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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1937
Page
3
Cedar Rapids Elks Club invites members and their guests to a Saturday dinner dance in the new dining room after the Iowa Minnesota game. Dinner is from 6 to 9 pm and dancing from 9 pm to 1 am. Reservations are urged due to limited seating and attendance is members only unless accompanied by a member.
Alpha Xi Delta, Gamma chapter at Coe College, held initiation services in the chapter room Tuesday at 5 30 p m for Louise Benbow of Fort Madison and Jane Sigmund of Cedar Rapids. A dinner followed at Miss Jane Huston’s home with alumna Mary Lou Sigmund and other guests. The Cedar Rapids Art Association galleries will be closed Wednesday through Saturday for the transfer and rehang of its permanent collection between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City museums.
The Music Matinee club met Tuesday afternoon at 528 Vernon Drive SE for a dessert luncheon. Mrs. Charles W Boegel led the serving table as Rev. H. O. Allen of Marion spoke on Trees, tying into the club study Nature in Music.
The estate of 80 year old Marion recluse A L Leidiger was placed under B Earl Beiber as administrator after the death in a local hospital. Dr J J Terrall deputy Linn county coroner turned over $4701 51 found on Leidiger including a $1000 bill and twenty four $100 bills and a note for $1700 from an unnamed woman. Leidiger had drawn $16 monthly old age assistance since Feb 1 1936. Leidiger's body was sent to Fall Creek Wisconsin for burial and indemnity requests may be pursued by the state old age assistance commission.
Cafeteria at Central Park church and the Rock Island Women's club meeting at the Y W C A are noted. Local barber shops list hours and specials while Durant Cedar Rapids and Anamosa chambers of commerce speakers address business groups on Iowa trade and business expansion.
Attorneys for Frank J. Ryan of Tampa Florida and the Florida Tex Oil Company filed a petition in the high court seeking reconsideration of a writ of review challenging Justice Hugo L. Black’s Supreme Court seat. The move marks a second challenge to his tenure on the bench.
Two newborn sons reported to families in city: a son to Mr and Mrs Howard Burns at 1519 First Street SW born November 2, and a son to Mr and Mrs Bruce T Clauson at 615 A Avenue NE born November 3, both at St Luke's Hospital. An Australian Moloch lizard absorbs moisture rapidly when immersed.
New York Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia swept to a massive victory on his fusion ticket with Republican and labor support. He led over Jeremiah Mahoney by 454,425 votes in 1,055 districts. Dewey defeated Hastings for district attorney with a substantial margin. Fusionists also won key city posts and retained control of the city council and board of estimate.
Berlin report says Adolf Hitler has definitively declined to accept Hjalmar Schacht's resignation. Hermann Goering summoned Schacht and stated there was no use discussing quitting, and both leaders urged him to stay and work on Germany's economic problems.
The San Francisco lumber magnate William W. Carson left a total of 721 500 to hundreds of ordinary residents including women, janitors, taxi drivers, and doormen who helped him throughout life. The will reflects his habit of recognizing those who were kind or who performed their duties, no matter how modest.
A major portion of his three quarters of a million dollars Will was left to the "little fellows" he had encountered and remembered in daily life. His will, on file in Supreme Court here, left $721,500 to hundreds of individuals and a few institutions. The largest single bequest was $100,000 to Stanford Priverely, to be used as a trust fund. SLAIN BY BANDITS. BUCHANAN, Mich. (UP)-Police reported Wednesday that Herman Reinke, an oil station attendant, was shot and killed during a holdup by two men driving a car with an Illinois license.
An interview explores whether disaster chivalry is rooted in race instinct and how efficiency science, from Frank Gilbreth's motion study to modern business, weighs costs. It also notes belief in luck and superstitions among athletes, baseball figures, and a personal quirk about parting hair and socks.
A column argues against altering animals or humans beyond nature and cites Roman wisdom about living in harmony with nature. It laments tail docking and ear cropping as needless improvements and criticizes perpetual tinkering with natural form as misguided.
A long reader letter condemns the practice of spaying female dogs as foolish and harmful. It argues the operation is often fatal and never beneficial and urges readers to avoid it entirely.
Resignation of Mrs Evelyn Brown a relief office special case worker since 1936 was accepted by county supervisors. She will join the United States veterans hospital at Keoughton Virginia as a psychiatric social worker with a start date of November 16 following an effective resignation November 10.
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