Iowa and Midwest Weather Brief and City Police Notes
Weather notes for August 16 1946 show high and low readings across many cities including Bismarck Chicago Minneapolis Denver and New York with scattered thunder showers in Iowa and a warm humid spell through Saturday then cooler by Sunday. Police court items include curfew violations speeding licenses and various fines along with a long list of divorces petitions and sextet of birth notices from Cedar Rapids and surrounding locales.
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Bismarck
Miami
Chicago
Minneapolis
Denver
New York
Duluth
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Sioux City
Iowa
Serarsny
Bellhop Confesses Hotel Fire Blame Hart admits starting Grand Hotel blaze
Parkersburg West Virginia AP Police Chief Clarence Hulbert said Shelley Hart a 35 year old former bellhop signed a statement admitting he started the Grand hotel fire killing seven people on December 9 Hart said he set the fire because he was angry at owner Thomas Solomon he claimed he threw a burning match into a trash barrel as he left the four story brick hotel after 6 pm
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Parkersburg
W. V.a
Clarence Hulbert
Shelley Hart
Hart
Thomas Solomon
Tragic Freight Crash Injures Man Near Bloomington
James Livingston, 56, was nursing a cut finger after a freight train struck his Sutemobte and dragged it about a half mile in Bloomington, Indiana, Friday. The accident highlights dangers to parked vehicles near rail lines in urban areas.
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Bloomington
Ind
James Livingston
Trade Tactics In Meat Draw U S Scrutiny
Washington AP The justice department is studying complaints of price fixing and artificial shortages in meat since OPA meat price controls lapsed July 1. Investigations review ties in purchases, wholesale entry into retail, and hides withheld to push prices, plus private price fixing in other non controlled industries. The probe aims at possible anti trust prosecutions and follows revived OPA debates and the price control board hearings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Justice Department
OPA
Antitrust
Congress
Deaths RS A. B. Barker former Cedar Rapids inspector dies
A. B. Barker 72 longtime Cedar Rapids resident and former grocery operator died at home after a year long illness. Born February 17 1874 near Manchester he served as an inspector and was active in Knights of Pythias Star of the West lodge. Survived by wife Ella Mae daughter Mrs Frank Brecht five grandchildren three great grandchildren brother two nieces and five nephews. Services Saturday at Beatty chapel with burial Cedar Memorial.
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A. B. Barker
Alva B. Barker
Cedar Rapids
Bever Avenue
QO Avenue
Ellis Boulevard
Manchester
Star of the West
Star of the West Lodge No. 1
Knights of Pythias
Ella
Mae
Frank Brecht
Norway
Jesse D. Barker
Beatty Chapel
Elton D. Wells
K. of Plodge
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Rudolph Klouda Dies After Brief Illness at 58
Rudolph Klouda 58 of Ingleside addition SW Cedar Rapids died 9:20 p.m. Thursday after a brief illness. Born Jan 30, 1888 near the city, he left a wife Mary Klepach Klouda a daughter Mrs. Arlen Nelson of Cedar Rapids two sons Milo R. Klouda Marion and Edwin F. Klouda Cedar Rapids four grandchildren three sisters Mrs. Mary Holets Mrs Emma Mackey Mrs Neil Steffeson Independence and two brothers John Cedar Rapids Frank near Ely. Funeral 2 p.m. Sunday at Brush chapel with Rev Merton B. Green officiating. Burial Cedar Memorial cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Rudolph Klouda
Ingleside Addition
Cedar Rapids
This City
Mary Klepach Klouda
Arlen Nelson
Milo R. Klouda
Marion
Edwin F
Mary Holets
Emma Mackey
Neil Steffeson
Independence
John
Frank
Ely
Brush Chapel
Merton B. Green
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Death of Linn County resident Mrs Lillian Mossburg
Mrs Lillian Mossburg 78 longtime Linn county resident died at her Blair's Ferry road Marion home Thursday at 2 30 P M after a long illness widow of John Mossburg who died in 1934 Surviving three children Harry Smith Manly Earl Smith Chicago and Mrs Harry Whitney Cedar Rapids a sister Mrs Mary Hunter Cedar Rapids Services at Beatty chapel time to be announced later
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Lillian Mossburg
Linn County
Blair's Ferry Road
Marion
John Mossburg
Harry Smith
Manly
Earl Smith
Chicago
Harry Whitney
Cedar Rapids
Mary Hunter
Beatty Chapel
Mrs Emma Hockenbury 80, Cedar Rapids Resident, Dies
Mrs Emma Hockenbury aged 80, longtime Cedar Rapids resident since 1931, died at her daughter Betty Kane's home at 10 15 a m Friday. Her husband Sera preceded her in death. Survived by three sons Charles Farhills NJ Edward Liberty Corner NJ William Cedar Rapids. three other daughters Mrs Frank Johnson Wes town NY Mrs Alice Kutcher Farhills and Mrs Stella Moore North Wales PA. 17 grandchildren.
