Weather and court notes from the Daily Record arch 27 1946
The archive lists daily weather with highs around 75 and 60, showers Thursday into Friday, and a warm to cooler swing into Friday. It also records local police court actions including disturbing the peace fines, several marriage licenses, a handful of theft and fire reports, and multiple traffic offenses with fines and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismarck
Ghlearo
Minneapolis
York
Joe Angeles
Sioux City
Iowa
Union and Contractors Meet in Paint Strike
Joe Gross, international representative of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers, attended a union contractor meeting at 1 p.m. Wednesday. Local 447 and painting contractors seek an end to a seven day old painters strike. Contractors support the union’s bid for hourly increases from the Wage Adjustment Board. The union demands double time for Sunday work and retroactivity to April 1, 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Gross
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators
U S and France Sign Broad Aviation Accord
The United States and France signed a wide aviation agreement granting vast rights to operate air services between the two nations and strategic French points. In exchange France gains entry to New York Washington Chicago Boston Puerto Rico and UNO site. Paris hosted the signing by Georges Bidault and Jefferson Caffery. The deal is an executive agreement not requiring senate ratification.
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Washington
United States
France
New York
Chicago
Boston
Puerto Rico
United Nations Organization
UNO
Paris
Georges Bidault
U. S
Jefferson Caffery
Senate
Senate Commerce Committee
Sedlacek to Organize National Guard Medics
Dr. L. B. Sedlacek has been appointed by Iowa's adjutant general to organize a medical section of the Iowa National Guard. Preliminary reorganization plans will be drawn at a Des Moines meeting this weekend. Sedlacek, a colonel, will participate in the weekend sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B. Sedlacek
Adjutant General of
Iowa
Iowa National Guard
Adjutant General's
Des Moines
Sedlacek
Russians Claim Iran Evacuation Under Way in Azerbaijan
Tehran AP report quotes Prince Mozaffar Firouz asserting the Russian evacuation from Kazvin near Tehran has begun and should finish in three to four days. US and British officials doubt a full withdrawal. Iran denies any secret agreement and says the move follows Prime Minister Qavam's Moscow visit. Observers note possible partial withdrawal or strategic repositioning in Azerbaijan and Kurdish southern Azerbaijan.
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Tehran
Mozaffar Firouz
Kazvin
United States
Red Army
Azerbaijan
Firouz
Iran
Russia
Britain
Qavam
Moscow
Soviet Union
U.S.S.R
Deaths of Robert Horan and Mrs Holub in Iowa notices
Robert Horan longtime United Press employee died of a heart ailment in Dallas Texas while on a business trip He was born May 26 1894 in Cedar Rapids Surviving wife Ruth daughter Hilary four brothers and four states holders The body will return to Cedar Rapids for services at Beatty chapel Saturday burial in Linwood Funeral for Mrs Frank B Holub scheduled Thursday at St Josephs Prairieburg
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Robert Harley Horan
United Press
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Dallas
Texas
Cedar Rapids
Ruth
Hilary
Orange
N. J
H. A
Paul T
J Harold I
New York City
Donald K
Minneapolis
Horan
Battery E
Beatty Chapel
Linwood
C of C Opposes Wyatt Renewed Subsidy Plea
Washington AP United States Chamber of Commerce rejects housing subsidies in Wyatt proposal to spur output of scarce building materials as part of a bill aimed at providing 2.7 million homes by next year. CPA rushes to set up regional offices in 71 cities to police new construction controls, with plans to be ready by Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson W. Wyatt
United States Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
House
Senate Banking Committee
Wyatt
CPA
Mail Box Must Have Been Under the Hood
MINNEAPOLIS UP Harry Goff told a court clerk he had not received his driver's license and the clerk said it was mailed but returned by the post office. Goff said the address error sent the license to a parking lot where he sleeps in his car due to housing shortage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Harry Goff
Goff
Turner Company Files Incorporation Articles
DES MOINES AP The Turner company of Cedar Rapids capitalized at 250000 to deal in electrical and radio engineering filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state Wednesday. Officers are David Turner president John B Turner vice president Ronald P Evans executive vice president and William Nezerka secretary treasurer.
