Weather and notices from the Daily Record March 20 1946
The page lists high and low temperatures for many cities with rainfall amounts and an Iowa forecast predicting partly cloudy skies, milder conditions, and showers late in the week. It also notes Friday Saturday temperature ranges, winds, and a series of local police fines for drunkenness speeding faulty brakes and parking violations, plus several birth notices and traffic incidents.
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Bismarck
Miami
Chicago
Minneapolis
Denver
New York
Los Angeles
Sioux City
Iowa
Weather shifts from cold to warm spring like day
Cedar Rapids logged a chilly 31 degrees at 7 am Wednesday with a later rise to 63 by mid afternoon. A bright sun made Wednesday feel spring like though clouds and occasional showers were forecast for tonight and Thursday. Tuesday’s high reached 60 with readings across the day. No rain reported.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Five U S Women Lawyers Aid Prosecution of Japanese
Allied HQ reports five American women lawyers assisting in building cases against major Japanese war criminals. The team includes Virginia Bowman of Washington DC Lucille Brunner of St James Minnesota Eleanor Jackson of Santa Monica Bettie Renner of Washington DC and Grace K Liewelyn of New York City.
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Tokyo
INL
Allied
Virginia Bowman
Washington, D. C
Lucille Brunner
St. James
Minn
Eleanor Jackson
Santa Monica
Calif
Bettie Renner
Washington, DC
Grace
K. Liewelyn
New York City
Local Troops Block End of Strike
GM tells CIO UAW that production will stay halted until the international union notifies the strike is ended in all plants. The company cites varied local union holds and says resumption of production will be delayed accordingly. Walter P. Reuther is informed of the March 19 telegram.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
CIO
United Auto Workers
International Union
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Legion Initiation and Gala Event At Hanford Post
The Hanford Legion post marked a full initiation of a new class started January 9 led by Walter Miller and Paul Ward. State and local officials, 250 Davenport post members, and dignitaries attended after the ceremony. A gala party followed with Ray Pearl’s orchestra, a six-act floor show, plus a basement carnival bazaar with games and refreshments.
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Hanford
Walter Miller
Paul Ward
Ralph Stuart
Hampton
R. J. Laird
Des Moines
Hugo Saggan
Denison
Davenport Post
Ray Pearl
Coliseum
Local City Briefs Highlight Community News
Alma Lorenc is ill and hospitalized at St. Luke's. Mrs. Marie Goslin has returned from Des Moines after a ten day visit with her son Dick Goslin. Paul Stockberger reports a bad check from the National Bank of Toledo. Democratic caucuses for Cedar Rapids precincts 14 to 18 set for Wednesday evening at the Roosevelt hotel. Twelve Mount Mercy academy students enter the National High School poetry contest, with more in the Iowa Centennial essay contest. Army recruiters list three enlistees from Cedar Rapids and Fairfax sent to Fort Snelling. Dr Wendell Henline, former United Brethren pastor, to speak at a church Fellowship evening. he served in the British Isles and France before returning to Boone with his family.
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Mount Mercy Academy
National High School Poetry Association
Academy
Iowa
Henline
Wendell Henline
United Brethren Church
British Isles
France
Redge
Boone
Will Open Bids On Currier Hall Addition Monday
Des Moines AP The Des Moines school board chairman said bids will be opened next Monday for a Currier Hall women’s dormitory addition at the University of Iowa. The project adds housing for 150 women and includes a dining room funded by debt. The board approved a $116,000 architect’s contract with Wetherell and Harrison for plans at Council Bluffs school for the deaf, with a 5 percent fee.
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DES Moines
David Dancer
Board of Education
Currier
University of Iowa
Wetherell and Harrison
School For the Deaf
Council Bluffs
Brown Engineering Company
Iowa State College
Mental Hospital
Mt. Pleasant
Deaths: Vavroch and multiple memorial notices
Cedar Rapids man 73 dies after long illness. former cabinet maker at South Side Sash and Door. Born in Czechoslovakia, he lived in Cedar Rapids since 1914 and leaves a large family. Also notices of infant son Gama, Agnes Kubasa, Frank Moynihan, and Charles Harris with service details and burial plans.
