Weather and police court items from Cedar Rapids daily record
February 1947 weather summary shows cold, partly cloudy, diminishing winds with a shift to fair and warmer by Monday and Tuesday. Police court reports list disturbances of the peace, license issues, driveway blocking, arterial highway entries, meter violations, and multiple $1.50 costs entries along with several divorce and fire notices and a long list of birth announcements from various area hospitals and towns.
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Bismarck
Miami
Chicago
Minneapolis
Denver
New York
Los Angeles
Sioux City
John Bernard Cummings
Green Avenue No
Robert
Fura
A Avenue NW
George Barwin
First Avenue E
Roger Hartman
First Avenue
Emmett Collister
Ninth Street
Carl E. Hartman
First Avenue NW
Leonard K. Brown
Blake Boule
Wayne Carpenter
Marion Michael Duffy
Emma Svoboda
Bever Avenue
Death services for Joseph Lesinger postponed
Funeral services for Joseph Lesinger were rescheduled from Saturday to 1 30 p m Monday at the Polansky chapel with friends invited to call at the chapel prior to the service.
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Joseph Lesinger
Polansky Chapel
Services for Mrs Frank Janeba Held at Local Funeral Home
Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Janeba of 1432 Second Street SW were scheduled for 3 p.m. Sunday at the Janeba funeral home with Rev. Milo Filipi and Theodore B. Hrubucek officiating. Burial will follow in Bohemian National Cemetery. A Cedar Rapids sister, Mrs. Josephine Matias, was noted, and Mrs. Janeba was a member of the Homesteaders in addition to other Friday Gazette listed groups. Friends may call at the funeral home prior to services.
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Frank Janeba
Second Street
Janeba
Milo Filipi
Theodore B. Hrubucek
Bohemian National Cemetery
Homesteaders
Cedar Rapids
Josephine Matias
Pheasants Receive Corn Drops From Planes
Des Moines August reports that the conservation commission says fliers are dropping shelled corn to pheasants and quail at no charge. The corn is placed in paper sacks and dropped in open areas, spreading widely when sacks break. Officials note winter deaths among pheasants have risen to their highest in years.
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Des Moines
The
Conservation Commission
Iowa Legislators Favor Wilson Debt Resolution
Des Moines lawmakers approve a joint resolution urging Congress to back Sen. Wilson of Iowa in a plan for a 10 percent annual debt reduction with tax increases if needed to fund the program. The measure calls for congressional favorable consideration of Wilsons proposal.
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Iowa
Wilson
Des Moines
House
Senate
Congress
U. S
Compromise On Half Rate Tax Proposed
Iowa plan to settle the income tax controversy would keep a 50 percent abatement on personal taxes due March 31 and then return to 100 percent for 1948. Rep. Ed Morrissey proposed transferring 15 million from three point and use tax funds to the general fund as an emergency nest egg. If state expenses fell, the tax would revert to full rate under a legislative panel, with the State Tax Commission ordered to collect at 100 percent.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Edward J. Morrissey
Valeria
House
Morrissey
Senate
Appropriations and Ways and Means Committee
State Tax Commission
State Executive Council
Three auto accident suits file in district court
Courthouse records show three personal injury and property damage suits filed Saturday. Howard K. Springer seeks 16,213.20 against Stanley Reid for injuries from a Nov 27, 1945 head on crash at First avenue and First street W. Aaron Hanks sues Robert J. Ramsey for 753.66 for a Sept 27, 1946 intersection crash at Second avenue and Eighteenth street SE, plus 500 for his wife’s injuries and 253.66 for car repairs. Jack E. Scott seeks 122.27 against Harry Goldstein for a damage incident at First avenue and Tenth street West on Aug 24, 1946.
