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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1942
Page
1
Albert J Swearingen Fined For Speeding
Albert J Swearingen of 1206 Twentieth Avenue SW was fined $10 and costs for speeding 40 miles per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert J. Swearingen
Twentieth Avenue SW
Custody Granted and Support Ordered in Wilson Case
Francis E. Wilson and Anne Jane Wilson appear in a custody dispute decided by Judge G. K. Thompson. The court granted custody of the minor child to the defendant and ordered the plaintiff to pay $25 per month until the child reaches 18, with a future reduction to $15 per month if the defendant remarries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis E. Wilson
Anne Jane Wilson
G. K. Thompson
Local Birth Announcements At St Luke’s Hospital
Mrs Sutliff announce the birth of a son on April 30. Mr and Mrs Schmidt of Edgewood drive SW report a son born April 30. Mr and Mrs Underwood of 1216 Nineteenth Street SW greet a son April 30. Mr and Mrs Key Stone welcome their second son born April 30. Mr and Mrs Ammons of 355 Twenty First Street SE announce a daughter born April 30. Mr and Mrs Tauber of 1635 Fourteenth Avenue SE report a son born May 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Luke's Hospital
Harold A. Sutliff
Vernon
Duane Schmidt
Edgewood Drive
Hubert Underwood
Nineteenth Street
John H. Ay Keystone
Harold Ammons
Twenty-first Street
M . Hospital
Jerry Tauber
Fourteenth Avenue SE
Infant Russell Walker Dies in Cedar Rapids Hospital
Russell Walker Jr the 10 day old son of Mr and Mrs Russell Walker of 405 First Avenue SW died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 6 p m Thursday. Frank Edward Ehrhardt aged 58 of 113 First Avenue SW died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 5 17 a m Friday. Mrs Everett A Martinson 37 of 1129 Tenth Street NW died at home at 10 25 p m Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Walker
First Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Frank Edward Ehrhardt
Everett A. Martinson
Tenth Street NW
Missing Army plane found after days aloft over New Mexico
A four engine Army training plane with seven crew aboard disappeared April 22 during a routine flight from Albuquerque to Kansas City. The aircraft was located by air 15 miles southwest of Cimarron, New Mexico. Crew: Captain Robert O. Redding, Lieut Charles Reynard Jr, Lieut Rowland Jefferies, Lieut J G Ruff, Lieut G E Van Hoozer, Corp Duance M Peterson, and Corp Macomber. Fate remained unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albuquerque
N. M
Cimarron
New Mexico
Army
Kansas City
Robert O. Redding
Minatare
Neb
Charles ©. Reynard, Jr
Hiram
Ohio
Rowland L
Bond election for Cedar Rapids airport hopes to gain 60 percent yes vote
A Cedar Rapids committee seeks a 60 percent yes on a proposed bond issue for an airport. If approved the city need not issue bonds until airport construction terms are agreed. petitions require 2,500 signatures and petitions are available at banks factories and stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blaise
Cedar Rapids
Armed Services
Air Corps
Mr. Blaise
Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Company
Second Avenue SE
Cork Trees May Be Stripped Every Nine Or Ten Years
The practice of removing cork from cork oaks occurs at intervals of roughly nine to ten years. This periodic harvesting is critical for cork production and signals the sustainable management of cork forests.
