Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • Page 63

MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE, JULY 23 1936 FIFTEEN Mason City's Calendar July City manufacturers and distributors entertain visitors and friends at Rockford. July picnic of the Mas- c'ia club (branch of the Iowa Association of the Deaf.) July park concert by municipal band. p. July clinic at Birum- Olson garage under auspices of Cerro Gordo County Safety council. July band to give concert in East park, p.

m. Aug. golf tournament at Mason City country club. Aug. Iowa fair.

Here In Mason City Crosley does Rive you more in a Shelvador. Mason City Hardware. Mr. and Mrs. G.

Sorenson, Siovx Falls, S. are visiting relatives in Mason City. They are stayinsr at the home of Mrs. Sorenson's aunt. Mrs.

A. M. Ikenberry, 1002 Pennsylvania avenue northeast. Mrs. Sorenson was formerly Miss" Merle Smock of Mason City.

Mrs. L. F. Troja, Baltimore, is expected to arrive Thursday to visit her brother, Dan H. Fitzpatrick.

904 Washington avenue northwest. Mrs. J. M. Robertson and her son Jack, 121 Washington avenue northwest, left for Colorado Wednesday for a vacation trip of two Maj E.

A. Conley, Marshalltown, assistant chief of the Iowa highway oatrol, was in Mason City on business. Birth certificates have been filed fo- ilarylin Ann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McMenimen, 121 Sixth street southwest, born July 11- Joan Alberta, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Young, 432 Twenty-sixth street southwest, born July 17- Fae Jeanie, daughter of Mr. and 'Mrs. Floyd Erwin Fraser, 140S Hampshire place northeast, born 3f Mr. 'and Mrs.

Francis Churchill DeSart, 123 Monroe avenue southwest- Owoing to the absence of the rector there will be no service at the 'St. John's Episcopal church on Fn- dav morning of this week. Miss Annette Salz of Dubuque Is visiting this week at the Fred G. 'Stefieu home, 233 Fourteenth street "southeast Her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. L. Salz, will arrive Sunday when she will return with them. Joe E. Long, Des Moines, one of the pioneers in the good roads movement in Iowa, was in Mason City Thursday on business.

Mr. Long is secretary of the Iowa Taxpayers' league. Townsend club No. 2 met Wednesday evening at the Y. W.

C. A. for a program which included piano solos by Kathryn Taylor and Phyllis McClellan, and vocal and guitar selections by Duane a.nd Carol Follmuth- Mrs. Nellie Ulrick, delegate to the Townsend convention in Cleveland, gave a partial report on the meeting and will continue her report at the next session of the club. SENTENCES TOTAL 165 YEARS AND FINES, $5,150 79 CONVICTIONS OBTAINED; 51 ON LIQUOR CHARGES Toughest 'Rap' Dealt Turner on Possession of Burglar i pols.

Sentences totaling 165Vi and fines amounting to $5,150 were imposed by judges in district court for Cerro Gordo county during the fiscal year which ended June 30, according to statistics compiled by S. H. MacPeak, clerk of district court here, and released Wednesday. Out of 79 convictions obtained by County Atty. Frederick B.

Shaffer and his assistant, Hines Mount, 51, were in liquor cases, including 5 for illegal sale, 12 for illegal possession and 34 for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Was Toughest "Rap." The toughest "rap" which the local court dealt out during the period was a 15 year sentence imposed upon Harry Turner on a charge of possession of burglary tools. Turner, who said he was a resident of Minnesota, was arrested just west of Mason City with an ex-convict named Lutz who was claimed by Alabama authorities and returned to the penitentiary in the latter- state. Firearms and all sorts of burglar's equipment was found in the automobile in which the two men were arrested. Five convictions were obtained in cases charging defendants with ob- tairung money under false pretenses and each defendant was entenced to serve seven years.

Most of these cases involved the forging of sig- natures on checks. Got 10 Year Sentences. Four defendants received 10 year entences for larceny of motor vehicles. Nine were convicted on statutory charges. Three men were convicted as chicken thieves, drawing sentences A Cubist Couldn't Have Done It Better and included in decorating program.

