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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1945
Page
2
The notice summarizes meat and sugar ration validity through specified dates, price ceilings guidance, and the ration board location with hours. It lists traffic court fines for speeding and drunkenness, a car license revocation case, and several civil suit filings plus birth notices from St. Luke's and Mercy hospitals.
Pierre Clemenceau, France’s supply council member in Washington and grandson of WWI premier, tells Executives Club in Montrose that France endures harsher postwar conditions than under Nazi occupation. He warns the U S must export aid to rebuild decency and notes French production cannot match American mass output.
Dr. F H Spedding of Iowa State College told about 3000 Iowa teachers that peace time atomic energy development will surpass war use. He predicted within five to 25 years atomic power plants will provide high pressure steam for industrial areas near sites.
About 2000 people attended the Waubeck area council Exposition of Scouting opening night in Memorial Coliseum. Troop 8 raised the flag, Troops 18 and 29 staged camping shows, and Troop 36 presented live wildlife displays. Two performances were scheduled for Saturday at 2 PM and 7 30 PM.
St Wenceslaus bazaar runs Wednesday to Saturday at St Wenceslaus Hall. Employment service offices on Third Street SE close Monday. Mrs CW Simms recovering after fall at St Luke's. Terry Fishell hospitalized with heart ailment for two weeks. James Dolan and Frank Harris fined for disturbing the peace after a late night fight. Harris fined partially suspended. Horace Kelsey fined for window peeping after being arrested in a yard. officers saw him peering into a window.
Leo Ortner reported to police Saturday that he took a bad $12 check on November 13 drawn on Merchants National Bank made out to Russell Mellett and signed F. S Norton. The check was returned marked no account.
The 71st Infantry Division joined Seventh Army in France February 1945 then served with the 15th and Third armies. It fought from the Siegfried Line to the Rhine, liberated 8000 slave laborers at Speyer, cut the Berlin Munich highway, and helped seize Mannheim. By V E Day it moved from Linz to Augsburg.
BRUCHSAL Germany UP Five German civilians convicted of murdering six American air men were hanged in Bruchsal prison yard. Names of four slain Americans disclosed John H Sekul William A Dumont Thomas D Williams Elmore Austin. Executed Germans were Johannes Siepel Josef Hartgen Johann Opper Philip Gutlich and Friedrich Wust for dragging flyers through a gauntlet in Russelsheim in August 1944 after their bomber was forced down.
Death notice from Cedar Rapids reports Rev Gilbert J Chalke died October 14 at his West LaHave Nova Scotia home. Former Trinity Methodist Cedar Rapids pastor and Dubuque district superintendent, he served 29 years in Upper Iowa conference and retired in 1938. Born Devonshire England August 7 1877, he married Lada Chalice in 1909. Survived by two daughters Noreen Blum and Margaret Vander Bie.
Jay F. Reed a Rock Island railway train man aged 52 died at 2 am Saturday at his home 608 Sixth street SE after a brief illness. Born Jan 18 1892 in Delta Indiana he married Flossie Powell in Mason City Aug 30 1914. He moved to Cedar Rapids from What Cheer in 1940. Survived by wife two sons K L Reed Richmond California and E F Reed Camp Peary Williamsburg Virginia his mother Mrs Hannah Reed and sister Mrs Ernest Jefferson both of What Cheer a brother Edward of Delta and two granddaughters. Funeral arrangements pending with Moen chapel.
The Memorial Coliseum hosts a no admission celebration Sunday sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Earl Friese says former servicemen and their escorts are welcome to enjoy a Chicago floor show and carnival atmosphere with Ray Lawe's Orchestra dancing starting at 7 p.m.
The National Association of Manufacturers requests ending wage and price controls by February 15 as a step toward reconversion to freedom. NAM leaders cite delays from controls, urge removal of wartime subsidies, tax cuts, free collective bargaining, and balanced labor-management responsibilities to restore production and employment.
Pfc Gaylen Kimm arrives in Shekoku Japan from the Philippines. Roger Schrodermier of Seventh Army HQ in Heidelberg Germany promoted to technical sergeant after 40 months in service. Alexander Weremy commissioned as second lieutenant after training at Fort Belvoir VA. Richard E Heaton discharged after 35 months aboard USS Bataan and USS Shangri La with multiple ribbons. Puckhaber reports to Fort Crawford Texas after furlough and France service.
