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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1935
Page
13
Washington reports the New Deal will issue a revised budget covering receipts and expenditures for the next nine months. The plan reflects higher revenues from business upturn and slower relief spending, with $7.462 billion appropriated but unspent awaiting approval and checks.
A parade of 300 Knights Templar in white plumed hats formed an honorary escort for visiting 33rd degree Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons as they marched to a supreme council meeting in Cleveland. The downtown procession moved to marching music by a Commandery band.
Miss Marion Plattenberger reports a burglary at 412 K avenue NV Saturday evening. A man about 5 feet 11 inches tall, 30 years old, in a dark suit, took a baby bank containing about $3 while she slept on the davenport. Police were notified Monday evening.
In Chicago the Catholic Legion of Decency declared Anna Karenina, Greta Garbo and Fredric March inadapted Tolstoy work indecent, immoral, and unfit for public entertainment, placing it on the league list of disapproved pictures.
A compilation from multiple Iowa towns reports officer elections for the Legion Auxiliary in Lost Nation and installation planned for October. Williamsburg hosts a zone two fall rally with a large turnout and a talent program at the high school. Keystone holds a family reunion and picnic honoring local residents. Aurora notes Legion Auxiliary officers and an Oct installation. Hawkeye reports a wedding in Hawkeye. Delaware covers a 70th birthday surprise for Mrs Hakanson. Lost Nation records the death of John Ott and upcoming funeral services.
The city council adopted a resolution Monday permitting Soybean Products to build a scale house in the parking area on Twelfth Avenue SW between Tenth and Eleventh streets.
National GOP executive committee members gather in Washington to discuss finances organization and candidate prospects for the 1936 presidential campaign. Henry P Fletcher chairs since 1934. December full committee to choose convention site potentially Kansas City Chicago or Atlantic City.
Linn county board of supervisors set October 8 at 2 pm for a hearing to establish Crab apple road in Marion township as Secondary Road District No 74. Twenty nine residents petitioned for the road, part of the three year program, ready for surfacing. The road links Highway 161 to a surfaced county road.
Linn County supervisors move to start condemnation proceedings for a 113 acre parcel on Cottage Grove avenue in Marion township east of Cedar Rapids for a cut corner road. Hearing is set for Oct 8 at 2 pm. William and Mary Groesgen are named record owners though George P Witwer claims a blank deed from the Groesgens. Witwer closed the road with fences but kept gates open for public access during the dispute.
E J Smiley of the Kansas Grain Dealers Association warns that a wheat famine looms unless next year’s crop increases. He cites drought risk in the great wheat belt and potential European war as drivers, urging higher acreage and imports to keep the nation self sufficient. Canada may dominate world price with its exportable surplus.
New York AP report says Magistrate Frank Giorgio fined Morris Wechsler, 21, three dollars for speeding on horseback in a park. The magistrate ruled galloping endangers women and children and noted an ordinance against it.
A paleontological survey notes that of the many obelisks built by ancient Egypt only thirty six are accounted for today. The tally reflects surviving monuments and fragments across sites and museums worldwide.
A detailed roll call presents Henry Fletcher and Ralph Williams among GOP leaders as they shape a 1936 strategy. It outlines fund status, chairmanship hopes, and a slate of prominent executives from Connecticut, Oregon, Kentucky, California, and more.
Funeral services for 67 year old Mrs Grant Scott were held Sunday from the Traer area home with Rev C E Luce officiating. Burial followed in Buckingham cemetery. Mrs Scott died Friday night after a short illness and had lived in the Traer vicinity for more than sixty years. She is survived by her husband and two children Genevieve and Kelvin, both of Traer.
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