Daily Record January 19 1945 Local War Ration Notices and Obits
War ration details list valid fuel and food stamps with expiration dates and quantities for Meat Red, Foods Bite, Sugar and Gasoline coupons. Local crime fines include speeding and drunkenness penalties. Births note Jan 9 daughter at St Luke's and Cedar Rapids residents Stanley Kreutzer and Jane Kreutzer welcomed Dec 11 in San Diego.
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St. Luke’s
Bernhardt Kraus
Sixth Street
The
Gazette
Louis Valliere
Seventh Avenue
Sfe
San Diego
Calif
Stanley Kreutzer
Cedar Rapids
Kreutzer
Janeice Hess
C R Golly to Speak at Cedar Rapids War Dads Meeting
The Cedar Rapids chapter of the American War Dads will hold its annual meeting at the Chamber of Commerce building with a 6 30 dinner and a 7 45 address by C R Dad Golly of Peoria I a national War Dads treasurer and retired businessman The speech titled Present Activities of American War Dads the Nation Over notes his two sons and a daughter in service All servicemen with a relative in service and furloughed personnel are invited Reservations accepted until Thursday noon call 6652.
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Cedar Rapids
The
Chamber of Commerce
C. R
Golly
Peoria
War Dads
Boy Scouts Plan Honors For Members
Forty Scouters and two Boy Scouts will receive recognition at the Waubeek area council twentieth anniversary meeting in Chamber of Commerce rooms Thursday night. C Harve Geiger will present awards. Ray L Short will receive 30 years service, Lee Sanner 25 years, Fred Poyneer 20 years, Lt Leslie R Grigg 20 years, and15 year awards go to Jackson Von Yeast Howard H Cherry James Maloney Fred C Woolrich John H Bormann M D Marr E M Pinney W H Richardson Bob Hruska. Ten year and five year awards also listed with a dinner by Dr H W Hart on Youth and a Changing World.
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Waubeek
Chamber of Commerce
C. Harve Geiger
Coe College
Ray L. Short
Short
Waterloo
Burlington
Iowa River Valley
Waubeek Area
Lee Sanner
Anamosa
Jones County
Fred Poyneer
Poyneer
Leslie R. Grigg
Jackson von Yeast
Howard H. Cherry
James Maloney
Fred C. Woolrich
John H. Bormann
M. D. Marr
E. M. Pinney
W. H. Richardson
Bob Hruska
H. M. Wies
M. J. Tracy
B. J. New
Army and Navy push for general service with work or fight plan
Patterson criticizes large number induction for special service units calling it unattractive. Bard supports general national service and warns that allowing civilian force contributions breeds resentment as war intensifies. He backs work or fight for the 1845 group as a substitute.
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Patterson
Army
Ralph A. Bard
Navy
Bard
Luzon invasion drives toward Manila amid heavy fighting
Allied forces push ashore on Luzon after a three day bombardment from Lingayen gulf to San Fernando. Japanese resistance centers between Lingayen and Manila as 100000 to 200000 troops prepare last stand. Mindoro and Leyte operations continue with air and sea assaults and several enemy ships sunk.
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Lingayen
San Fernando
Manila
Luzon
Lingayen Gulf
Philippines
San Fabian
Gulf
Agno
Mindanao Sea
Leyte
Mindoro
Luzon Raids Toll Reported by Pacific Fleet
The Pacific fleet says raids on Luzon January 5 and 6 destroyed or damaged 187 Japanese planes and sank or damaged 26 ships and 15 smaller craft. Ten enemy planes were shot down, 74 destroyed, and 103 damaged on the ground, with multiple cargo ships and other vessels sunk or damaged in the two day strike supporting MacArthur’s Luzon landings.
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Pearl Harbor
INS
Pacific Fleet
Luzon
MacArthur
Two Day Raid Totals in Pacific Action
Partial Pacific fleet reports indicate 449 planes destroyed or damaged and 99 ships sunk or damaged over two days. The January 8 Formosa raid by carrier planes added 34 enemy planes and 31 ships destroyed or damaged, alongside 34 planes and 32 ships previously reported sunk or damaged.
