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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1945
Page
1
Meant to summarize citizen notices and public records including food stamp value updates and coupon validity, local traffic fines, a Sunday roof fire at 415 Sixth Avenue SW, and multiple birth announcements with names and dates from St Luke's Mercy and local addresses. The item list preserves names, addresses, dates and outcomes where readable.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt revealed that Fala the Scottie is on his honeymoon after a visit by a group of war veterans. The first lady said Fala is “in the country” and that she hopes he is having a wedding, but she offered no details about the bride or location.
The 17th Airborne Division, led by Maj. Gen. William M. Miley, fought for the first time in the Ardennes under Gen. Patton. It helped hold the German flank alongside the 101st Airborne Division, noted for Bastogne.
Notice announces final settlement action for estate of deceased in Linnty County. Administratrix Womacka seeks claims or termination of debts, with deadlines and required proofs.
Washington reports say more than 200 carrier-borne US planes attacked Formosa airfields and communications for four and a half hours with some damage and five US planes shot down. Other bombings targeted Nagoya and other industrial sites, with heavy fighter opposition noted and claims of underground wartime installations.
New York voters name Going My Way the nation’s best movie of 1944 with 428 votes, 103 more than The Song of Bernadette. Rise Stevens Barry Fitzgerald and Bing Crosby star in the winner with supporting roles by others across a top 10 list including Since You Went Away Madame Curie Gaslight and A Guy Named Joe.
Dr. L. J. Dunnington pastor of the First Methodist Church of Iowa City will speak on Russia at a Tuesday noon Optimist club meeting in the Roosevelt Hotel resenting room.
Des Moines AP Dale J Shaw resigns as superintendent of the state motor vehicle division to take a higher paying role with a transportation firm. Lt Sigfred A Jesperson will succeed Shaw and bring nine years of motor vehicle experience from the division.
Pvt Don E Kimball 21 was wounded in both arms on Leyte. He is in a New Guinea hospital and has earned the Purple Heart. He has served since January 20 1943 and has been overseas since May 1944. He is the son of Mr and Mrs D W Kimball. His wife resides at 1020 Tenth Street SW with her parents.
The U S Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a cosmetics maker cannot exclude advertising and selling expenses from its selling price when calculating federal excise taxes. F W Fitch Co sought a $59 718 refund after the Eighth Circuit denied it. Justice Murphy stated advertising and selling costs clearly fall within charges Congress intended to be in the tax base.
The Knights of Columbus initiated a class of 35 candidates at the Columbus club Sunday night. The local council ran the first and second degrees while J. J. Meyers and staff conducted the third degree. Meyers, former supreme director and now vice-supreme director of the fourth degree, was assisted by J. H. Bormann. Afterward a dinner and dance welcomed 250 knights and ladies.
Allied air forces struck Germany from Denmark to the Swiss border, with 1,300 bombers and fighters from Britain and the United States pounding rail yards and oil targets. The Eighth Air Force reported 183 German planes destroyed, while 243 enemy aircraft were claimed down in the night and attacks on Leuna, Dulmen, and Magdeburg areas.
A garbled OCR extract mentions sleep disruption and references kidney bladder issues. It hints at a product named Systex and includes aggressive language about prior experiences, but the overall content is unclear and lacks concrete facts or a coherent story.
The Montana senator denounces the Bumbarger Oaks plan arguing it underwrites tyranny and discards sovereign equality. He condemns unconditional surrender terms and accuses Russia of displacing millions, urging swift action to uphold humanitarian laws and rebuild Europe.
Funeral services for H B Garrison also known as Bill Garrison will be conducted Tuesday at 3 30 p m at Brady mortuary by Rev Lyle K Anderson and Jan Huslodge No 51 LO O F Attendees include 710 Eighth Avenue SE with burial at Oak Hill cemetery where American Legion will honor the grave Garrison died by suicide in a filling station supply room at First Avenue and Seventh Street SE He was last seen alive at 12 34 p m Saturday by Dan Rupe Pallbearers include Paul Huston E J Lee Joseph
Chief clerk A T Pleune urged housewives and grocers Monday to clip and save ration point charts published in The Gazette Sunday. The charts will aid budgeting point supplies and speed grocery shopping.
Sam Palumbo Leo Smith and Joseph Stoddard are listed among attendees for a Jan Hus Lodge meeting. Members are requested to meet in a body at the Brady mortuary at 3 15 p m with friends invited to call at the Brady mortuary.
Fred Andrie 72 died at his Cedar Rapids home after a long illness. He was born May 26, 1872 in Poweshiek county and lived near Ely before moving to Cedar Rapids 41 years ago. Survived by wife Mary and three stepchildren, grandchildren, two brothers and two sisters. Services at Janeba funeral home and Rogers Grove church near Ely with burial in Rogers Stowe cemetery. Flowers omitted per family request.
Dora M Templeman died at home on Fourth Avenue SW. Services set for Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Rohn chapel with Rev. Lyle K. Anderson officiating. Burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. Surviving are husband Charles, three grandchildren Elayne Bauerwald and Phyllis Templeman of Cedar Rapids, plus others named in the Sunday Gazette. Friends may call Monday evening at Rohn chapel.
Mrs Anna Mary Sasek 65 wife of Wencil Sasek Cedar Rapids resident for 30 years died at home 1418 M street SW Sunday at 930 am after a lingering illness Born May 18 1879 in Czechoslovakia she came to the United States with her husband settling in St Louis in 1914 Surviving husband four children Anton and Frank both of Cedar Rapids William serving with Gen Pattons forces in Germany Angeline Rockteschel Cedar Rapids eight grandchildren and one brother and two sisters in Czechoslovakia Funeral plans to be announced Friends may call Kuba funeral home Tuesday
Major Robert Benesh and his B-24 unit received praise from Brigadier General Truman H. Landon for raids on Volcano Islands on Pearl Harbor anniversary. Navy photos show direct hits on dumps gas storage and air strips. Nurses and airmen, including Lt. Margaret M. O’Hare in France, are named along with other service members and furlough details from across the country.
Roosevelt high school debaters won first honors in class A at the Waterloo invitational meet held at West Waterloo high school. The A team members were Michael O Rourke Thelma Trimble Richard Bukavec and Charles Campbell with O Rourke earning an excellent rating.
Hollywood film comedian Jack Oakie and his wife Venita Yarden, a former Follies Girl, announced they are planning a divorce for the second time in nine years of marriage.
In Newark nine war workers who joined a week long walkout at Rubberset company have been forcibly drafted, described as first work or fight case in Washington. Brushmakers Local 16303 shop steward James Castagna said draft boards ordered them to appear for examinations and they were found fit for induction. The strike involved 20 draft age employees protesting vacations holiday pay and bonuses on war contracts.
German forces blocking the Allies in northern Italy have been strongly reinforced and are using the heaviest artillery seen since the Hitler line was breached last May. Snow in the Apennines limits both sides' patrols as a bridgehead forms on the east bank of the Senio River near Fusignano northeast of Faenza.
Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, opened the 1945 March of Dimes campaign in a radio address from New York. He cited last year’s polio epidemic as the second worst in U S history, claiming 19 000 victims as the drive to extend the fight against infantile paralysis begins.
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