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DES Moines
Turner Company of
Cedar Rapids
David Turner
John B. Turner
Ronald P. Evans
William Nezerka
Iowa Women Win Papal Medal for Eminent Work
Mrs. J A Wicke of Cedar Falls and Mrs J G Lemmer received the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice medals and scrolls from Archbishop Henry P Ro hm an in Dubuque. Wicke, archdiocesan president of the National Council of Catholic Women, is active in Immaculate Conception parish and radio work for the council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Wicke
Blake Boulevard
Iowa
Walter Mercers Hasty Marry Challenged by Court Action
Walter Ellis Mercer and Dorothy B. Mercer were bonded out of Johnson County jail after being arrested for remarrying within a year of divorce. They will appear April 4 in Iowa City justice court to answer the misdemeanor charge. The case involves witness Irom J. Torrence and reflects standard divorce decree restrictions. Both Mercers had sought permission to remarry. Mercer’s request was denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Ellis Mercer
Dorothy B. Mercer
Johnson County
Jack C. White
White
P. J. Whittemore
Justice Court
Iowa City
Iowa
J. M. Kadlec
Kadlec
Irom J. Torrence
Cedar Rapids
Mercer
Wate An
Dorothy B. Lamborn
Earl W. Lamborn
E. Lucille Mercer
G. K. Thompson
Cc. F. Stocker
New Process Laundry
Mercers
Tme
Yellowstone New Type Floating Navy Yard Reported in Bangor
The U S S Yellowstone is in Bangor Washington on Puget Sound described by the navy as a new destroyer tender and a floating navy yard able to repair boilers and even a stop watch. It measures 514 feet in length and 13000 tons gross, launched April 12 1945 and commissioned January 15 1946.
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Seattle
U.S. S
Yellowstone
Bangor
Wash
Puget Sound
Navy
Navy Yard
Legion Presses Fair War Surplus Disposal Plan
American Legion National Commander John Stelle urged Congress to freeze all war-time surplus property until a fair disposal plan is devised for World War II veterans. He said veterans flood the Legion with letters about their disappointing efforts to obtain surplus property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Legion
John Stelle
Congress
Legion
Olmsted Lists His Leading Supporters
Des Moines AP Henry W Burma of Allison who lost the Republican nomination in 1944 supports George Olmsted for the party nomination this year Olmsted announced. A list of district campaign chairmen sub district chairmen and general supporters includes Ed R Hicklin Wapello Martin Cooney Dubuque Paul Schuler Clinton Cliff Niles Anamosa Dave Bleakley Cedar Rapids Ding OConnor Waterloo Elmer Watkins Newton Curtis Yocum Chariton Blake Willis Perry Fred Nelson Nevada Don Pierson Humboldt Bob Archie Sidney and John Loughlin Cherokee. Olmsted backs prompt reduction of state taxes.
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Des Moines
Henry W. Burma
Allison
Robert D. Blue
George Olmsted
Olmsted
Burma
Grineriel
Olm Other
Ed R. Hicklin
Wapello
Martin Cooney
Dubuque
Paul Schul
Reasons for Draft Extension Denied Public
Washington reports the administration withholds a detailed public explanation of its 12 month extension request under the selective service act. The full rationale is known to Senate and House committees but kept off the record, hindering progress toward votes. Officials deny any immediate war danger with Russia and cite aims to project military strength and deter allies.
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Washington
Senate
House and Military Affairs Committee
House
Russia
Nash Finch strike prompts picket and boycott at Nash-Finch and Duster stores
Union members picketed Nash-Finch and Duster locations in a secondary boycott as drivers and warehouse staff faced walkouts. Nelson and Custer stores reported limited deliveries. Nash-Finch claimed most workers remained on the job while union officials push for recognition.
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First Avenue SE
A. Cairo
Nash-Finch Company
Ino
Third Street
Nelson Market
Wier Nelson
Nash-Finch
Nelson
James D. White
C. J. Rasdal
Trieste Bloodshed Sparks Tense Italian Demonstrations
Rome reports intense mood across Italy as pro Slovenes clash with demonstrators for Italy in Trieste. Tuesday violence left 100 injured and 500 arrested, with Slavophiles calling a general strike amid heightened national sentiment.
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Rome
INS
Venezia Giulia
Trieste
Italy
Slavophiles
MacArthur approves delay on dependents in Korea zone
In Korea the U S command delays admitting dependents of service personnel to the American zone until July 1 due to a housing shortage. General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo approved the recommendation from the United States commander in Korea.
