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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1935
Page
12
Cedar Rapids realtors report a marked pickup in demand for homes and vacant residential lots signaling a spring construction upswing. One firm adds staff to handle rising prospects, noting sales above four years’ level. Prices cited include homes from 4000 and up to 15000 with strong cash sales and robust activity in moderate pricing below 5000.
Otto Kerner Jr., son of Illinois Attorney General, joined a class of nineteen Chicago candidates at the Jan Hus lodge No. 51 fiftieth anniversary. A Palacky lodge drill team from Chicago performed for sixty five candidates, including nine for Jan Hus lodge. Robert Colflesh of Des Moines, last primary governor candidate, will speak at the fiftieth anniversary banquet in the C S P hall. Colflesh, an orphan raised in the Odd Fellows home at Mason City, is a World War veteran and former state American Legion commander.
Mrs. Roosevelt disclosed that her radio earnings totaling 36000 dollars for 1934 funded philanthropic efforts through the Friends’ Service Committee. She detailed allocations including 3500 to a Reedsville West Virginia cooperative, 6000 for Logan county health work, 3100 for handicraft and education programs, and 19111.60 total after tax. She highlighted diary moments and outlined hopes for labor capital cooperation and broader national responsibility.
Hasek presides as Jan Hus lodge marks anniversary with a lunch at Sokol hall and a formal drill opening at C S P S hall. Notables from Iowa, Minnesota, and Chicago attend including Oliver J. Repp and Edward Ludvigsen. memorial service planned at Jan Has Memorial church with speakers later at the 5:30 p.m. banquet.
Judge W Grubb said he would not sign the final decree restraining the Tennessee Valley Authority from purchasing title holdings in north Alabama before Monday. The suit is by preferred shareholders of Alabama Power Company. The ruling was announced Saturday night in Birmingham.
Dr. Fred Lewis Myers was released unharmed at Cottonwood in Major county after being abducted by three Granite reformatory convicts. He reported the escapees told him to drive away, then fled on foot, with one convict later identified as Dale Stanphil.
Siam's political prisoners facing death sentences wait as King Prajadhipok abdicates from abroad. The king demands royal pardon powers and public trials by ordinary courts, while parliament prepares to discuss abdication. A London-sourced report says the king will sign the abdication document. An Alaska Airlines service extension to Whitehorse and Juneau is proposed with ground radio stations planned along the route.
A column warns against government interference with a local utility, arguing such actions could ruin private enterprise. It notes the suspension of dividends as refinancing necessity and condemns plans to seize the utility, stressing the risks to savers and investors if public power dominates.
In Pinehurst North Carolina solicitor Roland S. Pruett issued subpoenas for ten people to testify in the inquest into the death of Mrs H Bradley Davidson Jr the Statler hotel heiress who died from carbon monoxide poisoning Her husband H Bradley Davidson Jr and his brother Richard P Davidson of Washington along with Curtis Campaigne and guests at a prior dancing party were among those summoned Davidson was in Mt Kisco New York for her funeral Her estate valued around a million dollars will pass to her husband and two trust funds under a recent will preserving Statler trust provisions and foster father E M Statler lines of inheritance
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