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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1934
Page
3
The Big Ten resumes league play with Purdue visiting Wisconsin and Chicago hosting Indiana in two title games while Iowa meets Iowa State and Minnesota faces Pittsburgh. Chicago favors a win over Indiana. Purdue and Wisconsin lack clear edge as injuries and prior form cloud judgment.
Bowling column advises compact four step approach with medium backswing for control. Do not start with a jump, walk quickly, and plan the ball path before release. Includes a 1933 football trivia prompt and offers an illustrated leaflet from Al Demaree via The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Upper Iowa and Luther meet in a Northeastern Iowa grid clash on Luther homecoming in Fayette. Both teams enter with three wins and one loss, setting up a tight Peacock home game with balanced backfields and strong pass play from Leischeid Hughes Michalski and Fobes for Luther and Ruggle Luther for Upper Iowa.
Washington high school Demons will be without their captain for the rest of the season due to Harry Barker breaking his collar bone in a scrimmage with junior college players. Coach Guy Carlton faces lineup changes for the Mount Pleasant game, with Pence and Turnipseed moved to guard and one likely shifted back to tackle alongside Fields or McCutchen at guard.
Special to The Gate Webster high school pitcher Frank Dillon threw his second no hit shutout of the season as Webster defeated What Cheer 4 to 0. Dillon also hurled a previous no hitter this season when Webster beat Keswick 3 to 0 on Sept 18.
Belle Plaine Virginia Gun club will host a game shoot on October 21 drawing a large crowd of marksmen expected to attend.
Special to The Gazette Quasqueton Iowa reports a fall baseball season of five wins and zero losses with games against Winthrop Jesup Bent Walker and Troy Mills. The basketball schedule lists games against Rowley Lamont Aurars Brendon Walker Aurora Singleton Winthrop and Aurora with county and sectional tournament dates in March.
Mount Vernon high defeated West Liberty 12-0 in its first home game Thursday. Ryerson scored a touchdown in the first half and Ed Petrick added a second in the last half.
The Big Ten lineup for 1935 shows five conference games and a major nonconference clash with Colgate. Iowa State may be dropped, hinting Nebraska could join the schedule while a final minor game fills the slate. Cornell memories spark talk of athletics and administration attitudes as Dick Barker rebuilds at Cornell.
University of Iowa coach Ossie Solem announced the renewed series with Iowa State will be suspended for 1935 as the contract expires after the Ames game. He said there was no plan for annual games but mutual difficulties in dating require a pause, with hopes to resume in occasional fixtures.
AMES Among those named to membership on the Midwest A. A. U. swimming body are Sid File as chairman and other officials from Des Moines Clarinda Russell Daubert Jr. A. Y. Russell and Clark Munger plus Max Hemmingway of Webster City. MANCHESTER Funeral services for Hubert G. Pierce 70 a veteran railroad man will be held at Manchester Community church Sunday at 2 p.m. with Masonic rites. Burial at Oakland cemetery. Daughter Mrs Gertude Pierce Hoover of Los Angeles came by air.
Charles Koehring of Ludlow township suffered burns on his left face and left arm when sparks from his pipe set fire to corn stalks he was hauling. He was treated at the local hospital and released the same day.
Hal Trosky returned to Norway after three years rising from Class D rookie to Cleveland Indians first baseman. At a Norway Commercial club dinner he received praise from clergymen and baseball men, praised his managers and teammates, and was gifted a traveling bag and silver. The event featured speakers from Norway Cedar Rapids Toledo and Vinton.
Ann Arbor Mich AP coach Harry Kipke described two big conditions for Michigan to rebound from a 2-0 start. He cited injuries to key backs Bill Renner and Regeczi, plus losses of the front line, as the main factors delaying the attack in a season already challenging the Wolverines. Kipke warned opponents to expect a tougher defense as experiments at backfield mix with sophomores.
Washington reports that scientists say formula one blends peas beets and asparagus tips to match spinach for iron and vitamins. Dr. George W Caldwell told the American Dietetic Association that people may choose spinach or its substitute with no loss of nutrients.
