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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1944
Page
9
Government ration stamps lists and restrictions followed by police court results and recent births and divorces. Ration details include meat gas foods sugar fuel oil shoe stamps and airplane stamp with dates. Court fines cover disorderly conduct reckless driving license violations and multiple minor fines. Births noted at St Luke's Des Moines and Greenville S C and three divorce petitions listed.
Washington reports the Senate approved a $32.6 billion navy appropriation bill by a 61 to 0 vote. Lawmakers pledged to keep the U S fleet at full strength in the postwar era.
The American Red Cross outlines tips for sending letters and parcels to U S and Allied prisoners of war in Germany and Japan. Linn county chapter summarizes rules on letter frequency and length, forwarding through a relative, proper address placement, Iran Teheran to Russia mail route, packing strength, and ensuring complete next of kin parcels.
Railroad traffic moved again Tuesday between Blair Nebraska and Missouri Valley Iowa across the Missouri River after a flood cut 190 feet of embankment on the Iowa side ten days earlier.
City Treasurer Walter E Miller announced 42 501 percent of the 1944 45 tax levy has been collected and turned into city coffers. Current taxes total 409 014 34 as of Tuesday, with an installment of 114 912 71 turned over by the county office. The year’s levy stands at 960 317 20.
Services for Edward P. Pokey who was killed Saturday in a war plant accident in Tacoma Washington will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Beatty chapel. The body will arrive in Cedar Rapids early Friday and friends may call at the chapel beginning Friday. Burial will be in the Bohemian National cemetery. Services for Mrs Leo Rohlena Cedar Rapids route 2 who died in a local hospital early Sunday will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday by Rev Zdenek Pauk at Janeba funeral home. Burial will be in Bohemian National cemetery with friends allowed to call at the funeral home.
James Theodore Springer pioneer resident of Nor way died Sunday. Services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Turner chapel with Rev L D Stubbs and Main lodge No 643 J C C F officiating. Burial in Mound cemetery near Watkins Indiana. Odd Fellows member for about 60 years. all members to gather at I O O F hall at 1 30 p.m. Wednesday to attend.
George Williams 80 longtime Cedar Rapids resident died at 4 30 p m Monday at his home 1734 Thirty fourth Street SE after a long illness He was born in 1864 in Ohio and worked for Penick and Ford before retiring July 5 1943 He leaves wife Orpha three sons Percy Edgar Louis all of Cedar Rapids a daughter Grace Savage Ontario California two sisters Lizzie Fox Es corn Mich and Mattie Williams Ohio along with 15 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren Services 2 p m Wednesday Beatty chapel with Rev F H Ward officiating burial in Shiloh cemetery Friends may call at the chapel.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established 1283 by The Gazette Company publishes daily and Sunday at 510 3rd Ave Cedar Rapids Iowa entered as second class matter June 18 1932 at the Cedar Rapids post office. Subscription rates for various editions and regions are listed along with advertising and distribution notes.
Allied headquarters in Naples report American troops regained three positions on the Cisterna and Carano sectors of the Anzio beach-head. German bombers attacked Naples Monday night after a broad Allied strike against Nazi rail yards and aircraft plants in the Balkans and northern Italy.
City briefs note Sixteenth Avenue club meeting at 8 p m on Thursday in Sixteenth Avenue SW clubrooms. DDT office rep to be at Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce Wednesday 10 a m to 5 p m. Navy enlistments for two 17 year olds reported in Cedar Rapids. Mrs Wells C Peck to Chicago to meet Dr E Laurence Palmer Cornell Univ who will address Audubon club Chicago. Tools stolen worth 95 dollars from Iowa Metered Gas trucks in Standard Tire lot. Linn county district court weekly docket lists cases including Nichols vs Lovely Lady Beauty Shop Milner vs Kemper etc Estate of Joseph Kladivo Ward and company vs McArthur. Methodist Woman's Society to hold sub district school of instruction Wednesday at 9 30 a m.
A Sunday ceremony at John Huss Church in Cedar Rapids launched a 32 member class of the Daughters of Isabella. Miss Dorothy Lohman and Mrs. Laura Freeman led initiation in K of C club rooms with a noon luncheon and banquet later under Mrs. Flora Blum. Speakers included Miss Lohman Mrs. Katherine Brueck Mrs. Laura Buck and Rev Maurice Tracy.
Pvt. John Risk, a Cedar Rapids native stationed at Camp Breckenridge Kentucky, sent walnut nameplates carved by German POWs to Mayor F. K. Hahn and Superior Court Judge Harry S. Johnson. The desks now feature polished, carved nameplates to deter intruders.
Justice Edward C. Eicher rejected a new bid to halt the trial of 28 men and two women charged with conspiring against the U S armed forces. Defense attorney James Laughlin asked the White House to block the trial and to call Rev. Charles E. Coughlin as a witness. A ruling on subpoenaing Henry Ford and Charles A. Lindbergh was awaited. Ford denounced the move as a malicious pairing of his name with alleged disloyalty.
At a war department press conference Rep. Scanlon and Sen. Guffey praised Kelly, while Rep. Wickersham lauded Childers. Kelly recalled firing every weapon in action during 48 hours in Italy and receiving a medal. Childers recounted routing machine gun nests and snipers at Oliveto, Italy, with improvised tactics.
An ad touts NELORE as an external psoriasis treatment that removes scales and crusts, soothes itching, and offers a money back guarantee. It promotes a $1.50 jar available at May's Drug Store and other drug stores.
A man startled by an unseen event withdrew about 200 yards into a valley during a picnic. Respondents reported taking care of him and continuing the outing.
London reports the wartime budget totaling nearly 24 billion dollars for the 1945 fiscal year. Sir John Anderson warned inflation risk increases as WWII ends Britain’s creditor status may shrink. About 52 percent of spending funded by taxes, with no major tax rises except beer tax by a penny per bottle.
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