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Jerry V. Vavroch
Tenth Street
Cedar Rapids
South Side
Mirosov
Czechoslovakia
Rose Souhrada
Chicago
Calmar
Vavroch
Woodmen of the World
Sokols
Edward Tajcler
Wesley Krejci
Ervin Belgren
Leonard Douda
Thomas
Louis
Arnold
Rose Densky
Barta-Hesser
St. Wenceslaus Church
W. C. Hradecky
Bohemian National Cemetery
Anti-Spy Code Tightened After Hick’s Disclosures
Senate atomic energy committee moved to toughen anti spy provisions in its control bill after Sen Hickenlooper said British physicist Alan May, under arrest in London, could have revealed American atomic secrets. Groves warned May had broad access at Argonne and Hanford but likely possessed only general knowledge of bomb construction.
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Washington
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Sen. Hickenlooper
Senate
Alan May
London
Argonne
Chicago
Hanford Pile
Groves
Hickenlooper
May
Argonne Laboratory
Bill to Expand Vet Farm Loan Access Passes Senate Panel
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a Bankhead amendment to the 1937 Bankhead Jones act easing Farm Security loans to veterans. It removes farming experience limits and allows loans to veterans likely to succeed, including those with pensionable disabilities, to buy small farms and meet living and loan obligations.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Senator Bankhead
D-Ala
Farm Security Administration
Secretary of Agriculture
Heating advances and solar limits in modern systems
Prof Croft reports on smokeless furnaces from University of Illinois and compact 2 by 3 foot aircraft heaters within ten years. Radiant heating lowers ceiling temperature gap but needs expert installation and has heat lag. Liquid heating for cooking and cooling is developed by Oakes. Electrostatic precipitator aids hay fever relief. attic fans provide simple home cooling while warm-air systems suit air conditioning with possible UV sterilization. Solar heating depends on sun, limited in sunless winters. Ingersoll core unit deemed best in future home efficiency.
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Croft
O. O. Oakes
John B. Pierce Foundation
Ingersoll
Gazette
Prof. Croft
E E Hoisington Named Mesquakie Scout Leader
E E Hoisington, former Waubeek Area council executive, has been named Boy Scout executive of the Mesquakie area covering Clinton and Jackson counties. He succeeds Earl Cristman who resigned and will assume duties April 1 after returning from military service. Hoisington, 32, previously led scouts in Lincoln Nebraska and Mason City.
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E. E. Hoisington
Waubeek Area
Boy Scouts of America
Mesquakie
Clinton
Jackson
Earl Cristman
Hoisington
Lincoln
Neb
Mason City
State Executive Board Signs $48,000 Lease
Des Moines reports the state executive council approved a five year lease for the tax commission increasing annual rent to 48 000 from 34 000. The council also awarded a 2517 bid to General Electric for a new state police radio station at Maquoketa and 5875 for 25 mobile radio transmitters. It accepted from the Red Cross a building used at Camp Dodge during the war.
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Des Moines
INS
State Executive Council
Tax Commission
General Electric Company
Maquoketa
The
Red Cross
Camps Dodge
Jenkinson Son Declared Officially Dead in Navy Service
Dr and Mrs Harry R Jenkinson of Iowa City notified by the navy department that their son Lt Rogers L Jenkinson has been declared officially dead. He enlisted in 1941 after attending the University of Iowa three years and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for a direct hit sinking a Japanese ship and the Gold Star for heroism in a raid near Formosa. Surviving are his wife Jean, his parents, and a brother Lewis.
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Iowa
Harry R. Jenkinson
Navy Department
Rogers L. Jenkinson
Lieut
Jenkinson
Navy Air Corps
University of Iowa
Formosa
Jean
Lewis
County board weighs wage hikes and road issues
The board discussed pay raises in six classifications from two to four cents an hour and planned to settle wage questions before other talks. A request to repair a 1 7/8 mile road into Toddville was heard with a Toddville trucker noting high annual license costs and poor road conditions. April 2 at 10 am was set for a hearing on gas selling contracts. Lula Harrington bought land for 25 dollars in Bertram township. The board accepted Dorothy Jacobs resignation, granted a gas main right to Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric near Edgewood road, and filed a request for grading and surfacing of a Linn township road.