(Lock Photo, Kayenay Engraving) charges involvin? larceny contempt of court How Accurate Are You in Judging Distance? That's Important in Driving Car Jane D'Arcy Dies at 1.0.0.F. Home Jane D'Arcy, 79, died at the I. 0. home Wednesday evening following an illness. She had been a resident at the home since October, 1934, when she was admitted from Spirit Lake.

She was born Jan. 31, 1857 in Dubuque county and is survived by one sister, Mrs. Sarah Kephart, Des Moines, and three nephews, Frank Farr, Waterloo Kenneth Kephart, Spirit Lake, and E. A. Farr, Miles City, Mont.

Funeral services will be held at the I 0. O. F. home Friday, with the Rev. George K.

Davies, pastor of the Presbyterian church, in charge of services. Burial will be at Spirit Lake. The body was taken to the Patterson funeral home. This, Other Questions to Be Answered in Clinic. How good an automobile driver are you? How about your eyesight 7 Are you bothered by the glare or headlights? How precisely can you judge dls- IT'S A NEW RACKET A Weekly Feature Revealing Methods of Defrauding Public That Might Have Occurred Here.

Two Cases Continued in Traffic Court; 4 Sentenced to School The hearing for Edward J. Crow. ley 911 Carolina Place southeast, who was arrested at 1:15 o'clock Thursday morning at Eighth street and Carolina avenue southeast on a charge of reckle.ss driving, was set for 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon by Police Judge Morris Laird. It was alleged that Crowley had driving at a high rate of speed. The hearing for Herman Hoots, route 1, who was arrested at Tenth street and South Federal avenue Wednesday on a charge of speed' ing.

was set for Saturday, E. H. Ewald, 801 Second street southwest, was sentenced to traffic school on a charge of parking in a no parking zone, and Irene Bell, 642 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, was sentenced for improper parking. W. H.

Borman, 310 First street southeast, and Leslie Erickson, 1040 Second street northwest, were each sentenced for parking in loading zones. Vivian Bramholm, 138 Twelfth street northwest, forfeited a bond posted when summoned to traffic court on a charge of parking in a no parking zone. J. E. McMahon, 1010 Pennsylvania avenue northeast, forfeited a 51 bond on a similar charge.

AT THE HOSPITALS Miss Marlene Krieger, route 4, was admitted to the Park hospital Wednesday for a minor operation. Miss Hattie Gutterman, 801 Tenth street northeast, was dismissed from the Story hospital Thursday following a minor operation. Twins, a girl weighing 5Vz pounds and a boy weighing 4 pounds 9 ounces, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ollenburg, Garner, at the Mercy hospital Wednesday.

Joe Fisher, Springfield, was admitted to the Park hospital Wednesday for examination. B. G. Mood, Emmetsburg, was admitted to the Mercy hospital Wednesday for a minor operation. Mrs.

S. H. Swenson, Omaha, was admitted to the Park hospital Wednesday for treatment. Mrs. James Wear, Goldfield, was admitted to the Mercy hospital Wednesday for a major operation.

Mrs. J. M. Marsh, Clear Lake, was admitted to the Park hospital Wednesday for a minor operation. Virgil Miltenberger, 1226 Kentucky avenue southeast, was admitted to the Mercy hospital Wednesday for a major operation.

A. J. Kohl, Gary, was admitted to the Park hospital Wednesday for a minor operation. Miss Rita Gomez, 1626 Madison avenue northwest, was admitted to the Mercy hospital Wednesday for treatment. Leroy Anderson, 512 Eighth street southeast, was admitted to the Park hospital Wednesday for a AREDALE Mr.

and Mrs. Dye are parents of a girl, the second child and only girl. Land of chivalry: One that won't convict a woman, but lets 12,000,000 women work while as many men are Cedar Rapids Gazette. Authorized Carburetor Service Genuine Carter and Stromberg Parts JACOBY Battery and Electric Service 110 S. Delaware Phone 319 Jack O'Keefe, 416 Madison avenue northwest, was dismissed from the Mercy hospital Wednesday following treatment.

