May 12 1944 Daily Record notices and births list
Public notices list food and fuel ration details for May 12 1944 including meat red stamps gasoline coupons sugar and fuel oil validity. Births list at Mercy St Luke's and marriages and divorce notices with names and addresses. Marriage licenses include Elmer Flunter Mary Storm and George Wachler Lena Cordray plus other couples. Court cases Miriam McKinney v Max McKinney Lonella Morgan v Harry Morgan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercy
Virgil Prior
Seventh Avenue
George Bradley
Fourth Street
Floyd Waite
Sixth Avenue
Carlos Long
Hamilton Street
St. Luke’s
Earl Melilvane
Second Avenue
John Ernberger
L Street
Norman Sundholm
Ellis Boulevard
Kline asks Farm Bureau for help supplying corn
Allan Kline president of the Iowa Farm Bureau calls on farm bureau members to cooperate with the War Food administration in supplying corn for military needs amid a corn sale freeze. He says the army requests the effort and urges corn owners in the Corn Belt to meet military requirements to lift restrictions and improve feed use.
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DES Moines
Allan Kline
Iowa Farm Bureau
War Food Administration
Essential war deferments broadened by local boards
The War Manpower Commission expands the essential activity list for deferments, allowing local boards to add fields beyond the 35 basics. Criteria emphasize utilities, health, safety, housing, and national effort, with age 30 to 37 reviews and ongoing potential shifts as war needs evolve.
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Selective Service
National Headquarters
War Manpower Commission
Corn Freeze Lift Expected Soon Says War Food Chief
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones told farm senators the government will lift the corn sales freeze within a few days. The order stays in place until the Commodity Credit corporation secures 65 to 80 million bushels in commitments and contracts to keep corn processing plants operating. Farmers have already pledged 45 million bushels.
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Washington
Marvin Jones
Jones
Commodity Credit Corporation
House approves lend-lease extension to 1945
The House on Friday concurred with a Senate amendment forbidding the President from making postwar military or economic commitments unilaterally in lend-lease settlements and sent to the White House a bill extending the lend-lease program to July 1, 1945.
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Washington
LLP
House
Senate
Roosevelt
White House
Allied air forces claim 26000 axis planes down in combat
London AP reports that about 26 000 German and Italian planes have been shot down in air combat since the war began by Allied air forces not counting those lost on the Russian front. Sir Archibald Sinclair, secretary of state for air, told the commons on Friday.
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London
Archibald Sinclair
Air
Commons
George Ade Reported Improving After Heart Attack
Kentland Indiana George Ade 78 year old Hoosier humorist and playwright was reported improving steadily Thursday after a heart attack he suffered last Saturday.
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Kentland
Ind
INS
George Ade
Veterans of Present Conflict In Anamosa Reformatory
Warden Foss Davis told High Twelve members that 34 of the 622 inmates at the Anamosa men's reformatory are veterans of the present war. He cited combat and noncombat discharges and warned prisons may hold more ex service members after the war. He also explained the reformatory's industries and pay as part of a general overview.
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Veterans of Present Conflict In Reformatory
Anamosa
Foss Davis
High Twelve Club
Davis
Reformatory
Weather notes show hot, humid day in Cedar Rapids
Readings varied but Cedar Rapids felt sultry with downtown temps above 80 and humidity around 30 percent. Officials reported a 78 degree reading at 2 45 p m with skies overcast, while thundershowers were forecast for Eastern Iowa and cooler weather was expected Saturday.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Iowa
Floyd
Big Sioux
Inwood
Fail to Agree on LaPlant Contract Conciliator Called
The LaPlant-Choate company and the United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America CIO failed to settle issues in renewing a labor contract. The union asks the U S Conciliation Service to report to the Labor Department for War Labor Board action. Negotiations continued with the Conciliation Service Commissioner Lundgren overseeing.
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LaPlant-Choate Company
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
CIO
Charles W. Hobbie
U. S. Conciliation Service
Department of Labor
War Labor Board For Settlement
Lundgren
Conciliation Service
Hobbie
John Petrusch
Clarence Barker
R. W. Kremenak
Isaac Brown
Dewey Lint
Lloyd Phillips
Marion Wolfe
William Stroope
Owen Elliott
Louis Stepanek
Bid to Impeach After Pearl Harbor Probe
Rep. Short proposes extending the statute of limitations by six months to allow courts martial for Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short and Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel over Pearl Harbor accountability. He warned the story will shock the nation and questioned responsibility of top cabinet officers and the President.
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Washington
Rep
Short
R-Mo
Army
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Walter C. Short
Husband E. Kimmel
Missourian
State
War and Navy
Nazis Quit Romanian Seaport Report
British radio monitored by CBS says German forces evacuated the Romanian port of Constanta, 210 miles southwest of Sevastopol, sending ships to Bulgarian ports. The report was aired from New York by INS.
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New York
INS
Constanta
Sevastopol
CBS
Italians Honor Dead Yank Who Spurned Offerings
In Ravello Italy villagers guard a fallen American soldier’s grave with flowers and gifts but he refuses their offerings saying the war was their fault. The act highlights complex feelings about fascism and sacrifice during the Italian campaign with readers reminded of many war graves across Italy.
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AEF
Italy
Ravello
Con Man Harris and accomplices fleeced Iowa tradesmen
FBI records recount a Ced ar Rapids scammer network led by Harris and Meredith. They used fake identities such as J M Clemens and E E Hill to cash checks and buy equipment, staging purchases in Des Moines Davenport and Rome while fleeing and returning to Nevada to serve sentences.
