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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1944
Page
12
The Daily Record compiles ration stamp schedules for meat gas sugar and fuel oil along with police court fines for drunkenness license violations and parking. It also reports numerous birth and divorce notices and lists contested state and county primary results with candidate tallies.
The partial canvass from the forty-eighth precinct shows Republican write‑ins totaling at least 22 with many illegible or initialed entries. Democrats cast 61 write‑ins, some supporting Republican nominees for auditor while two supported former Auditor Vesely who resigned in April. Vesely had 663 Republican machine votes, the only printed name for auditor on the ballot, though he refused candidacy after resignation. The official count tallied 864 votes for Brockman and 438 for plain Brockman, with 1923 Republican write‑ins scattered among several names including Coutts and Brockman relatives.
Deaths include Ed Richter 57 formerly of Cedar Rapids who died June 6 in Wilmar California with services in California. Survived by wife daughter granddaughter and son in the navy plus three sisters. Also obituary for Conklin infant died at 2 p.m. Tuesday with private services and cremation in Moon chapel. Surviving parents four sisters grandparents and many relatives.
Dwight Krumboltz assistant city attorney was elected commander of Hanford post No. 5 of the American Legion. Unanimous vote. New officers include Sam Cohen Adolph Mitralsky James F. Scolaro Otto Hanzlik and others. Installation planned for August after state convention. A June 21 rally in Memorial Coliseum with a 60 member coast guard band from St. Louis. Committees named for July 4 Hawkeye Downs celebration. Vitamin production estimate noted by agriculture department for this year.
Frank N Fitch death notice delayed funeral plans in Cedar Rapids where services were moved from Wednesday to Thursday in the Turner chapel at 4 p.m. Rev Paul Luther Miller to conduct and burial set for Oak Hill cemetery. Fitch died in Whit tier California after the North Western Challenger train was held at Grand Island Nebraska due to a Platte river bridge washout.
Cedar Rapids resident Edward C. Caughey who died at Oakdale sanatorium will have a 2 p.m. Thursday service in Turner chapel led by Rev. George W. Bryant of the First United Presbyterian church. Burial follows at a later date. Elmore Services for Loren A. Elmore of 505 Fifth Avenue SE will be at Agnew funeral home in Donnellson at 2 p.m. Friday with burial in Charleston cemetery near Donnellson. Beatty chapel hours are until 9 p.m. Wednesday for viewing.
Usher Services for Hiram J Usher who died Monday evening will be held at Beatty chapel at 1 30 Thursday with Rev George Stauffacher officiating Burial will be in the Cedar Memorial Cemetery family lot Friends may call at Beatty's in preparation for services
Edith R Keyes longtime Cedar Rapids resident died at 4 p.m. Monday in a Chicago hospital He had been living in Hinsdale Illinois She was the daughter of Alvin C Keyes pioneer Cedar Rapids settler Surviving brothers include Harry H Frank W in Chicago and S Clifford George C in Cedar Rapids
Weather notes show Cedar Rapids reaching 88 degrees by 2:30 PM with humidity dropping to 35 percent. Tuesday's highs varied statewide from 56 at Decorah to 88 at Keokuk, with scattered thundershowers totaling .34 inch statewide and a low around 64 overnight.
Des Moines and Raccoon rivers surged Wednesday after weather bureau warned of scattered showers in southern Iowa. Des Moines river jumped at Boone while the Raccoon rose rapidly at Jefferson. Crests remain undetermined until Boone and Jefferson record highs. The bureau indicated river levels may not reach previous flood peaks.
Allied armored columns bypassed Orbetello 70 miles north of Rome and pushed through German defenses five miles beyond the port. In the hills above the Etruscan plain, American and British forces advanced two miles amid the heaviest fighting since Rome fell. Brig. Gen. Gordon P. Saville said the renewed opposition aimed to delay German regrouping in northern Italy.
Captain Morrison Wilkinson Jr. formerly with the Flying Tigers in China was found guilty of multiple sex offenses by a general court martial in Santa Ana California and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Gorrell reports German casualties near Montebourg as American columns press toward Valognes and Cherbourg. Allied naval blockade on Cherbourg aims to cut off enemy torpedo boats while Pont l Abbe and surrounding areas see limited advance. Eisenhower lauds seven days of invasion, forecasting progress toward liberating Europe and crushing the Nazi war machine.
MacArthur disclosed that Mokmer airdrome on Biak island is now in Allied use by Fifth Air Force planes. The base lies within 880 miles of the southern Philippines, expanding bomber reach. Allied forces push west toward Sorido and Borokoe airfields as Japanese are forced back.
Allied headquarters reported that not a single American merchant seaman is known to have been lost in the cross channel invasion. Some merchant ships have been lost, but overall losses among merchant seamen remain unconfirmed.
The Central States Drivers council reports 26 000 over the road truck drivers in 12 midwest states voted 98 percent to strike within 30 days to press a seven cent hourly wage raise under a War Labor Board directive. The action would affect 1 800 companies and about 40 000 drivers immediately, with 250 000 potentially involved within a week. Dexter Lewis, director, says a council meeting will set a strike date.
Washington officials say military mail delays will ease as transportation improves between England and the front. Censorship has grown stricter, slowing mail to the United States. Post office staff note regular mail delivery to English bound troops and to the French invasion force after D day.
Two cars of a west bound Great Western freight train derailed 15 miles northeast of Carroll Indiana near midnight Tuesday as reported by AP. No injuries were mentioned and authorities investigated the cause of the incident.
The centennial Iowa Grand Lodge session at the Memorial Building featured T C Wardley of Ontario Canada praising the flag as a symbol of freedom. Canadian and American colors were displayed, a Cedar Rapids Mason's painting by Grant Wood was highlighted, and 832 delegates attended the proceedings with reports from multiple committees.
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