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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1934
Page
9
Mrs Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, former IRS collector, was jailed after her rival Mrs Suzanne Nottingham paid a six month jail board bill of 3.50 daily, following a 7500 judgment for stealing Nottingham’s affections. Deputy Bert Meyering noted Nottingham’s husband Norman accompanied Blacklidge at the arrest.
In Bradgate Iowa population 250 women campaign on a women's rights ticket for every office from mayor to treasurer next Monday. Mrs Perry Lenning leads as mayoral candidate with seven women seeking council and clerk posts. Previously women held local posts including mayor Myrtle Burr and council member Noble Higby in nearby towns.
David Hutton Jr., former husband of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, abandons the stage and returns to church work not at Angelus Temple, citing a preference for a more conservative form of religion. He adds he is free of the McPherson marriage but would marry again if he finds true love.
In Dublin the De Valera government moves to abolish the Irish Free State senate after its defeat in the senate on the blue shirts bill. Independent and United Ireland senators joined to defeat the measure 30 to 18, prompting plans to push abolition through Dail Eireann.
In Chicago, 14 year old Joseph Maraskiewicz died when an abandoned house he and other youths entered to obtain firewood collapsed. The death is linked to family poverty and the risky quest for fuel. Several youths escaped as the building gave way and the boy was found beneath debris.
More than 350 attended the Coe Military band concert in the college chapel led by Stanley Vesely with Vesely as cornet soloist performing Souvenir De La Suisse. The program included 1812 Overture and Ride of the Valkyries among others with three encores. The band prepares for a concert tour starting in Marshalltown and will depart Cedar Rapids Friday noon.
Frank Diamond reputed former bodyguard of Scarface Al Capone was sentenced by Judge Jay Schiller in Chicago to six months in prison and a $100 fine plus costs. The case highlighted Diamond’s long history with seventeen arrests over twenty years as proof of his vagrancy.
Johnson county officials and state agents conducted raids on roadhouses near Iowa City to stop sale of near beer and legal beer outside city limits. Green Gables inn and Albardo inn were raided, about fifteen cases seized, operators George Alberhas ky and Don Alberhasky pled not guilty, waived to grand jury, Don Alberhasky released on $1,000 bond.
John Houser and son Robert travel to Pipestone Minnesota to visit Mike Houser and family for a week. Dean H C Geiger of Coe College to speak on education at High Twelve club Friday noon at Hotel Roosevelt. St James Methodist church men sponsor next Sunday evening service. Cedar Rapids chapter 194 Order of Ahepa meets 8 p m Friday at Moose hall with initiations and refreshments. Veterans of Foreign Wars post 788 holds important meeting at post headquarters Friday night for relief work. Re ceds Band Box Cleaners opens in Roosevelt hotel building offering twenty minute cleaning and pressing by a special process that removes odors. Harold Entsminger, 34, jailed after asking to be locked up, cited for intoxication with $10 fine.
Washington county primary road refunding bonds totaling 272000 were sold to W D Hanna company of Burlington by the county treasurer Marlon George. The sale will save about 3040 annually after re sale, with eight bidders. The issue consisted of 200000 at five percent and 72000 at four and a half percent. Hanna purchased at a 6001 premium with a 3.75 percent interest rate.
Wisconsin officials uncover cruelties and inmate deaths at Oshkosh and Waupun as hospital superintendents resign and staff face suspensions. Investigations reveal mismanagement at Waupun and corruption in Milwaukee County Jail, including drug traffic and nude dancing at a New Year party.
Myron Way aged 73 was shot to death and his wife Eva 65 wounded while they slept in their farm home two miles west of Portland Michigan an unidentified assailant fired a shotgun through a window Mrs Way said authorities reported there was no motive found for the slaying and neighbors offered no clue to the attacker.
The United States consulate in Moscow unfurls the Open for Business sign marking the resumption of normal American consular functions in Russia for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution.
The Rev H C Rice of Boone delivers a pre Easter talk at First Baptist Church praising the Christian name as the highest honor. He cites Jesus as the supreme example and notes the compelling power of the name in faith. The service features Alberta Johnson singing and Wendell Gunn performing Ave Maria with Conger Metcalf at the piano.
A testimonial extols Allenru as swift safe cure for rheumatism sciatica neuritis and backache caused by uric acid. The speaker claims pain vanishes in two days and full recovery in four after using a package handed by Dick Carlson. May Drug Co Podzimek Phey and local druggists are cited offering the 85 cent bottle with a money back guarantee.
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