Winter weather and river readings from March first
The March first weather section lists highs and lows for many cities including Bismarck Minneapolis Chicago New Orleans and Phoenix with precipitation inches. Iowa forecast calls for clouds light snow in the north tonight and in the southwest by afternoon or night with clearing and colder conditions Monday.
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Bismarck
Minneapolis
Chicago
New Orleans
Denver
New York
Duluth
Phoenix
Seattle
Fami
Sioux City
Iowa
Deaths Mrs Frank J Zbanek 75 Cedar Rapids resident
Emma Lee Mersh born Ely May 28 1876 married in Cedar Rapids May 18 1901 died at home after a long illness. Survived by her husband two sisters Mrs Arthur Black Rock Island and Mrs John Rambousek Cedar Rapids. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday Brush chapel Rev Zdenek F Pauk burial Czech National cemetery. Friends may call Sunday.
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Frank J. Zbanek
Second Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Emma Lee Mersh
Ely
Arthur Black
Rock Island
John Rambousek
Brush Chapel
Zdenek F. Pauk
Czech National Cemetery
Emil J Turgeon Dies, Former Cedar Rapids Engineer
Emil J Turgeon age 66 of 4714 First Avenue NE Cedar Rapids died at Center Point at 2 p.m. Friday. He was a refrigeration engineer for Russell Ice Cream Co. until retirement two years ago and belonged to Crescent lodge 25 AF and AM Star of West lodge 1 Knights of Pythias Maine lodge 643 IOOF and Refrigeration Service Engineers Society. Surviving are two daughters Mrs Earl Turco Sioux Falls SD Inez Turgeon and Emil Jr. Burial will be at Cedar Memorial chapel after a service Monday at 10 a.m. conducted by Rev Frank Ward.
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Emil J. Turgeon
Cedar Rapids
First Ijavenue NE
Center Point
Connecticut
Russell Ice Cream Company
Crescent Lodge
A.M
Star of West Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Maine Lodge
C.F
Refrigeration Service Engineers Society
Earl Turco
Sioux Falls
S. D
Inez Turgeon
Emil
Barta-Hesser
Frank Ward
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Air Force Ready To Carry A Bombs By Jet Anywhere
Washington AP reports the air force is prepared to deliver tactical atomic bombs by jet fighters on short notice, with small A-bombs in limited quantities or soon available. The F 84 G Thunderjet aircraft are configured for in flight refueling and long endurance missions, with tactical squads trained at Langley VA and Sandia NM to transport and employ the weapons.
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Washington
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Japan
Russia
Tactical Air Command
Langley Air Force Base
Atomic Weapon Training Center
Sandia
N.M
Langley
Mass Slaughter Of Infected Stock In Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police began slaughtering about a thousand cattle infected with foot and mouth disease near Regina Saskatchewan. Two hundred animals were buried in a 10 foot deep pit and killed by gunfire as part of a wide quarantine and a U.S. embargo on Canadian livestock meat products hay and straw.
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Regina
Sask
Royal Mounted Policemen
United States
Unemployment Claims Rise in Cedar Rapids January
H J Eberhart Cedar Rapids state employment service reports 1120 unemployment claims in January up from 336 in December total non agricultural employment estimated at 39370 a 1 8 percent decline since November most in non manufacturing sectors with 1200 fewer workers manufacturing shows minor declines but gains 480 since November 31 873 job seekers registered January 31 compared with 561 a month earlier labor supply adequate for most needs but workers in professional technical skilled and clerical roles remain scarce.
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H. J. Eberhart
Cedar Rapids
State Employment Service
Eberhart
Taft Blames Democrats for Aiding Communists Abroad
Senator Robert A. Taft told Peoria and Illinois audiences that U S foreign policy under the Democratic administration had “set up the Communists” in Europe and Asia. He cited Berlin Prague and Manchuria as examples and criticized bipartisan policy and congressional input ahead of Korea era decisions.
