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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1944
Page
23
In Buenos Aires an Italian mother Valheta de Diligenti, wife of rancher Franco Diligenti, is named as the mother of five newborn quintuplets born July 11. The birth, kept secret to avoid crowds, includes three girls and two boys all reported healthy.
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied commander in chief in southeast Asia, suffered a slight injury to the left eye while inspecting Burma front lines. A bamboo trail struck him and he was stunned and temporarily blinded.
Jasper Hensley a 38 year old Grundy Center resident drowned when his car veered off a foggy road and sank in a small creek five and one half miles southwest of Grundy Center. The water was about three feet deep due to rains. Hensley was pinned under the car and had planned to return to Alaska this spring for a third season on the Alcan highway. He is survived by five brothers in the armed forces.
An army C-47 transport converted for cargo crashed at LaGuardia after a 20 minute joyride by two civilian mechanics. Both men, Eugene J. Glick 20 and Rudolf Brosowski 22 of New York, were killed. officials believe neither had flight experience. The incident prompted an Army investigation and was the airport’s first fatal crash since opening.
An aviation cadet died and another was seriously injured when two training planes collided in mid air near the Olathe naval air station. The victim was James Edward Ayres, 21, of Huntsville Alabama.
Commissioner David L. Williams led the city primary, polling 2,667 votes to top two rivals. He advances to the March 27 election to face Ben L. Schreckengast, who had 519 votes, with William Walter at 440 in a tight race.
A promotional fashion note invites women to embrace a feminine Easter look with heartful style. It highlights rayon crepe blouses with ruffle fronts in white and printed colors, offered in sizes 32 to 38, plus sheer batistes and broadcloth options in tailored and frilly styles.
Incumbent safety commissioner Clarence Koenigsberger failed to secure renomination as the Des Moines primary narrowed the field. Charles F. Triplett, a former safety commissioner, and piano dealer Walter J Massey led the race, while Mayor John MacVicar easily outpaced two rivals with Roy C Welch advancing to the general election.
Ad claims Carter's Little Liver Pills increase liver bile flow to aid digestion. It asserts quick results within about thirty minutes and urges readers to buy at drugstores for relief from natural indigestion.
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