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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1938
Page
27
City veterans on Cedar Rapids payroll form the backbone of services from water and parks to sewers and taxes. Longtime staffers like E. Vane city auditor and Dom Feiereisen city assessor symbolize stability as voters choose five council members in the upcoming biennial election.
Ten municipal workers pictured total 320 years with the city. E J Cherry 34 years, Ben Haren 33, Bily Woods 30, Dom Feiereisen 26, W E Vene 30, Anton Trusty 1902 start, George Allison 1903, J D Garrison 1906, Maude Krebs 36, L J Storey 30.
Ardekan Temple No 234 will hold its annual spring ceremonial in Knights of Pythias hall Wednesday starting with a 6 o'clock dinner. Delegations from Waterloo to Milan are expected. Twenty candidates will participate. The event features new scenery and lighting, an exhibition drill by Frank Smith, and officers in charge.
Friday's receipts in Milo J. Sedlacek's county treasurer's office totaled $34,000 for first installment taxes, the largest daily total this year. The money excludes mailed payments and homestead credits. Taxes are due now and delinquent after March 31 with a ¾ of 1 percent monthly penalty starting April 1. No extension anticipated this year. Homestead credits are split between installments. full payment gains full credit. Beardsley suit concerns a chattel mortgage tied to a popcorn business and a note alleged to be voided by a prior district court decree.
Edwin A Beardsley asks district court to dismiss a 545 suit filed by Sam Patterson of Marion. Beardsley filed Saturday in response to Patterson’s claim and details are limited in the available text.
Amended articles filed with County Recorder Dempsy Jones establish the Farmers Cooperative Exchange as a stock cooperative. Authorized capital stock is $50,000. Officers include Guy Hutchins as president and C. C. Brewer as vice-president, both of Central City.
Solomon Goldberg of Cedar Rapids seeks a $5000 judgment in district court for a March 9 1937 hit and run on Second Avenue SE Central City alleging car driven by Quentin R Snider struck him. Defendants include Ed Finson J J Drexler Henry Drexler Henry Henderson Will Rice and W E Brown all of Central City and L A Hinton of Coggon.
Ted F. Jones as auditor for the Town emergent relief administration at Des Moines begins his routine audit of the county relief ledgers. He states the review will span one week.
Eugene Williams, a defendant in the Scottsboro case, will speak at 8 pm Monday in the First Baptist church auditorium at 1200 Second Ave SE. The event, organized by the Homme Mission board and Mount Zion Baptist church, presents the defense side with Rev. T. T. Lovelace aiding. Williams, a theological student at Western College in Kansas City, attends with funding from Home Mission. Admission is free.
City electrician Harry F. Martin urged children to avoid flying kites near high tension lines. He cited accidents from kites and strings contacting wires that can cause short circuits, severed lines, and danger to life and property.
About a thousand delegates from Nebraska Iowa South Dakota and Missouri gathered in Omaha for aCatholic student leadership convention to form a student front addressing professional economic social and religious challenges. Bishop James H. Ryan urged youth to carry on church and national welfare as delegates planned two days of divisional discussions and a closing banquet on Sunday night.
Capt. Leopold McLaglen brother of actor Victor McLaglen was found guilty of attempting to extort 20 000 from Philip Chancellor. Jury deadlocked on bribery of a witness and soliciting perjury. A fourth charge was dismissed. He remains jailed pending Wednesday sentencing.
Washington INS field report quotes former U.S. ambassador to Germany William E. Dodd who links Hitler’s bloodless Austria conquest to a broader collapse of democratic systems. He criticizes democratic nations for failing to cooperate and warns of fascist expansion if peace is pursued solo.
CHICAGO INS Mrs Genevieve M Dart testified Saturday in a divorce case. She said her husband preferred brunette women and she would have tolerated blondes, but his choice of dark women to provoke her anger led to the breakup. She is described as a striking blonde. Judge Walter M la Bay noted grounds were ample.
Two thousand youth conference delegates were blocked by 75 policemen from marching through the Capitol plaza on Saturday. Police redirected the peaceful demonstrators who carried American flags en route to the Capitol grounds edge.
Vatican officials refrained from comment while privately fearing Austria’s nazification would diminish Church influence and deepen Vatican Germany tensions. About 95 percent of Austrians are Roman Catholics.
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