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Asia
Europe
Taft
Peoria, Ill
Robert A. Taft
Illinois Corn Belt
Peoria
Stalin
Berlin
Yalta
Patton
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Far East
Manchuria
Congress
Korea
Two Boys Struck by Cars In City Incidents
Two young boys were hit by vehicles in separate incidents on Friday. James Northrup, 5, sustained a minor facial cut after stepping into Twelfth Avenue SE. a hit and run driver fled. Dennis Chapman, 6, suffered a head bump and slight concussion near Immaculate Conception school. driver Roy Cant, 18, later pled guilty to faulty brakes and paid $25 and costs.
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James Northrup
Fourth Street SE
Twelfth Avenue SE
Fifth Street
Mercy Hospital
Dennis Chapman
Division Street SE
Immaculate Conception School
Roy E. Cant
Fourth Avenue SE
Jesse Yates of Coggon Dies of Heart Attack
Jesse J. Yates, 73, of Coggon was found dead Friday in a field near the Walter Rath farm two miles south of town. Authorities say he likely suffered a heart attack while trying to attach a tire chain to a truck stuck in mud. Funeral services are set for Monday at 2 p.m. in the Christian church, with burial in Coggon cemetery.
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Olin
Charles Merritt
East Moline
Campbell
Williamsburg
Alfred Blount
Jones Funeral Home
Oak Hill Cemetery
Monticello
Anna Ryder
St. Matthew’s Church
Oakwood Cemetery
Coggon
Jesse J. Yates
the Gazette
Walter Rath Farm
Carrier Admits Work With Infected Livestock
Willi Bruntsen a 27 year old suspected carrier of foot and mouth disease arrived in Ottawa to submit to examination and confirmed he had worked with infected cattle in Germany before coming to Canada He was flown from Vancouver in RCMP custody and taken to Hull Quebec for tests at federal animal pathology labs He spoke German to reporters before boarding an RCMP car and wore the reporter's clothing when arriving in Canada
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Ottawa
Ont
Willi Bruntsen
Germany
Canada
Vancouver
RCMP
Bruntjen
Hull
Que
Federal Animal Pathological Laboratories
Friendship's Limits by Edgar A. Guest
The poem advises on boundaries in friendship, urging that favors should not override personal responsibility. It warns against exploiting a friend’s vows or making them betray their principles to settle one’s troubles.
Cedar Rapids man pleads guilty to attempted breaking and entering
John J. Morrissey 21 of Cedar Rapids pled guilty to attempted breaking and entering and received a sentence not to exceed five years at Anamosa’s men's reformatory. Judge Floyd Philbrick ordered the five year term run concurrently with another five year sentence for a separate Keokuk county charge. Morrissey faced additional Linn county robbery charges still pending. He was returned from the reformatory to plead.
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John J. Morrissey
Cedar Rapids
Anamosa
Floyd Philbrick
Morrissey
Fez
Keokuk County
Philbrick
Hennessey Brothers
First Avenue
Linn County Grand Jury
Reformatory
Victor Sebaugh Case Transferred to Illinois
Victor L. Sebaugh indicted by a federal grand jury for transporting a stolen car from Omaha to Tama was moved from the Cedar Rapids division to the northern district of Illinois for disposition. Consent papers were filed in Cedar Rapids. Sebaugh plans to plead guilty. the offense occurred on August 30 last year and the indictment was returned October 10. He was arrested by the FBI in Chicago.
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Victor L. Sebaugh
Omaha
Tama
s @edar Rapids
Northern District of Illinois
U.S
District of
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Sebaugh
FBI
Chicago
Will of Charles H. Luse Admitted to Probate
The will of Charles H. Luse who died February 17 was admitted to probate on Saturday. It names his stepdaughter Ruth E. Klopp of Marion as sole heir and designates Merchants National Bank as executor without bond.
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Luse
Charles H. Luse
Ruth E. Klopp
Marion
Merchants National Bank
Suits Dismissed by Plaintiffs in Separate Actions
Two suits were dismissed Saturday. An account action by Harold Millhiser against Joseph Janda and an injunction suit by General Outdoor Advertising Co against Louis Lorenz, Kenneth Kowalski, and Troy Laundry and Dry Cleaners were dropped. Kowalski dismissed a counterclaim against the firm.