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Seevell
Beeson
Toddville
Darwin Oliphant
Lula Harrington
Avenue NE
Bertram Township
Dorothy Jacobs
Marion
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Edgewood Road
Linn Township
Treatment Rapped By Wounded Nisei
Honolulu dispatch reports Nisei veterans wounded in Europe, many amputees, were quartered in the hold of the President Hayes on voyage from San Francisco to Honolulu for treatment. Navy dependents occupied staterooms. Forty four Purple Heart recipients blamed Camp Stoneham authorities for poor quarters aboard ship. Eight amputees moved to infirmary after protest. one stayed in the hold. Tsutomo Toyofuko, 26, said he carried his own tray with a useless left arm and faced deck restrictions when civilians complained about their presence.
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Honolulu
President Hayes
San Francisco
Navy
Purple Heart
Camp Stoneham
Calif
Pic
Tsutomo Toyofuko
Toyofuko
Veterans seek trailer housing in Cedar Rapids plan
A Cedar Rapids housing petition seeks to add veterans to a list eligible for renting one of 80 trailers. Mayor Hahn notes the council will consider the petition at Thursday’s meeting and forward it to FPHA in Chicago, while fearing delay in trailer deliveries. A man in WWII insignia visited Hahn, urging housing for his wife and child, and directing him to the Veterans Service and Information Center.
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Hahn
Cigaret Company
Cedar Rapids
Veterans Service and Information Center
Paramount Building
FPHA
Young
Don Hines
Housing Committee
Henry Haegg
Chicago
Daylight Saving Issue Defeated in Tri Cities
MOLINE Illinois AP The proposal for daylight saving time in the Tri-Cities failed as straw votes from Rock Island and Moline showed strong opposition. Davenport councils delayed action after the polls, with Davenport voters nearly two to one in favor. Rock Island and Moline blocs also opposed the measure.
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Moline
Ill
Tri-Cities
Rock Island
Illinois
Davenport
Chambers of Commerce
Senate approves $1 600 000 OPA appropriation
The Senate passed and sent to the White House an appropriation bill funding the OPA at 1 600 000 with total war agency funds of 3 347 000 for the fiscal year ending June 30. The OPA was cut to 927 000, then raised by a conference committee to the 1 600 000 level. The House had previously approved 1 854 000.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Price Control Agency
Senate House Committee
House
Inmates to Iowa City for Game Protest Sparks Debate
Cooper defended a liberal school policy as critics protested the outing of seven training school boys to watch Wednesday's games in Iowa City. Sheriff Koser said he must ensure peace while the group travels, and officials noted the boys are the training school's top picks under guard.
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Iowa City
Puckette
Cooper
International
Koser
Johnson County
Eldora
Gatto Charged with Illegal Drug Sale
Joseph F. Gatto proprietor of G R Drug company at 1209 Fourth avenue SE faces a misdemeanor charge for selling drugs without the immediate personal supervision of a licensed pharmacist. The accusation stems from a Wednesday morning sale of aspirin and tincture of iodine to J W Green. County Attorney William W Crissman filed the charge based on statements from state narcotics agent R K Bond. Gatto reportedly had prior warnings and a pharmacist is employed but hours affected compliance.
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Joseph F. Gatto
G. R. Drug Company
Fourth Avenue SE
Justice of the Peace
Howard R. Churchill
William W. Crissman
R. K. Bond
Gatto
J. W. Green
Crissman
Courthouse Waives Hearing In Embezzlement Case
Lester D. Bowers 39 of 334 Second Avenue SW waived preliminary hearing in Justice H R Churchill's court on embezzlement by a bailee. Bond $1500 posted. case to go before the grand jury in April. Williams of Esquire Cleaners reported $135 worth of dresses taken. delivery claimed to have gone to a woman upstairs in Bowers home. Condon noted prior penitentiary term for larceny of stock.
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Bowers
Larry Condon
Herbert L. Williams
Esquire Cleaners
Third Avenue SW
Williams
Condon
Madison
Vets Cab Company Incorporates Amid Debt Limit
Articles filed on Wednesday set a 2500 dollar limit on any debt for Vets Cab Company. Each stockholder obtains all profit from his own cab. Listed officers include Tony Michalek president and Charles Michalek vice president with several other named stockholders. Wills admitted to probate in Cedar Rapids. Hughes and Engelking estates named with cross-referenced executors.
