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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1944
Page
2
Rationing notices list meat gas sugar and fuel stamps with valid dates. Divorce petitions and decrees include Jean Macy vs Harry Macy Mildred Farmer from J Le Roy Farmer Clara Nolan and others. City incidents note car antifreeze spill fires and parking violations with fines and a correction to a prior report.
William Collier Jr. 77, a veteran of stage and screen, died at his Beverly Hills home on Thursday. Funeral services are set for Saturday at the Church of the Recessional in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale.
A 12-year-old missing girl with diabetes was picked up by Des Moines police after being reported absent from Cedar Rapids. She was to be returned to Cedar Rapids for insulin treatment, with the insulin order relayed via the state police radio network.
The article details an escape from a reform school near Anamosa with convicts McClaskey Brodinski Faught Spooner and another, the pursuit by Warden Foss Davis and Highway Patrolman Kidwell, and a sequence of captures near Amber. It notes delayed police broadcasts and identifies a stolen car tied to the fugitives and a confrontation with Sanford Grassfield who aided witnesses and law enforcement.
In NOVICE Texas a snowbound crash between a four car troop train bound for Camp Barkley and a 12 car California bound passenger train near Abilene killed 12 people and injured 75. Officials at Temple said civilians and soldiers were among the dead as conductor G C Schultz described the impact at about 35 miles an hour.
City Briefs note the Junior Maccabees schedule a meeting Saturday in Sokol hall while Cub Pack 17 gathers tonight at Buchanan school at 7 30. Dads night planned with Cub Scout demonstrations.
James G. White will interview applicants for clerical work with the FBI at the 309 federal building in Cedar Rapids on Saturday. The agency seeks individuals aged 17 to 40 with high school education who can qualify as clerks stenographers and typists.
The executive committee of the Interdenominational Mission ary Union invited Cedar Rapids pastors wives and mission society presidents to tea at the YWCA. Plans made for an all day missionary meeting January 28 at First Congregational church from 9 30 a m to 3 30 p m inviting all city women.
Cub pack No 4 of Harrison school held its regular meeting at the school on Wednesday evening. Charley Gunn presented the new charter to Mrs. Henry Kenyon, president of the Harrison P T A and sponsor of the pack. Awards were given to Carl Cornell Jim Frank Eugene Murphy LeRoy Nye Jim McNeill for various ranks and arrows. Service stars were awarded to Eugene Murphy Jim Frank De Wayne Burlington Walter Phelps Javon Schultz and Jim McNeill. Don Davis and Eugene Huber received denner strips. Billy Cornell was moved from cubbing to Scout troop No 4.
Two passengers were injured when cars driven by E. J. Davis of Monticello and William E. Groepper collided at First avenue and Twenty-ninth street. Mrs. Davis bruised knee, sister-in-law Mrs. Arthur Davis a broken knee cap and nose bruise. Arthur Davis uninjured. Groepper charged with failure to yield right of way.
Dr C H Kennedy longtime Logan physician for 41 years died Thursday in Logan. A Creighton University Medical College graduate, he served as a medical corps captain in World War I. He was active in the American and Logan Masonic orders as a past grand patron.
Unseasonably mild temperatures spread across Iowa Friday after sub zero readings earlier week. Cedar Rapids saw a high of 34 with a low of 16 and a 38 degree afternoon rise. The weather bureau warned of a drop to 10 to 15 degrees overnight in the northwest and other regions.
John Bading, 49, a farmer living three miles southwest of Coggan, was found guilty of receiving stolen property by a district court jury on Thanksgiving Day. Judge G P Linville sentenced him Friday to a term not exceeding five years at the state penitentiary in Fort Madison after overruling his motion for a new trial and exceptions to instructions.
Judge Linville ordered no release for the accused who allegedly stole more than 50 hogs from William Isaac Preston and the Eyerly brothers. Preston, 31, and the Eyerlys, 37 and 30, face district court actions while the brothers serve Fort Madison sentences for larceny.
ST. LOUIS AP The army 35 million Weldon Spring ordnance works which has produced TNT since 1941 will close operations Sunday Lt Col P C O Shee announced the shutdown decision.
An Iowa reform school inquiry expands to cover administration, irregularities, and the New Year’s Day break when four convicts fled in a prison carryall. Warden and deputy wardens, guards, and other staff are to be questioned, with focus on pay, promotions, and a lacking central warning system. The report aims to determine blame and systemic faults.
A parade of military transfers and leaves shows Seaman George W. Glass moving from Farragut Idaho to San Francisco while Major Dorsid McKay serves overseas in the Asiatic theater. Cadets, lieutenants, and privates from several states report leaves and postings including Fort Benning Ohio university Gore field Great Falls and Camp Fannin Texas with families noted in Center Point Marion Urbana and Urbana IA.
Under secretary of War Patterson ordered Cleveland firm Jack and Heintz to return 1.75 million dollars in alleged excess profits for the year ending October 31, 1942. The original claim was seven million, but taxes reduce the amount. if not paid, the sum will be withheld from contract payments.
Chicago attorney Vandorf Gray announced the Henry J. Kaiser for President club has opened headquarters in Chicago. The group seeks Kaiser’s nomination by the Republican national convention.
Robert L. Smith, boatswain's mate 2/c, of 614 Fourth Avenue SE, is listed among missing in action after the December 27 sinking of the U S destroyer Brownson at Cape Gloucester New Britain. Navy confirms 208 survivors from the ship. Smith had earlier served in World War II as a Disabled Veterans of the World War member and was sworn in June 1942.
Washington AP Marvin Jones announces Lee Marshall chairman of Continental Baking named director of food distribution succeeding Roy F Henrickson Hendrickson departs Saturday for deputy director post at United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration Marshall previously served as WFA director of materials and facilities
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