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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1934
Page
12
Secretary Wallace assigns three investigators to AAA night shift to curb waste and drunken trips. Dismissals follow, and calls to close the night shift grow. Debate continues over forest service control and interior department funding.
Morley F. MacKenzie of Toronto was elected outer guard of the imperial divan of the shrine at the 60th annual convention in Minneapolis. Dana S. Williams of Lewiston was elevated to imperial potentate, succeeding John N. Sebrell of Norfolk. The divan’s other officers were moved up one step and listed, with officers from Washington to Los Angeles invited to host the 61st convention next year.
A baby aged four months to one year was found in a luggage-room trunk at Brighton railway station, linked at first to a murdered woman whose torso was found at the same station. Police say no connection between the two crimes, though both cases remain under investigation.
Linn county supervisors and County Auditor Vesely verified the recount across twenty three Cedar Rapids precincts. Howard R. Churchill received 1,431 votes to Henry A. Stearns 1,412 for Rapids township justice of the peace, with Almond Reed also nominated by Republicans by a comfortable margin.
Edgar A. Guest paints a nostalgic scene of a family excursion to the Bad Axe county fair. Billy Phelps imagines a day of horses cows poultry and displays with games rings and a Ferris wheel. The piece celebrates rural life and simple pleasures of fair season.
A federal grand jury charged six New Yorkers and two St. Louisans, all former airline executives from the Aviation and Universal Aviation corporations, with conspiracy to violate the 1928 revenue act. They allegedly failed to report a $2,248,000 profit on a stock sale of 50,000 Fokker Aircraft shares to Universal Aviation on May 16, 1929, a transaction later claimed inter company after Universal was acquired.
U S District Judge Charles B Faris ruled the Congress act making gold payments against public policy is constitutional. Trustees of the Missouri Pacific sought gold redemption on a May 1 1933 bond issue claiming $438 000 000 debt. court found gold basis untenable as it would require $743 000 000 in current currency. Reconstruction Finance Corporation and co-trustees William H Bixby and Bankers Trust Co. intervened.
Norma Brighton Millen, 19, daughter of a parade of relatives, was named in Dedham Massachusetts court as having full knowledge of her husband Morton Millen and his accomplices murder of two policemen during a February bank raid. The men face mandatory execution after conviction for the machine gun killings. Millen entered the prison pen as spectators looked on and began a bid to avoid punishment as accessory.
An 85 page indenture between Commonwealth Apartments Inc Cedar Rapids and Merchants National Bank as trustee covers a 313600 issue of cumulative registered income bonds due 1948 at four percent interest. Signers include E B Cameron Kate Terry Loomis for Commonwealth and George F Miller Mark J Myers for the bank. TODDVILLE reunion held at Bever park Cedar Rapids with 68 members. officers elected for next year include President Walter Dicken Vice President W C Wilson and Secretary Treasurer Mrs W C Wilson.
Dr Blatz told parents and educators at the Child Welfare conference that intelligence quotients are only rough estimates of a child's learning capacity. He argued motivation and persistence are part of learning and should be considered separately. The Toronto expert cautioned against teaching reading before mental age six or music before age eight. More than 700 registered for the conference.
Byron A. Barlow of 2124 Fourth Avenue SE was elected secretary treasurer of the Westminster Foundation of the Presbyterian synod of Iowa for the ensuing year at a meeting held Monday afternoon in Red Oak. The Rev. M. Willard Lampe was named president and Prof. E. E. Watson was chosen vice president.
Mrs Pat Galla gher 68 died of heart attack at her What Cheer home after returning from Oskaloosa and Thornburg She is survived by husband son Neal president of Newton Automatic Washing Machine Co daughter Kathryn a Spooner Wisconsin teacher and brother John O Kiefe Funeral set for 9 30 a m Thursday at St Joseph Catholic Church Ossian celebrates 25th wedding anniversary for Otto and Christine Latvedt Anderson with a church gathering Tama County hires Mabel Sadler as nurse for county home and signs creek covering contract at 3000 total to be paid in ten installments Officials note Mud Creek storm sewer work completed and bridges costs cited Tama county and Tama city reach agreement to cover Mud Creek and transfer bridge maintenance duties plus a ten year payment plan Mrs Charles G Blythe 67 of Tama funeral held with burial at Oak Hill cemetery
Mary Etta Child Blythe born June 6 1867 on a Tama county farm near Toledo daughter of Joseph and Sarah Smith Child. She attended rural school and Western Normal College at Toledo and married Charles G Blythe Sept 24 1889. She belonged to Royal Neighbor lodge Civic Improvement League and Oak Hill Cemetery Aid society. Survived by husband two children Robert J and Ethel a brother James C Child and two grandchildren Robert Charles and Norma Jeanne Blythe.
Government forecasters predicted the Kepner Stevens stratosphere balloon will ascend around July 1 from Rapid City South Dakota and land along the eastern end of the Minnesota Iowa boundary A Kansas City airport bureau forecaster is official adviser to the balloonists and daily upper air charts will be wired to Rapid City once flight readiness is reached
A dense listing shows daytime and evening radio lineups across networks NBC CBS and ABC with programs from Morning to Night. Performers include Lucy Monroe Rex Battles ensemble Tony Wens Gordon and many orchestras led by Meredith Wilson and Paul Whiteman across WEAF WJZ WABC WBBM and more with multiple time slots and regional station links.
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