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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1944
Page
23
Gasoline and food stamp details list valid through dates and indefinite terms. Parking fines, speeding, and driving infractions are noted for residents like Marvin, Charles Bartunek, and John Loren Coolman, with addresses and penalties. Births and a divorce decree are also recorded among local civil notices.
An Ottumwa baby born premature appeared dead hours after birth and was placed in a funeral home blanket. The infant later moved, began breathing, and cried after care by a funeral director and his nurse wife. Doctors reentered the hospital but the child died soon after.
A French communique said Paris patriots inside the city have been supplied with light artillery and are shelling German positions on the Place de la Republique and along the Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle in the northeast corner of Paris.
Workers at a Los Angeles tire plant were drawn in by a promise of a kiss from movie starlet Joyce Resnolds on a Monday in 1943. The scene drew a large crowd and generated widespread curiosity about the celebrity appearance.
City public school repairs near completion as opening approaches. Chief Engineer Joseph Syma reports to Dr Myron Koenig that weather and equipment delays slowed grounds care but pending access will finish essential tasks. Walls ceilings painted. floors cleaned waxed. roofs repaired. new roofs at Van Buren Jackson. boiler work. desks shades and filters cleaned or replaced. several exterior and ground improvements completed or begun.
Forecast for Cedar Rapids and vicinity: partly cloudy with little temperature change tonight and Wednesday. A .3 inch rainfall occurred early Tuesday afternoon with a high of 82 and a drop to 69 by 2 pm. Chambers Inskeep reported 69 at 2.30 pm. humidity was 55 percent.
Washington says the War Department turned back about 52,000 light trucks to the civilian economy in recent months. Maj. Gen. Lucius D. Clay, director of army materiel, also noted 7,000 new passenger cars and 7,000 off site tires released.
In Los Angeles Attorney General Biddle warned the CIO Political Action Committee that using general election funds from the same sources as primaries would violate the law and invite prosecutions. He noted the Smith Connolly act does not apply to primaries but does to general elections. In Boston Sidney Hillman, CIO PAC chair, said the group no longer has the large funds once believed ready to spend. He said about 700000 was earmarked, with 300000 to 400000 spent in primaries and the remainder frozen by Hatch and Smith Connolly act provisions.
Deaths reported include Mrs. Francis Greene of Birmingham Alabama formerly Mabel Bruch of Cedar Rapids wife of Francis Greene son of Cedar Rapids founder George Greene. Services Wednesday in Birmingham and Center Point notices follow for Mrs Jacob Kozina and Leo J Koutnik with details on burial and pallbearers.
Bernice Kosina has dismissed her divorce action against Frank Kosina in district court. The suit was filed Oct. 31, 1942. A tire and wheel were reported stolen from Joseph Sutera’s Robins home car Monday night. Household Finance sues Carrie Yeoman in district court seeking 49.74 with 5 percent from 1936. Default judgments issued against George H. Strawhorn Jr. in Killian Co. suit for 127.22. LeRoy Jayne 32 of Cedar Rapids charged with desertion of a minor child. held in Linn County jail. J K Finch assignee sues Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Tisher in district court for 431.25 with interest. assigners include several local grocers and merchants.
City notices list a bungalow canning school to be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. John Avis of 516 McKinley Street SW recently underwent a lung operation at St Luke's hospital and is allowed visitors. Rev Andrew R Parks of Bethel AME, previously a Mercy hospital patient, has returned home but remains confined. Carolyn Newsom, ex Coe College teacher, is named home economics instructor at Town State Teachers College Cedar Falls. President Milcolm Price announced this ACOK. Cape Verde islands consist of 10 islands and five islets.
An Allied chief says the German backbone is broken and a quick Allied victory is near. Intelligence notes Germany has repurposed Maginot defenses while fake tanks and decoys inflated the fighting display. Civilians report Nazi retreat rapid, with troops fleeing at night and officers allowing looting to boost morale.
Allied advances push from the Loire toward Bordeaux as German troops surrender. A French volunteer force grows to several thousand, moving north from Hendaye through St. Jean de Luz, Biarritz, Bayonne, and Dax while an American motorized column drives on Bordeaux from the north.
Allied forces advance in northern France driving German troops toward the Seine. Canadian and British units seize Caen area momentum as Americans push toward Lisieux and the Seine front. More than 3,800 prisoners taken. air activity wanes due to bad weather. The Fifteenth Army faces possible collapse along the coast as U.S. and allied sweeps threaten Belgium and Holland.
Roosevelt accepted the resignation of Charles I Stanton as civil aeronautics administrator and nominated Theodore P. Wright of Port Washington New York to succeed him.
Approximately 750 American heavy bombers based in Italy raided targets in the Vienna area and upper German Silesia. Allied raiders met strong enemy resistance and faced dense flak and smoke screens as they pressed to their objectives.
A War Labor board hearing on the LaPlant Choate Manufacturing dispute addressed whether idle holidays should count toward sixth day overtime and seventh day double pay, and whether employees should be allowed transfers every 90 days. The panel, chaired by Prof Paul Sayre, heard from both sides and will issue a recommendation to the regional board in Kansas City.
The Associated Press lists front-line distances: 322 miles to the Russian front from eastern Warsaw suburbs, 530 miles to Northern France from the Seine bridgehead southeast of Paris, 603 miles to the Italian front from Florence, and 670 miles to Southern France from Castellane.
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