Iowa and Midwest Weather And Court Notices
Partly cloudy with thundershowers in east and south Iowa. Highs near 75 northwest and near 90 southeast Friday. Final degree days for 1950 at 6 4 662. Divorces and traffic fines listed for Cedar Rapids Marion and other cities. Obituaries note deaths in Tama Mason City Manchester and Iowa City with births and service details.
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Bismarck
Minneapolis
Chicago
New Rie’s
Denver Wee
New York
Duluth
Puebloo
Los Angeles
Seattle
Miami
Sioux City
Iowa
Cc. R
Municipal
Wsw
Village Smithy Not Represented at Cedar Rapids Convention
A three day Iowa Blacksmiths and Welders Association convention opened in Cedar Rapids with about 1100 registered and expected 150 to 300 total attendees. Officers note the trade has shifted from horse shoing to ironsmithing and farm machinery work, with plow blades still made by old methods. The event features tours, demonstrations, a banquet, and speakers from the national and Minnesota associations.
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Blacksmiths and Welders
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Blacksmiths and Welders Association
Roosevelt Hotel
National Association
Thursiday
Chicago
Iowa
Blacksmiths “and Welders” Association
A. G. Osmundson
Webster City
New Orleans Papers Face U S Antitrust Suit
The Justice Department accuses the Times-Picayune and States of monopolizing trade in newspapers and related advertising since 1933 in a landmark civil action. The suit targets the company and four officers, with defense that practices are common and legal. The Item lauds Circulation figures and Stern defended amid Senate contempt action for editor Fritchey and Stern.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Times-Picayune
States
New Orleans Item
Justice Department
U. S. District Court
Times-Picayune
Times-Picayune Publishing Company
L. K. Nicholson
John F. Tims, Jr
Aubrey F. Murray
Donald W. Coleman
Sunday Times-Picayune
Item
David Stern, III
Philadelphia
Camden
N. J
Stern
Louisiana State Senate
Clayton Fritchey
Stem
Earl K. Long
Cedar Rapids debates dump disposal and bids for private trash pickup
Mayor Sedive defends burying waste at Memorial drive while officials study alternatives. A public health report says the dump is sanitary, but critics cite flies and odor. The council approves a new trash-haulers ordinance requiring covered trucks and a $50 annual license.
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Sedive
Memorial Drive
K. R. Willman
Cedlar Rapids
A. L. Bennett
State Department of Health
Bennett
Cedar Rapids
Burgus
Senators Propose Seven Member Special Inquiry Board
Senators Thomas and Ives proposed a seven member commission to conduct all investigations. The panel would include two senators two representatives and three public members with the President naming the private members. Congressional seats would be split evenly between Democrats and Republicans.
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Washington
Thomas
Utah
Ives
Rn.y
Congress
Senate
Union at Quaker Seeks Wage Talks on Contract
Officials of Local 110, Food Tobacco Agricultural and Allied Workers of America CIO notify Quaker Oats to reopen the November 25 1949 contract to negotiate wage increases vacation pay holiday pay overtime pay and related wage matters. Wesley Kopecky and Marvin Myers sign. Plant manager E J Petrarek notified. Similar notices sent to Quaker plants in Depew New York Memphis Tennessee and St Joseph Missouri.
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Wesley Kopecky
Mervin Myers
Kopecky
DePew
N. Y
Memphis
Tenn
St. Joseph
Courthouse Note Suit and Probate Actions Reported
Clarence W. Hall as administrator sues Nelle M. Martin for 1288.96 on a December 10 1940 promissory note with seven percent interest from issue date. Note totaled 1300.20 with 100 paid March 14 1942. Other rulings include Great Plains Supply Co judgment 138.11 against Ralph and Ada Slife and Federal Discount Corp replevin against Cheery and L Bub Leeper. Ida L. French will admitted to probate naming William R. French and a son Walter R. French as executors. Orpha Grimm suit dismissed.