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Vets Cab Company
Tony Michalek
First Avenue NE
Rawson Behel
Marion
Charles Michalek
Third Avenue SW
Larry Boyd
Tenth Street SE
Gladys Michalek
Otto Solbrig
E Avenue NW
Jesse Taylor Hughes
Mt. Vernon
Charles F. Engelking
Lisbon
Cedar Rapids
Hughes
Emma Geraldine Hughes
Mary Engelking
Cedar Rapids Quonset Company Renamed to Steel Fabricated Buildings
Amendments filed Wednesday change the three month old Cedar Rapids Quonset company to Steel Fabricated Buildings Inc. The amendments were signed January 31 by Russell I. Knapp as president and Henry I. Gundling as secretary.
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Cedar Rapids Quonset Company
Steel Fabricated Buildings, Inc
Russell I. Knapp
Henry I. Gundling
Superforts Won’t Be Based on Jap Fields
Tokyo dispatch reports Maj. Gen. K B Wolfe commander of the United States Fifth air force said no Superfortresses will be attached to his unit in Japan. They will stay at bases in the Marianas and Ryukyus. Japanese airfields large enough to accommodate the bombers will be used only for air sea rescue units.
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Tokyo
Ins
K. B. Wolfe
United States
Fifth Air Force
Japan
Marianas
Ryukyus
Jolas to Present Recital at King Memorial Chapel
Cornell piano professor Jacques Jolas will give his first public recital in years at King Memorial chapel next Sunday at 4 p.m. The Juilliard graduate will perform works by Ravel and Chopin, with his wife joining on second piano, and is noted for organizing Cedar Rapids music societies and a past national radio program.
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MT. Vernon
Jacques Jolas
Cornell College
King Memorial Chapel
Jolas
Cedar Rapids
Juilliard School of Music
Ravel
Chopin
Reds Say U S Seeks Atomic Dictatorship
London dispatch reports Soviet charges that reactionary forces in America aim to establish an atomic dictatorship. The New Times accuses atom bomb tests in the Pacific of fostering fear to advance imperialistic plans and a political trade on such fears.
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London
America
Pacific
New Times
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George Hillmer
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Company No. 3
Mercy
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Springville
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Peter Dows
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Pie
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Dale Hazlett
Twenty- Ninth Street Drive
Ralph Blair
Alan Benson
Ervin Rohwedder
Oxford Junction
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First Avenue E
Harry Cohn
Park Terrace
William H. Mate
Nineteenth Avenue
Harold Birch
Fairfax
Lewis Schaffer
L Street
Glenn H. Mollenhauer
John C. Palmer
Fannie Martin
Central City
W. L. Bleakly
Ninth Street
R. D Pollard
Alfred E. Lane
Second Street NW
Charles Hamer
214
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L. H. Sidwell
Second Avenue SE
Donald S. Barry
Millard K. Chambers
Pullman
A. E. Wegmuller
Oxford
Charles F. Oelberg
C Avenue NE
R. H. Rockhold
Y.M.G
Y.M.G.A
T. F. Adams
Hiawatha
Weatherman
U.S
Alma Lorenc
Fifth Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
Marie Goslin
Fourth Avenue
Dick Goslin
Paul Stockberger
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Toledo
Democratic
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Army
Fort Snelling
Charles L. Clark
Johnson Avenue
William N. Richards
Seventh Street
Robert A. Merrill
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Joseph P. Gama
Vincent Gama
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Pete
Paul
Monahan Funeral Home
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Agnes Kubasa
Thirty-first Street
Janeba
William Paulsen
Frank Moynihan
Patrick’s Church
Father Bernard White
St. Patrick's Cemetery
Father White
Knights of Columbus
Moynihan
Charles Elsworth Harris
First Avenue NW
Turner Chapel
H. K. Galloway
Linwood Cemetery
Hick
Chicago Laboratory
University of Chicago Research Laboratory
Leslie R. Groves
Atomic Commission
University of Illinois
State Executive Board
Lapes Florist
First Avenue East
Third Avenue
Pandruff
Jeris
Just
Gladstone
DuPont
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Checker Electric Supply, Inc
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