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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1937
Page
4
A large fire at a rail yard leaves several dead and one missing. The blaze causes extensive damage with millions in losses and disrupts the German rail freight network as officials trace the origin of the disaster.
Four cans of sardines were sent by Dwight Scovel from Hopewell New Jersey to two Republic Steel workers in Ohio during a strike. Scovel enlisted Sam Brown and J H Slater as recipients with help from John Laurentsen. An affidavit claimed Scovel had no stake in the company and requested mail delivery verification.
An article fragment notes a baby dying from apparent neglect linked to poverty after workers faced reduced pay. It mentions WPA involvement, rail workers, and local notices, with other oblique references to trains, pensions, and a Cedar Rapids area setting. The text is garbled but centers on hardship due to low wages and workers' conditions.
The city council Thursday ordered oiling on Wilson avenue SW from Sixth to Eighth streets B street SW from Sixteenth to Eighteenth avenues Seventeenth avenue SW from B to C streets Fighteenth avenue SW from B to C streets Hamilton street SW from Eighteenth to Nineteenth avenues J street SW from Fourteenth to Sixteenth avenues Thirteenth street NW from E to F avenues J avenue NE from Sixteenth to Seventeenth streets and Eighteenth avenue SW from First street to the alley east of Hamilton street. Participation of post offices in Social Security Board work will terminate June 30 per ward from Washington to Frank B. Baldwin postmaster. Cedar Rapids may have no Social Security office to register after that date, and Baldwin urges unregistered persons to act before then. WPA workers may register now and should finish before June 30.
Cub Pack No 24 of the Garfield PTA met Tuesday at Daneers Park. Dr A N Humiston elected pack treasurer. Mrs. C A Sweet named den mother of Den Noot. Jimmie Humiston awarded bronze medal for passing ten electives. Bobby Klopp and Harry Lagerquist passed in. Meeting date moved from second to first Tuesday of each month.
Josiph Sadowsky president of Humane Society and longtime school board member urged school teaching of conservation at a Moaltenians luncheon at YMCLA. He cited its classroom relevance and adoption in other communities.
The city council on Thursday approved a resolution to clean the A avenue viaduct, paint the steel framework, and repair the side to reduce 7s 39 per cent with four miles whose lines pass under the structure. It also calls for encasing certain columns under the viaduct with concrete two feet above ground level.
Prof Castellani, renowned Italian medical expert, was urgently summoned to the Dowager Queen Marie of Roumania's bedside in Rome. Reports state her condition has worsened and she is seriously ill at her home in Roumania. The article also notes gasoline taxes averaging 35 cents per gallon, about 40 percent of the retail price.
Mrs Anna Diouhy age 66 died at her Independence area farm home nine miles northeast of Independence. Born Anna Nemec in Bohemia January 13 1871 she came to Cedar Rapids at 17. She married Joseph Cloudy in 1890 and later moved to a farm near Independence in 1930. Survived by husband seven sons and four daughters ten grandchildren plus siblings. Body at Barta chapel pending funeral arrangements.
Mrs Jerry Poula of Comfrey Minnesota former Cedar Rapids resident died at Union hospital New Ulm Minnesota at 11 am Wednesday after a brief illness She is survived by her husband two children Eleanor and Raymond her parents Mr and Mrs John Kautz Ward South Dakota and four brothers Jake John George and Albert Funeral services pending
Services will be held in the family home in Comfrey Minnesota at 10 am Saturday and at 1 30 pm in Verdi Minnesota Burial will be in Elkton South Dakota
Funeral services for Amos Ori son will be held at Rohn Funeral Home Friday at 2 p.m. conducted by Cyrus Metcalf with burial in Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Funeral services for Mrs Ellen Liddle will be held in the Beatty chapel Friday at 2 pm. Burial details follow.
An old remedy claims to ease nagging backache by addressing tired kidneys. The ad urges readers to use Dean's Pills to remove waste from the blood and restore energy, noting decades of use and relief for kidney and bladder issues.
Prizes totaling 63 will be awarded to Cedar Rapids gardeners who received seed from federal grants and planted subsistence plots. A committee from the Young Men's Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce announced the contest on Thursday.
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