Record of weather and notices from Cedar Rapids area
Partly cloudy and cold forecast with rain from a west central night into morning. Temperatures rise to 32 Thursday and 35 Friday with 10 to 18 degree for shipments. Divorces listed for multiple couples. Fires and justice court actions include intoxication fines and license violations. Births announced at Mercy and other local hospitals. Courthouse notices cover driving, speed, and stop violations with multiple names and addresses.
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Watset
Ten Arrested In Buchanan County Raids
Gambling vices were charged against ten Buchanan County residents after raids last Friday and Saturday in Independence and county areas. Officers seized punchboards trees and joy jars. several individuals faced charges and grand jury bonds. Further Saturday raids found no devices. proceedings followed with additional arraignments planned.
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Buchanan County
Independence
George Johnson
Verle Meggers
Victor White
White
Frances Callahan
W. A. Johnson
Paul Breitbach
Breitbach
Max Hoffman
Riverview Pool Hall
Johnson
Meggers
Wilma Blasch
Highway Cafe
Hazieton
K. A. Betts
Home Cafe
George Murphy
Murphy’s Standard Station
Fairbank
Andy van Nevelle
Van's Tavern
Littleton
Red” Smith
Smith’s Tavern
Jesup
Roy Howland
Howland
Otterville
Justice Court
Milwaukee Rails Officials Set for Cedar Rapids Visit
Milwaukee rail officials arrive in Cedar Rapids on Thursday for a four day inspection tour covering 1500 miles across Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota and South Dakota. The trip includes meetings with business groups and local railway officers with a Thursday luncheon. On board are Charles H Buford president of C M St P and P Company Leo T Crowley chairman and other board members and officers. The inspection party departed Chicago on November 10.
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Milwaukee Railroad
Cedar Rapids
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South Dakota
Charles H. Buford
C. M. St. P. & P. Company
Leo T. Crowley
Violence Flares Anew in Palestine
British army squads attacked hundreds of Jewish undergrounders in a Haifa Tel Aviv forest, sparking a hour long battle. Four Irgun Zvai Leumi members were killed and several others wounded. Rooftop snipers in Haifa killed a British constable and wounded three. Two Stern Group members were sentenced to 20 years by a Haifa military court for firearms and explosives offenses.
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Jerusalem
Haifa
Tel Aviv
Irgun
Zvai Leumi
Stern Group
Short Quail Season Closes Saturday in Several Counties
The Iowa conservation commission says the short quail season ends at 4 30 p m Saturday in Buchanan, Delaware, Dubuque, Tama, Dallas, Jasper, Poweshiek, Adams and others. An open season continues in 34 counties until December 15 with Benton, Linn, Jones, Jackson, Polk, Scott, Madison, Johnson, Cedar, Clinton, Des Moines, and several more listed counties remaining active.
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Des Moines
State Conservation Commission
Buchanan
Delaware
Dubuque
Tama
Dallas
Jasper
Poweshieki
Adams
Benton
Linn
Jones
Jackson
Polk
Iowa
Johnson
Cedar
Clinton
Scott
Madison
de Marion
Mahaska
Joe
Wapello
Jefferson
Henry
Taylor
Ringgold
Decatur
Wayne
Appanoose
Davis
van and Lee
Speeding driver fined twenty five dollars in court
Walter D. Stephenson of 316 Sixth Street NE was fined 25 dollars plus costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving. Police reported he traveled 60 mph on First Avenue East from Thirty-eighth to Fortieth streets and narrowly missed hitting a bus.
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Seeman Court
Walter D. Lee
Sixth Street
James Christensen
Marion
Ralph W. Drake
G Avenue
Lyle McConaughy
Ninth Street
Glenn B. Hoye
C Avenue
Wayne Slife
Kenneth Conley
Bever Avenue
Richard C. Oxford
Hazel Nievas
Twelfth Street
Francie E. Luse
Frank L. Speck
Elkader
Clarence Elmer
Fourteenth Ave
Clarence
Pallere
Dean Shaheen
Andrew Simoons
Eighteenth Avenue
Chris Beck
Welker
Walter D. Stephenson
Stephenson
First Avenue E
Thirty-eighth
Fortieth Streets
Falls From Bed Fatal Claim In Pittsburgh
Mrs. Margaret Shields aged 23 died after fracturing her skull in a fall from bed in Pittsburgh. The AP report notes the fatal accident occurred on Wednesday and authorities are investigating.
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Pittsburgh
Margaret Shields
Courthouse assigns November term for district court cases
Presiding Judge G K Thompson and Equity Judge M C Hamiel set the Nov term juries and equity dockets. Jury cases include Deer Park Baking Company v Bell and others on Nov 18, Nov 20, Nov 24, and Nov 26 with several civil actions. Non jury cases list Buildice Company v Melsha and others on Dec 8. Equity assignments include Ross v Willman on Nov 13 and McDonald v McDonald on Nov 17 among others.
