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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1944
Page
10
Meat Blue and Sugar coupons extended with 1945 validity. Gasoline and fuel oil coupon changes noted. Airplane shoe stamps remain infinite with purchase rules. Disorderly conduct fines listed for several individuals in Milwaukee and surrounding areas. Marital and birth notices, court sentences, and two marriage licenses included with local addresses and names.
War Production Board Chairman J A Krug urged Congress to back War Manpower regulations with penalties on employers and workers who bypass decrees guiding labor to key war jobs. He cited a 311000 current shortage and urged statutory backing to prevent attrition from critical industries.
Seventeen people including 14 men and 3 women died when a two engines army transport plane crashed during takeoff at the municipal airport in Omaha. The Lockheed advanced trainer used as a transport belonged to Cimarron field Oklahoma City and had flown from Kansas City earlier.
Dr. H. Thorn ton of the University of Iowa told 300 at the South Side Civic club sports award dinner that Pearl Harbor proved America must abandon an adolescent foreign policy. He urged expanded adult history education and a united, world aware stance to prevent future wars.
U S District Judge Henry N Grayen gave Anna Woitishek until Dec 28 to answer charges filed Nov 18 by Earl Manholtz. The case tests the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942 on rent freezes and continued utilities. Manholtz claims Woitishek failed to pay utility bills included in his $25 rent for a property at 728 First Avenue SW. He seeks $900 treble damages for $300 paid under protest.
E. L. Wheeler of Belle Plaine Benton county supervisor was elected president of the sixth district Iowa State County Officers association at a Montrose hotel meeting. Clarence Kline of Black Hawk county became vice president with George F. Specht of Anamosa named secretary treasurer. Several eastern Iowa officials attended, including highway and auditor leaders.
Cecil B. DeMille obtained a court order restraining the American Federation of Radio Artists from suspending him for refusing a $1 assessment. The suspension would bar his Monday evening air show which pays him $98,200 annually. The court set a show cause date of December 15.
President Roosevelt signed legislation creating two assistant secretaries of state and nominated James C. Dunn of New York and Brig. Gen. Julius C. Holmes of Kansas for the posts. Dunn leads the division of European affairs and Holmes serves at supreme Allied headquarters in charge of political affairs.
Cedar Rapids voters may withdraw 20 candidates from the contest and vote until midnight December 16. The winner earns a Wilmington trip funded by the Chamber of Commerce. Any Cedar Rapids mother of a service member or any bond buyer may vote, with one vote per dollar of bond maturity. Ballots are available at issuing agents and require proof of recent bond purchase.
Friday the Linn county war finance committee announced contest standings to select a Cedar Rapids war mother to christen a Victory ship with the city’s name. Leading entrants include Mrs. Verne Sorenson Mrs Ethyle Breedlove and many others listed by pedigree and initials.
A charge of uttering a false check was to be filed Friday against Ray Malterman of Nevada, arrested by Detective Harley Simon and Patrolman Merle Burton at 823 Fourth Avenue SE. Malterman admitted writing the $6.21 check for Sears Roebuck merchandise, drawn on a Nevada bank, which was returned for no funds.
Don Hines Cedar Rapids city attorney named president of the Chamber of Commerce for 1945 after a vote tally. He will succeed William Quarton of station WMT and will be joined by P. F. Keehn Herbert Stamats S E Coquillette and A L Taylor in new or renewed posts with terms beginning January 1.
Memorial services for Pvt George Zalesky, killed in action in Holland on November 4, will be held at 9 a.m. Monday at Immaculate Conception Church, with Rt Rev Msgr J M Molloy and Rev Francis Lollick officiating. Surviving relatives include his wife, mother, sister Alexis, sister Mrs Valecia Murphy, brother Joseph, and niece Valecia Ann Zalesky. Burial plans and other obituaries follow in Cedar Rapids area notices.
Edward Langguth a longtime Palo resident died at 9 30 am Thursday. Funeral services will be at 2 pm Saturday in Beatty chapel with Rev J P Van Horn officiating. Burial is in the family lot in Palo cemetery. Friends may call at Beatty's.
Germany issues notes to the United States and United Kingdom accusing recent international law violations. Berlin cites attacks on German hospital ships in Italian waters and German field hospitals in Italy as claimed provocations announced by DNB on Friday night.
Lt. Gen. Scobie reports rising Greek attacks on British troops and a general strike in Salonika. ELAS leaders are in preliminary talks with the government, while over 900 ELAS members have been captured and handed to the government. British forces shell ELAS positions near Athens and Piraeus as sporadic fighting continues downtown.
Churchill denounced the leftist uprising in Greece as a lawless bid to seize power and warn of a Communist reign of terror. He accused EAM and ELAS of aiding Germans and said Roosevelt warned of an imminent overthrow after the Nazis left. He urged lawful exit from Greece with Athens stabilized. He also dismissed Sforza as untrustworthy and an intriguer, though Britain would not bar his return from the United States if he pledged support to the Italian government.
Churchill challenged critics of Britain’s stance in Belgium Holland Italy and Greece. He defended De Gaulle and Sforza while denouncing violence as a means to topple governments. He argued democracy must be led by the people, not armed gangs or mountain factions.
Motorists filing for gasoline rations after receiving the 1945 license plate must use the new license number on their applications. A. T. Pleune, chief of the ration board, said those who already endorsed coupons with the old number may write the new number on the stamp face.
Churchill argued that real democracy requires free elections with universal suffrage and rejected leftist groups using their war effort as entitlement. He warned against swindle democracy and asserted that postwar governments must be judged by their commitment to genuine popular choice.
British Ambassador Halifax said on Friday that the United States and Britain have reached a mutual understanding on key issues. The remarks came as tensions between the two nations ease following recent diplomatic talks.
The ambassador spoke after a state department conference with Secretary Stettinius. He did not define understanding or confirm an agreement on handling Italy and Greece. He said the clash of views would likely strengthen U S Britain unity by encouraging closer consultation on shared interests.
AFL paper handlers strike halts publication of The Globe-Democrat The Star-Times and Post-Dispatch in St Louis with editors returning to work orders ignored Publishers accuse union of stalling after contract expiry while the union cites wage limits set by the federal government as negotiations continue.
The District Court of Linn County Iowa will hear on December 13 1944 at 9:00 AM the instrument claimed as the Last Will and Testament of J F Hepker late of the county for proof and admission to probate. Cedar Rapids Iowa December 8 1944 Arthur Axmear Clerk District Court J Barngrover Attorney.
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