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Emma Hockenbury
Cedar Rapids
Betty Kane
E Street
Sera
Charles
Farhills
N. J
Edward
Liberty Corner
William
Frank Johnson
Westown
N. Y
Alice Kutcher
Stella Moore
North Wales
Longtime Spencers Grove resident George W Bare dies
George W Bare 85 of Spencers Grove died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 9 am Friday after a month long illness. Survived by wife Eva four daughters Lida Campbell Carrie Welch Hattie Overholt Fannie Keith four sons Elmer Harold Leslie John and 19 grandchildren. Services set for 3 pm Sunday at Spencers Grove church with burial in Spencers Grove cemetery.
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George W. Bare
Spencers Grove
Cedar Rapids
Eva
Lida Campbell
Carrie Welch
Seiling
Okla
Hattie Overholt
Medina
Ohio
Fannie Keith
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Elmer
Harold
Walker
Leslie
Independence
John
Winthrop
Spencers Grove Church
Spencers Grove Cemetery
Mikota remembered for 1926 gunfight and rapid rise in Cedar Rapids force
The article recalls Captain Mikota’s career highlighting a 1926 shootout in Shaver Park with S L Stolba that ended with two gang members dead and a surviving salesman boasting the car’s notoriety. It notes Mikota’s quick promotions from rookie to detective to captain and assistant chief, amid praise for his duty and integrity.
Connally Sails For Peace Talks
New York AP report says Senator Connally of Texas boarded the Queen Mary to sail for France to aid Secretary Byrnes at the Paris peace conference, declaring Russia has maintained an unreasonable position.
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New York
Russia
Sen. Connally
D-Texas
France
State Byrnes
No Federal Violation Found in Athens Riot
A Justice Department official said the investigation into the Athens Tennessee election riots of August 1 and 2 found no violations of federal law. The announcement frames the inquiry as closed with no federal charges or findings.
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Athens
Washington
Justice Department
Athens, Tenn
Annual Home Garden Show Awards Made
The twenty first annual playground and home garden exhibit at Bever Park showcased youthful gardeners with 208 entries. Max and Wayne Selzer led with eight and nine firsts respectively as prizes totaling garden tools plants and scrapbooks were awarded to 75 entries and second place ribbons to 50. Notebooks highlight expenses profits and lessons with 42 entries in the year.
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Bever Park
Selzer
Max
Wayne
L. J. Smith
John N. Nichols
Effie M.burton
Elaine Henecke
Barbara Nagel
Diane Jacobs
Max Selzer
Sandra Dieterich
Judy Henecke
Wayne Selzer
Billy Newman
Anti-Red Society Emerges in Southern Germany and Austria
In Munich a covert anti-Soviet network is exposed with an illegal magazine titled For the Liberty of the People. The mimeographed 158 page issue, published in 10 languages, brands itself as the organ of a bloc of freedom-loving peoples and as successor to Our Front. It denounces Bolshevism and Russia, accuses the NKVD of murdering 12,000 Polish officers at Katyn, and hints at involvement by former Ukrainian Ustachi partisans. The movement aims at the total collapse of Russia and positions itself against fascism, reaction, Bolshevik plunder, and capitalist exploitation.