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Howard K. Springer
Stanley Reid
Springer
Reid
First Avenue
First Street
Aaron Hanks
Robert J. Ramsey
Second Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Hanks
Jack E. Scott
Harry Goldstein
Tenth Street West
Universal C I T Corp Wins Judgment Against Mercer
Judge G K Thompson in district court Saturday awarded Universal C I T Corporation a judgment of 1391.80 against Walter E Mercer on a promissory note Mercer signed with Kramer Constrates Company on October 1 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Universal C. I. T. Corporation
Walter E. Mercer
G. K. Thompson
Mercer
Kramer Constrates Company
Nolan will admitted to probate in district court
The will of Frank FP Nolan who died January 31 was admitted to probate in district court Friday. The People's Savings Bank of Cedar Rapids named executor with a bond of $500. Estate left to nieces Dorothy Nolan and Mary Helming and nephews John E Nolan Vincent Nolan and William James Nolan.
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Frank FP. Nolan
People’s Savings Bank of
Cedar Rapids
Nolan
Dorothy Nolan
Mary Helming
John E. Nolan
Vincent Nolan
William James Nolan
One Killed Seven Hurt In Derailment Of Train
A Frisco Will Rogers passenger train derailed after a broken rail Friday night near Republic Missouri. Four rear cars left the rails, killing 67 year old Dr. James D. Osborn of Oklahoma and injuring seven others as the 10 car train bound for St. Louis from Oklahoma City halted.
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Republic, Mo
Frisco Railroad
Will Rogers
James D. Osborn
Frederick
Oklah
St. Louis
Oklahoma City
Passengers shaken as five Milwaukee train coaches derail
About 100 passengers were shaken up but not injured when five coaches on a Milwaukee passenger train derailed Friday night. The derailed train was en route from New Lisbon to Minocqua, Wisconsin, when the incident occurred near Wisconsin Rapids.
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Wisconsin Rapids
Wis
Milwaukee
New Lisbon
Minocqua
Probate of Will Notice for George Esc, Cedar Rapids Iowa
Notice is given that on February 14 1947 at 9 o'clock in Cedar Rapids Iowa the district court will hear the instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of George Esc deceased for proof and probate. Dated Cedar Rapids Iowa February 7 by Carl Hendrickson attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Svuer
Linn
George Esc
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rauids
Iowa
Marshall outlines bipartisan foreign policy aims and propaganda fight
Marshall rejects unilateral disarmament and urges practical power for U S foreign policy. He backs Byrnes Truman UN goals, calls for honest broadcasting, and discusses Poland Argentina Pacific islands Palestine and access for U S reporters to Moscow talks. He notes limits on selecting correspondents for the Moscow conference.
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Marshall
United States
Senate
United Nations
Winning Close Elections Comes Naturally to Him
In Whitley county township politics, R. F. Bitting has been recount elected for the second time. He first won after a 1942 tie was settled by recount, gaining a six vote majority. In the latest race, a recount left him ahead by one vote.
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Columbia City
Ind
R. F. Bitting
Whitley County
Bitting
U N Deadlock Over Disarmament Persists At New York
In New York United Nations diplomats failed to privately resolve the disarmament dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union. Warren Austin and Andrei Gromyko remained entrenched as representatives from Australia France Belgium and Colombia reported defeat in pushing a compromise. They will likely bring the issue to a public Security Council session next week after a final late Friday effort collapsed.
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New York
United Nations
U.N. Security Council
Australia
France
Belgium
Colombia
Warren Austin
United States
Andrei Gromyko
Russia
Gromyko
Austin
Paul Hansluck
U.N
Empire State Building
Security Council
U.S
U.N. Atomic Energy Commission
U.N. Disarmament Commission
USN
Upper Manhattan
Weather and travel woes halt many routes across Iowa
Severe winter conditions crippled rail and bus service from Cedar Rapids to Des Moines and Chicago. Passenger trains ran two to four hours late. freight and mainline rail resumed later. Snow and ice stranded passengers in Carroll Hampton and Mason City. Dramatic fatalities linked to slick streets raised winter dangers.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Weather and power outages across the nation after cold wave
The report details daylong operation maintenance and flight consolidation, rumors of Iowans dropping pheasant feed from planes, and conservationists tossing corn to starving birds. It notes a severe cold spell from Wyoming to the East Coast, snow in Georgia, cold in the Deep South, and widespread power and telecom damage. Thirty to forty lines of data provided on plant closures and record snowfall in New York. The Des Moines weather office reports January as the warmest since 1944, despite subzero readings in Elkader and varying temperatures across Missouri Valley.
