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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1943
Page
1
Allan Lamm of Chicago charged with speeding and assessed 15 dollars plus costs. Robert Ilen of 662 Nineteenth Avenue SW cited for running a stop sign with 2 dollars and costs.
Lyle E. Englet of 1397 Fifth Avenue SW cited for drunkenness with $50 and costs. John B. Emery of 1524 Fifth Avenue SE charged for overtime parking with $1 and costs.
Armand Lee Brown of Cedar Rapids and Geo Louise Wilcox of Davenport, Herrman and Jean Andersen, both of Cedar Rapids.
Four civil suits listed including Earl L. Jacobs versus Veolet Jacobs and Ida Kramer versus Gilbert Kramer. Also M. P. Sparling against Mildred Sparling and Joseph J. Hronik against Gladys L. Hronik appear in the docket. Case names indicate domain of family law or property settlement actions before the court.
Mrs. S M McQuiston died Monday at 1722 Park Avenue SE. William Cerveny aged 41 died in a Cedar Rapids hospital on Tuesday. Anders Gustav Lundine died Tuesday at his home 3881 First Avenue SE.
On Monday numerous fires were logged. Incidents included leaves and rubbish at 834 Twentieth street SE, grass fires at 1646 Eleventh street NW Cedar Park Twenty-first avenue and L street SW and Van Vechten park, a garage blaze at 1837 B Avenue NE owned by W L Crissman with general alarm, and a barn fire at 1021 Tenth Street SE owned by George Zavoral with general alarm.
births noted for St Luke's Mercy and Cedar Rapids area families. At St Luke's Mr and Mrs Glen E White report a daughter born April 5. Roger Robertson of Marion has a son born April 5. Raymond Neilson of 1033 Tenth Ave SE and Alvin Wagner of NW report sons born April 6. Elmer W Vick and family welcome a son on April 6 at First Ave SE. Mercy hospital records a daughter for Mr and Mrs John Spore on April 6. Barbara Jeanne Newlin, daughter of Eugene C Newlin of Oak Park Illinois, born April 3 in Michael Reese hospital Chicago. Newlin's former name Jeanne Stookey. David A Wallace of Chicago reports a son David Lynott Wallace born April 5. wife Virginia Lynott is daughter of John H. Lynott.
Hollywood star Lana Turner says she and Crane remarried in Tijuana on March 14 after an earlier annulment. She says she is expecting a child and that Crane, now an Army private, is at Fort MacArthur. Turner notes they kept the marriage quiet for her husband’s sake.
Mrs M A Stebbins of 616 Fourth Avenue SE underwent a minor operation Tuesday at St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids. The Cedar Rapids chapter 194 Order of Ahepa will meet Wednesday at 8 p m at St John's Greek Orthodox church with all members urged to attend Zdenka No 23 will meet Thursday at 2 p m in the C S P S lodge room A social hour and refreshments will follow.
Donald Holsapple 1606 Avenue NE has been called to active duty and assigned to a signal corps school for army radiomen. He was 18 and will report Friday to Camp Crowder. Gordon Sedlacek, son of Major and Mrs. L. B. Sedlacek, is in Fort Screven Ga hospital after an appendectomy. Major Sedlacek has been moved to Fort Shelby Miss, and Mrs. Sedlacek with Gordon and Bob plan to join him.
Lenten services will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church located at First Avenue and Fourteenth Street SW. At 7:45 p.m. the Rev. P. L. Bornhoeft will speak on The Cross and a Full Life.
A three act Easter play titled Where Is the Carpenter Now will be presented at the Sunshine Mission at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The production is by a group of young people from Calvary Baptist Church, not at Calvary church as previously announced in Monday's Gazette.
Judge Harry Johnson spoke Monday to the Canopus club about rising juvenile delinquency in Cedar Rapids and nationwide during the past year. He also cited England's methods for reducing juvenile crime in 1942.
The Linn County Educational Council will convene Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the board of education building. Supt. Arthur Deamer will speak on War and the Future of Teaching. Officers will be elected and delegates to the state meeting in Des Moines chosen.
Cedar Rapids manufacturers and others will hear WPB authorities from Davenport and Chicago outline the WPB controlled materials plan tonight at 7 30 on the second floor of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce. W K Evans regional priorities consultant and William Ogden chief of the Davenport office spoke Tuesday. The plan aims to facilitate movement and utilization of vital production materials in war plants and essential industries.
