Temperatures and civic notices from Cedar Rapids and beyond
Temperatures list high and low readings for several cities including Cedar Rapids Des Moines Bismarck New York Chicago Omaha Davenport Sioux City with lows and highs shown. Marriage license issued to Cecil Nicholas Peters and Vera McKinney Cedar Rapids. Divorces for Neil Leaf and Violet Kyle cases. Multiple justice court actions including speeding licenses and fines. Births and deaths recorded in Cedar Rapids hospitals and at Mercy St Luke's. Fire and boiler incidents reported with general and still alarms, including chimney sparks overheated furnace and roof fire.
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Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Bismarck
New York
Chicago
Omsha
Davenport
Sioux City
Ingles Named Andrews Assistant in European Theater
London AP reports Major General Harry C. Ingles is named deputy commander in the European theater of operations to serve as assistant to Lieutenant General Frank M. Andrews, who succeeded General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Major General Russell P. Hartle remains in command of troops in the field after Eisenhower’s departure.
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London
Harry C. Ingles
U. S. Army
Frank M. Andrews
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Russell P. Hartle
Eisenhower
North Africa
Churchill Improving Daily After Pneumonia
London AP reports Prime Minister Churchill, ill with pneumonia, is improving daily and getting up. Downing Street released a communique Monday stating no further bulletins will be issued.
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London
Churchill
Downing Street
Five Anti-Absentee Bills Introduced in Congress
Five new labor absentee bills were introduced—two in the Senate and three in the House—aimed at penalizing unnecessary absences by war workers and expanding draft-board reviews of shipyard employee status. Hearings set in the House on naval affairs with Knox, Land, and Patterson slated to testify. Democratic lawmakers Connally Byrd Johnson Welchel Worley sponsored the measures.
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Washington
Senate
House
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Draft Board
Secretary of Navy
Knox
Emory S. Land
The
Maritime Commission
Patterson
Connally
Texas
Byrd
Johnson
Welchel
Worley
Chiang Kai-shek's wife to speak at Madison Square Garden
Madame Chiang Kai-shek works in bed to prepare her Madison Square Garden rally speech to be broadcast by MBS between 9 and 9 30 pm. She recovers from faintness and a recent operation during a cross country tour and will be introduced by Wendell L. Willkie.
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New York
Chiang Kai-shek
Madison Square Garden
Madame Chiang
Wendell L. Willkie
City Briefs QC Highlights Local Notices and Appointments
J Elsenbast named administrator of estate of Joseph A Olinger of Robins who died Jan 30 Cedar Rapids chapter 194 Order of Ahepa will meet at St Johns Greek Orthodox church Wednesday at 8 pm Gazette newsboys and Alex Fidler guests of Iowa Theater Manager A H Talbot to see Casablanca Enlistments of two 17 year olds in the marine corps reported at Cedar Rapids marine recruiting station Ralph J Duffy of Parnell and Kenneth E Marsh 516 I avenue NW New members of Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce young mens bureau Wayne Stookey Lee Holmes M J Raftis Jim Hill Robert Hahn Ralph Steffa Jr Robert Stonebraker and Duane Hayes Tonight is young peoples night at Westminster Presbyterian church Rev A H Stewart topic Carrying Your Bed Meetings each evening except Saturday at 730 Electric welders crane operators and senior firemen needed at Rock Island Arsenal Agricultural aids photostat blueprint operators and accounting and auditing assistants needed for work in Washington DC and elsewhere Speaker for Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce young mens bureau meeting at 6 15 pm Thursday will be Harry Boyd editor of the Gazette War time Washington subject James Speed ONeil pled innocent to assault and battery before Justice Howard R Churchill trial set for 11 am Wednesday He was arrested after fracas on southwest side Monday Harold L Adams former Chamber of Commerce traffic bureau worker now Hastings Neb naval ammunition depot traffic manager transferred to St Joseph Mo to be traffic manager of Dannen Mills
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James
Speed) O'Neil
Fifteenth Avenue
Justice of the Peace
Howard R. Churchill
Churchill
O'Neil
Harold L. Adams
Cedar Rapids
WaterloO Leader Speaks at Interdenominational Institute
Dr. David I. Berger head of Coe College Bible Department will deliver the principal address at a leadership training institute held at the First Methodist Church in Waterloo on Wednesday evening. He will discuss Can We Keep the Faith.
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David I. Berger
Coe College Bible Department
First Methodist Church of
Forum on revisions to Iowa school code at Montrose Hotel
A Wednesday 8 p.m. forum on proposed revisions to the Iowa school code will be held at the Montrose hotel sponsored by the American Association of University Women. Prof Myron L Koenig of Coe college will preside with speakers Mrs I H Hart Cedar Falls state educational chairman of AAUW Dean C Harve Geiger of Coe Walter Shupp Linn county superintendent and J C Blodgett Cedar Rapids board of education member.
