Pairings and Obituaries in Cedar Rapids Area Notices
Marriage licenses issued to Ersel E Law and Josephine B Diouhy both of Cedar Rapids. George E Ring died Sunday at his home 916 G Avenue NW. Rudolph B Vavra died Sunday at 1700 Fifteenth Avenue SE. Mrs Robert Fuller 1438 Third Street NW died in an Iowa City hospital Sunday at 11 36 a m. Fire in a bale of rags on Seventh Avenue between Second and Third SE caused by spontaneous combustion. Damage confined to the bale. Still alarm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ersel E. Law
Josephine B. Diouhy
Cedar Rapids
George E Ring
G Avenue
Rudolph B. Vavra
Fifteenth Avenue
Robert Fuller
Third Street
Iowa City
Seventh Avenue
Second and
Same
Local Court Notices and Birth Announcements Mixed
A list of court fines for drunkenness speeding overtime parking and improper parking with names and addresses. Also multiple birth announcements dated April 17 and 18 from St Luke's Mercy and University Hospital Iowa City noting newborns with parents and locations. Spacek listed with an erapenee division at Stockton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Luke's
Frank C. Decious
Vernon
Dallas P. Meinert
Keystone
Charles Lang
Glass Road
Morris
Toddville
Warren Walters
Eleventh Street
Mercey
J.g
V. O. Hasek
Twelfth Street
Paul Cramer
Sixth Avenue
Claude Kahley
Archer Avenue
Charles A. Jeffries
Seventeenth Street
Pfe
John W. Spacek
Seventh Street
University Hospital
Iowa City
Spacek
Stockton
Lend-Lease Sends 126000 Tons Food Aid to North Africa
Lend-Lease head Edward R. Stettinius Jr reports 126,184 tons of food clothing medicines and other necessities shipped to North Africa in the first four months of Allied occupation. Britain sent over 350000 tons of coal plus other civilian supplies valued at about 26.25 million dollars, including 200 tons of seeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
North Africa
United Nations
Great Britain
Norris urges peace over revenge in postwar writing
Valparaiso Indiana dispatch reports former Senator George W Norris of Nebraska advocates steering away from revenge in shaping the postwar peace. He urges compromise with enemies, emphasizing a spirit akin to the Good Samaritan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norris Valparaiso
Ind
George W. Norris
Nebraska
Good Samaritan
Gazette Suppresses News Wire Charges
The Cedar Rapids Gazette lists its affiliations with Associated Press United Press International and wire service subscriptions. It notes delivery options and rates for various editions and regions while acknowledging reprinting rights and corporate advertising partners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Gazette
John LL Miller
Parry
Associated Press
United Press International News Service
Honor System On Driving Is Rated Failure
The Office of Price Administration banned extra gasoline rations for summer commuters in the eastern shortage area. A new order ends pleasure driving, halts non-occupational boating, and curbs vacations and hotel travel to conserve supplies. Statistics show traffic fell after the ban but later rose, signaling the honor system’s failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Public Roads Administration
Price
Prentiss M. Brown
Leon Henderson
Brown
Delaware River
Philadelphia
Roads Administration
Merrit Parkway
New York-Connecticut Line
Allied forces press Tunisian front as air supremacy grows
Allied reports say Allied troops advanced Saturday near Enfidaville with more prisoners taken amid ongoing patrol actions. Spaatz announced Allied air superiority since Mareth line fighting began, detailing 519 Axis planes shot down since March 20 and extensive bombing of Tunisian Sicilian ports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eighth Army
Enfidaville
Bizerte
Tunis
Sicilian
Palermo
Royal Navy
Gulf of Tunis
Carl Spaatz
Northwest Africa
Spaatz
Tunisia
Sicily
Sardinia
Italy
Luftwaffe
Axis
Coe Student to Represent Iowa at Interstate Speech Tourney
Grace Douma a Coe college student from Ottumwa will represent Iowa in the women's oratorical division at the Interstate Oratorical Association tournament on the Northwestern University campus in Evanston Illinois on April 22. Eleven Midwestern states will send speech students to the event. Douma earned a superior rating in oratory at the state forensic contest in Oskaloosa in March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Douma
Coe College
Ottumwa
Iowa
Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill
Miss Douma
Oskaloosa
No Action by Council To Fill Kosek Vacancy
The city council, required to fill the Parks Commissioner vacancy from Charles Kosek's death, did not name a successor. Mayor Frank Hahn said four applications were filed and more are expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kosek
Charles Kosek
Frank Hahn
Leo Sedlacek Gets Command Aind Promotion
Col. Leo Sedlacek previously stationed at Fort Scriven Georgia is named commanding officer of the hospital station at Camp Shelby Mississippi and promoted to lieutenant colonel. He has served since before Pearl Harbor. His wife and sons will stay at Fort Scriven until school ends. Three brothers and a son in service are listed among his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo B Sedlacek
Fort Scriven
Camp Shelby
Miss
Cedar Rapids
National Guard
Col. Sedlacek
Pearl Harbor
Richard
Coe College
Eighth Street
Joe Sedlacek
Joe Mach
Eighth Avenue
Milo
Lumir Sedlacek
Ensign Wilem. Sedlacek
Cambridge
Jap Troops Give Up For Jeep Rides Charade
U.S. Marine corporal Ersater Johnson from Basile Louisiana reports Japanese soldiers surrendered to get jeep rides on Guadalcanal The exchange included a Jap in a marine uniform posing as a sniper and being transported to a concentration camp in a jeep Johnson is recovering from December wounds at a naval hospital
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ty Surgt
Charles J. Glueson
U.S. Marine Coron Combat Correap
United Press
San Francisco
Ersater Johnson
U.S M.C
Basile
Guadalcanal
Johnson
Naval
White Sees Nazis Beaten Early in ’46
William Allen White, editor of the Gazette, predicts the United Nations will sign a Germany armistice at 11 am on February 9, 1946. The forecast kicks off a “time for victory” campaign by a New York firm that offers $2,500 in war bonds to the closest guess, with purchases of war savings stamps required.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William Allen White
Emporia
Kan ) Gazette
United Nations
Germany
Treasury Department
White
Gerany
Fischer Renames Department Heads in Des Moines
Karl Fischer reappoints three state department heads. Clint Knee leads the highway patrol, R W Nethergall heads the town bureau of criminal investigation, and John W Strohm remains state fire marshal. Salaries cited at 3200, 3600, and 3000 dollars respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Karl Fischer
Twelve Dixie felons still free after Ga prison break
In Reidsville Georgia a road blockade at Soperton reduced the number at large from Friday's prison escape to twelve. Six more desperadoes were captured, but leaders remain at large as the manhunt continues across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reidsville
Soperton
Gas Rationing Seen If Rubber Remains Scarce
Washington dispatch reports Chairman Wright Patman of the House small business committee predicts petroleum shortages could keep gasoline rationing in effect long after rubber is no longer scarce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wright Patman
Texas
House
Small Business Committee
British Link Trawler Sinks Enemy Trawler Off Dutch Coast
Light British coastal forces under Lieut. Peter Dickens torpedoed and sank an enemy trawler off the Dutch coast Sunday, the admiralty said Monday. Dickens is the great grandson of novelist Charles Dickens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Peter Dickens
Charles Dickens
Admiralty
Hopes of Tax Get-Together Strike a Snag
Washington broadcast reports show a near agreement among house ways and means leaders on a pay-as-you-go tax plan, offering 50 percent forgiveness but facing opposition from Republicans and Democrats. The plan would cost taxpayers more in years ahead, as forgiven taxes would still be paid off over time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Carlson-Ruml
Ways and Means
Doughton
D-N. C
Deaths George E Ring 73 longtime Cedar Rapids hardware man
George E Ring 73 a Cedar Rapids hardware merchant for over 40 years died at 6 45 pm Sunday at his home 916 G avenue NW after a brief illness Born April 14 1870 in Herkimer NY he had lived in Cedar Rapids 45 years He is survived by wife Lucy McCune two daughters Vida Machovee and Laura Jean Ring a granddaughter Phyllis Machovee two brothers and three sisters Funeral services will be at Brady mortuary at 2 pm Wednesday burial in Linwood cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E Ring