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Harold Millhiser
Joseph Janda
General Outdoor Advertising Company
Louis Lorenz
Kenneth Kowalski
Troy Laundry Land Dry Cleaners
Kowalski
Wisconsin graduate student shoots in university chemistry lab
Leonard Stallman, a 32 year old graduate chemistry student at the University of Wisconsin Madison, says he shot fellow student William Loeb after fearing colleagues were ganging up on him during a drinking session in the lab. He lacks memory of the incident amid a spree that left Loeb wounded.
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Madison
Leonard Stallman
University of Wisconsin Chemistry Laboratory
Richard Bardwell
Bardwell
Stallman
William E. Loeb
Winnethalll
Taft Attacks UMT, Truman, and Big Government in Illinois Speech
Senator Taft, during a one day swing in Illinois, opposes universal military training as premature. He accuses President Truman of steering the U S toward socialism and says big government is the main enemy. He warns military spending is high and rejects Republican me tooism.
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Rock Island
INS
Taft
Illinois
Truman
Republican Party
Youth Injured Wrestling at Roosevelt High School
James Hamilton 15 of 224 Twenty seventh Street NW admitted Thursday to St Luke's hospital after fracturing his right arm during a Roosevelt high school PE class. Principal Fred J Kluss said he fell on his arm while wrestling in the gym Thursday morning and was treated for the injury.
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James Hamilton
Twenty-seventh Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
Roosevelt High School
Roosevelt
Fred J.kluss
Kluss
Two Hurt When Car Spun Off Highway No 218
Leo C. Rowden 31 of Ely and Lorraine M. Joyner 26 of Wilson NC were treated for bruises and abrasions at St Luke s hospital after a car spun off highway 218 into a ditch about a quarter mile west of Draport Inn. They were transported by ambulance S and released after treatment.
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Leo C. Rowden
Ely
Lorraine M. Joyner
Wilson
N. C
St. Luke’s Hospital
Draport Inn
Large Turnout For Red Cross Drive Kick-off
Marie E. Clancy executive secretary of the Linn county chapter of the American Red Cross addressed volunteers at a Roosevelt hotel kick-off meeting. She stressed that service to neighbors is the goal and urged reaching the financial target to enable relief work.
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Red Cross
Red Cross Fund
Roosevelt Hotel
Marie E. Clancy
Linn County
American Red Cross
Miss Clancy
Radio fund drive shows on KCRG this weekend
Two radio programs dedicated to the 1952 Red Cross fund appeal will be broadcast on KCRG. The Phil Harris-Alice Faye show airs at 10 15 p.m. Saturday and the Railroad Hour program at 3 p.m. Sunday. Linn County seeks a $67 745 goal starting Monday through March 15.
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Red Cross Fund
KCRG
Phil Harris
Alice Faye
Red Cross
Railroad Hour
Linn County Fund
Linn County Red Cross Campaign Faces $57 745 Goal With $10 000 Reserve
Chairman C C Birr announced Linn County has a 10000 reserve to apply to this year s goal leaving 57745 to raise. He warned national disaster funds are exhausted and emphasized the need to meet the local target to support Red Cross work nationally. Miss Clancy credited Linn County for aiding flood victims and housing food and shelter. Barney Morrison praised cooperation and urged strong push from now through March 15 to reach the goal.
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C. C. Birr
Linn County
Birr
Red Cross
Kansas-Missouri
Miss Clancy
Barney Morrison
Iowa Bank Branch Blasted by Yeggs
Kellerton Iowa Security State Bank branch interior wrecked by a safe explosion. Thieves pried a rear door to enter and fled with loot unknown as authorities investigate fingerprints and clues. Raymond Jones the assistant cashier found the bank open at 8 am. G E Turner was the branch manager.
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Kellerton
Security State Bank of
Mt. Ayr
Yeggs
Homer Todd
Ringgold County
Todd
Raymond Jones
E. Turner
All Officers of the Cedar Rapids YMCA Re-elected
Cedar Rapids YMCA board of directors announced re election of all officers at February meeting. John B Turner serves as president with vice president B T Perrine, secretary William Whipple, and treasurer John T Hamilton II also named.