The Cedar Rapids waterworks department report for March shows 161,491,000 gallons pumped, an average of 5,209,387 gallons daily, using 206,440 kilowatt hours of electricity.
Pleas of innocent were entered Monday at the federal arraignment of Anaconda Wire and Cable company of Marion Indiana on fraud charges. Judge Thomas W Slick had previously set June 1 as the trial date.
Mary Geneva Lake formerly of Cedar Rapids died at 12:53 p.m. Monday at a daughter’s home in Waterloo. She was 78 and widow of Walter Lake, longtime publisher of Arlington News in Arlington Indiana. Surviving daughters include Mrs. Hovey in Waterloo and Mrs. Garrett in Deep River, plus two sons and numerous grandchildren. Services set for 10 a.m. Thursday at Moon chapel with burial at Taylorsville Cemetery.
Anders Gustav Lundine 75 of 3881 First avenue SE died at home at 1:05 a.m. Tuesday after a brief illness. Born Aug. 10, 1867 in Hofva Sweden he came to Cedar Rapids from Delaware Iowa 24 years ago. Survived by wife Ingrid Olson three daughters a sister and two brothers service 3 p.m. Thursday at Turner chapel burial Cedar Memorial park.
Edward B. Hannett of Garretson South Dakota died at 11 p.m. Monday at his daughter’s home 1315 Elmhurst drive northeast after a sudden illness. Born July 5 1884 in Mitchell South Dakota he married Myrtle Mae Brenner June 7 1907. Survived by two daughters Frances M Hannett of Sioux Falls and Mrs Halverson two sons James Wilton Hannett of Seattle and LeRoy Hannett of Oakland three sisters Mary Hawthorne Nelle Tweedy and Bess Hannett and a brother James Hannett all listed from South Dakota Minnesota California and Winner respectively.
Anna Amelia McQuiston 77 widow of S M McQuiston died at her Cedar Rapids home 1722 Park Ave SE at 9 15 p m Monday after a long illness Born March 26 1866 in Cleveland Ohio she came to Cedar Rapids from Wilton Junction 50 years ago Married July 13 1893 to Simon M McQuiston in Cedar Rapids he died in 1937 Burial will be at Wilton with brief services at 3 30 p m Thursday Friends may call at the.
William Cerveny, 39, of 917 Seventeenth Avenue SE, died in the afternoon after a lingering illness. He had lived in Linn County all his life and was employed by Wilson and Company. Survived by his wife and daughter Beverly, his mother Mrs. Kate Cerveny of near Ely, four brothers Mike of Ely, Frank of Cedar Rapids, Joe and Wes of South Omaha, and two sisters Mrs. Monk.
Funeral home advises friends may call Wednesday. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Mrs Otto Bigger aged 65, longtime Cedar Rapids resident, died Thursday in Coldwater Michigan. Funeral services were held Sunday in Quincy Michigan. her husband, a former Cedar Rapids police officer, survives.
Mary Elizabeth Inskeep seven weeks old, daughter of Kenneth and Mrs Inskeep of Marion, died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 12:45 Monday. Born February 13, 1943, she is survived by her parents and other Inskeep relatives in Bloomfield. Body moved from Turner chapel to Bloomfield for services and burial.
Services for Mrs. Nellie F. Dignan of 845 First Avenue SE will be led by Rt. Rev. Msgr. John Molloy at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Immaculate Conception church. Burial follows in Violet cemetery at Perry, SE. The Rosary will be recited by Msgr. Molloy at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Brady mortuary, where friends may call.
Mrs. Fred Allen, former Cedar Rapids resident, died Monday at her home in Ohio Illinois. Survived by four sons Clarence Charles Elmer McGinty of Cedar Rapids and Leonard McGinty of Marshalltown, and two daughters Mrs Ralph Schmidt and Mrs Murphy Ard of Cedar Rapids.
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Dolezal at 2 30 p m Wednesday at the Barta chapel with Rev Zdenek Park of Hus Memorial church officiating. Burial will be at Osk Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Funeral services for Miss Asam Allice Spurgeon of Fairvey Spurgeon will be held at her home in Shellsbirs Sunnay near Shellspur. The Rev. officiating. A burial may follow at Cedar Rap cemetery. Friends may call from 2 p.m. until the time of service.
