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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1944
Page
6
Ration stamp validities for meat gas sugar and fuel oil listed with book numbers and expiry dates. Local court fines for drunkenness reckless driving and license violations. Fire alarms and a May 1944 hospital births. Divorce and marriage licenses recorded for Cedar Rapids residents.
Lt. John K. Valentine s a Centerville native and former Iowa lieutenant governor who has served in armed guard duty since the war began. He will join the state selective service headquar ters staff in Des Moines as a navy liaison officer and fill the post left by Comdr Herbert M. Hart. Adj. Gen. Grahl will assign him specific duties. Valentine has served as state senator and chaired the state tax commission and U S district attorney for southern Iowa. He was the 1940 Democratic candidate for governor.
President Roosevelt resumes work after a four week rest at Baruch's Hobcaw plantation Georgetown South Carolina reporting no lingering illness. He hosted congressional leaders to review the legislative outlook and indicated no demand for new bills.
Raymond E. Hotz 33 of 160 Twenty second street Marion was fined 300 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in Judge G P Linville s court He may pay 50 dollars and costs and the balance in 25 dollar monthly installments beginning June 12 Hotz was arrested by Highway Patrolmen M G Swords and Franklin Kidwell after his car struck a parked vehicle owned by Ray Caraway of Marion Saturday night
Judge G P Linville assigns Monday calendar in district court listing defendants Eugene Streets 19 of 924 First Ave NW charged with operating while intoxicated David Warren 19 of 1102 Fifteenth Ave SE charged with larceny Myles Robinson 37 and Louis Straka 26 both of Davenport on joint breaking and entering charges related to the Jan 22 Springville school break in and separate Mt Vernon high school break in charges for Robinson and Myles He also entered judgment for Wency Gatto against Cecil and Cleo Emry on a verified account and a promissory note for 15 74 with costs The jury case W J Binney v Culver Motors was begun Monday morning
In Judge G. E. Thompson's court Biiney seeks a 10077.27 judgment for personal injuries and damages to his car from a collision on March 15 1943 at Ellis Avenue NW Boulevard.
Jennie Hershey Rankle wife of Elmer A Rankle died at 5 15 am Sunday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a long illness Born Sept 17 1866 in Cedar County she moved to Cedar Rapids in 1894 Survived by husband two daughters Mrs Fred H Killen of Cedar Rapids Mrs Glenn H Moore of Davenport a son Merrill H Runkle of Manchester and nine grandchildren and great grandchildren She was a Congregational church member and Cedar Chapter 184 O ES Services Tuesday at Turner chapel with Rev W A Jacobs entombment Cedar Memorial Park Friends may call at the chapel Rites for Mrs Cooper former Cedar Rapids resident who died Friday at the home of her son in law and daughter Oak Park Illinois will be held Tuesday at 2 pm in Turner chapel Rev Paul Luther Miller and Cedar Chapter 184 O ES officiating Burial Linwood Cemetery Honorary pallbearers named Friends may call at the chapel
Edward Smythe testifying for the defense in the contempt case against James Laughlin said he asked Laughlin to subpoena William Randolph Hearst Rabbi Stephen Wise Harry Hopkins Earl Browder and Justice Felix Frankfurter to bolster his defense against seditious activity charges. Columnist Drew Pearson testified next defining a Philadelphia Record article from March 26 1942 as context.
The city council awarded public liability and property damage insurance for city vehicles to Jackson Watson Insurance at 646.49. Mrs. R. D. Taylor and A. T. Pleune were reappointed to the playground and recreation commission for three years through May 9, 1947. A sanitary sewer petition and a terrace extension request were noted and referred to the city engineer. The council granted a leave of absence.
A six inch Marshall Islands rat named Herman has joined the Seventh AAF Liberator crew Little Wabbit on 15 missions over the Marshall and Caroline islands. He has qualified for the Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters and is valued for morale as crew members monitor him for safety and provide morning treats.
The notice identifies Charles Volak of the fire department as entering the armed forces. It states an absence for the duration of his military service and notes the impact on department staffing.
British carrier planes sank two enemy supply ships and damaged three more as Barracuda bombers struck a German convoy off Kristiansund. The attack, supported by the home fleet led by the heavy cruiser Berwick, also damaged a German escort vessel and left two British bombers lost. In the English Channel, French manned Royal Navy coastal forces hit a strongly escorted convoy, sinking a supply ship and escort vessel with no casualties.
Stockholm dispatches said 1,000 killed in Sunday raid on Berlin as Luftwaffe losses mounted. Berliners lament their city may be condemned to death while air battles near Bucharest crippled German fighters. The day’s Allied air effort totaled 29 enemy aircraft down and 14 Allied planes lost across 1,500 sorties.
Striking workers at three war plants returned to work Monday. Production resumed at the DeSoto corporation plant in Detroit employing 2,500 workers idle since Tuesday. Also in Detroit, work restarted at two Republic Aircraft campuses.
Community notices list free cooking class in the Glow room at the Gas Company Tuesday at 2 15 PM plus Red Cross unit resumes work Wednesday. Cedar Rapids Coin Club meets at the Roosevelt hotel tonight before state convention.
Moscow reports heavy Soviet air strikes against Sevastopol as part of a push to eliminate the last German stronghold in the Crimea. On the ground, a German battalion near the Dnestr estuary was driven back with 200 casualties, while Romania's Iasi front saw losses including 11 tanks.
A man described as a mental case entered the social security building information booth last week and demanded to see War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt. When refused, he drew a gun and cried he would kill McNutt. Guards disarmed him and he was sent for mental observation. The man’s identity and motive could not be learned. a WMC spokesman said the suspect may be from Virginia.
Allied air forces attacked the Japanese base at Rabaul New Britain four times Friday using medium and light bombers from the Thirteenth Air Force. A London broadcast reported Allied patrols landing at Bougainville bay near Hollandia, but the report was unconfirmed by other sources.
The navy reported air attacks Friday night on Paramushiru and Shimushu in the northern Kuriles, with army planes hitting Ponape in the Central Pacific and dropping 62 tons of bombs on other Japanese positions in the Marshalls.
The city council was asked to pay a $242.85 bill from H. D. Fleagle for property stolen after his Dec fire. Fleagle, burned in the blaze, died not, was treated at St Luke's and University of Iowa City. Firemen moved belongings outside during the fire enabling theft. the claim cites fire department responsibility.
Washington reports German decision makers face a fateful hour as Allied invasion nears. Nazis may gamble all to smash beach heads or seek stabilization for a stalemate. Navy and air strength are likely deployed aggressively if a decisive moment arises.
Washington UPI House Republican leaders denied they oppose food subsidies but will wait for a House Banking Committee approved price control extension bill. Leader Martin of Massachusetts criticized delay in sending the bill to the floor, accusing administration tactics of stalling amendments.
LAWTON Okla UP It was a normal Monday for Mrs Robert S Johnson wife of the leading European fighter pilot Capt Robert S Johnson 21 who reported to Gilbert drug store at 8 am as news reached that Bob had shot down his twenty sixth and twenty seventh German planes earlier in the day Friends quote the nurse as saying she is proud but mainly relieved that he is safe and well
The Rev Harold Green stated he verified accounts of hundreds in Ipswich who saw a vision of Jesus on a cross in the sky during an April 27 air raid alert. The image lasted about 15 minutes with a white cross forming first and Jesus appearing, then vanishing instantly. Some suggested ice crystals but no consensus explanation.
In Vancouver British Columbia the Doukhobor sect staged a striptease in Stanley Park drawing thousands of onlookers. Police removed 15 demonstrators who gathered again at the jail where they continued chanting and singing.
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