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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1944
Page
11
The page lists wartime ration stamps A through Q with validity dates and limits for meat gasoline sugar and fuel. Police Court records show fines for drunkenness parking and overtime parking, plus names and addresses. It also notes multiple birth announcements and divorce decrees among Cedar Rapids area residents.
Yugoslav authorities report Tito’s Partisans launched a major offensive as Allied pressure mounts in Europe. Attacks target the Var dar and Ibar valleys while Greek patriots harass German divisions in Greece. Allied air power hits German strongholds near Podgorica. Partisans claim 2,745 enemy killed from April 5 to May 5 and German reinforcements move to counter the drive.
Ohio Governor John Bricker Republican presidential candidate denounced the New Deal as wasteful and self serving in a Omaha talk. He urged cuts in money manpower and paper, questioned debt growth from 156 to 1300 per capita since 1932, and criticized wartime expenditures and propaganda. He urged freeing troops from nonessential New Deal bureaus and cited Sen. Hugh Butler’s Latin America trip as example of wasteful spending.
The Linn County Retail Food Dealers association denounces the OPA crackdown on 67 Cedar Rapids meat dealers in February. They claim promises of an educational check were broken, allege under and over pricing, and insist Cedar Rapids faced a unique mass penalty without prior complaints or BLS support.
Mrs. Isaac Smith reported the theft of a child's pup tent from her yard Friday. It was valued at $5. Rudolph Maratich, an A W O L soldier from Concordia Kansas, was arrested and said he lacked furlough papers and was heading to Gary Indiana to see his mother. An automobile collision occurred on Tenth Street SE when Joe Arce and George Swore sideswiped a Century cab.
More than 100 people attended a Linn County Office of Civilian Defense pre-induction informational meeting at the Chamber of Commerce. Elmer J Ferriter led a session with talks from Maj. Franklin H. Stemple and other officials covering allotments, insurance, tax exemptions, and related questions.
Private W Avery Dun Can of Tipton is listed as missing in action since April 28 in the European area. His father, Benjamin Dun Can, was notified by the War Department on his twenty second birthday. The last letter reached England on April 16. Dun Can left Tipton February 12, 1943, after training at Camp Young California Fort Pierce Florida and Camp Pickett Virginia. He was home on furlough last November and went overseas soon after. His mother died about three years ago.
Army bomb experts analyzed shell fragments from a blast that tore 33 holes in the diner and kitchen car of the Daylight Limited near Camp Cooke California. Two Los Angeles women, Verti Logan and Alice Jones, were injured. the shell’s origin remained unidentified. Passengers reported smoke and anti aircraft gun emplacements nearby as the train halted at San Luis Obispo for treatment.
The forecast calls for fair weekend weather in eastern Iowa with clear skies and sunshine. Temperatures peaked at 86 in Burlington and Davenport Friday, Cedar Rapids hit a Friday high of 82, and lows ranged to the upper 50s. Traces of light rain were reported in scattered eastern and central areas as temperatures warmed.
Cmdr. H. J. McCoy of the Iowa City navy Preflight school medical department will speak at Mercy hospital sponsors dinner at 6 30 p m Tuesday night in the Roosevelt. J W Markey campaign chairman says invitations have been mailed to prominent citizens. The meeting launches plans for a June start to an expansion fund aiming to build a nurses home to train more nurses for wartime and postwar service.
A 9 30 a m anniversary program will be part of Sunday worship at Shueyville United Brethren with Rev Lyle K Anderson as pastor. Church school follows at 10 30 a m and Christian Endeavor at 8 p m.
Funeral services for Mrs Anna Koutny 78 of Blairstown who died Friday will be held Sunday at 2 PM at the Barta chapel conducted by Reverend Paul. Burial follows at Rogers Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Clarence Salisbury Lloyd Bailey and William Gray inmates from Anamosa were convicted of breaking and entering Foxhead tavern in Iowa City on April 21. Judge Harold D. Evans ordered 10 more years in the reformatory, to run concurrently with existing terms. The three were trusties at Oakdale sanatorium when the theft occurred.
Des Moines AP reports that district OPA enforcement attorney Donald Holdoegel said assessments against price ceiling violators totaled 530,005 this year, averaging over 460 dollars daily. The cereals case led with 8,773 dollars, while meat violations were as low as 2 dollars. total collections exceed 200,0.
Russell Higgins, 20, was pulled from the Des Moines river after clinging to a safety cable above the Center street dam for over an hour. His dog Spot fell over the dam but reached shore as Frank Griffith 44 and Carl Wightman 27 crawled along the cable and tossed a line. Higgins and Spot had been in a rowboat with one oar in strong currents.
