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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1945
Page
8
Food and gas ration details with stamp validity dates, divorce decree, police court records listing disturbances and fines, legislative adjournment notes, and hospital birth announcements. Includes Meat Blue Sugar Gas stamps and extended coupon dates plus several Cedar Rapids individuals cited in court and parking violations.
The Senate judiciary committee approved unanimously a compromise bill regulating the insurance business after a long fight over exempting insurers from antitrust laws. It preserves federal intervention for rate coercion while leaving taxation and general regulation to states and delays Sherman and Clayton act applicability to 1947 and 1948.
FBI officials outlined the unsolved September 1942 Burlington dynamiting near Corning to 90 eastern Iowa officers. Elmer Fletcher described a meticulously planned attack using 130 sticks of dynamite and a parallel wiring system that damaged all 12 cars of the train without wrecking it. An anonymous letter to the World Herald hinted the bomber sought to warn soldiers and was near Denver when mailed.
The letter described the blast as a near perfect job by a skilled dynamiter. Investigators note the charges were loosely packed and positioned close to the moving train, with the blast damaging all 12 cars. FBI experts say the method could have caused more damage with a different wiring setup. Clues include dynamite boxes found, a hobo seen near the tracks, and a burned bag remains, but no suspect yet. An Iowa meeting discussed further FBI briefings on criminals and wartime film showings.
DETECTIVES examined the past of Arthur Kasherman a 43 year old former convict and crusading editor after he was ambushed shot and killed Monday night in Minneapolis He died before a woman friend Pearl von Wald 34 who had spent the evening with him The victim published the small paper Public Press mainly attacking Mayor Marvin L Kline s administration.
Rome dispatch says Field Marshal Albert Kesselring’s army in Italy has grown to 28 divisions, its largest size since last spring. The increase, not detailing source of reinforcements, may reflect transfers from northern Italy garrison duties from 25 divisions previously reported.
The War Labor Board ruled that union members who strike in violation of their contract must be restored to their jobs by the employer before the board can settle the dispute. The decision was announced Monday in Washington.
Teams from bars, golfers, card players, swimmers and other competitors were complete Tuesday for the second annual anthem Club Olympics at the M C A. Five clubs will begin several events at 5 PM with a 6 30 dinner program by four Iowa Preflight officers and resume at 8 PM. The Lions defend their title.
Lumir W. Stritesky was installed as president of the South Side Civic Club at C S P S hall with Fred C. Henson becoming past president. New officers include William L. Broulik as vice president Frank J. Kindl as financial secretary and Joseph J. Janeba as treasurer.
The article details OPA measures to reduce inflated wholesale markups in the garment trade. It aims to stop dummy jobbers and prevent overfinishing, with price cuts cascading from mills to retailers and many garments tagged at factory or store with ceiling prices.
Actress Martha Raye said Monday night that thieves robbed her Hollywood home of nearly 10000 dollars in clothing and jewelry. The loss included a 6000 dollar mink coat and a bracelet given by Al Jolson.
U S Third Fleet carrier airmen scored a big strike near Formosa, destroying 140 Japanese planes and damaging ships and ground targets. Admiral Nimitz noted one major U S warship damaged with air losses described as light while 43 Japanese planes were shot down and 97 destroyed on the ground.
King Peter of Yugoslavia ordered the ouster of Premier Ivan Subasic and his cabinet to thwart a regency for a war battered country. Subasic planned a coalition with Marshal Tito and called a cabinet meeting for Tuesday to address the crisis.
Soviet forces envelop about 200000 Germans in a broad south and east pincers sweep. Camps near the Vistula and Poznan report movement as Marshal Zhukov’s front presses toward the line south of Bydgoszcz and beyond. American prisoners shift between Italian and German camps as peninsula fighting unfolds.
