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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1943
Page
11
Temperatures listed for Cedar Rapids Des Moines Bismarck New York Chicago Omaha Davenport Sioux City and others show miscoded data. The fragment also includes a divorce decree notice naming Olivine Kohl and LeRoy A. Kohl.
Allan Lamm of Chicago cited for speeding with $15 and costs due. Robert Ilen of 662 Nineteenth Avenue SW cited for running a stop sign with $2 and costs.
Lyle E. Englet of 1897 Fifth avenue SW fined $50 and costs for drunkenness. John B. Emery of 1524 Fifth avenue SE fined $1 and costs for overtime parking.
Armand Lee Brown of Cedar Rapids and Georgia Louise Wilcox of Davenport, Eldon Herrman and Jean Andersen, both of Cedar Rapids.
Five separate suits listed include Earl L. Jacobs versus Veolet Jacobs Ida Kramer versus Gilbert Kramer M P Sparling versus Mildred Sparling and Joseph J Hronik versus Gladys L Hronik.
Obituaries note deaths of Mrs S M McQuiston in Cedar Rapids and others in area. Fire briefs list grass fires and fires at garages barns and a bonfire incident, with locations including Twenty-first avenue and L street SW and 1837 B avenue NE. Family birth announcements include multiple April arrivals at St Luke's Mercy and other area homes. Major Burkhalter of Fort Francis E Warren reported a son at pore hospital.
Lana Turner confirms she and Stephen Crane remarried in Tijuana on March 14 after an annulment last month. She had planned secrecy for their union and says Crane is now an army private with a baby due around July 20.
City briefs report Mrs. M A Stebbins undergoing minor surgery at St Luke's hospital. Local fraternal and church groups meet including Or der of Ahepa Cedar Rapids chapter 194 at St Johns Greek Orthodox church and Zdenka Havlicek lodge No 23 in the C S P S lodgeroom with social hour. Donald Holsapple called to active duty for army radiomen at Camp Crowder. Major Sedlacek and family in Fort Screven hospital with Gordon undergoing appendectomy. plans to join later. Trinity Lutheran Lenten services. Easter play at Sunshine Mission correcting prior misannouncement.
Judge Harry Johnson told Canopus club members on Monday about rising juvenile delinquency in Cedar Rapids and nationwide over the past year. He compared this to England’s crime reduction methods in 1942.
The Linn County Educational Council meets 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 Des Moines meeting 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 Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce second floor. W K Evans and William Ogden spoke to purchasing agents at a noon meeting Tuesday. The plan aims to facilitate movements and use of vital production materials in war plants and essential industries.
March report from the Cedar Rapids waterworks shows 161 491 000 gallons pumped, an average of 5 209 387 gallons per day, using 206 440 kilowatt hours of electricity.
Pleas of innocent were entered Monday at a federal court arraignment in Fort Wayne Indiana for Anaconda Wire and Cable company of Marion and five personnel charged with fraud. Judge Thomas W. Slick set June 1 as the trial date.
Mary Geneva Lake 78 longtime Cedar Rapids resident and widow of Walter Lake who published the Arlington News in Iowa died at 12 53 p m Monday at a daughter s home in Waterloo Born April 17 1864 she married Walter Lake March 9 1884 The couple retired to Cedar Rapids in 1929 later lived in Waterloo and had four daughters two sons fifteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren Services will be held Thursday at 10 a m in Moon chapel with burial at Taylorsville cemetery Arlington. burial follows in Taylorsville cemetery Arlington.