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Iowa-Des Moines National Bank
Meredith
FBI
Deaths and funerals in Cedar Rapids and vicinity
Injuries fatal to Joyce Marie McCray a four year old Cedar Rapids girl who died after a truck struck the horse she rode on Highway 30. Surviving are her parents a brother grandparents and two aunts. Services set for Monday at Turner chapel. Burial in Cedar Memorial park. Marie Louise Hubler died at 423 6th Avenue NW Cedar Rapids services Saturday at 2 pm at Turner chapel. Howard S Wright died at 1228 Oakland avenue NE Cedar Rapids after a sudden illness. his wife and two sons survive. He had lived in Cedar Rapids since 1920 after moving from Boise Idaho.
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Joyce Marie McCray
Vance McCray
Vernon Drive
Cedar Rapids
Frank Junior Hare
Independence
Highway
Joyce Marie
Tampa
Fia
Royce Warren McCray
Harry Wortham
E. K. Rice
Waterloo
J. R. Snow
M. W. Roberts
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Turner Chapel
Charles J. Bready
Cedar Memorial Park
Marie Louise Hubler
Ralph C. Hubler
Avenue NW
Turner, Chapel
Ira Edwards
Jordan’s Grave Church
Linwood Cemetery
Brotherhood of Railway
Howard S. Wright
Howard Stanley Wright
Oakland Avenue
Mr. Wright
Palo
Boise
Idaho
Ada McAllister
Guy S
John L. Wright
Wright and kin noted in local obituary items
Clark C. Wright of Palo and grandson John Steven Wright of Cedar Rapids are mentioned in a local obituary note. Mr Wright attended the Young Business Men's class of St. Pauls Methodist church and studied at Tilford academy in Vinton and an electrical school in Des Moines. Services are set for 4 p.m. Monday at Turner chapel with visitation Sunday.
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Clark C. Wright
Palo
John Steven Wright
Cedar Rapids
Wright
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
Tilford Academy
Vinton
Des Moines
Turner Chapel
Death notices for Anna Koutny and John Wiese
Mrs. Anna Koutny 78 of Blairstown died Friday after a long illness. Survived by three daughters, a sister, two brothers, seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Services Sunday at 2 p.m. in Barta chapel with Rev. Zdenek F. Pauk officiating. Friends may call at the chapel. Also services for John Wiese will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. in Moon chapel, burial in Linwood Cemetery. pallbearers named from Veterans of Foreign Wars. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Anna Koutny
Blairstown
Czechoslovakia
Blanche Kubicek
William Zach
Cedar Rapids
Frank Zach
Kansas City
Tracey Rey
Swisher
Joseph Zach
Springville
Barta
Zdenek F. Pauk
John Wiese
B. G. Davis
Second Avenue
D. Loferski
Moon Chapel
Linwood Cemetery
Joe Benson
Fred Donisthorpe
Elmer Beach
Henry Mayer
Florian Francis
John Shuell
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Services for Mrs Rose Catanzaro Held at Immaculate Conception
Services for Mrs Rose Catanzaro who died Monday in St Louis will be held at 9 a m Monday at Immaculate Conception Church with Rev J M Molloy officiating Burial will be in Mt Calvary Cemetery Friends may call at the family home 153844 First Avenue NE
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Rose Catanzaro
St. Louis
Immaculate Conception Church
J. M. Molloy
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
First Avenue NE
Gas Blast Wrecks Building in Detroit
An explosion believed caused by accumulating gases destroyed the two story building housing the U. S. Feather and Down Co on Detroit's east side. One man was killed and 11 persons injured nine seriously in the blast.
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Detroit
U. S. Feather and Down Co
Equal Opportunity Pledged for Soldiers Overseas
Secretary of War Stimson said every American soldier overseas will have equal opportunities of service and recreation, ensuring nondiscriminatory treatment in every theater of operation.
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Washington
Stimson
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Mary Louise Storm
Wyoming
George A. Wachtler
Lena Cordray
Elmer H. Hodge
Marion
Carlos Bonds
Greenwood
S. C
Boyd Frantz
Martello
Wilma Richardson
Miriam McKinney
Max N. McKinney
Lonella Morgan
Harry Morgan
Kline
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Cedar Rapids Country Club
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Roosevelt Hotel
New York City
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Davenport
E. E. Hill
Hill and Hill Construction Company
Rome, A
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Herman H Brown
The
Brown Construction Company
Fidelity Trust Bank of Indianapolis
Brown
Rome
Jack K. Meredith
Meredith Publishing Company
Handler Motor Company
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Ben S. Handler
Indiana
Handler
Sioux City
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YORK
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SID Ist
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Scottish Rite Temple
Paul Newton Clark
Kadosh
Grant F. Anderson
Hubert Guy Sliss
Don C. Cook
Lyle H. Chermak
Leo William Minehart
Delbert W. Rowling
Henry E. Haegg
Everett King
Jim Matejka
Florella King
Roosevelt High
William F. Vesely
Mizpah
Harry Kensinger
Willard Morgan
George Krabbenhoff
Norman Emerson
Lucian M. Atwood
Clarence M. Baker
William L. Barnard
Floyd O. Barnes
James W. Beagle
Joseph E. Benson
Harley N. Bowser
Vergil E. Caldwell
George G. Clements
Herbert H. Coon
John H. Curry
Homer H. Hale
Kenneth D. Humpal
Milton M. Platner
Thomas J. Maxwell
Jay W. Nabholz
Shellsburg
Mahlon M. Mills
Central City
Paul R. Noe
Warren A. Sides
Charles A. Wilcox
LaPorte City
Cecil Roland Smith
Onslow
Harold L. Thompson
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Joyce McCray
Wiese Services
Catanzaro Funeral
Oshkosh
Soe
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