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Munich
Germany
Austria
Bloc of
Our Front
Initiative Committee of
Russia
Eldora outing for inmates praised by Supt Cooper
F Oirican stunt drivers toured the midway with YMB members and after dinner viewed the evening stage from the grandstand at Eldora. Supt Fred Cooper praised the boys for the outing, one of several trips allowed in recent months. Seven more boys were invited to a Cedar Rapids Boys Town choir concert October 2. Andrew Metrey, 58, fell from a trestle near Hawkeye Downs and was taken to St Luke's hospital after boarding an Iowa City interurban by mistake. a 12-year-old boy was with him and both exited at Waconia station.
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Ican
YMB
Eldora
Fred Cooper
Dean Floyd
E. J. Flanagan
Boys Town Choir
Cedar Rapids
Metrey
Eugene Feller
Thirty-third Street
Iowa City
Waconia
St. Luke’s’ Hospital
Rapper Skopp Dies in Electric Chair at 12:37 A.M.
Boston report says Raphael Skopp, 36, known as holdup slayer of Brooklyn, was executed in the electric chair at 12:37 a.m. Friday after admitting his life led to this. He stated, I lived a life that called for this. I'm willing to pay for it.
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Boston
Raphael Skopp
Brooklyn
Jet Plane Blazes 9 Miles a Minute
An army P-80 jet propelled pursuit plane flew from New York City to Boston in 21 minutes 51 seconds averaging nine miles a minute for about 200 miles. It departed Mitchel Field at 12 01 p m and landed at Bedford airport near Concord at 12 28 p m total flight time 27 minutes. Official timing began when it passed New York and ended past Boston's Customs Tower.
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Boston
New York City
Mitchelfield
N. Y
Bedford
Concord
New York
Empire State Building
Customs
Goodbye Plane Stunt Its Fatal
Flight Officer Robert H. Hinkle 27 a European campaign veteran kissed his wife goodbye to fly from a farm yard in Mt. Prospect Illinois. He steered a private plane low over the house and skimmed trees crashing after striking electric wires and a tree. Hinkle died instantly. his wife Dorothy collapsed. Army authorities said no investigation since he was flying his own plane.
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MT. Prospect
Ill
Robert H. Hinkle
Chanutefield
Dorothy
Hinkel
Army
China’s education and economy suffer under strain
Col Auerbach describes limited education in old temples, minimal teacher pay, and high costs for meals and lodging in China. He notes widespread corruption among police, poor transportation, and railroad deficits. Health care remains scarce with cholera, smallpox, few doctors, and only about 600 midwives nationwide.
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China
Col. Auerbach
Three Iowa Women Die After Truck Hit by Train
Three women from Danbury and Mapleton were killed when a Chicago North Western passenger train struck their pickup, sending the truck about 75 feet. The victims were Mrs. Roy Sanders of Danbury, her daughter Mrs. Marie York of Mapleton, and Mrs. Clifford York of Mapleton, who were en route from the country where they had been picking sweet corn. The westbound train bound for Sioux City was the impact witness said.
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Danbury, In
Here
Chicago North Western
Roy Sanders
Danbury
Marie York
Mapleton
York
Clifford York
Sioux City
Flood Ravages St. Louis Area
Floods and storms in the St. Louis metro area left two youths drowned and hundreds displaced as 8.98 inches of rain fell from Thursday night to Friday morning, breaking 109 years of records. Coast guard boats and private craft aided families marooned by flash floods, with damage expected to exceed $1,000,000.
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ST. Louis
Weather Bureau
United States Coast Guard
Illinois
Mississippi
Mankato Ceiling Collapse Blamed on Renovation Work
In Mankato Minnesota a ceiling at the OPA office unexpectedly collapsed on Thursday. Chief Price Clerk Harold Kurth said the fall resulted from renovation work rather than poor management, noting that the cost of living remained unchanged.
