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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1935
Page
3
Private duty nurses push an eight hour day as a substitute for twelve and twenty hour shifts. They argue it will improve patient care and broaden employment, with some city units already using the schedule but no universal program yet.
A. Ellsworth Palmer of the Cedar Rapids Auto club told Canopus members at the Hotel Roosevelt that most crashes involve 16 to 24 year olds. He compared auto fatalities in 15 years to 303000 war deaths and noted U.S. deaths in the last decade rivaled the combined populations of Des Moines Sioux City Marshalltown and Cedar Rapids. The club plans safety education in 400 Linn Benton and Jones county schools.
Three bandits robbed Weiss Clothing in Clarinda at 5 a.m. they broke the front door took sixty suits valued at $1,000 and fled in a waiting car. The quick five minute job mirrored a recent Mount Ayr burglary.
Lieut. Staten E. Rall and wife arrive in Cedar Rapids with children Owen 4 and infant Frederick Ash after a two and a half year Canal Zone tour. They visit Lt Rall's parents at 109 Seventeenth Street NE before a furlough and reassignment to Fort Benning Georgia. Rall, a Coe College graduate, previously taught military science at Coe.
Three Cedar Rapids residents were injured at 11 a.m. Tuesday when their car left state highway 161 north of North Liberty and overturned several times. Driver George Hatfield suffered head cuts and Mrs Emil Brendel and Mrs Charles B Wietz sustained bruises. Mrs Hatfield was uninjured. They were taken to University Hospital Iowa City for treatment.
DES MOINES IA Two of the four bandits in the $5 000 LeMars bank robbery have been identified as Tom Lim merick and Maurice Denning according to the FBI. State agent Paul Gruber forwarded the identification to the bureau after arriving in LeMars to probe the case.
New York park department unveils a portable barnyard on a city playground tour this summer. The display aims to give children a glimpse of farm life and the honest joys of rural living.
Linn County supervisors appoint Carl Hendrickson of Cedar Rapids as assistant county attorney to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Robert W. Greene. The appointment, effective June 1, runs to January 1, 1937, and Hendrickson brings two prior terms as Linn County prosecutor plus long criminal case experience. He previously chaired the Linn County Republican Committee and has a long local career in law, business, and public service.
Iowa opens six month fishing season at 5 am Wednesday for catfish wall eyed pike northern pike pickerel sheepshead and perch in all state waters. Rock bass crappies bluegills sunfish and silver bass may be taken in some waters starting Wednesday with June 15 openings in listed lakes and counties. Daily limit set at fifteen for catfish sheepshead perch crappie sunfish and pickerel.
Washington golf meet pairings announced by T R Phillips. Ralph Shannon and T L Brookhart serve as team captains. Losers provide dinner for winners Thursday evening at the clubhouse. all matches due by Thursday afternoon.
Russell Jones and Guy Osborn were injured when their truck left highway 30 about five miles east of Cedar Rapids and overturned in a ditch. Jones, the driver, was later charged with drunk driving. Osborn remained hospitalized.
Funeral notices detail services for Mrs. William J. Chadima and other local residents. Includes burial locations, chapel names, and visiting hours with multiple relatives named across Cedar Rapids Grundy Center and Marion.
Word arrived Monday of the death of Peter Clarken who died Saturday in Eckert Colorado. He is survived by his wife Harriet Thompson formerly employed in the Hedges company office for about fifteen years.
The Patman bonus bill did not reach the White House as supporters delayed sending it to President Roosevelt. Senator Thomas of Oklahoma said absences could trigger a veto override delay. The bill stays in the Senate as reconsideration motions linger. Thomas will not fix a release date until all senators vote. Several senators attend John S. Cohen’s funeral in Atlanta. Texas prison system reports recapturing more prisoners than escaped in 1934 for the fourth time in six years.
The article notes several lighter metals than aluminum including magnesium potassium sodium calcium strontium lithium caesium beryllium and rubidium. It states lithium sodium and potassium are light enough to float on water and serves as a debunking of common belief about aluminum’s lightness.
In Des Moines the Town supreme court on Tuesday affirmed an action involving J. W. Koppes Estate and the Gibsons. The ruling upholds the appeal and preserves the contested probate matter.
Schwind administrator of Clara Koppes estate appeals a directed verdict for I and K Gibson Cedar Rapids in a 1931 crash near Cedar Rapids. The court found Gibson negligence not disproved and reversed Judge Herbert Ring who had directed a verdict for the defense.
A Berne jury ruled the protocols of the elders of Zion a forgery in a slander suit brought by Swiss Jewish plaintiffs against Nazi publishers. The verdict marked a signal victory for Jewry and discredited the notorious Nazi propaganda document.
A jury of five married women and seven farmers will determine if Clarence Price, a middle-aged farm hand, must pay with his life for the murder of 13-year-old Edith Kuhl. Norman Genung, defense attorney, will be in Des Moines for a supreme court case Wednesday, causing a day’s recess. Price stood stiffly as the jurors were read. He is charged with beating Edith and her sister Helen with a blunt instrument as they slept. Completion of the jury followed two days of court procedure.
Marriage licenses list George Scheffer and Viola Holstein of Cedar Rapids Earl Miller and Violet LeHue of Cedar Rapids James F Fountain of Iowa City and Evelyn A Osborne of Clarence Maurice Lynn Sparks and Dorothy P Rundquist of Cedar Rapids William J Lana of Cedar Rapids and Bernice O McAllister of Palo all filed in the period.
Born to Mr and Mrs E Rus sell Wolfe of Toledo Indiana a daughter Beverly Jo on May 9 Mrs Wolfe formerly Miss Margaret Walker daughter of Mr and Mrs L W Walker 1025 Third Avenue SE
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