Weather highs and lows across cities and marriage license
Monday weather figures show highs from 33 in Miami to 81 in Davenport and lows from 32 in New Orleans to 46 in Washington. A marriage license was issued to Bessie May Tomlinson of Waucoma and Ernest Leroy Hagerman of Cedar Rapids.
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Miami
New Orleans
Bismarck
Charlies City
New York
Cicago
Omaha
Davenport
Sioux City
Des Moines
Washington
Bessie May Tomlinson
Waucoma
Ernest Leroy Hagerman
Cedar Rapids
Local court actions and obituaries from Cedar Rapids area
Sharon Farnell 29 of 1060 Center Point Road NE fined 25 dollars and costs for drunkenness Hallie Ashmore 49 of Webster City fined 25 dollars and costs for begging Darrell Dee Thomas infant son of Mr and Mrs Edwin Thomas died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 3 30 a m Tuesday A Cedar Rapids area lightning alarm at 903 Hull Avenue SE reported no fire or damage Paul Wischmeyer general alarm Justice of the Peace Court Otis A Avis Walker fined 2 dollars and costs for improper registration Earl Mottinger Cedar Rapids fined 5 dollars and costs for overwide truck body The notices also list births in Marion and Charleston and Davenport families with April 28 April 24 dates and relations to Cedar Rapids residents.
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Sharon Farnell
Center Point Road
Hallie Ashmore
Webster City
Darrell Dee Thomas
Edwin Thomas
Ninth Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Hull Avenue SE
Paul Wischmeyer
Justice OF Peace Court
Otis A. Avis
Walker
Earl Mottinger
H. R. Churchill
St. Luke’s Hospital
George L. Buresh
Marion
Robert Downing
Loren Welch
Charleston
W. Va
Welch
le Etta Waterbury
Toddville
H. L. Young
Davenport
Young
Garth Morgan
Third Avenue SE
Mr. Young
Youth Leader Lash Inducted into Army
Joseph P. Lash aged 32 was inducted into the army on Tuesday and posted to Fort Jay on Governor's Island after an unsuccessful Navy commission bid. A youth leader and friend of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lash resigned as executive secretary of the International Student Service two weeks prior but remained on its executive board. He said this marks the end of his youth activities and that after the war there will be no further youth work on his part.
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NEW York
Joseph P. Lash
United States Navy
Army
Fort Jay
Governor's Island
Lash
Franklin D. Roosevelt
International Student Service
Giraud Moves On From Switzerland
The French general Henry Honore Giraud, who escaped Königstein, reached Switzerland on April 21 and was authorized to continue his journey, leaving the country on April 25.
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Bern
Switzerland
Henry Honore Giraud
Konigstein
MacArthur Reminder Luzon Fighting Continues After Bataan
MacArthur cautioned that U S and Philippine forces still fight the Japanese in Luzon despite Bataan’s fall. He cited an enemy movement toward the southern end of the Cagayan valley, near Aparri, with light air activity and intermittent shelling at Corregidor. Mindanao and Visayas actions remained limited to coastal areas.
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MacArthur
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Philippines
Luzon
Bataan
Cagayan Valley
Cagayan Province
Aparri
General Motors Union Issue Goes To Labor Board
The War Labor board takes up its largest case as Secretary Perkins sends a GM labor dispute involving 200,000 workers at 85 plants to the new agency. The CIO union seeks a Sunday wage hike, double time for seventh day work, and a union shop.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Perkins
General Motors
United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers
CIO
R A F Targets Baltic Ports In War Pattern
The text notes looting at Rostock before evacuation and disrupted shipping. British planes dropped leaflets over Stralsund warning of a bombing, suggesting a charted sequence: Lubeck, Rostock, then Stralsund to curb German cargo to the Russian front.
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Rostock
Stralsund
R.A.F
Baltic
Luebeck
Germany
Kiel
Sperry Foregoes Royalties to Save U.S. 100 Million
Sperry Corp. will forego royalties to permit 15 other prime contractors to manufacture Sperry developed war equipment, saving the government about 100 million dollars. Secretary Frank Knox announced the move after a letter from Sperry President Thomas A. Morgan.
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Washington
Sperry Corp
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
Knox
Sperry
Thomas A. Morgan
Morgan
Housewives Highlighted as Major War Labor Source
The United States government on Tuesday announced 6,500,000 American housewives are available for full time employment and constitute a key source for war industry labor. A WPA survey lists 13,000,000 in the labor reserve plus 3,600,000 unemployed job seekers. Housewives students and other non workers fit for full time work total 7,600,000 and those able to work only half time amount to 5,700,000.
