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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1936
Page
3
The letter recalls Fred Free of Sioux City as a reformer who defended Edward L. O Connor amid slot machine rackets and a Woodbury county grand jury indictment. It notes Free’s earlier defense of Mayor Hayes in ouster proceedings and recalls a hung jury and acquittal amid wider city corruption.
Cedar Rapids hosts a full day of events starting at 10 a.m. with a parade and judging tents. The afternoon features a band concert at 12:30 p.m. and twenty two high school bands, then numerous acts including horse shows, trick artists, races, a mounted machine gun drill, and a massed band concert at 7 p.m. with 1,000 students led by C B Righter.
The piece questions Fred Free's shift from defense work to crusading against graft in Sioux City while on the state payroll. It probes his true motives, the O'Connor trial connections, and whether his crusade could hinge on obtaining Max Duckworth’s sworn confession for a Woodbury county grand jury.
Officials of the All Iowa Dairy show and Junior Livestock exposition announce an expanded Saturday program at Frontier park with events from 9 a.m. to late night. A parade more than a mile long will tour the business district at 10 a.m. featuring local and regional bands and the drum corps. The procession will include the elephant Baby Mine.
Attendees are urged to wear fall attire and topcoats for afternoon and evening events at the All Iowa Dairy show. The suggestion mirrors football-game dress as cooler weather settles in, promising an enjoyable experience.
Exposition manager Charles D. Moore announced the mounted machine gun troop from the Fourteenth cavalry and more than a dozen other units would join the fair grounds parade. The route starts at First avenue and Fifth street E, moves west to Second street, south to Second avenue, west to First street W, south to Third avenue W, east across the river to Sixth street and Third avenue SE, then north to First avenue and back to First avenue and Fifth street. Continued on page 2, col. 1.
Tonight at the All Iowa Dairy Show and Junior Livestock Exposition the Blairs town high school band performs at 7 p.m. in front of the grandstand. A union band backs the horse show with five gaited mares and geldings, handy hunters, and vaudeville acts between intermissions. The mounted machine gun troop closes the program. Byers brothers shows are on the grounds.
President Franklin D Roosevelt spoke at the Harvard tercentenary urging defense of intellectual freedom in an era of witch hunting. He warned against fear and urged alumni to honor the past while pursuing future ideals and civic duty. He noted Mrs Roosevelt’s illness and planned return to Washington after the speech.
H R Knickerbocker describes Friday’s hard fighting on the Talavera front with the Spanish Foreign Legion and Moroccan troops pushing toward Madrid. He notes red air attacks, a downed plane, bombardment near Cazelgas, and a narrow road junction 57 miles from Madrid amid a stark struggle with reds.
A massive blast from two mines destroyed much of Toledo's Alcazar as government forces attacked the fortress defending about 1,700 fascist defenders. Fire from the cellars and rubble hampered the assault, while syndicalists in Madrid urged conscription and reform.
Fall strengthened its siege of Cedar Rapids Thursday night and early Friday driving the temperature to a snappy minimum of 45 at 5 a.m. The mercury then rose to 56 at 9 a.m. and 71 by 2:30 p.m. with a cloudless sky. Thursday’s best was 70 at 4 p.m. then 59 at 7 p.m. and 48 at midnight per Chambers Inskeep company records.
Calvin Markham reports his wife Leona, 26, has been missing since Wednesday afternoon. He says she left their home at 114 E Avenue NW to go downtown and has not been seen or heard from since. Leona is five feet four inches, 115 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, wearing a lavender dress with white polka dots and a black jacket.
The essay quotes Helen Wills Moody as a child wishing for a wishing ring and later argues that an understanding mind is the real treasure. Understanding comes from life experience rather than schooling, with wisdom growing slowly through sorrow, love, or error, and it makes us gentler and more forgiving. The Bible phrase Get understanding is cited, noting no one masters life completely.
Ivan Lind age 38 was killed instantly when his speeding car struck a roadside pole after leaping over a curb. Two young women Thomal Stephens 25 and Alberta Druliner 28 were seriously injured and taken to Bryan Memorial hospital for X rays.
A fishing boat named Long Island sank off New Jersey as a hurricane swept the Atlantic. Six men drowned, three were rescued from wreckage, and thirty five others aboard were unaccounted. Coast guard said the crew likely drifted in small life boats.
The United States Weather Bureau forecast winds reaching about 75 miles per hour for the New York area by midnight as the Atlantic hurricane moves north. Hurricane signals were ordered posted and the storm is expected to reach peak gale force by early Saturday morning, with no loss of intensity reported.
A North Atlantic hurricane drives north along the coast ripping through the Carolinas and Virginia and reaching Maryland. Ocean City is cut off from the mainland after a nine foot tide floods Ocracoke island. One man, Tom Robbins, 50, a watchman for a clamming bed, is believed drowned at Ocean City.
MILAN UP reports former King Alfonso XIII is believed to be considering a return to Spain if the rebels win the civil war there.
The Cedar Rapids Community Chest outlines eight agencies with total expenses and incomes for 1937. It notes camp income for Boy Scout and Camp Fire Girls, and lists Public Health Nursing as receiving 2000 from Christmas seats 1500 from the city and 120 from the county as private contributions outside Chest income.
Coast guard crews search the hurricane area for a plane carrying four photographers for March of Time, missing since Thursday afternoon after taking off from Washington to film over Cape Hatteras. Navy and coast guard headquarters were alerted after twelve hours with possible safe landing at an isolated point amid disrupted communications.
In Lille workers silence shows as they listen to Blum and employers for a Paris compromise. Evacuation of factories could begin this afternoon or tomorrow with 35 000 men resuming work. A six per cent wage rise is set, government pledges factory owner authority, and worker delegates to boards will come from actual employees.
The Concho river flood left 1,500 homeless and at least one dead with many missing. Damage was estimated at 1 million dollars as heavy rains threatened more flooding upstream and in the city. A six year old boy drowned near Leon and more than 300 homes were wrecked.
Three armed men robbed the Paschen Brothers contractors office on La Salle Street in Chicago about noon, taking a $3,100 payroll and leaving 43 cents in a cash drawer. The attack terrorized seven employees and the suspects fled the scene.
A Domei dispatch from Peiping says Chinese and Japanese forces clashed at Fengtai, a strategic rail junction several miles southwest of Peiping, highlighting ongoing tensions in the region.
Gov. Alf M. Landon told a national Young Republican leaders conference in Topeka that the Republican Party rejects a philosophy of hopeless youth. He condemned the current administration as seeing no future for the country and argued for limited government while maintaining economic vitality. The address was broadcast nationally and continued on page 2.
The daily feature asks which Cedar Rapids group may learn to swim free. The answer says all grade school boys who cannot swim attend a two week yearly program at the YMCA. Last year 452 boys enrolled, with one week for west side participants.
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