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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1944
Page
6
Daily Record lists meat, gas, sugar, and fuel stamp validities and limits through May and June 1944. It also records speeding fines, license suspensions, parking violations, birth notices, and multiple divorce decrees involving residents of Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas.
First Lt. Robert J Coen 24 son of Mrs Mary E Coen Iowa City was killed in a plane crash near Reno Nevada while on a routine flight He was a bombardier navigator trained at March Field Riverside California and earned his wings last December He was a St Patrick’s alumni University of Iowa commerce graduate 1940 and was joining the law college when he joined the national guard His wife Pauline Becker of Anamosa survives with a brother Ensign William J Coen and his mother
Coe college associate professor Dr Eric L Clitheroe will deliver Lenten addresses at First Presbyterian church Waterloo from Sunday through Tuesday. Cedar Rapids recruiting station 27411 invites women for WAC service appointments at noon or evenings if daytime calls are unavailable. Official Candace A Carman in charge announced Saturday.
Robert Dunn reports theft of war stamps near Thirteenth Street and Second Avenue NE while on delivery. Loss includes seven one dollar stamps eight? clarify. seven twenty five cent stamps and six ten cent stamps. Dunn resides at 1244 B Avenue NE and can be reached at telephone 2 0325.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette, published daily and Sunday, carries full wire reports from Associated Press United Press International and the News Service. It details subscription rates by carrier and mail, lists advertising representatives in Chicago New York Detroit and other locations, and notes entry as second class matter under federal law.
Allied airmen dropped 160 tons on Rabaul New Britain and 160 tons on Hansa Bay New Guinea as a steady air offensive expands into the 48th day since February 3. Solomons bombers hit Wewek area targets while Kavieng and Dagua airdrome raids continued.
A massive blast at a central West Virginia coal mine killed 15 men as they fought a raging fire early Saturday. Flames charred poles and melted steel cars 150 feet from the mine, with rescue crews unable to reach the trapped workers. District Mines Inspector L. S McGee attributed the blast to a buildup of mine gases at the shaft bottom. Windows shattered in Shinnston about a mile away.
Dismas the saint inspires a charitable gift in Chicago as $400 is given to Mrs. Carmella Costa and her four children by the Dempster Mac Murphy post of the American Legion and friends. The funds, collected in honor of St Dismas, are to be used at the family's discretion for beds and clothes, with no strings attached.
Multiple service members are reported with assignments promotions and transfers. Harold R. Frazier earned a Good Conduct Medal at an Eighth Air Force station in England. Other notices include transfers from Godman Field to McClellan Field, wings and lieutenant postings, furloughs, and overseas arrivals in California Texas and Nevada as well as at sea and in England.
US naval announcement says Ant Island atoll near Ponape in the Caroline islands was bombed for the first time by a navy search plane. Ponape is a known Japanese held atoll guarding the eastern approach to Truk. The atoll is reputedly inhabited by descendants of a shipwrecked American sailor.
Two hundred eighty five cases of liquor seized by state agents in an H. and W Motor Express company warehouse were owned by J. D. Harrington and E. L. Humphrey, operators of the Hill Top Casino near East Dubuque. County Attorney E. J. Kean said he is preparing charges of illegal possession but will wait for guidance from Attorney General John M. Rankin.
Washington INS reports Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley announced that an Easter recess is effectively agreed with House leaders. The break would run from March 30 to April 12.
Washington AP Lowell Mellett resigns as administrative assistant to President Roosevelt to become a newspaper columnist for the Washington Star. He cites a wish to resume writing and notes the Star and others may publish his viewpoints despite past tensions on Capitol Hill.
The Chicago Board of Trade will vote on April 18 on a proposal allowing warehouse receipts for grain stored in approved outside warehouses to settle Chicago futures. If approved, warehouses in Minneapolis, Kansas City and Milwaukee would be eligible, along with federally licensed Chicago warehouses and others in eight states.
President Roosevelt said farm machinery exports under lend lease total less than 2 percent of U S supply and aid overseas troops. Senator Clark asked Congress to review current and future production and foreign distribution of farm machinery. Crowley cited the low figure and noted his resignation as alien property custodian to focus on foreign economic planning and the FDIC.