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Iowa
Montrose Hotel
American Association of University Women
Myron L. Koenig
Coe College
I. H. Hart
Cedar Falls
A.A.U.W
Dean C. Harve Geiger
Walter Shupp
Linn County
J. C. Blodgett
Cedar Rapids
Williamsburg Air Crewman Wins Silver Star for Gallantry
Corp Joseph D Lillis of Williamsburg Iowa receives the Silver Star for gallantry in the Solomon Islands. He and his B 17 crew fought off about 20 Zero fighters during a search mission from Guadalcanal, with five enemy planes downed. This follows his previous Distinguished Service Cross award for a Wake Island mission.
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Williamsburg
War Department
Solomon Islands
Corp
Joseph D Lillis
Corp Lillis
Guadalcanal
Corp. Lillis
Wake Island
Hickamfield
Hawaii
Joe Lillis
Wilford Lillis
Fort Riley
Kan
Roland Naughton
Marjorie
Seventh Avenue
Leo
Thirteenth Street NW
Cedar Rapids
James
Lillis
Charles O'Neill
Kate O'Neill
Boy 8 Escapes Angry Bull by Playing Dead
Eight year old Leo Ruth son of Mrs Herman Ruth of Riverside Indiana escaped an angry bull while gathering cows. He lay still on the ground and closed his eyes to fool the animal, then leaped a fence and ran to safety. He suffered cuts and bruises but called himself lucky.
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Iowa City
Leo Ruth
Herman Ruth
Riverside
Leo
Honolulu War Cry Brought Fresh Triumph at Guadalcanal
Sgt Russell Stanley of Maynard and Lieut John Priestley of Pontiac lead a Guadalcanal patrol that shouted Honolulu as it overwhelmed Japanese positions. The 45 minute action yielded at least 12 enemy killed five machine guns and multiple field guns with no American casualties.
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Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
Pearl Harbor
Honolulu
Sergt
Russell Stanley
Maynard
John Priestley
Pontiac
Mich
Will Combine City War Chest Funds Plans Discussed
Cedar Rapids war appeals coordinating committee to meet at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Chamber of Commerce to discuss a state organization coordinating city community war chests. Under National War Fund rules, states must form statewide bodies by May 1 or risk national takeover. A Chicago conference urged forming a statewide fund locally, said Mrs. Carl W. Kirwin representing Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids War Appeals Coordinating Committee
Chamber of Commerce
National War Fund, Inc
War Fund
Chicago
Carl W. Kirwin
Cedar Rapids
RAF raids disrupt Nazi Luftwaffe Day celebrations
London AP reports the RAF timed attacks on Berlin to hit during Nazi festivities. The latest strike coincided with Luftwaffe Day commemorating the tenth anniversary of the German air force while a month earlier raids interrupted similar celebrations surrounding Hitler's rise to power.
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London
RAF
Berlin
Hitler
Luftwaffe
Tax Bill Debate Reaches Showdown Over Year Abatement
Rep Doughton opposes the Rump plan to abate a tax year as lawmakers weigh withholding tax reforms. Cooper notes uncertainty on applying last-half 1943 obligations and aims for a 20 percent withholding that matches annual taxes owed. The plan shifts from deductions to a blanket exemption for simplicity, delaying pay as you go.
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Rep Doughton
D-N. C
Cooper
Navy Secretary Knox questions U boat losses from France bombings
Navy Secretary Knox estimated Germany still had 300 to 400 submarines. He said bombings of submarine bases on the northern French coast may not be causing direct hits and noted many stalls are heavily protected. He found no clear evidence of an increase in U boats active against Allied shipping and called the Atlantic situation stable.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
France
Atlantic
Jeffers Wins Fight To Remain Free of Wilson Jurisdiction
Washington AP Rubber Director William M. Jeffers reports directly to WPB Chairman Don ald M. Nelson, not to Charles E. Wilson, amid protest against Wilson's control of WPB units. Jeffers maintains a White House directive requires reporting to the WPB chairman, making his office the sole WPB unit not under Wilson.
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Jeffers
Wilson
Washington
William M. Jeffers
Donald M. Nelson
The
War Production Board
Nelson
Charles E. Wilson
WPB
Roosevelt
White House
Big
Defense Workers Awarded for Production Suggestions
Twenty three male employees of LaPlant Choate Manufacturing in Cedar Rapids received certificates and pins at a noon mass meeting attended by about seven hundred workers. Herbert Taylor, chief of inspection, presented the awards for the production suggestions offered.
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LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Cedar Rapids
Herbert Taylor
British Map Plan For Jewish Refuge
New York AP British negotiators have arranged for 4 000 Jewish children and 500 adults to leave Bulgaria for Palestine as a first step toward sanctuary. Viscount Halifax said Britain would also take in up to 29 000 Jewish children with accompanying adults by March 31 1944 if needed. Church leaders educators and statesmen urged the United Nations to provide sanctuary now and after the war for Jews and Axis victims.
