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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1937
Page
6
Local hog market weakens with all grades down around 10 cents. The top price slips to 165 or so as slaughter cattle move slowly and poultry shows slight gains. Vealers remain firm while heifers and cows show uneven steady to modest declines amid mixed sales.
AP dispatch from Chicago lists butter receipts at 9 776 with no session. Eggs receipts 4 365 with no session. Poultry live movement described, prices for hens and other categories steady or up slightly. Potatoes receipts 92 on track with US shipments 81) steady supplies and demand. Multiple potato varieties and grades priced across regions including Idaho Colorado North Dakota Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan and U S No 1 No 2 classifications with price ranges noted.
The FCC announced a new rule extending period for station identification by radio outlets. Commissioner Fred R McNab led the change amid earlier worries over performers and background details delaying on air identification.
A compact dispatch reports Biermann will address independent oil men on a campaign of marketing and association concerns. The note cites attendance by figures such as Garver and Waddle and references a federal court action in a nearby city.
The article notes a wedding ring lost 31 years ago was found by Mrs Voy and Mrs Batet. The ring bore the name Louis Von Pars, found in a telephone book, tying the item to his mother. Separate text mentions a bank robbery yielding $3 000 at Bank of Toro.
Wheat prices slipped at the open but gained support into the close with October at 122% and May futures around 1222. Prices for November and December held firm. a 200 000 bushel foreign account order was noted. US and Argentine markets were closed for holidays.
38 miners walked out of the Coaldale colliery ending a sitdown strike that halted five nearby mines and idle 7500 workers in Panther Creek valley. Gov George H. Earle brokered the settlement by delivering the final offer to pay the same rate for the same class of work on the eighth level and by arranging negotiations between coal company president J B Warriner and UMW president Hugh W Brown.
Sampled dishes from a Shalom synagogue wedding in Chicago poisoned 115 guests including the bride Florence Pines and Nathan Freeroange. Health officials reported that 100 recovered within hours and Mary Hoffman required hospital care but was not seriously ill. The fish course was blamed by sister Helen Pina. a caterer served the food.
In federal court three members of a $4,000,000 bond ring were found guilty of transporting stolen US Treasury notes worth $100,000 each from New York to West Palm Beach Florida. The de Grassi brothers George and Rocco and Joseph Beinaso were convicted along with Benjamin Espe who pleaded guilty. Other ring members including suspected leader Charles Hartman have been sentenced. The case involved a sprawling nationwide investigation spanning many states.
Postmaster General James A Farley visits Aberdeen South Dakota where officials dedicate a new post office at Gow Leslie Jensen corner. Farley notes the event marks a first time the project has lacked a Republican governor’s welcome.
Mixed commodity listings show grains produce fruits vegetables and livestock prices. Include wheat corn beans oats hay straw potatoes onions hides and selected livestock with varying prices and unit measures across a broad Cedar Rapids market column.
Samuel Simmons, 45, of Cedar Rapids, appeared in district court on Sept. 21 on a county attorney's recommendation for selling beer without a license. He reportedly defaulted on the first $100 installment of a $300 fine, risking a 90 day county jail sentence. Officials said he was jailed Monday after failing to pay on time.
Linn county supervisors approved the first bounty claims totaling $7.50 for seventy five pairs of crow and starling claws. The state law previously set a ten cent bounty and these payments follow that measure. Claws must be presented to receive the bounty.
Justice J M Parsons scheduled a Wednesday 2 pm hearing on a defense stay order in a district court personal injury suit brought by Charlotte Womachil. The high court stayed proceedings pending the hearing. Defendants Bradley Carlton Ethel Harte doing business as Century Cab filed appeal last week from district court rulings on motions adverse to them. Other defendants listed include Charles Peters and Donald Augustine.
Probate filings note John G Haller died June 28 with Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids named as beneficiary and Don T Hines named executor in a 1923 will dated April 16. Ella F Mills died August 21. three children Ermina M Mills Herbert R Mills and Roy Fallows Mills are beneficiaries of a foreign will dated March 24 1932 previously admitted to probate in Putnam County.
A district court on Monday filed a dismissal with prejudice of a $165 car damage action by Donald C Miner et al against Dr T F Hersch and son Donald Hersch. A $122.98 car damage counterclaim by Dr Easel Seas was also dismissed. The事故 stemmed from a Dec 14 1936 collision at Co Anvenue and Fifteenth Street NE involving Miner and Donald Hetsco.
Judge F Elllisnay sustained a demurrer filed by defendant Samuel Astrosky in a damage suit by Don Mallas. Mallas was given ten days to plead. The case concerns injuries to his daughter Jean9 who fell from a ladder allegedly directed by Astrosky to pick cherries on Astrosky premises on June 2.
