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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1946
Page
1
Iowa forecast calls for fair Tuesday becoming partly cloudy with light showers late Tuesday west. Clearing Wednesday, mild Tuesday and Wednesday. Highs near 78 Tuesday, 70 Wednesday. lows 54 Tuesday night. Also court actions, divorces, fires, fines for traffic and parking, and birth notices listed with local names and addresses.
Individuals named L. H. Sidwell 408 Eighth street NE, P. V. Larsen 2333 Meadowbrook drive SE, and 2615 Second avenue SE were each fined $1 and costs. The terse record lists names and addresses with uniform penalties.
DES MOINES The state board of control will ask the legislative interim committee at its meeting here Thursday to allocate additional funds for the hiring of a state psychiatrist. Chairman P F Hopkins announced the plan to hire Dr Frank E Leslie 73 of St Petersburg Fla on a temporary six month basis for 3000 dollars plus travel expenses. Dr Leslie organized neuro psychopathic boards at army camps in World War I and was appointed surgeon of the United States Public Health Service in 1919.
President Truman invited Charles Evans Hughes, retired justice, to the White House to advise on selecting a new associate justice for the Supreme Court. The move surprised observers and suggested the decision had not yet been finalized despite earlier weekend indications.
Newton Iowa George Olmsted Republican candidate for governor praised the Second district American Legion convention for passing a resolution urging Governor Blue to call a special legislative session to address housing. He said Iowa laws restrict temporary housing modern methods and substitutions needed now and urged aggressive GOP leadership to solve the housing problem.
Robert Bierwirth formerly of Sioux City, sentenced March 26 to five years to life for a hammer murder in Los Angeles, may be returned to Cedar Rapids if paroled. He is wanted on a breaking and entering charge for stealing tools from a radio shop where he had worked six weeks before leaving for California. A hold was sent to California authorities.
Earl Fries of 1033 Thirty-third Street NE was fined $50 and costs in police court after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident without identifying himself. He argued he did not realize he had struck Patrolman M. G. Swords's car around 12:15 a.m. Sunday. Fries claimed damage occurred after a collision with a freight train at Center Point Road and Oakland Avenue SE, while Swords placed the event at A Avenue and Ninth Street NE.
Des Moines reports the state centennial committee chose Iowa City as the stamp city for the Iowa centennial to honor its status as the first state capital and site of the first state legislature. Des Moines and Burlington had also sought designation.
Rollander A. Cox, 59, of 832 Oakland avenue NE, a Rock Island railroad conductor for 35 years, died in a local hospital at 4:30 a.m. Monday. Born April 4, 1887, in Mahaska county, he married Grace Busby in 1907 at Oskaloosa. Survived by wife, two sisters, a son, six grandchildren, four brothers, plus church and Masonic affiliations. Funeral arrangements set for Montezuma and Turner chapel with Crescent lodge services.
Mrs Stella Sedlacek Blazek 64 of 601 Tenth Street SE Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 9 35 a m Sunday after a brief illness Born near Walford Nov 18 Survived by four daughters Mrs Vern McCune Mrs Alvin Melsha Mrs John Dwyer of Cedar Rapids and Mrs Ted W Sweeting of Center Point a son Milo Vanourny of Cedar Rapids 13 grandchildren and three great grandchildren four sisters Mrs Frank Shultz Mrs Charles Trachta of Cedar Rapids Mrs John Stanek Swisher and Mrs Michael Kucera Oxford and a brother Frank Sedlacek Oxford Services will be at Brosh chapel at 2 p m Tuesday by Rev Ralph B Colton and Praha Rebekah lodge Burial in Bohemian National cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
Frank O Louvar age 68 of Swisher died Sunday at 7 50 pm after a long illness in a local hospital. He born near Ely July 25 1877. Survived by wife Emma two daughters Mrs Milner Notovny and Mrs Edward Slezak Cedar Rapids route 2 a son Frank Norway seven grandchildren three sisters Mrs Edward Beranek Cedar Rapids Mrs Joseph Krivanek Cedar Rapids route 2 and Mrs Frank Kloubec Cedar Rapids route 3 and three brothers Jerome Lime Springs Joseph Shueyville and George Shueyville. Funeral at Brush chapel 2 pm Wednesday with Theodore B Hl ubacek burial Shueyville cemetery friends may call at chapel.
Mrs Elizabeth Quick aged 71 died at 6 50 a m Monday at her daughter Mrs Clyde Brand 1423 Fourth Street NW after a long illness Born March 24 1875 in Anamosa she had lived in Cedar Rapids 30 years She was a member of the Methodist church Surviving include daughter sister and brother 13 grandchildren and five great grandchildren Funeral plans not yet made Friends may call at Moen chapel
Mrs Armeda Brown age 70 of 1114 Thirteenth avenue SE died at 7 30 am Sunday in a local hospital. Born in Tuscumbia Alabama she lived in Cedar Rapids 32 years. Survived by seven children Viola Willis Bessie Diaz Laura Miller Thomas Winfred Jones Vergie Carr Chicago Alan Jones Minneapolis and numerous grandchildren great grandchildren and nieces and nephews. She was a member of Christ's Sanctified Holy church. Friends may call at Rice funeral home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Earl J. Stickley 49 a Cedar Rapids resident until two years ago died Sunday in Portland Oregon Survived by his wife a daughter Sandra two brothers Leo and Milo Cedar Rapids two sisters Mrs Alice Landis Cedar Rapids and Mrs Mayme Conrad Anamosa.
