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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1947
Page
14
Naomi Doebel reports more than two thousand visitors attended Smulekoff’s Homes for Today miniature exhibit and Better Homes and Gardens line show. Forty room scenes ranged from basement kitchens to fourth floor living areas as crowds toured models through April 26.
Orval R. Segriff a 43 year old of 1101 Nineteenth Avenue SW pled guilty to drunkenness and disturbing the peace receiving a $25 fine plus costs. He was arrested Saturday night on an information signed by his son charging him with beating his wife and causing facial and arm bruises.
Film writer Alan Campbell said he is establishing residence in Las Vegas to divorce humorist Dorothy Parker. He cited a wartime separation that had made them strangers.
Two Roosevelt students Hilda Greenberg and Edward Hutchings earned superior ratings at the Iowa Forensic League meet in Iowa City. Greenberg, a senior, topped the interpretive division with the highest composite score and earned superior in prepared and extemporaneous speeches. Hutchings, a junior, received superior on his prepared speech and placed fourth overall in composite.
Patricia Schmidt 21 of Toledo was to be charged with homicide over the fatal shooting of John Lester Mee 33 Chicago attorney aboard the yacht Saura in Havana harbor Mee a former navy torpedo boat commander was shot in the cabin Mee and Charles Jackson 27 River Forest Ill owned the yacht and had been living aboard after a quarrel during which Mee told Jackson to remove the dancer Laura the Exotic Dancer.
J. J. Hart United Air Lines postal operations supervisor will address the High Twelve club at a noon meeting Friday in the Roosevelt hotel. Marion Williams chairs the club. Hart travels from Chicago to confer with Cedar Rapids post office officials on airmail operations for the United service inauguration on April 27.
Keith Albin and Dale Payton of Central City and 2113 Fifth Avenue Marion were fined $40 and costs each after pleading guilty in traffic court to reckless driving. Police clocked their two cars at 64 mph on First Avenue East between Twenty first and Sixteenth streets early Monday.
Dr Jesse Edward Hobson director of the Armour Research Foundation and IIT professor will speak to the Cedar Rapids IRE Tuesday night April 15 at 7 30 in the YMCA Little theatre on Research Developments In magnetic Recording on Wire Tape and Motion Picture Film A demonstration with a dictating machine portable tape recorder and 16 mm film will be shown Kemp Armour Research Foundation engineering adviser will join the program Officials urge full attendance and guests.
George McCarten of Dubuque, president of the Iowa Master Plumbers Association, warned at the Des Moines convention that the plumbing trade will face a labor shortage for the next three to five years. He noted manufacturers run well above pre war output yet cannot meet demand and plumbers in many Iowa cities reject one to five jobs daily as about 300 delegates gather for the meeting in Des Moines.
In Moscow, a growing note of impatience surrounds the stalled talks between Secretary of State Marshall and Joseph Stalin. After 35 days, Marshall has not been invited. British and French ministers have visited the Kremlin while Marshall waits, amid debate over Truman's Greek Turkish aid and Wallace's potential visit, with Russians watching public opinion closely.
Police Tuesday sought a hit and run driver after a Sunday crash on First Avenue near Memorial Cemetery. Robert Finch of 1003 Second Street SW ARced rolled over twice. passengers were treated for minor injuries at St. Luke's. Witness John Goode of 820 Second Avenue SE helped to the hospital.
Pittsburgh AP reports full resumption of soft coal production after John L. Lewis ends safety shutdowns but a June 30 strike threat remains. Government control ends unless Congress acts, as miners refuse to accept private ownership without a new contract to replace the government regime.
DES MOINES AP reports the Iowa House approved a bill to raise salaries for future legislators after prior attempts stalled in the Senate. The plan would boost per session pay from 1 000 to 1 500 for lawmakers and raise lieutenant governor and speaker salaries from 2 000 to 3 000. Since lawmakers cannot raise their own pay, the change would apply mainly to next session, with holdover senators affected only if reelected.
Thelma Trimble, Roosevelt senior, has learned her poem Souls in Spring was published in Scholastic. Seven Roosevelt students will have poems in Antrology of High School Poetry next year. Names include Hilda Green-Vavra, Jean Workman, Mervin Jeece Comley, and Jane. Submissions were prepared at the high school by Missyrey and Miss Esther Apin.
A large turkey house on the Henry Grunewald Sr. farm near Blairstown was destroyed by fire on Monday. The building normally housed several thousand birds and the cause was under investigation.
University of Iowa President Virgil M. Hancher characterized Church of England pastor Rev Brian Green’s statements that U.S. students moral standards are deplorable as sweeping generalizations. He said Green had no data and spoke after a brief campus visit during Religion in Life week February 9 15 1947.
Dr. Malcolm Price and Dr. Vernon Boedein condemned Rev. Brian Green after his remarks. They said Green showed bad judgment and had only limited personal contact with students during his week long visit, noting his praise for the college and its students was inconsistent.
Carl Warmington of Madison directing the Cedar Rapids welfare survey will report on progress at a public welfare meeting Tuesday noon at the Montrose hotel. A final report is not expected before June. A trust fund committee report is also on the agenda, with L. P. Boudreaux presiding and Edwin Evans as committee chairman.
The Dairy Dale Church will show The God of Creation a full color science documentary at 7 30 p m Wednesday at Dairy Dale Community Center Mt Vernon Road and Thirty fourth Street Rev A Timothy Starr pastor The Moody Institute of Science production by Irwin A Moon is the second evangelistic film in the series Rev Philip LaRue Moody representative will present the movie.
Mrs John Deal of Fort Dodge died Monday in the Kossuth hospital from injuries suffered in a head on collision Saturday night Five others were injured and in hospital or in fair condition Deal's husband was in the most serious condition Doctors said all suffered brain concussions and trauma resulting from the crash
The narrator laments society pages drawing deep interest to weddings and social detail, recounting travels and editorials about brides, gowns, and heirloom customs. He jokes about preferring era old attire and imagines a wedding featuring Schuyler Van Moving Van the fifth tugging a tie that endangered his grandfather.
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