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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1945
Page
10
Postal stamps and fuels values listed with validity dates for Meat Foods Sugar Gasoline and Fuel Oil. Court notices include names Catherine Bailey and Ernest Bailey Hattie Schott and How ard Schott with fines for drunkenness and disturbance. Fire incidents ash and chimney alarms reported with addresses and times. Births listed at St. Luke's Mercy notes. Parking infractions fined including leaving scene signaling near theater and overtime parking.
In Chicago a Tuesday survey found most trains at capacity despite a convention ban that shortened reservation waiting lists. The Milwaukee Road cited pressure from the ban while Northwestern, Chicago and Eastern Illinois, Burlington, Illinois Central and Rock Island reported no clear rise in available space yet quicker handling of waits.
Manila dispatch reports Gen. Douglas MacArthur saying six divisions, possibly 100,000 men, have been destroyed on Luzon. Remaining Japanese forces are bottled in pockets in Zambales, southeast Luzon, and northeast Luzon as American and guerilla forces press the advancing ground and air offensives. An updated tally shows 1,068 more Japanese dead on Leyte, bringing the total to 142,000.
WPB reported 6,286 planes accepted in February while production ran about 3 percent below schedule. It marked the fourth straight month of underperformance though the daily output rose over 9 percent from January to February as military needs sometimes exceeded planned schedules.
The Quebec Fur Breeders' Cooperative presented an $8,000 mink coat to Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt on Monday. It was the first coat from Quebec crested mink export for sale in the United States, accepted in the spirit it was given.
The White House said Judge Samuel S. Rosenman, adviser to President Roosevelt, has returned to London to finish examining Western European supply problems.
A two engine C-60 cargo plane crashed on a test flight at Wright field Dayton Ohio killing seven people and injuring 14. All five crew members died and the hangar housing civilians was set ablaze. Seven other airplanes in the hangar were destroyed but flames were contained.
Adeline E B Kinkead, 77, longtime Linn County resident, died Monday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Born February 22 1868 in Evansville Indiana she married Jess E Kinkead in 1890 and lived in Chicago before moving to Whittier in 1920. Surviving are brother John B Harting of Chicago and half brother James C Williams of Carlisle. Funeral services Wednesday at 2 pm at Hunte Funeral Home Springville with burial in Springville Cemetery. Friends may call until noon Wednesday.
Frank R. Spevacek died early Monday at 1940 Bever Avenue SE. Funeral 2 p.m. Wednesday at Barta chapel with Rev. D A Loferski. burial in Oakland Cemetery Iowa City. survivors include granddaughter Jeanne Hruska and other relatives. Wife Agnes died January 1936. Friends may call after 4 p.m. Tuesday at Barta's.
Funeral services for Mrs Ella Merritt Whitmore widow of J W Whitmore formerly of Cedar Rapids will be held Wednesday at 2 p m in the Olin Methodist church. She was an aunt of Mrs L Q O Dickey of Marion.
Walter E Becicka of 1126 Thirteenth Avenue SE was fined 25 dollars and costs by Judge Harry S Johnson after pleading guilty to drunkenness and disturbing the peace. The judge suspended ten dollars, but Becicka was arrested on a complaint from his wife after an alleged assault at the Brown Derby. Police say he resisted officers to the station.
Eleven cars of the Burlington Zephyr derailed at South Omaha on a Denver to Chicago run. No injuries reported as all cars except the power unit and its helper were derailed. Passengers were moved to a later train to proceed to Chicago, with a broken rail blamed for the incident.
Police Judge Joseph Neff ordered drunks and vagrants to war jobs to alleviate manpower shortages. Since his ruling two months ago war plants gained 277 new workers through these sentences.
Harvey C. McClary urged division captains to file partial reports as the Red Cross war fund drive progressed. The first audit shows 22753 dollars banked from returns up to noon Monday, with residential reports due to reach their 12000 dollar goal as numbers are finalized. The drive opened March 1 and will close Saturday if canvassing and final reports finish in time.
An ammunition ship blew up at the Canadian Pacific railway docks in downtown Vancouver a few minutes before noon Tuesday. Flames towered several hundred feet high as five or six blasts rocked the waterfront, with smoke and debris visible across seven blocks.
