Weather highlights and a local traffic stop notice
Weather section lists high and low temperatures for multiple cities including Bismarck Omaha Davenport Sioux City Des Moines and Washington. Justice of Peace Court reports Titonka resident Dwight Graham fined $2 and costs by Justice H R Churchill for running a stop sign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismarck
York
Chicago
Omaha
Davenport
Sioux City
Des Moines
Washington
Justice OF Peace Court
Dwight Graham
Titonka
H. R. Churchill
Cedar Rapids Residents Named In Draft Acknowledgment
Merritt F Johnson and Elora Boardman both of Cedar Rapids along with Alexander Jeremy and Regina Malloy of Cedar Rapids are listed in the latest public notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merritt F. Johnson
Elora Boardman
Cedar Rapids
Alexander Jeremy and
Regina Malloy
Custody Awarded in Orrin Gleason Desertion Case
Helen C Gleason of Orrin Gleason gains custody of their daughter Sonia three, with the decree by Judge G K Thompson. Marriage occurred April 1938 in Davenport. Costs taxed to defense. Records also note several traffic fines and license suspensions for named individuals. Two deaths recorded: Mrs Lester Sykora and Joseph A Hrdificka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen C. Gleason
Orrin Gleason
Sonia
Davenport
G. K. Thompson
Norris Promoted in Army Air Corps
William P. Norris, son of Mr and Mrs John N Norris of 311 Linden Terrace SE, has advanced to first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps per a Pacific theater letter to his parents. He enlisted March 1941 after study at Coe College and graduated from Kelly Field as a second lieutenant in October. Robert L. McLaughlin, son of Mr and Mrs E R McLaughlin of 219 Fifth St NW, has been promoted to staff sergeant at Hunter Field Savannah Ga with an Air Corps unit. Harry Ackerman of the Navy is home on leave visiting his parents at 926 Eleventh St NE. A human hair is larger and more elastic than that of animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P. Norris
John N. Norris
Linden Terrace
Army Air Corps
Pacific
Lieut. Norris
Coe College
Kelly Field
Robert L. McLaughlin
E. R. McLaughlin
Fifth Street
Hunterfield
Savannah
Air Corps
Harry Ackerman
The
Navy
Mrs
Frank Ackerman
Eleventh Street
No Sugar Applications Delayed In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids residents face postponement of an extra day to apply for canning sugar due to a shortage of forms. Linn county rationing coordinator Sam Hankins said a new date will be set soon as remaining forms are distributed to branch committees. Only residents without prior sugar canning registrations may register on the next in city date. others must use community branches and mail will not be accepted.
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Cedar Rapids
Sam Hankins
Linn
Hankins
Hawkins
Iowa corn condition at 87 percent of normal
Iowa corn condition stood at 87 percent of normal on June 1, compared with a 1930-39 average of 82 percent for that date, the Iowa federal state crop statistician reported Wednesday.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Agriculture department 1942 grain harvest estimates
The Agricultural Department on Wednesday estimated 1942 wheat production at 868,059,000 bushels, down from 945,937,000 last year. June 1 oat conditions project 1,252,380,000 bushels, up from 1,176,107,000. Rye is seen at 54,397,000, barley at 401,843,000, with prior-year figures 54,191,000 and 353,709,000 respectively.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Crop Reporting Board
Banquet Ends Woodmen Circle District Meeting
The Northeast district conference of the Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle will close tonight with a banquet at the Roosevelt hotel. Palm Grove No. 1 of Cedar Rapids hosts the meeting, Emma C Taylor of Cedar Rapids serves as district president, and visiting officers led by State Manager Margaret Best of Sioux City were introduced. Delegates engaged in ritual work during the afternoon session and officers were elected late this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Forest Woodmen Circle
Roosevelt Hotel
Palm Grove No. 1
Cedar Rapids
Emma C Taylor
Margaret Best
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids to Have Lease-Lend Inspector
An agent from the U S treasury department will supervise lease-lend manufacturing inspections in eastern Iowa. He will base at Cedar Rapids in the WPA office at the federal building next week, moving this function from Chicago. Cr Barrett arranged Cedar Rapids operations, per James Plumb of the Iowa Manufacturing Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Treasury Department
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
WPA
Federal Building
Chicago
Lease-Lend Administration
Cr. Barrett
Treasury Department
James Plumb
Towa Manufacturing Company
Pelley Indicted on Sedition Charges in U S Case
Indiana federal grand jury charges William Dudley Pelley and two associates with 12 counts of publishing false statements to interfere with U S military forces and aid enemies. The Fellowship Press at Noblesville faces counts tied to The Galilean and a pamphlet. Arraignment set for June 17. potential fines up to 10,000 and 20 years per count.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Willam Dudley Pellevy
Dapper
Silver Shirts of America
Pelley
Fellowship Press
Noblesville
Ind
United States
Lawrence A Brown
Agnes H. Henderson
Liberty
Darien
Conn
the Galilean
Republic
Selective Service Act
Rubber Drives for Tire Recapping Discussed in Senate
Ellender, chairing a senate small business subcommittee on tires, explained rubber allocations would permit retreading 30,000,000 tires without harming the war program. A California letter urged rubber from poinsettias, claiming high yield and quick maturity. Gillette backed plant sources but noted corn and wheat surpluses could be converted to rubber. Oil industry leaders awaited Ickes approval for a plan to collect scrap at 800,000 workers, buying inner tubes and other items at one cent a pound. Collection would run through June 20 with storage at bulk plants and reporting to the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellender
Senate
Norris
Gillette
D-la
OIL Industry
Chicago
Harold Ickes
General Committee
Petroleum Industry
Midwest
Bernard Ll. Majewski
Marketing Association of the American Petroleum Industry
War Council
Washington
Majewski
Pelley Convicted in North Carolina Blue Sky Case
In North Carolina where his Silver Shirt headquarters stood in Asheville, Pelley faces conviction on charges of violating the state's blue sky law. He remains free on appeal bond as the case proceeds.
