Daily Record notices and stamps update
Meats food stamps valid through late January and early February. gas and sugar coupons with specific book numbers and expiry dates. Divorces, marriage licenses for John Peterson and Dorothy Parker, several drunkenness and traffic fines listed. Fires reported on Meadow Brook Court SE and at city intersections. New births listed for St Luke's and area addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Christian Peterson
Dorothy Jane Parker
Iowa City
Nurseries Hope for Federal Aid Save City Child Care
The plan nursery schools will stay open through May 1 despite funding gaps. Cedar Rapids’ federal grant approval awaits Congress action, with officials hopeful by May 1 for Lanham Act funds or a clear denial. Vacancies will be filled as operation continues and admissions proceed for two and older children of working mothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Welfare Bureau Board
Child Welfare Board
Lloyd Davis
OCD
Driver Rams Phone Pole Plan Charge
A reckless driving charge was to be filed against Charles Kacere of 822 D avenue NE after a crash at Third avenue and Fourth street SE. He allegedly drove a car that struck a telephone pole, suffered facial injuries, abandoned the vehicle, and was later identified as the driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Kacere
D Avenue NE
Third Avenue
Fourth Street SE
Kacere
Senate Keeps Tax Bill Clause Requiring Union Financial Returns
The Senate voted 44 26 to retain a provision in the $2 275 600 000 tax bill requiring labor unions and other nonprofit groups to file annual financial statements with the Internal Revenue Bureau. Opponents warn it could widen taxation to unions cooperatives and charities. Senators Clark Mead and Aiken led the opposition. Brewster Chavez urged retaining the clause to curb union activity in the 1944 campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Treasury
Llp
Internal Revenue Bureau
Clark
D-Me
Mead
D-M
Aiken
R-Vt
Brewster
R-Me
Chavez
D-N.m
Gillette Backs Clause in Tax Bill Vote
Senator Gillette voted with the majority as the Senate rejected a motion to strike a provision requiring labor unions and other non profit groups to file annual financial returns with the treasury. Senator Wilson was listed as not voting but announced as against the motion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Gillette
D-Ia
Senate
Treasury
Wilson
R-Ia
War Loan drive aims for eight and a half million
Perrine notes incomplete reports from Cedar Rapids area on opening day but pledges will be announced as soon as received. Officials press urgency to meet the 8.5 million goal by February 16 and urge rededication of pledges for a fund-raising event with a free band premiere of No Time For Love starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray at 8 p.m. Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perrine
Cedar Rapids
Claudette Colbert
Fred MacMurray
Bayless Joins Navy After City War Efforts
W. D. Bayless, executive director of the Office of Civilian Defense Citizens Service corps, has led a citywide waste paper drive a WAC recruiting effort and two war loan campaigns. He directed a Tuesday house-to-house drive, then left Cedar Rapids for Camp Dodge to enter active naval service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Bayless
Office of Civilian Defense
Citizens Service Corps
Bayless
WAC
Cedar Rapids
Camp Dodge
Navy
Paramount Bond Drive At Cedar Rapids Theaters
Office of Civilian Defense announced volunteers from Business and Professional Women's club and Delta Kappa Gamma will staff bond booths at the Paramount theater and five Cedar Rapids banks Wednesday and Thursday during the campaign. Public issuing agents include the post office and local banks such as Armstrong’s Killian’s Newman’s Perpetual Savings and Loan Cedar Rapids Building and Loan Cedar Rapids Production Credit association Iowa National Farm Loan association and the Paramount theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Post Office
Armstrong’s
Killian’s
Newman's
Perpetual Savings and Loan
Cedar Rapids Building and Loan
Cedar Rapids Production Credit Association
Iowa National Farm Loan Association
Paramount Theater
Office of Civilian Defense
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority
OCD
FDR Fourth War Loan Drive Enters Second Day
The fourth war loan drive moves into its second day with reports of quotas met in scattered areas. Roosevelt urged that every dollar in bonds strengthens offensive power and warned that victory is not yet assured until Berlin and Tokyo fall. Treasury estimates cost of funds at one thirty third of a cent per dollar raised. Arkansas counties report overages and Montana shows higher sales than its quota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Berlin
Tokyo
Wallace
Treasury
Beponte
St Francis County
Arkansas
Grant County
Prairie County
Montana
Let's All Back the Attack War Bonds Message
A wartime appeal urges families to buy war bonds and save for postwar prosperity. It emphasizes individual responsibility and job security through investment, noting Americans already hold billions in bonds and encouraging readers to contribute more before the fourth war loan ends.