Franuk Duzaugis 92 of Cedar Rapids pled not guilty in district court to assault with intent to commit a felony against a 13 year old girl. Bond set at 1000 with arraignment pending on Sept 27. A separate matter shows Lyve Jackson Donald questioned district court jurisdiction on a state motion to modify a continuance order. the judge overruled the desertion claim. The state seeks higher weekly child support for three children.
A series of district court items includes a $1,000 settlement in a scalp burn case against Madame Mae's Roosevlt Salon-de-Beaute, a 2000 bank stock claim settlement for Stella Havelka, a custody ruling to Ava Agnes Walker, and divorce filings by Vida V Machovee and Ava Walker. A Minneapolis man, Charles Korth, was jailed for investigation, while a March plea of not guilty was entered in a separate matter.
United Automobile Workers picketed Ford dealers in Kansas City as the Ford assembly plant, crowded by a lockout strike, shut down. UAW officials said the walkout aims to force a company union, with about 3 000 workers affected and foremen told to seek other jobs.
Representatives of the Waterloo Dental society presented the clinic program at the Montrose hotel Monday night for the Cedar Rapids Dental society. The gathering served as an exchange meeting.
C Edmund Kent of 1620 English Street NW, age 45, fractured his right leg in a Tuesday morning accident at 930 am at the Nash Finch building site on Fifth Avenue and Third Street SE. He worked for Stark Building Company and fell while reaching for a beam as his feet tangled in wires.
The Rev Paul Lindholm, a Presbyterian missionary returning from Shanghai, spoke at Tuesday’s Optimist club meeting on China’s political and war situation. Next week’s speaker will be Lester Edmonds of Standard Tire on Short Wave Radio. Tuesday also featured many visitors as guest day.
A series of birth notices lists parents and addresses in the city for babies born in October. Names include Mr and Mrs Ben Mc Ghshing, Mr and Mrs C Ferguson of Vinton, Mr and Mrs R J Monroe, Mr and Mrs C J Weir of Palo, Mr and Mrs Row Fielinger, Mr and Mrs F Critz Hahn, Mr and Mrs Merle Conk, and Mr and Mrs Welford Emerson, with hospitals Mercy and St Luke's and dates October 11 to 12.
President Roosevelt may raise the fiscal year revenue forecast in a revised budget next week. Secretary Morgenthau and Daniel W Bell reported tax collections this year total $1.775 billion, a 43 percent rise, with potential to push estimates past $7.0 billion. Expenditures rise. Treasury seeks savings without cutting relief. The deficit stands at about $358 million.
Jessie Williamson aged 16 of 1633 Second Avenue SE, Franklin High student, sustained minor arm and chin burns when a chemistry class chemical mixture exploded. She was hospitalized at St. Luke's and released after treatment.
Mrs. Bessie Regel explained Linn county's rollout of the new state system aiding blind persons. Applications must be signed in person, go to an investigator, with a 14 to 16 page report, and a pension up to 30 dollars monthly may be granted after board review and medical exams. Existing recipients now receive relief cash allowances while applications prepare.
James E Patterson, local attorney, spoke at the Canopus club luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel Tuesday noon. He traced surname origins from fields of roses to son of Ivan and noted that English surnames surged after 1066, illustrating with Rothschild from a red shield over Nathan Rothschild’s shop in Frankfurt.
Sidney Hillman CIO textile director told CIO leaders in Atlantic City that the union helped secure a 20 percent wage increase for over one million textile workers.
Fye Rogers a 36 year old truck driver was struck fifty feet by an interurban train and fell twenty feet from a trestle. An emergency hospital reported injuries including a slight abrasion on the left side.
The Marion News reports the Music Club and Musical Literary group meeting at homes in Marion. Highlights include piano solos and duets led by Miss Lula Toms, performances by Frances Hildebrand Ruby Powles Rose Wilcox and Mrs. A J Keyes, plus notices of church events, charity suppers, and local visits.
Iowa Grange Master Charles P. Starrett of Newton urged government rewards for progressive farmers rather than rigid crop controls. He spoke at the annual Iowa Grange meeting in Manchester and questioned who would pay wage increases and shorter work weeks while praising soil conservation progress and rewarding early adopters.
New York workers at the Brooklyn Manh Transit faced a city wide strike threat from 12 000 employees but a closed shop pact was signed to provide a ten percent wage increase. About 9 000 Transport Workers union members will gain now with others to follow as contracts lift costs by roughly 2 400 000 over fifteen months.
Henry L. Pierce and Ida A Dale of Van Horne Elmer L. Kloubec of Swisher and Leona Merta of Amana. Herbert Andrew Harold and Leatha Irene Penrod of Cedar Rapids.
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