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Mankato, Minn
OPA
Mankato
Harold Kurth
U S May Urge Special Dardanelles Transit Rights
United States signals readiness to back limited transit rights for Russia through the Dardanelles while opposing Soviet demands for a military role in the straits. A Turkish called Montreux treaty conference is discussed as a path to ease the dispute, with Washington stance unchanged in favor of open straits to Black Sea warships. High level White House discussions reportedly touched the issue with President Truman and top defense leaders present.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Dardanelles
Montreux
Straits
State Department
State Byrnes
Turkey
Ships Still Move As Lakes Strike Spreads Slowly
Vital industrial materials still moved across the Great Lakes Friday as the CIO National Maritime Union strike spread slowly. About 40 of the 400 American flag cargo ships on the lakes were strikebound on the second day, with iron ore coal grain and oil traffic status unclear. In Detroit a picket line clash involved CIO and AFL seamen. Milwaukee ports reported AFL sailors walking off a passenger ship. Elsewhere a compromise arbitration plan sought to settle a carrier dispute with the CIO American Communications Association. Picketing hit John B. Stetson's Philadelphia hat factory with 2,500 AFL workers and a Hazleton milk drivers strike restored service to 31,000 customers amid bread shortages for Philadelphia and Chicago area residents.
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Great Lakes
CIO National Maritime Union
Five Lakes
Washington
CIO
AFL
Detroit
NMU
Milwaukee
Press Wireless, Inc
CIO American Communications Association
Philadelphia
John B. Stetson Company
Hazleton
Chicago
Notice of Hearing on Cedar Rapids Zoning Changes
The City of Cedar Rapids Iowa schedules a September 3 1946 hearing at 10:00 AM in City Hall to consider proposed amendments to the Use District Map and Height and Area Map of the Zoning Ordinance affecting auditor's plats Lots 1 and 3, Stark's First Addition, and various parcels including ranches and railroad rights of way in sections 11 and 12 83 7. The ordinance outlines the specific parcels and boundary descriptions to be amended and sets forth the public hearing details.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Auditor's
Linn County
C. M. 81. P. and
P. Railroad
Stark
Chicago,Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company
Peter Yunker
Geo. B. Shaler
O. M. St. P. and
Towa
Cedar
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company
32Nd Street Drive
33Rd Street Drive
Ity Sabtic
Audem. Krebs
Eget Rapids
Bloody Riots Erupt in Calcutta Over Direct Action Day
In Calcutta and across India clashes between Muslims and Hindus leave fifteen dead and about 250 injured as the Muslim League calls a direct action strike protesting British plans for independence. Markets close, traffic halts, and police are not mobbed as leaders Nehru and Jinnah meet in Bombay with no progress toward a coalition government.
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Calcutta
Moslem League
India
Nehru
Congress Party
Danbury Burglar Steals From Mayor's Office Across City Hall
A burglar snatched $50 and two checks from Mayor William J. Hannans real estate and insurance office located opposite Danburys city hall and police headquarters.
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Danbury, Conn
William J. Hannan
Cedar Rapids Zoning Change Okayed for Industrial Areas
A Cedar Rapids ordinance changes large tracts near Lot 26 and Lot 27 in Stark's First Addition from D Light Industrial and B Residence to E Heavy Industrial. The measure, urgent for public safety, covers land along 32nd and 33rd Street Drive Southeast and the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul & Pacific Rail Road corridor. The act, approved August 15 1946, specifies districts G and E and includes public notice and hearing rights.
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Auditor's
Linn County
Iowa
C. M. St. BP, & Py, Railroad
Cedar Rapids
Towa
Stark
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Company
32Nd Street Drive
33Rd Street Drive
Blark
Peter Yunker
Geo. B. Shaler
Lfnn County
Arremlay Survey
Noth
City of
Cedar RF Rapids
Pee E Bree Renee Eet Terete
Decontrol Board to Rule on Price Ceilings Tuesday Night
Washington based Price Decontrol board vows an independent ruling on reviving price ceilings for meat grain dairy products cottonseed and soy beans. Chairman Roy L. Thompson says decisions will be based on board's judgment with 100 witnesses and hundreds of briefs guiding the five day review.
