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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1941
Page
7
Police report a thief pried open a door at 104 First Street SW Miller apartments and rifled dressers Saturday morning. The intruder left with a Elgin gold hunting case watch valued at about 25 dollars. Mrs. Haluza’s sister alerted her when the door was found open about 2 PM.
Farm and domestic workers would receive small stamp books to show social insurance contributions. Officials drafted the plan to present to the internal revenue bureau if legislation brackets agricultural and domestic workers into old age pensions and unemployment insurance. The plan envisions stamp books or union style cards to record paid contributions.
President Roosevelt urged the senate to add 70 million dollars to the supplemental defense appropriation bill. The largest requested item is 50 million for the navy bureau of yards and docks for public works construction not detailed in the bill.
M. F. Burns, a specialist in interior decoration, has been employed by Luberger's furniture store to serve its patrons. Formerly his own shop in Elgin, he previously worked as a decorator in Chicago and now resides at 4220 Third Avenue SE.
Cedar Rapids notices report a mix of community events and incidents including a Townsend club bazaar with a penny supper and dance, pineapple baked goods demonstration for retailers, a small roof fire at Opal Borst home, Rotary luncheon with Charles Cownie of Des Moines as speaker, two boys detained for alleged shoplifting, and Knights of Columbus hosting a Christmas party for local children with home visits and supper at Bishop’s cafeteria. Bert Obermeyer traveled to Peoria for his brother Walter’s funeral.
Richard K. Alman city arborist will address the Men’s Brotherhood at the First Lutheran Church hosted by George Lowe at 219.
At a Saturday noon meeting the advisory board of the Salvation Army unit elected William C. Culver as president Richard Carne as vice president Robert B Davis as treasurer and O L Brokaw as secretary for 1942 Clark A Beems and Karl Blaise are new board members The meeting was held at the Hotel Montrose Blake boulevard SE will show film reels How to Plant a Small Shade Tree and Shade Tree Care Monday at 8 p m.
The Cedar Rapids Dental Society meets at the Hotel Roosevelt Monday at 6 15 with guest clinician Dr R J Stollenwerk of Milwaukee. He, linked with Dr Harry G Boch, originator of the Boch denture technique, will present a clinic on Simplified Technique For Denture Construction and show a film on making a partial denture. Sponsored by Cedar Rapids dental laboratories represented by H E Duxbury Don Ihrig Paul To Jones Tyrus Rankinen and H C Watson.
Harold A Templeman Franklin High School instructor addressed a Detroit meeting of local presidents and leaders of the National Education Association. He spoke on state uniform contracts for teachers single salary schedules legal status of women teachers and interstate barriers in teaching. He noted his role on the equal opportunity committee covering Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan North Dakota South Dakota Nebraska Missouri Kansas Wyoming Indiana and Alaska. He planned a Washington call Monday with his full committee.
A United Press summary notes Labor Department figures show one significant defense strike affecting 90 workers, while a nationwide welders action by 75,000 members is authorized. Also updates on arbitration progress, rail and civil strikes settling, and wage disputes sent to arbitration in New York and Ohio.
Iowa tax officials warned that nonresident workers from other states on defense projects in Iowa must pay Iowa income tax on wages earned while in the state. The liability arises under the non-resident provisions of the Iowa income tax law.
A. F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, telegraphed President Roosevelt praising him for his services in averting a nationwide railroad strike.
Boonville Missouri resident Ed win Wassmann investigated noises in his chicken house and caught seven possums believed to be raiding the coop. No word on injuries or exact method of capture.
A brisk wind kept shoppers bundled in topcoats as Cedar Rapids experienced a cold Christmas Eve with a 30 degree night and 30 percent humidity. The Chambers Inskeep mercury rose to 40 degrees mid afternoon then fell to 30 by evening. Saturday’s low hit 19 early morning while sunshine brightened the holiday shopping day.
Cairo crowds watched as twelve hundred German and Italian prisoners moved from a railway station to a prison camp. The group split roughly evenly, with Germans blank faced and Italians more cheerful, as Highland guards with bayonets led the march amid excitement.
A proposal to centralize defense program administration under a new cabinet officer drew strong support in Congress on Saturday. Senator Mead of New York urged immediate adoption to save business from destruction. The plan is in a Kilgore bill from West Virginia creating a Department of Defense Coordination and Control with authority over defense purchases and industrial resource use.
The American Red Cross said it will purchase five million dollars worth of medical supplies to be shipped to Russia as a gift from the American people.
Linn county relief director Mrs. Mildred Hunt announced plans to have Cedar Rapids city health inspectors regularly check private rest homes housing relief recipients. A mentally incompetent man was confined in a basement pen at one home. he was later adjudged insane and sent to Independence state hospital.
William Porter Witherow, president elect of the National Association of Manufacturers, said leaders of industry will be good soldiers of production during the national peril. They accept necessary controls for the emergency but oppose extending them beyond the crisis, urging freedom of enterprise remain intact.
Beardstown Illinois police are enforcing a sidewalk riding ban by seizing offenders' bicycles and detaining them in a city jail for a week before returning the bikes. The program aims to curb sidewalk riding.
Salt Lake City Utah Brigadier General Lewis Hershey head of selective service urged more American women to join defense work. He said women excel as welders and mechanics and could be preferred by airplane manufacturers. He also suggested moving men from deferred classes 2 A and 2 B into military service.
Edward Wosky, 58, a Rock Island railroad mail clerk and noted Iowa band musician and composer, died unexpectedly Saturday in Des Moines. A baritone horn soloist, he once played with the Ringling circus band and wrote The Harterian March dedicated to Za Ga Zig Shrine temple and Hugh Harter.
Cuban President Fulgencio Batista asked congress to declare a state of emergency and grant the cabinet extraordinary powers to rule by decree for 45 days, saying the time has come to adopt measures required by national defense.
Lightning flickers in the sky almost every night in certain sections of the Dutch East Indies, casting occasional vivid illumination over towns and coastal areas as weather conditions persist into the evening.
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