Anders Gustav Lundine 75 of 3881 First avenue SE Cedar Rapids died at his home at 1 05 a m Tuesday after a brief illness He was born Aug 10 1867 in Hofva Sweden and came to Cedar Rapids from Delaware Iowa 24 years ago He is survived by his wife Ingrid Olson three daughters three sons a sister two brothers and three grandchildren Services will be at 3 p m Thursday at Turner chapel with burial in Cedar Memorial park Friends may call at the chapel
Edward B Hannett of Garretson South Dakota died at 11 p m Monday at his daughter Mrs Hal Halversons home 1315 Elmhurst Drive NE after a sudden illness He was born July 5 1884 in Mitchell SD married Myrtle Mae Brenner on June 7 1907 He leaves two daughters Frances Hannett of Sioux Falls and Mrs Halverson two sons James Wilton Hannett of Seattle and LeRoy Bernard Hannett of Oakland three sisters Mary Hawthorne Nelle Tweedy Bess Hannett a brother James Hannett and two grandchildren Funeral arrangements to be announced with callers welcome at Turner chapel
Anna Amelia McQuiston 177 widow of S M McQuiston died at 1722 Park avenue SE at 9 15 pm after a long illness She was born March 26 1866 in Cleveland Ohio came to Cedar Rapids from Wilton Junction 50 years ago She married Simon M McQuiston July 13 1893 in Cedar Rapids He died in 1937 She leaves daughter Stella Ruth Longaker and son Carl George McQuiston both of Cedar Rapids She was a member of First Christian Church Services in Turner chapel Thursday at 1 pm conducted by Dr Marion H Williams Burial at Wilton with grave services at 3 30 pm Friends may call at the funeral home.
William Cerveny 39 of 917 Seventeenth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids died Tuesday afternoon in a local hospital after a long illness. He lived in Linn County all his life and worked for Wilson and Company. Survived by wife Beverly a daughter, mother Mrs Kate Cerveny of near Ely four brothers Mike Ely Frank Cedar Rapids and Joe Wes South Dakota and two sisters Mrs Joseph Portal and Mrs Lee Osborn Cedar Rapids. Body at Polansky funeral home.
Funeral home announces that friends may call on Wednesday. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the family or funeral director.
Services for Mrs Otto Bigger 65 a former Cedar Rapids resident were held Sunday in Quincy Michigan. She died Thursday April 1 in Coldwater Michigan. Survived by husband a former Cedar Rapids police member three brothers Frank Krsek Portland James Krsek Garrison and Joe Krsek Jackson and sister Mrs C Tatman Monrovia California.
Mary Elizabeth Inskeep seven weeks old daughter of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Inskeep route 3 Marion died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 12 45 pm Monday. Born February 13, 1943 she is survived by her parents and grandparents Mr and Mrs Guy Sheets and Mr and Mrs W P Inskeep Bloomfield. Body moved from Turner chapel Monday to Bloomfield for services and burial.
Services for Mrs. Nellie F Dignan of 845 First Avenue SE will be conducted by Rt. Rev. Msgr. John Molloy at 9 a.m. Wednesday at Immaculate Conception church. Burial is planned in Violet Cemetery at Perry Iowa. The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Brady Mortuary, where friends may call.
Mrs. McGinty, former Cedar Rapids resident, died Monday at her home in Ohio. Survived by four sons Clarence Charles Elmer McGinty of Cedar Rapids and Leonard McGinty of Marshalltown. two daughters Mrs Ralph Schmidt and Mrs Murphy Ard of Cedar Rapids.
Services for Mrs Mary Dolezal of 903 Tenth Street SE will be held at Barta chapel at 2 30 p m Wednesday with the Rev Zdenek F Pauk of Hus Memorial church officiating. Burial is in Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Funeral services for Mrs Adam Allice Spurgeon 82 wife of Harvey Spurgeon who died at her Shellsburg home will be held at Parkers Grove church near Shellsburg at 2 p.m. Wednesday with Rev C E Bryden officiating burial in Parkers Grove cemetery friends may call at Turner chapel Cedar Rapids until 11 a.m.
McCalley died April 2 at Aberdeen Ss. D. Funeral services at 3 30 p m Wednesday in the Barta chapel conducted by Dr Marion H Williams pastor of the First Christian church Burial will be in Walker cemetery
Francis J. Bevar aged 25 decorah grocer was sworn into the navy at Camp Dodge while his wife Betty Jean 24 enlisted as a Spars. She said it was his idea and they chose to serve together. The couple met in Calmar Iowa high school and have run the family grocery with Bevar’s father Jake for a year.
