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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1945
Page
9
The issue lists weather for Wednesday and two day forecast with clear to cloudy conditions and temperature shifts. It records numerous local fines for drunkenness and traffic offenses, including several $5 to $25 penalties plus costs. Births announced at St Luke's and Mercy hospitals include two sons and two daughters born December 26 to local residents.
Representatives Outland of California and Woodhouse of Connecticut criticized the administrations housing program as likely to worsen conditions. They argued veterans cannot afford homes near ten thousand dollars and urged prices around five to six thousand dollars with rents about fifty to eighty dollars. The two bankers urged restoring wartime controls and price ceilings, as Patmans bill would do, to prioritize low and medium priced housing.
Seven bombs exploded in central Jerusalem with two more in Tel Aviv. The criminal investigation department building was damaged and partially collapsed trapping some inside. Traffic halted as troops moved to emergency stations and armored cars patrolled. loud gunfire reported.
Spokane report cites engineer Jesse G. Pruitt stating the North Coast Limited was delayed by 10 minutes entering the yard as a horse ran wild with no signals. The incident prompted notes on yard safety and signaling.
Notice is given that on December 26 1945 J Kubicek was appointed and qualified as Administrator of the estate of Anna Paula late of Linn County Iowa deceased. All persons indebted to the estate must make immediate payment. Those having claims must file only authenticated claims in the office of the clerk of Linn County District Court Iowa.
Notice is given that on the 18th day of 1945 the undersigned was appointed and qualified as executrix of the estate of Maude Elizabeth McKernan deceased of Linn County Iowa. All persons owing the estate should pay promptly to Ann E McKernan executrix by the attorneys Perrine and Albright.
State of Iowa Linn County ss Notice is hereby given that the undersigned have been on this 12th day of December 1945 duly appointed and qualified as Administrators of the estate of ey a Linn County Iowa com a ae indebted to said estate are sequented to make immediate perment t thereof to undersigned Those aging claims against the same will file them duly authenticated in the office of the Crees of Linn County Iowa District in STOREY AND SAY Gmina Chaz Penningroth Attorney
John J. Wagner a Cedar Rapids realtor will chair the National Association of Real Estate boards liaison committee representing realtors at a national conference of realtors and lawyers. He will be co chairman at the cooperative event where lawyers and real estate men discuss mutual problems.
An American patrol uncovered 72 cases of Japanese government documents stored in a hidden village near Tokyo. The imperial sealed records include bills from the last 70 years and could bolster war crimes prosecutions against Hideki Tojo and other leaders. Tokyo had claimed most records were destroyed in bombing.
Washington OPA food rationing director George Dice said a further sugar supply increase for retailers would be announced Friday and take effect March 1. He added supplies would not arrive in substantial quantities before February and allocations to new businesses beyond veterans' ventures would be unlikely for some time. He predicted sugar rationing would continue through 1946.
President Truman plans to speak to Congress next month and may deliver the annual message in person at the Capitol. White House officials say a television broadcast could mark a historic first, with a radio address to follow shortly after January 2 ahead of Congress reconvening January 14. Charles G. Ross noted the radio address will be issued soon after January 2.
President Truman visited the Independence Examiner staff in his hometown and then spent two hours meeting with old friends at his Kansas City building before lunch with correspondents. It marked the second and last full day of his Christmas holiday at home.
Kieads Realtors appoint Carl D. Thomas as president to succeed Clarence White while Charles A. Siegfried is elected secretary reflecting a leadership shift in the Cedar Rapids real estate community.
Samuel David, 25, sentenced last November to ten years at Anamosa for breaking and entering and larceny, was found committed to the psychopathic hospital in Iowa City two to three weeks earlier. Deputy Condon planned to retrieve him. legal questions arise over district court jurisdiction and voluntary commitment without a hearing.
General Douglas MacArthur announced the unification of five U S air forces in the Pacific into PACUSA Pacific Air Command. The Fifth Seventh Eighth 13th and 20th air forces will operate under Kenney Whitehead Wolfe and McCullen with PACUSA overseeing air control for surrender terms and providing a striking force. PACUSA advances from Tokyo and maintains existing numerical identities.
Funeral services for Frank A Beals, president of Welch Cook Beals company of Cedar Rapids, who died suddenly Tuesday, will be held in Turner chapel at 1 30 p.m. Friday. The Rev David I Berger will officiate and burial will be Cedar Memorial park cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Orville Anderson 40 of 703 Fifth street SE Ralph Perrigo 35 of Kenridge Terrace NE and Jack Steggall 45 of 322 Sixth avenue SW were fined 25 dollars and costs by Police Judge Harry S. Johnson after pleading guilty to disturbing the peace. Anderson was arrested on a family disturbance alleged by his wife Perrigo by a tavern disturbance and assault on an officer while Steggall was cited on a complaint by his wife.
