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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1944
Page
3
This item lists wartime ration details for meat gas fuel and sugar including stamp validity and extensions. It also records minor local fines for parking speeding and curfew violations, several birth notices from Mercy hospital and St. Luke's, marriage licenses for Joseph Bechka and Pauline Mackey, and a divorce decree for Margaret Meyer from Charles Meyer.
Second Lt. Donald Niggemeyer 23 of Fort Madison is reported missing in Germany. He was part of the Coe College Twenty-two, trained at Camp Roberts and Fort Benning, and most members are in Germany. Niggemeyer married Frances Wagner of Winnetka and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Flood W. Niggemeyer.
Eugene Atkinson 41 was found hanging in his basement at 120 am Saturday by his father A E Atkinson and neighbor J A Pearson. He is survived by his wife visiting California, his parents and sister Helen Meyers Solon. funeral postponed until wife arrives. Motive for death by own action not ascertained.
Lt Gen Bre hon Somervell urged a continuous flow of war supplies to American troops, noting shortages of heavy artillery, ammunition, cotton duck, trucks, and tires. He warned that production shifts to nonessential industries hinder the war effort and stressed standardization and rapid field testing to save lives. He warned against rumors and emphasized that more production saves lives.
DES MOINES UP War bond sales in Iowa on Friday reached 50.7 million dollars or 28 percent of the state quota of 178 million. E bonds totaled 14.0 million dollars or 23 percent of the E bond goal of 61 million. The Chicago Federal Reserve Bank reported 1.4 million dollars in E bonds for the day as state officials urged 40 thousand volunteers to raise daily E bond sales to at least 2 million dollars to meet the goal.
Mrs. Alicel Powers of 1043 Fifth Avenue SE returned a lost purse to Mrs. Carrie Brown after finding it at a market area. The purse contained $17 gasoline coupons and 10 ration books. Powers later helped locate Coraline Jordan of route 2 Central City, whose purse had been found and turned in at the police station.
Abraham Lincoln Buckner born March 9 1861 near Anamosa named for Lincoln dies in a Cedar Rapids hospital Friday at 2 10 p m after a brief illness. He married Mary Minehart Oct 15 1885. fifty ninth anniversary noted. Surviving wife three sons Irvin C Melville J Arthur S Buckner eight grandchildren two great grandchildren. Funeral Monday 2 p m Moon chapel Cedar Memorial park with Rev Floyd L Hinshaw officiating.
Services for Joseph Topinka of 1002 Nineteenth Street SE are set for Sunday at 2 pm at Polansky Funeral Chapel with Rev. Frank Sintak and Jan Hus Lodge No. 51 officiating. Burial will follow at Bohemian National Cemetery. Jan Hus members are asked to meet at the Sokol hall at 1 pm.
Home Rebekah lodge conducted grave side services at Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel for visiting hours and remnants of the service.
Services for Wendl B Gatto of 110 Third Avenue SW who died at his home Friday morning will be held Monday at 10 a.m. at Monahan Funeral Home with Rev. D J Lenihan officiating. Burial is in Mt Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call at the Monahan.
Mrs. Mary Boggs former Cedar Rapids resident died in Jacksonville Florida Saturday morning. The body will arrive at Turner funeral home Wednesday afternoon. Surviving is daughter Mrs. Irene Kirbo Jacksonville. Mrs. Boggs was a Seventh Day Adventist. Funeral announcement to follow.
Marianne Todd reports an overcoat valued at 20 dollars stolen from McKinley school with 3 five dollar bills and a quarter in the pocket. Howard Semelroth says his brown overcoat worth 35 dollars and two dollars in cash was taken from Babe's Pool room. Layton Kline reports his car valued at 450 dollars stolen or misplaced. Loren Hiner reports a child’s sled worth 5 dollars stolen from the side of her residence between 4 and 5 pm Friday.
In Rome rioters clashed as Premier Ivanhoe Bonomi worked to assemble a new cabinet amid leftist opposition and coalition hesitancy. Monarchists and republicans fought near a Julius Caesar statue where a Savoy emblem flag was replaced by a Communist banner. Carabinieri dispersed the scenes as a hunger league announced marches demanding bread flour and olive oil.
