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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1946
Page
1
Iowa forecast shows Wednesday partly cloudy with warmer west and cold east. Thursday brings more sun and higher temperatures. highs 32 Wednesday, 43 Thursday, with 26 overnight Wednesday. Divorce petitions listed for multiple couples amid court notices and traffic fines reported from Cedar Rapids and other towns.
David H. Martin aged 17 who posed as a fighter pilot and lived at Santa Ana Army Air Base for three months was sentenced to a federal correctional institution until age 21. He was caught after stealing multiple items, not exposed by his disguise.
Miss Mabel Heisey died Monday at her sister’s home in New Philadelphia Ohio. She taught at Washington high 1924 to 1928 Grant high 1928 to 1935 Roosevelt high 1935 until retirement and earlier at St Ansgar Hopkinton Monticello Ia and Yankton Sd. Born in Monticello she was a Drake University graduate. Funeral services and burial will be in New Philadelphia.
Mrs John W Andrle 83 of 1110 First Street SW Cedar Rapids died at 1 30 p m Monday after a long illness She had lived in North Liberty 65 years Born in Czechoslovakia November 25 1862 she came to America as a child She was married October 18 1881 Survived by husband son sister two grandchildren and two great grandchildren A son died six years ago Funeral services set for 2 p m Thursday in Beatty chapel burial Cedar Memorial park Friends may call at the chapel
Henry Happel 69 of 436 Thirty Fourth Street NE died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 8 35 a m Tuesday after a brief illness. He was born near Atkins on March 18 1876 and had lived in Cedar Rapids the last two years. Survived by wife Katherine three children Eleanor Otto and Marie all of Cedar Rapids four brothers William George Andrew and Rev Peter Happel and two sisters Mrs Adolph Theiss and Mrs Katherine Nell. A son Gerhart died in 1930. Services at St Stephen s church Atkins Friday at 2 p m with a 1 p m home service. Burial in St Stephen s cemetery Atkins. Friends may call Beatty chapel until Thursday noon then at the home.
Mrs. Frank Llewellyn a former Cedar Rapids resident dies at her Oshkosh Wisconsin home after 15 years there. She is survived by her husband two sons Frank Raymond of Dubuque and Charles Raymond of Los Angeles and two daughters, plus her sister Mrs John Mc Bride. A member of the Christian Lutheran church and a Rebekah lodge affiliate, she will be brought to Turner chapel for funeral services.
Funeral services for George I Medhurst a former Rock Island railway clerk will be held at St. Matthew s church at 9 a.m. Wednesday conducted by the Rev J D Kearn Burial will be in Mt Calvary cemetery Friends may call at Turner chapel The Daughters of Isabella and the Holy Name society will recite the Rosary in the chapel at 730 p m Tuesday
Funeral services for William Henry Swartzbaugh 86 will be held in Turner chapel at 3 30 p m Wednesday. He died at the home of his son Earl 2008 E Avenue NE. The Rev H K leads the service.
Friends may call at the chapel. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery with Galloway officiating. In addition to survivors listed in Monday's Gazette a brother John of San Diego California is mentioned.
Funeral services are set for Jacob Bachman 93 who died in a local incident. The Turner chapel at 1 30 p m Wednesday will host the rites led by Rev P L Bornhoeft. Burial will follow in Shiloh cemetery at Louisa. Friends may call at the chapel.
Funeral services for Mrs. Lawrence Stein of 1421 E Street SW will be held in the Rohn chapel at 2 30 p m Wednesday with Reverend John E DeLong officiating. Burial will follow at Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call.
Judge J E Heiserman dismissed two law actions and a divorce petition at the plaintiffs request. The first suit filed Jan 7 by W E Gunsaulis and J W Burgess seeks 289.27 plus repairs costs from Ray and Mrs Shaddid for work on a Cedar Rapids area one story house. The second suit by R S Milner seeks 1 000 plus 8 40 costs against five California residents for collection of a judgment against a Cedar Rapids resident. The divorce action was filed last June by Libbie Victoria O Brine against Malvin L O Brine.
Marshall Kimm, 30, of Blairstown, ordered to serve a suspended one year sentence at Fort Madison penitentiary. He pleaded guilty January 23 to desertion and abandonment of minor children, plus 30 days in county jail for contempt of court. Brought to court after a secret grand jury indictment on January 16.
Frederick Webster of Cedar Rapids was named executor without bond for Bertha Schatz’s will. Died Feb 4 in Cedar Rapids. The Jan 13 1945 will provides cash bequests of 500 to Mrs Bertha Webster 200 to Ernest Kellogg 200 to Mrs Adolph Egger 200 to Mrs A J Holmes and 100 to Harm Schatz with remaining estate divided among these heirs in proportion.
The White House announced President Truman and Winston Churchill will travel by train from Washington to Jefferson City Missouri and Fulton then to Columbus Ohio. Churchill will address Westminster College in Fulton and Truman will speak to the Federal Council of Churches in Columbus before returning to Washington.
Veterans Administrator Omar N. Bradley and American Legion Commander John Stelle held a two and a half hour meeting in Washington. The talks aimed at cooperation but produced no settlement on their running controversy. Stelle pressed for a congressional investigation and argued Bradley should be a businessman rather than a soldier. The joint statement indicated only a partial concession, allowing part time fee basis doctors to grant temporary ratings for certain veterans with noted disabilities.
In Lydda area police rounded up 5 000 Jews in an unprecedented hunt for terrorists who attacked three RAF airfields Monday night and escaped after a running gun battle with British troops. Simultaneously, British army HQ ordered all civilian vehicles off interurban roads from sunset to sunrise.
