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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1944
Page
2
Public notices list wartime ration stamp validity for meat gas and sugar and shoe stamps. Police court fines for drunkenness speeding and parking are noted with names and addresses. Birth announcements from St Luke's Mercy Boise and other locales, plus divorce petitions for Zahn and Bishop.
McNamara's Home makers Shop remains closed Monday and Tuesday July 3 and 4. Mrs George Eye has returned from Seattle and Portland visiting Pvt Teonur Eye and Sau ra Eye. Trinity Methodist church hosts third mission session at 9 30 am with topics The Blessings of Health and The Inspiration of Worship led by Mrs Gertrude Keyes. Rev Lyle K Anderson speaks on The Demands of Jesus at Shueyville United Brethren church 9 30 am service. church school at 10 30 am and Christian Endeavor at 8 pm. Gazette carrier boy Jack Hiegel reports 29 10 cent war saving stamps missing between Twelfth street A avenue and the Paramount theater building. call 2 3937 if found. Theft of a federal use stamp from William Locke's car at 1514 First street NW reported. stamp stolen between June 2 and Friday. Tony Sudlik reports loss of a $9 billfold at Kresge store Friday.
Charles Edward Reed of 888 Center Point Road NE paid a $25 fine and costs in police court after pleading guilty to drunkenness and disturbing the peace. He was arrested at 216 Fourth Street SE following a reported fight. Detectives Connell and Stusak also arrested Earl Jensen of 500 Fifth Avenue SE on a separate matter, with a sodomy charge anticipated by Inspector Kudina.
John J. Ravane 67 of Des Moines, a credit union examiner for the state banking department, was killed when his car hit a parked truck on a highway four miles north of Mingo Iowa Friday night. Driver of the truck Owen Luana of Minneapolis was jailed in Newton on charges of parking on the highway without flares and lacking a chauffeur license.
DES MOINES AP The new War Manpower Commission control plan. which began Saturday, will affect Davenport Cedar Rapids Clinton Dubuque and Waterloo. Employers except agricultural must hire male applicants with referral cards from the United States Employment Service under the plan. Top priorities go to firms on the War Production Board urgency list and to the food canning industry during peak summer. WMC notes most job changers have been in essential industries, so the new rule will affect a relatively small share of Iowa's male labor pool. Washington reports Newton shifts from group two to three, signaling brighter labor conditions. Waterloo moves from three to two.
Incumbent Gerald P. Nye led Lynn A. Stambaugh by 950 votes with 2,220 of 2,251 precincts counted in the North Dakota Republican primary. Nye had 38,079 votes to Stambaugh’s 37,129 as official canvassing continues. The canvassing board will later tally absentee and soldier ballots.
Vivian Nordeen eight from Chariton Ta visited Chicago with her mother and friends to see grandmother Mrs Isaac Love. A crowded streetcar left the girl behind and police officer Frank Buehler found her and escorted her to Englewood station. The child refused offers of treats and conversation while waiting for her family to claim her.
DES MOINES Iowa agencies announce war bond prize awards consisting of captured rifles grenades and shells for counties and cities that exceed bond quotas. Six rifles and four hand grenades go to top county chairmen. three rifles to top counties by excess sales. additional rifles shells and other prizes by state war bond committees and the Iowa motion picture committee and retailers committee to designated chairmen.
Hollywood Count Kurt Maugwitz-Reventlow and his 9 year old son Lance have left California. His attorney says they will not release Lance to Barbara Hutton custody. Lance was due to live with his mother under a divided custody plan approved by a British court.
Estherville Iowa reports Mrs Cora Schulte of Jefferson was elected president of the Iowa Service Star Legion at the convention closing. Mrs Lillian Schulte and Miss Eva Crowe of Elkader were chosen junior branch Gold Star chairman and historian. The 1945 convention will be held at Washta.
Fred Frank, 60, Waterloo parks commission worker, died after slipping along a Cedar river path near Electric Park and being pushed into the water by a streetcar incident. The accident occurred Friday as he walked near the Cedar river area.
William Bierie a Delhi businessman, 60, fell into the Maquoketa river near Hartwick bridge in 30 feet of water. His eight year old grandson Billy Esslinger, in a boat nearby, swam to aid him and pulled him into safety, saving his life after Bierie clung to a tree limb and could not swim.
Cedar Rapids forecast calls for partly cloudy and warmer conditions tonight and Sunday with fresh winds. July made an October like entrance, dropping to 54 early Saturday morning as south winds prevailed. Federal forecasters hinted at warmth and possible showers, a weekend favorite source of grumbling. Friday’s high reached 80 with 2:30 PM reading of 84 and humidity at 20 percent.