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Washington
United States
WPA
Labor Reserve
How Economic Program Affects Average Family
Washington dispatch explains President Roosevelt’s equality of privilege plan and its impact on a $3,000-a-year couple with two children. It notes mandatory war bond purchases, tax hikes, and rationing as stabilizing measures while promising price and wage safeguards. Installment buying limits will force more cash purchases, affecting family budgets.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Leahy Sent Off By Petain in Fond Au Revoir
In Vichy France United States Ambassador William D Leahy, recalled for consultations after Laval took power, received a warm farewell from Marshal Petain. They spoke twenty five minutes and Petain escorted Leahy to the hotel elevator. Petain voiced sorrow over Mrs Leahys death last week.
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Vichy
France
United States
William D. Leahy
Washington
Pierre Laval
Marshal Petain
Marshal
Admiral Leahy
Hotel du Parc
Petain
Bus Knuckle Failure Causes Grande Ave Crash
City Lines bus driven by F B Zimmerman hit 25 mph turn at Grande avenue and Park Terrace SE. The broken steering knuckle caused loss of control, curbing, and a smashed spruce tree, plus a lawn furrow at 2435 Grande Ave. No passengers were aboard and Zimmerman was uninjured.
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City Lines
Grande Avenue
Park Terrace SE
Harry C. Benson
F. B. Zimmerman
Zimmerman
Weather in Iowa Brings Needed Rain after Dust Storms
Iowa received general rainfall easing years of dust storms that swept Nebraska, South Dakota, and western Iowa. A drizzly day gave way to clearing skies. Temperatures rose to 72 degrees by 3 PM, fell to 58 in 15 minutes, recovered to 64 by 7 PM, and settled at 56 at midnight.
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Iowa
Nebraska
South Dakota
Duck Blitzes Radio Station Knocked Off Air Five Hours
An aerial attack by a duck near the KFBK transmitter in Sacramento severed a power line and electrocuted the bird, taking the station off air for about five hours. A stray duck caused the outage by an arc from its body as it attempted to fly between two high tension wires.
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Sacramento
Calif
KFBK
U S Chamber Warned Of Bureaucracy Threat
CHICAGO (WP) The United States Chamber of Commerce was warned twice Tuesday that American business and the American form of government will fall to the greatest war in history unless the nation unites to preserve democracy. Albert W. Hawkes and Rep Sumners told 2,000 delegates that domestic quarrels and federal bureaucracy threaten democratic government. Hawkes cited racketeers in high places endangering freedom to own work and govern.
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Chicago
United States Chamber of Commerce
Albert W. Hawkes
Chamber
Rep
Sumners
Dtexas
House Judiciary Committee
America
Hawkes
Burlington Income Up in First Quarter Earnings
The Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad reported first quarter net income of 3,590,903 dollars, or 2.10 a share, versus 2,809,665 dollars or 1.64 in the prior year. March earnings were 673,563 dollars, down from 1,086,096 last year.
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Chicago
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Deaths Mrs Mary Belle Fuhrman in Three Rivers
Mrs Mary Belle Fuhrman 41 wife of Roy Fuhrman of Three Rivers Michigan and a former Cedar Rapids resident died suddenly at home in Three Rivers at 8 p m Monday She is survived by husband son Frank Long Cedar Rapids three sisters Carrie Yeomen Nora Stage both Cedar Rapids and Alice Fletcher Texas a brother Roy Stage Cambridge Ohio and a granddaughter Alice Jean Long Cedar Rapids Funeral services will be held at Beatty chapel Cedar Rapids time to be announced later.
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Mary Belle Fuhrman
Roy Fuhrman
Three Rivers
Mich
Cedar Rapids
Frank Long
Carrie Yeomen
Nora Stage
Alice Fletcher
Texas
Roy Stage
Cambridge
Ohio
Alice Jean Long
Beatty
Two Cedar Rapids men die, services set for Shelton and another
George Shelton of 2633 Fruitland Boulevard SW died at home Sunday. Funeral in Beatty chapel Wednesday at 2 p.m. Rev E F Byers to officiate with Jan Huslodge 1 0 C I C F. Burial in Linwood family lot. Earlier, at 330 a m Tuesday, a man born February 10 1942 in Cedar Rapids died after a brief illness. Funeral 1 p m Wednesday in Moon chapel. burial Elmwood Cemetery Morning Sun. Survivors include four brothers Racene Edwin Jr La Mont and Earl at home plus aunts and uncles.
