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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1944
Page
1
The issue lists ration stamp validity for Meats Gasoline Foods and Sugar with book numbers and end dates. It includes divorce petitions and decrees for Emanuel Trepton Schlemmer and others, plus multiple traffic and conduct fines. Fire and gas and chimney incidents are briefly logged with locations and times. Births are reported at St Luke's Mercy and nearby hospitals with dates January 20 21.
Reports from Iowa show varied progress in bond sales with Union county oversubscribing opening quotas and Cedar Rapids near one fifth of its target. Manchester high school sponsored two blockbuster nights while Fayette county and nearby towns exceeded expectations. Executive director W D Bayless heads to navy as more reports on house to house campaigns are awaited.
Flight Officer Stevens son of Mr and Mrs Charles W Stevens 1928 First Avenue NE was killed in a plane crash July 5.
Des Moines reports two state groups adopt resolutions commending Foss Davis, warden of the Anamosa state reformatory, for his management. Gov. Hickenlooper ordered an IBO investigation after eight escapes in January, with Nebergall leading the inquiry.
Des Moines Iowa county AAA committees will meet with Washington and state officials next week in Storm Lake Creston and Cedar Rapids. A J Loveland Iowa agricultural conservation chair notes meetings provide information and instructions for the spring sign-up to boost balanced food production with emphasis on oil bearing crops for the war effort. Washington attendees include Leroy K Smith Tom B Walker and Thomas J McGuire.
UPI reports that large numbers of drifting balloons, tagged by Swedish and Danish broadcasts as barrage and incendiary balloons, caused widespread power outages, railway delays, and a train wreck in Denmark and southern Sweden on Wednesday night. The broadcasts offered no indication of the balloons' origin.
A slight earthquake was felt in Salta at 10 34 a m Thursday with no damage or casualties reported.
Mrs Adele Born Williams, 55, wife of a State Department attaché, was shot in the Drake hotel room. Police probe a decade‑old love triangle as motive and seek Mrs Mabel Williams, former wife of Frank Starr Williams, amid chase orders and interstate inquiries.
Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Shueyville church for Ida Williams 78 who died at her home in Olin. Daughter of George and Ida Anderson pioneer Shueyville settlers she moved to Olin five years ago. She married Charlie Williams on March 7 1892 and is survived by two daughters Mrs O J Houston and Mrs R B Mason both of Olin.
Mary Bruch of St Louis died Wednesday. Services at Beatty chapel at 1 30 p m Saturday with Rev James H Blackstone officiating. Daughters of Union Veterans participate. Burial in the Masonic cemetery at Tipton. Friends may visit Beatty chapel after 1 p m Friday.
John P Brammer 132 Seventeenth Street SW died at home after a long illness. Services at Trinity Lutheran Church at 4 p m Saturday led by Rev P L Bornhoeft. Burial in Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Body moved from Turner Chapel. friends may call until 1 p m Saturday. Formerly with Lyman Brothers Co and Brammer Inc millinery. last two years with Haegg Construction Co.
Victor A. Hyde aged 73 died Friday morning in Guttenberg where he had resided for over six decades. He was the father of Mrs. James F. Curry of 737 Twenty-seventh Street NE. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Charles L Bezdeny 32 died at 8 a m Friday after long illness at home of his parents five miles east of Cedar Rapids Born Oct 2 1911 in Cedar Rapids he graduated from Washington high school and Milwaukee State Teachers college He taught orchestra band and history in Marshalltown Survived by wife Margaret daughter Ann sister Viasta Sulek niece Ellen Sulek nephew Leon Sulek all of Cedar Rapids He was a Methodist church member The body entrusted to Janeba funeral home with service details to be announced
Mrs. Bertha C Sevig a Benton county resident for 70 years died at her Walford area farm home Wednesday. Services will be at the Walford Methodist church Saturday at 2 p.m. with Rev O Arnold of Norway officiating. Burial follows in Norway cemetery. Friends may call at the home until noon Saturday.
John M. Mitchell, a retired farmer of Martelle, died Thursday. Dr. William M. Evans will conduct services in the Moon chapel Saturday at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Red Oak cemetery near Tipton. Friends may call at the chapel.
In Iowa the state tax commission corrected a printing error that misclassified amounts withheld from compensation for victory tax or federal income tax as non-deductible. Taxpayers filing long forms may deduct these withholdings, reducing state tax due. The correction will be published with new rules in a few days.
Capt. Hanrahan, long a pioneer in naval aviation and commander of ships at several bases, died with his wife and brother Dan Hanrahan of Portland present. Known as The Skipper, he mentored cadets and led the Seahawk football support, oversaw the preflight pilot training, and a public funeral was set for Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Iowa fieldhouse.
Grace Buchanan Dineen 34, a confessed Nazi spy and key government witness, testified in Detroit federal court about coaching Dr. Frederick W. Thomas and Bertrand S. Hoffman in German espionage. She described meetings, a Berlin training month, and plans to obtain defense plant data for a $500 monthly fee.
Washington AP A House move seeks to curtail a 1.35 billion dollar U N relief fund for war devastated lands and to require exact terms for ratifying U N participation. Lawmakers challenge UNRRA as constitutional and warn it could empower Stalin in Europe.
In London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill personally led Britain's role in the Russian Polish frontier dispute and met with three leaders of the Polish government in exile to discuss the issue.
Cornell college students from Mt. Vernon provided entertainment at the Cedar Rapids Rotary club Ladies Night dinner held Thursday at the Roosevelt hotel. About 125 attendees heard instrumental pieces from Jessie Mae Hannum Margaret Beck and Patricia Collingbourne and vocal numbers by Mary Yost Margaret Heitz and Joanne Day. A dramatic skit by Marilou Stiles and Mary Stevenson was presented under Prof Albert F Johnson head of the drama department.
James M. Tisdale 18, son of L. O. and Mrs. Tisdale, formerly of Cedar Rapids, is critically ill of pneumonia at Camp Fannin Texas. A Franklin school alumnus, he joined the army last July. His father manages the Marshalltown division of Iowa Electric Light and Power Company.
Chicago reports War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson warns against relaxing construction restrictions now. He says diverting resources to civilian work would derail wartime strategy and could endanger victory. He cites manpower and component part limits and warns firms may delay war contracts awaiting peacetime production.
Nazi forces vow to raze any city or village that fires on troops and will fire on gatherings of more than two persons in the northern Italian province of Biela as authorities seek to crush resistance along the Swiss frontier.
The notice lists subscription rates for carrier service and by mail, detailing weekly, yearly, and half year terms. Rates vary by region with specific prices for Iowa border states and other states and territories, noting accepted towns and service conditions.
The Byrd committee urged Congress to end free mailing by federal departments to boost USPS revenue, trimming wartime exemptions for War and Navy, Treasury, and Selective Service. The report says free mail volume has tripled to about 2 billion pieces annually and recommends regular rates or cost-based mailing funded from appropriations.
Herbert W. Parisius, who left the agriculture department over policy disputes, was named director of a new foods and agricultural branch of the Foreign Economic Administration. He will oversee development procurement and stockpiling of food for import or Allied pool contribution.
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