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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1937
Page
3
WESTFIELD Mass A 28 year old woman Helen Buschmann remains in a coma a decade after a 1927 bus accident in Ohio doctors say only a miracle could awaken her. Despite attempts with music familiar scenes and family visits no recognition or improvement has occurred.
Iowa News in Brief lists the Guernsey high school junior class cast for Pulling the Curtain to be staged Oct. 21. Cast includes Teresa Maxwell Margaret Rossman Christian Hinrichs Ruth Doonan Gordon Hinrichs Merna Rose Mariam Hall Corwin Rieck Elbert Morton Edna Mae Burke Ruth Gilbreaith Everett Front Erwin Grier Marden Provin Christine Provin Eugene Braden Luella Meyer Eileen Meyer.
Detroit ins report recounts CIO UAW president Homer Martin drawing a .45 caliber pistol on a picket line outside his hotel room. More than thirty-five demonstrators protested Martin’s dismissal of twelve organizers and four publicity workers, prompting doors to be pounded and heated exchanges. Martin refused meetings, saying any talk must occur in his office.
Radio plan outlined as Justice Black may issue remarks without required advance text NBC and other networks will carry the address with about 127 stations invited. Ickes dismisses Klan accusations as a red herring and praises Hoover as the era’s expert on the Ku Klux Klan.
In the District Court of Iowa Linn County Elise Petty sues Grant Petty for divorce on desertion for ten years. If the defendant fails to appear by the November 1937 term commencing November 1 at Cedar Rapids Court House, a default and decree will be entered. Edward J. McPARTLAND attorney for the plaintiff.
A three quarter length coat owned by Mary Neckville vanished from a chair by an open dining room window while she played cards at J. E. Wilsons home on Fourth avenue SE. Two vases on a porch at Mrs. Losty’s residence on Seventeenth street NE were stolen with a screwdriver used to remove screws. L. J. Skala paid five dollars and court costs for improper lights on a truck after highway patrol arrest.
New York police report that the trial of Robert Irwin, the eccentric sculptor charged with murdering Veronica Gedeon her mother Mary and a lodger Frank Byrnes, was postponed to October 15 to allow a lunacy commission to file its report.
Earl Hausauer faced a tangle with Iowa authorities over license plates after being arrested for no plates. He claimed North Dakota or Minnesota plates and said records mixups hindered issuance. Justice Churchill ordered him to obtain Iowa plates and cover court costs, with the state facing a potential six dollar sale loss.
Ottawa report says 86-year-old twins Robert Bond of Ottawa and Richard Bond of Walla Walla Washington were reunited after a 51 year separation. Richard came for the 100th birthday of their brother George Bond of Lanark. Their sister Mrs. W. Thoburx, 90, could not attend.
An official inquiry was opened in Hong Kong into reports that a Japanese submarine sank Chinese fishing junks, killing about 300, many vessels reportedly Hong Kong registered. Britain would protest Tokio if British interests were involved.
Secretary Morgenthau, while not disputing Roosevelts aim, refused to promise a balanced federal budget by June 30, 1939. He said much work remains on the 1939 budget and declined to predict action for 1939 or future tax steps, noting no major borrowing until December 15 financing.
SEATTLE AP The car of Mr and Mrs Emil Vicklund skidded with wheels locked and went over a 95 foot embankment, somersaulted four times and landed right side up. The Vicklunds were not seriously hurt and drove away.
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