Excess Profits Tax Set at 94 Percent
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a flat 94 percent excess profits tax rate for corporations. The panel kept the 24 percent normal corporate tax for incomes over 25 000 and revised the excess profit credit on invested capital to 8 percent on the first 5 000 900, 7 percent on the next 5 000 900, 6 percent on the next 190 000 000, and 5 percent on the excess above 200 000 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Doughton
D-N.c
Cooper
Dtenn
Stalin lauds Red Army strength and unity in wartime speech
Stalin says the Red Army is stronger and more organized than at the war's start and has shifted from defense to offensive. He praises workers for turning May Day into a day of labor for the front and condemns Hitler and his top aides as bankers’ watchdogs whose army serves only plunder. He adds Fascist Germany weakened after ten months of conflict and cites hunger and sacrifice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Army
Stalin
Russia
Adolf Hitler
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Heinrich Himmler
Germany
Dust Storm Blows Out Store Window in Cedar Rapids
High winds swept through Cedar Rapids causing a dust storm after a light morning shower. A Higbee shoe store on Third avenue lost two prism glass panels and an awning, slightly denting a parked car. No injuries reported as temperatures cooled from 87 to 60 degrees with a 0.05 inch rainfall earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Third Avenue
Higbee Shoe
G. W. Higbee
Chambers
Rattlesnake Killer Of Wife Is Hanged
In San Quentin California AP report the man known as the rattlesnake murder case, Robert S. James aged 48, was executed by hanging after being convicted of poisoning his sixth wife with reptiles and drowning her in a fish pond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Quentin
Calif
Robert S. James
Eastern Iowans Reach State Music Festival Contests
Iowa high school performers from Oelwein Earlville Tipton Monticello West Union Waukon Decorah Anamosa Traer and others compete in Friday ratings at the state music festival with multiple solos quartets and chamber groups earning national honors and top classifications.
WPB Orders Power Use Cut in Shortage Areas
The War Production Board ordered curtailment of non essential electricity in shortage areas to protect power for arms industries. Residential use remains mostly unaffected. exemptions include hospitals schools and military facilities. Utilities should use water power to save fuel and avoid abandoning plants without WPB approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPB
Washington
War Production Board
Cent
St. Louis
Bufalo
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
Sible
Regional list of honors and solos across Iowa towns
A compilation of names and awards from multiple Iowa cities including Waukon Cedar Falls Oelwein Decorah Anamosa Tipton and Monticello. Entries include soloists like Mary Mazzotti and tenor Robert Thomas and groups such as a girls sextet with varied placements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corah
BCD
Waukon
Iowa Training School
Eldora
Indeence
Mary Mazziotti
Oelwein
Doris Zopof
East Waterloo Marine Springer
Cedar Falls
Henlen Knight
Decorah
Aldys Schwab
Monona
Mary Jo Gethmann
Gladbrook
Margaret Huebner
Postville
Bonnie Carey
Marion
Shirley Richards
Tipton
Nan Hoover
Hopkinton
Elizabeth Hartman
Anamosa
Marille Matthiessen
Monticello
Peggy Maggee
Mt. Vernon
Ethel Debuhr
Phyllis Kadel
Donna Dell Jackson
Mechanicsville
Darlene Smith
Grundy Center
Robert Thomas
Strawberry Point
Carlton Strand
Robert Traeger
West Union
Girls Sextet
AAA
Eastern Iowa students win state high school contests
In Oskaloosa and surrounding towns, Grinnell and Kalona earned top honors in National Honors flute and alto clarinet solos with Grinnell placing first. Toledo and Williamsburg also claimed multiple awards across piano solo and mixed chorus. Thursday results included first place for Imogene Blythe in string bass solo and Margaret Lynch in violin solo, with other school groups placing in bands and orchestras.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Oskaloosa
Eastern Iowa
Grinnell
Catherine Yerkes
Toledo
Williamsburg
Marjorie Moore
van Horne
Kalona
A. Grinnell
Imogene Blythe
Margaret Lynch
Sigourney
George White
Burlington
Davenport
West Des Moines
Burma Kunming rail routes to Lashio terminus with new links
A government spokesman outlined plans to complete a major alternative Burma Kunming railway route this month and another within six months to keep supply lines open via India. He said Lashio remains a key terminus as Japan loses an empty city there after destroying war stores and may face challenges maintaining southern communications during the rainy season as airfields become unusable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kunming
Lashio
India
Japan
Senate Cuts Funds for Two Non-War Agencies