In Senate testimony the air force urged a 5,000 plane postwar force with 3,000 in reserve and a 1,000,000-strong national guard under a single defense department. Doolittle argued airpower, not the navy, must defend the nation as battleships fade and carriers may obsolesce. He warned Arctic-range threats and urged rapid modernization.
A reliable informant says 14 alleged Communists were arrested on charges of plotting to ambush and shoot all members of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's cabinet. Police search for other members of an assassination gang planned to attack ministerial cars near Franco's Pardo palace. The Interior Minister met the police chief but issued no statement.
District court action to force Johnnie and Carmella Critellis to vacate their tavern in downtown Des Moines was filed Friday. Trustees of the C Hutten Jocher estate, owners of the building, bring suit for forcible entry over alleged violation of a 1944 lease forbidding intoxicating liquor on the premises. An injunction action is pending against the tavern, its operators and the property owner.
Senate charges that government workers lobbied to exempt their own bureaus from Truman’s proposed federal reorganization. debate ran near three hours as amendments surfaced, with H Ouse already passing a version exempting six agencies.
Senate leaders clashed over how the Pearl Harbor inquiry should obtain information. Barkley defended the president's request as a valid directive while Ferguson warned of restrictive language and potential discrediting of the investigation. Senators Lucas Wheeler Taft and Ellender weighed rights to review records and counsel in the Teapot Dome context.
James Roosevelt Jr and his wife Romelle Schneider welcomed an eight pounds twelve ounce son at St Vincent's hospital. The child is the youngest grandson of Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt and joins a sizable Roosevelt family in California.
Large-scale troop movements detailed with numbers of veterans and servicemen arriving at multiple East and West Coast ports from Europe and the Pacific. Ship names and unit designations such as the 3,736th tank battalion and 58th armored infantry battalion are listed among arrivals at New York, Boston, Newport News, Seattle, San Francisco, and more with Friday and Saturday arrivals noted.
Report on bond sale figures at Iowa Steel where Ray Klassen confirms two shop units exceeded quotas. An unnamed blacksmith purchased 2000 in E bonds but declined publicity, along with a second man who would not have his picture printed.
The Japanese finance ministry reported on Saturday that Japan has spent 194 billion 900 million yen since July 1937 on army and navy war programs. The figure converts to about fifty billion dollars in U S currency.
United Press reports the CIO United Auto Workers hint possible strike action against Geneva Motors and a Dominion wide walkout in Canada. UAW officials traveled from Detroit to Washington to discuss a possible walkout across the General Motors system while Windsor Ford workers press for immediate preparations for a one day strike. The move accompanies National Labor Relations Board ballots approving action against GM Ford and Chrysler. Delegates at the Washington conference settled on bargaining principles amid a wage dispute that could resurface next week. Packard President George T Christpher warned wage and price rises must be controlled to avoid an industrial standstill by June.
James Robert Hicks, 19, of Pernados Texas, was given six months in Linn county jail for breaking and entering a Cedar Rapids church. Judge G K Thompson allowed release after one month for good behavior. appeal bond set at 1500. Hicks claimed he sought shelter and food while hitchhiking to New York. Police found him near the minister who referred him to the YMCA.
A R Hoffman filed suit against L A Ward and Minnie Ward in Jackson township near Central City for 1100 on two rent notes dated Jan 23 1946. He says rent is due in full because renters sold produce from the 150 acre farm jeopardizing his security.
Ruby Wheeler 33 of Gary Ind pled innocent before Judge Floyd Philbrick to uttering a false $75 check dated July 3 1943. The check was drawn on First National Bank of Sioux City and made payable to Edward F Bernstorf. Wheeler had been released from Indiana state women's prison after serving 17 months on a embezzlement sentence.
Verne I. Daudna sues Ella L. Anderson and Robert G. Anderson of Cedar Rapids for 2291.41 dollars in property damage from an accident June 13 at Shueyville. The suit was filed Saturday.
Margaret A. Burns may occupy the home at 1809 Fourth Avenue SE for life by the will of her sister Belle H. Carpenter who died in Cedar Rapids on October 31. Merchants National Bank was named executor and W. S. Hawthorne inherits all furniture and personal effects.
A car found abandoned at Springville on Monday was claimed by the sheriff in Savannah Missouri as property of a local resident. Sheriff Jim Smith was informed Saturday. The vehicle had no license plates but a Vote for sticker helped identify the owner.
Notice records James E. Scovel appointed as Administrator of Charles F Maxfield estate in Linn County Iowa on November 4 1945. Creditors must promptly settle debts and file claims with authentication in the Linn County District Court or with attorney essler Fahey.
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