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Cedar Rapids
Registration Closes as 200 Voters Signed In
About 200 new voters were registered when school election registrations closed at 5 p.m. Friday reported by City Clerk Mauide Krebs. The election is set for March 10 with no new registrations allowed in the 10 days before. Next registrations open March 11 for the June primary.
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Mauide Krebs
Miss Krebs
Knights of Columbus Cedar Rapids Council to Meet Thursday
The Knights of Columbus Cedar Rapids council will meet Thursday at 8 p.m. in the K of C club rooms with entertainment by the Cedar Rapids Barber Shop quartet. A bungalow cooking school runs Monday to Wednesday. Forest S. Rittgers, son of Col. Forest S. Rittgers, has been named to The Citadel cadet regimental public relations committee. he formerly lived in Cedar Rapids and is tied to Coe College and Syracuse University. Allan Maddox and wife travel to Kirksville to attend funeral services for A. T. Sharp. Legislative notes include a second district American Legion commander's and adjutant's meeting in Monticello with lunch by the Monticello auxiliary.
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Knights of Columbus
Cedar ‘Rapids
Forest S. Rittgers
Cedar Cedar Rapids
S. G. Courtney
Sixteenth Street
Citadel
South Carolina Military College
Rutgers
Coe
Jyracuse University
N.Y
Allan Maddox
Fourteenth Street
Kirksville
Railroad Engineers Have Cellar School
MEDFORD Massachusetts a unique railroad engineers school operates in a home cellar. The 72 year old founder Charles H Evans taught since 1915 guiding about 500 engineers through state and federal exams. The basement classroom includes a 300 book library railroad equipment and two blackboards.
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Medford
Mass
Charles H. Evans
Boston & Maine
Good Prospects Ahead For College Graduates
Northwestern University placement chief Dr. Frank S. Endicott says the 1952 college graduates face rising salaries and more job openings. The sixth annual survey draws on reports from 142 major firms, noting engineers in high demand and growing need for sales personnel.
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Evanston
Ill
Frank S. Endicott
Northwestern University
Endicott
Three Abbott Relatives Involved In Maryland Auto Crash
In Robbins Maryland a three car collision in front of Elihu Abbott’s home involved relatives from the Abbott families. William P Abbott of Andrews and Russell Abbott of Lakesville collided then pushed Russell Abbott’s car into a parked vehicle owned by Thurman G Abbott of Bishop's Head. No charges were filed.
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Robbins, Md
Elihu Abbott
Maryland
William P. Abbott
Andrews
Russell Abbott
Lakesville
Abbott
Thurman G. Abbott
Bishop’s Head
Los Angeles Prepares Largest Jet Plant Project
About 30 million dollars is set to be spent over the next two years to build aviation manufacturing facilities at Palmdale in Los Angeles County. Col. D. F. Marshall of the U S Air Force said the Palmdale development will be the greatest jet airplane project in the United States.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
Palmdale
D. F. Marshall
U. S. Air Force
United States
Foe Holds Firm On Soviet Early Truce Rejected
In Munsan Korea Communist negotiators vow to reject any plan excluding Russia from a neutral supervisory body and indicate no early armistice. Rear Admiral Libby urges immediate exchange of all sick and wounded prisoners. Reds accuse Allies of delaying talks as they insist on Russia as neutral inspector.
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Munsan
Korea
Russia
U.N
R. E. Libby
Reds
Libby
Soviet Union
Rep. Armstrong pushes Russia expulsion from U.N. body
Representative Armstrong of Missouri introduced a bill demanding Russia be expelled from the United Nations unless its rulers end sponsorship of the Korean conflict.
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Washington
Rep
Armstrong
R-Mo
Russia
U.N
California archaeology survey catalogs vast prehistoric finds
The University of California archaeological survey has gathered 26 474 artifacts and skeletal remains from 5 061 sites across the state revealing California's prehistoric past.
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Berkeley, Calif
California
University of California
Nickel Output Goal and Ore Processing Scale
Aiming to produce 27 pounds of nickel from ore. The operation handles 2,000 pounds of ore most mined and processed.
