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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1950
Page
2
Weather forecast for the five day period with temperatures below normal and mixed precipitation. City reports include fines for drunkenness and parking, and a list of divorce petitions, decrees, marriage licenses, and local obituaries and funeral notices from Waterloo and surrounding areas.
The Iowa Industrial Traffic League will file a formal complaint with the Iowa State Commerce Commission next week challenging four proposed intrastate rail rate increases. Grant Maples of Cedar Rapids said the petition seeks denial of the carriers' request to reopen and reconsider the rate proposals. The group, formed to protect shipper interests, is expanding its chamber of commerce membership drive with 12 confirmed and 300 invites sent.
A student throng was driven back across blocks to Broadway Worth street with one arrest for pulling a horse's tail. Police targeted leaders with placards while truant officers and board of education staff questioned participants. The United Parents Association condemned the City Hall door disruption as unamerican.
Des Moines Secretary of State Melvin Synhorst disqualified Joe Miller from the Republican slate for secretary of state for signing his own nomination affidavit and lacking required county signatures. He also ruled Floyd J. Moeckly in Des Moines ineligible for Fifth District congress due to insufficient nomination papers and counties.
A city brief notes a showing of The Story of the Life of Jesus Christ at Bethany Lutheran Church in City Cab at 7 30 p m with two way radio service and Dial 6161. Also reports bar admissions for Marshalltown lawyers Arley Wilson and James Robertson in Cedar Rapids federal court and several local church services and events around Shueyville Toddville and Hunter airport with sermon topics and service times.
Former President Hoover declares a moral mobilization and collective action among non Communist nations to resist Soviet influence. He warns of two worlds, faults the UN as a propaganda forum, and calls for reorganization to keep aggression and bribery from borders and labs.
A state organizational meeting to form an Iowa council for community improvement was set for May 9 in Marshalltown after a Feb. 22 Des Moines conference. W H Stacy announced 135 state groups and 50 community leaders will be invited to participate. Iowa aims to join the National Council for Community Improvement to promote local development planning.
Mr. Hoover argues that mislabeling events as liberty expansion hides a grim outcome. He cites a dozen nations and 600 million people enslaved as a consequence.
Courthouse records show Everett W. Bauman 43 of 885 Center Point Road SE given until Monday to plead to a drunk driving charge in district court after a Thursday arrest by Iowa City Highway Patrolman Joseph Smith on Highway 218 nine miles south of Cedar Rapids. William L. Wolfe 49 of 1430 Woodside Drive NW pled guilty in justice court to intoxication and was fined $25 plus costs as noted by Justice Charles Benesh.
County Attorney William Crissman and assistant David Elderkin led mock sessions at the Iowa Highway Patrol refresher school in Des Moines. Linn county prosecutors appeared four times. Elderkin won as prosecutor in a Thursday night verdict, while Crissman earlier secured a directed verdict of acquittal as defender. Judge Don Hise presided the mock proceedings.
Linn county candidates may file for June primaries until 5 p.m. May 6, as County Auditor Otto Hanzlik keeps the office open late since the deadline falls on a Saturday. The extra hour is a courtesy to hopefuls.
Julian L. Greenwood of New York pled guilty to false uttering of a check. Judge Floyd Philbrick gave a 90 day suspended sentence. He allegedly passed a $50 false check on the Montrose hotel on March 27, drawn on National Bank of Newark.
W T Shipe doing business as the Grocers and Butchers Protective Association filed suit against Rex McAdow for 742.77 on a note given Oct 21 1932. The petition says McAdow received 500 and paid 93, with 407 for the note and 335.77 interest at five percent.
Two wills were probated as district court admitted the documents Thursday. Georgia Humphreys died April 5 naming daughters Neva Cannon Ione Plate as heirs executrixes without bond and leaving granddaughters Mary J. Plate and Evelyn Cannon Kenyon $500 each. Sarah J. Patton died April 15 naming her daughter Mayme Williams and Stella J. Patton as heirs with Mayme Williams named executrix without bond.
Mrs Lura M Ingraham 80 mother of Mrs Howard Nandell died in a Cedar Rapids nursing home at 2 10 am Friday A Cedar Rapids resident for 30 years she was born in Trenton Missouri November 23 1869 She belonged to the First Christian church Surviving are two other daughters Mrs Gust Dahl of Santa Barbara California and Lela Ingraham of Chicago a brother Arthur P Smith of Stevens Point Wisconsin and a sister Emma Barrows of Cedar Rapids Services will be held in Beatty chapel with time to be announced Friends may call after 2 pm Saturday
Mrs Barbara Stinson of 619 3rd Street NW died Wednesday. Services led by Rev E H Widmann of Trinity Lutheran Church will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Turner chapel. Burial follows in Oak Hill cemetery family lot. Friends may call at the chapel.