Wesley John Marek 68 died after a long illness at his home near Cedar Rapids Friday night born February 13 1876 in Johnson county lived in the area all his life survived by wife Mamie a daughter a grandson three sisters and a brother funeral at Brush chapel Monday at 2 pm burial Oakland cemetery Solon Nellie Knight King 80 former Cedar Rapids resident died Saturday in Alhambra California where she had lived since 1931 survived by three daughters one son a sister eight grandchildren and one great grandchild burial and services planned in Alhambra
Mercy hospital expansion campaign reports an added 22 567 bringing pledged total to 126 547 toward 150 000 goal. Next report promised Wednesday at 7 30 p m in Florentine room Roosevelt hotel. Women's section already over top at 18061 two thousand sixty one over goal. Special gifts near 107 000 goal with 95235 raised. Marion county division almost reached its goal.
In San Francisco Louise Flack aged 28 was found guilty of manslaughter in the starvation death of her crippled eight year old daughter Delores after a six man six woman jury deliberated.
Multiple obituaries from Iowa list services held Saturday for Mrs. August Storbeck 78 of Strawberry Point. She died Thursday at home and is survived by husband James Duncan, two children, three sisters, a brother, a niece and a great grandchild. Also noted are Lowden Northrup 33, Technikly reported as son of Charles Northrup, and Monticello residents Armour B. Pelley 73 and Anthony J. Farrell 61 with their respective survivors, all with services held in their communities.
Reports from Bern and Algiers say Italian and French patriots began reprisal executions of German soldiers. Bern cites 100 German soldiers shot in Milan for 10 Milan hostages. Algiers says six German prisoners were shot in France. Ankara reports 1 400 Bulgarian partisans killed 230 Germans.
CHICAGO AP Daniel De Luce Pulitzer prize winning AP correspondent now with Allied troops on the Italian front Friday night was honored as one of Americas outstanding young men The U S Junior Chamber of Commerce saluted De Luce on Mutual network broadcast Freedom of Opportunity and awarded him its Distinguished Service Medal The Gold Key was presented by AP president Robert McLean who praised De Luce for courage honesty and sharp reporting
The United Nations coordinated three major offensives aimed at Berlin. Russian forces stood about 640 miles away, the Normandy assault about 650 miles distant, and the Italian front roughly 635 miles from the German capital, all advancing from east, west and south.
Col. Gen Jurgen von Arnim, German commander in chief captured in North Africa in spring 1943, is a prisoner of war in the United States, the War Department disclosed Friday night.
Mrs Kate Rhodes Hanley 92 mother of Lt Gov Joe R Hanley of New York state died Friday night at her Muscatine home after an extended illness. Her body lay in a local funeral home awaiting services set for 2 pm Sunday with burial in Muscatine.
In Council Bluffs, Albert McGinn and Mayor W A Byers, both local attorneys, were recommended by the Pottawattamie County Democratic convention as possible nominees for the Seventh district congressional race. The convention must select a replacement for Frank Beymer of Avoca, who has withdrawn.
The poem reflects on young brides awaiting war and the wives of sailors and airmen, noting how women blend youth and duty as soldiers depart. It contrasts their pretty attire with the burden of war and the enduring role of women in difficult times.
A raft of Navy and Army personnel are listed with leave and station details. Delbert E. Show and James E. Hess report back at Great Lakes and Bremerton respectively after leaves. Capt. John M. Hasek visits Cedar Rapids with family, while others travel between Farragut, Camp Bradford, Camp Edwards, and England. Promotions, transfers, and furloughs across Great Lakes, Bremerton, Meade, and Patterson Field are noted alongside family home addresses and next postings.
Paris Missouri AP reports Raymond Patrick aged 19, a former soldier, received two life sentences after pleading guilty to murder in the deaths of Albert Foltz and his son Ladwin Foltz, both farmers of Hunnewell. Sheriff Wilkes sent Patrick to the penitentiary. A third murder charge in Albert Foltz's wife Mrs Albert Foltz remains. Discovery June 10 of Ladwin’s body in an abandoned Farmington Iowa car led to Patrick’s arrest and the discovery of the other two bodies.
Coroner R O Giles reported that Marie Kempf of Council Bluffs likely died from food poisoning after falling ill Thursday while visiting her father Glen Kempf. Evelyn Holden, 13, is hospitalized with similar symptoms. four other children in the home escaped illness as samples are tested.