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Darrell Dee Thomas
Edwin Thomas
Ninth Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Racene
Edwin, Jr
LaMont
Earl
Moon Chapel
William O Eckler
Elmwood
George D. Shelton
Fruitland Boulevard
Beatty Chapel
E. F. Byers
Jan Huslodge
C.F
Ben Coates
Peter Onstatt
Roy Conklin
Adolph Lobehart
Amos Diehl
George C. Matter
Linwood
Minneapolis Man Dies of Heart Attack in Morning Incident
Robert Hoover of Minneapolis a former Cedar Rapids resident and son of Mrs. William Hoover 1840 Washington avenue SE dropped dead of a heart attack Tuesday morning. Born in Cedar Rapids 47 years ago he is survived by his wife Violet his mother a sister Mrs. Hazel Ringer and a niece Barbara Ringer of Cedar Rapids.
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Robert Hoover
Minneapolis
Cedar Rapids
William Hoover
Washington Avenue
Violet
Hazel Ringer
Barbara Ringer
Funeral services for Mrs Anna H Svec to be held
Funeral services for Mrs Anna H Svec of 1618 C Street SW who died in a Cedar Rapids hospital will be conducted in the Barta chapel by Rev Zdenek Pauk at 2 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.
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Anna H. Svec
C Street
Cedar Rapids
Barta Chapel
Zdenek Pauk
Oak Hill Cemetery
Henning Widow Says Husband Died at Daughter’s Home
I Henning widow of James C Henning died Sunday at the home of her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Theodore E. The notice notes the survivor and funeral arrangements are pending with services to be announced.
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Anna I. Henning
James C. Henning
Theodore E
Funeral set for Mueller at Turner chapel Wednesday
Mueller of 1531 B avenue NE will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Turner chapel by Rev. Pp. L. Bornhoeft. Burial follows at Cedar Memorial Park cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Funeral services for Bernard A. Ditzler held in Turner chapel
Funeral services for Bernard Allen Ditzler 224 Thirty-first Street Drive SE will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Turner chapel with the Rev. George Stauffacher officiating. Burial follows at Shiloh cemetery Louisa. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Bernard Allen Ditzler
Thirty-first Street Drive
Cedar Rapids
Turner Chapel
George Stauffacher
Shiloh
Louisa
India Talk Failure Just One of Those Things Cripps Says
London. Sir Stafford Cripps opened debate in the house of commons on India postwar dominion status. He said there was no need for regret or blame over the plan and noted Col. Louis Johnson's visit to India was personal capacity only, with no American intervention.
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London
INS
India
House of Commons
Stafford Cripps
Stafford
England
Col
Louis Johnson
Roosevelt
Johnson
Storm Hits School Kills Two Children
A tornado struck a rural one room schoolhouse in Ortonville Minnesota just before dismissal Monday afternoon. The eight pupil enrollment school was demolished with two children killed and three others wounded seriously. The teacher and three more students escaped with minor injuries. Not a stick remained.
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Ortonville
British Subs Score In Mediterranean
London AP reports British submarines sank two heavily laden enemy supply ships and a minesweeper in the Mediterranean, while a German gasoline carrier burned fiercely. The admiralty announced the actions Tuesday night.
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London
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Twelve-year-old piano fall injures girl in Denver
In Denver a fortissimo piano exercise ended badly when a piano leg collapsed under twelve-year-old Dolores Morletti, fracturing her ankle as the instrument toppled onto her leg.
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Denver
Dolores Morletti
Monopoly charge in communications
William H. Bauer, FCC attorney, told Senate patents panel that Bell Telephone and parent AT&T used patents to monopolize communications. He cited Bell’s 9,000 patents and RCA’s dominant radio position, plus a 1930 cross license deal with German firms covering world rights and tied to DOJ actions against the telephone and radio groups.
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Washington
William H. Bauer
Federal Communications Commission
Bell Telephone System
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Bauer
Senate
Patents Committee
Bell System
Radio Corporation of America
Japan
Germany
Italy
Australia
England
France
Holland
Hungary
Russia
Reesearch Products, Inc
Western Electric Company
RCA Photophone
United States
Department of Justice
Telephone Group
Radio Group
Horror Ship Sent Norwegian Teachers to Labor Camps
London based report says more than 500 Norwegian teachers who struck against Vidkun Quisling were crowded onto a Nazi horror ship and sent to Finnish labor camps, the government in exile announced Tuesday.
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London
Vidkun Quisling
Excile
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Giraud
Labor Board
Sperry Co
U.S
Moen’s
Moen's
Moen
Leahy
Au Revoir
Duck Blitzes Radio
U. S. Chamber
Burlington
Hif Fulsell
Svec
Mrs. Henning
Ditzler
Cripps
Craemer’s
Larkwood Hosiery Mills
Craemer
Priscilla
Cal
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