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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1932
Page
16
Democratic Leader Robinson urged rapid Senate action on a $300 million emergency loan for states to combat hunger and unemployment misery. The measure, pulled from the Wagner relief bill, is expected to pass early with House cooperation, though distribution differs from the Garner plan. Speaker Garner signaled willingness to compromise.
Four property owners Emma S. Morgan Anna Kofron Henry Merklin and E P H Nedrow appeared before the city council Thursday to object in writing to proposed sidewalk construction on Seventh avenue at Fourth street SW. Royal American Shows of Kansas City was granted a permit to stage a carnival in Cedar Rapids the week of June 20 via a council resolution Thursday.
The council Thursday received a petition from sixteen property owners opposing sewer construction on Shaver road. At the request of H F Blomquist the municipal water plant superintendent the council passed a resolution authorizing the purchase of a power lawn mower to cut grass at the water works.
The council authorized retirement of twenty municipal water bonds at 1000 each and acceptance of 220 interest coupons at 23.75 each for a total outlay from the water budget of 25225.
The council fixes July 7 as the bid date for Seventh Street SW paving between Fifth and Eighth avenues and for the sewer on E Avenue and Fourteenth Street NE. It also passes the resolution of necessity authorizing the sewer work.
The council granted permission to the Roosevelt garage to construct a gallon gasoline storage tank beneath the sidewalk at 113 117 Second street NE.
L W Noble of 911 Thirteenth Street NW asked the council to remove Carolina poplar trees on H and I avenues NW between Eighth and Thirteenth streets. He said the trees obstruct sewers light wires and vision and secured cooperation from City Solicitor David Bleakley and the street department.
Hollywood reports veteran actor William Farnum married former Pasadena socialite Isabelle Lands Major in Santa Barbara on Wednesday night with Douglas Fairbanks as best man. The ceremony drew Mary Pickford and a world travel party including the brides twin daughters and son. Farnum, 55, recently divorced from Olive Ann Farnum, announced the union with Major, 37.
A Chicago Tribunes analysis argues that Iowa's Brookhart shifted from agrarian protest toward federal power and socialism, losing touch with plain American voters. It credits Henry Field with exposing Brookhart and urges Iowa to defend sovereignty and avoid debt and bureaucracy.
City briefs note a Thursday night event featuring the Collegiate Ramblers at Lincoln Park with a new floor showcased.
Mrs. Alva Dixon and her six children, stranded by Dixon’s death Sunday, receive county aid to travel to Newark Ohio where friends will provide care.
Mrs Milo Vanourny of 1010 Sixth Street SE found a radish in her garden on Wednesday afternoon that grew through a discarded clock wheel stuck in the ground. The quirky discovery comes as Ripley’s Believe It Or Not contest winds up.
We repair and remodel your furs at special low rates during the summer. They are stored free of charge until wanted. Schoen Exclusive Furrier.
Dr. C. R. Stout of 350 Seventeenth Street SE reported Wednesday afternoon that his Essex coupe was stolen from a parking space on Third Avenue near Fifth Street SE. The car bears license number 57-12757.
For as little as 34c you can advertise the flowers plants strawberries vegetables you grow for sale in the Gazette Want Ads. Your ad will reach 99 of Cedar Rapids readers and thousands beyond the city. Dial 2-1121 to phone an ad.
The Red Cross life saving tests are scheduled in the Y M C A pool this Friday at 7 p m for juniors and at 7 p m for others. Those who passed last week include T Cyril Noon John Stark Bernard Rudin James Trewin Richard Loftus Tom Gray James Leedham John Shep ard Jack Cocker and Fred Kacena. Examiners were Frank Martin Dr Dawson Grim Ernest Kosek Al Keyes and S P File.
E. I. Copeland of 222 Third Avenue SE will be the principal speaker for the Iowa State Association of Optometrists East Central District meeting this Thursday at 7 30 p m. His topic is Deter.
Director will attend the National Red Cross First Aid and Life Saving Institute at Camp Oak Point Square Lake Stillwater Minnesota from June 13 to 28. Both men are life saving examiners for Linn County's Red Cross chapter and will represent the chapter at the institute, one of twelve conducted in the United States.
Haegg Construction was awarded the 39 955 square feet sidewalk contract by the city council for 6656 53, underbid by Theodore Stark Construction at 7221 90 and Dedic Construction at 6822 35.
Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen trailed Mark Wilcox by a substantial margin in the Fourth district congressional nomination race. Latest returns showed Wilcox with a lead of more than 5,000 votes, as the daughter of William Jennings Bryan fought to defend her bid. Roosevelt led the statewide Democratic preferential primary over Gov. William H. Murray of Oklahoma.
In Maryville Missouri a drunken man, approached by a policeman, smashed a pane on the pavement. He was fined and costs for breaking glass and began serving time in jail when unable to pay.
Martial law spread across three Honduran provinces as government troops clashed with rebels near La Barranca. Reported losses include 51 rebels killed and six officers among the dead, with sixteen soldiers wounded. Rebel commander Filiberto Diaz Zelayaa led the attack amid pre election tensions.
Special to The Gazette Monticello notes ninety three pupils from Jones county rural schools will graduate Friday at the high school auditorium with a choir and addresses by numerous local notables. Names listed include Jessie, Marek, Dose, Svastosch, Benington, Ricklefs, Toenjes, Whalen, Kehoe, Johnson, McLaughlin, Marek, Steuri, Durgin, Durgin, Wolfe, Hale, Phillips, Pegerick, Wood, Dehner, Allen, Wismeier, McGrane, Kuhns, Naylor, Craig, Otten, Behrends, Bohiken, Schafer, Skahill, Finn, Maternach, McNally, Supple, Wagner, Batchelder, Prull, Siebels, Brock ens, Dierks, Dirks, Helgens, Doden, Kiburz, Kiburz, Tobiason, Osterkamp, Scheer, Bohiken, Siebels, Schafer, Topping, Sutton, Carpenter, Thimmel, Folkerts, Porter, Voorhies, Bock, Luker, Mortensen, Wehling, Otten, Siebels, Hill, McVay, Burcher, Eggers, Gutknecht, Null, Story, Kreger, Rubey, Wehde, Starr, Bramer, Edwards, Eye, Mayberry.
The Iowa brief notes a St John s Lath church ceremony in Lincoln township with many attendants and mourns the wedding, followed by a village social. It also lists club meetings in Hopkinton and Delhi, an Independence death, Atkins children day program, Mechanicsville Bible school, Calamus birthday, Oxford Odd Fellows officers, and many regional society items with names, places, and dates.
About 125 relatives attended the John and Henry Fulwider reunion in Tipton on Sunday. Officers reelected were Harold Fulwider of Tipton president Guy Hardman Wapello secretary and Eddie Bell Burnett treasurer. The program featured singing pantomime readings and recitations by local Fulwider family members. The Long family, with 21 descendants, was named largest direct descendant group. Attendees included numerous Fulwiders and related families from Tipton and nearby areas.
Three year old Donald Eichmeyer locked himself in a bathroom. Twelve policemen arrived with hooks ropes crow bars gas masks and an inhalator. Patrolman Samuelson freed the boy by removing the lock with a screwdriver.
Vickers 29 of Platteville Wisconsin said he and Ralph Johnson Aurora Ill were held up by two men on highway No 30 four miles east of Rapids. Vickers woke in a ditch near Henry Roselle’s rural route home after the incident while Johnson disappeared. Vickers reported being hit and robbed of $50 a cameo ring valued at 55 and his wrist watch. He was aided to the sheriff’s office and planned to return home.
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