S/Sgt. Harry R. Mullin returns from Nagoya Japan after 29 months with the 114th Combat Engineer Battalion attached to the 32nd Red Arrow division. He wears the Asiatic Pacific ribbon with three stars and the Philippine liberation ribbon with two stars plus a presidential unit citation. Discharged at Fort Leavenworth he reunites with wife Bernice and parents at 412 F Avenue NW. Other veterans returning include Lt. William Gerald Neill from Oakland California to Cedar Rapids. Cpl. Francis Damon from Cedar Rapids. Pvt. Joe A. Evans stationed at Wiesbaden Germany. Robins H. Jackson discharged to Cedar Rapids. Sgt. Robert S. Mott discharged to Waterloo. Pfc. Robert E. Beltz discharged with European theater credits. Raymond T. Ashlock hospital apprentice returns to Cedar Rapids. Katheryn Burrier seaman 2/c spending Christmas with parents then base at Memphis. Pvt. David C. Martin to Camp Pickett for overseas duty after Camp Hood.
Iowa gasoline tax receipts for 1945 totaled 19.51 million dollars, the highest since the tax began nearly 21 years ago. The 1941 peak was 18.2 million with a three cent rate. in 1945 the rate rose to four cents after July 4. Refunds to non highway users reached 5.01 million, a record high, while a trust fund held 2.05 million after December withdrawals.
Miners pushed equipment along a marginal grade track into the mine when a blast collapsed the shaft just after 7 a.m. on Wednesday. Wives and children waited in smoke stained cold, wrapped in quilts, hopeful yet grim as rescue efforts stretched over the half mile to the bottom exit.
Postmaster Horace Parrish and a young woman postal clerk were abducted by two men and left bound near Pontiac around midnight. Sheriff said Parrish identified the abductors as two men who had escaped from the Sanilac county jail shortly before.
Funeral services for Agatha Margaret Elizabeth Dennis, 939 Daniels Street NE, who died Monday, will be held in the Turner chapel at 3 30 p m Friday. The Rev Frank Ward will officiate and burial will be in Cedar Memorial Park. Friends may call at the chapel.
Funeral services for John Krejci will be held in the Polansky chapel at 2 p.m. Friday. T. B. Hlubucek will officiate and burial will be in St. John's cemetery. Hanford Post No. 5 American Legion will have charge of the military service at the grave. Friends may call at the
Manila AP reports Col. J C Campbell of the 71st replacement depot said three troopships will transport homebound soldiers after protests over a canceled voyage. He added the depot will be cleaned out by December 31.
Donald Edward Chesmore four year old son of Mr and Mrs Paul Chesmore 529 C avenue NE Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 1 36 a m Thursday after a brief illness Surviving include his brother Paul LeRoy sister Patricia Mae grandmother Mrs Jessie Waterbury all of Cedar Rapids Funeral services will be held in the Moon chapel at 1 30 p m Saturday Friends may call at the chapel
Fred L. Cain aged 67 died in a local hospital at 6 am Thursday after a long illness. Born June 10, 1879 in Randolph Indiana, he lived much of his life in Shenandoah and moved to Cedar Rapids four years ago to live with his daughter Mrs Maxine Fox. Survived by daughter and son Max K. Cain of Los Angeles, two brothers Freeman and Ora Cain of Twin Falls Idaho, three grandchildren Dixie Janet Cain of Los Angeles and Gary Fox of Cedar Rapids. He was a Methodist. Body to be moved from Turner mortuary Friday to Shenandoah for funeral and burial.
Lloyds reports 30 American soldiers severely wounded when a storm battered the troopship Athos II in the Atlantic. The vessel carrying about 3,000 troops reached Horta Azores on its voyage from Le Havre to New York.
Notice is hereby given that on the 2nd day of a hearing will come before the District Court at the Court House in Cedar Rapids Iowa for the proof of the will in Linn County. The Notice invites all whom it may concern to attend and contest if desired.
Hollywood report says Mary Astor and Chicago broker Thomas Wheelock wed in Arizona the day before Christmas. The 39 year old actress has had four marriages and announced the union via telegram from her studio. Wheelock, 41, has been married twice before.
Rome dispatch notes Libera Stampa's view that a foreign pope is likely with 42 non-Italians in the new cardinalate. The piece recalls Adrian VI of Utrecht as the last non-Italian pope in 1522. An anonymous booklet features Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York.
United States surplus property in India valued over 500 million dollars will be sold to the Indian government under a Monday agreement. The figure is not the sale price and actual prices will be settled in early 1950 in Washington talks. Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Terry said the deal aims to prevent Indian economic dislocations and would enable earlier homecoming of American troops, though inactivation is months away. About 50 000 American troops remain in India on January 1.
The Navy says its wartime rotation plan remains in effect but will not block discharge of sailors eligible under the point system. Sailors with enough points will be brought home for discharge regardless of overseas time, after 18 months of overseas service under the rotation plan.
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