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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1936
Page
33
Governor Clyde L. Herring said state and county expenditures will rise by 7.5 million this year, with a 5 million local levy increase and 2.5 million more in state outlays. Total taxes reach 104 million, but 12 million will be refunded to taxpayers.
Judge James W. Willett, active head of a three generation Tama law firm, marks his ninetieth birthday. He plans to work on, recalling a 64 year legal career and a Civil War era G A R leadership role. His family, including sons James H. Willett and Walter J. Willett, and several grandchildren, gather in Tama for the celebration despite arthritis and travel delays.
Richard Watson, 29, Indianola attorney, died in Fort Dodge hospital after the January 31 auto crash near Gilmore City. His father J O Watson died soon after. The younger Watson had a fractured knee and complications from surgery. He is survived by his widow, infant son, his mother and two brothers, J O Watson Jr and Vinton.
Dr. Oscar J. Dotzel 29 of Galena Illinois, a chiropractor, escaped from a Davenport sanitarium Friday noon and hanged himself in a tree nearby. The body was found Saturday by an attendant who had searched for him since his disappearance. Coroner W F Shelley said no inquest is needed, death ruled self-inflicted. Dotzel had previously been an inmate at Water Town state hospital and was receiving treatment for a mental illness.
Ivan Rhone 53 of a farm near Barney Iowa was indicted by the Madison county grand jury for murder in the February shooting of neighbor Sherwood Carney 46. Carney died after a snow blocked road cattle drive led to the dispute over a line fence. Rhone had been released on bond before re arrest.
Mercy hospital in Des Moines suspended six student nurses for a week and cancelled their special privileges for two months after a two hour strike on Thursday over reassignment of dormitories.
G A R representatives led by Oley Nelson John Risley and Katherine Flood travel to Tama to greet Judge J W Willett on his 90th birthday. They expect arrival around 2 30 p m and plan a statewide birthday greeting shower for the judge.
Special to The Gazette Fayette high school junior DeWitt Clinton, age 16, is Iowa's youngest official weather man appointed by State meteorologist Charles Reed. He follows elder observers at the government house for thermometers now housed at the Methodist parsonage home of his father, Rev. John D. Clinton. Clinton, a Boy Scout of star rank, filed February temperature reports noting a harsh winter that challenged the elderly observers.
Davenport Iowa March 14 The hearing on the injunction sought by Iowa City Light and Power Co to control gas installation and rate changes continued in federal court. Special Master A A Herrick overruled a motion to transfer the remainder of the hearing while the session adjourned until Monday. Cross examination of Baldwin Kansas City consulting engineer concluded just before adjournment. The five week proceeding may extend several weeks more.
In Des Moines the Lincoln High School team from Council Bluffs defeated Thomas Jefferson High School to win the David I. McCahill debate tournament. Survivors Marian Saks Barbara White and Harry Jensen led a 2 to 1 judges vote after seventeen schools competed.
In Bedford Floyd Horton and his co defendant Lem Ross face murder charges with a court date set for March 16. An auction of Horton's property raised over $1,000 to fund his defense. Pete Horton of Clearfield bought the cot on which Horton's wife died and donated $8 to the defense fund. Mrs Anna Johnston's pretty will was also to be sold Thursday for the same purpose.
Charles H. Brown of Phelps City Missouri was sentenced to eight years in prison for the killing of W Mawhor, 66, after Mawhor kissed Brown’s daughter Ruby 18. Brown was fined 100 dollars, bond set at 3500, and a new trial motion denied. He and his lawyers plan an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court within four months.
Paul and John Maney of Cedar Rapids juggle 60 hour weeks delivering milk with 17 credit hours as they fund pharmacy and pre law studies. The brothers started with a Cedar Rapids dairy venture, moved to Iowa City to attend the university, and even at 4 am maintain their routes after late nights. Paul, senior in pharmacy, was elected to Rho Chi. John, junior pre law, balance classwork with work to stay on track.
Iowa state comptroller says May 1 funds will launch a million dollar building program approved by the prior legislature. Projects include hospital power plants, kitchen remodels, college and school improvements, with annual state appropriations totaling hundreds of thousands for each site and summer work possible.
Lieutenant Governor Nels Kraschel urged a united Iowa in backing a farm program at the Randall Cooperative Creamery annual meeting. He linked three years of national support to $700 million added wealth and urged Iowa to keep politics out of farm policy to protect agriculture amid changing national views.
In Des Moines, farm labor leaders outlined the party’s first entry into Iowa primaries after meeting on Saturday. State Chairman Gus Erickson named a resolutions committee, and Rachel Revell of Guthrie Center announced her bid for secretary of state.
University of Iowa engineering students announced six candidates from 22 nominees for the Mecca week queen. The list includes Ruth Flynn Quincy Illinois Mary Louise Meersman Moline Illinois Mildred Yarnall California Pennsylvania Nancy Rendleman Davenport Florence Paine Iowa City and Mary Elizabeth Irwin Ida Grove The queen will be elected this week and revealed at the Mecca ball Friday night.
A man sought in Atlanta for postal law violations was detained here by local police and to be handed to federal agents from Omaha. He offered multiple names Muse Hasse and Kirk when questioned.
Grant Wood, famed artist and leader of the middle western school, finished a series of eight full page color illustrations for Farm on the Hill by Madeline Darrough Horn. The book, to be published March 20 by Charles Scribner's Sons, features Bill and Tom on a Missouri farm with lively scenes and jacket art.
DES MOINES AP Attorney General Edward L. O Connor said he was advised the application of Walter B Bedell Spirit Lake attorney for a presidential pardon has been rejected Bedell was convicted of jury fixing and sentenced to a year in prison O Connor had urged serious consideration by federal prosecutors
Mr and Mrs Ernest Beaupain heard a rifle discharge while a hired man cleaned it. The bullet entered Mrs Beaupain’s neck and exited through her mouth, damaging but not hitting the spine or jugular. She spent two days in Eldora hospital and recovered.
Charles E. Hearst 66 Cedar Falls Farm Bureau chief and former Iowa Farm Bureau president was reported critically ill Saturday at Sartori hospital. He suffers heart disease with kidney complications and has been hospitalized two weeks.
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