The Senate voted 53 to 20 to reduce the Office of Government Reports funds from 5 135 325 to 4 060 210 and cut the National Resources Planning Board budget from 668 825 to 400 000. McKellar led the amendments. Tydings backed reductions amid war-effort economy calls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Senate
National Resources Planning Board
Office of Government Reports
Lowell Mellett
Planning Board
Frederic A. Delano
Sen. McKellar
D-Tenn
Independent Offices
Sen
Tydings
D-Md
Muscatine Man Held To Grand Jury On Murder Charge
Raymond E. Tracy 41 waived preliminary hearing and was held to the grand jury without bond after arraignment in justice court. He admitted striking and killing a transient over money. The body was found in his garage and the victim’s identity awaited social security verification. Authorities probe motive as state agents assist local police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Raymond E. Tracy
Justice of the Peace Court
Tracy
Brazilian President Injured in Car Accident
President Getulio Vargas of Brazil was injured Friday in an automobile accident in Rio de Janeiro. No further details on injuries or accountability were provided by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio DE Janeiro
Getulio Vargas
Brazil
City clarifies federal wartime rental freeze as emergency measure
Mayor Hahn explains Cedar Rapids designated defense rental area with a June 29 effective date for the price administrator. Landlords must list units and set March 1, 1942 rentals. improvements may trigger rent revisions. The order centralizes control under the Office of Price Administration with a deputy in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Hall
Hahn
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Office of Price Administration
Harvester Company Agrees to War Labor Board Order
International Harvester said it will comply with the War Labor Board order to maintain union membership in eight Midwest plants. The decision comes after a board directors meeting and follows the April 15 vote and affects about 25,000 employees on war orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
International Harvester Company
War Labor Board
Middlewest
Four Die in East Colorado Tornado Near Pine Flats
A tornado swept through Pine Flats near Eads Colorado killing four people. The dead include Mrs. Charles Davis 36 Mrs. Max Mays 23 a filling station operator named Gilbert and Sam Castleman about 60. The storm struck about 3 30 a m and leveled two farm houses and the Pine Flats schoolhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EADS
Colo
Pine Flats
Colorado
Clara Koch
Kiowa County
Sheriff's Office
Charles Davis
Max Mays
Gilbert
Sam Castleman
Koch
Davis
Mays
Lee Keyser Seeks Polk County Sheriff Seat
E Lee Keyser former Polk commissioner and longtime Des Moines baseball executive announced on Thursday his candidacy for Polk County sheriff on the Democratic ticket. Keyser previously led the Des Moines baseball club during its Western league period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
E. Lee Keyser
Iis
Polk County
Keyser
Corregidor Guns Down Three Jap Planes
Gen Douglas MacArthur said Corregidor fought back in a fierce assault delivering aerial and artillery fire that downed three Japanese bombers and damaged two others. Shells hit enemy batteries, trucks, and supply dumps as 12 Japanese missions were repelled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations Headquarters
Australia
Corregidor
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
Philippines
Workers Stay at Posts as Plane Plant Burns
In Chicago the Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing incident destroyed two large buildings in the aircraft parts division, causing about 50 000 dollars in damage and delaying war work. Nearly 1 000 workers remained at their benches amid heavy smoke as firefighters fought flames above them. A management spokesman said workers stayed to avoid halting orders. The fire started by spontaneous combustion of tar on new roofs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Bi Lingual Paper barred from mails in Philadelphia
The Post Office suspended second class mailing of the Bi Lingual Paper Herald published in Philadelphia. The action cites the espionage act and postal laws and orders the Philadelphia postmaster to refuse mailing of all copies until a ruling on mailable status is made. Printer William B. Graf and Sons is named as publisher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
Philadelphia
William B. Graf
Free American
Deutscher Weckruf Und Beobachter
Bund
Germany
Cone Junction
Department of Justice
Frank C. Walker
Francis Biddle
Herald
Buck Doe Invade Buffalo Steel Mill
A buck and a doe wandered into Bethlehem Steel's Buffalo strip mill causing a brief disruption as they trotted through heavy work, the doe retreating outside while the buck led workers on a brief chase that ended in a grease pit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck
Doe
Buffalo Steel Mill
Buffalo
N. Y
Bethlehem Steel Company
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Mildred Blizek
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