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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1946
Page
1
The Daily Record lists weather for Sunday with temperatures in Denver and Los Angeles, Iowa’s forecast of fair, warm weather with showers by Wednesday night, and cleared conditions by Thursday. It also records numerous divorce petitions and local court penalties including fines for drunkenness, disturbing the peace, reckless driving, speeding, and various traffic violations, with several births announced in area hospitals.
The Cherry corporation says it is still hiring and expects no immediate 40 hour week reduction, with a payroll around 425 and ongoing hiring. Cedar Rapids Engineering cut to 40 hours last March but reports steady material flow and no further reductions. Iowa Manufacturing and Iowa Steel run at full schedule with no anticipated load cuts, while Lattner Manufacturing hopes to weather the strike if it does not materialize, citing adequate current material. John L. Lewis is noted as a key forecast source for the industry.
In Hollywood the American Society of Armchair Detectives named its year end honors for mystery fiction and film The Little Man Who Wasnt There by Mildred Gordon earned best book Spellbound by Alfred Hitchcock was chosen best mystery movie Raymond Chandler ranked as best hardboiled writer Leslie Ford best undiluted writer Craig Rice received best humorous writer Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe won best fictional detective John Edgar Hoover was rated the greatest detective of all time by the group
Japanese premier-designate Shigeru Yoshida completes a new cabinet with Hiroshi Nasu named to agriculture and forestry. Emperor investiture set for Tuesday. The group blends Liberals, four Progressives, and four peers, with Allied HQ reportedly calling Nasu to a conference. The agriculture minister post had delayed the cabinet formation after Dr Seiichi Tohta declined.
Iowa Restaurant association members condemned the OPA at a Des Moines convention and vowed to send a representative to Washington for talks. Secretary Paul H. Martin said price controls push small operators out of business while larger ones squeeze profits, though Floyd Whittington defended OPA and cited higher 1945 restaurant profits over 1939. Officers elected include Jay Hammer president Sam I. Park vice president Ann Davis Cedar Rapids John Eliades Sioux City and George Whinery treasurer among fifteen directors.
In Quetta India inmates clashed over food at the Mach jail, resulting in at least 28 deaths among the convicts. Authorities reported a violent disturbance as prisoners attacked guards and fellow inmates, prompting a heavy security response and ongoing investigations.
W R Boyd of Cedar Rapids told Rotarians that organized labor oversteps power and risks public backlash including a potential vote to curb labor through a new tribunal for essential services. He floated constitutional reform to one six year presidential term and elimination of the spoils system, urging leaders with integrity to resist demagogues.
A warm trend is expected Tuesday after a cool start with a northwest wind in Cedar Rapids and eastern Iowa. Sunday's showers left the area chilly with a 60 degree high, 42 degree low Sunday night, and frost worry among gardeners. The Chicago forecast calls for fair, warmer conditions through Tuesday, with improvements into Wednesday night and Thursday clear skies. A weather boy note about Wednesday being clear accompanies local events at Coe College, the Country Club golf stay, and Thornwood Elks pavilion opening. Temperature reached 53 degrees by 2:30 p.m.
Nanking AP Gen Marshall, American peace envoy to China, sharply criticized both Communist and government factions for their role in the civil war. He expressed deep concern over the critical situation in north China and said he was using every means to prevent fighting from Manchuria spreading south. He censured both sides for propaganda campaigns that inflame feelings and raise the risk of a general conflagration.
Senator Hickenlooper said the Office of Price Administration will present to the Senate Banking and Currency Committee a plan for gradual de controlling of the economy and its liquidation. Richard H. Field, OPA general counsel, agreed to submit the formula at the Iowan's request.
A bicycle club for girls will be mixed at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Y W C A. All interested girls are invited. Prompt notice asks members to attend and join the club activities.
Ralph Groom of Cedar Rapids will speak Tuesday noon at the Roosevelt hotel Canopus Club about his Navy service. The former LST captain plans to share war experiences and discuss plans to establish a naval reserve unit in Cedar Rapids.
United Nations conference in Washington opens to plan long term food security amid looming 1946 harvest shortfall. Truman and Hoover urge decisive action to curb famine, create a permanent international food agency, and extend UNRRA beyond 1946. Russia and others weigh attendance as 18 nations and five international bodies discuss production, distribution, and surplus management.
Edward R Pratt of Cedar Rapids reports the death of his nephew Doug las E Pratt born July 2 1893 in Cedar Rapids. He lived in Omaha and later Los Angeles and is survived by his mother Arva Pratt. Body to be brought to Beatty chapel with funeral services time to be announced.
Earl J. Beeson 49 a former Cedar Rapids resident died suddenly at his Des Moines home. Funeral services set for Tuesday in Des Moines. Beeson a World War I veteran is survived by his wife Hannah Olmsted of Cedar Rapids, six children all at home, his mother Mrs. Clifford F. Ford of Cedar Rapids, and three brothers Clarence and Edward Beeson of Cedar Rapids and Harry Beeson of Los Angeles.
