Weather and police notes from the Daily Record
The December 27 1946 Daily Record reports Chicago area temperatures and precipitation, regional highs and lows, and an Illinois agricultural forecast calling for mostly cloudy skies with light snow through Sunday. Police court items include multiple fines for drunkenness speeding and parking violations, plus divorce decrees and births announced in Mercy.
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Chicago
OSI
Miami
Bismarck
New York
Duluth
Denver
Minnepolis
Phoenix
Stous City
Los Angeles
Ilowa
GOP Rejects Stassen Open Forum Plan
The Republican National Committee rejected Harold Stassen's open forum program as impractical and costly. Chairman Carroll Reece said the effort could cause intra party strife and should be run outside official party machinery. Stassen offered to hand over forum operations to the committee before the December 5 meeting.
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Washington
Republican National Committee
Harold E. Stassen
Carroll Reece
Stassen
Henry T McKnight
Reece
Dentists Graduated In 1945 46 Reach Second High Year
The Council on dental education of the American Dental Association announced that U nited States dental schools awarded 2 666 degrees in the 1945 46 school year, the second largest total in recent history, following 3 212 in 1944 45 during wartime peak.
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Chicago
United States
Council On Dental Education
The
American Dental Association
Janet Crabbe and Lawrence Butler Marry in Cedar Rapids
Janet Crabbe wed Lawrence Bruce Butler at St John’s Episcopal Church with Rev Dominic Loferski officiating. The couple, both University of Iowa students, will reside in Iowa City after a reception for about 300 guests at Cedar Rapids Country Club.
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Martha Janet Crabbe
Lawrence Bruce Butler
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Dominic Loferski
Thomas L. Crabbe
Park Avenue SE
Butler
Benjamin Franklin Butler
Waterloo
Frances Marshall
Sally Stamats
Faille
Thomas Walker Crabbe
Donald Rathbun
Robert Dee
Deward Felcher
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids Country Club
University of Iowa
Pi Beta Phi
Mortimer Clearland
Ben G. Howry
Richard Shane
W. H. Acker
R. D. Acker
Carleton Sias
Carl Davis
Robert Hotchkiss
Ray S. Paul
Julia Paul
Robert W. Waite
Home Town Shaping Future, Masons Are Told
Missouri clergyman urges Masons to shape tomorrow through home town values. Rev Raymond McCallister notes peace begins at home and warns individuals to sustain idealism and friendship amid dark times. Crescent lodge hosts St Johns night with community leaders and Eastern Star banquet attendees.
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Missouri
Raymond McCallister
Missouri Council of Churches
Webster Groves
Christian Church
Crescent Lodge
Masonic Hall
Mr. McCallister
Cedar Rapids
Masonry
McCallister
Carroll C. Roberts
Ray C. Coutts
Jay W. Hesser
Earl O. Coffing
T. James Bell
WMT
Rose Marie Jun
Ned Schaut
Norman Emerson
Jack Leonard
June Caldwell
Malta
Order of Eastern Star
Glenn E. Norton
George E. Farmer
Weston D. Ralston
George H. Cockburn
George R. Starman
Air Forces Take Command of North Hemisphere Defenses
The army transfers strategic northern ramparts control to the air forces. Maj. Gen. H A Craig becomes commander of Alaskan defenses while Maj. Gen. Robert J. Webster leads eastern air transport with bases in Iceland Greenland and the north Atlantic.
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Washington
H. A. Craig
Air Force
Alaskan
East
Robert J. Webster
Iceland
Greenland
North Atlantic
Japanese Premier Thanks MacArthur for Relief Speed
Premier Yo Shida thanks General MacArthur for the speed and generosity of U S and British occupation forces rushing relief supplies to earthquake and tidal wave victims in Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Yoshida
Gen. MacArthur
United States
Blue's Centennial Speech Forecasts Century of Change
Gov. Robert Blue at Iowa’s centennial celebration predicts major changes ahead as Iowa remains the nation’s leading agricultural state and grows into a more balanced industrial economy. He notes new factories in 18 months and cites DuPont plants, a Dubuque farm machinery factory, and a planned $30 million Davenport aluminum firm.