Mrs. J. O. Faxon. Algona, was admitted to the Park hospital Wednesday for treatment.

Mrs. F. R. Thompson, St. Ansgar, was dismissed from the Mercy bos- pital Wednesday following ment.

Marvin Nehring, Buffalo Center, was admitted to the Park hospital Wednesday for treatment. A. J. Killmer, North Federal avenue, was dismissed from the Park hospital Wednesday following treatment. Mrs.

C. O. Dawson, 111 Kentucky avenue southeast, was dismissed from the Park hospital Wednesday following a minor operation. Rita Gomez, Frost, was dismissed from the Park hospital Wednesday following treatment. nc Are' you startled by unexpected noises? How quick are your reactions? Personal questions, you say.

And they are. But in the interest of your safetv as an automobile driver, as well as the safety of others, they should be answered. And they're going to be, if you'll permit it, at the "Driver's Clinic." to- be conducted in Mason City Monday and Tuesday. On Statewide Basis. The clinic is being arranged on a statewide basis by the Iowa State Safety council and the Iowa state motor vehicle department and local arrangements are in charge of the Cerro Gordo county Safety council.

It is hoped the clinic here will attract drivers from throughout the county. Dr. A. Lauer, associate professor of psychology at Iowa State col. lege, Ames, nationally recognized authority on the mind's part in safety, will be here in person, with an assistant to direct the clinic, to be held at the Fourth street entrance of the Birum Olson company.

The clinic here is one of 15 to be held this summer throughout the state, the schedule being as follows: Schedule Given. Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25 Clayton county, Blkader; Monday and Tuesday, July 27 and 28, Cerro Gordo county, Mason City; Wednesday and Thursday, July 29 and 30, Webster county, Fort Dodge; Friday and Saturday, July 31, Aug. 1, Sac county, Sac City; Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 3 and 4, Lyon county, Rock Rapids; Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 5 and 6, Woodbury county, Sioux City; Friday and Saturday, Aug.

7 and 8, Pottawattamie county, Council Bluffs; Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 10 and 11, Appanoose county. Centerville; Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 12 and 13, Van Buren county, Keosauqua; Friday and Saturday, 14 and 15, Henry county, Mount Pleasant; Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 17 and 18, Scott county, Da'venport; Wednesday and Thursday Aug.

19 and 20, Washington county, Washington; Friday and Saturday, Aug. 21 and 22, Mahaska county, Oskaloosa; Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 24 and 25, Jasper county, Newton. As a climax to the series, the clinic will be featured in the 'Iowa State Safety council's exhibit in Machinery hall at the Iowa State fair. Responsibility of Driver.

It is the best opinion of safety authorities that from 85 to 90 per nsnt of all accidents involving motor vehicles are the responsibility of a driver. Checking up mechanical features of a car, while important, will not solve the problem. Recognition of this fact prompted the series of "Driver's Clinics." Local officials of the safety council have expressed a hope that a large number of drivers, particularly young drivers, male and female, will avail themselves of this opportunity. It is explained that nobody will be embarrassed by his showing in the tests. The whole venture is designed to assist the individual driver, to point out shortcomings and help correct them.

Have Taken Tests. "Thousands have taken these tests," said Doctor Lauer in discussing the clinic evolved by him "Nearly everybody goes out of his way to tell me how much he has en- Not long ago a woman went to Minneapolis, looked up an obscure W. R. C. organization which only had about 25 members and asked the group for the use of its name in staging a dance for the benefit of crippled soldiers.

The W. R. C. agreed to this and received as its compensation $25. On the strength of a letter from the W.

R. the woman went to the city council and received the use of the city hall free of charge. She then brought in a large corps of ticket sellers, who went out two by twos and sold hundreds of tickets. By this time some one had got suspicious and had the woman promoter arrested and the fact that she had indorsed and cashed a check, inadvertently made out to the W. R.

C. instead of her organization, gave the authorities leverage sufficient to force her to give up the money she had taken, about $2,000. Freed from this situation she went immediately across the river to St. Paul, where supervision was not so and staged a dance, which brought her $200. Not a cent of it went to the crippled soldiers.

