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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1945
Page
3
The Daily Record lists valid red stamp groups Fl through Ki good through Nov 30 Li through Q1 through Dec 31 Rl through V1 and W1 through Z1 with green N8 through Feb 28. Sugar stamp 38 allows five pounds through Dec 31 and price ceilings apply to many items besides food.
Records show multiple individuals cited for driving without chauffeur licenses including W E Gammon of 1423 Third Street SE facing a $10 fine before Justice H R Churchill. Separately Betty Rinehart and Frances Radeke are listed as receivers in name changes or property actions, with divorce petitions noted for Lucille L Zamastil and James E Zamastil.
Navy officials report two long range patrol seaplanes collided in Corpus Christi bay Thursday night. About 21 officers and men are presumed killed with six survivors recovered, one later dying at a naval hospital. Names were withheld pending next of kin notifications.
Lt Gen James H Doolittle told the senate military affairs committee the army air forces seek a postwar fleet of 5000 combat planes and 400000 officers and men with an air national guard as large as states can stand The guard would form a million man reserve He advocated an independent air force within a single department of national defense noting lack of independent status delayed formal recommendations
Jack F. Heath an 18 year old Onslow resident was arraigned before U S Commissioner Charles L Benesh on a federal charge of violation of the selective service act He is held in Linn county jail on 1000 bond awaiting action Nov 14 Heath was arrested Thursday night at Onslow by Foss Davis warden of the Iowa men's reformatory and a special agent of the FBI for failing to report at draft board No 1 in Davenport on Oct 3
British planes drop leaflets on Indonesian forces at Soerabaja calling for unconditional surrender by 6 a.m. Saturday. Lt Gen Sir Philip Christison warns all Allied forces will back the order as tension rises in central Java with massing Indonesian fighters and new Dutch troop arrivals.
State Livestock Inspector Alfred Hunter reports that after the July 16 atomic test near Alamogordo New Mexico cattle changed color. Red coated Herefords gained a frostlike back pattern while a rancher’s beard turned white on the sides. Farmhands say a cat on a Bursum ranch turned from black to half white.
In Wiesbaden a German asked the American Military Government how to deal with four dancing elephants he could not feed. The AMG found a solution by selling the elephants to a traveling show.
More than 1,000 Scouts Cubs den mothers and leaders finish booths for the Scout Exposition opening Friday night at the Memorial Coliseum. Three performances are planned with shows at 7 pm tonight and 7 pm Saturday evening plus a 2 pm matinee. Booth 50 Troop 3 led by Herbert Herold will sign Victory bond pledges and Booth 1 hosts a Red Cross public safety unit for emergencies.
Pittsburgh AP reports a U S firm intends to form the General Reinsurance Corporation with assets over 38 million dollars to compete with Lloyds of London. The new house will handle multi million dollar risks and insurance business beyond many firms reach.
Obituary notices list Mrs. Kate Trpkosh age 88 of 1802 L Street SW and others from Cedar Rapids area. Survivors include children and numerous grandchildren with services set at Janeba funeral home and burial in Bohemian National cemetery. additional notices cover Mrs. Maude Roth, Mrs. Bertha Watt, Jay Maxim, Eldridge Usher, Claus Ehlers with details on birthplaces, illness, service times and burial locations across local chapels and cemeteries.
Roy McLaughlin 64 died Thursday at his home in Iowa City. Services will be held at 3 30 p m Saturday at the Oathout funeral home. He is survived by his wife Bessie Wiley of Cedar Rapids a step-daughter Mrs E M Simmons a step-son James Wiley and Clemens Mich.
Dr C A Sundberg of Springfield Ohio will deliver the Armistice day address at St Mark's Lutheran Cedar Rapids at 10 a m Sunday for the first of two services marking the church sixtieth anniversary. He will speak on Veterans of the Cross. Sundberg is a former Cedar Rapids resident and brother of Harry Sundberg of the Chamber of Commerce.
The Coe Homecoming parade traces a loop through campus with students in new overalls, some rolled above the knee, amid decorated buildings and lively floats. A poster praised Coe football as action resumes, while rivalry with Cornell persists.
John H. Moninger '29 says he never fully left Coe, praising the Midwest’s wealth in food and people. The Homecoming chapel marks the start of activities ahead of Coe vs Cornell football and a play by the Coe College Playhouse, The Imaginary Invalid, at 8 PM.
Local campaign urges residents to collect and save waste fats to redeem four red points per pound, aiming to support recycling efforts and reduce waste disposal costs. Officials promote household participation and explain redemption at designated centers.
Joseph A. Gubic 42, of Chicago, owner of Alumicast Metal Stamping, died when a four place rented plane crashed on a Clarence Ungs farm five miles north of Holy Cross in Clayton County Iowa. Gubic had landed at Dubuque airport the night before and planned a trip from Waterloo to Cedar Falls.
The agriculture department estimates 1945 U S corn production at 3 073 966 000 bushels, down about 4 000 000 from last month due to frost. The survey, based on Nov 1 conditions, also pegs the wheat crop at a record 1 149 825 000 bushels.
Federal crop statisticians estimate Iowa’s 1945 corn crop at 529,296,000 bushels based on November 1 conditions. The forecast matches last month with a yield of 48 bushels per acre.
The Senate passed a bill to liberalize the educational and loan features of the G I bill of rights. Key changes remove the 25 year age limit and interrupted education requirement, add up to 500 dollars for correspondence courses, increase subsistence to 65 dollars monthly for singles and 90 dollars with dependents, and raise minimums for wounded veterans. Loan provisions extend application time from two years after discharge to ten years and widen loan insurance.
The plan shortens normal to 25 years and 35 years for farm loans, removes the word reasonable from a value provision, and extends business loan insurance to cover indebtedness for remodeling and working capital.
In Dubuque District Judge Milton J. Glenn ordered a re check of four clubs Elks Victory Rex and Union League after initial raids found no liquor or slot machines. Police seized 39 slot machines and 438 bottles of liquor at 18 other clubs while prosecutions loom against managers and club corporations.
White House said Friday a group of atomic technical experts will meet with President Truman Prime Minister Attlee and Premier Mackenzie King to give them advice on atomic energy policy.
Richard Sells, 13, pleaded guilty to murdering 78 year old Mrs. Mary A. Johnson in Monmouth Illinois after she scolded him for walking on her lawn. He was sentenced to 50 years in the Illinois state penitentiary by Judge Riley Stevens.
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