Mrs Dora J McAdams aged 83 died Saturday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a brief illness. Born May 29 1860 in Tama she married Thomas F Doherty in 1881 and later John McAdams. Survived by four sons and four daughters including R C Doherty George W Doherty Marvin L Doherty Thomas F Doherty and five grandchildren. Services Monday at 4 p m in Moon chapel with burial in Linwood cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs Clara Louise Clark age 50 wife of Neil Clark of 519 Seventh Avenue SW will be at 2 p m Sunday in Beatty chapel with Rev D Keith Irwin and Rev E J Wykle officiating burial in Linwood Cemetery Friends may call at Beatty's
Services for J A Howe of Marion formerly of Anamosa will be held at the Anamosa Congregational church at 2 p m Sunday with Rev Homer Carymple officiating. Burial follows in Wilcox cemetery at Viola.
Lumir Mersh and Minnie Futchey, Cedar Rapids, wed Nov 27 by Justice W A Ball. J K Finch sues Tom Bailey in district court for 144 dollars plus 5 percent interest from Nov 30 1943 for medical services. Rev W E Guy to speak at Bethel AME and preside at quarterly conference. pastored in Des Moines St Paul Pap capoli and Fort Wayne before becoming presiding elder. Kenwood Cub Pack 8 held Thanksgiving program with Beverly Keister LaVonne Chermak. awards to Bobby Peddycourt Donald Kenyon Roger Elmore Melvin Kenyon James Hepner Jack Elgin Don Larson Raymond Novak Jimmie Silliman Kenneth Gracy Donald Rehder Dick Carson Don Larson Vernon Schrimper. Novak Larson and Elgin earned nobelos badge and joined Scout troop 8. Delos H Gardner’s lost Navy billfold contains leave papers and ID. he’s at the Magnus hotel needing papers by Sunday. Walter Farrell and Dorothy Suttoff to be honored at Cedar Rapids UCT banquet at Roosevelt hotel. Scientific note: butadiene is gas at normal temps and pressure, stored as liquid under higher pressure.
Frank Starman 66 of 84 Wilson Avenue SW died at a hospital in Independence at 7 20 p m Friday. Born in Kozlov Bohemia December 10 1877 he came to Cedar Rapids 52 years ago. Survived by his wife Julia Chanda Starman and several nieces and nephews. He belonged to Prokop Velky lodge CSA and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way employes. Body at Brosh chapel with calling hours and funeral arrangements pending.
Services for Mrs Rose Stoddard of 213 Sixth Street SW who died Thursday will be at 2 30 p m Monday in the Rohn chapel with the Rev John E DeLong and Melody Camp of the Royal Neighbors officiating. Burial will be in the local cemetery.
A gospel broadcast airs on KSO at 9 30 a m Sunday. The Church of Christ at 716 Eighth Avenue SW invites attendance with services at 10 a m and 7 30 pm on Sunday. You are welcome.
Three new names join the E war bond contest to christen a Victory ship as voters tally in Cedar Rapids. Mrs. John Matus, Mrs. Charles Stodola and Mrs. Lester Teams each received votes, joining 11 mothers overall and list leaders as of Saturday. Ballots require one vote per dollar of bond value.
Moscow reports Russian troops crossed the Mecsek mountains southwest of Budapest and moved toward the Austrian border. The Third Ukrainian army overran over 60 towns and villages west of the Danube increasing pressure on Pest. German reinforcements were beaten back while Pest began evacuation as bridges clogged with traffic.
President Roosevelt directs inviting the One Thousand club of Democratic campaign contributors to the White House ceremony. Truman may take oath on the back porch or at the Capitol, with over 600 listed for invitations. Dewey criticizes the club as selling privilege, while Democrats deny such claims.