Niles Seek Removal of Davis as Warden at Anamosa
Clifford L. Niles and his son Charles, publishers of the Anamosa Eureka, filed a statement with Gov. Hickenlooper urging the immediate removal of Foss Davis as warden of the state men's reformatory at Anamosa. The governor will pass the document to the reformatory inquiry committee. The statement calls Davis tyrannical and cruel toward prisoners and cites a sick deputy warden left in charge New Year's Day. Affidavits from former guards and engineers accompany the statement, naming several signers from the reformatory and related incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Clifford L. Niles
Charles
Anamosa Eureka
Leonard Ahrendsen
F. W. Hein
Kenneth Millsap
William J. McNamara
J. August Pearson
Reformatory
J A. Corwin
Morley
Services Scheduled for Mrs Frank Earl and Jerome Mullin
Funeral services for Mrs. Frank Earl of 622 Third Avenue SW are set for 2 p.m. in Turner chapel with Rev. James If Blackstone Jr. Cedar chapter OES assisting. Burial at Cedar Memorial Park. Mrs. Earl died in a Cedar Rapids hospital on Tuesday with relatives noted as Leo Lewis, Mary Catherine Earl, and Paratd Earl. Jerome L. Mullin of 515 Ninth Street NW will have a 9 a.m. Thursday service at St. Patrick's Church with Rosary events by St. Anthony's club, the Rosary Society unit, and the Knights of Columbus. burial at Mt. Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapels. Navy Mothers plan a group assembly at St. Patrick's church at 8:30 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Earl
Third Avenue
Turner Chapel
James If Blackstone, Jr
Cedar
O.E.S
Cedar Memorial Park
Earl
Cedar Rapids
Leo Lewis
Chicago
Mary Catherine Earl
Paratd Earl
Jerome L. Mullin
Ninth Street NW
St. Patrick’s Church
D. J. Lenihan
St. Anthony’s Club
Rosary Society
Knights of Columbus
Teahen Chapel
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Navy
Tritle Services for Mrs Emma Engle Trille Held Thursday
Tritle Services for Mrs Emma Engle Trille of Central City who died Tuesday will be held at 1 30 p m Thursday in the Alburnett Methodist church with the Rev L J Farris of Fairbanks Ind officiating. Mrs Tritle's grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Burial will be in the family lot at Palo. Friends may call at the Beatty chapel until 11 a m Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Engle Trille
Central City
Alburnett Methodist Church
L. J. Farris
Fairbanks
Tritle
Palo
Beatty Chapel
Noah's Ark Believed to Be a 20,000-Ton Vessel
The historic vessel Noah's Ark is regarded by researchers as a massive ship with a displacement around 20,000 tons. Scholars cite traditional records and ancient geometry to support the estimation.
Bushmasters push Japanese back at Arawe in New Guinea
Advanced Allied headquarters report the 158th U S infantry units driven 1000 yards beyond the Arawe beachhead capturing 28 Japanese machine gun nests. Allied losses were light. 139 Japanese dead and part of a field artillery battery taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Guinea
158Th
U. S. Infantry
Arizona
New Mexico
Arawe
Pacific Islands
Douglas MacArthur
Ambon
Amboina
Tanimbar Islands
Admiralty Islands
Wide Bay
Rabaul
New Britain
Acescore Hero Howard Makes Notable Air Victory
Acescore named as a probable Congressional Medal candidate for a daring fighter action last Tuesday. Howard describes a brutal dogfight at bomber altitude, firing from four guns in sequence, protecting Fortresses while evading Nazi attackers and prompting reports of a major Allied victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard
American fighter ace legends rise in wartime heroics
The piece recounts Howard and other pilots tallying downed enemy planes in World War II. It compares Howard to Lt Commander Edward H. O’Hare and cites Joe Foss, Gregory Boyington, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Richard Bong among top aces. The Navy notes no official single-pilot downed-planes record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard
Edward H
Butch’ O'Hare
Pacific
O’hare
Joe Foss
Sioux Falls
S. D
Gregory “Pappy
Boyington
Okanogan
Wash
Eddie Rickenbacker
Bougainville Island
Solomons
Foss
Guadalcanal
James R. Hamilton
Georgetown
Oschersieben
Germany
Walker Mahurin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Jesse W. Gannon
Verona
England
Richard S. Bong
Poplar
Wis
Army Air Forces
Navy
Muster Out Pay Increase Vetoed by House Vote
The U S house rejected a counter-proposal to raise the muster out pay limit to 1100 dollars. The vote stood 113 to 19 against Rep Ploeser’s plan to keep discharged servicemen on the government payroll at 60 dollars a month while they sought private work within one year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Rep
Ploeser
R-Mo
Whelihan Fine Arts Gift Shop Sold to Out-of-Town Buyer
The stock of the Whelihan Fine Arts Gift Shop at 327 Granby Building was sold by Mrs. J Hamilton Bell to an unnamed out-of-town buyer. The purchaser plans to dispose of the stock in Cedar Rapids. Opened Oct 24 1924 by Mrs. Bell then Miss Louise Whelihan, the shop has operated since then and is now closed except for collecting outstanding accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whelihan
Fine Arts
Granby Building
J. Hamilton Bell
Cedar Rapids
Bell
Louise Whelihan
Pigskin Leather For Civilian Shoes
Washington AP reports shortages of leather push plans to use pigskin for civilian shoes. The new combat boot, approved by the army and used overseas, demands more leather and worsens the supply, War Production Board sources say.