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Iowa City
Robert Blue
Iowa
Blue
duPont
Keokuk
Fort Madison
Clinton
Dubuque
Davenport
Towa
Canaan
Veto Clash Over Atomic Control Faces Security Council
The United States seeks to bar the veto in punishments for illicit atomic bomb making while Canada urges caution arguing clandestine weapons signals war. Russia opposes removing the veto and delays vote on Baruch proposals as Gromyko fails to attend meetings. The commission plans an interim report to the Security Council by year end, while Baruch findings favor treaties and international inspection.
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Security Council
United States
Canada
Russia
Gromykov
Gromyko
Moscow
U.N. General Assembly
City Briefs Corrects Reckless Driving Fine
Hosten Kalell of 835 Center Point road NE was fined 25 dollars and costs for speeding, not reckless driving as previously listed in the Daily Record Friday. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Sanford of Galesburg and Mr. and Mrs. Max Hillman of Monmouth visited Rev. Frank Ward at the Sunshine Mission en route to an evangelistic conference in Minneapolis.
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Hosten Kalell
Center Point Road
Daily Record
Sylvester Sanford
Galesburg
Ill
Max Hillman
Monmouth, Ill
Frank Ward
Sunshine Mission
Minneapolis
Ministers Gather for Cedar Rapids Meeting at First Presbyterian
The Cedar Rapids Ministerial Association plans a 10 a.m. Monday gathering at First Presbyterian church. Also noting a Friday ad error: Cool Roasted coffee advertised at 29c lb. should be 39c lb with coupon at Stempfle's Grocery. First Lt. John E. Walker, son of Mr and Mrs. Russell E. Walker, 1513 E Avenue NE, serves as executive officer with engineers at Wiesbaden headquarters in Germany, previously employed by Fruehaus Trailer Company in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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Cedar Rapids
First Presbyterian Church
Stempfle
John E. Walker
Russell E. Walker
E Avenue NE
Engineers
Wiesbaden
Germany
Fruehaus Trailer Company
Fort Wayne
Ind
Army
Give Russia Time To Settle Lend-Lease Accounts
Washington voices split reaction as Rep Bloom urges patience while Rep Gearhart Hoffman push for prompt settlement. The 23rd report shows about 70 percent of America’s 50 billion lend-lease outlay paid or written off, with Russia at 23 percent and urged to negotiate, yet lacking response.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Russia
Congress
Gearhart
R-Calif
Hoffman
R-Mich
State Department
Bloom
D-N.y
Ent
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
Rep. Chiperfield
R-Ia
Five Killed Four Hurt In Bus Truck Crash Near Glasgow
A Santa Fe Trailways bus carrying 34 and a heavy truck collided at a bridge north of Glasgow Missouri killing five and injuring four, two seriously. The bus driver was Max Cannon and the truck driver Morse Elliott, both from Missouri. Names released include Clarence Fainter 40 Springfield IL Marge White 23 Hale MO and her infant son Kenneth Ashley 13 Clifton Hill MO. Survivors on the bus and details of the funeral arrangements follow for the victims.
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Glasgow
Santa Fe Trailways
Clarence Fainter
Springfield
Marge White
Hale
Kenneth Ashley
Clifton
Hill
Highway Patrol
Max Cannon
Kansas City
Chicago
Morse
Elliott
Jefferson City
Cannon
Patty
White
Huntsville
Bus Crash on Snowy Wyoming Bridge Kills Four
A Burling ton bus collided head on with a truck on a snowy bridge nine miles north of Worland Wyoming killing four people and wounding at least fourteen. Among the injured is Rose Mary Hansen of Wapello with cuts and bruises.
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Worland
Wyo
Burlington
Rose Mary Hansen
Wapello, Jr
Deaths Dr Amos Sherbon 73 Dies After Long Illness
Dr Amos Sherbon 73 a Coggan and Troy Mills physician for 35 years died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 9 30 p m Friday after a long illness born May 8 1873 at Clarence He leaves a large family including five daughters two sons and five sisters and brothers He was a Church of Christ member and Linn County Medical Society graduate of the University of Iowa 1910 Services and burial will be at the Church of Christ at Alice Friends may call Turner chapel until 9 p m Saturday.