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Wyoming
Seaboard
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Gulf Coast
Rio Grande Valley
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Mercury
Elkader
Missouri Valley
Trucks Choke Cedar Rapids Junction In Snow Drifts
More than 60 trucks were tied up at the C R Junction west of Cedar Rapids as winds and snow blocked highways 149 and 30. Relief crews ferried food and shelter to over 125 truckers at two service stations while many slept in cabins, offices, and desks. Some moved out toward Homestead, but most waited for 30 to clear as seven auto transports bound for Denver and Salt Lake City remained stalled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Western
Manly
Mason City
Milwaukee
Rock Island
Oelwein
Cedar Rapids-Decorah
Cedar Rapids
Marengo
Homestead
Marshalltown
Carroll
Nebraska
Denver
Salt Lake City
Silver wedding anniversary marked with open house
Mr. and Mrs. C. 58. Mather will celebrate their silver wedding anniversary Sunday with an open house. Friends and relatives are invited to call between 2 and 5 p.m. or 7 and 9 p.m. at 807 Camburncourt SE. City briefs note Orie S. Imes at 520 Forest drive SE remains in Veterans' hospital Des Moines for two more weeks after an operation last week.
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Orie S. Imes
Forest Driver SE
Veterans’ Hospital
Des Moines
Engineering exams set March dates in Des Moines
The Iowa State Board of Engineering Examiners will hold a professional engineering exam March 4 and 5 and a land surveying exam March 6, starting at 9 a.m. in the senate chamber at the statehouse in Des Moines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa State Board of Engineering Examiners
Senate Chamber
Statehouse
Des Moines
Cornell graduate candidate Jerome Greenberg to speak at Ithaca ceremony
Correction in this notice clarifies that Martin L Kennedy who was fined for assault and battery does not reside at the address he provided. The report names Greenberg as Jerome son of Frank and Mrs. Greenberg of 417 Nineteenth Street NE and notes his candidacy for a bachelor of science in civil engineering at Cornell University commencement in Ithaca New York on Wednesday.
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Jerome Greenberg
Frank Greenberg
Nineteenth Street
Cornell University
Ithaca
N.Y
Martin L. Kennedy
Justice Court
Eighth Avenue SE
New Citizen Learns American Customs in Food Tale
In Seattle Theodore Schon, 50, recently naturalized, wandered into police saying he had not eaten in 43 days. He, born in Poland, claimed ignorance of a system where food access requires money and explained his delay as not knowing where one could obtain meals.
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Seattle
Theodore
Schon
Poland
British plan on Palestine faces Arab hostility and threats of war
London AP reports Arabs refuse to accept the British proposal for Palestine, warning that admitting 100,000 Jews from displaced persons camps could spark war. Arab leaders Jamal Husseini and Emile Ghoury say they will not study the plan tonight, while British Colonial Secretary Creech Jones warns of possible military action if violence erupts. The issue centers on immigration levels and whether the plan will be imposed despite Arab or Jewish responses.
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London
Palestine
Emile Ghoury
Jamal Husseini
Husseini
Whitehall
Europe
Arthur Creech Jones
Moshe Shertok
Jewish Agency
Creech Jones
Shertok
Holy Land
Truman
United States
Joseph T. McNarney
U. S. Army
Evacuation of Britons in Palestine Complete
Evacuation of British women and children from Palestine finished Friday as troops fortified Jerusalem. The final digging in stage began with occupation of commandeered Jewish dwellings in the Rehavia quarter in readiness for a possible clash with the Jewish underground.
