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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1948
Page
13
A thin grinning man about 40 held two women at gunpoint in the Woolworth store office in Carroll, taking paper money from the desk and escaping as shoppers crowded the store. Loss totaled around 645 dollars. manager A. E. Seamans noted the busy Christmas crowd.
Clinton Iowa AP services will be held Wednesday for District Judge George Claussen 66 who died Saturday night of a heart attack. A former Iowa supreme court justice 1932 to 1934 he had been Clinton county attorney 1914 to 1918 and practiced law in Clinton. Born August 6 1882 he attended University of Iowa law school and was admitted to the Iowa bar in 1909. He served as municipal judge 1918 two year term and from 1920 until his Supreme Court appointment in private practice. Surviving his wife are a son Robert a University of Iowa student and five sisters.
Fire of undetermined origin caused an estimated 50,000 dollars in damage to a two story brick building in Mediapolis. The owner Paul S. Fry operated an undertaker parlor on the second floor a furniture store on the street floor and a basement variety store. Firemen aided by a Burlington truck fought the blaze for four hours.
Gov. Rob ert D. Blue restored the citizenship of Emmet Twito of Estherville in Des Moines allowing him to take office as Emmet county sheriff. Blue also pardoned a $250 fine and discharged a suspended three month jail sentence from 1927 bad check conviction. Twito had lost citizenship then and was elected sheriff on November 2 but could not assume office without action.
Alvin T. Scher an 18 year old Claremont New Hampshire resident and Drake University student was killed when his car skidded off a road near Auburn Indiana on Sunday while returning home for Christmas holidays.
W F Pierick aged 35 was killed when a .22 rifle discharged while being removed from his car in Fort Dodge. He was found beside his vehicle by his daughter. The incident occurred Monday according to local police.
Military services for Capt. William W. Henthorne will be held at Pilkington funeral home in McGregor at 2 p.m. Tuesday. The 23 year old Iowa University graduate was killed June 15, 1944 in Burma while serving in the India Burma theater. He entered service in June 1942 as a second lieutenant and rose to captain after training at Fort Benning and Yale. He married Betty Bickel of McGregor on December 5, 1943.
Des Moines AP Powell 65 formerly executive vice president of the Iowa Light and Power Company died Sunday after an operation last Monday for a ruptured appendix.
Davenport physician Dwight G Kreul died at 78 from a heart attack Sunday. He had practiced medicine here for 51 years and was recently working a full day at his office when the fatal event occurred.
A newborn boy found in a Milton Iowa restroom was reported improving at Jefferson County Hospital in Fairfield. He weighed about nine pounds and was discovered by Charles Epperly after about thirty minutes of crying. The county attorney weighs possible action as officials identify the mother, who reportedly gave birth then went to a movie.
Des Moines reports that a proposed law to license practical nurses in Iowa will be considered in the next legislative session. Vera M. Sage, executive secretary of nursing examiners, sent a letter to the state executive council noting the measure could add several thousand nurses to the credentialed rolls to help ease the nursing shortage.
Otis V. Fetters, 51, pled innocent to a charge of driving a snow plow while intoxicated. He was released on $600 bond after a crash Saturday night involving a truck.
The body of Pfc. Howard Dolphin 23 who fell in France December 4 1944 arrives at Shelly funeral home in Manchester. Services are set for 9 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's church with his family including father J J Dolphin two brothers Donald and Joe Dolphin a sister Mrs Hugh Wise and grandmother Mrs Emma Donnelly listed as survivors.
Eastern Iowans who earned bachelor of science degrees at the end of the fall quarter at Iowa State College are listed by county. Notables include names from Buchanan through Winneshiek with majors spanning animal husbandry, engineering, industrial economics, home economics, bacteriology, textiles, and more.
The state board of education in Des Moines declined to recommend higher tuition at state schools before legislative action. It urged continuing current fees and studying non-resident charges, noting long-standing policy to set non-resident fees well above resident rates. Over five years, non-resident fees rose from 40 to 170 at Iowa University and from 40 to 150 at Iowa State College.
Lt Col J Gordon O'Brien formerly of Waukon has been moved from Washington to the judge advocate's office in Hawaii. During World War II he served in India.
E G Ted Schmidt 39 assistant cashier at Dysart National Bank was found dead at 6 30 am Monday in an alley behind Floyd Roth residence. He drove his car from Roth garage Sunday night and had diabetes for years. A Dysart High School graduate Schmidt worked at the bank over 20 years. Surviving are his parents four sisters and two sisters in California. Funeral plans not yet set.
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