The body of patrolman Davis was found in a car in the depot parking lot at 4 15 am with a revolver in his lap and a fired cartridge. Davis, appointed April 1 1929, had celebrated his birthday and wedding anniversary Sunday and was described as silent in recent weeks. He is survived by his wife Lela a three year old son and several siblings. Funeral arrangements not announced.
About 2,000 war workers at Gar Wood Industries halted production on Tuesday in Detroit. A separate Briggs plants labor dispute, linked to a shift-hour change, remains unresolved after a week of halted armament output. Local 250, UAW CIO, protested a move to a 10 hour five day week replacing an eight hour six day schedule. Five Briggs plants affected.
Sixty five prospective jurors were summoned to appear in federal court at 10 am on Tuesday April 9. Jurors listed include Harriett Ballard in Cedar Rapids and Nelle Lothian in Marion among many others across Iowa towns such as Vinton Grundy Center Tipton Dysart Olin Tama Center Point Marengo and Williamsburg. Jury commissioner Fred Pay neer and deputy clerk Bessie Engle oversaw the drawing.
Donald Everett Taylor known as the Serg t O Leary must serve four additional months in Black Hawk county jail after a judge sentenced him to six months for larceny. He exploited spurious government requisitions to recruit 35 youths from Eldora training school and led a Fort Des Moines bus episode. He faced charges for stealing restaurant equipment totaling about 150 dollars.
Harold DeShaw son of Mrs. W. H. Milroy of Manchester is a prisoner of war in Germany. His wife at Kenridge Terrace learned Tuesday. DeShaw, a Collins Radio employee before service, farmed near Central City and has been overseas about a year.
Col. Edgar Staley Gorrell, 54, president of the Air Transport Association of America and Chicago investment banker, died Monday from a heart condition after a brief illness in Washington.
Second Lt. Jack D. Kazebeer returned to Iowa after a year in a German prison camp following the Cassino battle. At Schick General hospital Clinton he shows no leg impairment, holds a Purple Heart with one cluster and four battle stars, aided by Red Cross packages.
Victims of a head on collision on highway 218 six miles south of Cedar Rapids were reported in fairly good condition at St Luke s hospital. Dorothy Babbitt was instantly killed and funeral services set for Iowa City with burial at West Liberty. Coroner Dr T Frank Hersch said no inquest was needed as drivers avoided blame and foggy conditions hindered visibility.
The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed the Linn county district court ruling conditionally in Reuben Arp's action over a collision between Arp's truck and Leonard Kohl's parked truck. It held the lime box cost as part of truck repairs and that loss of use damages must be limited to repair time, ordering remittance of $450 if Kohl pays.
Rivers from Pittsburgh to Memphis surged toward disaster as nearly three inches of rain in 24 hours breached flood stages. The Ohio topped 64 feet at Cincinnati with 70 feet feared, flooding Manchester and forcing mass evacuations along Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Indiana. Mississippi floods prompted widespread evacuations and 30,000 acres of farmland at Lauderdale county, Tennessee, risked inundation.
Coe college hosts two Coe Days in May to acquaint Cedar Rapids area high school graduates with the college. May 6 features Cedar Rapids hosts for 1945 grads including tea and vesper service. May 11 offers out of town guests chapel, departmental meetings and recreation. Dr. J Dale Welsch assists the student council as acting admissions director.
Dr. David I. Berger of Coe College argues war is a complex event with natural, human and divine factors none to ignore. He cites the Federal Council of Churches report and notes God sides with good in both camps while urging world community. The series continues March 13 with Rev. Keith Irwin speaking on implementing Christian faith in Cedar Rapids.
Price clerks from the War Price and Ration Boards in Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas will meet at the Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday and Thursday for instruction led by Floyd Whittington district price executive and other Office of Price Administration officials. A. T. Pleune Cedar Rapids board chief clerk announced. Meetings on the chambers second floor start at 10 am with after noon sessions. Joe Romano price specialist from Des Moines will return to Cedar Rapids for the meetings and be available for consultations the rest of the week.
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