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Jerusalem
INS
Palestine
Rehavia
Pattern 3984 for Jr. Miss frock with accessories
Readers are invited to order Pattern 3984 for Jr. Miss sizes 11 through 17. The pattern includes a scooped neckline with a dim nette fill-in dickey, a fitted waist, scalloped details, gloves, and complete illustrated instructions. Send 25 cents to Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept. in Chicago Illinois with name address zone size and style number.
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Dickey
Cedar Rapids Gazette
N. Clinton Street
Chicago
Ill
Operation on Ape Boy Big Success
David Ruge a 17 year old Chicago youth once called the ape boy is headed home after a Grand Rapids plastic surgery operation. The surgeon Dr Ferris Smith performed the facial remodeling without charge following a prior extortion case. Ruge says he is glad to be returning to work and no longer fears taunts.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
David Ruge
Chicago
Grand Rapids
Ruge
Ferris Smith
Dr. Smith
Two Hurt in Crash At West Liberty
Special to The Gazette two men injured in a collision between an ice cream truck and an automobile on high way six at the western edge of West Liberty Friday afternoon Victor Spronstead 35 Davenport driver of the automobile suffered cuts lacerations contusions a possible skull fracture and internal injuries He was treated then taken to Mercy hospital Davenport R E Bryant 33 Lee Summit Mo who was riding with Spronstead suffered head cuts and bruises After treatment he boarded a train for Kansas City Both Spronstead and Bryant employed by General Mills Charles E Gossell Iowa City drove the ice cream truck He was not hurt Highway patrolmen cited poor visibility and bad highway conditions.
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the Gazette
West Liberty
Highjaway 6
Victor Spronstead
Davenport
Mercy Hospital
R. E. Bryant
Lee Summit
Spronstead
Kansas City
Bryant
General Mills Corporation
Charles E. Gossell
Iowa City
Four Bank Employees Identify Mrs Dixon
In Des Moines AP report, Mrs Opal Dixon 35 faces trial for entering a bank with intent to rob and threatening to blow up the bank. Four bank employees identified her as the woman who on January 22 entered the bank with a syringe filled with mouthwash, demanding an envelope of money. She allegedly escaped with 2950 dollars and faces a mandatory life sentence if convicted.
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Des Moines
Opal Dixon
Dixon
Nazi General Found in Disguise in Prison Camp
London UP reports Maj. Gen. Hermann von Hannecken former commander of German forces in Denmark from 1942 to 1946 was found disguised as a common POW in a British camp. The Daily Telegraph says he likely will be handed to Denmark for trial as a war criminal.
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London
Hermann von Hannecken
Denmark
Daily Telegraph
Bu Pane Gas Company Incorporation Notice
Notice of incorporation for Bu Pane Gas Company in Cedar Rapids Iowa. The document sets the principal office, business scope including gas, petroleum products, and related services, and outlines share structure with 200000 shares of $5 par value. It lists initial officers Otto Kohl and Marvin Cobb among others, and notes perpetual existence unless dissolved by stockholders.
Sixth $100 Fine For Illegal Sale Of Used Autos
Billy Braun, 23, of 3310 Weing road NE, pled guilty to selling used cars at retail without a dealer license. He was fined $100 and costs by Justice of the Peace H. R. Churchill on Friday afternoon. Deputy Sheriff P. J. Whittemore said this was the seventh case in Linn county since an inquiry began. Six defendants pleaded guilty, paying $600 in fines and costs. one man pled innocent and was released on bond.