The Missouri River breached dikes and flooded low land homes along a 100 mile stretch above Omaha. Officials in Omaha and Council Bluffs moved to shield property as a flood crest neared 22 feet with gains seen through the week.
Warrant Officer Homer Hoberock son of Mr and Mrs H A Hoberock 1312 K street SW is seriously ill of burns in a naval hospital outside the continental United States The Atlantic fleet he serves with includes a veteran of Pearl Harbor the Coral Sea Midway and Guadalcanal He survived the sinking of the heavy cruiser Astoria in the Solomons last August during a night engagement in which three American heavy cruisers and the Australian cruiser Canberra were lost
Cedar Rapids and vicinity expect warmer conditions this afternoon tonight and Wednesday morning with fresh to strong winds. Grass fires fanned by high winds caused smoke issues for Havelock Ellis though temp swings were modest from 39 to 61 degrees.
Conference committee favors passage of a bill to create a child age program with no federal grant strings. Senate names LeRoy Mercer and Robert Reilly as interim committee members. Bills passed allow cities to restrict beer permits to specific areas and establish Missouri River as the final boundary between Iowa and Nebraska with Carter Lake staying in Iowa. Senate adopts proclamation urging rural business hours for farmers and approves two conference committee recommendations fixing interim committee funding at 600000 and highway commission funding at 5100000.
Tickets reserved for the Elks Minstrel show on Wednesday and Thursday must be picked up at the Paramount theater box office before 6 p.m., the management announced Tuesday.
Albert A. Slater of Chicago had his petition for reduction and modification of a five year sentence denied. He began serving February 6 at Terre Haute penitentiary after pleading guilty in the Factor whisky warehouse receipts case. A $1000 fine was imposed and Judge John W. Delehant signed the order in Cedar Rapids.
Washington AP notes Army Day once showcased peacetime pageants but 26 years after Wilson’s war declaration the nation marks it with real war effort. Open houses now occur from Africa to the Solomons as US forces face Germany Italy and Japan, turning the parade into a global military mobilization.
Henry J. Kaiser said he seeks a government contract to build a 175 000 pound metal cargo plane slightly lighter than a Mars design. Designed by O A Koppen with MIT ties the aircraft features magnesium heavy construction and a 282 foot wing span promising 65 percent greater efficiency than comparable planes. Kaiser offered immediate production but did not name a building site.
The navy disclosed that a medium sized United States merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine in the North Atlantic early last month. Thirty four crew members are believed to have perished and 35 others were rescued.
Dwight Krumboltz of American Legion Han ford post No. 5 told YMCA luncheon attendees to read the Bible for daily orders and then act on them. He warned that diluted Christianity loses quality but urged truth mercy justice and goodwill as the path to higher living.
The Bolivian defense council welcomed Vice President Henry A. Wallace to La Paz by urging the government to declare war on the Axis. Wallace was greeted at the world’s highest airport by 10,000 cheering Bolivians.
Linn county drives for the 1943 Red Cross war fund must end this week. Executive secretary Mrs. Wells C. Peck warned that only struggling contributions were arriving. Merit awards went to Cedar Rapids waterworks and street department for 100 percent employee cooperation.
Two Cedar Rapids agencies received funding from the United War Fund by the war appeals coordinating committee at the Chamber of Commerce. A $2,000 grant to United Service Aids will buy kits for Linn county men inducted for service, and a separate grant up to $50 backs a county child welfare counseling service for a three month trial to survey child card needs where both parents work.
Cedar Rapids schools surpassed the Red Cross war fund quota of 800 by more than 50 percent, with total contributions reaching 1,211.45. McKinley led the list with 207.58, Franklin donated 162, and Roosevelt 125.
Linn county rationing board chief clerk A T Pleune urged truckers renewing gasoline ration books to submit Office Defense Transportation certificates of war necessity. Certificates will be mailed back with coupons to applicants as soon as possible.
A Manchester firm was fined 21 for defying a labor ministry order to reinstate a dismissed worker. The firm offered the employee 2000 to stay away, calling him a trouble-maker.
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