A to z list of service members and families with furloughs and transfers. Cpl Jack Caldwell returns to Mitchellfield N Y after leave. Maj K G Wodtke and family leave for Williamsfield Chandler Ariz. Lt (jg) Jack Ferring heads to San Francisco. Gerald Barkdoll Jr joins Navy at Farragut Idaho. Earl and Glenn Pound family details. Staff Sgt William E Main Jr arrives US after England, earns DFC Air Medal and Oak Leaves. Anne L Blazaitis promoted in Santa Ana Calif. Leo W Melsha arrives in England. Capt W Montello Knapp on 13 day leave from Fort Jackson. Cpl Robert E Tanner back to Fort Leonard Wood.
Obituaries list multiple Iowa residents who died in recent days including Stanley W Edgar 61 Elberon Mrs Anton Kubik 84 and Miss Mary Scofield Strawberry Point Winthrop John M Gaffney 77 with survivors spanning sons and daughters in California Iowa City Port land and beyond Funeral details note services at St Patrick Catholic Church Winthrop and at local homes with listed relatives and locations.
G A Lattner of 824 Fourteenth Street SE was fined $5 and costs in traffic court on a charge of failure to yield the right of way following a collision at Mt Vernon Avenue and Fourteenth Street SE. Police said Lattner turning left from Mt Vernon into Fourteenth struck J G Zinkula's westbound car, causing damage to both vehicles.
Mark Anthony of 835 Seventeenth Street SE drove south on Sixteenth Street SE colliding with F E Thompson of 1942 Higley Avenue SE who rode east on Sixth Avenue SE. Anthony then hit the Ralph Shook porch at 1601 Sixth Avenue SE causing damage. He was charged with failing to yield and ordered to appear in traffic court at 8 a.m. December 4.
Miss Hazel Rothrock, a missionary just back from China, will speak at the Church of the Brethren on Sunday during both services. She spent months in a concentration camp after their station was occupied by Japanese forces and will recount her China work and camp experiences at 10:50 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Allied reports say Indian troops of the Eighth army seized Alboreto five miles northeast of Faenza while Monte Giornetto fell to the Fifth army with little resistance. Germans withdrew from Monte Gionetto and beat back counterattacks near Bombiano as drizzle slowed advances between the Montone and Lamone rivers northeast of Faenza.
S. W. Hitchcock nephew of Mrs. Earl Heinze 725 First Avenue SW received the Legion of Merit from Maj. Gen. Paul R. Hawley chief surgeon in the European theater. The former Cedar Rapids resident earned the award for developing a medical statistical code that replaced the old system used by the surgeon general.
Police report 62 traffic accidents in Cedar Rapids during November left two dead and 22 injured. One death was a pedestrian struck by a car and the other a non collision incident. Five more pedestrians were struck but survived.
Izvestia accuses Chinese leaders of reactionary capitulation and poor wartime policy while noting Chiang Kai-shek's regime worsens China's position. U.S. embassy warns Americans to evacuate northern Yunnan and nearby areas as Japanese forces advance through southeast China.
J F Dixon enjoyed a unusual feast on Friday after finding three monster oyster mushrooms weighing 20 pounds growing on a log in nearby woods. The foraged find was described as pleurotus sepidus commonly known as mushroom steaks.
Radio WivVAd and NBC present Truth or Consequences from the Navy Pier at 7 30 p m. Spotlight Bands with Jack Teagarden at 8 30 p m from Governor Island. Carmen on Chicago Theater of the Air at 9 p m. Leads by Marlon Claire and Richard Tucker. Geraldine Fitzgerald visits Barry Wood and Patsy Kelly at 9 p m. A joint Illinois war loan program Where We Stood Where We Stand airs 11 a m to midnight on WBBM and WMAQ. John Barnes writes and produces with Howard Vincent O Brien as host and a chorus of Chicago musicians and actors. }
A dense listing outlines hourly programs across stations WMT WHO KXEL WGN and others for a December 1944 Saturday. Shows include news by Leland Stowe and Arthur Hale, music performances by Natl Dance and Band leaders, and features like Carnival Night Yarns and Shipboard broadcasts with multiple host names and times.
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