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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1937
Page
12
City officials consider abandoning street car tracks to finance paving and bus service. A settlement with the Cedar Rapids and Marion Street Railway Company awaits terms as council debates track disposal and franchise implications.
The Benefit association of Reil war Employes meets Thursday at 7 30 p m in Sokohal. Ex Navy Men’s club gathers Wednesday at 8 p m in Montrose hotel for business and social session. Mrs W F Ashford of Martine Ig visits at Mrs George BR Schmidt’s home Vinton road NW. Ashford is a former Cedar Rapids resident. Drill night for Company C lowe national guard is Tuesday evening this week instead of Monday due to Labor Day. Mr and Mrs C S Setainn and family, 1542 Beversvenue, Sm heve returned from Clear Lake after spending June July and August. The WB A Ne Ma meet at Mrs Louse Re peck, 808 Enehith avenue SE, Trarsdsi at 1 pm. There will be eg 300 card pars inf mem bers and ines f enas Niro aré dirs Alfred Hoereeca 1463 Fourth street SW and Mr ed re LeRoy Henecke 2221 Secora sires SW left Ssturday for a two weeks trip as eke of the Woods Canada. Egil R Iustebarger seaman first class, visiting the home c? has peems. Mr and Mrs PM Lavebarger 413 Fourth street SW Listebarger I am wirty-one days acare from use U S Bridge WN Ja Leonard former assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce here now secretary and manager of the Chamber at Columbus Wisconsin Vining in Cedar Rapids over the weekend.
M M Thompson of 2137 First Avenue East has come back from Colorado Springs Colorado where he attended the 1937 regional convention of Aetna Life Insurance. Regional convention attendance is limited to the company's leading salesmen.
The next meeting of the North east Central and Southeast Central districts of the Iowa Optometric Association will be held Tuesday at 7 30 p m in Dr Carl A Lambs offices in Oelwein Dr Lamb chairman of the North east Central district and Dr E J Copeland chairman of the Southeast Central district will preside over the gathering.
The Knights of Columbus hold their regular semi monthly meeting at the club rooms Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. M W O Ripley district deputy will install officers and report on the barbecue. After the meeting bowling members plan to organize for the coming season.
Japanese and Chinese forces clashed near Shanghai as Tokyo reported air strikes against the Yangtze port areas. Japanese reinforcements reached Woosung while both sides claimed to press a planned drive to annihilate Chinese troops around the foreign settlements. Chinese headquarters said Japanese troops arrive to reinforce positions, with the fighting continuing and Chinese forces still outnumbered.
A 1000 pound shipment of antitoxins donated by San Francisco Chinese relief groups sailed from San Francisco to Shanghai aboard the Philippine Clipper on Wednesday. A prior shipment of bandages antiseptics and preventive antitoxins departed last Saturday on the U S President Garfield.
The All-Iowa Livestock Show launches Monday with a full arena program, vaudeville acts, horse shows and a Derby on Labor Day. Notable entries include Lathan Jenkinson’s horses, Rex Conn as junior livestock head, and Rex Beresford supervising Milking Shorthorn judges. Cattle judging features Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire, and Brown Swiss classes at Hotel Montrose lunch. The Derby, four races, and other events cap a packed showcase at the fairgrounds.
A speech marking Labor Day urges ending disputes between workers and employers through conference and fair wages. It emphasizes mutual respect, the need for living wages, and government action to facilitate dispute resolution and industrial progress.
Gutrr Vecond of the Amercen Ct Burtsum, from Richmond Indiana, is due in Cedar Rapids Monday to assume the role of campaign director for the 1938 Community Chest drive. George A Cooper, associate director, has been in town two weeks for employment surveys and preliminary Chest work and will remain through the weekend in Chicago before returning Tuesday morning.
Washington rejects Uruguay's proposal to recognize the rebel faction in the Spanish civil war. The United States flatly refused the recognition move, issuing a firm rebuff on Saturday.
City officials say Bever Woods should get a six inch reinforced concrete pavement after bids came in surprisingly low. The Haegg Construction Company is favored to win the contract, with an anticipated total under $30,000. Local residents expressed near unanimous support for the concrete option over brick or asphalt due to base condition concerns.
The program lists a judging contest at the All Iowa Livestock Show from 9 AM to 12 Noon. Participants compete in a judging contest as part of the program events.
Police sought John Peris of Jaarbor Indiana after the fatal shooting of Raymon Duarte a Bettendorf resident. Duarte 36 was found on a railroad track with four bullet wounds after a 1:30 a.m. incident. Witnesses say both men had been drinking and quarreled over money, with a torn dollar bill found near the body.
The U S weather bureau cited cool Labor Day weather as aiding medical science in checking the epidemic that spread from California to New York and Toronto. The drop in Chicago temperatures reduced transmission conditions, with two Chicago deaths and three in Toronto on Saturday, as officials urged convalescent serum donations to avert shortages.
A Gazette reader warns that signs of impending conflict are visible beyond headlines. He cites a surge in scrap iron prices, exports to Japan, England and Italy, and rising global tensions as evidence that preparation time is shrinking. Byron Amuse ity.
Nuisance injunction suits were filed in district court to target eight alleged houses of ill fame in Des Moines Black and Tan district. Petitions seek temporary and permanent injunctions against operators and owners, nuisance abatement, and a $300 mulct tax on each property.
The first annual Fall Frolic of the Cedar Rapids Manufacturers Representatives association will be held at the Cedar Rapids Country Club on Sept. 13 with grocers jobbers brokers and salesmen from eastern Iowa expected to attend Delegates from Davenport Dubuque Waterloo Iowa City Mason City and other northern eastern towns will join a golf tournament banquet and floor show Prizes provided by Brown Williamson and others.
Judge John T Moffit of Tipton holds Trustees of the State Bank of Central City liable for 9182.36 in addition to their fourth progressive report. The ruling, filed in district court Saturday, includes interest conceded in an amendment by the trustees.
Pont A Mousson Post No 451 Negro American Legion announces Labor Day barbecue at Riverside park with beef pork and lamb barbecue meats. Drum and bugle corps parade at 10 am and athletic events begin at 1 pm. Events include fat man and fat woman races pie eating flour rooting and a children's tricycle race.
Theodore Bornhoett son of Rev P L Bornhoett pastor of Trinity Lutheran Cedar Rapids left for Mayville Wisconsin to teach in the Lutheran parish school lower grades and assist in young people's work He is on his vicarage year from Concordia Seminary St Louis Missouri During the summer he directed at the Sinclair playground
The will of Rev. J. P. Sindelar who died August 15 was probated in district court Friday. His mother Antonelte Sindelar is principal beneficiary and executrix with the will annexed. The will provides $500 for the benefit of orphans.
Civil action by R. C. Lehmkuht against Mrs William A. Parizek and Lester Parizek, filed May 4, arising from a February 22 collision at Eighth Avenue and Third Street SW, settled for 483.97 and dismissed with prejudice in district court.
Honolulu AP report says FBI agent J. P. MacFarlane ordered release of a seaman who had talked of the kidnapping and murder of Charles Mattson of Tacoma Washington by December. He called the supposed Mattson clue a story from a drunken seaman with a detective complex.
At Cleveland the national air races showcased 397 and 849 cubic inch class planes. S J Wittman of Oshkosh won the $7,000 397 inch race at an average 245 mph, a new class record. Rudy Kling and Wittman won Greve heats at 223 and 224 mph. Wittman earned 4100 in prizes.
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