Allied tanks pound central front near Pyongyang amid heavy fighting
Allied tanks and infantry raid south of Pyongyang aided by artillery as Chinese fire harms two tanks. By Feb, 12 allied tanks had been destroyed or damaged. U N fighter bombers hit a camouflaged Red convoy north of Pyongyang destroying three tanks and damaging six. Far Eastern air force reports 29 U N planes lost in February with 15 MIGs downed by Sabres and 17 shot down by anti aircraft fire.
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Seoul
Pyongyang
Far Eastern Air Force
U.N
Sabre
Ltwo
Japan
Two Fined For Reckless Driving In Cedar Rapids
Two men, Van Buren Phelps 33 of 311 Sixth Street NE and Hassel F. Akers 18 of Route 2, were fined 25 dollars and costs after pledging guilty in traffic court. Phelps was linked to a Friday incident that damaged a tree on Center Point Road NE after a citizen, Ralph Boatman, signed the information. Akers was cited Monday on Third Street SE for reckless driving in and out of traffic.
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van Buren Phelps
Sixth Street
Hassel F. Akers
Donald D. Adney
Robert R. Soper
Anamosa
Elza N. Marling
Winthrop
Kenneth C. Maddox
Covington
Jesse T. Craig
Eighteenth Street
Joe A. Goldsberry
First Avenue
Iris P. Lanning
Springville
Gary A. Jones
Ellis Trailer Court
Roy E. Cant
Fourth Avenue
George C. Filling
Palo
Gene E. Wink
Hamilton Street
James W. Christensen
Second Street
Lee J. Gilmore
Lennox Avenue
Route 2
Phelps
Cedar Rapids
Ralph Boatman
Vardy Road
Center Point Road
Lincoln Avenues
Boatman
Akers
Third Street
Second
Fifth Avenues
California Redwoods Flourish in Hawaii
In Hilo Hawaii a line of redwood trees from California thrives among tropical plants. The first transplanted giant felled recently. About a thousand redwoods arrived twenty five years ago as saplings and now form a growing woodland of young trees.
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Hilo
Hawaii
California
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C. R
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Welne Ce
Panies
Dubuque
Davenport
Keokuk
Burlington
St. Louis
Fall
Conrad W. McKree
Fifth Street SE
Charles D. Barta
Sixteenth Street SE
Superior Court
Walter A. Wedeking
Lyle
Minn
Dorothy Miller
Melvin Miller
Dorothy L. Hansen
Merrill J. Hansen
Marian G. Howe
Glenn B. Hoye
Marie Doehrer
Myron R. Doehrer
Bessie D. McFarland
George M. McFarland
Joyce J. Brown
Gholston W. Brown
Everett W. Phead
Carla Nauman
West Liberty
William Greene
Patricia Porter
William M. Bjorenson
Eileen Wright
Don L. Fuller
Martin C. DeGood
Donald Fox
Frances Willenberg
Windsor Hotel
Fourteenth Street SE
Mercy
Anthony Babecka
Hugo Candler
Toddville
Robert Hart
Tenth Street NW
St. Luke’s
Albert Haynes
Fourth Street
John Zilatohlavek
Sixteenth Avenue
Arnold Andes
Blairstown
Jack Wong
Fifth Avenue SE
James Johnson
First Avenue SE
Francis Helm
Thirty-sixth Avenue
Lloyd Day
Atkins
Carl Cross
Avenue NE
Harry Johnston
Eleventh Street
Donald Wallis
Keystone
London
England
R. J. G. Weeks
State Funeral Home
Buckingham
Earlville
Lucinda Meiners
Dubuque Hospital
Clifton Funeral Home
Clermont
Hans J. Larson
West Clermont
Air Force
Jesse Yates
Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
John Morrissey
Victor Sebaugh Case
UMT
Iowa Bank
YMCA
Bungalow Cooking School
Gwe
Lapes
Florist
Third Ave
John E. Lapes
KWCR
Milton E. White
D.D
Bethany Congregational Church
L Avenue NW
John
Urner & Son Funeral Directors
Second Avenue S.E
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