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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1944
Page
1
Rationing notices list meat gas and food stamps valid through spring and summer periods. Divorces granted for several couples in Cedar Rapids area. Fines imposed for drunkenness reckless driving and parking violations. Backfire car incident and a fire alarm reported. Births announced at St Luke's Mercy and Mercy hospitals with multiple families noted.
Vesuvius spouted smoke and ash 20000 feet high on Friday but lava flows subsided enough to permit some evacuees to return to parts of the threatened area. Army bulldozers cleared key roads near the volcano as cinders plagued the main Naples south railroad. Veteran American troops kept the line open around the clock, drawing on railroad experience from the northwest United States.
Ottumwa safety commissioner G E Rhoads pleaded not guilty at arraignment before District Judge E K Daugherty on conspiracy charges. Rhoads and former clerk Herbert Bagg were indicted by a special grand jury. Rhoads allegedly took money from gamblers and bootleggers in exchange for immunity. Bagg allegedly collected the funds.
The civil service commission will hold an examination for the police captain position in the superior court room of city hall at 1 30 p m on April 7. Open to all department members with at least five years experience.
Senator La Follette accuses oleomargarine makers of deceptive advertising to repeal the 16 cent per pound tax. He cites ads showing colored product to imitate butter and warns of dairy-industry monopoly concerns. He notes the industry’s centralized structure affects 4,590,000 farm families.
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser announced a contract with the Netherlands Indies government to build 20 coastwise cargo ships. He expects work to begin before year end and said the project will be cash funded. No delivery date or vessel details were released.
The navy announced that American submarines sunk eleven Japanese supply ships, including one minelayer, two small freighters, three medium transports, one medium tanker, three medium freighters and one large tanker.
Services for George Edward Sigmund age unknown will be held Saturday at nine o clock in the morning at St Patrick s church with the Rev D J Lenihan officiating A rosary will be recited by Father Lenihan at eight thirty Friday at the Tea hen chapel where friends may call Burial will be in Bohemian National cemetery Edward Sigmund
Services for William L Harrison former secretary treasurer and general manager of the Universal Crusher company who died Tuesday will be held at Turner chapel at 2 p.m. Saturday with Dr. Lloyd Morris and Dr. William M. Evans officiating. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Carl D. Olney of 509 Fifth avenue SE died from an accident Saturday. Funeral services set for 11 am Saturday at Brady chapel with Rev. Frank Ward officiating. Burial in Oak Shade Cemetery Marion. He was born September 8 1877 in Marion, son of Charles and Margaret Olney. Survived by half brother B H Olney East Chicago Ind three nephews Julian White Plains NY Albert Washington DC and James Olney Cedar Rapids. Preceded by wife Catherine and two brothers Fred and Orie Olney. Friends may call at the chapel.
Funeral services set for Louis R. Richter 46 fatally injured when he fell under a moving passenger train near Rock Island Station in Davenport. Born in Czechoslovakia April 17 1898 he was a Rock Island railroad machinist for 25 years living in Cedar Rapids before transfer to Silvis. Surviving include wife Marie two daughters Eloise and Delores a son Norbert his mother sisters and brothers. Burial in Mt Calvary cemetery Cedar Rapids.
Relatives in Cedar Rapids report the death of Theron Coon on Thursday in Oelwein. He was a brother in law of the late Justice E A Nugent. Two Cedar Rapids nieces, Mrs. Paul Sidlinger and Virginia Bixby, are named with addresses.
Thomas F. Colgan died Wednesday in Davenport. A 10 a.m. Saturday service will be held at St. Patrick's Church led by Rev. D J Lenihan. Rosary is 8 36 p m Friday at Monahan funeral home with Knights of Columbus at 8 p m. Burial in St Patrick's Cemetery Fairfax. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Frank Zaspal Jr. age 23 of 1802 D Street SW died at 9 45 a m in University Hospital Iowa City after a brief illness He was born October 22 1920 in Cedar Rapids and lived here all his life He was employed as a no cutter by the Me Too grocery He was a member of the Eagles Surviving are his wife Dorothy and others
Hollywood reports producer Lester Cowan will film a biographical tribute to war reporter Ernie Pyle. Scenes will shoot in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, California and Italy, portraying Pyle's front line experiences and wartime journalism with real correspondents appearing in cameo roles.
The obituary notes the death of a Cedar Rapids resident with his wife and son Jimmie, parents Mr. and Mrs. Frank Zaspal, a brother Louis at Camp Barkeley Texas, and three sisters Mrs. Virgil Eyre Washington DC, Lottie and Emma Zasp al of Cedar Rapids. Body at Janeba funeral home. Funeral arrangements to be announced. Friends may call at Janeba's.
In Chelsea Massachusetts John Russo a barber struggles to work only three days a week caring for year old triplets without a washing machine or baby carriage. His wife cannot find a mother's helper due to a personnel shortage, and the Red Cross is seeking to provide a washing machine and a baby carriage to relieve the burden.
William Allen a Beloit 16 and Leonard Reichert alias Eugene Dejewski 17 of Milwaukee pled guilty to larceny in Judge G K Thompson s court and received up to five years in the Anamosa men s reformatory. Bonds set at 3500. They stole a car in Mt Vernon March 12 belonging to Letitia Beranek, were captured in Ames, and returned to Linn county by deputies. They had escaped from the Boys industrial school at Waukesha March 1 and had since stolen four cars, the last wrecked in Ames.