Orville Trimble alias Ovil Trimble aged 31 gave address as 52144 Fourth avenue SE and was arraigned in Judge Floyd Philbrick's court on an assault charge. He was held in Linn county jail on $2,000 bond after Monday night arrest by Patrolmen O Neill and Kuba following an altercation at McDonalds tavern. A bottle struck E P Kenny on the head causing a gash and a fragment of glass cut James Dee in Vernon.
Lloyd Beese 56 farmer near Lisbon route 1 died Monday after a brief illness. He is survived by wife Grace two daughters son Virgil and mother Mary Beese with four grandchildren. Services Thursday 2 p.m. at Brosh funeral home Solon with burial in Lisbon cemetery. Mary Jakubec 74 widow of Jacob Jakubec died Tuesday in a Cedar Rapids nursing home. Survived by three sons seven grandchildren seven great grandchildren two brothers three sisters and several in laws. Burial at Bohemian National cemetery with services at Kuba funeral home Thursday at 2 p.m.
Mrs. James M Green, 72, longtime Cedar Rapids resident, died Monday at her home 803 F avenue NW. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 9 a.m. at St Patrick's Church with burial in Mt Calvary Cemetery. The rosary will be recited tonight at Brady mortuary at 8. She was born September 5, 1872 near Melrose and married February 4, 1896 in Melrose RC Church. She leaves her husband a son John P Green of Cedar Rapids and several nieces and nephews. she belonged to St Patrick's Church. Friends may call at Brady's.
Mrs Angeline Ladd widowed of Earl Ladd aged 74 died Tuesday morning in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Born Genoa Indiana she lived in Cedar Rapids 35 years. Survived by nieces and nephews. Funeral Friday at 9 am Kuba funeral home Rev Msgr John Molloy officiating Rosary Thursday 8 pm at Kuba's Burial Cedar Memorial Park.
An American paratrooper Pvt. Karl Gustav Hulton 22 of Cambridge Mass was found guilty of murdering George Heath a London taxi driver and sentenced to hang. His girlfriend Mrs Elizabeth Jones 18 was also found guilty and faces the gallows. The judge revealed after verdicts that both had committed other violent acts.
Berlin radio said Adolf Hitler has sent Heinrich Himmler and his top army commanders to the eastern front with full powers to make drastic decisions and ensure execution. The move was announced Tuesday from Berlin.
Field Marshal von Rundstedt and Nazi officials met at the supreme headquarters to plan defense of the Oder line on the Russian front. Reports say withdrawals from northern Italy and some western front changes were considered. Norwegian divisions may move east of Frankfurt. Silesian miners were drafted and some refused, with 400 relatives arrested and about 100 hostages shot.
Paris reports a rare Eisenhower order led to arrests of four officers from the 716th railway battalion amid an ongoing probe of black market abuses. Col. Walter J. Marlin was relieved of command and remains outside trial as he serves in Belgium. Enlisted men claim officers cheated them of rations and even joined thefts.
American Marianas based B 29s attacked Honshu with about 70 bombers concentrating on Nagoya, a key aircraft production hub. Despite fierce Japanese interception, ground damage was reported as slight and no American aircraft losses were claimed. The 20th Air Force released a brief note saying B 29s again struck the industrial center of Japan.
London based DNB reports retreating German forces removed the bodies of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg and his wife from their tomb at Tannenberg and blew up the great memorial shrine before abandoning the town on Sunday.
Cedar Rapids reports a fair pattern through Wednesday with no major temperature change. The city logged a 2:30 pm reading of 39 degrees with 45 percent humidity, and a morning low of 12 degrees. Roads were mostly clear aside from southeast Iowa patches of snow. State highs and lows ranged from 38 in Spencer to 8 in Burlington, with no precipitation reported Monday or Monday night.
Dr Leroy D Weld professor of physics at Coe College spoke at Sinclair Memorial chapel on the World We Live In theme He outlined three meanings of science the facts laws and their application for human use He noted many view science as only its technological side Dean M D Helser will conclude the series next Tuesday at 10 am with Education in the World of Tomorrow
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