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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1943
Page
2
Weather bulletin lists temperatures for Sioux City Davenport and Washington with brief notes on expected conditions and regional trends. Local forecasts indicate a mix of sun and clouds and cooler nights ahead.
Floyd Busser faces Mary Butcher in a civil action. Chris Peterson opposes Leona M. Peters on a separate matter. Opal Smith challenges LeRoy T. Smith in another civil dispute.
Edward H. Files Higley building overtime parking 1 fine and costs. Lewis Furman 629 First street SW drunkenness 25 costs. Carl Gibbs 216 Fifth street NE drunkenness 15 costs. Frank Novotny 1409 Fourth street SE drunk and disturbing the peace 25 costs 10 suspended. Marjorie Baldwin Novotny 1409 Fourth street NE drunk and disturbing the peace 25 costs. Al Swearingen 2316 Cold Stream avenue NE parking in alley 1 costs. Wilbur Moss Chicago drunk and disturbing the peace 25 costs. Harry Brown 412 Seventh avenue SW drunkenness 50 costs. H E Morrison 212 Seventh street SE 25 costs.
Fire crews respond to a sprinkler system break at Cedar Rapids Engineering, 924 Seventeenth Street NE. Damage contained. A separate alley fire at 915 Twelfth Street NE caused paper burning with a still alarm. Later, a brush pile on J Street SW 3100 block ignited with no damage and a still alarm remained.
At St Luke s a son born to Mr and Mrs H A Erickson of 1507 Washington Ave SE on April 29 Also a son to Mr and Mrs H G Roasa of 360 Forest Dr SE on April 29 A daughter to Mr and Mrs Charles L Crossley of Marion on April 29 A son to Mr and Mrs Howard Burns of Marion on April 29 A son to Mr and Mrs Edward Bunge of Clarence on April 29 A son to Mr and Mrs Lorin Noak of Marion on April 29 A son to Mr and Mrs Richard Cook of 2106 Ninth St SW on April 29
Allied headquarters in North Africa reports a $15,000,000 check sent to the Lend-Lease administration in Washington by Gen. Honore as partial payment for civilian supplies delivered to Algiers and Morocco from the United States between November 8 and March 31. The total value of shipments is about $26,000,000, excluding transport and insurance.
Detroit report: an unauthorized strike by 2,500 United Automobile Workers at Ford River Rouge halted war production in the new steel and aluminum foundries. The stoppage began after 1,250 workers protested discipline of three employees accused of molesting a plant protection guard.
President Roosevelt signed a bill for 26.1 million dollars to aid agricultural labor supply. CIO and farm liberals urged a veto but the measure passed.
New York reports that the 70 French fleet units at Toulon were sabotaged by their own officers after the Germans cut telephone wires and jammed radio, isolating Vichy from Toulon. Admiral De Laborde refused surrender, and holdups led to the fleet's deliberate destruction.
In Santa Monica California two civilians Joseph Lellis a 30 year old merchant mariner and Edward Nostrand 18 were battered by four soldiers who pointed to their civilian clothes and shouted Slackers. Lellis had shipped home 5 000 wounded from the South Pacific. Nostrand recently discharged from the Marines after treatment for shell shock from Guadalcanal.
Bethlehem Steel president Eugene G Grace has voluntary reduced his pay by 58 percent. The company said his 1943 net compensation after taxes would be 42 546 dollars, down from 1942’s 257 dollars and 163 608 in 1941.
Forecast calls for cooler conditions through tonight with a low near 32 and frost potential. Strong winds ease this afternoon, with continued cool conditions into Saturday forenoon. Humidity around 20 percent, yesterday’s high 62 and 7 p.m. temperature 59.
Cedar Rapids police will survey city schools to locate unlicensed bicycles. Last year the effort produced more than 300 unlicensed bikes. The license deadline was Friday, and starting May 1 all unlicensed bicycles will be confiscated by the police.
New food ration charts for May will be distributed to retail food dealers at the Cedar Rapids post office Monday, said Postmaster Frank B. Baldwin. Rural carriers will deliver the charts to grocers outside the city the same day. The charts are not for consumers but will be displayed in retail food stores.
The article details weekend changes to meat stamp point values with E stamps valid Saturday and F stamps joining on Sunday, plus exemptions for bouillon cubes and meat extracts. It notes bulk sausage prices drop two points and allows trimmed scraps in hamburger, while OPA cites overproduction as the reason for sausage abundance and warns against cutting sausage points to avoid diverting regular meat to sausage.