Mrs. A Otto Bailey of 1316 Avenue NE died Thursday. Services set for 2 p m Saturday in the Barta Hesser chapel conducted by Dr Marvin Kober of St Pauls Methodist church. Burial in Cedar Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
The $2 500 000 St Luke's hospital project received final approval from Dr C B Head Jr of the U S Public Health Service on Thursday night, clearing the way for a Monday groundbreaking at 3 30 pm. Frank C Waples will break ground, with S R Hawkins presiding. Others at the ceremony include Mayor Clarence Sedive and Drs Proctor Foster and McConkie.
Iowa Manufacturing Company announced the production of a new impact crusher called the New Double Impeller Impact Crusher. The Cedar Rapids plant acquired exclusive production rights and moved Mountville division stock to Cedar Rapids, with 100 new workers expected. The machine, previously made by New Holland at Mountville, is described as a versatile, entirely new crusher.
Police investigated two attempted breakins on a Friday. In the first, at 12 45 am, William Hunter reported a storm window had been removed and the inner window tried to be raised before a prowler fled when lights were turned on. The second occurred at Limback Lumber Co. a side office window was smashed but the intruder left before entry.
The state Reserve Officers Association convention in the Montrose hotel features speakers from the army navy and air force. Col. Joseph Prola will speak at the noon luncheon followed by Capt. W. F. Royall professor of naval science at Iowa State College Col. Edwin A. Doss director of reserve activities at Tenth Air Force and Major Donald Diaz chief of the organized reserve from Fifth Army headquarters. The annual Military ball is set for Saturday night at the hotel.
Senator McCarthy cites a private Pacific Institute employee as a Communist cell member while the inquiry also challenges Louis Buden’s testimony about a state department official. McMahon defends the committee’s stance as Hanson denounces the accusation as perjury amid crossfire with Tydings and Browder.
Bill Lawrence a 21 year old singing star from East Moline Illinois will headline Cedar Rapids Open House on May 13 during the Eastern Iowa Band Festival. He will ride in the parade attend the Miss Eastern Iowa luncheon and headline the night show at Hawkeye Downs. The three day program includes a tea dance at Memorial Coliseum and a Cedar Rapids Decatur baseball game.
A Iowa legislative bill drafted by the Iowa County Attorneys Association special committee would provide state run medical treatment for sex offenders. Don Hise said the plan is a forward step, with eight other bills also in preparation to refine existing laws and remove identified flaws.
Des Moines night club operator Alphonse Babe Bisignano was found not guilty on assault and battery charges by Municipal Judge Ralph B. Moore. The judge said he was confused on issues and the charge hadn’t been proven. A second charge of threatening to commit a public offense was set for Friday afternoon.
Siou x City AP Miss Mer tha Wellhausen a Central high school teacher was elected president of the Iowa state division American Association of University Women at the 15th annual convention opening in Sioux City. Also elected were Miss Mary Parden first vice president Mrs A D Rice second vice president Mrs Charles Ransom third vice president Mrs Robert Helgerson secretary Miss Mayme Yahr corresponding secretary and Miss Doris Hittle treasurer The group chose Iowa City to host the 1952 convention.
Army engineers spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to clear invasive water chestnut plants from the Potomac River, aiming to improve navigation and ecosystem health.
Williams sought a divorce from Louise Williams of Cleveland filed December 14 1949 in Linn County District Court. Judge Thompson found no substantial corroboration for cruelty and dismissed the petition at plaintiff's costs noting the evidence relied on by the plaintiff was hearsay and insufficient to meet statutory grounds for divorce.
R W Nebergall reports investigations into the Chavis gun are ongoing with no conclusions. The weapon belonged to Henry Chavis, Ames Canning Company executive found shot dead 18 months ago, and authorities consider it a possible murder weapon pending rifling comparison hindered by corrosion.
In Des Moines a 19 year old Rosemary Cross was struck by a swinging door as a hurried shopper exited a corner drug store. Cross collapsed and was revived at a hospital. The shopper who caused the impact was not identified.
The Coe College Cosmos earned the All-American rating from the Associated Collegiate Press, scoring 925 of 1000 and praised for news writing and editing. Editor Bob Barewald, a Tipton native and Coe junior, leads a paper printed by Superior Press in Cedar Rapids.
Erickson refused to answer senators about his gambling business citing constitutional rights. He admitted accepting wagers from all and later said he hides a net income of $100000 yearly. When pressed, he gave a daily wager range of twenty to forty thousand dollars.
Diane Bennett of Manchester has been elected president of Tomorrow's Columnists, a new group of teen-age Iowa press writers. Norma Day of Woodward was chosen vice president and Shirley Whitehead of Oakland as secretary.
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