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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1944
Page
2
Official notices list wartime ration stamps valid dates and quantities for meat gas sugar and fuel oil plus shoe stamps. Local court entries include drunkenness disturbing the peace reckless driving speeding and overtime parking fines. Reports of fires alarms and weather related incidents follow with births at St Luke’s Mercy and marriages. Two divorce petitions complete the page.
Pvt Harold Candler aged 23 was wounded in action in France, according to word received Wednesday by his parents Mr and Mrs I B Candler of 316 Seventh Avenue SE. A sister Mrs Leora Elliott lives at 513 Sixteenth Avenue SE.
Services set for 10 a m Saturday for the Rt Rev Msgr Arnold Boeding pastor emeritus of Sacred Heart church Dubuque who died Wednesday at St Anthonys home He served 52 years as a priest and was made domestic prelate by Pope Pius XI in 1932 He retired in 1943.
Admiral Nimitz said Seventh Army Air Force crews dropped 57 tons of bombs on Truk atoll and other bases in the Marshalls and Carolines. Seven to nine fighters intercepted the raid. one enemy plane was destroyed and three damaged. American Liberators were damaged with no casualties.
Birdie L Daywitt 1874 Aug 24 Anamosa born wife of Mark T Daywitt Cedar Rapids resident 50 years died at University Hospital Iowa City at 12 50 a m Thursday after long illness Survived by husband two sons George Howard Earl Raymond Daywitt Cedar Rapids a daughter Dorothy M Snyder Des Moines two brothers Charles E Strickell Marion Henry Strickell Elk River Minn and five grandchildren Active in St James Methodist church WSCS Royal Neighbors west side auxiliary to the Children's Home Funeral in Turner Chapel with time to be announced Friends may call at the chapel Friday
Retired farmer Jesse Atkins died at his home at 11 30 p m Wednesday after a long illness. Born November 22 1879 in Prairieburg he married Lydia Alice Johnson February 15 1906 at Vinton. Survived by wife four sisters and a brother a son Verne E Atkins died in infancy. Graduation from Tilford academy in 1901. Services in Turner chapel at 1 30 p m Saturday with burial at Blodgett cemetery near Central City at 3 p m Saturday.
William Miner, 38, died Wednesday night at his sister's Cedar Rapids home after a two week illness. Born May 23, 1906, he lived his life in Cedar Rapids. Survived by daughter Edna Doris, father Joseph W. Miner, and six sisters Mrs. Bohren Mrs. Grace Ray Mrs. Birdie Augustine Mrs. Mary Marsh Mrs. Eleanor Fordice and Mrs. Fay Redfern all of Cedar Rapids. Funeral arrangements pending with Beatty chapel. friends may call.
The retired rail way conductor James F. O'Hern of 840 Fifth avenue SE will have services in St. Mary's Church Clinton at 10 a.m. Saturday. Burial follows in St. Mary's Cemetery. The Rosary by St Mary's groups and Knights of Columbus is in Brady mortuary Thursday at 8 p.m. St Margaret's circle will recite the Rosary at 8:30 p.m. Friends may call at Brady mortuary until 9 a.m. Friday.
Funeral services for Jacob Edward Odland of 1123 Thirteenth Avenue SE will be held in the Barta chapel at 2 p.m. Friday with Rev. I E Linkletter of Second Christian church officiating. Burial will be in Fairfax cemetery. Pecomy post of the American Legion at Fairfax will handle graveside rites. Friends may call at Barta's.
Services will be conducted by T. B. Hrubucek at the Polansky funeral chapel 2 p.m. Friday for Joseph Vaverka of 1316 J street SW. Burial will be in Bohemian National cemetery. Pallbearers are members of lodge Prokop Vesky No. 7 Z. C. B. J. Friends may call at the chapel.
Memorial services for Pfc. Perry M. Paullin 27 who died of wounds in Italy May 28 will be held Sunday at 2 pm at the First church with Rev. George A. Stauffacher officiating. Paullin a member of the 3rd division entered service January 10, 1941 and saw duty in Northern Ireland England North Africa and Italy. Surviving are wife Mildred 1025 Second Street SW and his mother Mrs. Sarah Paullin.
The Rev Grant F Anderson will conduct services for Carl E Stern of 216 Tenth Street NE who died in a Cedar Rapids hospital. The funeral is at 2 30 p m Friday with burial in Linwood cemetery family lot. Friends may call at the chapel.
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania county officials rely on state police to finish construction of a new bridge after thieves stole 12 tons of girders. If power remains unrecovered the bridge will be a postwar project.