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Pacific
Formosa
Eight Targets Hit by B-29s Firebomb Tokyo Night Raid
Three B-29s conducted a midnight to 5:30 a.m. Tokyo raid following Tuesday’s attack. Tokyo reports say fires started in the industrial district and anti-aircraft action encountered two to four enemy fighters. Formosa and several Honshu targets included Naogoya Hamamatsu Numazu Chichi Bonins. China-based planes attacked Formosa with Third Fleet support. all planes returned safely.
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Washington
Tokyo
Honshu Island
Marianas
Valens
United Press
Saipen
Nagoya
Hamamatsu
Honshu
Numazu
Nirdino Island
Chichi Island
Bonins
Formosa
War Department
Saipan
Weather figures from Cedar Rapids and Iowa cities
The report lists temperatures from Charles City to Iowa City with Cedar Rapids at 16 degrees and humidity 43 percent at 2 30 p m. The Weather Bureau forecasts a near zero low tonight in Cedar Rapids, while Tuesday’s high reached 30 degrees in Sioux City.
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Weather Bureau
Charles City
Mason City
Dubuque
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Iowa
Sioux City
Malmedy Bombing and Rescue by Allied Forces
Reports mix unconfirmed claims of German capture with SHAEF updates showing Malmedy remained in Allied hands. Despite shelling, 98 American combat engineers held road blocks and helped contain fires after eight bombs fell on December 23. A later large bomber formation intensified destruction, water mains broke, and 1000 residents were evacuated.
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St. Lo
Caen
Normandy
Malmedy
Boyle
Paris
Stars and Stripes
Supreme Headquarters
Ben Davis Addresses Coe Kelvin Society on Ferments
Ben Davis an ASTRP chemistry instructor at Coe College addressed the Kel vin society’s first meeting of the season Tuesday evening. He compared ferments in chemistry with deteriorations in societies and cited the rise and fall of the Roman empire as an example. Nine students were elected to associate memberships: Patricia Clay Clarinda Paul Orcutt Trey Mills Jean Morris Marvilla Benbow Louise Gage Geraldine Trevor Matt Schemel Jane Kirkman Adelaide Thompson.
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Ben Davis
ASTRP
Coe College
Kelvin Society
Davis
Patricia Clay
Clarinda
Paul Orcutt
Trey Mills
Jean Morris
Cedar Rapids
Marvill
Cedar Rapids Attorney C. R. Meek Dies at 73
C. R. Attorney and former mayoral candidate C. W. Meek died Wednesday at 1 p.m. in University Hospital Iowa City after months of heart illness. A Cedar Rapids resident since 1897, he was an ordained Baptist minister and former pastor of Parker's Grove Church near Shellsburg. He was born June 20, 1871 in Clinton and studied at Northern Illinois Normal and College of Law, earning a bachelor of law in 1898. He married Mina Armstrong May 5, 1897. Surviving: wife, six children, four sisters, and seven grandchildren.
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C. W. Meek
Cedar Rapids
University Hospital
Iowa City
First Avenue
Mr. Meek
Parker's Grove
Shellsburg
Clinton
Benton County
Ilinois Normal and
College of Law
Mina Armstrong
Thomas A. Meek
Glendale
Calif
E. W. Knutson
Pasadena
P. W. Baddeley
Evanston
Ill
W. T. Emmett
Eldora
C. B
Death of former welterweight champion Jack Reynolds
Jack Reynolds, 51, once world welterweight boxing champion and credited with the leg spill that earned him the nickname Fox of the Ring, died Tuesday in a Cincinnati hospital. He will be buried Friday in Harlem Cemetery, Covington, Kentucky, according to his brother Art. Reynolds had lived in Cedar Rapids in the early 1920s during his prime.
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Jack Reynolds
Cincinnati
Ohio
Harlem
Covington
Art
Third Street
Reynolds
Cedar Rapids
Fox
Danish-born Cedar Rapids worker Hans Jensen dies aged 78
Hans Christian Jensen 78 longtime Anchor flour mills and Quaker Oats employee died at home after a long illness. Born January 7 1867 in Vale Denmark he came to Cedar Rapids in 1897. Survived by his wife Catherine Maag and many children and grandchildren. Services Friday 3 30 pm Turner chapel burial Linwood cemetery.