County Treasurer Frank F. Bates announces courthouse offices stay open until 4 p.m. Saturday to allow Linn county residents to pay taxes before delinquent status takes effect on April 1.
Frances Farmer former screen star sent to a state hospital near Seattle on an insanity complaint filed by her mother The King county sanity commission issued the order Her mother Mrs Lillian V Farmer told doctors Nicholson and Price commissioners she could not control her daughter at home
Washington INL Gov Marriner Eccles of the Federal Reserve asks Congress to extend price controls for two years after the war to curb inflation. Appearing before the Senate Banking Committee he argues a one year extension is inadequate and warns inflationary pressures are rising. He urges continued controls and rationing to finance the war and protect money purchasing power.
WPB Chairman Donald Nelson told the Costello committee that a national service act is now obsolete and endorsed drafting non fathers up to 45 not in essential industry. He said a million men could be moved into war work under a narrowed field approach while supporting limited service eligibility and options through Rep Sparkman and proposals from Rep Luce.
Truck operators must mail their ODT certificates to the Linn county war price and rationing board promptly so second quarter 1944 gas coupons can be issued without delay. A. T. Pleune, chief clerk, said coupons will be issued once certificates are received and operators will get postcards when coupons are ready for delivery.
Soviet forces pushed 35 to 62 miles along the Tarnopol Proskurov line and neared the Prut as they breach the Dniester on a wide front. Second Ukrainian army drives toward Prut with higher ground boosting momentum while German defenses reel and a counter offensive appears broken near Tarnopol and Proskurov.
In Racine Wisconsin Wendell Willkie rejected claims that he described his 1940 campaign pledges as mere campaign oratory. He said a senator apologized after a record showed he was correct and denied plans for international economic cooperation meant boondoggling the world. He quipped about rising from Indiana mud flats to reach his position.
Former Finnish Social Affairs Minister Karl Fagerholm told a Nordic students meeting in Helsinki that Finns view themselves as comrades in arms of those suppressing Denmark and Norway, causing irritation and misunderstanding. The Nazi agency cited his remark as the first public Finnish critique of Germany. Sweden is praised as a friend regardless of politics.
London AP reports German reinforcements rush to Romanian and Bulgarian coasts of the Black Sea as part of preparations for a broader push into Rumania and the Balkans. Istanbul dispatches say German troops control Black Sea cities with Nazi officers in command, reawakening Turkish anxieties while preparing for possible Thrace invasion.
London reports Hitler has called Romanian Bulgarian Croat and Slovak leaders to separate conferences to organize Balkan defenses against the Red army. Ante Pavelic and Josef Tito were said to have received summonses after the Romanian meeting.
The note indicated that Prince Cyril of Bulgaria, regent for Boy King Simeon II, and Prime Minister Bogdan Filov would depart last.
Helen Ingram named administratrix of Libbie Pickerill estate in Rapids township as of November 14 1940. Delbert McArtor 20 son of G J and Mrs McArtor of Moline Illinois to receive Kenny method infantile paralysis treatments at public hospital in Moline. No Wednesday evening work in Y M C A surgical dressings rooms until further notice announced by Mrs L K Cornell.
The Rev. Lyle K. Anderson will speak on If We Suffer With Him at the morning worship of Shueyville United Brethren church this Sunday. Church school starts at 10 30 Christian Endeavor at 8 p m and evening worship at 8 30 with a continuation on God So Loved the topic.
Approximately 20 men are missing after an army raft capsized during a river crossing on Wednesday night in Tennessee. Two others swam or waded to shore.
D. F. Merrill of the Cedar Rapids AFL chapter will represent this district at a March 31 meeting in Kansas City of public industry and labor representatives. The gathering, tied to War Production Board advisory panels, will discuss housing and trailer programs the school system and social security.
Two frightened rabbits darted across the field during a Winston Churchill airborne review in England. Churchill smiled, Eisenhower watched as the animals crossed between lines of troops and the viewing stand.
Allied headquarters reported new air strikes against Florence and Padua targeting the Campo di Marte yard and railway junctions. In Cassino, New Zealand troops pressed German defenses as enemy air and artillery attacked, while coastal action damaged small vessels near Yugoslavia.
Japan announced the formation of a Greater East Asia Comic Strip Study society to use funny papers for propaganda and news reporting aimed at defeating the United States and Britain. The effort will feature strips on home life, political conditions, and overseas reports, written under military and government sponsorship.
Oscar Junior Johnson of Waterloo has been committed to Linn county jail in Cedar Rapids on a draft evasion charge. He registered in Galena Illinois and gave a Baton Rouge Louisiana address, which moved without notice. Johnson sought entry into service and was jailed for failing to post a $1000 bond after F B I agents brought him before U S Commissioner R L Whelan in Cedar Rapids.
City council granted leaves of absence to Jerry Navratil of the police and Richard Kretschmer of the fire department as they enter military service. The body canceled class B beer licenses for A. O. Zahracmik at 201 First St SE and Floyd J. Brecht at 1326 Second St SE. New permits were issued to Charles F. Fenci at 1326 Second St SE for a class B beer and cigarette license, and a class B beer permit was issued to Albert M. Sebrecht at 201 First St SE.
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