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Amos Sherbon
Coggan
Troy Mills
Cedar Rapids
Clarence
Florence
Carol Sherbon
C. E. Sparrgrove
Central City
W. H. Schachtke, Jr
Edith Sherbon
Albion
Anamosa
Lem Bruce
Smykil
Riverside Cemetery
Lee Bruce
W. D. Line
James Lloyd
Jennie Lynch
E. D. Miller
Spokane
Wash
Waukon
Stasia O’niell
Burlington
St. Patrick’s Church
E. A. Wyatt, Jr
Ridgecrest
Calif
Harry
Raphael
James and
Ed Duffy
Hazel Wilford of Cedar Rapids Died After Illness
Hazel Cornelia Wilford 46 widow of Floyd Wilford and Cedar Rapids resident died at home 213 Eleventh Avenue SE at 10:55 p m Friday after a long illness. Born Ottumwa October 17 1900 she is survived by three daughters Doris Hoyle Ruth Beverly and two sons Frank Charles Carl and Thomas. Services Sunday at Brush chapel at 2 p m with burial in Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Hazel Cornelia Wilford
Floyd Wilford
Cedar Rapids
Eleventh Avenue
Ottumwa
Doris Hoyle
Ruth
Beverly
Frank
Charles
Carl
Thomas
Nina Wilson
Maquoketa
Brush Chapel
Theodore B. Hlubacek
Linwood Cemetery
Edgewood
Emory Beatty
Chicago
Wood Church
Here
Littleport Cemetery
August Pope
Rex McDermott
Roy
Raymond
Ossian
Barbara Heinen
Independence Hospital
St. Francis de Sales Church
Mayme Imhoff
Beverly Hills
Calif
Joseph
Dallas
Texas
Matt
Waterloo
Amandas
Jack
Los Angeles
Nick
Calmar
Vinton
Elmer E. Gaddy
Floyd
Mt. Auburn
Lloyd
Lyle
Ray
Orville
Zelma Ferguson
Evelyn Williams
Lee
Faye
San Diego
Alif
Local Resident Joseph H Carroll Dies in Cedar Rapids
Joseph H Carroll aged 68 of 1241 Tenth Street NE died at 11:15 a.m. Friday in a local hospital. Born in Quincy Illinois on June 24 1878 he had lived in Cedar Rapids the last five years.
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Joseph H. Carroll
Tenth Street
Quincy
Ill
Cedar Rapids
Purge Reported of Anti-Communists in Hungary
Budapest AP dispatch says Josef Bogmar indicates arrests tied to a Communist controlled purge of anti-Communist politicians and officers. Sources name 400 to 500 questioned and at least 100 held, largely pro American or pro British, including Domokos Szentivani and Balint Arany.
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Budapest
Josef Bogmar
Bogmar
War Ministry
Small Landholders Party
Political Department
Hungary
Domokos Szentivani
Washington
Russia
Balint Arany
Suit Against Carl Ellis Is Dropped
The case Wilson Wyatt versus Carl and Marie Ellis, over conditions at MKenridge Terrace trailer camp and rent disputes, was dismissed after Ellis reportedly moved from Cedar Rapids. Judge G K Thompson granted the motion by U S District Attorney William Danforth, ending government efforts to oust the defendants for nonpayment of 24 dollars monthly rent.
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Wilson Wyatt
National Housing
Carl and
Marie Ellis
Mkenridge Terrace
Cedar Rapids
G. K. Thompson
United States District Attorney
William Danforth
Ellis
Veterans’ Housing Project
Drivers Fined Five Dollars After Accidents
Four accidents Friday and Saturday sent drivers to traffic court on failing to have control. Alton Huntington paid five dollars after a collision with George Grubich Jr. at Twelfth avenue and Sixth street SE. Donald Dahnalek and Charles Whitters also paid five dollars for separate early Saturday incidents. Joseph Blin faced a charge of failing to yield as his car collided with Carl Spencer on Eighth avenue SW and Second street with no injuries.