F Avenue NW
G Avenue NW
Herkimer
Cedar Rapids
Phyllis Machovee
L. J. Ring
Silvo Ring
North Liberty
Elizabeth Lane
Gonzales
Texas
Louis Beltz
Solon
Mary Brogan
Brady Mortuary
Linwood Cemetery
Tanner Rites Tuesday
Services for Merl E. Tanner 54 of 610 Thirty fourth Street NE who died Saturday in a Town City hospital will be conducted Tuesday at 2 pm in the Tanner chapel by Rev Charles E. Bridges pastor of Kenwood Presbyterian Church of which Mr Tanner was a member Burial will be at Palo
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merl E. Tanner
Thirtyfourth Street
Town City
Tanner Chapel
Charles E. Bridges
Kenwood Presbyterian Church
Tanner
Palo
Mrs. Anna Fuller Dies After Illness in Iowa City
Mrs. Anna Fuller wife of Robert Fuller of 1438 Third Street NW died in an Iowa City hospital at 9 a.m. Sunday after a long illness She was a member of the Mt Vernon Baptist church and Oak Leaf chapter No 5 O E S Surviving besides her husband is a brother Will Hoskins of Memphis Tenn Services will be held at Mt Vernon Baptist church at 2 30 p.m. Wednesday with the Rev D O Bell Burial will be in Linwood cemetery Friends may call at the Rice funeral home
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Fuller
Robert Fuller
Third Street NW
Iowa City
Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
Oak Leaf Chapter No. 5
E.S
Will Hoskins
Memphis
Death of Rudolph Vavra 61 Cedar Rapids Resident
Rudolph B Vavra 61 of 1700 Fifteenth avenue SEE died at his home at 8 p m Sunday after a long illness He was born in Czechoslovakia April 10 1882 and came to Cedar Rapids 32 years ago Surviving are his wife Elizabeth two sisters Mrs Frank Lokota and Mrs Frank Stoklasa both of Cedar Rapids Services will be held at the Polansky chapel at a time to be announced later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph B. Vavra
Fifteenth Avenue
See
Czechoslovakia
Cedar Rapids
Elizabeth
Frank Loukota
Frank Stoklasa
Polansky Chapel
Funeral services set for William D Hepner in Lincoln
William D Hepner, 2601 J street SW, dies Saturday. Services at Beatty mortuary at 2 p.m. Tuesday conducted by Rev. Merton B Green of Kenwood Park Methodist church. Pallbearers from Carpet and Linoleum Layers union Local 1057. Friends may call at the chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William D. Hepner
J Street
Beatty Mortuary
Merton B. Green
Kenwood Park Methodist Church
WPB restricts sale of permanent anti-freeze for civilians
War Production board on Monday prohibited sale of permanent type anti-freeze solutions containing ethylene glycol for use in civilian passenger autos station wagons and taxicabs. The order aims to restrict this anti-freeze to commercial vehicles and stationary engines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Production Board
WPB
City restricts water supply to residents with private hauling option
Finance Commissioner Burgus states the city will not furnish water to property owners. residents must rely on home reservoirs or private truckers. Williams notes past delivery costs exceed charges. Extending city mains to Westwood would cost about 80,000 dollars with limited benefiting families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. D. Burgus
Burgus
Williams
Westwood
Colder Tonight After Brief Rain and Snow Flurry
Colder tonight with a trace of rain and snow in Cedar Rapids area. Temperatures may drop to 24 degrees Tuesday morning with strong winds. light snow flurries followed a chill rain, and inland areas report cool, dry air tonight. Decorah recorded an inch of snow last night as the region braces for continued cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Havelock Ellis
Havelock
Adolf Hitler
Chambers
Decorah
Supreme Court Broadly Interprets Impersonation Ban
The Supreme Court in a 7-1 decision holds that a statute prohibiting impersonating a federal officer with intent to defraud covers those who use deceit to induce a victim to pursue a chosen course. Justice Black wrote the opinion reversing a St. Louis district court dismissal of an indictment against two men falsely posing as FBI agents. The court also agreed to review a wage dispute injunction involving railroad workers and denied review of a Chicago area railway reorganization plan approved by the ICC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Justice Black
Federal District Court
St. Louis
FBI
Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad
Quincy