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Hans Christian Jensen
Anchor Flour Mills
Quaker Oats Company
Vale
Denmark
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Catherine Maag
Mattie Dietrick
Catherine Svoboda
Anna Cheap
Beverly Hills
Calif
Hans, C., Jr
Louis J
Henry Jensen
Albert
John J. Jensen
Los Angeles
Mattie Lynch
California
Andrea Paulsen
Chicago
George Fifield Former Cedar Rapids Resident Dies
George Royalton Fifield, formerly of Cedar Rapids, died at his daughter’s home in Moline Illinois after a lingering illness. Born June 11 1873 he lived in Cedar Rapids before moving to Illinois eight years ago. He was a lather and stone mason. He married Annie Burgess in October 1892, she died January 1940. Surviving are three sons four daughters three brothers and three sisters. The body was taken to Moon chapel for calling. funeral arrangements not yet announced.
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George Royalton Fifield
Cedar Rapids
Peter Dreier
Moline
Illinois
Annie Burgess
Forest C
John E
East Moline
Alta Hener
Muscatine
Mamie Oakland
Joy, Ill
Moon Chapel
Funeral services for Carl E. Tuttle in Cedar Rapids
Services for Carl Edwin Tuttle former principal at Center Point and Polk schools Cedar Rapids and longtime real estate man will be held in Turner chapel at 1 30 p m Friday at his home in Little Rock Arkansas where he died Monday the announcement said.
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Carl Edwin Tuttle
Center Point
Polk School
Cedar Rapids
Little Rock
Ark
Turner Chapel
Death of Cedar Rapids native Tuttle described
Burial will be in Linwood cemetery. The body will arrive in Rapid City late Wednesday. Born December 1 1873 in Cedar Rapids he married Effie Hinm on June 19 1903. He lived here most of his life except four years in Little Surviving wife son Sgt Edward Tuttle overseas mother Mary E Tuttle sister Carrie Cole brothers Frank Davenport Hawley Sacramento. He belonged to St Pauls Methodist church and graduated Coe College in 1896.
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Linwood
Ao Rapids
Cedar Rapids
Tuttle
Effie Hinm
Sgt
Edward Tuttle
Air Corps
Mary E. Tuttle
Carrie Cole
Larimer Rites Pending for Cedar Rapids Resident
Robert I. Larimer, 71, of 2310 Johnson avenue NW, Cedar Rapids, died Wednesday at 10 46 a m after a long illness. He lived in Cedar Rapids all his life and worked with Larimer Schaffer Sand and Gravel. He married Johanna Greene on November 28 1900. Survived by wife two sons Robert D Bartinsville J and Marvin H in the South Pacific Marines four daughters Gladys Shields A L Shields Pauline Larimer and one more Cedar Rapids sister Minerva Langham Arkansas five grandchildren. Funeral arrangements to be announced. Friends may call at Moen chapel.
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Robert I. Larimer
Johnson Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Larimer Schaffer Sand and Gravel Company
Johanna Greene
Evangelical Church
Robert D
Bartinsville
Pvt
Marvin H
Marines
South Pacific
A. L. Shields
Gladys Shields
Albert Holloway
Pauline Larimer
Minerva Langham
Arkansas
Moen Chapel
Services for Mrs Magdalene Gapin ski at St Patrick's church
Services will be conducted Friday at 9 30 a m in St Patrick's church for Mrs Magdalene Gapinski of 414 Sixth Street Southwest. The Rev D J Lenihan will officiate and burial will be in St John's Cemetery at Independence. The body has been taken from Teaken funeral home to the home of her daughter Mrs Ralph La Tour at 414 Sixth Street Southwest where friends may call. Father Lenihan will recite the Rosary at 7 p m Wednesday at the La Tour home.
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St. Patrick’s Church
Magdalene Gapinski
Sixth Street
D. J. Lenihan
St. John’s Cemetery
Independence
Teaken
Ralph la Tour
Father Lenihan
la Tour
Funeral services for Mrs Alice Hutton to be held Thursday
Services for 85 year old Mrs Alice Hutton a lifelong local resident who died in a Cedar Rapids hospital will be at 1 p m Thursday in Turner chapel with the Rev Frank H Ward officiating Burial will be at Rogers Grove cemetery near Ely Friends may call at the chapel
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Alice J. Hutton
Cedar Rapids
Turner Chapel
Frank H. Ward
Rogers Grove Cemetery
Ely
German Withdrawal and Snowbound Battles Near Bastogne
Forces report Von Rundstedt aiming to pull back as Patton presses west of Bastogne amid severe cold. Tanks slip through ice fields while infantry fights through haze. German counterattacks wane as armor shifts north. Flamierge and Orreux endure, Patch’s Seventh Army holds along Bitche with snow masked mines.
