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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1942
Page
16
Several rooms and apartments for rent listed across Washington area homes and apartments. Options include heated front rooms near transit, private baths, furnished and unfurnished units, shared houses, and housekeeping setups with utilities or bills paid. Most ads note proximity to bus lines, garages, and modern conveniences.
Favorable terms easily shown this lovely home in May Vernon Ave at form St Oak. Hardwood floors and finishes. two-car garage. blinds. insulation. price likely attractive for rental investment. Inspect with TAIT WAGNER CO. 78 Ave Dial 144. Sunday hours noted. 4-room partly modern house on Sth Ave Marion.
Real estate notices show multiple 3 bedroom homes for sale with quotes on price and terms. Listings mention locations, street fronts, garages, oak floors, and driveways with agents Collard Co Witwer and others seeking buyers.
Real estate notice advertises property listings for sale exchange or rent. It promotes Bolton's and Pred Co services with figures likely representing prices and contact prompts. The text mentions selling prompts and building security, urging readers to list properties.
Special to The Guette H Roberts longtime Commercial club speaker committee chair has spent a year visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Delbert Meier and plans to join her husband in Africa. Postville reports Orlando and Florida winter plans before settling on Mr Fischer's farm near Postville. Pauline Dempiwolf and William Peters wed at Sacred Heart with attendants Helen Piuwoll and James Peters. Read's tea room hosted a wedding breakfast. Peters to live in Oelwein. George Kohlman bank president suffered a stroke but not serious. Ivan Moore waives preliminaries in DUI case and is held in $1000 bond. Wilbert Frye retires from Buchanan county board. Clare Miller replaces him. W M Armstrong elected chairman. Ruth Alene Parks and Arthur Plane wed in Rochester MN and will reside in Independence. Buchanan county 1941 marriage licenses 191 vs 245 in 1940. divorces 12 vs 21. Dedication services at Baldwin church Monmouth for basement addition. Clinton township Red Cross drive committee named.
Obituaries from Postville Oelwein Independence Calmar report deaths of R wig pastor R Eberling Elizabeth Fischer Turley Dietz Anna Booth Arthur Palmer Micheal Gilmartin and Mrs. Micheal Gilmartin with details on funerals residences marriages and surviving relatives in Postville Cresco Fairbank Bemidji and Austin Minn and surrounding areas.
Dana Ward Heckart formerly of Valentine and now of Sioux City is sworn into the Coast Guard after being released from the Royal Canadian Air Force two hours before Friday midnight. He had enlisted in Canada last February as a sergeant pilot and sought to serve with U S forces once the war began. Chief Boatswain Lee Scott administered the oath amid family ties including a wife and four year old daughter.
ST LOUIS UP Colonel Malcolm Elliott, US Army engineer for the upper Mississippi river valley, urged deferring a Des Moines River basin flood control system until after the war emergency. The survey was authorized by the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1938.
Special to The Gesette reports Rep. Raphael R. council sets January 12 as M Day for Tama County mobilization. Volunteer civilian worker registration will take place in all towns and rural areas, with registration points and workers to be announced later, Dvorak said.
Mrs Colin P Kelly Jr widow of the first American air hero of the war in the Pacific will speak at a noon Red Cross war fund drive in Des Moines. She addresses a 12 10 p m street mass meeting and a noon luncheon for 800 team workers at the Hotel Savery to start Polk county’s 100 000 portion of the national 50 million goal. She then speaks from the mezzanine balcony and flies to Tallahassee then New York City for further rallies.
DES MOINES AP The Sullivan brothers five husky sons of Mr and Mrs T F Sullivan of Waterloo arrive to enlist in the Navy George Thomas 27 Francis Henry 25 Joseph 23 Madison Abel 22 and A Leo 19 the only unmarried one Their return to Pearl Harbor six months ago by Frank and George is noted They express desire to go to Pearl Harbor again to honor a buddy Bill Ball of Fredericksburg Ia Their father a railroad conductor supports the enlistment while their mother Abel shows concern for the family’s loss and duty remains with daughter Genevieve 24 at home
Iowa comptroller records show allocations from a $300000 emergency fund totaled 120000 in the first six months of the current fiscal year. Major allocations include 25000 to the animal industry division, 900 to the marriage health law burden at the bacteriological lab, 12500 for birth certificates, 15000 for highway raises, and 9535 for Glenwood hospital hailstorm repairs.
An AP dispatch from Fort Bragg North Carolina reports a bulletin board advertisement by Private Seymour Salem offering letter writing services to soldiers. The ad promises tender phrasing and confidences at ten cents per letter with the soldier providing stationery and stamps.
DES MOINES AP Sheriff Vane B Overturff de Gomet Se Sat announces handcuff and gun sales amid wartime shortages. He did not disclose whether police would meet with substitutes or seek replacements for dwindling equipment.
Maj. Gen. John F. Curry announced a nationwide Civil Air Patrol to be drawn from 90,000 licensed pilots and 90,000 student aviators. The unit aims to use private flyers for civilian air support and secondary patrols, organized through the Office of Civilian case. 5,000 women pilots will be eligible for participation, with priority in obtaining civilian planes and parts. Exceptional pilots may join the army ferry service delivering lend lease aircraft.
Western educators propose war time education reforms including 2.5 year college degrees and a 24 year college term. University leaders from Washington advocate six day weeks and longer summer sessions while telescoping grade high school and college years.
An eight year old, Franksher from Kalamazoo, wrote to Fort Custer to offer services as an army messenger. He proposed carrying messages between officers to save time and asked what else he might do if messengers were not needed.
Philadelphia public schools plan to establish model airplane clubs in both junior and senior units to promote hands on STEM activities and student engagement. Key organizers include district educators and local sponsors supporting club formation and activities.
A consent decree and civil suit were filed in federal court at Denver accusing the National Retail Lumber Dealers Association and 22 state and regional groups of conspiring to restrain competition. The action covers lumber, cement and other building materials in 35 states, with about 20 000 dealers affected. Some defendants pled guilty or paid fines totaling $78 320. The case stems from two indictments returned last April 14. Iowa Retail Lumber Dealers Association listed among defendants.
John B. Kelly of the Office of Civilian Defense urged colleges to expand physical education and athletic programs to boost national fitness for war. He called for a five day per week program for four years for all students, expanded intramural and intercollegiate activities, universal medical exams with follow up care, and courses including first aid life saving and personal hygiene.
One thousand German war prisoners, the first Atlantic contingent under a Canadian escort, arrived in Canada and were sent to inland camps. Most are Nazi airmen, with some army and navy prisoners including 90 Bismarck survivors.
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