Ill
Federal Circuit Court
Chicago
Chicago and North Western Railway Company
ICC
Monty Wins Bet Gets a Fortress
In a London dispatch from Sousse the Daily Express reports General Bernard Montgomery received an American Flying Fortress with crew after his Eighth Army captured Sfax four days before the April 15 deadline. Montgomery joked with American generals who pledged any gift for success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
INL
Sir Bernard Montgomery
Eighth
Sfax
The
Daily Express
Sousse
Monty
Montgomery
Lions Sponsor Cedar Rapids Victory Garden
The Cedar Rapids Lions Club rents half an acre at Oakland Road and Thirty second Street NE as its first service club victory garden. Vegetables will be sold for charity with proceeds kept by charitable organizations. Six plots will be assigned to team captains and the plot will be planted by week’s end. Picnics are planned on the garden edge during summer working hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oakland Road
Thirty-second
Lions Club
Lions
Cedar Rapids
Men and Women In Service Brief Army Navy Coast Guard
Robert W. Cizek son of John and Mary Gipe is promoted from corporal to technician fourth grade at Camp Dodge. Genevieve J. Balik swore into the Waves April 14 at Des Moines and awaits active duty. Bob Kroupa returns to Camp Chaffee after furlough. Bernhardt Kraus promoted to sergeant at Camp McCoy. Ensign Jane Downer Navy nurse corps stationed at Great Lakes naval hospital. Charles Popelka returns to Dodge City base after home furlough. Aviation student Charles Edward Miller taking Army Air Forces instruction at Michigan State. Jack Walters transferred to East Lansing for AAF instruction. former Coe College student. Pfc. Lamir Pisney leaves Camp Butner after furlough. Clarence E. Dillon promoted to private first class. to radio school in Madison. Robert McAllister attends naval radio school. visits family in Madison. Richard L. Brown transferred from Jefferson Barracks to Aircrew training detachment in Moorhead Minnesota. Melvin Frame at Camp Hood on furlough. brother Kenneth Frame to army service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Lamb Hospital
Clinton
Roy R. Downer
Fifteenth Street
Charles Popelka
Dodge City
Kan
John Popelka
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Charles Edward Miller
G. W. Miller
Twelfth Street
Army Air Forces
Michigan State College
East Lansing
John B
Jack” Walters
C. A. Kendall
First Avenue SE
Jefferson Barracks
Mich
Walters
Coe College
Lamir Pisney
A. J Pisney
Otis Road
Camp Butner
Clarence E. Dillon
J. P. Dillon
Twenty-seventh Avenue
Madison, Wis
Robert McAllister
Naval Radio School
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Emma McAllister
First Avenue
William Lana
Greene Avenue NE
Theron Smith
F Avenue
Richard L. Brown
H. B. Brown
Fifth Avenue
Minnesota State Teachers College
Moorhead
Pfe
Melvin Frame
Camp Hood
Texas
John Frame
Second Street
Kenneth Frame
Boy Burned by Boiling Water in Coffee Maker Accident
Four year old Billy Cummins son of Mr and Mrs Dewey Cummins of 389 Seventeenth Street SE suffered second degree burns when a coffee maker overturned Sunday evening. He was treated at St Luke's hospital for burns on the chin neck hands arms chest and abdomen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Cummins
Dewey H. Cummins
Seventeenth Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
Welder Sentenced for Ship Sabotage in War Work
Baltimore AP reports a 20 year old ship yard welder among ten arrested for sabotaging ships by defective welding. He received one and a half years in prison as a judge warned war workers to realize the importance of their duties. Federal prosecutors said it may be the first conviction of its kind in the nation. George Steele was previously convicted for improperly welding 660 inches of ship steel at Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard Inc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
George Steele
Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard, Inc
Shores Company Case Dismissed By Judge Scott
Federal Judge George C. Scott signed an order dismissing a civil suit against The Shores company, the Shores Mueller company and four Cedar Rapids men. Costs taxed to plaintiffs. Plaintiffs include Thomas Liken and others. Defendants include Van Vechten Shaffer and Don Barnes. The court said issues were adjudged earlier or time barred by Town statutes of limitations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George C. Scott