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Clarence W. Hall
Estella Swein
Nelle M. Martin
Great Plains Supply Company
Ralph
Ada Slife
Ida L. French
William R. French
French
Walter R. French
Smuts Leaves Leadership of South African Party
Pretoria INS reports 80 year old former prime minister Jan Smuts stepped down as parliamentary leader of the United Party and J G Strauss succeeded him. A medical bulletin says Smuts rallied after a two week pneumonia battle with a prior weekend being described as critical. Malan leads the Nationalist party which won in May 1948.
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Pretoria
INS
Jan Christian Smuts
United Party
J. G. Strauss
Smuts
British Columbia Woodworkers Call Off Threatened Strike
In Vancouver British Columbia 32000 coastal woodworkers halted a threatened strike six hours before the deadline ending a potential disruption to the West Coast timber industry weeks of tension between workers and employers.
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Vancouver
B.C
British Columbia
Cedar Rapids Baker Wage Talks Deadlocked But May Move to Mediation
Negotiations involving three Cedar Rapids bakeries Peter Pan Colonial and Cedar Rapids Bakery Butter Nut and AFL Bakers union No 365 stalled after two and a half months. Union secretary Bert Slack said he requested an international representative and if that fails, a federal mediator may be sought. Workers seek a 10 percent raise while the bakeries offer five cents.
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Cedar Rapids
AFL Bakers Union No. 365
Bert Slack
Peter Pan
Colonial
Cedar Rapids Bakery
Senators scrutinize 18.5 million RFC loan to Gabrielson
At a Senate banking subcommittee hearing Senators Fulbright and Capehart criticized an 18.5 million RFC loan to Carthage Hydro Coal Inc New York. The funds would cover about half the cost of a synthetic gasoline plant and pipeline at Brownsville Texas. Capehart urged private financing for projects and questioned government support for a speculative venture led by Guy Gabrielson.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Republican National
Guy Gabrielson
Fulbright
D-Ark
Capehart
R-Ind
Senate
Carthage Hydro-Col, Inc
New York
Brownsville
Texas
Smith, Jones
Gabrielson
RFC
CIO Ousts Two Leftist Unions
The CIO expelled Fur and Leather Workers and American Communications Association for Communist influence while the Furniture Workers were cleared after overthrowing left wing leaders. The action came from the CIO executive board meeting in Washington. The Fur and Leather Workers claim about 100000 members and the American Communications Association about 10000. The Furniture Workers purge was withdrawn after its leadership change.
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Washington
CIO
Fur and Leather Workers
American Communications Association
Caterpillars Rampage Across Gatineau Hills Near Ottawa
A crawling horde of fuzzy brown tent caterpillars stripped green foliage over hundreds of acres in the Gatineau hills near Ottawa. Entomologists warned cocoons would form and moths march by mid July, with little can be done to stop the invasion.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canada
Gatineau Hills
Hull
Quebec
E. B. Watson
Government Division of Entomology
Mead Lake
Deaths Carleen Jindrich, 6 days old, Fairfax infant
Carleen Kay Jindrich died at Iowa City hospital Wednesday. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin F. Jindrich of Fairfax route 1. Survived by parents a sister Darla Mae and grandparents Frank C M Jindrich Anna Ludvicek. Private funeral at Shueyville Cemetery at 2 p.m. Thursday. Reverend Bernard White officiated.
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Carleen Kay Jindrich
Marvin F. Jindrich
Fairfax Route 1
Iowa City
Darla Mae
Frank C. M. Jindrich
Anna Ludvicek
Fairfax
Shueyville
Bernard White
Mrs Clark Brown Dies After Brief Illness in Cedar Rapids
Mrs Clark Brown of Muscatine died in a Cedar Rapids hospital Wednesday evening after a brief illness. Born February 2 1880 in Muscatine she lived in Cedar Rapids from 1913 to 1945 then returned to Muscatine. She is survived by her husband a daughter Bertha Bestman of Peoria a grandchild two great grandchildren and a brother George Kasper of Myrtle Point Oregon. Services will be at Wittich funeral home Muscatine with callers at Kuba funeral home Cedar Rapids until 10 am Friday.
