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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1947
Page
8
Iowa residents can expect showers Friday and Friday night with mild daytime highs 52 Friday falling to 42 at night. Saturday will be cooler around 45 with generally fair conditions Sunday. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph Friday accompany the unsettled spell amid a statewide weather report.
Union carpenters in Dubuque vote a one week postponement of participation in the current building trades strike. Frank Hying, business agent of Carpenter Local 678 AFL, says the group will negotiate with contractors during the next week.
Pay day comes tonight for Iowa National Guardsmen in Cedar Rapids as Captain Ray Murdock announces nearly 1100 dollars in checks for the 35 men and eight officers of Headquarters Company first battalion 133rd infantry. Newest commissioned officer Captain James Crawford will serve as intelligence officer. his appointment was announced in Des Moines by Brigadier General Charles H. Grahl. Crawford is with the law firm Franken Keyes and Crawford and resides at 2316 Country Club Parkway SE. Murdock also lists recent promotions within Headquarters Company including technical sergeants Roy T. Orr Cyrus D. Wilson and technicians fifth grade John D. Manville Wilbur D. Moliman and Charles R. E. Hasek. Privates first class promoted include George W. McCord Charles E. Ruble Chester N. Whitmore and Harold J. Wilson. Headquarters Company was activated November 19 1946.
An army B-25 bomber piloted by Capt. C. W. Grace of Colorado Springs landed at Cedar Rapids municipal airport Wednesday afternoon. He visited his father in law and mother in law, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Davis, 642 Eighteenth avenue SW. Also aboard were Major R. A. Baxter and Sgt. L. Grant. The Colorado Springs flight covered three hours and 10 minutes.
Lewis calls mines death traps and says workers face a six year fatal risk. He cites recent accidents and a high death toll at Centralia, noting 111 deaths and lost output of 160000 tons yearly as veterans warn of a manpower shortage. He questions finding replacements for dying miners.
The Iowa Senate moved six pay raise bills including boosting the governor’s salary from 7500 to 12000 a year and increasing supreme court justices to 10000. Other measures raise district court reporters pay from 12 to 15 a day and adjust Cedar Rapids superior court and municipal court reporter wages. The governor would receive a new salary under a county education jurisdiction bill.
Herman C. Richmann deputy clerk of the U S district court is ill at his home in Marion Illinois with his condition not specified awaiting further word from doctors and family members.
Fireman second class Francis E. Barker son of Mrs Gladys Barker of 713 B avenue NE has been transferred from Pensacola Florida to San Diego California where he will be assigned to sea duty.
Townsend clubs of the Second district plan a Sunday gathering at Pythian hall with a noon dinner and public invitation. John H. Miller will be the speaker.
First Lt Anne B Astrosky daughter of Peter Astrosky of 1126 Ninth Street NW left Korea for the United States after serving nine months as a general duty nurse with the Tist Station hospital in Pusan Korea. A graduate of St Patrick's high school and Mercy hospital school of nursing she was employed as a Cedar Rapids public health nurse for eight months before entering the service.
In the District Court Linn County Iowa notice is given that on April 12 1947 at 9 oclock A M an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament and codicil of Addie J Merrill will come for hearing for proof and admission to probate at the Cedar Rapids Court House Iowa Geo C Claassen attorney presiding judge AR AXMEAR clerking official remarks indicate probate proceedings scheduled with details shown.
John H. Bormann of 1959 Park Avenue SE died Wednesday. Services set for 10 a.m. Monday at Immaculate Conception Church with Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. M. Molloy. Burial in Mt. Calvary cemetery. Knights of Columbus to recite Rosary 9 p.m. Friday at Monahan funeral home. Body to be taken Saturday to the family residence where Msgr. Molloy and the Catholic Order of Foresters will recite the Rosary at 8 p.m. Sunday.
Former Cedar Rapids resident Mrs John Montillon died in a Glen Ellyn Illinois hospital Thursday morning. Services will be held at Turner chapel at 1 30 p m Saturday conducted by Rev H K Galloway of Grande Avenue Presbyterian church. Burial follows in Linwood cemetery. The body arrives Cedar Rapids Saturday morning.
Mrs. Daisy Birch Frenzel of Long Beach California formerly of Cedar Rapids died Tuesday at age no more than twenty. She was a member of Trinity Methodist church. Surviving are her husband a son Alfred and a daughter Margaret all of Long Beach and a nephew Harold Birch of Cedar Rapids. Services will be held in Long Beach.
Funeral services for Joseph Zobach of 1016 Seventh Street SE will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Brosh chapel conducted by Theodore B. Hlubacek. Burial follows at Bohemian National Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel prior to the service.
