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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1947
Page
13
Police sought a thief or thieves after the Veterans of Foreign Wars club in Independence was ransacked Sunday night and cash was taken. An intruder entered through a window but was interrupted by caretaker Ed Dakey. the suspects fled in a light colored car and were not located. Three weeks earlier the American Legion club was also ransacked.
Thieves entered the Hawkeye Cooperative Com pany grain elevator and Shrader and Engel Lumber Company on Sunday. The elevator loss included 650 dollars in checks and 27 dollars in cash from a combined machine, found later on a road three miles north. Lumber company cash drawer was looted and the dial removed from the case, but the safe remained unopened. Sheriff Fred Woe leads the investigation in Fayette County.
Davenport inspects a Sunday night fire that destroyed a three room house east of Bettendorf forcing Richard Young his wife and their son to flee into the cold. The blaze displaced a family and left the dwelling a total loss.
Arline Price, 19, remained hospitalized from cold and monoxide poisoning after 24 hours in a parked car that killed her companion John D. Ritchie, 23, who died at a hospital early Sunday. Residents in Kalsem Heights reported the car and police traced it to a possible mechanical issue. Ritchie worked at Grailton foundry and funeral services were planned in Bryan, Ohio. He is survived by his mother.
West Branch will buy a new fire truck this spring to replace a 1935 model. The Community Fire Fighting Equipment Association, chaired by John Offringa with Floyd Fawcett as secretary treasurer, will solicit funds in town and from surrounding farmers. A Tipton demonstration by Roxie Carlisle and Tipton firefighters showcased the newer vehicle.
Funeral services are set for Dr. James H. Spence 80 who died Friday after an operation in Clinton He had practiced veterinary medicine there since 1891 A native of St Marys Ontario he graduated from Ontario Veterinary College in 1890 He was a member of the Eastern Iowa Veterinary Association and the American Veterinary Medical Association He is survived by his widow Josephine Hall of Wheatland whom he wed in 1894
Associated Press reports Iowa’s 1947 traffic fatalities rose to 73 after two more deaths over the weekend. Herman Sbauler, 41, a Remsen farmer, died from a head-on collision with a stock truck driven by Elmer Otken, 27, of Le Mars, seven miles north of Sioux City. Otken survived. coroner S. H. Luken said Bayler’s death was instantaneous. Donald T. Olson, who lived in Coulter, died when his car struck a concrete abutment after leaving a curve on highway 20 about six miles east of Sioux City. driver Paul E. Jones, 44, of Iowa Falls, was injured but walked from the wreck.
Hubert Lannan 22 of Davenport remains critical after a Sunday crash at the Rock Island arsenal. Norman Hart 17 from Davenport was killed. Passengers John Mayo 20 Davenport suffered a fractured jaw and cuts and was hospitalized.
Raymond Brown, 29, of Des Moines, remained unconscious Monday after a Saturday night wreck near town. He had a skull fracture a broken jaw and compound fractures of both legs. Five others were hurt when the car failed to negotiate a curve and struck a signpost. They suffered broken bones lacerations and possible internal injuries.
Sixty five Iowa churches received certificates of merit for distinguished rural church work. Awards were presented at the Iowa Christian Rural Fellowship annual meeting in Ames. The program, supported by the Iowa State College extension service, honors cooperative church work and strengthens spiritual leadership in rural communities. Names include Silver Creek Methodist Coggan Giard Methodist Mc Gregor and Grace Methodist Brooklyn.
DES MOINES AP The House rejected a bid to delay consideration of the dry beer bill to March 11 by 55 to 44 and voted 62 to 40 against recommitting the measure to the liquor control committee. Leaders on both sides argued over whether to defer action or proceed, with supporters saying delay would let talk continue and opponents calling it an attempt to kill the bill. The bill would allow cities to refuse beer licenses and limit beer sales outside towns to certain clubs.
The 1947 Iowa Junior Chamber of Commerce convention is set for May 1 to 3 in Des Moines. The event was announced by the state board which also unveiled a statewide traffic safety contest with two $500 prizes for deathless man-days and best local safety program. The Tri-States Theater Corporation will co sponsor the contest. President Dwight Wallace noted the Jaycee board also backed an $8 million Iowa school funding allocation from general and current state funds.
Crop statisticians of the U S bureau of agricultural economics say with average weather future yields could rise about twenty percent above the average of 1923 to 1932. The report notes conditions and regional expectations for the coming season in Amherst Massachusetts.
The Iowa State Teachers College band of 75 under Myron E. Russell opens its spring tour March 5 at Eldora. Nine concerts are scheduled.
Davenport police held Russell Barnett, a 24 year old veteran and hotel resident, for questioning after a second fire at the Linda Mer hotel. The blaze began in a second floor bathroom at 4 55 a.m. Sunday, echoing a February 14 bathroom start in another hotel fire.
Three men, two with sawed off shotguns and one masked, robbed Bernie s Chicken Hut in Harlan early Sunday. They escaped with about $7600 in travelers checks and cash after cutting telephone lines and disabling cars to hinder pursuit. Proprietor Bernie Boucher identified a later chance of recognition if seen.
Mr. and Mrs. Payson Snow, longtime Benton county residents, marked a golden wedding anniversary as friends and relatives gathered to honor their sixty years of marriage in the community.
A couple marks their golden wedding anniversary after tying the knot on February 24 1897 in the home of Mrs Snow's parents Mr and Mrs H D Moeller near Blairstown.
Jens Rasmussen who died in January left an estate valued at 20245 dollars. The estate of Lucy Schaub is valued at 14324 dollars, per court records.
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