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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1942
Page
22
A fire at 1133 Sixteenth Street SE was reported Thursday at 919 p.m. wiring deemed defective set off the alarm. Hiram H. Hull issued the general alarm as crews responded to the incident and checked for further risk.
LaVern C Staman 28 and Dor othy Lodestein 29 both of Marion. Robert A Glec 23 Clinton and Mary Louise Fieseler 21 Cedar Rapids.
Ray W. Schoonover of 4901 Center Point Road was fined $5 and court costs on charges that he drove with four persons in the front seat and failed to yield the right of way. Justice H. R. Churchill presided.
John F. Powers 76 died at his home 726 Ellis boulevard NW Thursday. Emily Wright 96 died at her son Howard S. Wrights home 1208 Oakland avenue NE flat 3 a.m. Friday. Arthur Perry Hopkinson 57 of 2714 Second avenue SE died at a local hospital Friday morning.
Ross Robey of Urbana and Kenneth L Hofer of Solon were each fined ten dollars and costs for speeding. Bill Sawyer of 812 Sixth Avenue SE also fined ten dollars and costs for speeding. Marshall Thorp aged 24 of 716 Second Street NW paid twenty five dollars and costs for disturbing the peace of his family. Daniel McGrath 21 of Marion fined twenty five dollars and costs for disturbing peace by fighting with Delis Gardner 22 of 1237 Fourth Avenue SE fined twenty five dollars and costs for disturbing peace and fighting.
Cleo Easterday and Glenn Easterday share a May 7 1933 marriage with custody of two minor children to plaintiff. Alice Marie Schnare and Fred H Schnare wed Oct 19 1915, real estate awarded to plaintiff and $25 monthly alimony for two years. Lena Van Slyke and George Van Slyke married March 1 1937, house goods awarded to plaintiff with $50 owed in small monthly installments. Judge J E Heiserman and Judge G K Thompson presiding.
John F. Powers 1865 1936 53 years with Rock Island Lines dies at 726 Ellis Blvd NW after a long illness. Born Chicago August 17 1865 moved to Cedar Rapids in 1876 worked as boiler department supervisor on the Cedar Rapids Minnesota division, served as alderman for the Eighth Ward 1902 1906 under Mayor C D Huston and was a longtime city employee.
Delegates at a Pan American ministers conference praised Sumner Welles for rejecting neutrality with the forces of evil and urged stronger ties against Axis. Reports said Argentina might join a bloc calling for severing relations with the Axis after talks under pressure from fellow republics. Welles warned Axis agents exploit diplomatic immunity while outlining U S aid and a tough war outlook. Vargas opened with a call for a robust alliance of free nations.
Civil service commission member from 1908 to 1912 and first Cedar Rapids military band member under W L Myers. He married Mary E Whalen on April 29 1903 and built the family home. Survived by wife four daughters two grandchildren two sisters and two brothers. Funeral by Rev D J Lenihan at 9:30 am Saturday in St Patrick's Church with burial at Mount Calvary cemetery. flowers omitted.
Arthur Perry Hopkinson longtime Milwaukee railroad telegrapher died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 11 40 am Friday from a heart attack born February 21 1885 near Westchester Iowa married Zora Smith Boone 1923 survived by wife a daughter Shirley four sisters and four railroad telegraphers members funeral arrangements pending Alice Bowman former Cedar Rapids resident died at a daughter’s home near Anamosa and will be buried in Chicago with services in Beatty chapel then Mt Greenwood cemetery
Australian units reinforced the Singapore garrison improving main line strength while bush fighters move to offensive patrols. Air combat persisted as Japanese bombers attacked the island, with claimed enemy losses and British claims of fighter and bomber downings.
Washington report notes the Senate committee investigating defense asked for an additional $100,000 appropriation to ensure "100 cents worth of defense for every dollar spent." Chairman Harry S. Truman said more work remains essential to the investigation and listed five points.