Kenneth Nel of Mason City becomes president of the Iowa Junior Bar association replacing Boyd M. Cambridge who joins the armed forces. William F. McFarlin of Montezuma becomes vice president and Walter J. Willett of Tama is elected secretary.
Probate No. 13339 in Linn County District Court informs Francis E. Wintz Anna Wintz and creditors that Ann Wintz Administratrix seeks authority to sell West 50 feet of Lots 20 and 21 Block 2 Carhart's Addition Marion Iowa to pay debts. Hearing set March List day 1944 at Cedar Rapids Court House at 9:00 AM. objections must be filed by then. Attorney G P Buresh Cedar Rapids Iowa.
In Linn County Iowa on March 24 1944 Doris Wiley and Z J Dahms were appointed administrators of the William G Deason estate and are authorized to receive payments and file all claims The administrators attorneys B L Wick and Z J Dahms provide notice to debtors and creditors to settle estates promptly in Probate No 17409
Joan Barry finishs cross examination in Hollywood trial asserting Chaplin violated the Mann Act by transporting her to New York for immoral purposes. Defense ends questioning after judge bars related testimony as Clark reads her farewell letter to Chaplin describing a dreamlike three years and plans to return to New York to marry. The court recessed for lunch as Barry sobs and Chaplin hangs his head.
Fayette county spelling contest set for Saturday at 10 a.m. in the courthouse Fayette county. Locks system work to start in Shellsburg with priorities secured. Winneshiek county offers $90 for waste paper collection at $10 per ton contest running March 27 to April 1. Mrs Velma R Stone sues for divorce in Delaware county court seeking custody of four children. Linn chapter OES holds school of instruction in Central City Cedar Rapids guest speaker Jean Vondracek. Independence hosts spring concert by high school band and glee club. Girl Scouts fund campaign April 1 to 10 led by patrols and mothers. Cedar county inducts four into Army at Camp Dodge. Mt Vernon elects Presbyterian Sunday school officers. Decorah sends 13 Winneshiek county men to navy or army training. Marengo First Presbyterian elects officers and Lottie Bigbee new treasurer. Colesburg home fire destroys Ed Billmeyer property for second time. Colesburg United Service Women elects new officers led by Arleen Troester.
A peacetime veteran recalls how war time stories differ and often clash with newer draftees. He notes how old soldiers dismiss novices with lines about longer payroll signing than coffee drinking or longer attention than their service.
A series of Iowa death notices and pending funeral services are reported. Par nel l Alfred Gilford 61 Cedar Rapids and Waterloo connections. John W. Hutton 985 lifelong Jones county resident. Elsie Smith Robbins 28 of Shellsburg survived by husband A C Robbins and three children. Beatham Anderson 58 buried in Decorah Lutheran cemetery after dying in Albert Lea Minnesota. Albert F Randolph 87 died at Koszta home of daughter’s. Mrs Arnold Gross 29 died near Colesburg. Emma Boettcher 73 died in Clarence survived by four daughters and a son. Service details and locations include Scotch Grove Presbyterian, Federated church in Shellsburg, Koszta Methodist, St Johns in Clarence.
A historical statistic notes that out of Italy's 70 million productive acres, 12 million are allocated to wheat cultivation, reflecting land use priorities and agricultural focus in the period.
University of Iowa economist Dean Chester A. Phillips told Cedar Rapids High Twelve club that the national debt could be carried as interest indefinitely, with bondholders receiving the payments. He predicted postwar housing and auto demand, a stable interest rate, and argued labor problems are solvable. peacetime prosperity tends to follow great wars.
Services scheduled for Frank Zaspal Jr at Janeba funeral home Iowa City at 2 30 pm Monday officiated by Theodore B Hlubacek. Burial in Bohemian National cemetery. Also services for Emma McGowan widow of William McGowan at Turner chapel Monday at 2 with Rev William C Porter officiating. Burial in Cedar Memorial park cemetery. Friend may call.
Lt. Vandergrift told the District of Columbia Medical Society a tale of a patient who could not sleep at night and was told to eat nothing before bed. The doctor recalled admonishing the patient two months earlier, and Vandergrift noted science has made strides since then.
Washington AP report says the House approved a 567 million dollar bill to fund the department for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The measure, approved 171 to 135, bars funds for salaries or expenses of dopamental workers using draft or crop program pressure to force farmer participation.
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