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Patten
Houffalize-St. Vith
Longchamps
Bastogne
Patton
Flamierge
Orreux
Tillet
Alexander M. Patch
United States
Seventh Army
Bitche
Belgian Bulge
Laroche
von Kluge
Normandy
City retire’s $39,000 bonded debt payment total
City Treasurer Walter E. Miller paid off $39,000 in bonds including $27,000 sewer outlet and purification plant bonds, $7,000 airport bonds, $3,000 fire equipment bonds, and $1,000 each on sewer and grading bonds. This reduced bonded debt from $1,562,600 to $1,523,600 and brings total payments for the year to $212,000 since the fiscal year began April 1, 1944.
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Walter E. Miller
Crooks Shift to Fraud Tactics Warned by Cedar Rapids Official
Lyle Marshall, Cedar Rapids police detective, told a Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association banquet that federal crackdowns on gang activity push criminals to fraud and check cashing, shoplifting, and forgeries. He urged caution with strangers, advised ink signatures with signer addresses, and noted forged IDs and stolen government and other cards as common in check fraud. He warned about believable travelers from distant firms using smooth talk to push small checks for quick funds.
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Lyle Marshall
Cedar Rapids
Marshall
Lodge
Legion Takes in 23 New Members
Hanford post No 5 of the American Legion held initiation services for 23 new members Tuesday night. The new ceremonial unit led by Elmer Ferriter used new properties, with music by a 75 piece orchestra under Roland Moehlmann and a tumbling act. Commander Dwight Krumholtz presided. new co chairs of standing committees were introduced. Membership stands at 1 123. progress report on veterans memorial project given by Henry Haegg.
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Hanford Post No. 5
American Legion
Elmer Ferriter
Roland Moehlmann
Dwight Krumholtz
Clayton Ellis
Paul Ward
Frank Gantt
Ed Filipi
Eli Abodeely
John Baldridge
Hulbert Rice
Donald Kriz
Ralph Mock
Darwin Sandy
Isador Feder
James Scolare
The
Post
Henry Haegg
Veterans’ Memorial Project
Nine Wilson Youths Join Hi-Y Induction at YMCA
Nine Wilson high school youths were inducted into the Wilson Hi-Y club at the YMCA Tuesday with Roosevelt club officers conducting the ceremony. New officers named were Harold Hixson president Don Havlik vice president Howard Prochaska secretary David Brunius treasurer and Joe Regan chaplain. Inducted that night were Brunius Holden Regan Waite Thompson Baker Simoons Bye and Hixson. Additional inductees slated later include Deppe Fikejs Havlik Prochaska Steen Carter Ipsan and Prior. Russell J. Merlo is adult sponsor. E B Zeller YMCA general secretary closed the candlelighting ceremony in the Little Theater.
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Wilson High School
Wilson Hi-Y
Y.M.C.A
Roosevelt Club
Harold Hixson
Don Havlik
Howard Prochaska
David Brunius
Joe Regan
Russell J. Merlo
Richard Holden
Calvin Waite
Glenn Thompson
Keith Baker
Donald Simoons
Donald Bye
Robert Deppe
Dick Fikejs
Harold Steen
Bob Carter
Tommy Ipsan
Richard Prior
Little Theater
E. B. Zeller
Senate Leaders Press Axis Policy and Atlantic Charter
Senator Vandenberg urges immediate action to keep the Axis out and finalize postwar plans as Ferguson pushes for a UN council to oversee liberated nations. Shipstead questions Roosevelt on WWII disclosures and asserts Germany rumors blame Berlin, calling for clear U.S. stance on Poland, Finland, and the Baltics.
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Vandenberg
United States
Sen
Ferguson
R-Mich
Senate
United Nations Council
Roosevelt
Sen. Shipstead
R-Minn
Foreign Relations Committee
Shipstead
Decorah Prepares for Postwar Boom Survey Indicates Growth
Special to The Gazette Decorah outlines a postwar boom with 13 new homes and 70 new barns planned. The planning committee led by George Johnson says Decorah and nearby areas will purchase 485 automobiles 410 refrigerators 330 tractors 210 water systems 210 washing machines 260 other buildings on 110 farms.
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Decorah
George Johnson
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