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Tokyo
Douglas MacArthur
United States
Korea
Marriage Subsidy for Young People Proposed by Prof
Government subsidies for marriages of young couples are urged by Dr. Clifford R. Adams at a District of Columbia Planned Parenthood meeting. He proposes subsidies to enable early marriages, citing that happiness rises when men wed at 20 to 22, while noting current averages around 25 to 26 and that wartime separations threaten future marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Clifford R. Adams
District of Columbia Planned Parenthood Association
Adams
Pennsylvania State College
Industrial construction advances across the city in 1940s update
Paulsen Construction reports footings in and materials on site for several projects including a Freezej Clear building and a Second avenue Tenth street SE site for Hunter Hanson Kaiser Frazer distributors. Work continues on IOA Foods nine avenue Ninth street SE, with half a million dollar five story structure. Blahnik Berger complete Krebs Dutch Girl dairy plant and Witwer Grocer garage. Mercy hospital chapel wing proceeds with home contract and brick onsite. Rinderknecht crews start Baxter Motor and new Schumberg piping supply factory at Lake avenue Twelfth street NE.
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Paulsen Construction Company
Paulsen Company
Nineteenth Street
E Avenue NE
Second Avenue
Tenth Street SE
Hunter-Hanson Company
Kaiser-Frazer Automobile Distributors
Paulsen
Cedar Rapids
Merchants Motor Freight Terminal
E Avenue
Biahnik
Berger
IOA Foods Company
Ninth Avenue
Third Street
Blahnik and
Krebs Dutch Girl
Twenty-ninth Street
First Avenue SE
Witwer Grocer Company
Second Street
Penick and
Ford
Stamats Publishing Company
Seventh Avenue
Fifth Street SE
P. M. Lattner Manufacturing Company
Mercy Hospital
R. W. Rinderknecht
Hubbard Ice and Fuel Company
Williams and Hunting
First Street
R. W. Rinderknecht Company
Baxter Motor Company
A Avenue
Seventh Street
R. W. Rinder‘knecht Company
Vinson Sees Progress Toward Budget Balance
Secretary Vinson told the House banking committee the nation is moving toward a balanced budget as treasury receipts exceed estimates and expenditures are below expectations. He urged keeping OPA controls a little longer and said taxes must remain high despite a sound financial picture.
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Washington
Treasury
Vinson
OPA
House Banking Committee
U.S. Britain sign final lend lease settlement
Washington reports the United States and Britain formalized a $650 million end to Britain's lend-lease account, closing a historic program that sent $26 billion in American goods overseas. The deal, tied to the British Joan negotiations, spans 50 years at 2 percent interest and transfers title to $532 million in surplus property to the UK.
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Washington
LLP
United States
Britain
Atlantic
Dean Acheson
Lord Halifax
United Kingdom
Father Coughlin Figures in Trial
MERNBERG Germany rejected Berlin urged removal of the ban on Father Charles E. Coughlin’s political activity. In an interrogatory for war crimes trial, Dr. Herbert von Strempel testified the German embassy in Washington said it could do nothing about the ban. Berlin had asked about Coughlin’s radio audience size and political importance.
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Berlin
Coughlin
Horse dealer named in murder case faces charges
County attorney says Schmitt was arrested after Mrs. Worm signed a statement admitting a long time illicit relationship with the horse dealer and declaring she saw Schmitt shoot her husband and helped bury him on Schmitts farm. She says her husband vanished in 1943 and Schmitt threatened her and their son. Mrs Worm offered a 200 dollar reward for information on her husbands whereabouts.
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Schmitt
Warm
Worm
Carroll
Lenox
Worm Farm
Mayme
Keokuk
Thomas Mullin
Creston
Army Navy Merger Seen As Shotgun Wedding
Capt. Richard B. Levin of the USN spoke to Kiwanis at the Roosevelt hotel assessing a proposed army navy merger. He warned a single defense secretary could leave the navy underrepresented and urged detailed planning and cost efficiency for a 12,000,000 man force amid procurement challenges and weapons differences. Levin commands Iowa State college V-12 unit.
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Richard B. Levin
USN
Army-Navy
Kiwanis Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Levin
Army
Navy
Defense
Navy Department
Congress
Pearl Harbor
Napoleon
Nelson
Army Artillery
Iowa State College
County Board Reaches Vacation Week Compromise in Meeting
County Board members and staff clashed over work week length as Seevell and Wood haggled, proposing a two thirds to one third split plus one month of vacation open to workers. Seevell to set final month. other actions included weed commissioner appointments and establishing road district 209 in Fayette township plus selling three lots in Vernon View to Dwight and Doris Winter.