Ronald Eugene Hockett three-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Roy Hockett drowned in a water tank on the Hockett farm a mile north of Long Grove late Friday. It was the second drowning in Scott county in two days. Earlier Ervin Blocker fourteen, of Davenport drowned after slipping through a park railing into the Mississippi River Thursday night.
Pueblo dispatch reports Second Lt. Guy H. Conger of Sac City Iowa and Cpl. Donald G. Schwarzwalder of Fairbury Illinois were among ten airmen killed when a B-24 bomber crashed on Mesa De Mayo about 55 miles east of Trinidad Colorado early Thursday, with the tragedy announced on Saturday.
State of Iowa Linn County notice that on June 16 1944 the undersigned was appointed as Administratrix of the estate of George Co Johnston deceased No 17559 Linn County Iowa. All creditors must seek payment and all claims must be filed with proper authorities. Dwight Brumboldt Attorney represents the estate.
DES MOINES AP J H Thurau superintendent of Stratford schools for eight years and educator for 165 has been appointed test technician with the state merit system. His appointment follows open competitive examinations and a rating of education and experience. He will serve agencies under the merit system including health social welfare employment security commission and services for crippled children.
A J Loveland state Triple A chairman was hospitalized in Waverly Iowa after falling from a hay bale elevated into a hayloft at his farm east of Janesville. He suffered arm fractures and hospital officials described his condition as satisfactory.
Charles Michelson, veteran DNC publicity director for 13 years, returns to lead advice and campaign experience in the 1944 presidential drive. He holds the title of associate director of publicity and works from headquarters mornings, with efforts to finish early. Paul Porter remains head of the publicity staff.
A sheriff sale is scheduled in Linn County Iowa for 120 acres of land in Township 85 North Range 8 West with an undivided 4 percent interest in specific parcels NEy of Sec 38 Sec 36 and NW% of Sec 36. The property owned by Cecil F Emry and Cleo Emry is to be sold at public auction for cash on July 10 3044 at 10:00 AM in Cedar Rapids in front of the court house door. The sale follows a 1944 judgment in favor of Wency Gatto for $34.56 with interest and costs plus $122.18 with interest and costs. The sheriff and attorney Roy Radebauch will attend.
Vice President Wallace visited U S Army Air Forces Hospital in Western China to meet Sgt George Holzbaur Jr a Missouri tail gunner badly burned from a Ya wata reconnaissance mission. The injured airman expressed gratitude as Wallace offered encouragement and promised to notify his wife Wanda Holzbaur of the news.
Holz baur feels renewed by news from Washington as a nurse records his joy. He quips that the vice-president will phone his wife about his progress, noting the oddity of meeting the vice-president without an introduction.
Brig. Gen. Clarence L. Burpee announced the staff for the north Atlantic transport railways to move American troops and materiel in Europe. The team includes Col. Everett H. Qualls of Nashville as executive officer, Maj. James W. Conway of Wakefield, Lt. Col. G. J. Mulik of Omaha, Lt. Col. William T. Elmes of Beaver Falls, and Lt. Col. Fay II King of Sabula, Iowa, with affiliations to major railroads.
Irwin Wentzien of Gladbrook Donna Eyssen of Dubuque and Dorothy Pierce of Des Moines won a Legion sponsored poster contest to depict the reason for annual memorial poppies. Wentzien won among fourth to sixth graders, Eyssen among seventh to ninth graders, and Pierce among tenth to twelfth graders.
The Chicago Theater of the Air offers a Fourth of July pageant from 8 to 9 pm on Mutual and WGN. The Grant Park program, first of nine Theater presentations, is titled Minstrels of the Masses and blends music with drama featuring Bruce Foote Ruth Slater Attilio Baggiore and Earle Wilkie. Mrs Miniver moves to 6 30 pm on CBS and WMT this week with Margaret Lewerth as writer. Music America Loves guests Saturday include Leonard Warren and Zinka Milanov.
Glenda Farrell will visit Barry Wood Patsy Kelly show at 9 pm Saturday on NBC and WMAQ. Presidents of cooperative groups in the United States and Scotland speak at 9 45 pm Saturday on CBS and 10 45 pm on WBBM as part of International Cooperative Gay celebration.
Hour by hour listings show July 2 1944 radio programming across stations WHO WMT WGN KXEL EXEL WRO and WXEL including News Music Carnivals Dance parties and special features with noted hosts Arthur Hale L Welk Gracie Fields Paul Whiteman and War News programming throughout the day and into the night with Morning Sunday and Afternoon segments detailing shows and times.
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