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Clark Brown
Muscatine
Cedar Rapids
Bertha Bestman
Peoria
George Kasper
Myrtle Point
Ore
St. James Church
Ben Hurlodge
Wittich Funeral Home
Kuba Funeral Home
Francis Novak obituary and funeral details for Cedar Rapids resident
Frank Novak of 3715 Cottage Grove avenue SE died at his home at 2 15 p.m. Wednesday after a lingering illness. Born January 26 1873 in Czechoslovakia he lived in Cedar Rapids 47 years. Survived by wife Anna five children Lester Frank and Charles of Cedar Rapids Mrs Leo Krejci Mt. Vernon and Sister Mary Leander of Santa Barbara Calif a brother Anton Cedar Rapids three sisters Mrs Anna Pospisil Cedar Rapids Mrs Otto Texel Omaha and Mrs Rose Vojta Friend Neb. The Polansky chapel will hold Rosary Friday 7 30 p.m. and viewing after 3 p.m. Friday. Funeral Saturday at St Wenceslaus church with Rev Anthony W Chihak at 9 a.m. Burial in St Johns cemetery.
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Frank Novak
Cottage Grove Avenue
Czechoslovakia
Cedar Rapids
Prokop Velky
Anna
Lester
Frank
Charles
Leo Krejci
Mt. Vernon
Mary Leander
Franciscan Order of
Franciscan Order of Santa Barbara, Calif
Anton
Anna Pospisil
Otto Texel
Omaha
Rose Vojta
Friend
Neb
Polansky Chapel
St. Wenceslaus Church
Anthony W. Chihak
St. John’s Cemetery
Chihak
Amos H Diehl Ends Life with Shotgun
Amos H Diehl 60 of 1619 Sixth Street NW died by suicide with a 20 gauge shotgun in the basement Wednesday. His death occurred about 2 p.m. and was found about 4:30 p.m. by son in law Rudolph Kolda. He was a water works employee and is survived by wife Agnes two daughters Astrid and Mrs Polda two sons William and Roland a brother Carl and eight grandchildren. Burial at Cedar Memorial, Turner chapel service Friday.
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Amos H. Diehl
Sixth Street
Rudolph Kolda
Twenty-first Street
Diehl
Robert Brosha
Paio
Cedar Rapids
Belle Plaine
Water Works
Agnes
Polda
Astrid
Aurora, Ill
William
Indianapolis
Roland
Carl Diehl
Mizpah Lodge No
A.F
A.M
Knights of Pythias
Turner Chapel
Floyd Hinshaw
St. James Methodist Church
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Caterpillars Invade Bedford County Farm Fields
In Bedford County Pennsylvania farmers battle army worms, an invasion that defoliates corn and threatens crops. County agent L R Mollenauer notes multiple insect sprays being tested while thousands of pests move across fields and even die under vehicle tires on Highway 56.
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Bedford
Pennsylvania
Bedford County
L. R. Mollenauer
Mollenauer
Dorchester Storm Floods Cut Dike and Highway Near Waukon
A breach 15 feet deep and 40 feet long at Bear and Waterloo creeks sent waters into lowlands north of Waukon. Livestock moved from islands at midnight as Highway 13 failed under rising floods. Rainfall varied across Iowa with Cedar Rapids totaling 5.34 inches for June's first half and temperatures reaching 84 degrees.
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Dorchester
Waukon
Bear
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Benton
Iowa County
Johnson Counties
Colfax Farmer Killed by Lightning While Planting Corn
George R. Schlosser, 43, was struck and killed by lightning Thursday while planting corn on his farm two miles southwest of Colfax. Jasper County Coroner Ralph Toland said he was found by neighbor Frank Tiffing who witnessed the bolt and investigated.
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Colfax
INS
George R. Schlosser
Jasper County
Ralph Toland
Schlosser
Frank Tiffing
Pay Day For 800 Auto Workers Amid Garnishment Ruling
Detroit AP reports 800 Chrysler strike idled workers faced garnishments as four-week moratorium expired. Creditors can collect portions of pay determining if debtors are homeowners. Strike spans 140,000 workers and affects wage distributions under court rulings.
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Detroit
Chrysler
Common Pleas Court
Youth Killed Two Injured in Highway 30 Crash
A two car head on collision on highway 30 near Logan Iowa left Arliss Triplett 20 dead and two others seriously injured. Derald Triplett 16 and R L Hanson 25 were taken to Mercy Hospital Council Bluffs. The crash occurred as one car attempted to pass a stock truck driven by Dewey Coklin of Ogden Iowa.
