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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1945
Page
37
The issue lists weather highs and lows for major cities, an agricultural forecast with cloudy to cold trends, and various local legal and civil notices. It includes divorce decrees, marriage licenses, births, and multiple court actions, fines, and docket items with names and addresses.
Cedar Rapids patrons fall behind holiday mailing as Robert Lubbock warns that next week will be too late to ensure card delivery. Normally 700,000 Christmas cards pass through the post office in early December, but only 5,000 cards were among 49,800 pieces canceled Tuesday.
Salem Massachusetts Mrs. Constance Wallace petitions for divorce claiming her spouse stayed home too much and was too affectionate triggering the action.
United Farm Equipment and Sheet Metal Workers Local 155 at Cherry Burrell Corp prepared to strike after voting on wage demands. A Dec 27 meeting with company reps and National Conciliation Service is set. Union seeks 15 cent hourly increases plus automatic raises every 60 days, opposing a 40 hour week proposal.
Newly released army inquiry material shows Maj. Gen. Cramer finding no prior notice of a Winds message warning of a break in relations. It cites Navy witnesses denying receipt and Gen Short stating he might have ordered a full alert if warned. Kramer’s 1943 claim is treated as Navy responsibility.
The statement details aims to aid liberated Europe with priority on food and supplies, expand coal exports from Germany, organize reparations and disarmament machinery per Potsdam, and create German administrative agencies for finance transport and trade while preventing mass starvation this winter and over two years.
Manila UP Frank Young War Shipping administrator said no more Liberty ships would be converted to troop carriers. He cited conversion problems including insufficient life rafts and mines claiming four ships since the war ended, with 30 ships carrying 800 men each facing severe hardships and cargo concerns.
Eleanor Deveny 25 faces charges of contributing to the delinquency of Sonny Wisecarver 16 after the pair allegedly eloped to Oroville and described a four day honeymoon and intimate encounters. Juvenile Court Judge A A Scott denied dismissal and set arraignment for December 18. Deveny, mother of two, sat with her husband Cpl John Deveny as Wisecarver, called a dream man, stood firm amid the court action.
E A Eckert of Mascoutah long time Illinois Grange master warned that ongoing farm product subsidies would push American farmers into beggar status. He voiced opposition to cash subsidies and praised farmers wartime production while stressing their role in shaping postwar policy.
London dispatch reports the United Nations Organization preparatory commission postpones the UNO general assembly meeting from January 7 to January 10. The steering committee made the decision Wednesday.
The house education committee killed a bill to provide federal aid for schools by a 10 to 9 vote. The original $300 million yearly grant was reduced to $150 million for two years, aimed at equalizing public school opportunities across states.
Community leaders discussed emergency housing options for returning veterans in Cedar Rapids. Proposals covered temporary units costing about 2,000 dollars each, a permanent program funded at around one million dollars, and using Hawkeye Downs or quonset huts to house displaced workers until better solutions emerge.
MERNBERG INS reports an American military court convicted seven Hitler Youth members for theft of a jeep and placing decapitating wires across highways. One sentence suspended. Punishments ranged from 90 days to one year in reform school. Two other youths, including a girl, await trial.
Mrs Anna C Dochterman widow of William J Dochterman aged 66 of 645 Sixteenth Avenue SW Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital after a short illness. She was born Feb 22 1879 and lived in Cedar Rapids all her life leaving a large family including seven children and numerous grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending.
William Stirsky aged 78 died at a local hospital after a brief illness. He was born August 8 1871 in Western and lived in Cedar Rapids area his entire life. Survived by four children five grandchildren two brothers three sisters and several extended relatives. Funeral services at Kuba funeral home Friday with time to be announced.
Henry A. Birch a Fairfax saw mill operator died Tuesday. Services will be at Turner chapel at 1 30 p m Thursday with the Rev George Stauffacher officiating. Burial will be in Lennox cemetery four miles south of Norway. Friends may call at the chapel.