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Aley
Portus B ‘Zel
First Avenue NW
Charles E. Whitters
S and Road NE
Donald D ‘Mnalek
First Street
Huntington
Jerry Cuhel
Twenty-second Avenue
Robert F. Tryt
Center Street
Stanley T Morrison
B. R. Hynden
Grande Avenue
E. M Lewis
A Avenue
Alton M. Huntington
Route 1
George Grubich, Jr
First Avenue
Twelfth Avenue
Sixth Street
Grubich
Huntington West
Donald Dahnalek
Third Avenue
Third
Fourth Streets
Charles Whitters
Oakland Road
Whitters
Joseph Blin
Marion
Carl G. Spencer
Mt. Vernon Road
Blin
Eighth Avenue
Spencer
Second Street
Cincinnati cabbie adopts baby as payment for fare
Edwin Nichols in Cincinnati accepted a baby as settlement for a $56 taxi fare after the mother of Gail Elizabeth could not pay. He cared for the infant with his two daughters and later sought permission from the child welfare board to adopt Gail Elizabeth, after the mother left and did not return.
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Cincinnati
Edwin Nichols
Gail Elizabeth
Nichols
Ohio River
Kentucky
Mrs. Nichols
Child Welfare Board
Courthouse Merger of Desertion and Cheating Charges Against Mercer
Walter E. Mercer 37 Davenport resident turned himself in to Deputy Sheriff and is jailed after waiving to the grand jury on deserted minor children charges filed Dec 20. A preliminary cheating charge alleges Mercer obtained 275 dollars from Citizen Loan Co Cedar Rapids on a false note. He had recently been fined for remarrying within a year of divorce. his wife also fined. Probate reports admit will of John Schminkey naming eight children as heirs and executrix without bond. Nellie Abbe named executrix of O E Abbe will as sole heir.
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Walter E. Mercer
Davenport
Mercer
Pete Whittemore
Whittemore
William Crissman
Citizen Loan Company
Cedar Rapids
Homer T. Wolcott
Johnson County
Dorothy B. Mercer
John Schminkey
Three Suits Dismissed by Judge Thompson
Judge G. K. Thompson dismissed three suits on motion of plaintiff. Dismissed were The Grolier Society vs Franklin E. Clark seeking 253.10 on an account Dr Herbert Gerstman vs John and Ruth Norris seeking 130 for professional services and Philomena A Muehe vs Frank C Muehe a divorce action.
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G. K. Thompson
the Grolier Society
Franklin E. Clark
Herbert Gerstman
John and
Ruth Norris
Philomena A. Muehe
Frank C. Muehe
Motorized Grocer Delivers Market By Bus In Ohio
Port Clinton resident Jack Varley operates a mobile grocery bus that brings groceries directly to neighborhoods. The converted bus functions as a store on wheels and uses musical horns to announce its arrival in consumer areas.
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Port Clinton
Ohio
Jack Varley
Evicted Family Finds Shelter After Fire Trap Eviction
World War II veteran Ralph Lake and his wife Mildred plus four young children were ousted from a three room garage apartment ruled a fire trap. They found temporary shelter at the mother’s home while friends and VFW members moved furniture to storage. City inspectors warned the owner Abe Glass months earlier, eviction delayed to seek a new home.
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Muscatine
VFW
American Legion Posts
F. E. Tewksbury
Harold Bierman
Abe Glass
Death notices for Linn county residents printed in Iowa paper
Sherman Stoneking 65 Mount Vernon, Emory Beatty 85 Edgewood, Barbara Heinen 84 Ossian, Elmer E. Gaddy 59 Vinton, Lem Bruce 59 Anamosa, Stasia O Neill 47 Waukon, Mrs Arnold Tholacker 40 Hopkinton, Albert Dumermuth 56 Fayette. Surviving relatives listed, services held or announced, local cemeteries noted.