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Washington
OPA
Roy L. Thompson
Congress
Terminal Leave Bonds To Be Punched Cards
The treasury will issue terminal leave bonds as punched cards to automate accounting and cut production costs by about 225,000 dollars. Secretary Snyder announced the move, noting the cards resemble treasury checks and will feature the portrait of the late Son Glass, former secretary under Wilson.
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Washington
Armed Forces
Treasury
Fourteen Eastern Iowans Enter Army Service
Cedar Rapids recruiting officials announced fourteen Eastern Iowans have been accepted for service in the army. Named from Cedar Rapids are Walter D. Moscrip Earl C. J. Lintz Howard F. Prochaska Robert Dochterman Jr Verne J. Martin Max H. Schrader and Paul N. Schmidt Charles D. Wood Francis F. Hense Merlyn J. Justman Clayton Strempke Joseph N. Petesch and James C. Current Jack R. Vandertuin.
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Rowley
Joseph N. Petesch
Bellevue
James C. Current
Jack R. Vandertuin
Baldwin
Fish Exemption Keeps Prices Free From Ceilings
Washington authorities announced that halibut would be exempt from price controls and that other fresh and frozen fish and seafoods already exempt from ceilings would remain so indefinitely under OPA Friday policy.
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Washington
OPA
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Daily Record
Police Theft Report
Anora Dudley
Fifth Street
Floyd M. Burgess
Stanwood
F. H. Faust
Monticello
E C Pickerill
Fourth Avenue
Keith Miell
Central City
Megan
A Avenue
Third Street
John R. Miller
B Avenue NE
Harold White
Seventh Avenue
Tegal
Thomas C. McDermott
Third Avenue
H. G. Notbohn
Center Point
C. W. Branden
Palo
Roy Crowley
Eleventh Street NW
Edward Franklin Borschel
Ethel Lola Robson
James E. Miulke
Florence Bachman
LeRoy R. Holub
Margaret D. Edgerly
Coggan
Francis B. Donohoe
Solon
Neva Jean Oldorf
Marvin Dale Dvorak
Dorothy Mae Williams
William H. Pecoy
Lena A. Pecoy
Dubuque
Thomas A. Gupton, Jr
Mt. Pulaski, J
Dorothy E. Davis
Lincoln
Richard William Hall
Vinton
Joanne Marshall Crawford
Frances A. Brown
Howard C Brown
Roy Conner
Evelyn J Conner
Philip Feinberg
Irene Feinberg
Alice L. Daubenmier
Eugene E. Daubenmier
Justice Court
Albert Medulian
Henry Zein
Waterloo
John Murray
Max Daley
Provo
Utah
Louis J. Novak
Lawrence Moretti
Virgil Smith
Kenneth Thompson
Harvard
Neb
Harry Brooks
Hamad Habhab
Everett Mowry
Omaha
W. A. Ball
Cigaret
Wall Board
Parlor City Recreation
Fifth Street SE
Tenth Avenue SE
Donald Hepker
Paso
John Richardson
Schaefer Drive
el Paso
Texas—Tech
Douglas W. Kohl
Kohls
J. E Seaton
Seaton
Frances Kopecky
Adolph Kopecky
Shueyville
Tye
U.S
Dren
Charles DePoe
Long Island
Christina Manning
Greystone Park
Mikota
S. L. Stolba
Shaver Park
Stolba
Mikota-Stolba Auto
The
Gazette
Union Depot
Connally
Selzer Brothers
Harmon Taylor
F. W. Orr
Charles Boegel
Bruce McKay
J. G. Stone
Katherine Stone
Cedar Rapids Garden Club
Smith
Charles Selzer
Lloyd Jacobs
Lucille Martin
Andrew Metrey
Fifth Avenue SE
Crandie
Hawkeye Downs
UNRRA
White House
America
Truman
State Acheson
Navy Forrestal
Patterson
Chester W. Nimitz
Forrest Sherman
Carl Spaatz
Army Air Forces
Thomas T. Handy
Lauris Norstad
War Department
Lakes
Associated Press
Krebs
Flower Shop
Third Ave
John Bturner & Son
Flowerphone
Lapes “ Florist
Third Avenue SE
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