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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1935
Page
12
The article argues Italy expands due to high birthrates and scarce arable land. It cites Mussolini’s push for larger families, reduced infant mortality, and immigration patterns. It notes postwar crowding, reclamation efforts, and plans to settle Africans on conquered lands to relieve domestic pressure.
Mount Vernon notes reveal Cornell Symphony, conducted by Prof Horace Alden Willer, will perform 43 pieces in the chapel Sunday at 4 pm. Featured soloists include Margaret Dades, Carey Roaskopff, Carmen Roskopf, and Robert Hartung among others.
Cedar Rapids drives intensive cleanup canvass as 15 teams report in. Gifts committees tally $46,020 pledged with $50,000 goal, while some teams fall short. Top divisions include Business and Professional Women's led by Ruth Howard with 3746.45 and women's general led by Mrs. Wayne Foster with 2614.10. Division 5 led by P F Keehn and Division 4 led by H. M Files post strong pledges, followed by several other divisions with varied totals.
US officials urged utility holding companies to register with the SEC by December despite a Baltimore federal court ruling that the Wheeler Rayburn Act is unconstitutional. Commission warnings threaten fines up to 20000 dollars and two years jail for noncompliance while appeals proceed. The Baltimore ruling exempts only American Sites Public Service Company from registration. Burco Company of Wilmington Delaware plans to appeal early next week.
Describes Iowa officials plan to regulate fraternal groups immediately as a court sustained a motion by Judge O S Franklin. The decision upholds moving forward with registration and oversight of these organizations under the state framework.
Attorneys for Ray Murphy and the state Insurance Commissioner move to dissolve a temporary injunction that blocks the Department from interfering with the Fraternal Aid Association. The state contends benevolent societies operate under insurance law provisions, noting about 75 such societies exist in the state.
After Saturday's homecoming game Minnesota athletic director Frank McCormick and Iowa chair Clarence Updegraff stressed harmonious relations between the Big Ten rivals. Coach Ossie Solem and coach Bernice Bierman condemned talk of rough play, noting last year’s issues, while Gov Clyde Herring praised Minnesota's performance. Bierman cited crowd behavior turning noisy only during hard tackles.
Soviet authorities said a 32 member group led by Pir Ishan Abdul Mutahaff planned to overthrow Bolshevik rule and form a single Mussulman state. Evidence described Islam's forces to penetrate the Union occupying Tajikistan and Kirghiz lands near Afghanistan, Ferghana, and surrounding cotton region areas.
Mrs William McGovern mother of the Rev William L Mc Govern of Gilbert and former assistant pastor at Immaculate Conception Cedar Rapids died early Saturday in Gilbert. Survived by husband and children Catherine Keane Matt and Rev William McGovern and W A Hogan brother of Anamosa ex sheriff. Funeral services Tuesday at 10 am in Jesup with Requiem High Mass offered by the Rev William McGovern.
Otto Lee Lockhart 27 of Lafayette Indiana formerly Cedar Rapids died Wednesday in Lafayette from injuries after being struck by a car Tuesday. Funeral services were held there Friday by the Fraternal Order of Eagles with burial in Lafayette. He was born in Big Timber Montana in 1908 and moved to Cedar Rapids at age five. He lived in Lafayette about two years, married Helen Wilson on July 9 1934, and is survived by his wife and father Noble Lockhart plus several relatives including Leslie Lockhart George Thorington of Marion C D Lockhart of Thomenville Mo and Harold Thorington of 1609 Twelfth Ave SE.
Mrs Orpha Dell Clark 50 wife of Clarence L Clark of 118 Tenth Avenue SW Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital Saturday evening. Born in Shellsburg September 10 1885 she lived in Cedar Rapids ten years. Surviving are her husband three daughters Mildred Flidy Ada Dorothy two sons Earl Robert her mother Mrs Harry Spurgeon four brothers Clarence Clifford Homer Spurgeon Orville Spurgeon Funeral plans to be announced friends may call at Turner chapel.
Funeral services for Mrs Anto W Lackman will be held Monday at 10 am in the Four Square Gospel Tabernacle and in the St. John Evangelical church at Gladbrook at 2 pm conducted by the Rev Myron Sackett. Burial will be in the Gladbrook cemetery. Friends may call at the Beatty chapel from 7 to 9 this evening.
Funeral services for Lona Lea Kahler will be at 10 am at the residence 044 M Street SW with Rev Richard V Clearwaters officiating. Burial follows in Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the home.
A Colgate University bleacher rail collapsed during a Saturday game, injuring nine people, mostly Syracuse residents, and sending about twenty others plunging roughly twenty five feet to the ground.
Bruno Hauptmann remains confined in the death house under tight guard. He eats from paper plates and uses paper utensils while two fellow inmates Edward McNamara and Charles Zeid await appeals. A last visit from his wife Anne Hauptmann with their son Mannfried is planned only if all appeals fail and would occur in Hauptmanns final week.
An old report that Clarence Darrow would defend Bruno Hauptmann if the Supreme Court accepts jurisdiction of his appeal was revived. Cloyd Fisher, Hauptmann's chief of defense, said Darrow agreed to defend the Bronx carpenter if argued before the court. A birthday letter from Hauptmann to his son Manfried was released, in which he urges prayer and guardian angels for protection and reunion.
Sir Stafford Cripps told a Stafford England crowd that Americans asked him if a labor government would come after the next election and that, in their view, it offered the only hope for world peace. White House said Roosevelt inquired about British parties but gave no confirmation of urging a labor government.
Cedar Rapids plans a full Armistice Day observance at Island Plaza. The Coe College band and ROTC will march from college grounds at 10 15 with a police escort, followed by a ceremony featuring bomb volleys and Taps. Schools and many offices close. post office operations continue.
Ensign James Stanley Nutt of the Battleship Arizona asks a California court to change his name to James Stanley Tyler to avoid embarrassment for his bride to be. He cites ridicule of the surname Nutt by friends and acquaintances and notes his fiancée objects to it. His attorney is Daniel Boone, and his brother Henry W. Nutt recently changed his name to Henry W. Tyler in Massachusetts.
Cedar Rapids attorney B D Silliman warned at a Wesleyan dinner that federal centralization, expanded bureaucracy, and many new laws signal socialist drift into private enterprise. He cited 1936 legislative activity and a total national debt around fifty billion dollars, equating to about 400 per person and 2 000 for a family of five.
The Rev Francis Lyons of the Congregation of St Paul will open a mission at St Matthew's church today. It runs daily until Nov 17 with services at 6 and 8 a.m and 7:30 p.m. A question box and congregational singing are planned. Rev Father D Kearn, pastor, invites all to attend.
Alarm rose as Japan demanded an independent regime in north China and moved troops around Shanghai then held maneuvers with Doihara present. Tokyo criticized China’s currency reform and silver policy while warning it could act alone to curb communism and secure Sino Japanese cooperation.
Dr Abram E Cory of Indiana will lead a northeast Town Christian assembly at First Christian church in mid November. Delegations of men from the local congregation tour surrounding towns inviting church cooperation. The assembly runs three days November 19 to 21 with daytime sessions for women and youth and evening mass meetings.
Walter W Liggett publisher of a Minneapolis weekly was acquitted by a nine man and three woman jury on a statutory charge he called a political frameup. The case stemmed from a hotel incident and included testimony by two Austin minors and other local figures.
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