Report describes rapid Allied gains within 48 hours as tanks and M 10 tank destroyers arrived ashore. Germans reportedly threaten no large counter attack yet while evacuating near the Italian border. British air units also report attacks on enemy logistics and ports as Allied landings extend toward Genoa.
The old Union block at First avenue and Second street NE in Cedar Rapids will be leased by the government and remodeled into 19 apartments for war workers. Skogman Construction of Omaha to handle a $45,000 seven year conversion with work to finish in 165 days. Units include living room bedroom bath and kitchenette. Ownership rests with the heirs of A. H. Wolfe and others.
The twenty fourth annual Iowa department American Legion Auxiliary convention opened in Cedar Rapids with 476 delegates. Gov. Bourke B. Hicklenlooper and Mrs Lawrence Smith headlined a banquet, and Ralph Heinzen of United Press will speak Friday night.
London AP reports Russian troops nearing the East Prussian frontier within three miles and attacking Virbales with tank and air support. Gen. Chernia kovsky’s forces clash seven to ten miles from the border as Russians push toward Insterburg and Lyck, with actions also noted in the Carpathians near Krosno.
Moscow reports a heavy Soviet counteroffensive at Ossow seven miles northeast of Warsaw. Red Star claims Nazis lost 68 tanks and thousands of casualties in two days, with an SS division reportedly put out of action. In the same push, Soviets widened a Vistula bridgehead near Sandomierz threatening Polish defenses.
The regional War Labor board in Kansas City approves a 5 to 8 cent an hour wage rise for about 40 Dearborn Brass employees. Nate Cohn, company president, said the increase, retroactive to May 23, follows a request filed with Harmony Lodge No. 831 of the AFL Machinists.
Nicholas Roberts 87 a retired farmer was killed Wednesday at a Milwaukee railroad crossing in Sigourney Iowa He is survived by two sons and one daughter.
City health officials learned Mrs. Clark Luedeman aged 19 of 719 Second Street NW died of infantile paralysis at University Hospital Iowa City, with funeral home alerting city physician Dr. V H Hasek a day after death. Ambulance driver husband serves in New Caledonia.
Funeral services for Mrs. Roslie Luedeman, who died Tuesday at University Hospital in Iowa City, will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Turner chapel. Burial is planned at Linwood Cemetery. The case raises questions about reporting infantile paralysis polio to the health department and public notification.
He argues a psychology study shows German leaders throw up the sponge when borders are menaced. If Germany quits now, the next generation will be told Germany won. He spoke in Bremerton Washington on Saturday noting Japan's long record of interna-
Detective L B Marshall arrested Maurine Johnson 30 of 318 Seventh street SE Wednesday on a charge of soliciting for immoral purposes. The arrest occurred on Third avenue SE. She was taken to the county jail and held for arraignment on the charge.
Ethel Burtiss alias Ethel Hayden, 35, of Marion, was arrested Thursday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff P. J. Whitte more on a larceny charge. She allegedly stole 75 dollars from Cecil Carlisle’s room in a Cedar Rapids rooming house and is held in Linn county jail awaiting arraignment in Justice W. A. Rall's court.
Civil service field deputy marshal positions in Iowa and North Dakota open at $2,190 yearly plus overtime. Applicants need one year as police officer sheriff deputy marshal or similar work or at least one third of a resident law course from a recognized college or university.
More than 100 midwestern trucking firms whose lines have already been seized by the government were denied a temporary injunction in district court Thursday to halt enforcement of a War Labor board directive. The directive ordered a seven cents-an-hour pay increase for about 4,000 drivers, retroactive to November 16, 1943.
Clinton man learns from his father that Pfc. Henry Mangelsen aged 34 was killed in action in France on July 6. The casualty was reported to Charles Mangelsen. He was serving with American forces during World War II.
Washington AP Acting Secretary of War John J. McCloy said American losses in the Normandy sector from June 6 to August 6 totaled 16 434 killed 76 535 wounded and 18 704 missing. He described German forces as shredded in a trap near Falaise and noted continued German reserves in western France.
Storm damaged Cedar Rapids with east side flooding and downed trees. Police managed traffic and moved stalled cars from Fourteenth to Sixteenth streets and A to Third avenues. Electric poles burned on Center Point road and Sixth Avenue SE. home windows affected by limbs. lightning hit radio aerial. Temperatures cooled after a high of 89 degrees. rainfall varied across Iowa with Forest City reporting 2.27 inches.
A broad band of rain clouds and cooler air moved eastward ending the Midwest heat wave. The Weather Bureau forecast thunder storms would bring relief to Pennsylvania and New York, with temperatures falling across the North Central states.
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