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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1944
Page
20
The page lists wartime ration stamps details for various categories including Meat Food Foods Sugar and fuel coupons with expiry dates, shoe stamps, and a police court roundup detailing fines for drunkenness speeding and stop-sign violations. It also records a short gas furnace fire, births at several hospitals, and divorce decrees among Cedar Rapids area residents.
A House committee recommended abolishing the Farm Security Administration and regional credit corporations, faulting its administration from Tugwell to Baldwin for overreach and un-American ideas. It praised Frank Hancock’s reforms but urged ending emergency loan offices and transferring federal aid to the Farmers Home Corp. The report praised some programs like rural rehabilitation and tenant purchase as effective and worth continued support.
Fragmentary report notes opposition from Congress and military officials to a proposed merger of services. The text is garbled and difficult to parse but conveys concern about speed and readiness. Key names and details are unreadable in the fragment.
National Labor Relations board completed Ward's election showing 2440 in favor and 1593 against the union. Secretary Jones ordered government occupation ended as marshals removed placards, while Avery denounced the decision and pledged continued resistance to a closed shop and any second contract under duress.
Enforcement officer Donald Holdoegel announced settlements totaling $3,280.31 with 64 Cedar Rapids meat and grocery retailers for price ceiling violations found during a two week spot check ending Feb 12. Three additional retailers paid $65.20, while other cases remain unresolved or warned.
London led with a Telegraph forecast that Prime Minister Churchill would visit Australia after Europe's war ends and attend a major war conference possibly with President Roosevelt or another U S representative. Australian Prime Minister Curtin, in Melbourne for the commonwealth conference, invited such a conference.
Eighteen members of the Coe College board of trustees met for a semi annual session in Stewart Memorial library. All discussions were routine with committee reports, and no action was taken on obtaining a new military training unit as the Aircrew detachment leaves June 30. New trustees Van Vechten Shaffer and Owen N. Elliott, elected in 1943, attended. out of town members included Dr Alfred S. Nickless and Dr R Bruce West of Davenport.
Coe College suspended normal activity for the annual Flunk Day with a campus quarantine. Student Council President Jack Williams led proclamations forbidding presence in buildings after 8 am, while ROTC threat noted. Students and cadets planned invasively across Voorhees hall, Greene hall, and the men’s gymnasium with a Gates event set for 7 PM.
Rosa Catanzaro 74 of Cedar Rapids died of a heart attack while boarding a train in St. Louis returning from visiting her nephew Marion Catanzaro. Born Sept 6 1869 in Termini Imeresi Sicily she lived in Cedar Rapids 45 years and left behind two sons four daughters a granddaughter eight other grandchildren three great grandchildren a brother and a sister. John Wiese retired railroad worker died at his daughter’s home in Cedar Rapids after a brief illness born Dec 31 1866 in Kiel Germany he came to the United States at 17 and Cedar Rapids in 1909 leaving a wife Augusta and eight children, many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements pending.
The article reports Rush D. Holt trailing Circuit Judge Clarence Meadows about three to one in the West Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primary as incomplete returns come in. It notes 18 delegates for the national convention unpledged yet favoring Roosevelt, with Republicans naming 19 delegates split between Dewey and Bricker.
William G Singer of Burlington was fined 600 dollars plus costs by Judge Henry N Graven in federal court in Waterloo for violation of bankruptcy procedures. Indicted by a Cedar Rapids grand jury on December 8, 1943, for false oath and presenting a false claim against a bankrupt estate. Two counts were dismissed and two fines of 300 dollars each imposed. The Singer firm, William Singer and Company, was bankrupt December 23, 1940, with concealment of ownership of the Manchester Potato and Grocery market.
Omaha reports 22 300 hogs at the market on Wednesday with 15 300 new salable shipments and 7 000 carried over from Tuesday. A marketing committee warned of possible shipment regulations and urged no hogs be shipped Thursday as unsold stock looms. About 10 300 of Wednesday’s run may be carried over, while cattle arrivals reached 9 000.
Mrs Emelia Johannsen aged 179 mother of Mrs A H Wagner of 2331 E avenue NE died at 12 15 pm Tuesday in Copley hospital Aurora Ill after seven weeks illness. Wagner family and two sons will attend services and burial in Davenport this week. She leaves five sons three daughters 22 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. Services for Joseph F Tuttle of 1532 Fourth avenue SE held 2 pm Thursday at Beatty chapel with Rev James B Hodgson officiating burial at Williamsburg cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Washington AP reports J Edgar Hoover marked the twentieth anniversary of his appointment as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Funeral services for Fred Hoppe of 112 Fourth Street NW will be held Thursday at 2 pm at Monahan Funeral Home with Rev. P L Bornhadt officiating. Burial will follow at Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Montrose hotel hosts Cedar Rapids Company I of the Iowa State Guard for two surprise acknowledgments. Lt. Col. Charles Penningroth receives a wrist watch for leadership while Capt. Zdenek F. Pauk, now a chaplain, is honored with a service man’s kit. Presenters include Capt. Paul Andersen and Lt. Col. Moss with officials unable to attend from Gov. Hickenlooper and Col. Ronningen.
Mrs. Ralph Hubler of 423 G Avenue NW died at 11 a.m. Wednesday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. The body is at Turner chapel. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Chancery Judge Dougal Herr in Elizabeth New Jersey ruled Doris Duke Cromwell's Reno divorce from James H. R. Cromwell null and void and ordered it set aside. The judge found an element of fraud in her claim to be a Reno resident and questioned her competence to choose a New Jersey residence while her husband remained there.
Five young women from Cedar Rapids and Iowa City have enlisted in the U S marine corps women's reserve and await active duty. Louise M Flaherty Bonnie Mae Diebold Doris Miles Elizabeth N Jack and Mrs Hazel Grimm will report to Camp Lejeune for basic training and aviation mechanic training is sought by two. Mrs Grimm's husband Sgt Leroy Grimm is overseas with the Army Air Forces.
Tom Siamis of Cedar Rapids was elected district 14 governor of the Order of Ahepa at a Des Moines conference. He succeeds P. L. George of Des Moines. District 14 covers Iowa Minnesota North Dakota and South Dakota. other officers include George Xanthes Minneapolis lieutenant governor Tom Ralles Des Moines secretary James Yiannis Dubuque treasurer and Peter Zarifes Waterloo district marshal. Cedar Rapids selected for next district convention with time to be announced.
The 1944 Iowa Pike fishing season opens at 12:01 am next Monday May 15. Everett Speaker state superintendent of fisheries calls the outlook unusually good. Nine hundred spare parts are needed to keep each General Sherman army ordnance tank in operation for a year.
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