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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1937
Page
1
Crowds pack Hawkeye Downs for the All Iowa Livestock Show with a lively midway and grandstand performances. Officials report strong attendance as cattle barns fill with prime stock and visitors enjoy fair attractions.
A two seat biplane piloted by W C Gage lifts from Dycer airport with Raymond L Corlett 37 aboard. After twenty seven minutes at a thousand feet Corlett unhooks his belt and leaps into the air crashing through a home roof. Gage describes a desperate struggle to restrain him and prevent catastrophe.
A reader ponders why people deface monuments for souvenirs citing damage at the Unknown Dead memorial in Alexandria and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, suggesting iron barriers or armed guards as remedies and urging Americans to improve memory and manners.
Moscow charges Italy with sinking Soviet ships in the eastern Mediterranean and demands answers on Germany's invitation to a piracy conference. Russia also urges inviting the Madrid Valencia government as a Mediterranean power and notes the attacks threaten European security and peaceful navigation.
E M Mitchell and Sons of Reinbeck dominated the Milking Shorthorn division at the All Iowa Livestock Show. Cloverton Barrington and Cloverton Cortez were grand champion female and bull, while Cloverton E Flynn and Cloverton Carma won junior titles. Irwin F Meyer earned multiple placings in produce of cow and dairy events. Awards also went to Clampitt farms in get of fire and various district winners in herd competitions.
Governor Welson G. Kraschel rejected Otto S. Muntz claim that he offered $25,000 from a $250,000 annual conservation fund. Kraschel called the commission’s ideas half baked and criticized sugar beet and dairy schemes in Iowa. He said no negotiations occurred and noted the matter followed the legislature’s adjournment.
In the American League Washington and Boston played two games with DeShong R Ferrell and Desautels among the players. Weaver Linke Berg and Marcum starred in the second game. Chicago and St Louis met on the slate with Evans and Hartnett and in the National League Brooklyn and Boston results listed with Lanning Bush and Fitzsimmons among players.
Four hundred Chinese flyers volunteered Tuesday to attack Tokyo from the air in retaliation for Shanghai’s havoc. Officials warned survival is unlikely as volunteers, in a “dare to die” movement, offered to sacrifice their lives with a lot-drawing to spare parents all their sons. A squadron of ten planes is being prepared for the raid targeting Japanese munitions plants and troop centers, then Tokyo.
Spectal to The Gazette McGregor Iowa the Corrigan family living on a farm north of town may form a baseball team they are also growing their own umpire They have ten boys and no girls the eldest is fourteen the youngest will be one this month Mr Corrigan is 43 and Mrs Corrigan is 40 they have been married 15 years
Harold Brotherson aged 15 of Victor won the Angus class blue ribbon in the junior livestock show at Hawkeye Downs. His 13 year old brother Maynard Brotherson previously achieved the same feat a year earlier. Mearl Eilers of Olin won the other Angus blue ribbon. Red and white ribbons and cash prizes were awarded across Angus Shorthorn and Hereford classes with Rex Beresford of Iowa State College as judge.
London reports Britain and France promising Italy a Mediterranean piracy conference as part of a bid to keep Europe at peace. The move signals a diplomatic shift away from Soviet Russia amid wartime tensions.
Lillian Marie Foster ten months old died when a fire trapped her in a one room home near Riverside Park in Vinton. Neighbor Harry Good tried to rescue her after the oil stove sparked flames as Mrs. Foster left to call her husband who was baling paper in a nearby barn. The house became a mass of flames before help arrived. Donna Jean, six, was with their mother at the barn when the tragedy occurred.
Cedar Rapids readers heading to college can have The Gazette mailed to their campus address. Call the circulation department or visit the Gazette office before leaving Cedar Rapids to arrange mail forwarding and stay informed.
County Attorney G. K. Thompson criticized Iowa's state store policy on Tuesday, accusing it of supplying bootleggers and aiding illicit liquor traffic. He urged the Town liquor control commission to curb federal permits and tighten enforcement as officers struggle to suppress bootlegging.
CLARINDA Iowa Walter Varley paid 25600 for the Beck farm land near Essex at a sheriff s land sale in the courthouse Tuesday The sheriff s office said the check was the largest ever cashed here in a sheriff s farm sale.
London reports a pirate submarine halted a British tanker near the Monte Agnese fortifications in the Mediterranean. Lloyd's notes an unidentified warship fired a torpedo at the British motor ship Hampas near La Goulette, but the torpedo missed.
Despite a slender Tuesday crowd in the grandstand, the All Iowa Livestock Exposition continued with races vaudeville acts and specialties. C S Miller of Tipton introduced attractions after the opening band, followed by the Tripoli Trio and Charles Wright with his high school horse performing in the grandstand.
All Iowa fair program at Hawkeye Downs features 1 30 P M vaudeville acts horse races ties and a band concert. Evening program at 730 includes society horse show band concert and Passing Parade arranged by Ernie Young. Robbie Rides Winner and Ten Horse hitch noted with Speed Collins. Commander wins half mile race in 56 seconds with Johnson riding. John G second and Lillian Jenkinson earns money with late surge. Five Cordovas perform barrel jumping before page continuation.
Marion farmer George Michel, two miles northwest of Marion, won the All Iowa Hill Of Corn sweepstakes at the All Iowa Livestock exposition judged by Ed Dyas. He earned 45 dollars from three prize awards for a three-stalk hill with three ears. Zone 2 and 3 winners included Anton Netolicky Mount Vernon Harry Green Wellman and others with open pollinated and hybrid varieties. Fifty six hills were entered statewide across zones.
Postmaster General James A. Farley visits 23 Iowa towns Thursday and Friday with train stops at Council Bluffs Minden Harlan Manning Carroll Lohrville and others. He addresses the Town postmasters convention Fort Dodge and a Democratic rally in Des Moines with Gov Kraschel. events broadcast and followed by statewide political meetings.
The State Department ordered the U S consulates in Amoy and Foochow closed as American businessmen in Shanghai protested Roosevelt's warning that those who stay do so at their own risk. The Shanghai mission compound was seized by Japanese forces with 50 bluejackets and machine guns. Consulate to protest the occupation and evacuation policy drew urgent messages from the American Chamber of Commerce.
Hank Morgenthau offers higher interest on government bonds signaling rising business activity. The piece notes stronger lending to business and a favorable climate for finance as commerce revives.
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