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Billy Braun
Weing Road
Justice of the Peace
H. R. Churchill
P. J. Whittesmore
Braun
O. L. Mead
Towa Department of Public Safety
Linn County
Laski Advocates U S Lending to Russia for Gain
Woking England AP reports Professor Harold Laski former executive chairman of the British Labor party urged a United States loan to Russia on Friday night. He said it would aid the US economy and foster better Russian American understanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woking
England
Harold Laski
British Labor Party
Russia
United States
Bupane Gas Company of Cedar Rapids incorporated in Iowa
Notice declares Bupane Gas Company of Cedar Rapids is incorporated under Iowa law with principal office in Cedar Rapids Linn County. It may buy sell lease own distribute petroleum products and related appliances for industrial commercial or agricultural use. Authorized 20000 common shares nonpar with one vote per share. Directors officers named Otto A Kohl Marvin M Cobb Sarka Von Meter. Endorsed February 1947 by Otto A Kohl President and Marvin M Cobb Secretary.
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Bupane Gas Company
Towa
Low
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Iowa
Board of Directors
Otto Th. Kohl
P .Cinthe van Meter
Otto A. Kohl
Maryin M. Cobb
Gtocknoldara
Ecin
FDO! Mn
Aed
A.D. A
FCO Ipane
GAS, Company
Otto A. Rol
Marvin M. Comb
Sear
Bupane Gas Company OF
Ora
State of
Board of
Secretary of State
Otto A. I Kohl
Sarke von Meter
Marvin M. Cobb
Reteore
Cl Dar Rapids
A. D
Sigux City
Zews
Bioux City
On A
Denie Cers
The
Corporal
Clarke van Meter
Marvin BM. Cobb
Celar+Rapids
Latelle OO Ipanegal
Company OF
Sioux City
A. Kohl
Eee
Pane Gas Company of Sioux City Incorporation Notice
Zews corporation adopts articles of incorporation to operate a gas and petroleum products business in Cedar Rapids and Sioux City Iowa. Authorized capital 20 000 shares par 5 dollars. voting power in common stock. officers Otto A Kohl Clarke Van Meter Marvin M Cobb. stockholders liability limited. corporate powers include buying selling renting and service of all gas products and related appliances.
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Wend R. Warner
Narva Hotel
Eldon A. Mason
Viola Peenota
John J. Wheeler
Josephine Saldana
Maurice Duane Miller
Blairstown
Alrena Marie Kubec
Center Point
Lucille M Liebsch
Urbana
Grace Herrendeen
Harold Herrendeen
Everett L. Love
Lace
Lucile Lovelace
Howard William Custer
Laura A. Custer
Goodrich Tire Company
H. L. Moon
C Avenue
Rapid Gas Company
Wesley Stanford
St. Luke’s
Charles Hanks
Tipton
Wilbur Cornthwaite
Marion
Richard Carson
Walker
Erwin Johnson
1839
Avenue NE
Carl Haydon
Twenty- First Avenue SW
Lyall Beighle
Lisbon
Howard Schultz
Third Street
Raymond Hodgson
Robert Bearinger
E Avenue
John Ford
Fourteenth Avenue SE
O. Siegel
Wildwood Drive
Mercy
Carl Blake
Solon
Edwin Hembern
Highland Drive
George Rocarek
Seventh Avenue
Robert Sedlak
Twelfth Street
Charles Klima
Inglewood
Calif
Joe Dehner
Dehner
Lea G
Alch
Lesinger Services
Janeba Services
Wisconsin Dusnap
Imann
Abrk Bider Court
Carl Hendrickson
China
Arthur Bliss
Lane
Argentina
Mandated Islands
Pacific Islands
United Nations Security Council
Britain
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Eugene Millikin
Reds
Ussr
Moscow
Foreign Office
Walter Bedell Smith
Smith
Michael J. MacDermott
State Department
Rufus Bower
Brandon Farmer
Buchanan County
Ben Padgham
Dixon, In
Scott County
Frank C. Keppy
Bruce H. Abraham
Abraham
Chicago Great Western
Dairies
Rocky Island
Hampton
Carroll County
Iowa Falls
Adrian
Minn
North Western
North Western Branch
Pker
United Air Lines
Iiowans
Detroit
Florida
C.R. Junction
Cornell
Gruner
Sazes
Bank
Mrs. Dixon
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