Deaths in Fayette area mark two notable obituaries
Fletcher S. Greathead died December 22 in Los Angeles after 22 years there. A 1920s Upper Iowa University graduate, he was a former Iowa teacher contractor and designer. Survived by wife three sons John James Edwin a daughter Dorothy and brother W D Greathead. Burial in Los Angeles. Also A A Carter 86 longtime Fayette businessman died in an Iowa City hospital. He lived with grandson Guy Carter in Humboldt since September. Survived by son Alan three grandsons and a granddaughter. Burial details not listed.
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Albert Moschel
Donald Jensen
West Union
John Fay
Kay Dumermuth
Fayette
Eldred
Derryl
Mabel Schatz
Earl
Sioux Falls
S. D
Emory
Andrew
Herbert
Clermont
Walter
Elgin
Floyd
Cedar Rapids
Fletcher S. Great
Los Angeles
Upper Iowa University
Iowa
John
James
Edwin
Dorothy
W. D. Greathead
A. A. Carter
Fifth Youth Picked Up for Safe Thefts
Five of six safe robberies in Scott county since November have been solved. Police Chief Reed Phillips said a fifth youth, ages 15 to 16, was taken into custody. Arrests cleared up two more safe thefts in Davenport and nine burglaries in Davenport and Bettendorf with loot totaling over $4,000. Youths to be sent to Scott county juvenile authorities, possible placement at Anamosa reformatory.
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Davenport
Scott County
Reed Phillips
Phillips
Bettendorf
Treason Hearing Opens for Two Men in Boston
The first treason case since the Revolutionary era opened in Boston near Faneuil Hall as the government seeks indictments against Robert Best and Douglas Chandler accused of Nazi broadcasting roles. Witnesses, including Germans, testified under heavy guard while Chandler, tall and gray, is identified as Paul Revere on air and Best as Berlin's Best.
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Boston
Faneuil Hall
Cradle of Liberty
New England
Robert Best
Douglas Chandler
Europe
Germany
Washington
Chandler
Paul Revere
Berlin
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Nemmers
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Oakland Road NE
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Mos
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Grove Urt
Sts
John J. Prenosil
R. M. Chapman
Twentythird Street Drive
Fireplace. Co
Okinow’s Jewelry
Second Avenue
General A.arm
Evelyn N. Newton
Glenn D. Newton
Gladys McKeehan
Eugene McKeehan
Joe Miller
Franklin W. Tiler
Darwin A Bell
Kathryn A Barger
Robert L. Preis
Ezabeth M. Kutchera
Ralph H Rahe
Helen M. McLaugh
Joseph Flpp
Elizabeth Bauldin
Stanley L. Lowe
Helen Berry
Charles A. Lamb
Tama
Elizabeth F Ford
Crester B. Eales
Ferne Far- Tnytor
Olin
At Mercy
Carles Parazil
Mallory Street
Ralph Linsly
Camburncourt
Roscoe Phipps
Ffth Avenue
William McCauley
Nineteenth Avenue
Gordon Kellogg
Clinton Farrington
Seventh Street
Orville J. Whalen
Fifth Avenue
G.O.P
Janet Crabbe
Lawrence Butler
North
John Bturner
Iowa Development Commission
Ministerial Association
Lt. Walker
Lendlease
Chiperfield
Rapid Box Company
Amanda
Mildred
Virgil
Phillip
Larimore
N. D
Patrick
Gilby
T. S. Carroll
Daniel
Idaho
George
Palo
Monroe City
Monahan Funeral Home
Lyle K. Anderson
Oak Hill Cemetery
Blairstown
Hazel Wilford
Carl Ellis
Jimmy Hat
OFC
Haroomph
T.M
Shadow
City
MR. Hoping
Hell
Sam
OPUS
Panto H. Wesley
Madison
Wisconsin
Walter Mercer
Mount Vernon
Sherman Stoneking
Neff
Linn County
Bert
Scott
Taylor
Ely
Viola Berry
Lambert Cave
Hopkinton
Palmer
Arnold Tholacker
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Tholacker
Albert Dumermuth
Rochester, Minn
Fayette County
Citie
Florist
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