Meat and fuel rationing details in daily notices
The February 23 1944 Daily Record outlines rationing validity for meat gas and fuel items including brown stamps V W X and marks through dates February 26 March 20 and March 21 for gasoline. It lists spare stamp No 3 in book 4 five points pork. green stamps K L M through March 20. sugar coupon 30 five pounds through March 31. canning fuel cannon 40 five pounds for a year. shoe coupon 18 in book 1. airplane stamp No 1 book 3. and parking fines. It also records police court items drunkenness and birth announcements with several new births and divorce petitions and decrees.
Anniversary Toastmasters Club notes celebrate first year
Cedar Rapids Toastmasters marked their first anniversary with a Tuesday ladies night at the YMCA. The 25 members met weekly for public speaking and parliamentary practice. Roy Taylor opened the event with wives present, Nate Worcester acted as toastmaster, and speakers included Mrs Ed Zeller Fred Woodrich Lloyd Sidwell. A debate on applying anti trust laws to labor featured M W O Ricley as chair with James M Allen Z A Salil for affirmative and Ed Klouda Pierre Tracy for negative. Bob Ray of Coe College judged and ended with impersonations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Toastmasters Club
Y.M.C.A
Roy Taylor
Nate Worcester
Ed Zeller
Fred Woodrich
Lloyd Sidwell
Twelve Flyers Killed in Army Bomber Crash Near Millbrook
Twelve airmen were killed when an army bomber crashed near Millbrook New Jersey late Tuesday officials announced Wednesday. The incident occurred at Fort Dix area as the search and investigation began with military authorities reporting the fatalities and describing the crash as a training accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort DIX
N. J
INS
Millbrook
Notice of Administratrix Appointment in Linn County Iowa
Bernadene Hunter named Administratrix of Joseph Winter estate in Linn County Iowa on February 8 1944. Claims and debts must be filed with Linn County District Court clerk and all indebted parties urged to pay promptly. Attorney Co W Lawrence handles the administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Joseph Winter
Linn
Laws
Iowa
Bernadene Hunter
Administratrix
W. Lawrence
Linn County Lags in Series E Bond Sales
Series E deficit continues as Linn County reports $1,985,936 invested toward a $6,000,000 goal. Daily sales in Cedar Rapids on Monday and Tuesday totaled $10,911 and $3,000, far below the $163,510.66 needed to reach the quota. War finance officials warn that only individual buyers can participate with a yearly limit of $5,000 per person, placing pressure on residents to invest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn
War Finance
Cedar Rapids
War Finance Committee
Linn County
Rain of Fire Pelts London During Night Attack
German raiders mounted a two direction assault on London and southern districts Tuesday night, dropping high explosives and incendiaries in waves. At least 10 civilians were killed, fires started, and ten enemy planes were destroyed, including one by a Canadian over France.
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London
France
Britain
Panel disputes claims on meat price violations in Cedar Rapids
The price panel of Linn county rationing says no complaints about meat ceiling prices have reached it. Hearings began Tuesday for 72 wholesale and retail meat dealers, with officials noting no prior complaints to the panel or the current price clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kemp
Holdoegel
OPA
Cedar Rapids
Linn County Rationing Board
John D Randall
Lonergan Trial Delayed as Counsel Fails to Appear
In New York the opening of Wayne Lonergan’s trial for the bludgeon slaying of his heiress wife Patricia was adjourned to Thursday after his defense counsel did not show. An assistant said a telegram from Edward V. Broderick placed counsel in Toronto completing an unfinished investigation, prompting Judge John J. Freschi to consider contempt of court.
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New York
Wayne Lonergan
Patricia
Edward V. Broderick
Toronto
Ont
General Sessions
John J. Freschi
Seven Months of Torture in Japanese Prison Camp
United Press correspondent Robert Bellaire recounts seven months of physical and mental torture in a Japanese camp after Pearl Harbor. He details brutal beatings, starvation, filth, disease, and constant propaganda as he and 12 fellow Americans endured relentless abuse.
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United Press
Robert Bellaire
Executives Club
Pearl Harbor
Bellaire
Local deaths include Supple Lund and Sheldon obituaries
William Joseph Supple born 1881 at Onslow Iowa died in Cedar Rapids after months of illness. He worked 43 years as Rock Island wire chief and was married to Catherine Lof tus. Survived by wife three daughters two brothers a granddaughter and a grandson. Burial at Mt Calvary with services at Brady mortuary. John Christian Lund died in Cedar Rapids hospital after brief illness. Former National Oats employee born 1875 near Lyons Iowa survived by wife Ada four sons and a daughter, two sisters two brothers and two grandchildren. Myrtle Ivy Sheldon widow of Charles H Sheldon died in St Luke s hospital after eight months illness born 1875 in Allans Grove Wis came to Cedar Rapids in 1918. Survived by daughter and son, brother and four grandchildren. Burial and funeral plans pending.