A speaker argues labor should mirror other professions in organization and ethics. He cites doctors dentists realtors and lawyers as examples of self regulation and standard setting, contrasting them with labor’s need to join and discipline itself for public trust.
British Beaufighters set fire to at least two large supply ships and a mine sweeper in a northbound convoy off the Dutch coast. They were escorted by Spitfires and Mustangs, with Whirlwind bombers destroying a patrol vessel in the North Sea. American planes joined raids over north France, Holland and Belgium. four engined Lancasters helped mine laying efforts.
Sixteen teen United States airmen and British flyers released from Turkish internment left Ankara for Cairo under a wartime accord. They had been held since forced landings on Turkish soil amid the 1942 all American raid over Europe targeting Romanian oil field objectives.
Donald Eugene Meeks, 19, of 803 Sixth Street SW, posted bond of $2,000 in Cedar Rapids after being apprehended in Jefferson City Missouri on a charge of failure to report to Selective Service board No 2 in Cedar Rapids on February 5 for induction. He was taken to Sioux City by federal authorities and will be returned to Cedar Rapids soon.
Services for Thomas A Engle owner of the Engle Riding Academy who died suddenly Wednesday will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Turner chapel with Dr Charles J Bready officiating. Burial is in Cedar Memorial Park. Friends may call at the chapel.
Benjamin F. McNaughton 53 died at home in Wilmette Illinois on April 17 of a heart attack. Services and burial were in Wilmette with American Legion honors. He served in World War I earning a Purple Heart and worked for Meyer Roth Chicago. He was a member of Wilmette Legion post lodge 931 A F and A M and survived by his wife and son Cameron Earl, plus sisters who attended and planned to visit his mother.
Don C. Rawson of Cedar Rapids died Friday at 10 a.m. after a brief illness. Born December 18, 1883 in Kansas, he moved to Cedar Rapids 25 years ago from Curlew Iowa. He married Carmen Huff October 13, 1906 at Olathe Colorado. He worked three years as a druggist at Schillig No. 2 Pharmacy. Survived by wife Carmen, son Ronald W. Rawson of Cedar Rapids, sisters Amy Glick of Bettendorf Iowa and A. T. Hawkland of Olathe Colorado. He belonged to the Second Christian Church and Modern Woodmen of America. Services set for 2 p.m. Monday at Turner Chapel. friends may call Saturday.
Sources close to Lewis say ample coal above ground could allow a short strike by miners. The UMW chief receives hundreds of pleas while Roosevelt signals he could rally rank and file away from Lewis. Only a strike will reveal whose leadership wins.
The War Production Board tightened emergency controls on soft coal shipments by rail to avoid work stoppage effects on war industry. Consumers may not receive coal if their on hand exceeds ten days, and railroads must divert cars to those certifying a sub ten day supply. The order, issued by WPB Chairman Donald Nelson on Harold Ickes advice, has no set end date.
William Green president of the AFL informs President Roosevelt that the International Union of Progressive Mine Workers an AFL affiliate will honor the no strike pledge and refrain from joining UMW strike actions. Green appeals to Progressive Miners of America to stay at work to support war needs.
Price Administrator Prentiss Brown said investigators will examine price levels and ceil ings in major coal producing areas focusing on food costs and general living expenses. Violations will trigger enforcement orders. The move follows John L. Lewis and United Mine Workers charges of rising prices in coal towns.
In Los Angeles 66 felons began a hunger strike after candy supplies were cut off. All but 11 surrendered by Friday and were moved to a special section where they may starve, per Captain Charles Fitzgerald.
Private Joseph Bevill is en route from Fort George Wright to Windoverfield Utah, per his wife Joanne. Miss Mary Lou Jacobs sails to New York for Marine Corps auxiliary training at Hunter College. Other service members, including Corporal Nelson in North Africa and Private Whiting at Fort Hamilton, spend furloughs with families in Cedar Rapids and nearby.
Mrs B C Meskimen at 712 Ninth Street SE is stationed at Lakehurst New Jersey. Private M A Omar is now stationed at San Diego California marine base. Sergt Donald R Trout at Fort Benning Georgia is spending a 15 day furlough with his parents at 240 Twelfth Street NW.
Senator Brewster charges a carefully concerted smear campaign against the Truman committee as Pittsburgh grand jury weighs indictments in a steel testing scandal. He argues the Carnegie Illinois Steel Irvin works profited from tests, opposing Davis who cited no evidence of personal profit.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Ambrose J. Burke, president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport, announced that the college will become a training center for at least 300 Navy officer candidates beginning about July 1.
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