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New York
Great Britain
Palestine
Viscount Halifax
United States
Madison Square Garden
Britain
United Nations
Two Iowans Die in Army Dead List
The War Department released a list of 77 U.S. soldiers killed in action. Among them are PFC Donald E. Bard of Ottumwa and Corp. Frank Voloshen of Sioux City, both killed in action in the South and Southwest Pacific theaters.
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Washington
War Department
United States
Donald E. Bard
Lydia Bard
Ottumwa
South Pacific
Corp
Frank Voloshen
Anna Voloshen
Sioux City
Southwest Pacific
Death Notices for Ida M Smith Vinton Lyon and Tom Pownall
Deaths reported include Ida M. Smith of Independence with services at Beatty Funeral Home at 10 30 a.m. Saturday and burial at Cedar Memorial. Vinton O. Lyon, 1774 Mallory St. SW, Cedar Rapids, died in hospital. services Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Janeva Funeral Home with burial at Oakland Cemetery Manchester. Tom Pownall of 1414 First Avenue NE Cedar Rapids died Monday evening after a short illness. long-time Rock Island Railroad engineer. Burial at West Liberty and Cedar Rapids services noted. survivor details listed.
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Ida M. Smith
Independence
Beatty Funeral Home
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Vinton O. Lyon
Mallory Street
Cedar Rapids
Janeba
George A. Stauffacher
Oakland Cemetery
Manchester
Obituaries: Welsh and Scheurs Pass Away in Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Nettie S. Welsh 70 of 1312 First Street NW died in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a brief illness. She leaves five children and eight grandchildren and was a member of St James Methodist church and several auxiliaries. Beatty funeral home to conduct services Thursday at 2 pm with burial in Linwood cemetery. Walter Scheurs, 1512 Avenue NE, died at home at 6 30 am Tuesday. He leaves two brothers and two sisters and grandparents and is to be buried in Linwood cemetery after private Beatty funeral home services at 4 pm Tuesday led by Rev J M Vander Meulen.
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P. D Welsh
First Street
Cedar Rapids
Steven Lewis Scheurs
Walter Scheurs
E Avenue
Tla
Tom Pownall
First Avenue NE
Nettie S. Welsh
P. D. Welsh
Marion
Carl and
Jerome
Floyd Wagel
San Bernardino
Calif
Miles Millett
Muscatine
Vera Welsh
St. James Methodist Church
Women’s Relief Corps
Ladies of the Maccabees
American Legion Auxiliary
Beatty Funeral Home
Floyd Hinshaw
Linwood Cemetery
Avenue NE
Walter, Jr
Charles
L. J. Strait
Patricia Scheurs
M. L. Kasner
Charles Scheurs
J. M. Vander Meulen
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Harold W. Willfong
William H. Lohr
Eighteenth Avenue
Zern Nation
Seventh Street
Mercy
Frank Carpenter
Third Avenue
Donald Ruppert
Emmett Resh
Gr. Carfrae
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Howard Walters
Lloyd E. Schultz
Lost Nation
Marie Durek
Hamilton Street
E. N. Lockwood
T. R. Warriner
Second Avenue
Rapids Fender and Body Works
Dr. W. Smith
John Vanous
Sixteenth Street
George Reider
Sanitary Farms Dairies
E Avenue NW
Gen. Ingles
Andrews
Colombia
Mme. Chiang
City Briefs
J. Elsenbast
Joseph A. Olinger
Robins
Order of Ahepa
St. John’s Greek Orthodox Church
Marine Corps
Ralph J. Duffy
Parnell
Kenneth E. Marsh
I Avenue NW
Young Men's Bureau of the
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Wayne Stookey
Lee Holmes
M. J. Raftis
Jim Hill
Robert Hahn
Ralph Steffa
Robert Stonebraker
Duane Hayes
Westminster Presbyterian Church
A. H. Stewart
Stewart
Rock Island
Inl
Arsenal
Civil Service Commission
Washington, D. C
Young Men’s Bureau
Harry Boyd
Gazette
Adams
Berger
A.A.U.W. Forum
Maynard Marine
Sergi
Samuel Shafter
Washington, D D. C
Associated Press
R.A.F. Gums
Smith
Vinton Lyon Services
Na Tom Townall
First Avenue
Centerdale
Pownall
Alice Wagner
Galesburg
Ill
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
Bertha
Eleanor Pownall
John Stacken
Prissilla Nickel
Floyd de Forest
West Liberty
Brady Chapel
Frank Ward
Snider
Victory Garden
Memorial Coliseum
George C. Decker
Decker
Margaret Stewart
Henry Haegg
Co.c.d
Arthur Beider
Iowa State College
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Wonder
Wool & Part Wool
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