Later it was found she had once given a large ball in Washington ostensibly for crippled soldiers. This function was attended by numerous government officials, all under the delusion they were helping crippled veterans when in reality they were supporting a daring racket. CATTLE THIEF GIVEN 5 YEARS Kottkamp, Young Clear Lake Farmer, Sentenced by Judge Clark. Judge Joseph Clark Thursday sentenced W. H.

Kottkamp, 30 year old farmer living a mile north of the fish hatchery at Clear Lake, to serve five years in the state penitentiary at Fort Madison on a plea of guilty to County Attorney F. B. Shaffer's information charging him with larceny of domestic animals. Kottkamp, who was returned here a few days ago after being apprehended in Urbana, admitted stealing four steers from the of Chris and Carl Ashland, near Clear Lake, on July 7, and having them trucked to the Jacob B. Decker and Sons branch of Armour and company in Mason City where he sold them for $116.55.

Lester Cafe Broken Into; Tax Money Is Stolen Out of Box Bessie Bayless, proprietor of th3 Lester cafe, 210 Second street- northwest, reported to police that it had been broken into early Thursday morning and that 50 cents in small change had been taken from a box near the cash register. The change was tax money. Police investigated and found that someone had broken into the cafe through the kitchen window. It was believed the cafe was entered after 3 o'clock in the morning. SCARLET FEVER ON INCREASE IN IOWA DURING '36 Total of 718 More Cases in First Six Months Jhan Entire Year of '36.

During the first six months of 1936, cases of scarlet fever numbering 4,489 were reported by local health officers and local boards of health, to the state department of health. This total is considerably in excess of the 3,771 cases, reported in 1935 for the entire year. Thirtyfour deaths from scarlet fever were recorded in Iowa in January, February and March of 1936. Fatalities in Iowa, due to this disease, numbered 70 in 1935, the largest number of deaths from scarlet fever since 1924. There is in some communities a lack of respect for communicable disease and health regulations, ac- aording to the state board report.

"What parents need to realize is that infectious disease, whether of mild or severe potentially dangerous. Health officials frequently have occasion to observe iiow a disease like scarlet fever, mild in one case, may prove fatal in another person who is very susceptible. Parents should know also that part of the physician's duty is to.report cases of communicable disease which come under his observation. Parents need, above all, to regard it "as an emblem of honor" to have a quarantine sign over the doorway. Respect for health regulations will go far toward shielding innocent children against the deadly weapons of communicable disease." joyed it.

It becomes a sort of game between the individual and his physical and mental abilities. "The surest way to be forearmed against a danger is to be forewarned. That's exactly what our clinic does. If the colorblind person, for example, knows he ia colorblind, he can adjust himself to the shortcoming. So it is all along the line.

Here's an opportunity for every motorist in the area where these clinics are being conducted to increase his or her personal-safety on the highways." To Bring Laboratory. Doctor Lauer will bring with him a veritable laboratory on wheels. Much of the eouipmcnt employed by him is of his own design or make. By the National council and ethers he is regarded" as having gone further into his subject than any contemporary educator. Here are just a few of the items of apparatus, he will have with him: 1.

Ishihara color vision test equipment. 2. Stereoscope with test cards for mesuring acuity, stereopsis and the phorias. 3. Chart for measuring field of vision.

4. Dynamometer for measuring strength of grip. 5. Standard telegraph key and high speed counter for measuring speed of movement or tapping. 6.

Acuity meter. 7. Cheiroscope for determining the presence of and extent of scotoma. (Holes in visual field.) 8. Self-recording phygmomano- nieter for blood pressure tests.

9. Reaction time apparatus. 10. Laboratory type test of emotional stability. 11.

Audiometer for test of hearing. Progress of a great man: (1) Quits shining his own shoes. (2) Quits writing his own letters. (3) Quits writing his own Kewanee Star Courier. Mrs.

Cecil D. Butler Seeks Divorce Here Alleging cruel and inhuman treatment, Mrs. Marie Butler started divorce proceedings Thursday in district court here against her husband, Cecil Butler. In addition to a decree of divorce, Mrs. Butler asked to be awarded the right to resume her maiden name, Marie O'Banion, and the right to remarry within one year.