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Wood
Seevell
Oliver T Baker
Marion
Lloyd Wright
Center Point
Forrest Taschner
Cedar Rapids
Fayette Township
Vernon View
Bertram Township
Dwight S
Doris M. Winter
Ninth Street
Caste Board to Investigate Rank Abusers
Lt Gen James H. Doolittle disclosed that army officers accused by GIs of abusing rank will be called before his caste investigating board. The panel, including two former enlisted men, met in secret after Patterson told them the investigation was theirs with no strings attached.
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Washington
INS
James H. Doolittle
Army
G.i’s
Doolittle
Secretary of War
Patterson
Couple Welcomes Wife to Ames College City News
John Geesaman recently discharged from the navy enrolls in the college of engineering at Ames, where his wife Betty Hopton will join him soon. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Geesaman they live at 5311 Center Point road NE. Geesaman spent 38 months in service, 32 as radioman aboard the destroyer Lansdowne in the Pacific.
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John Geesaman
Navy
College of Engineering
Ames
Betty Hopton
Leo Geesaman
Center Point Road
Geesaman
Lansdowne
Pacific
Notice of Probate of Will in Iowa Linn County
Notice to all concerned that an instrument alleged to be the last will of George Ingalls Medhurst, late of Linn County Iowa, will be heard in the District Court at the Cedar Rapids Court House for proof and admission to probate. March 26. Arthur Axmear, Clerk District Court. Yesster & Fahey, Attorney.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
George Ingalls Medhurst
Said
Court House
Cedar Rapids
Courthouse Dismisses Two Debt Suits In Cedar Rapids Area
Judge Floyd Philbrick Wednesday dismissed two civil suits over money debts. W anderson sought 280 dollars from Carl and Goldie Edmonds on a 1939 promissory note secured by livestock and farm machinery at Vinton. A separate case by W T Abernathy and E J Omsky, filed last June for 100 dollars car damage from an alleged February 3 1945 accident near Cedar Rapids, was also dropped by mutual agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Philbrick
W. Anderson
Carl Edmonds
Goldie Edmonds
Edmonds
Vinton
Anderson
W. T. Abernathy
Sixth Street
E. J. Omsky
Fourth Avenue
Abernathy
Cedar Rapids
Five Boys Rounded Up For Breaking Entering
Five boys aged 10 to 14 were turned over to juvenile authorities for breaking and entering a cabin owned by James Cusack on Fifteenth Street NW. They admitted entering the cabin twice, stealing oars, using their father’s tools to cut a boat chain, and spending the day rowing on the river before abandoning the boat and walking home, where parents claimed they believed the children were drowned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Cusack
Fifteenth Street
P. J. Whittemore
Covington
Whittemore
Ouster Order Entered After Agreement
Judge G K Thompson entered an ouster judgment against Cecil Oldridge and Viola Oldridge after a stretch of three years renting a 15 acre tract. Albert Fuessley, owner, filed the case March 13 seeking repossession. The one year lease from March 19 1943 was extended to March 1 1946 by mutual agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. K. Thompson
Cecil Oldridge
Viola Oldridge
Albert Fuessley
County Receives First Homestead Credit Check
Linn county treasurer Frank Bates announced receipt of a 340219.08 check from the state tax commission, covering half of Linn county homestead credit exemptions for homeowners. The second half is due in September, and the treasurer’s office will stay open until 4 p.m. Saturday to aid taxpayers paying general county taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
State Tax Commission
Frank Bates
Council approves plans to keep Reich down in defeat
Berlin reports the Allied control council approved plans to crush Germany’s warmaking capability and reduce the Reich to a second class industrial nation. Germany’s standard of living will run at about two thirds of 1930–38, with a 2000 calorie diet and limited meats and fats as heavy industry is dismantled for reparations while light industry exports fund imports such as cod.
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Berlin
Germany
Hitler
Reich
Allied Control Council
United States
Russia
Great Britain
France
Former WAC Members May Re-enlist in Grade
Former members of the women's army corps may re enter active duty in the grade held at separation. Army recruiting officers announced an urgent need for Wacs to serve in hospitals personnel centers and at headquarters. Women may apply at the recruiting office in the Federal building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Army Corps
Federal
Appointment of Administratrix in Linn County Iowa 1946
Notice is given that on March 25 1946 Mary Elekar was appointed and qualified as Administratrix of the estate of John N Kilekar deceased of Linn County Iowa. All indebted persons must pay promptly. Claimants should file verified claims with the Clerk of Linn County District Court through Attorney Geo Buresh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Iowa
Linn County
John N. Kilekar
Iowa
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