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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1945
Page
1
The May 25 1945 issue notes date alignment for red and blue stamps and details each stamp category for meat foods sugar gasoline fuel oil and shoes with new validity dates and quantities. It lists several Cedar Rapids and Marion residents associated with the notes.
Thomas Quigley of 1106 Sixth Street SE charged with drunkenness and disturbing the peace. fined $25 plus costs. Frank J. Vondracek of 238 Twentieth Street NW faced disturbing the peace charge and was dismissed on payment of costs.
Parking in Prohibited Zone fines of one dollar issued to L F Brown Chicago M M Adee Laura Schultz John Robertson Lloyd George. Admissions include multiple divorce and child notices. At Mercy and St Luke s Church births listed for the Anderson McCullough Petsel Edleman Moennich families with May 23 24 dates.
The Saron Lutheran church at Second avenue and Third street SW will be renamed St. Mark's Lutheran church effective Sunday morning. Rev. Carl L. Manfred announced the rename by decision of the congregation with Iowa Lutheran conference sanction. A brief renaming service will occur at 11 during Holy Communion. An amendment changing the name to St. Mark's was filed in Linn county recorder's office.
Eight Cedar Rapids and eastern Iowa youths, all 17, join the naval reserve in a Cedar Rapids recruiting office ceremony. Seaman (s/c) Richard Kress Albright and 21 others from Iowa cities including Iowa City, Marion, and Williamsburg enlisted in the radio technician program and related roles.
Edwin B. Zeller executive secretary of the YMCA was re elected president of the Council of Social Agencies at the final meeting before fall. Lena Vegt juvenile probation officer was elected vice president and Keith Benner Boy Scout executive secretary treasurer. Dr Reuben Hill of Iowa State College discussed family relations work in other communities.
A reflective verse compares roses to people and the care they require. It celebrates perseverance, urging readers to keep faith, toil, and spirit alive as they tend lawns and confront challenges. The cadence emphasizes resilience and hopeful action.
The message hints at uncertainty about the impact of a double feature. Viewers may be surprised by the quality of both offerings, with expectations that both will fare well and please audiences.
Salt Lake City veteran Joseph Charles Manning works at Clearfield naval supply depot on his 100th birthday. Flowers and gifts greet him as coworkers urge rest, while Manning compares Civil War hardship to modern war, praising today’s shelter and rations and praising younger workers and the girls.
Four more servicemen have been liberated from German camps and informed to Cedar Rapids relatives. The list includes Staff Sgt. Frank R. Whitehead a Stalag 17-B escapee captured in 1942 with 15 Europe missions earning the Air Medal. Lt. E M Lewis freed from Belgium bulge and wife Lt. Helen Colby Lewis. Second Lt. Milo A Raim missing since 1943 tied to Holland captures. Second Lt. William D. Mehegan a bombardier shot down over Germany formerly at Stalag Luft I and with wife in Cedar Rapids acknowledgement.
The report notes a Tuesday city visit tied to a bond drive with Davenport reporting 2 million dollars in bond sales while Dubuque credited 1 million dollars in purchases.
Wilson school boys and girls invested $3 925 in bonds and stamps in the seventh war loan drive announced Friday. The initial goal was $2 500 for 25 Wilson alumni in service. Total bond and stamp purchases by Wilson pupils for the year reached $13 489.35.
The seventh war loan gains momentum with individual sales reaching 2.101 billion dollars, or 30 percent of the 7 billion target. Treasury reports encouraging progress as E bond purchases climb to 1.366 billion dollars, or 34 percent of the 4 billion goal, with E bonds included in total individual sales.
A congressional food investigator says OPA will slash industrial sugar by about half of 1944 levels starting July 1. Bakers and candy makers face steep cuts as civilian consumption rose sharply in April, causing a 150,000 ton deficit and prompting calls to centralize control under a single administrator. President Truman has named Anderson agriculture secretary and food czar.
An INS dispatch from Lueneburg describes Heinrich Himmler’s death after he ingested poison. The scene shows a disordered two story brick building, torn rugs, a morgue slab, a backward shirt, and a peace amid horror as British troops prepare a meal nearby.
The Office of Price Administration through Enforcement Attorney R. C. Waggoner seeks a temporary and permanent injunction against Einer Larsen of West Branch trading as Larsen's Leather. Filed in Cedar Rapids federal court, the suit cites Larsen's failure on March 23 1945 to account for his ration liability and an imbalance between shoes and ration stamps on hand and his required responsibility.
DES MOINES AP Dick R Lane chairman of the state liquor commission said the July holiday for distillers from the War Production board should allow Iowa to keep its one fifth bottle per month whisky ration per permit holder for the rest of the year. He added a possible August increase could occur. The ration was cut from two bottles to one on April 1 due to distributor shortfalls. Whisky remains the sole beverage rationed at state stores.