Roy L. Cook aged pharmacist died at 2 37 p m Wednesday June 3 1873 in Scotland county Missouri after 49 years of service. He worked for G R Drug Company and spent much of his life in Cole Iowa and Cedar Rapids since 1928. He lived with son in law Edward F Kadlee and Mrs Kadlee. Surviving siblings include two sisters Mrs F A Me-
Manis of Winfield Kansas and Mrs. Hailie Stone of Arbela Missouri along with a brother Dr. Clarence P. Cook of Des Moines are noted. He attended the Methodist church and belonged to Columbia Lodge No. 292 A F and A M Colo. A Valparaiso University School of Pharmacy graduate. Turner Chapel service at 10 a.m. Saturday conducted by Rev Merton B Green of St Pauls church. Masonic graveside rites by Cole Lodge at Cole at 1 30 p.m. Saturday. Friends may call at the chapel.
John E. Rosher, born October 12 1881 in Cedar Rapids, veteran of the Spanish American War, died in California. Burial occurred at Inglewood Park Cemetery after services in Los Angeles March 26. He was twice married, first to Ona Spahn and later to Grace Thield. survivors include siblings Ben of Marion Edward of Excelsior Springs and a Compton sister, plus four nieces and four nephews.
Funeral services for Wilmer C. Dake of 727 Fifth Avenue SE, who suffered fatal injuries Sunday when struck by a car in Niles Michigan, will be held at 3 p.m. Friday in the Turner chapel conducted by Rev. Frank H. Ward. Burial follows at Palo Cemetery. Friends may attend.
Lyle J. Nelson age 23 of 500 Fifth Avenue SE pled guilty to attempting to break and enter the Paramount filling station and received a five year suspended sentence to the state reformatory at Anamosa. Richard G. Shields age 21 of 1022 Third Avenue SE pled guilty to breaking and entering and received a suspended ten year sentence. Both men were placed on bench parole by Judge Floyd Philbrick.
In the case Joseph M. Kovar versus Antoinette Kriz a settlement placed a 10 acre tract in Kriz's ownership subject to Kovar's lien of 3500. The suit began February 23, 1946 and related to a divorce from Emma Kriz Kovar granted August 1945 after Kovar alleged his wife had him committed for cruel and inhuman treatment.
LeRoy Wooding aged 32 of 1403 Tenth Street SE was held in the county jail after a Wednesday night arrest for assault with intent to commit great bodily harm. The information was filed by Ruth Pazour of 616 Ninth Avenue SE who says he dragged her into an alley and struck her with a blunt instrument. Earlier, on March 16 Pazour and her husband and Wooding were fined $150 after pleading guilty to drunkenness in police court, following a complaint by Charles Fisher of 616 Ninth Avenue SE about rocks thrown through two windows.
Judge G. K. Thompson granted Joyce L. Wiseman her petition for annulment of her marriage to Donald Wiseman on January 28 in Iowa City. He overruled the defendant's motion to dismiss and ruled the contract voidable because the marriage had been con...
Fragments show a Linn County court action involving a plaintiff and defendant with Judge G K faulting on a supposition of consent from a former wife. Deputy service and an order are referenced as part of the process.
In district court Lillian Brunskill seeks annulment then a divorce from Ram J McClean. Mel Harris filed a separate action on Thursday resulting in a judgment of 68.95 dollars for damages.
Marion Moore of Iowa Injured in a three car collision on Highway No. 3 near Rapids. Palmore, driving a car bound for an auto dealer, swerved suddenly causing the wreck. Moore was taken to Mercy hospital in good condition Thursday.
DES MOINES Iowa three revenue-raising bills were unveiled by the house ways and means committee to fund state aid for schools. The measures would raise cigarette tax from two to three cents a pack, double beer tax from 124 to 248 per barrel, and tax cigaret and beer sales at two percent.
In Des Moines the Iowa House voted 61 to 37 against raising supplemental school aid from one million to two million dollars annually, marking the chamber’s first defeat of a school aid proposal.
The United Nations security council tentatively endorsed keeping permanent U S control of Japan dated Pacific islands including Carolines Marshalls and Marianas. The plan would place the U.S. as administering authority with periodic UN reports on local welfare. Further details remain to be debated.
The statement asserts authority to construct naval and military bases and evacuate the area as needed for security. It notes the move could exclude even United Nations observers from the islands wherever the United States selects.
The court reviewed Costas claims of paying 500 dollars for a chair and Heisman’s dismissal of the allegation. It noted Costas’ concerns the chair would be oversized, including a blueprint held to a wall showing it looked too large. The record shows Costas did not tell Hardy to quit work before 1946 and McHardy proceeded with fitting the chair.
CIO president Allan S. Haywood told Chairman Hartley of the labor committee that his bill to curb a telephone strike by oral injunction amounts to blatant open interference in a labor dispute on the side of employers.
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