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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1952
Page
2
Cedar Rapids area daily notices list weather highs in the 70s and 80s for August 17 1952. The page also records a long list of death notices births and funeral services across multiple towns including Manchester Amana Oelwein Waukon Tipton Monticello and Dubuque with service times and burial plans.
In Wetumpka Alabama a midlife nurse was sentenced to death by electric chair for the arsenic murder of two year old Shirley Diana Weldon to collect 5500 in life insurance. Judge Oakley Melton scheduled execution for September 26 at Kilby State Prison, Montgomery.
Five youths including three under 16 were arrested after two downtown fights near the Union depot and Second avenue SE. Cecil Hollenhorse, 43, was attacked. he named James R. Chase, 20, as his assailant in a lineup. Hollenhorse received treatment for two loose teeth. no jaw fracture.
Mrs. Charles E. Rogers, 60, wife of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics technical editor, died at her Washington home Saturday after a long illness. A native of Austria, she came to Salt Lake City in girlhood and later lived in Manhattan Kansas and Ames Iowa with her husband who worked in journalism departments at Kansas State College and Iowa State College.
Mrs. Lida J. Campbell, 59, died after a brief illness at a Charles City hospital. Funeral services are set for Monday at 2 p.m. at Spencer Grove Methodist church. Surviving are a daughter Dr. Rosalee Turner of Nashua, three sisters, four brothers, and one grandson.
Funeral services for William P. Rohrbach 1400 Fifth avenue SE retired Quaker Oats employee who died after a brief illness were held at 1 30 pm Monday in Turner chapel with Rev Arnold H Marzell and Mizpah lodge No 639 A F A M officiating Burial followed at Cedar Memorial cemetery Friends could call at the chapel Sunday afternoon All Master Masons were asked to meet at Masonic Hall at 1 pm Monday to attend the service.
Services are set for 2 p.m. Monday at Yocom Murdoch chapel Marion for Mrs. John A. Newman former Cedar Rapids resident who died Wednesday at her son Ivan Peterson’s Chicago home Burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery Friends may call Sunday evening She was a member of Cedar Chapter O E S Ladies auxiliary of B and L E Ladies auxiliary of I A of I M and the Degree of Honor Society
John Blum 90 of route 3 Cedar Rapids died Friday in Vinton hospital. Survived by two sons John of Kalona and William of Wellman and four daughters Mrs. Ben Bauer Cedar Rapids Mrs. Peter Jessen Pulaski Ia Mrs. Charles Lemley Wellman and Mrs. Anna Schachner California. Services tentatively set for Monday in Powell funeral home Wellman.
Services for Mrs. W. W. Boland of 1722 First Avenue NE will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Beatty chapel with Rev. Elton D. Wells and the Order of Eastern Star officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery. friends may call at the chapel.
A car owned by Harry Meredith at 942 Center Point Road NE was rear‑ended by Irwin Mattox of Toddville on Saturday afternoon after Mattox reached for a falling grocery sack. No injuries were reported.
A Peiping radio report monitored in Hong Kong says the Communist control commission in Shanghai has requisitioned the large British owned Shanghai dockyard and the shipyards of Mollers Ltd, signaling Moscow allied control over key maritime facilities.
A 25 year old Chicago mother gravely ill from polio was removed from an iron lung and delivered of a healthy ten day premature boy by Caesarean section. The baby weighed 5% pounds and needed no incubator while the mother recovered after the operation.
Cedar Rapids Democrats hear plans for L G A night Lets Get Acquainted arranged by Verne Gladwin with Edward C Halbach Clinton as main speaker at Harrison school auditorium Monday at 8 p m Candidates for county offices will speak short speeches refreshments and entertainment are planned James Bradley Robert Mullaley Joseph Sevren and George Claassen are listed as presenters All Democrats invited especially from precincts twenty through twenty two
Kangaroos, though possessing four teats, rarely give birth to more than one joey at a time. The fact highlights their typical single birth pattern despite anatomical capacity.
A lightning strike started a blaze in a four-floor storage area of Bremer Packing Company causing about 150000 dollars in damage. Firefighters confined the fire to the top two floors while smoke and water damaged the first three floors housing poultry and machinery parts.
Chicago police report Junior Cox 30 admitted he killed Thomas Acton, who was found bludgeoned in a Loop hotel ten days earlier. Cox was seized at a YMCA restaurant on the near North Side after laundry marks tied to him and a rented room with Acton were identified. He said he wiped fingerprints, covered Acton, then burned bloodstained clothes along the lake Michigan waterfront. Cox has a police record dating to 1944.
Attendees at services for E S McLeland include Miss Lela McLeland and Mr and Mrs G C Sher wood with relatives at 111 Tenth street NE and 611 Nineteenth street SE Des Moines burial followed. Leave ends as A1 C and Mrs Ernest Dvorak Jr and family return to Alexandria after a 16 day furlough with parents at 65 Nineteenth avenue SW and Mr and Mrs Fred Pirks Swisher. World War I Veterans Old Timers picnic planned at Z C B J park August 18 rain or shine. Correction notes Rev Charles Howe will speak at Kenwood Presbyterian church at 11 15 a m today not 11 as announced. Marine discharged Cpl D E Ahlgren discharged at San Diego after four years in Marine Corps including eight months in Korea. Parents are Mr and Mrs van Ahlgren 806 Tenth street. Schwinn sale ongoing Hall S 109 2nd Ave SE. Welfare bureau to hold monthly board meeting Tuesday at Montrose hotel. Fur coats advertised by Berger Furrier Marion open tonight. Stamp club Cedar Rapids will picnic at Ellis park pavilion Monday 5 30 p m. Cpl Erwin C Darrow in Tokyo calls family from rest camp and will return to Korea.
About 5 000 to 6 000 spectators watched at Hawkeye Downs as Allen released his balloon after a fiery start and landed on the track. The event featured radio personalities and midwest talent including Curt Massey Martha Tilton and Frank Fontaine with Rudy Vallee making a surprise appearance and touring the fairgrounds after the show.
Saturday results announced by superintendent Mrs. A Perry West. Winners across specimens azaleas tuberous begonias roses and arrangements were named with multiple entries for first and second places. Winners include Mrs. Frank Ceynar Mrs. Joseph Trestner Mrs. George Beattie and others. display continues Sunday at the All-Iowa fair.
A seven member jury ruled against James E Williams in his suit claiming his wife was sterilized without consent. The case named Dr Lyle J Hansbrough of Front Royal as the defendant and was decided after about an hour of deliberation.
Washington Senator George D. Aiken charged Democrats with political tactics that scare farmers about low prices and warn consumers of higher prices to win the election. He said the strategy relies on alarm rather than facts.
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