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Logan
Woodbine
Arliss Triplett
Mercy Hospital
Council Bluffs
Triplett
Derald
R. L. Hanson
Milford
Harrison County
Haroldm. Hennessey
Triplett Brothers
Dewey Coklin
Ogden
Hanson
Breakin Attempt at Beacon Press Sparks Police Probe
City Briefs report an attempted break in at Beacon Press 320 First Street SE at about 7 a.m. Roy Howell, the manager, says someone tried to unscrew the lock cylinder. The item is part of a roundup of local notices and events.
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Beacon Press
First Street
Roy Howell
Iowa State Fairgrounds Used For Various Events
Witnesses testified that the Iowa State fair grounds serve many purposes beyond the annual fair. L. D. Cunningham said auto racing conventions and storage are part of the site use, arguing these activities boost attendance by connecting patrons with drivers and programs. Other witnesses included Louis W. Nitchall Alan Williams and Leland Auld.
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Iowa State Fair Board
L. D. Cunningham
Prisenaoen
Iowa State Fairgrounds
Cunningham
Louis W. Nitchall
Algona
Alan Williams
Marion
Wilson and Company
Leland Auld
Linn County Farm Bureau
Iowa
Springville census shows 1950 population at 680
District Census Director Rodney Birkicht announced Thursday that Springville's 1950 count is 680, up 11 percent from 608 in 1940, marking the town's third straight gain. Earlier figures show 1920 at 597 and 1930 at 598. The release came to Mayor Lee A. Johnston after a formal application.
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Springville
Rodney Birkicht
Lee A. Johnston
Birkicht
Cedar Falls population up 56 percent in census prelim
District Census Supervisor A. C. Fuller reported Cedar Falls preliminary population of 14 603 for 1950, up from 9 349 in 1940, a 56 percent rise. The 1950 total includes Iowa State Teachers College students, who were not counted as college hometowns in 1940.
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Waterloo
A. C. Fuller
Cedar Falls
Iowa State Teachers College
Keokuk County Census Drops 1,649 In Unofficial 1950 Report
The latest unofficial census shows Keokuk County population at 16,757, down from 18,406 in 1940. Most of the county’s 15 towns changed little, with three towns rising. Sigourney remains the county seat at 2,334, down from 2,355, while Martinsburg stays at 218. Preliminary 1950 figures list Delta 560 to 602, What Cheer 1,116 to 1,339, Keota 1,137 to 1,032, Hedrick 729 to 731, Richland 589 to 614, Keswick 277 to 307, Thornbury 138 to 184, Ollie 297 to 294, 105 to 109, Hayesville 136 to 120, Harper 181 to 208, South English 248 to 288, Webster 129 to 165.
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Ottumwa
Keokuk
Sigourney
Martinsburg
Delta
What
Americans Rescued After Plane Crashes in Somaliland
An Italian military plane rescued six Americans after a crash landing in the ion infested Ethiopian Somaliland region. No injuries were reported including one woman among the survivors.
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Asmara
Eritrea
Iion
14 Year-Old Receives 42-Year Sentence for Murder
A 14 year old boy pled guilty to the murder of 60 year old Benjamin Pannier and was sentenced to 42 years in the Sheri dan state reformatory. He will be eligible for parole in 14 years after admitting he and cousin James Chatman carried out the act in Orchard Mines Illinois. The pair entered Pannier's home April 19, stole a rifle and $35, then hid the body under straw in a barn.
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Peoria
Sheridan State Reformatory
Howard White
Donald Lex Simmons
Reformatory
Benjamin Pannier
Orchard Mines
Wayne Mathis
Simmons
James Chatman
Pannier
Haze Clearing in Hawaiian Islands
A vast haze that blanketed the Middle Pacific cleared from Honolulu and parts of the Hawaiian Islands. Clear skies returned with a light northeast trade wind as observers noted the haze likely stemmed from a volcanic eruption and showed no radioactivity per Geiger counters.