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Washington
War Production Board
Army
Service Members Leave and Transfers From Cedar Rapids Area
The Cedar Rapids area military personnel are listed with training completions leave plans and transfers. Pvt Dick Pinney completed basic training at Fort Benning and heads to Michigan State for ASTP engineering. Capt Allan W Thompson on 10 day leave from Fort Bragg visits family. Seaman Dale Peyton on short leave. Fgt Phyllis Luse assigned to Air WAC detachment at Lowry Field after basic training. Ensign Richard J Loufek and wife visit Cedar Rapids before a Dallas report. Seaman First Class James K McKee returns from emergency leave to New York. Roberta Randolph enters Marine Corps Women’s Reserve awaiting orders for Camp Lejeune. Tech Sgt Leslie Hopkins furloughs in Springville. Vernon C Carne returns to Olathe after leave. Pvt Floyd A Ellis transfers to Fort Leonard Wood. Richard W Krejci returns to New York after eight day leave. Aviation Cadets Arnold Port and Kenneth Taylor transferred to centers in California and Oklahoma respectively. Pvt John Matthews Miller transferred to Pratt Army Air Base after training in multiple locations. Pfc Jusseln Cook on 10 day furlough from Fort Jay. Pte William Sowers Marines transfers from Oakland hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allan W. Thompson
Fort Bragg
N. C
N. J.thompson
Park Avenue
Dale Peyton
George Peyton
Walker
Peyton
Farragut
Idaho
Phyllis Luse
Marion
Fort Des Moines
Army Air Forces Wac
Lowryfield
Colo
Cedar Rapids
Tenn
Richard J. Loufek
J. G. Loufek
H Avenue NW
Norman D. Smith
F Avenue
Ensign Loufek
Tucson
Ariz
Loufek
Dallas
Texas
James K. McKee
New York
Lloyd K. McKee
E Street
Roberta Randolph
Rockford
Marine Corps Women’s Reserve
C. C. Randolph
Seventeenth Street
Camp Lejeune
New River
Tech
Leslie Hopkins
Los Angeles
Calif
Springville
Vernon C. Carne
Naval Air Station
Olathe
Kan
Third Street
Floyd A. Ellis
Camp Dodge
Medical Corps
Fort Leonard Wood
Richard W. Krejci
Wendl Krejci
Central City
Local War News From Glenwood Springs Area
Mrs Sowers resides at 1819 Second Street SW. Cpl Charles F Wood has arrived safely in England per parents Mr and Mrs William Wood of Ellis Lane NW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenwood Springs
Colonial Hospital
Sowers Reesides
Second Street
Charles F. Wood
England
William Wood
Ellis Lane
Soldier A W O L from Camp Bowie Arrested
Soldier A W O L from Camp Bowie Texas was arrested by Patrolmen Roy Walker and Gene Morey Tuesday night. He admitted having walked away from his camp Jan. 12 and is being held for military authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Terpkosh
Route 3
A.W.O.L
Camp Bowie
Texas
Roy Walker
Gene Morey
Terpkosh
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Erwin M Porter
George W Duncan
Conrad
al Doyle
Third Avenue SE
Audrey Fesler
Fourth Avenue
Floyd Fisher
Twenty-ninth Street
E P Ristedt
Country Club Parkway
Frank Filip
Harvey Ahrens
Milner Hotel
Darrell Dake
Meadowbrook Court
C Avenue
Forty-first Street
E Avenue
Center Point Road
Oakland Avenue
St. Luke’s
Joseph Hall
Sixth Avenue
William Johnson
Mission Nursery
Congress
Paramount
State Theaters
F.D.R
Niles
Davis
Mrs, Farl
Mullin Services
Tritle Services
Morris
Morris Plan
U. S
Bezdek
Johnson Avenue
Marion Boulevard
DIAL
Witil O'Hare
Whelihan Fine Arts
Dick Pinney
Eugene M. Pinney
Ridgeway Drive
Fort Benning, Ga
Michigan State College
Lansing
A.S.T.P
Kenneth Taylor
Dennis Taylor
Stamford
Fredrick
Oklo
John Matthews Miller
Army Air Base
Pratt
Caroline Colby
Twelfth Street
Pe. Miller
Miami
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Keeslerfield
Miss
San Diego
Coe College
Pfc
Jusseln Cook
Fort Jay
N. Y
Mrs
E. E. Cook
Second Avenue SE
Pte
William Sowers
Marines
Oakland, Calif., Naval Hospital
Aea
Beytala
3Rd Ave
Yphone
VE Carver
Paul Durell
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