Shores Company
Old Shores Mueller Company
Cedar Rapids
Thomas Liken
Dorothy Brauer
Grace L. Nystron
Lorraine Wilson
Huldah Diekmann
Lyn J. Hedin
M. J. Hedin
van Vechten Shaffer
Don Barnes
Arthur Barlow
Frank Byers
The
Shores Mueller Company
Te Shores Company
Baby Falls From Fire Yet Saved By Taxi Driver
In Boston a infant girl was tossed from a fourth story burning tenement and caught by taxi driver James Carrabis who saw the blaze. The child survived while her brother, grandfather, and grandmother died and other family members were injured as flames claimed three lives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Connie Sabbie
Ann
James Carrabis
Motorist Fined $50 on Reckless Driving Charge
Co. E. Stuff, 58, of 322 Second Avenue SW, was fined $50 and costs by Police Judge Harry S. Johnson after pleading guilty to reckless driving. Stuff was arrested by Patrolmen Claude Fellwock and Jerry Zenishek for erratic driving on Third Street between Second and Third Avenues SE Sunday night. He had a $25 fine on a similar charge last January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. E. Stuff
Second Avenue SW
Harry S. Johnson
Stuff
Claude Fellwock
Jerry Zenishek
Third Street
Second and
Third Avenues
Press Gag Called Prime War Cause
General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press urged militant leadership by the American press to win guarantees of freedom of world news at the next peace conference, blaming press suppression and control as a primary cause of wars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
Kent Cooper
Associated Press
How Much Do War Planes Cost This War Bond Item
The treasury department fixes costs for second war loan fighter and bomber purchases to gauge conditional contributions. Prices exclude fully equipped aircraft. bombers have government gear. Budget figures show trainer at 15,000. fighter at 75,000. two motor bomber at 175,000. four motor bomber at 300,000, Linn County aims for 12 four-motor bombers and 15 fighters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury Department
Linn County
De Gaulle Giraud Peace Prospects Improve in Allied France
Radio Algiers said Gen Georges Catroux returned to Algiers to renew talks with Gen Henri Giraud. Proposals from De Gaulle's French national committee narrowed disputes to two issues: the structure of a unified interim administration and the transition plan to a permanent elected government after liberation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Charles de Gaulle
Henri Giraud
Radio
Algiers
Georges Catroux
de Gaulle
Giraud
France
Reds Charge Poles Serving Nazi Aims
In Moscow Pravda blanks German claims that Russians killed 10,000 Polish war prisoners. The article says the Polish exile government in London supports Nazi aims by asking the International Red Cross to probe the accusation and accuses Germany of massacring Polish officers and Soviet captives in Smolensk during the 1941 retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Pravda
London
International Red Cross
Smolensk
MacArthur Tribute To Gen Wainwright At Connecticut Capitol
Gen. Douglas MacArthur joined Connecticut lawmakers in paying tribute to Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright, a prisoner of the Japs, for his defense of Bataan and Corregidor. Mrs Adele H Wainwright acted as proxy and received a cable from MacArthur calling him an honored soldier who did his duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Conn
Douglas MacArthur
Australia
Connecticut General Assembly
Jonathan M. Wainwright
Bataan and Corregidor
Adele H. Wainwright
State Capitol
MacArthur
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Daily Record
Guido L. Dequatro
A Avenue
Herman Bean
First Street
Jonts A. Leeper
Sixth Street
E. L. Patten
Twenty-sixth Street
R. Christoffsen
B Avenue
Arthur L. Augustine
Twenty-fourth Street
RO. Johnson
Maplewood Drive
I. J. Henley
S.town
Allere Company
Michanee Intenses
Ath Avenue
New Center
Detroit
Media Records
Anpa Noven
Ohertining
Hema Ee
Coe
Leo Sedlacek
Leo B. Sedlacek
Fischer
Dixie
George Ring
Hepner Services
Norito
Orito
Victory Garden
Robert W. Cizek
John Gipe
Camp Dodge
Genevieve J. Balik
Tony J. Balik
Fifth Street
Waves
Baby
de Gaulle-Giraud
Aspirna Ola Romer Bare
Pepsi-Cola Company
Long Island City
N. Y
Wm. Tehel Bottling Co
Moen Ritter AT
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