The Mizpah Lodge No. 639 A F and A M opens at 5 30 p m for the Wednesday meeting and will confer the Master Mason degree. The South Side Civic Club meets Monday at C S P S hall with seven men to membership including George A V P Andrew L G Warren Harold T Larsen Richard P Hach Harry M Carney and Willard N Morgan.
Ambar Grotto and its auxiliary hold a regular meeting Friday at K. P. hall with a picnic supper at 6 30 p.m. Meat and coffee provided. Members should bring table service sandwiches and a covered dish. After the business meeting a white elephant sale will be conducted.
Awards were presented to Harold Cramer Bob Peddy court John Johnson Benny Schneider Teddy Ramsey Larry Wilkey James Borschel James Barnhart David Hodge Richard Kriz David Steiner Larry Smith and Eugene Feller during a covered dish gathering at the Methodist church last Thursday.
Police in Columbia Missouri hold Floyd Cochrane 34 on murder charge tied to the rape and death of Marylou Jenkins a Stephens College graduate found dead three weeks earlier. He allegedly admitted involvement in the Jenkins case in a later statement.
In Rockford Illinois nearly a score of spectators were injured when a wooden bleacher section collapsed during a donkey basketball game at Lincoln Junior High School. About 250 people watched as supports gave way sending many to the gym floor, nine seriously hurt and hospitalized.
Washington AP report cites Louis Rothschild of the National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers urging that manufacturers are withholding at least 700000 men’s suits awaiting OPA price regulation changes. He says withholding could ease the suit shortage once OPA revises rules on garment pricing though deliveries to retailers remain scarce.
A 47 year old Russian peasant, Jacob Grigoriev, testified in Nuremberg accusing Hermann Goering and other war criminals of destroying his village in the Pskov district on Oct 28, 1943. He described the massacre of his family and villagers, including his wife and 9 year old son, and said a disabled man was the only male spared.
Army and Navy personnel from Solon Lisbon and nearby areas receive honorable discharges. Tech 3/g Carl E. Pugh completed 39 months, with 12 in European and South Pacific theaters. James Tresnak earned the Bronze Star for actions near Pugo Luzon Philippines on March 19, 1945. Other notes include Sgt Frank Tresnak and Pfe. Marland Usher, with two Europe and Asiatic-Pacific campaign stars and retirement to home life.
In Yokohama an American military commission acquitted Shunsuke Kato, a Japanese university student, of war crimes charges. He was the first Japanese declared innocent of such charges held to date and was accused of aiding in beating Pvt. Charles R. Tolbert, a war prisoner from Cuero Texas.
The Cedar Rapids Symphony presents Ruth Ray of Cornell College as soloist in a Memorial Coliseum concert at 8 pm. The program includes Hadley Herod overture, Franck Symphony in D minor allegretto, Shostakovitch Festival March, Bolzoni string piece, Friedemann Slavonic Rhapsody, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, with Ray performing and adding two Negro spirituals.
L. L. Froning owner of an elevator in Vinton named defendant in an OPA treble damages suit filed in federal court. He allegedly sold 2 670 tons of coal for 1 376.72 above the ceiling price, with treble damages sought totaling 4 130.16 and an injunction against further overcharges.
The Veterans Administration will prioritize overdue subsistence payments for veterans in school. Beginning Friday, field office reps will interview veterans facing delays and record identifying information for rapid relay to the regional office. VA personnel will prioritize all needed records and clearances until the veteran receives the check.
Rep Rankin of Mississippi said he would push for Brig Gen H C Holdridge to be court martialed to stop him from spreading communistic doctrines while drawing government pay as a retired officer. Rankin noted Holdridge was found neurotic and retired. Holdridge had criticized the army caste system and urged Rankin's removal as veterans committee chairman.
Paris reports the French cabinet unani mously votes to seal the France Spain frontier at midnight March 1 and to seek action from the United States Britain and the UNO Security Council over the Franco regime. Foreign Minister Bidault opposes a single side break and may resign if overruled.
Riots and strikes erupted across Madras and Trichinopoly as police faced mobs. Karachi faced censorship and police fired on demonstrators after a general strike called by Communists. Calcutta reports mutineers ending a strike while authorities vow punishment and grievance redress.
London AP reports Stalin is named people's commissar and supreme commander in chief as the USSR merges the defense and navy sectors into one people’s commissariat. Izvestia lauds the move as of enormous significance and vows progress of the Red Army for peace and defense.
Brig. Gen. Frank McCoy was elected United States delegate and chairman of the Far Eastern commission succeeding the FEAC. Secretary of State Byrnes described the group as tackling the creation of a political and economic democracy in Japan. Nelson T. Johnson became secretary-general of the new commission.
Two counterfeit checks totaling 230 dollars were cashed at Cedar Rapids banks. Each for 115 dollars, drawn on Guaranty bank, made out to Harold Kramer with one signed Harold Cranston and the other Philip Craemer, according to Detective L B Marshall.
The Wage Stabilization program cements executive moves as Bowles directs the Office of Economic Stabilization while CIO and AFL duel over board approval of wage hikes. Philip Murray warns against renewed delays while urging removal of settlement hurdles, signaling potential strikes amid three day board sessions.
The dismounted Seventh cavalry regiment plans a full dress parade in Tokyo on February 28 marking a historic display for American forces in the city. The unit, famed from Custer's last stand to the Reconquest of Luzon, will lead the ceremony.
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