The Butlers were married in Janesville, March 27, 1927, and lived together until August, 1934. Firemen Extinguish Three Grass Fires Three grass fires were reported Thursday by the fire department. The first was at 9:18 o'clock in the 1300 block on Fourth street southwest. The second was at Indian Head farm No. 15, south of Twenty-ninth street southwest, at 11:30 o'clock.

The third was at the rear of 615 Monroe avenue northwest, at 12:48 o'clock. Will Attend State Fair. ALLISON Butler county win send a 4-H demonstration team to the Iowa State fair again this year. The team is composed of Eugene Schrage of Allison and Eugene Lindaman of Aplington, who will give a demonstration on "Starting Right With Bees." Both boys are members of the bee club in Butler county. Firemen Fight Flames as Hobo Jungle Bums The "Hobo Jungle" between Fourth and Sixth streets southeast alongside of the M.

and St. L. railroad tracks caught fire about 7 o'clock Wednesday evening and about a dozen piles of railroad ties and a large area of grass was burned. Firemen used 600 feet of hose to reach, the fire with water and worked an hour and 28 minutes in extinguishing the fire. The department also answered another alarm at 8:25 o'clock Wednesday evening to a grass fire at 730 Fifteenth street northeast.

SOLO BY BAGLEY PLAYED IN PARK Cornet Trio to Be Offered at Next Band Concert Sunday Night. Despite strong winds which threatened rain, the Mason City municipal band presented its concert as scheduled Wednesday night in East park and a large crowd remained throughout the program, enthusiastically applauding the numbers. Featured on the program was a cornet solo by Bob Bagley. He played "Stars in the Velvety Sky" by Clarke wtih brilliance and fine interpretation. As an encore, he offered the well known "Sylvia" by Speaks.

The overture was the popular "Light Cavalry" by Suppe, which Director C. F. Weaver led with pre. cision. A selection from Romberg's "Student Prince," "Wedding of the Rose" bv Jessel, "Columbine Dane" by Kline, and stirring marches, directed by Craig McHenry, assistant leader, were also warmly applauded.

At the next concert, to be given Sunday night at 8 o'clock in East park, a feature will be the presentation of "The Three Kings" by Smith, a cornet solo played by Craig McHenry, Bob Bagley and Charles Starr. The band went to Rockford Thursday night to give a concert there, accompanied by Mason City tnanufacturers and distributors. BUDGET HEARING LAW SUPPORTED BY STATE GROUP Long, Executive Secretary of Taxpayers Association Visitor Here. Joe Long, Des Moines, executive secretary of the Iowa Taxpayers' association, stopped in Mason City Thursday while on his- way home from Lake Vermilion, where his family is vacationing. While here Mr.

Long visited Allan F. Beck, member of the board of directors of the association, and other businessmen The proposed change in the budget laws of Iowa which will provide for hearing and adjudication of protests by taxpayers against any contract or budget, is engaging the attention of the organization at present, Mr. Long stated. "The one question we are going to ask every person running for office this fall is whether he is in favor of a law to give taxpayers the right to a hearing and appeal on all budgets and contracts," said Mr. Long.

The law Is almost meeting with the approval of public officials, according to Mr. Long, who stated that they looked upon it as offering them considerable protection against criticism for higher taxes. "Certainly a citizen who fails to join in a protest against a budget at the proper time would be at a distinct disadvantage when he starts criticizing expenditures, particularly as long as they are made within the prescribed limits," he declared. Mr. Long, who formerly edited the Roadmaker, Chicago magazine devoted to the building of roads, visited among others here, Hugh H.

Shepard, former international president of the Jefferson Highway association, and recalled the time he was here for the dedication of the first mile of paving between Mason City and Clear Lake 20 years ago. Laundries make life harder. When a gentleman was idle in the old days, his wife could take in Telegraph-Herald. Injured in Fall Off Horse. AREDALE Dwayne Ayers, 9 year old son of Mr.

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