Mrs Harold A Clark age 25 of 816 L Street SW Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 1 30 a m Sunday born in Clarence on August 8 1920 She survived by her husband a son Robert her grandfather W H Feck of Indianola a sister Mrs R L Meade of Panama City Fla and a brother James M Robinson of West Lafayette Ind Funeral services are at Beatty chapel at 4 p m Wednesday Burial will be in Linwood cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
Mrs Frances Bunce of 1214 Sixth Avenue SE is informed of the death of her aunt Mrs H Wilson of Waterloo. A pioneer of Black Hawk county born January 3 1866 in Manchester she is survived by sister Mrs Rose Draper of Waterloo a son Dr Max Wilson of Waterloo one nephew and four nieces.
David Alexander Fox 86 died Saturday and services are set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Sorensen funeral home in Walker. He leaves three daughters Mrs. J L Butler Walker Mrs F L Todd Seattle and Mrs Leslie Peyton Cedar Rapids, and two sons Robert Fox Cedar Rapids and Clifford Fox Shellsburg.
Chinese Nationalist forces reported to capture a rail center in Manchuria, paving the way for a push toward Changchun about 50 miles away. The city has seen days of heavy fighting as Nationalist and Communist troops contend for control amid a siege.
BALTIMORE AP The wedding of Miss Rachel Clarke Cooke of Baltimore and Col James P Devereux marine hero who commanded Wake Island will be held at St Ignatius Catholic Church in Baltimore on June 1, Miss Cooke announced.
Mrs. Reva Sauer failed to have her hearing as planned on the $40 fine and costs for reckless driving. Judge Harry S. Johnson postponed the case indefinitely after Sauer’s attorney did not appear. Sauer claimed she did not plead guilty and would not pay, prompting a Monday hearing set by the judge. City prosecutor Dwight Krumholtz said he could not reach the attorney for a week.
Public Improvements Commissioner David L. Williams defended a city pay hike showing garbage crews up 60 percent and some departments rising 16 to 66 percent since 1939. Williams noted City Engineer Frank E. Young received a rare 18 year raise, while Howard Fisher of the CIO criticized the council’s stance as arbitrary.
Gov. Robert D. Blue told 200 delegates at the twentieth annual Iowa convention of Associated Master Barbers and Beauticians of America that lasting peace requires nations to place global interests above self. He warned dictatorship and militarism remain in Germany, Italy, and Japan and urged international thinking. T. C. MacDuffee outlined the association’s history, with May or F. K. Hahn welcoming Cedar Rapids attendees at a Cedar Rapids session and banquet.
Washington AP Sen George of Georgia urged continuous day and night Senate sessions until a labor disputes bill passes He criticized President Truman for not endorsing balanced legislation and warned the current coal and railroad strike could trigger a general crisis He argued the President must propose concrete labor management balance and executive support is needed to act now before a larger crisis develops.
Havana reports the United States returned two military facilities used to keep Caribbean supply lines open. The bases are San Antonio de Los Banos Batista field and the San Julian naval air station in the island’s west. The Guantanamo naval base remains American despite the transfer.
Burlington reports the United Commercial Travelers of America in their final convention session urged hotels to give regular traveling salesmen full consideration, with a petition signed by the hotel and grievance committee.
Courthouse records show County Attorney William W. Crissman filing charges against Vern A. Dvorak 24 and Dennis E. Wilson 18 from Cedar Rapids. Dvorak is charged with uttering a forged instrument after passing about 17 checks in Cedar Rapids and Marion, including a $37.71 check cashed May 8 at Yager's under the name Norman Wells and a $72 check at Leibsohn's Furniture. Wilson faces a larceny charge for stealing a car belonging to Harry Erickson of Springville on First Avenue East between First and Second streets Saturday night. Detectives, who arrested Dvorak within hours of the report, noted Dvorak’s stated address as 916 Ellis Boulevard NW and his history of living in hotels and at rail stations. He claimed service in an engineers army battalion from October 1942 to November 2, with 20 months on Attu.
John Hockaday sues neighbor Kenneth Kirkland over alleged trespass in a rose garden near the property division line at 1009 Oakland Road NE and 1015 Oakland Road NE. Hockaday seeks an injunction to bar Kirkland from threats or damaging the plaintiff’s flowers.
Mrs Keith Shahan of 2027 Johnson Avenue NW filed suit against Kenneth T Paul of Alburnett on March 2 seeking 283.98 as reimbursement for repairs to an automobile bought for 1100. The petition alleges Paul claimed the car was in good repair. The case was set for trial Monday and dismissed Monday.
In Frankfurt a United States Army captain's apartment head quarters compound fatal fall killed an American woman. Miss Dorothy Knapp thirty eight of Port Richmond Staten Island was found nude and unconscious on a back porch by a German charwoman and died twelve hours later at a hospital. The provost marshal Lt. Col Redmond J Connolly said the death appears accidental. The captain's name was withheld.
Washington AP report says leaders of Senate and House Navy committees reject the army navy merger plan. They warn congress will not approve a single department and urge against any compromise with War Department. They stress naval aviation and amphibious forces remain crucial to national defense.
Amy Sheronick, 17, of 1436 L street SW, was treated at St Luke's for a head laceration after a bicycle she rode was struck by Daniel Luke Hoffman, 18, of 1031 Fifth avenue. Hoffman was charged with speeding in justice court after the noon Sunday crash one and a half miles north of Cedar Rapids near the Hiawatha trailer camp on highway 150.
MOSCOW. Prime Minister Stalin approved a decree ordering compulsory reseeding of spring wheat on Soviet land where winter crops perished. A Tass dispatch reported rain falling in Vinnitsa, a sugar beet region in southwestern Ukraine.
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