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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1943
Page
2
Daily Record lists rationing stamps and coupons for Meat Brown Gasoline and fuels with expiry dates in 1944, plus shoe and air stamps. It also reports local emergency calls, arrests for drunkenness and disturbing the peace, birth announcements, speeding and parking fines, driving without a license, and various local police blotter entries with names and addresses.
Mayor F K Hahn told the city council that the Civil Aeronautics administration has advised that the army materiel branch will ship lighting equipment for Cedar Rapids municipal airport on or before February 15. The shipment includes over 50,000 feet of cable and wire, lamps, runway marker lights, a beacon tower, and other electrical gear for the completed airport. Materials will be stored in the Memorial building basement until airport work resumes next spring.
Des Moines AP reports Iowa's road toll on Monday reached 290, down from 381 on the same date last year, reflecting a year over year decline in traffic fatalities.
Secretary of War Stimson defended Eisenhower's Nov 22 denial of a Patton slapping incident. He stated the denial was military in nature and not a change in command or morale issue. He noted two confirmed slapping incidents and a separate verbal rebuke for not wearing leggings, unrelated to combat readiness.
The Supreme Court refused to review a Third Circuit ruling upholding a draft board's reclassification of a registrant from 3-A to 1-A after he became a father. Mrs. Adolph Stanziale had challenged the action as unlawful, arbitrary, and capricious, seeking habeas corpus for her husband inducted at Fort Dix in January.
The Supreme Court refused Safeway Stores Inc. review of an emergency court ruling that Chester Bowles, price administrator, could not be forced to act on protests. Safeway argued under the price control act the administrator must act on protests within 90 days of a regulation.
Mary Nadler of Bentleyville Pennsylvania was wounded in a drug store incident that began as a joke about coffee. Her best friend Bertha Levine allegedly fired a pistol that misfired while Levine laughed, the police declaring the shooting accidental and Nadler in fairly comfortable condition.
Sixteen railroads and terminal companies rejected the President's FEPC orders to stop racial discrimination against Black employees. They argued the orders lack constitutional authority and would disrupt labor agreements, risking chaos in transport and harming the war effort.
AP correspondent Kenneth L Dixon filed a December dispatch from the AEF in Italy noting Capt Robert L Blahnik assistant division engineer with details from a reconnaissance briefing near the Volturro river. Blahnik, wife in Moorhead Minn, served since 1942 after campaigns in Tunisia and Hill 608 earning malaria treatment.
In Chungking the AP reports Japanese soldiers in a city camp heard almost no news of Axis reversals. Nine privates and two non commissioned officers said they had not heard of Guadalcanal or Stalingrad. Private Akano Hironaka warned peasants would revolt if the war lasts two to three years.
A roundup of service members and their assignments includes Pvt William D Gilchrist returning to Farmingdale Long Island after a 10 day furlough. Buck Cummings leaving for Farragut Idaho after a 15 day leave. George Stejskal arriving in England. Ernest Dean St Germain finishing boat training at Farragut and on 15 day leave. Sgt Harry N St Germain back at Camp Pickett after Cedar Rapids furlough. John L Jiruska transferred to Alabama for preflight training. Pvt Arthur Ray Loomis at Camp Roberts California. Aviation Cadet Robert W Wessale finishing basic at Perrin Texas and now at Lubbock for advanced training. Gordon G Strickland graduated basic engineering at Great Lakes and stationed at Shoemaker California awaiting orders.
Cooking school Tuesday at 2 15 p m Glowroom advertisement Unit 29 Retired Railway Employees meet Tuesday 2 p m Memorial hall Marion Home Rebekah lodge apron dance Wednesday 2 p m hall 109 Second Avenue SE Cub Pack 12 Christmas party Friday Tay lor school Public welfare bureau Chamber of Commerce meet Montrose hotel Tuesday 12 noon Ed Sheffie 1703 O Avenue NW in St Luke s hospital after major operation condition fair City council approved Danceland ballroom stay open to 2 a m New Year Linn County Republican Women s club meet Tuesday 10 a m not 11 a m Montrose hotel Cub Pack 24 Christmas party Gar field school Wednesday gift grab bag parents required for entry All items are local community notices.
Washington AP The senate banking committee created a subcommittee to craft a compromise on the food subsidy issue and deferred action on legislation to halt subsidy payments starting Jan 1. Sen Taft urged a limited subsidy program tied to support price payments to farmers as Barkley Bankhead and Taft join the subcommittee. The panel plans a tentative report to the full committee by Wednesday.
Karl Edwards of the Davenport WPB office will appear at the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm for consultation on priorities. This appearance cancels his usual Tuesday conferences.
The Woman's auxiliary of Federal Union No. 18619 Penick and Ford will host a Christmas party on Wednesday at 7 PM at the Labor Temple. A potluck supper is planned and members should bring a vegetable dish or covered dish and a 50 cent gift exchange is described.
Despite some musicians being ill including Prof. Paul S Ray the annual Christmas vespers at Coe College proceeded. Miss Eleanor Taylor led the first part with the a cappella choir while Mrs Grace Huddle Lackhoff directed the vesper choir in the second. Highlights included Noel Alleluia and The Holly and the Ivy with Gustav Holsts Ave Maria for double choir and Vaughan Williams Magnificat as standout numbers. Mrs Lackhoff was soloist and Prof Joseph H Kitchin directed the choirs and orchestra.
George B. Peck a former Cedar Rapids theater manager died at his Tampa Florida home in December. He ran Greene’s opera house Cedar Rapids and managed theaters in Burlington and Rockford Illinois and was New York representative for an Illinois and Town circuit. He had lived in Tampa since 1924 and would have been 79. Widow Blanche Ewing Peck survives. Body to be brought to Turner Chapel for services with burial at Oak Hill cemetery.
Services for Mrs Mary Elizabeth Bailey widow of Thomas A Bailey will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Turner chapel conducted by Rev. W C Porter of Sinclair Memorial church. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial park. Friends may call at the chapel.
Mrs Lela Lap ham 68 of 1120 Ellis Boulevard died suddenly Saturday afternoon. Services were held at Beatty chapel at 2 pm Monday with Rev E F Byers Cresco and Home Rebekah lodge in charge. Burial followed in Linwood cemetery.
Virginia May Wood aged 21 of Belle Plaine wife of Charles Wood will have funeral services in Beatty chapel at 2 p.m. Wednesday with the Rev. Samuel Ramaker officiating. Burial follows at Linwood cemetery. Friends may call at Beatty's.
The Young Republican National Federation urged Congress to enact legislation enabling servicemen and women to vote in the 1944 election, in Chicago.
Washington AP doctors report the nation maintains health levels despite doctor shortages and war shifts. Key points include unchanged overall death rates from 1941 to 1943, fewer maternal deaths, drops in tuberculosis and pneumonia, and rising heart disease and cancer deaths. Cadet nurse corps to add 12 000 senior cadets by July. There are shortages of practicing physicians in war centers and a meningitis outbreak with 16 061 cases by Nov 20. Measles, scarlet fever, and whooping cough rise, while mild influenza affects up to 10 percent in some regions. Potential tuberculosis rise warned in industrial areas.
In Cedar Rapids the United States district court entered judgment in a civil suit filed by the OPA against George Potgeter of Steam Rock for selling and delivering yellow shell corn at prices above the applicable maximum. Treble damages totaling 475.68 were sought. a stipulation was approved and damages paid in full.
The Cedar Rapids post office stayed open Sunday to handle Christmas mail. Superintendent Robert T. Lubbock said 33 thousand Christmas cards and 270 bags of parcels were processed. All residential parcels totaling 20 loads were delivered.
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