Mrs. Kenneth Reid reports the death of her brother Howard L. Ellis aged 48 of Alva Oklahoma. Ellis owned a photographic studio and died Saturday night after a sudden illness. Details of the death were not disclosed in the notice.
A St. Louis tavern displays a window sign reading Beer by appointment only, prompting curiosity about its meaning and origin in the local drinking scene.
Des Moines Iowa livestock feeders may benefit from a government corn purchase program. A. J. Loveland state PMA director said many corn owners lack awareness of crib conditions and may sell to feeders if their corn fails government grading. The Iowa goal is 50 million bushels with a 30 cent bonus, to be reached within a week or two.
George Palmer of Ames warns private enterprise faces threat as OPA price controls hinder supply of plumbing materials and housing construction. He cites ferrule shortages and a brass faucet maker losing profit under CPA pricing. Congress urged to modify or wipe out OPA to restore production and housing. Thomas E. Martin to address Iowa Master Plumbers convention alongside local inspectors and health officials.
Elwood E Hahn of the Illinois Gas and Electric company announced that gas service was restored virtually 100 percent after the Saturday night explosion at the gas reduction station. He stated service should be trouble free and that no damage estimate has been made yet, noting most damage was to equipment.
The OPA reminded housewives that sugar stamp No 39 expires Tuesday. Spare stamp No 49 is valid from May 1 and good for 7 pounds of sugar through August 1. A spare stamp will be validated for summer home canning in June or July, with spring canning sugar provided by recent validation of spare stamp No 9.
CLEARFIELD PA AP dairymen supplying milk to the community threaten to strike unless the town rescinds its daylight saving time action. Milk producers argue farming operations are not suited to fast time and cows refuse to yield as much milk when milking hours shift.
MERNBERG AP Julius Streicher clashed with his defense attorney Hanna Marx prompting U S Prosecutor Robert H Jackson to urge sending him back to his cell and filing the remainder of the case in writing. The tribunal president Geoffrey Lawrence admonished Streicher to show courtesy as the witness complained of evidence rejection.
A trainload of ideas for home gardeners will be open to the public in Cedar Rapids tonight. The Victory Garden Special, sponsored by the North Western railroad and the National Garden Institute, will stand at Union station from 7 to 10 p.m. The train will make 16 stops in six states.
Palo Alto police on Monday hunted six youths believed to have stolen the Stanford axe, the trophy for the Stanford California football game. Stanford student William Steis of Glen Coe Illinois told police he saw the group remove the trophy from its place Sunday night.
Mrs William Hasely of Williamsburg made her first broadcast from New York on Cinderella Inc with three other typical American housewives. She will undergo a beautification process during her four week daily broadcasts and received an enormous bundle of roses from the Williamsburg Lions Club plus studio prizes including a gold watch a key to the city of New York a diary and $25 pin money.
DETROIT. Four sisters wed in a unique quadruple ceremony at St George Syrian Orthodox church. Father George Laieg escorted brides in pairs as Mendelssohn’s Wedding March played. The brides Mary Saieg Mitchell Salhaney Dorosy Saieg Rosie Snage Farah Canasi and Helen Saieg George Saieg tied with grooms from Detroit and one from Havana Cuba.
Two Cedar Rapids residents sustained minor injuries when their car crashed into a semi-trailer tanker on a Marion street near 1 a.m. Sunday. Evelyn Harmon received facial lacerations, Dan Hunter Jr. fractured a finger and was released after treatment at St Luke's hospital. Tanker driver Carl Max Willhauer of Iowa City was in the cab unharmed. Damages were about 300 dollars to the Hunter car and 160 dollars to the tanker.
Moscow radio reported a monarchist putsch plan in Hungary was foiled as 70 members of youth groups linked to the Hungarian Small Holders party were arrested. Police found weapons ammunition and explosives during the arrests according to Moscow citing Hungarian press reports.
American Veterans Committee joined 23 consumer groups urging Congress to preserve OPA price controls. AVC representative Chat Patterson told the Senate banking committee that weakening price controls would harm veterans who rely on pensions loans and allowances. A Save OPA day was planned with parades and demonstrations nationwide.
William Green president of the AFL urged the senate to renew the OPA for one year and defeat House amendments he called designed to kill price control. He declared price safeguards should end in an orderly demobilization not a haphazard stampede and said the seven million AFL workers backs the plan.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Truman of Lincoln Nebraska and their five children, ages 8 to 14, were treated for burns and shock after a motorboat exploded on West Okoboji lake Saturday. The father threw several children into the water before all climbed to the dock as the boat burned and sank. Gasoline splashed on them as they escaped the flames.
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