William Strub former Cedar Rapids resident died Monday in Iowa City after a lingering illness. He was born October 5 1869 in Iowa City. Surviving are a sister Mrs August Ruppert Morning Sun and a brother George Helena Montana. His wife preceded him in death May 1940. Burial will be at Shiloh.
Zelka at 1118 K street SW died Tuesday and will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Barta-Hesser chapel by T. B Hlubucek. Burial is at Bohemian National cemetery with friends invited to call at the chapel.
Operators and AFL Teamsters officials plan to resume discussions Wednesday to settle a month-long truckers strike across seven Midwestern states. R J May of the Midwestern Trucking Operators association noted potential developments at today’s meeting. Two federal labor conciliators joined a closed session of both sides. Daniel J Tobin, Teamsters president, presented the union’s position as drivers in Minnesota Iowa North and South Dakota Nebraska Kansas and Missouri press for higher wages.
Sioux City public safety chief George J Gibbons filed an affidavit in district court replying to ouster charges by four policemen and a citizen. He admits liquor law violations exist in Sioux City and across Iowa but claims Des Moines and other cities share the issue. He says VFW club operations and gambling allegations mirror those of many clubs statewide and accuses plaintiffs of ulterior motives, seeking bond and procedural changes.
Mrs. Henrietta Ruff of South Amana died at St Luke's hospital early Wednesday after a stroke. She became unconscious at the Ottumwa bound bus depot after boarding and was identified only by a medicine bottle bearing the name Mrs. F. J. Ruff.
An American Military Government court convicted all 40 remaining Dachau guards and staff of barbaric cruelties against Allied prisoners and civilians. Sentences to be announced later. Trial began last November with 42 charged. two missing.
The Japanese submarine commander who says he torpedoed the cruiser Indianapolis will testify Thursday in the court martial of Captain Charles B. McVay III, the Indianapolis skipper.
The board of supervisors authorized County Recorder Dempsy Jones to destroy obsolete records per Iowa code. They also transferred 62 654 06 from the secondary road construction fund to maintenance, granted a cigarette permit to F M Clark for Hiawatha Lunch on Route One, Marion, and accepted a 21 855 bond from Concrete Materials and Construction for a contract let Nov 27.
Alfonso Rodriguez, 21, found guilty of rape, filed a motion for a new trial and exceptions to the court’s instructions on Wednesday. Judge G K Thompson set a filing deadline for papers and will sentence him Friday.
Leroy Findley, 23, of 400 Third Avenue SW, starts a 30 day jail term for a six month sentence imposed November 26 after pleading guilty to assault and battery. The balance may be suspended on good behavior after the 30 days. The Linn Co-operative Oil company files two suits Wednesday against Ralph Langhoff and Loren M. Stewart to collect overdue bills. Langhoff owes 142.84 for merchandise bought in 1941 and Stewart owes 204.74 for a 1944 accumulating account.
Weather report notes a rapid temperature climb with mostly cloudy skies in Cedar Rapids. Tonight will be about 18 degrees with a low near 18, Thursday bringing occasional light snow flurries and a peak around 23 degrees in nearby Davenport and Atlantic-Lamoni.
Justice Churchill fined Lynch Transfer $25 and costs on two overload charges for trucks carrying 1 760 pounds and four tons over the registration limit. The charges were brought by state highway commission checkers J Clark Hughes and WN Blanchine. Trucks are licensed to 10 500 pounds with a $25 fee. the larger overload would require $130 in license fees.
Fred A. Little 52, vice-president of the Des Moines Register and Tribune Co, died Wednesday at Iowa Methodist hospital after influenza A. A Prairie City native, he served as machinegun company captain in World War I and was lieutenant colonel in 1943 for postwar duties. He studied at Grinnell College and Harvard Law, practiced in Boston and Des Moines, then joined the Register and Tribune as general counsel and later became vice-president.
Des Moines report counts 137 deaths from automobile accidents in Iowa since August 14, V J Day, in an unofficial tally.
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