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North Carolina
Asheville
Pelley
Grocers Protest Henderson Plan of Price Snoop
At their 45th annual convention in Chicago independent grocers denounced Leon Hendersons plan for 100000 price control enforcement agents. They warned it would unleash an army of snoopers and harassment on retailers while urging self policing backed by consumer reports amid wage stabilization push to curb inflation and avoid broader wage freezes.
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Chicago
INS
America
Leon Henderson
Henderson
WPA Grants in Iowa Total 109,310,000
A congressional report shows the Works Progress Administration spent 109,310,000 dollars in Iowa from July 1935 to March 1942. Fiscal year highs reached 21,993,000 in 1939 with other yearly expenditures listed: 11,367,000 in 1938, 17,672,000 in 1937, 17,156,000 in 1940, 16,167,000 in 1941, and 9,500,000 in the first nine months of 1942.
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Washington
Work Projects Administration
Iowa
Congressional
House approves $50 base pay bill for service members
House Wednesday passed and sent to the senate a compromise bill fixing the minimum pay of service men at $50 a month with a 20 percent boost for sea duty or foreign service. The measure carried 363 to n in the vote.
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Washington
House
Senate
Ill-Fated Cruiser Houston Repulses Jap Air Attack
Capt Frederick Trask recounts the February 15–16 convoy defense as the Houston, under heavy bombardment, used all anti-aircraft fire to break up a formation of 36 Japanese bombers. The ship endured 45 minutes of attack with 28 casualties on the convoy, then escorted merchant ships to Darwin before later sinking at Java Sea.
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Washington
Houston
Java Sea
Frederick FE. Trask
Oakland
Calif
Darwin
Australia
Trask
Japanese reports on Midway and Dutch Harbor losses
A Tokyo communique claimed major Japanese success in the Midway and Dutch Harbor actions, reporting sinking two to three American aircraft carriers and a large transport while downing about 120 enemy planes. It also cited destruction of enemy positions in the Aleutians and bombings of oil tanks and a hangar, noting ongoing operations and casting doubt on U S reports and eyewitness accounts.
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Midway
Dutch Harbor
United States
United States Navy
Pacific
Tokio Imperial Headquarters
Midway Island
Aleutian Islands
Imperial
Aleutians
Tokio
George H. Guy, Jr
Houston
Texas
Battle carriers and Marblehead saga reshape Midway narrative
Japanese carriers burst into flame as American forces press battle area claims. Reports contrast with Japan on Midway, while Marblehead proves resilient after a claimed sinking, showing U S carriers Enterprise Hornet Yorktown forming a 19 900 ton class with crews over two thousand.
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Midway
United States
Tokio
Japan
Berlin
Asahi
Marblehead
Indian Ocean
Java
Enterprise
Hornet
Yorktown
Shenandoah Veteran Heads Iowa G. A. R.
Des Moines reports J. M. Gudgel, 94, Shenandoah, named commander of the Iowa department of the Grand Army of the Republic. He succeeds E. P. Taylor, 96, Fairfield. Also elected were J. J. Neuman, 95, Des Moines, senior vice commander. James S. Wason, Davenport, president of the Sons of Union Veterans. W. T. Alstrand, Fort Dodge, senior vice commander. D. T. Howe, Spencer, junior vice commander. and R. I. Snodgrass, Waterloo, secretary-treasurer.
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Des Moines
J. M. Gudgel
Shenandoah
Iowa
Grand Army of the Republic
E. P. Taylor
Fairfield
J. J. Neuman
James S. Wason
Davenport
Sons of Union Veterans
W. T. Alstrand
Fort Dodge
D. T. Howe
Spencer
RI. Snodgrass
Waterloo
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Daily Record
Erin Mee
R. M. Willis
Leonard J. Sanker
Second Street
Guy Linville, Jr
Fifth Avenue SE
Mercy Hospital
Robert C. Robbins
Palo
Leo J. Krejer
Vernon
George Coleman
Center Point Road
St. Luke's Hospital
Roy M. Taft
Thirtieth Street Drive
Elmer Bergmann
Lester Sykora
Sixteenth Avenue
Latoe Rapids
Joseph A. Hrdificka
Fourth Avenue
Iowa City
U. S
Woodmen Circle
Craemer’s
W. D. Pelley
Isale
Craemer's
Be Hera
Proma
Craemer
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