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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1936
Page
6
Iowa counties forecast local property taxes will rise to about 81.4 million and total taxes to about 92.0 million for 1937 with 28 counties reporting budgets to Comptroller Murtagh. Original estimates of a four million increase were trimmed as budgets reflect construction bond issues higher salaries and federal funds.
Police arrested twenty men in a Des Moines raid on the Link cigar store late Tuesday night. Managers Sam Lavine and Alfred Weldon were released on $1,000 bonds after pleading innocent to operating a gambling house. Eighteen others posted $100 bonds on charges of unlawful assembly and gambling. hearings set for December 2.
Tipton Estel Foster and Albert Griffis, farm hands, pled not guilty to larceny of a motor vehicle when arraigned before E. C. Gillam in justice court here Tuesday. They were bound over to the district court under bonds of $500 each.
The Lenox college glee club operetta Tune In by Edward Bradley and Don Wilson debuts in the Hopkinton college gym Wednesday and Saturday with Hilabeth Reeve and Victor Stead in leading roles. Cast includes Dunlap McBride Smith Irmscher Hogg Wheeler Rich Orcutt Moats Helkenn Dreibelbis Stutt Jeffry Leslie Dukek McNeilly Billings Griffin Knapp Klinefelter Willison Appleby Dukek White Noah Lincoln Collins Burns.
Alonzo C. Boyle 89, longtime McGregor resident and former postmaster, died in Spokane Washington. Cremation planned with ashes brought to McGregor in spring for burial. He was born in Erie Pennsylvania and moved to McGregor as a boy. He built bridges and stone structures in Clayton and nearby counties. Surviving children include Isabella Boyle Homer Milton John Lon Tracy and sister Nan Bowen of Mason City.
In Iowa City the fifth annual all religious Thanksgiving program will be held at the Presbyterian church on November 26. Casper C. Garrigues announces a schedule including organ preludes, Roosevelt proclamation reading, string quartet performances, prayers, readings, offerings, and a featured address by Prof. Harrison J. Thornton with hymns such as O God Our Help In Ages Past and America the Beautiful.
Carrie Wieder 51 longtime Waterloo librarian died Tuesday night after an operation on November 10. Born near West Branch on November 6 1885 she served as a former president of the Iowa Library Association.
More than 100 city officials at the Iowa League meeting backed a resolution asking the state highway commission to build and rebuild primary roads in cities. They argued current law limits maintenance and funding, with $350 per mile deemed inadequate.
Grinnell farmer John Schwab was duped by two men posing as eye specialists Dr Coe and Dr Layman who claimed a poisonous substance must be burned after a supposed cataract removal. They were jailed in Denison and Carroll and to be brought back for charges. Mrs Schwab alerted authorities after recognizing the suspects from sheriff records. The men’ s alleged identities were identified as Lawrence F Welch and Ernest Mardell.
Calamus Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mueller marked their sixtieth wedding anniversary with a family dinner at the home of their daughter Mrs. William Holstein. The couple, parents of eleven children and grandparents to thirteen, were married at Immanuel Lutheran Buena Vista and retired from farming twenty five years ago.
The Decorah area reports a Sunday wedding at the Lutheran church parsonage of Robert Conrad Hjelmeland and Edith Geneva Erickson with attendants Harold S. Erickson and Leona Erickson. Also in Decorah, funeral services were held for Gertrude Johnson, 75, with burial in the Lutheran cemetery.
AP reports a fair and warmer Thanksgiving in Iowa with sunshine and rising temperatures. Lows are forecast around 18 in northeast Iowa and 22 elsewhere, as skies clear except near Keokuk and Dubuque where clouds and snow are noted. Spirit Lake logged ten degrees Tuesday night.
Mount Vernon speakers at Cornell College forum urge church to stay out of war, proponing pacifist national defense. Dr. Harold Fey calls for planned economy, disarmament, neutrality laws and nonviolent resistance if invaded. Other speakers note origins of Chinese communism, support for wartime preparedness, and education of patriots of humanity. Closing sermon warns civilization hinges on peace and justice.
Washington resident Laird Hawkins pleaded guilty to reckless driving after an automobile crash near Ainsworth Sunday night injuring four Washington girls. He was fined $25 and costs. a coupon was taken from his driver's license. Justice of the Peace W S Eldridge presided.
Iowa officials led by Robert Miller decided not to extradite Christian Sorensen, the escaped Sioux City man captured in Denver. Sorensen, who fled Clive prison farm three years ago and later married under an assumed name, was granted a full discharge after governors Herring and Johnson weighed his reform evidence.
Three European professors are listed as feature speakers for the University of Iowa language and literature conference on December 4 and 5. F Schoeneman from Nebraska and Berlin will discuss Mark Twain and Germany. Fernand Baldensperger of Paris will speak Finland Revisited. Bert H Hill of Athens will present on Recent Developments on the Athenian Acropolis.
Mrs. Marie C. Dutcher widow of Sen Charles M Dutcher was appointed executrix of the estate by District Court Judge Harold D Evans. The 1935 will leaves the law offices to son Dan C Dutcher a $500 gift to daughter Jane Leonard and the remainder to the wife.
An advertisement urges kidney health and warns of nocturnal and systemic symptoms. It promotes Cystex as a guaranteed treatment with a $10,000 bank guarantee and a money back offer if not satisfied after returning the empty package. The offer claims rapid vitality gains and a one week improvement.
William Schulz Jr and Carl Schulz, former president and secretary of Union Mutual Life and Union Mutual Casualty, paid $2,000 fines each after pleading guilty to conspiracy in a long running scheme from 1936. Charges of mail fraud and obtaining money under false pretenses were dismissed.
Manuel Garsia 28 and Luna Salvador 27 pled guilty to larceny in Jones County. Judge F O fined 150 dollars and ordered three months in jail. Salvador received a 200 dollar fine and six months in jail for shoplifting from the Hanken clothing store. Police link them to an earlier Cedar Rapids clothing theft.
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