The War Production Board has approved a $200 000 addition to the University of Iowa nurses home. The Iowa state board of education had filed the wing project for West Lawn, following prior approval by the Federal Works Agency. Representative Thomas E. Martin relayed the news to locals.
Floyd Griffith age 43 formerly of Wellman died in a motorcycle accident in Tucson Arizona. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist church in Wellman Monday. Griffith had managed a service station here before moving to Arizona 18 months ago. Surviving are his wife two children Lois and Dick his father G G Griffith Wellman a brother Pfc Calvin Griffith stationed in the Pacific and a sister Mrs Leo Gislain Wellman.
The Waupaca chain of lakes in Wisconsin are commonly nicknamed the Killarneys of America, reflecting their scenic beauty and popular reputation among visitors and locals. The label ties to the area’s famed lakeside scenery and tourism heritage.
A 132 foot navy lighter carrying condemned ammunition exploded and sank off Boston. Seventeen sailors were killed, fourteen jumped overboard, and sixteen were listed as missing as crews fought fires and scoured the sea. A naval court of inquiry was named to probe the blast. Lt. Herman Doering survived and described the chaotic blaze as ammunition detonated across the ship. Chief Boatswain's Mate Louis Tremblay, among the survivors, helped ensure abandon ship procedures were followed.
A batch of brief death notices lists ages and service details from Earlville Manchester Strawberry Point Edgewood Clarence Keystone Tipton Monona and Maquoketa. Names include Mrs Georgia Buell Frances Baldridge Lynn Richards John Laing Elizabeth Kean and Mary Whitson with burial sites and church service times noted for each.
The executors Andrew J McNee and Olive Burgess have been duly appointed and qualified on April 28 1944 to manage the estate of David McNee of Linn County Iowa. Creditors are urged to promptly settle debts and file claims authenticated with the Linn County District Court. Donnelly Lynch Anderson and Lynch serve as attorneys.
Word received by families places Ralph Fahl in England and Richard M Fahl in China while Thomas Mellenthal serves in North Africa Evelyn J Fahl 319 A avenue NW reports her father Ralph B Fahl service details Pvt Robert Yuva Camp Roberts and David Warren Pugh Camp McCoy furloughs appear for several Delzell siblings at Fairmont Neb Amherst Mass Camp Bowie Texas and Chicago training dominate the list of service members with a Rolland Roth return to Camp Breckinridge and LeRoy Swiser in the South Pacific noted as machinist's mate s/c.
Eight fox cubs were claimed by Floyd Meeker Boyd Kelsey and Clyde Weaklin two miles north of New Hampton after they dragged them from a den littered with spoiled farm animal carcasses. The den near Will Schmidt farm contained remains of six pigs two lambs a mink several pheasants chickens a mole pocket gopher and a mouse. The cubs were placed in a cage awaiting bounty in Chickasaw County police reports indicate no fox bounty at the time.
Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, commander of the Fifth Army, made a secret trip to the United States and met with President Roosevelt at Bernard Baruch’s South Carolina estate. He has returned to Italy to direct a major segment of the Allied offensive in the Italian theater.
The Maytag company in Newton received the National Security award for superior protection of plant and personnel against fire sabotage accidents and armed attack. Maj. Gen. Clarence M. Danielson presented the award at Omaha and Maytag earned a certificate a flag and button awards for 252 employees by Col. Joe W. Leedom.
London dispatch reports Gen. Harold Alexander's Italian offensive as a prelude to a western push led by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. The plan aims to draw German troops from the front and inflict heavy losses, with Rome a potential supply burden and spring weather aiding air superiority.
Bernard Sullivan, 41, a prominent farmer, was killed Friday night when struck by lightning while plowing on his Clinton area farm. His relative Vernon Sullivan, driving a spreader nearby, found him, hat off and clothing burned. Witnesses recalled a single thunderclap with no rain or storm.
Notice states Merchants National Bank Cedar Rapids Iowa has been appointed and qualified as Executor of the estate of Clarene Goddard late of Linn County Iowa deceased. All indebted persons must pay promptly and those having claims must file them with the Clerk of Linn County District Court. Carl Hendrickson attorney represents the estate.
Rep. Fred Crawford accused the War Production Board of steering farm equipment orders to favored firms like Deere and International Harvester, arguing quotas harm farmers and wartime needs. He cited WPB director D Wiman and a 12 month tractor production plan, with Farm Bureau leader Edward ONeal backing the claim in a banking committee hearing.
Probate No. 17503 Linn County Iowa May 1944 Milo H Runkle appointed and qualified as Administrator of the estate of Margaret Runkle deceased All persons indebted to the estate urged to pay outstanding amounts to the administrator promptly
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