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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1943
Page
11
Temperature readings show Cedar Rapids 33 high 13 low and other cities listed. Divorce petitions include Hazel Shannon vs Dean Shannon and Zelma McFarland vs Howard McFarland. Fire incident at Francis Brown residence noted. Obituary reports Mrs James E Bates and several births announced at multiple Cedar Rapids addresses. Minor court fines listed for various offenses and a Chicago visitor born son announcements with Feb and March dates.
Eastman explains that public transport schedules remain unaffected by the DDT order but fleet equipment is frozen within a company. A company may reallocate buses for demand shifts or lend them only briefly in emergencies. Equipment to serve plants, camps, or schools stays fixed, though operators may add services like transporting war workers without cutting school routes.
Thousands of French youths resist police attempts to round them up in the southeastern mountains while German and Italian troops reportedly wait. Led by 60 year old Major Gen Cartier the group stands ready for a showdown against wartime labor conscription to factories in Germany.
Price Administrator Prentiss M Brown issued a memorandum stripping veto authority from OPA lawyers and empowering agency heads overseeing rationing rent and price control to make final program decisions. The change ends a dual legal and administrative review process that often delayed action.
Thousands of dollars worth of fire equipment arrived in Cedar Rapids on loan from the Office of Civilian Defense for wartime use. Six eight foot trailer pumps and future gear arrive under Fire Chief E P Kohout, with total value expected around 40000 dollars. Equipment designated for war emergencies only, bears US Government OCD ownership and is not for normal fire department operations.
Death of Jack Smith 61 found in garage at 712 Vernal Street NW after attempting to dig car from mud. Coroner Dr. R E Munden says heart attack likely caused death. no relatives located. Teahen funeral home asked to contact. Patrick Taggart 86 of Cherry Illinois died after long illness. services in Cherry Saturday.
The day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul St. Clair of 424 Eighth Avenue SW died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 3 15 p m Tuesday. Private committal services were held at Moens' on Wednesday.
Mathew Bernatz died Monday at his home 1612 Washington Avenue SE. Services conducted by Rev. James H. Blackstone will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Moon chapel. Burial is planned at Cedar Memorial Park. Friends may call at the chapel.
Mrs Clara Elizabeth Bates of 1551 Bever Avenue SE Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 430 PM Tuesday after a long illness. Born September 19 1866 in Warren County Ohio she lived in Cedar Rapids 44 years. She married James Everett Bates May 5 1885 in Eldon IA and moved to Cedar Rapids in 1899. A charter member and long time deaconess of the First Christian Church and head of the Woman's Forum class surviving with her husband and cousin Mrs John Flindt Fairfield IA. Services will be conducted at
Burial planned at Cedar Memorial cemetery after services led by Dr Marion H Williams. Friends may call at the Barta chapel.
Lieut Gen George C Kenney at the White House stated that Japanese pilots have unquestionably deteriorated with their highly skilled first string gone He contrasted this with Allied pilots saying their first team is just beginning to come in and that Allied planes remain superior to Japanese equipment with a stable margin of advantage.
In Cedar Rapids a light cold snap and flurries marked the day with a 13 degree start and a 29 degree afternoon high. The forecast suggests not much change tonight and Thursday with a low near 15. The piece mixes humorous weather quips about Havelock Ellis and a World War II era war bond note.
London AP reports the French national committee announced Gen. Charles de Gaulle will meet Gen. Henri Giraud in Algiers to form a united resistance against the Axis. Catroux could rise in Giraud's administration as talks align North Africa with De Gaulle policy. The statement hailed North African events as favorable to union.
Man power Chief Paul V McNutt reported that government money and the school system retrained 1 516 043 men and women for war jobs in a six months period.
Forty-six seniors are set to graduate at Coe College’s sixty second commencement in Sinclair Memorial chapel. Forty five bachelor of arts degrees and one bachelor of music will be awarded, with eight armed forces members receiving degrees in absentia.
Gen Douglas MacArthur announced Allied reconnaissance could not locate enemy shipping in the Arafura sea north of the Aroe islands after an air attack. Allied medium bombers hit Japanese bases at Lae and Salamaua Tuesday night, starting large fuel fires.
Dutch and Australian air crews attacked transports and ships near Kaimana and Cape Van denbosch in western New Guinea. Medium bombers struck Japanese targets in the Aroe islands at Dobo hitting barracks and radio station. No immediate results reported for some strikes.
Three Japanese luggers were strafed and left sinking near Wo kam a small island off Dobo. The incident details are sparse but suggest naval action with vessels damaged and abandoned. No further names or dates are provided in the text.
Doris Luthers of Cedar Rapids and Jack Logan of Red Oak, zoology seniors at Coe College, earned scientific posts after June graduation. Luthers will intern in medical technology at St Luke's Hospital and trains as a registered medical technician. Logan becomes an assistant in the zoology department at the University of California.
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