Services for Zimiri McCalley who died April 2 in Aberdeen South Dakota will be held at the Barta chapel at 3 30 p m Wednesday conducted by Dr Marion H Williams pastor of the First Christian church Burial will be in Walker cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
Decorah grocer Francis J. Becvar, 25, and his wife Betty Jean Becvar, 24, both joined the Navy with Bremer selective service at Camp Dodge. They met as Calmar high school students and have run a Decorah grocery business with Francis’ father Jake for the past year.
The Missouri River lashed a 100 mile front dissolving dikes and flooding low land near Omaha as engineers in Omaha and Council Bluffs prepared for a flood crest of 22 feet expected by day’s end.
Warrant Officer C. R. Hoberock, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Hoberock of 1312 K Street SW, is seriously ill from burns in a naval hospital outside the continental United States. He serves with the Atlantic fleet and is a Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal veteran. He survived the Astoria sinking during a Solomon Islands night engagement last August in which three American heavy cruisers and the Australian Canberra were lost.
The Cedar Rapids forecast calls for a warmer period tonight and Wednesday forenoon with strong winds this afternoon and tonight. The day features a mild night Monday with temps near 39 by 6 to 8 am and notable wind-driven grass fires. Yesterday's high hit 61 with a 53 evening, then a 43 midnight, while humidity hovered around 5 percent.
The aid to dependent children conference committee recommends passage of a bill creating a child age program with no federal grants tied to administrative strings. Senate names LeRoy Mercer and Robert Reilly to the interim committee. The House passes bills to limit beer permits to certain areas and to fix the Missouri River as the Iowa Nebraska boundary. Senate adopts a proclamation request and two conference committee recommendations setting interim committee funding at 600000 and highway commission funding at 5100000.
Tickets reserved for the Elks Minstrel show must be picked up at the Paramount theater box office before 6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, the management announced Tuesday.
Albert A. Slater of Chicago had his petition for reduction and modification of a five year sentence denied. The request, filed in Cedar Rapids, follows his guilty plea in the Factor whisky warehouse receipts case. Slater began serving the term February 6 at Terre Haute prison. Judge Robert C. Bell sentenced him February 2. He is the only defendant to seek sentence modification so far.
Washington observes Army Day in 1943 as pageants give way to war realities. Open houses at camps and posts evolve into images of combat from Africa to the Solomons, with 26 years since Wilson declared war reflecting the nation’s shift from neutral peacetime displays to global fighting fronts. The parade becomes a battlefield match against Germany and the Axis powers, and service flags rise in American homes signaling the wartime mood.
Henry J. Kaiser said he seeks a government contract to build a 175000 pound metal cargo plane with 282 foot wingspan, 65 percent efficiency gain, magnesium content, designed by MIT engineer O A Koeppen. Production location unknown. ready for immediate build.
The navy disclosed that a medium sized United States merchant vessel was torpedoed in the North Atlantic early last month. Thirty four crew members are believed to have perished and 35 others were rescued.
Dwight Krumboltz, chaplain of American Legion Han ford post No. 5, urged business men at the YMCA Lenten luncheon to read the Bible with a purpose to obtain general orders for the day and live by truth mercy justice and goodwill amid calls for higher living.
The Bolivian national defense council welcomed Vice-President Henry A. Wallace to La Paz on Monday and urged the government to declare war on the Axis. Wallace was greeted by about 10,000 Bolivians at the world’s highest airport.
Linn county residents are urged to donate to the 1943 Red Cross war fund by week’s end as drive headquarters in the post office building will close. Executive secretary Mrs Wells C Peck notes only struggling contributions remain. Merit awards go to Cedar Rapids waterworks and street improvement departments for 100 percent cooperation.
Cedar Rapids agencies tied to the war effort received two grants at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. A $2,000 grant to United Service Aids will buy kits for Linn County men inducted. each kit costs $1.50 and replaces gifts at sendoffs and departures. A grant up to $500 funds a three month trial for a county child welfare counseling service to survey childcare needs where both parents work, launched by the Council of Social Agencies.
Cedar Rapids schools surpassed the Red Cross wartime fund quota of 800 by raising 1,211.45. McKinley led with 207.58, Franklin 162, Roosevelt 125, and others contributed similar amounts in a board of education report presented by Superintendent Arthur Deamer on Monday night.
The Linn county rationing board urges trackers to renew gasoline ration books or file. Chief Clerk A. T. Pleune directs applicants to obtain and return certificates, which will be mailed back with coupons as soon as possible.
A London company offered a dismissed worker 2000 pounds a year to stay away from his job, saying the man was a trouble-maker. The action involved an order to reinstate the employee.
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