State police in Wilmington Del announced that a man arrested as a suspect in the kidnapping of Mrs. Berry Stoll of Louisville Ky has been ruled out as Thomas H Robinson Jr the man who collected the ransom money was released after investigation and his name was not disclosed
Washington AP report says Robert Fechner announced eighty five civilian conservation camps will operate in Iowa Nebraska and South Dakota this winter. Of these fifty one are regular CCC units with the rest under emergency drought relief. Iowa will host twenty two CCC units and thirteen drought relief camps, while four Iowa camps are not on the new list including private erosion camps at Anamosa Lenox Fort Madison and the Forest City state park.
John Wesley Hunter of Wellman died at his home on Thursday after a short illness. He had lived in Wellman many years. Survived by his widow and a daughter, Mrs. Prescott Holroyd.
Canadian naturalist J Dewey Soper traveled over five years covering more than 30 000 miles to locate the nesting site of the blue goose in western Baffin island, detailing a landmark exploratory pursuit in natural history.
James Stafford aged 37 of 112 Sixteenth Street SE was arrested after detectives spotted his car near the address. He is held for Anamosa authorities on breaking and entering charges connected to a robbery at a local filling station. Anamosa deputies reported an added theft of a gas station adding machine valued at 150 dollars. Gerald Connell, 21, was arrested nearby and linked to the case. another unnamed man witnessed the robbery and dance activity in Stone City. Police planned to search Stafford's room Friday afternoon.
Masons marked the fiftieth anniversary of Kilwinning lodge of Perfection at the Consistory temple. Floyd Philbrick A S Reed Calvin G Greene and Glenn Kenderdine spoke recalling Cedar Rapids founders and Scottish Rite history. J A Du Bois presided as past officers attended. refreshments followed.
NEW YORK. Results of the Literary Digest poll released Friday show seven states with a majority opposed to President Roosevelt's New Deal. A national check of 65,000 ballots found 50.97 percent for and 40.03 percent against, with Delaware the only state to swing in favor in the spring. States with majority unfavorables include Arizona Connecticut Illinois Indiana Kansas Maine Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Dakota Vermont Wyoming. The August September poll was independent of a separate 15,000,000 ballot poll showing 61.15 percent approval.
Capt Benjamin B. Lattimore of the 80th field artillery Fort Des Moines has been detailed as sub district commander of the twelve western Civilian Conservation camps in Iowa. His headquarters are at the Palisades camp near Mount Vernon. They visited Cedar Rapids Friday with Mrs Lattimore and will move to a Cedar Rapids house on November 1 after returning from inspection and Fort Des Moines duty.
L. J. Storey city clerk said residents outside Cedar Rapids are not affected by local registration rules. Local women who have married since registration and still live here must re register to vote. Final day for address changes or new registrations is next Friday.
Lieut Carlton K Smith of Company C 133d Infantry Iowa National Guard Cedar Rapids unit will be presented with a fifteen year service medal by Adjutant General Brigadier General Charles H Grahl at a memorial building armory dinner Monday at 7 p m The program features Lieut Col J J Hinman on chemical warfare and a slide demonstration An entertainment program and toastmaster Capt J F Currell precede the event Reservations may be made with Capt LaRue Lieut Donnell Mrs C K Smith or I F Williams
Des Moines AP reports Cook County Illinois authorities asked Governor Herbert to extradite Donald Marvin who is held at Oelwein on a charge of stealing an automobile.
A defendant before Judge Francis J. Good on a lottery charge received six months in the house of correction but the sentence was suspended due to the defendant’s claim of having thirteen children, presenting an unusual motive for mercy in a Boston court.
Anna Roosevelt Dall barely missed perfection on a charm test from a MIT professor. Andrew May of the White House Photographers Association graded her 97 after deductions for rouge, imperfect gait, and slight underweight. The professor’s accuracy ratings covered hair eyes teeth posture and other features, yielding a near perfect score with minor deductions.
RANDALIA Howard Holphner aged 17, son of Mr and Mrs Herman Holphner, sustained an eye injury when a ball struck him at the school diamond on Wednesday. The blow broke a blood vessel in the eyelid and will hinder eye use for some time. His older brother Duane lost sight in one eye years ago while playing.
George Mock who died in a tractor fall near here will be buried in St Johns cemetery Independence after a Saturday 9:30 am funeral at St Marys Catholic church Spencer's Grove conducted by Rev H Holsters. Mock, born August 14, 1873 in Geneseo Illinois, moved to Iowa with his parents to a Davenport area farm.
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