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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1936
Page
7
President Roosevelt and Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell studied costs of government as they craft a second New Deal budget. Proposals include balancing the budget, separate labor legislation, tax reform, and continued work relief with expanded reemployment services.
John H. Bormann announces a district K of C conference Tuesday at the local club rooms 81544 First avenue E. Attending will be officers from Anamosa Manchester Oelwein and Cedar Rapids to report on annual activities. A 6 30 p.m. dinner precedes the meeting with reservations requested via Don Spaight.
The piece highlights a Texas congressman prominent in pushing the President’s major business regulation proposals. He faces opposition from House Rules Chairman John J. O'Connor of New York, whose brother Basil O'Connor once partnered with the President in law.
The Waterloo Cedar Falls and Northern line purchased a new streamlined passenger bus with a motor under the driver's compartment. It will run two daily trips between Waterloo and Waterloo with schedules 8:00 am to 10:15 am and 3:15 pm to 5:30 pm. E. J. Gardner, longtime driver, will operate the coach on routes to Garrison Traer La Porte City and Vinton, carrying Gazettes.
Pickaway, one of five Ohio counties formed March 1 1810, was named for the Indian word Piqua of which Pickaway is a form.
A 1936 sermon urges living in mutual trust to avoid war. It argues war destroys lives, ideas, and values, and demands a peace-minded society using capital, science, education, and spirituality. It recalls Tom Kettle’s view that war cannot be civilization’s necessity and calls for rebirth of spiritual life to end war.
The first issue of The Western Theater, a quarterly on the University of Iowa's experimental theater, will be published next month in Iowa City. Ellsworth P. Conkle, Marcus Bach and Robert White head the project to spur original scripts and creative theater in community and university stages.
Charles S. Walling, publisher of the Oskaloosa Herald, and Violet Phinney of Oskaloosa were married in Washington Iowa at the Elder home. The couple left for a wedding trip to Chicago and Washington and plan to return to Oskaloosa around November 20. Walling has worked at the paper since 1882. Mrs Walling is the daughter of a former Penn College professor.
Jessie Weiler national college of education field representative will visit Cedar Rapids for two days in the coming week. She will speak at the Roosevelt hotel and meet local alumnae including Mrs. W. P. Enright Mrs. Keech Mrs. Ethel Pinney Ristedt and Mrs. Philip W. Shive at specific local addresses.
Coe College Playhouse presents Death Takes A Holiday with nine new cast members and four veterans. Kent Andrews directs with Jane Henderson as student director. cast includes Grazia Jeanne Wells Ida Mae Carlson as the Duchess and Homer McDowell in the title role. Cast and crew details list numerous student actors, stage crew, costume, and lighting staff.
A reader from Fayette, Iowa challenges an editorial view on British Malayan Chinese, asserting the community is prosperous, educated, and a major buying bloc. The letter emphasizes Chinese influence in education, trade, and import patterns, warning against politically charged misperceptions.
Two divorces were granted in district court on cruel and inhuman treatment grounds. Fern A. Dwyer was separated from Wilfred Dwyer. they wed June 21, 1927. Sarah E. Pedersen separated from Oswald H. Pedersen. they wed in 1935. Judge H C Ring also granted Helen Tschirgi a decree of separate maintenance against C C Tschirgi for cruel treatment, with custody of a minor son awarded to Mrs Tschirgi.
A Cedar Rapids trio hunted on Long Marsh at the Lloyd Babbitt farm Conesville Iowa opening day of the duck season. H F Watkins Bert Laufer and Elmer Lang each bagged ten ducks by noon. Thirty six hunters attended as thousands of native Iowa birds flooded the marsh. The Babbitts have run blinds meals and lodging for sportsmen there for about ten years.
A coal yard incident in Cedar Rapids claims the life of Sekora born February 28 1911 son of Mr and Mrs Frank Sekora. After a slide trapped him Hamilton freed the victim but artificial respiration failed. Funeral services set for Monday at Polansky chapel and St Wenceslaus church with burial at St John Boh men cemetery.
Howard Carter opened King Tutankhamen’s tomb and uncovered rich chests exhaling faint ancient fragrance after thousands of years. The finds promise insight into New Kingdom burial customs and royal treasures.
Willie Brant, 44, of Des Moines, was charged with larceny from a building after a store scuffle on a Killian store basement stairway. He allegedly stole two pairs of trousers, struck customer Raymond Kibbie and another shopper, and surrendered when police arrived. Brant was held on scene until officers came.
About 1 200 attended the Cedar Rapids Cub Packs annual circus at Immaculate Conception school auditorium. Participants included Packs 2 3 4 6 15 19 and 26 led by Ru fus Rebec Fred Friedline Arthur Lawrence Walter Staves Keith Tow James Staffney and Louis Mrstik with demonstrations from Wolf Bear and Lion ranks and a popular animal act. Pack 4 won first place in the competitions with 19 second and 6 third. field executive R L Dill and Russell Knapp announced prizes and promotions as the event closed with honors to the flag.
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