In San Diego California Joan Tychewicz four awaited transport to Chicago to rejoin her mother who forgot her in her rush to leave. Police and Red Cross found the girl living with a Pacific Beach family where the mother had worked. The father was overseas and the other four children stayed with their grandmother.
Services for Albert Edward Chugg will be held at Linwood Cemetery at 11 a.m. Saturday with the Rev. George Stauffenberg officiating. Friends may call at Turner Chapel until 10 a.m. Saturday. Chugg had lived in California for 24 years. his wife was Grace Homan.
Cedar Raunds resident Harrison Young who died in a local hospital midweek will have services at 2 p.m. Saturday in Turner chapel with Rev. Frederick H. Haag officiating. Burial follows at Linwood cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel. He worked 37 years for the Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Co until retiring in August 1941.
Former Cedar Rapids resident George Pirnie died in the Stevens hotel Chicago on Wednesday. Services will be held in Turner chapel at a time to be announced. The body arrives Friday afternoon and friends may call after 7 p.m. at the chapel.
Mrs Anna B Owen died at her home on 1914 Washington avenue SE. Services are set for 2 p.m. Saturday in Beatty chapel conducted by Dr Charles J Bready. Burial will follow in the Cedar Memorial cemetery family lot. Friends may call at Beatty's.
Daryl Munsell of 600 Third Avenue NW was freed by Judge Floyd Philbrick after Linn County jail time. He and three others received 30 days for an assault and battery tied to a Century cab driver slugging during a strike. A $600.45 federal unemployment tax lien is filed against Iowa Iron and Coal Co. and estate actions include Esther Embree probate and Ernst Wenig executrix designation.
Walter Ewald of Sioux City began his service as president of the Iowa Association of small loan groups. W C Carpenter of Cedar Rapids was elected vice president. Carpenter heads the Citizens Loan Company of Cedar Rapids.
Landowners warned to remove specified noxious weeds within set deadlines. Leafy spurge peppergrass and others due by June 15 to June 30. field bindweed wild carrot by July 15. horse nettle sow thistle quack grass and others by July 30. County weed commissioner may act and bill landowners if unmet.
Des Moines OPA officials debunk rumors from New York that Iowa farmers sell steak for fifty cents a pound or butter in ten pound tabs without points. Walter D. Kline called the reports groundless and urged farmers to avoid pointless sales while confirming national point values remain unchanged.
Poppies for memorials will be sold Saturday on Cedar Rapids streets by volunteers under Legion Auxiliary guidance. Wesley McCalley, once helped start the nationwide poppy drive, is in a wheelchair and will be on duty at First avenue and Third street SE. About 21 500 poppies were ordered for Cedar Rapids by Mrs. Charles Hruska with production by local veterans to aid veterans and their families. Headquarters are at Third avenue and Second street SE near the Paramount theater.
In a fierce battle the Laffey fought off enemy planes with crews sustaining heavy losses from smoke and burns. A Corsair pilot bailed after downing two enemies while Becton and engineers kept the ship afloat despite a jammed rudder.
The body of 53 year old Archie Tomkins was found hanging in his basement by his son at 827 Tenth Avenue SE. Coroner T Frank Hersch ruled death by own action with time shortly after 11 a m. He leaves a large family including a wife Edna and nine children and multiple siblings. Services are set for Beatty chapel Saturday at 4 p.m. Burial in Cedar Memorial park.
Secretary of State Stettinius returns to the United Nations conference and immediately briefs the American delegation on his talks with President Truman.
Laurent H. J. Brackx 51 former United States naval reserve officer was found guilty of wartime espionage and censorship violations and received a nine year prison term on a Friday sentencing in New York.
Washington reports Democratic Leader McCormack urged an Army review of Pvt. Joseph McGee's two year hard labor sentence for punching nine German POWs at a Le Mans court martial on Oct. 17. The case centers on alleged violations of the Geneva convention and evidence cited by German witnesses.
United Service Organization centers will run about two years after V J day to aid demobilization. Mrs Elizabeth Luce Moore chair of the National U S O council says expansion of U S C activities in the Pacific is being rushed and in Germany entertainers are increasing performances to bolster morale after combat.
Harlan Dobry of Wilson and Harlan King of Link-Belt Speeder were named program and membership chairmen for the Allied Industrial League for the balance of the year. President Gayle Zedick announced the appointments at a league board of control meeting at the YMCA.
Paris reports Brig. Gen. Robert A. McClure announced a program by the psychological warfare division to assume control of German information services. The plan aims to return assets to German hands after Nazi purge and covers newspapers radio transmitters publishing and entertainment in areas under supreme Allied command. The two goals are maintaining order and reorienting the German mind after 12 years of Nazi influence.
Decorah resident Philip Cronin son of Mrs Mae Cronin was killed on Okinawa in World War II. Cronin had served three years and never came home on furlough before his death according to word received Friday.
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