Dickinson have reserved dates to speak in Marengo during the three day jubilee and 4 H club show sponsored by the merchants August 20 22 Herring speaks August 20 and Dickinson August 21 the dates were received by Lewis Swezey president of the Commercial club.
Funeral rites for Henry Gill 76 longtime University of Iowa janitor will be held Wednesday afternoon at the Oatholt chapel in Iowa City. Gill died Monday morning from a heart attack at the university library annex after serving the university since 1917. he is survived by two daughters, two sisters and two brothers.
Seven thousand cigarets and twenty four men's shirts were stolen from the Sands store in Ainsworth Iowa early Tuesday. The thieves appeared frightened away, leaving several boxes of shirts near the front door.
Fire Chief George Kaspar urged extreme care with matches and cigarettes after a prairie fire along highway 161 north of the Iowa City airport Sunday. Dry conditions and winds fanned flames leaping 25 to 30 feet, covering 35 acres and threatening homes, with Kaspar noting a stray cigarette sparked the blaze.
The Manchester community mourns Rev. J. Frank Moore who died July 21 while visiting New Wilmington Pennsylvania. His funeral drew about six hundred attendees at the Community church with an overflow via public address system. Speakers included Rev. A. R. McLaughlin Ames Rev. Thomas P. Shaffer and Rev. Joseph C. Cleveland. Pallbearers and honorary pallbearers listed.
Rockwell City dispatch reports Hazel Schwemeier, 20, a bank robber, and Louise Ramez, 50, a murdered, returned to the women's reformatory after escaping July 24 via a door transom. They were seized near Jolley after begging food from 58-year-old Gerhard Johnson, who turned them in. Schwemeier, sent to the reformatory in 1933 from Delaware County, had a ten year sentence for participating in the Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank of Manchester robbery. Ramez killed her husband, a Mexican, at Beverly near Cedar Rapids in 1928.
Des Moines AP reports Iowa's sixteen artificial lakes endured the July drought. H W Groth of the lands and waters division notes seven lakes are near spillway tops, others continue rising as spring-fed streams replenish evaporation losses.
In Chariton Iowa a bi partisan Halden For Senator club was formed to aid Berry Halden, Chariton editor, nominated by Republicans for the short term seat. R. E. Larimer chairs, with R. L. Jones as vice chairman, W. A. Eikenberry as second vice chairman, Fred S. Risser as secretary, and E. L. Gookin as treasurer.
A U S Bureau of Fisheries crew from Marquette rescued about a quarter million fish from a pond near McGregor as the Mississippi falls. Fingerling fish and two to three pound bass were among the catch. The operation has averaged over 200,000 fish a day along a twenty mile stretch since July 7 as low water traps fish in isolated ponds. Salvage teams operate across Iowa Wisconsin and Minnesota and expect to continue until the river freezes.
The treasury departments procurement division awaits reports from postal inspectors on Marion and Tipton Iowa sites for new post offices. Inspectors will judge suitability and price, narrowing to two or three for joint committee approval, with plans and bids delayed until site decisions arrive.
Guttenberg voters vote on August 20 in a special election to decide the disposition of the municipal light plant built two years earlier. The council seeks a sale to Central States Power and Light after the plant failed to pay for itself. Bonds totaling nearly $70,000 at 6 percent were issued in 1934, with $3,000 paid so far and growing arrears.
Carl Steuhm Jr a Tama area farmer injured when a truck carrying his cattle to Tama for shipment to Chicago overturned near the Fred Linhart home two miles southwest of Tama. He suffered a concussion a brain hemorrhage neck injuries head abrasions a crushed ear and body bruises. McNally of Toledo sustained leg injuries. four cattle averaging 1500 pounds each were unharmed and fit for shipment.
Miss Nadine Hall of Columbia Missouri, teaching fifth and sixth grades here for two years, submitted her resignation to the school board due to her recent marriage. Her successor has not been elected. J B Meyers acts as president in R P Andreas absence in Europe.
J Edgar Hoover head of the FBI will address the state convention of the American Legion in Clinton on August 24. National figures Ray Murphy of Ida Grove and Robert W Calflesh of Des Moines also back the program with John Thomas Taylor the national legislative director set to appear. Commander Murphy is expected to speak on August 28.
Solon plans rapid preparations for the annual homecoming set for August 20. At a Solon Community club meeting, L L Randall leads parade duties, Edward Miltner handles music and dance, C J Shimon heads advertising, Vernon L Kent is in charge of police, Ralph P Chansky selects speakers, Godfrey W Raim directs the goodwill tour, J B Kral oversees sports, and Charles F Shimon runs concessions.
Des Moines AP Judge Lou Ladd ruled a baby's grave marker must use the name the child bore at death, not the divorced mother's later chosen surname. The custody and inscription dispute arose after the 1936 death of Wellman child, with both parents seeking inscription rights and cemetery officials awaiting a ruling.
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