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Honolulu
Middle Pacific
Hawaiian Islands
Ientists
Geiger Counters
Alec Mackenzie Wins J. C. Speech Contest
Alec Mackenzie of Cedar Rapids won a five state regional Speak Up for Democracy contest at the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce convention. He spoke on Ice on the Wings and defeated winners from Wisconsin Minnesota Illinois and Indiana while representing the Midwest region from the Cedar Rapids Young Men's bureau. He is employed at Killian's.
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Chicago
Alec Mackenzie
Cedar Rapids
United States
Six East German police flee to West Berlin
Six members of the Communist East German police fled to West Berlin on Thursday, boosting this week’s desertions to 11.
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Daily Record
Superior Court
John Heslop
Eugene C. Speraw
Alice L. Hughes
John D. Miller
Joanne Everhart
Thomas Fitzpatrick
Joan Gorman
Laverne L. Peters
Dolly G. McBride
Florence M. Faymon
Rudy Faymon
Glatha G. Dowler
Bert Dowler
Maxine DeShaw
Ernest DeShaw
Wes Dvorak
Twenty-eighth Avenue SW
Jack Hubler
Oakland Road
Leonard Graban
Harry Hilton
Eighth Avenue
Frank Perry
Avenue NW
al Houska
Viola
Joe Shanklin
LaVerne Kobusch
Tenth Street
Robert Cerney
Seventeenth Street
Samuel Randall
Fourteenth Avenue
Company No. 5
St. Luke’s
William Ellis
Vernon
Francis Jones
Third Street NW
Mercy
Daniel Oakley
Second Avenue
Donald Merklin
B Avenue NW
Jack Conway
Twelfth Street
Jack Reed
Fifteenth Street
Richard Besta
Vernon Road
Charles Fisher
Twenty-first Avenue
Clarence Wagner
L. Churchill Austin
Austin
Fred H. Killen
Grande Avenue SE
Mason City
Robert McCauley
McCauley
Ahart Messa
Third Street
Tama
O. D. Booth
Sturtevant
Wis
Mason Funeral Home
Maple Hill Cemetery
Montour
Manchester
Ella McElliott
Ryan
St. Patrick’s Cemetery
Paul K. Berry
California
James W. Berry
Harold Fiebelkorn
Shellsburg
Gordon R. Radtke
Stockport
William Dahms
Gladbrook
Nick Schumacher
Alton
H. A. Peters
Reinbeck
Earl Thompson
Hinton
W. W. Robinson
Maple Hill
W. L. Albee
Rolfe
Fiebelkorn
Arthur Jothen
Clarence Sedive
Robinson
August Goette
Morris
Minn
Harry Halverson
Dell Rapids
S. D
Lars Shold
Alexandria
Minnesota Association
E. S. Wheeler
Robert Barnes
J. S. Stilson
Montezuma
William Ruehs
Tripoli
Carl Radeke
George Tolman
LeMars
W. F. Albee
C. M. Kruger
Garrison
William Sater
Mt. Pleasant
Sam Darmer
Mediapolis
J. P. Skinner
Linde Air Products Corp
R. E. Vander Linden
Smith Welding Equipment Corp
Alaska
U. S
Nicholson
Matthews
L. D. Burgus
Special Inquiry Board
Quaker
Federal Discount Corporation
Cheery
Lulubelle Leeper
William Ludwig
Orpha Grimm
Henry Heins
Clayton County
Justice of the Peace
Paul Hueneman
Allamakee
Heins
Postville
Lapes
3Rd Ave
Carleen Jindrich
Mrs. Clark Brown
Vinton
Traer
Williamsburg
North English
John B. Turner & Son
Franklin High School
Shaver Park
Kansas City
Dial
Henry Gundling, Jr
Henry Gundling
Twenty Fifth Street
Stanford University
San Francisco
City Cab
Adv
Edward J.dahms
G ‘Avenue
Supreme Court
Chess Club
High Twelve
Raymond Pollock
Robert Kirkman
Mt. Hermanlodge
Donald Harold Klingler
Air Force
Army and Air Force
Malcolm Klingler
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
First Avenue
Census
Keokuk County
Boy
J. C
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