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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1942
Page
1
A compact feature notes a hearty chili con carne paired with radishes and celery curls, a cabbage cowpunder style chili wafers, topped by head lettuce salad. It concludes with upside down cake and coffee milk for a complete meal.
Nutrition experts urge hearty meals with ground beef as a source of high quality protein minerals iron copper vitamins and calories. The text discusses economical use of less tender cuts and includes detailed recipes for chili con carne meat sauce spaghetti and mushroom beef dish with spices and onion garlic suet and beans.
The Cedar Rapids Ministerial association announces a city wide temperance meet at Westminster Presbyterian church next Tuesday at 8 pm, replacing the prior plan for St Pauls Methodist church. Speaker Rev. Sam Morris of Del Rio Texas is a renowned temperance figure and has been a daily radio feature for five years with "The Voice of Temperance."
Marengo vocational home making instructor Miss Erie Cress has accepted a similar position in Sparks Nevada after being reelected here with a raise. Her home city is Carson City Nevada.
Water lovers plan the second annual Cedar Rapids to Palisades boat trip Sunday at 9 am. Linn County Fish and Game Club invites any boat owners to join Riverside Park departure. Milo Heral leads the voyage with scenic stopovers noted. spectators may gather on Sixteenth Avenue SW bridge.
Frances Mary Pudil who died suddenly Wednesday afternoon will be buried in Anderson cemetery near Swisher. Funeral services are at Brush chapel at 9 a.m. Saturday and 9:30 a.m. at St. Ludmila's Church with Rev. Frank R. Hruby officiating. Friends may call at the family home Friday evening. Pallbearers are William Rohlena Lumir Rohiena Donald Witousek Ernest Buresh Wallace Castek and James Serbousek.
Verl Duane Fulton infant son of Mr and Mrs Verl Fulton died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 4 30 p m Thursday. He is survived by parents a brother George Gerald and grandparents Mrs Susan Toomer Cedar Rapids and Mr and Mrs Glenn Fulton Rowley. Body taken from Barta chapel to Cedar Memorial cemetery where services were held at 2 p m Friday.
Funeral services for nine year old Josephine Magdalene Keiper will be at St Stephen s Evangelical Lutheran church Atkins at 2 p.m Saturday after a brief home service at 1 45 p.m The Rev G Rickels will officiate and burial will follow in St Stephen cemetery Friends may call at the home.
John Franklin Rissmiller died at his home on Seventeenth Street SW. Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Saturday in Beatty chapel conducted by Rev. S. E. Dooty. Burial will follow in the family lot at Linwood Cemetery.
President Roosevelt told reporters at his Friday press conference the congressional message is not ready now and will be developed over the weekend. He prefers calling it a cost of living message rather than anti inflation.
City Assessor Jim Scolaro said Cedar Rapids may surpass last year’s record assessment of 58.3 million dollars as inventory and new construction rise. He notes no depreciation loss this year and expects a lower tax rate if the higher total is reached. May 1 is deadline to file assessments. June 1 for veteran exemptions with proper discharge records.
W R Boyd, chairman of the state education board finance committee, paid tribute to the late Mike Healy at the High Twelve club luncheon. Healy, a longtime U.S. deputy marshal, was praised as brave and wise, with a knack for reform and outsmarting crime, though he avoided “tough guys.”
In unoccupied France Marshal Petain turned 86 Friday but Vichy newspapers did not note the birthday. Only schoolchildren were asked to send collective greetings, and an informal ceremony was set as the sole official recognition of the event.
Three leaders of groups opposed to U S intervention before Pearl Harbor were subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury in an espionage inquiry. William J. Grace of Citizens U S A committee, Lyrs Clark van Hyning of We the Mothers Mobilize for America, and Janet Ayer Fairbank, formerly with the America First committee, were served subpoenas.