The war investigations panel requests a $100000 appropriation to renew the Jobby inquiry, probe dollar a year and WOC lobbyists, examine ordnance contracts, deepen labor, metals and automobile sector studies, including army tanks, claiming prior $40000 work was remarkable and vital to welfare and morale.
Audit shows Cedar Rapids drive at 27812.36 dollars with a 30000 goal. John M. Ely and Mrs. Alice Kirwin urge residential workers to turn in funds immediately as office hours end Saturday. Final reports from a few areas and some firms are still pending.
Davenport AP Willard W. Gatchell special attorney for the federal power commission charges Floyd Philbrick former Iowa assistant attorney general with playing the game of the state's power interests during hearings on the Moscow dam license. Gatchell says Philbrick fre quented conferences with Iowa Gas and Electric and others to prompt questions.
Mayor Hahn says Washington commits to wartime production and civilian defense, noting public indifference despite Pearl Harbor. He stresses the need for stronger equipment and manpower, and says rumors of German collapse are gossip while production aims at a long war.
The report details a second ship sunk off New York waters with 14 crew in lifeboats rescued by a coast guard plane while others perished after failed rescue attempts. It notes torpedo costs, mine risks, and Axis war signaling as Roosevelt cancels a press conference amid escalating wartime pressure.
The treasury barred import of Axis postage stamps and destroyed a $20,000,000 Nazi racket. Customs were ordered to halt stamps from Axis nations and collectors were urged not to buy new Nazi press issues for sale in the United States.
The Iowa State Safety Council urged daytime speed limit of 50 mph and 40 mph at night for highway travel during the war. They argued the limits would conserve tires and reduce deaths while ensuring buses meet safety standards within 30 days. About one third of 1,200 state school buses were found unsafe.
Price announced a national radio code limiting mass meeting calls and emergency announcements to official sources. Weather broadcasts must use Weather Bureau approved data. avoid current event references. Reports from unidentified sources on ships or battles are discouraged. He urged avoiding dramatic combat programs and said 99.9 percent of media favor voluntary withholding of enemy value information. The censorship office will not target government publicity but seeks ample information and to prevent interdepartmental conflicts.
Chinese film star Butterfly Wu, famed as a romantic figure linked with warlords, died from shrapnel during the Hongkong siege. She rose to fame as an assistant in a small photographer's studio before becoming a prominent figure in the motion picture world.
Actor Lyle Talbot will marry dancer Tommy Adams in a backstage ceremony at Music hall on Saturday afternoon. Adams, currently in the New York production Sons of Fun, will fly to Kansas City for the wedding.
Emily Wright 96 an early Cedar Rapids pioneer died at her son Howard Wright’s home after a long illness. Born near Dayton Ohio March 5 1845 she lived in Cedar Rapids 85 years. She was widow of Loma Wright and survived by son Clark Palo sister Clara Elson Daytona Beach ten grandchildren eight great grandchildren. Burial in McVay cemetery Palo. Friends may call Rohn chapel Saturday.
The War Department denounced a circulating report that 1,500 bodies had arrived from Pearl Harbor at the Brooklyn Army base without coffins. Brig. Gen. Homer Groninger advised the claim is false and no shipment would be made without coffins honoring the dead.
Senator Chavez denounced the State Department for listing Axel Wenner-Gren as an enemy aider. He called it a cruel mistake that affronts Mexico, where Wenner-Gren seeks about 100 million dollars to back a syndicate developing various industries. Chavez noted Wenner-Gren is close to Mexico's Gen. Maximino Avila Camacho, minister of communications and brother of the president.
Washington dispatch details how Japan drains half of the average citizen's pay through taxes and mandatory government bonds purchases. It describes bond gambling, low living standards, strict material controls, substitutes in clothing and goods, and a powerful police state including a veteran’s group used as a military arm.
Lessing Rosenwald of the Office of Price Administration discussed a possible removal of pennies and nickels from circulation to conserve metal for war needs. The remark came on Thursday in New York as metal shortages loom.
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