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William Joseph Supple
Third Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Onslow
Francis
Mary Supple
Rock Island Railroad
Catholic Order of Foresters
Order of Railroad Telegraphers
Immaculate Conception Church
Catherine W. Loftus
Msgr
J. M Molloy
Brady Mortuary
John Christian Lund
Thirty-fourth Street
National Oats Company
Lyons
Low Moor la
Ada
Buell Edwards
Ross, Forrest
Merrill Lund
Myrtle Ivy Sheldon
Javenue SE
Charles H. ‘Sheldon
St Luke's Hospital
Sheldon
Allans Grove
Wis
Cogton
Charles H. Sheldon
Milford
Frank Jesina
Norman H. Sheldon
Frank J Miller
Minot
N. D
Marion
Anna
J. Elves
Warley McCalley
Rudolph Harris
Glenn A. Harris
Fargo
Cpl
Russell Harris
Sioux Falls
S. D
Obituary notices for multiple Cedar Rapids area individuals
Obituaries announce the death of Frank J Miller of Minot North Dakota formerly of Marion and Jean Sheldon of Cedar Rapids. Services are set in Turner chapel with burial at Linwood cemetery. Also noted are services for Howard H Zimmermann and Henry Allen Maxfield with burials at Highland and Linwood cemeteries respectively.
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Jean Sheldon
Cedar Rapids
Turner Chapel
D A. Loferski
Linwood Cemetery
Henry Allen Maxfield
Services for Mrs Ella Hibarger Schindel
Mrs Ella Hibarger Schindel dies. Funeral at Turner chapel at 4 pm Thursday conducted by Rev Robert F. Eittle. Burial in Oak Hill cemetery. The service is for 361 Fifteenth Street SE resident.
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Howard H. Zimmerman
Third Avenue SE
Mechanicsville
Turner Chapel
Charles J. Bready
Highland Cemetery
Anamosa
Ella Hibarger Schindel
Fifteenth Street
Robert FE Uittle
Oak Hill Cemetery
Rabaul Bombed No Interception by American Air Forces
Allied reports say Rabaul, once a major Nippon base feeding attacks toward Australia, was bombed again with less than 100 planes at its airfields. Japanese air strength and shipping are at an all time low as Liberators and Mitchells from Halsey’s Solomons forces blockade Rabaul and Kavieng. One raider was shot down. two thirds as many U.S. plant deaths as in prior war.
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Allied
Southwest Pacifiic
Rabaul
Nippon
Australia
Rabauls
Douglas MacArthur
William F Halsey
Solomons
Kavieng
New Ireland
Dog License Drive in Cedar Rapids Surges
City Treasurer Walt Miller touts his dog licensing campaign from his fifth floor headquarters at City Hall. By 1944, 770 licenses have been issued, 420 more than the same date last year, with fees $2 for males or spayed females and $3 for females. Funds go to the Humane Shelter and penalties begin April 1. Eight months after safety consultants arrived, a plant’s accident rate fell from 93 to 3.1.
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Cedar Rapids
Walt Miller
Miller
Walter
Jim Scolaro
Jim
Humane Shelter
Humane
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Daily Record
J. &. Boisen
C Avenue NE
James William O'Toole, Jr
Outlook Drive
Richard Groate
Mercy
Norman Dauber
Tipton
Raymond Lynch
Eighteenth Street
Roswell Camp
St. Luke’s
Kenneth Oliphant
Center Point Road
Leslie Frank
Silks Street
Leata Mae Wood
Arthur L. Wood
George Stang
Ethel| Stang
Eileen Wagner Gould
George M. Gould
Lonergan Counsel
Dupont
Duco & Dulux
Standard Tire CO
First Avenue
First Street
NCEA
Tokyo
California
Oregon
Roosevelt
Lindbergh
America
Japan
U. S
Hreace
The
Gazette Company
Associated Press
United Press International News Services
Carnar
U. S. Territories
Allen-Klapp Company
Michican Avenue
Chicago
Fifth Avenue
New Center
Detroit
Median Records
A.N.P.A. Bureau of Advertising
2Child oChi
Vicki VapoRub
Vicks VanoRuhb
William J. Supple
John C. Lund
Charles WW. Sheldon
Frank J. Miller
Maxfield Services
Schindel Services
U. S War
Clare
Newman's
Newman
Wilton
Axminster
Alexander Smith
Mohawk
Firth
Artloom
Orchid
Gulistan
Firth Axminster
Anminster
Ath Ae Yards
Neuman
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