Washington reports the navy declined to comment on Tokio broadcasts claiming there were survivors from the cruiser Houston sunk in the Battle of Ava. The message notes no official confirmation and emphasizes uncertainty surrounding the casualty figures.
The House Banking Committee approved a bill to let the Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan money to auto dealers hit by rationing and to buy unsold products after 18 months. The measure, similar to a Senate panel action, would bar deficiency judgments against borrowers and could extend to other rationed goods. Zenas Potter of the OPA outlined plans to limit it to autos and accessories, with new rationing rules aiming to clear all cars within a year.
William Palmer, secretary of the Michigan petroleum industries committee, said on Thursday that the Midwest must remove transportation bottlenecks to avoid extending gasoline rationing into the region.
In 1940 the average motor vehicle consumed 740 gallons of motor fuel, up 12 gallons from 1939 and 240 gallons more than in 1930. Data reflects ongoing rise in fuel consumption per vehicle across the decade.
Cedar Rapids traffic agent R L Turpin announced schedule revisions by Interstate Transit Lines due to population shifts and a 40 mile per hour limit. Effective May 1, the system adds routes to Chicago Omaha Dubuque Davenport and Des Moines while boosting service to military personnel and small communities.
Miss Emmy Zweybruk, Viennese designer, teacher and artist, will head the Cedar Rapids Art Teachers association conference. She will lecture with slides Friday evening at the board of education building, speak Saturday morning, and lead a practical demonstration and study group Saturday afternoon for local teachers.
Parks set for spring with benches and chairs ready for picnickers though opening is May 1. Laborers groom tennis courts baseball diamonds and other facilities while Ellis park duck pond will be stocked. Golf course open to the public with instruction to protect flowers along the course and start from the No 1 tee.
The court hears that a man named Smith stole a tire from Albert Bliss of Cedar Rapids, placing it on his own car before discarding the wheel into the Wapsipinicon river. He was arrested at his home Thursday night and claimed a 90 day suspended sentence in Buchanan County for larceny of domestic fowl.
Architect Charles B. Zalesky, hired in 1936 for Cedar Rapids police station and jail plans, reopened a suit seeking 375.05 dollars. He argues contracts totaled 113,800.20 with six percent due, while partial payment leaves 375.05 unpaid after disputes over plumbing fixtures and ordinances.
Four divorce petitions were filed in district court including Lucille Lake Boyd. Her husband’s cross petition was dismissed by Judge Haas on March 10 after her default entry. she previously sought a divorce from A. S. Boyd and allowed default before his cross petition.
In petitions filed Thursday several Missouri marriages face dissolution. Mary Jedlicka seeks divorce from Alois Albert Jedlicka with a $2000 attachment and a restraint against molestation. She requests title to property at 2214 C street SE and household goods, $10 weekly alimony, and her maiden name Mary Landergott. The Judickas married June 21, 1937. Frieda Fink seeks divorce from Arthur L. Fink citing desertion, with a claim for household goods. Belle Blazek seeks divorce from Fred Blazek amid cruel treatment. they wed May 2, 1932.
Sylvia Schmickle and Cloe Lyman, defendants in a partition case brought by Fred Fishel and Estella Mollenhauer, filed in district court to require Referee Walter Rech to distribute assets. A 1939 court decree awarded them one fourth interest in the real estate. Rech sold the property in 1941 but has not distributed receipts. Judge G K Thompson set May 6 for a hearing.
Mildred Burrier files a cross petition in the divorce action against Robert Burrier. She charges cruel and inhuman treatment. The petition was filed Thursday in district court. The couple married February 21, 1942.
A claim states a car traveling at 200 miles per hour could run with no air in its tires as centrifugal force would keep them inflated. The remark presents a physics concept about tire pressure under extreme motion.
Notice of probate of will in Linn County Iowa announces a case number 16498. The district court in Cedar Rapids will hear the matter for the probate and commission of the will. Dated Cedar Rapids April 7 1942. Clerk W Albright attorney.
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