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Law and Equity
District Court
G. K. Thompson
Equity
M. C. Hamiel
Thompson
Deer Park Baking Company
Bell
Herring
Wyskocil
Kind
Wilson and Company
Welsh
Roeniig
Sharp
Smith
Iowa-Illinois Fixture Company
James Et al
Gifford Brown
Fulmer
Bowler
Stambaugh
Berry
Croy
Warner
Mather
Nimmer
Cronkhite
Stewart
Bailey
Robison
Harness
Hasbrouck
Occidental Life Insurance
Buildice Company
Melsha
Carroll
Keith
Kraus Fined $300 on OMVI Charge
William Kraus, 42, of 1159 K avenue NW, was fined $300 and costs Wednesday afternoon before District Judge G. K. Thompson for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was arrested about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday seven miles west of Cedar Rapids on highway 30 by Patrolman Rudolph Sova Jr. and Robert Grossnickle of Toledo, who said Kraus drove erratically.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Kraus
K Avenue NW
G. K. Thompson
Kraus
Cedar Rapids
Rudolph Sova, Jr
Robert Grossnickle
Toledo
Stockmans Given 3 Days To Plead
Raymond Lawrence Stockman and his wife Margaret Ellen Stockman were ordered to plead by 10 30 a m Saturday to a soliciting charge. The wife was arrested at a local hotel Monday night. Stockman was arrested on an intoxication charge later that night when he came to police HQ. In a Tuesday morning statement Stockman admitted ordering his wife to solicit men. Bond was set at 3000 each. William Gray appointed as counsel.
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Raymond Lawrence Stockman
Margaret Ellen Stockman
Stockman
G. K. Thompson
William Gray
Paul E. Blake Sentenced for False Uttering at Kinney's
Paul E. Blake, 42, of Cellar Rapids, was taken to Fort Madison penitentiary to begin a seven year sentence for false uttering a $100 check. He admitted passing the check at Kinney's shoe store on September 27, drawn on Merchants National Bank with no account.
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Paul E. Blake
Cellar Rapids
Fort Madison
Blake
G. K. Thompson
Kinney
Merchants National Bafik
Lisbon Man Fined on False Tax Statement
John Conklin of Lisbon pled guilty in district court to making a false statement in a claim for gas tax refund. He was fined $100 with $50 suspended and costs, by Judge G. K. Thompson, in a Wednesday afternoon session.
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John Conklin
Lisbon
G. K. Thompson
Anthon Sues for Divorce and Annulment in Iowa District Court
Stanley Anthon filed a two count divorce petition against Norma K. Anthon in district court on Wednesday. The first count seeks annulment of their June 7 marriage at Iowa City on grounds the defendant had at least one former husband living and not divorced. The second count requests a divorce if the annulment is not granted.
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Stanley Anthon
Norma K. Anthon
Iowa City
Deaths Services for Mrs. John Creighton at St Patrick’s Church
Mrs. John Creighton of 857 Tenth Street SW died Monday. Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Thursday in St. Patrick’s Church by Rt. Rev. Msgr. D. J. Lenihan. Burial is in Mt. Calvary Cemetery. The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Teahen chapel, where friends may call.
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John Creighton
Tenth Street
St. Patrick’s Church
D. J. Lenihan
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Msgr. Lenihan
Teahen Chapel
Services for Sheldon F Schlemmer at Teahen chapel
Sheldon F Schlemmer of 1204 Nineteenth avenue SW died Sunday. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Teahen chapel with Rev. J. O. Simon of First Lutheran church officiating. Burial is at Preston. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Sheldon F. Schlemmer
Nineteenth Avenue SW
Teahen Chapel
J. O. Simon
First Lutheran Church
Preston
Churchill vetoes 200-foot cigar statue plan at Cinque Ports
London reports Winston Churchill asked Cinque Ports to drop the idea of a 200-foot statue bearing a large cigar with a red neon tip. Charles H. Davis of Massachusetts proposed a $100,000 drive, with a neon cigar beacon for ships, but Churchill said drop it until he dies or retires from politics.
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London
Winston Churchill
Cinque Ports
Charles H. Davis
Massachusetts
Churchill
J. A. Wiles
New Romney
Yugoslavs Seize G I Fishing in Trieste District
United States army headquarters in Trieste demanded the release of T/4 Duel Farrell 21 Starkville Miss of the headquarters company in Trieste who was seized Tuesday while fishing near Gorizia. Farrell and Sgt Joseph Pilape Du Bois Pa of the 351st infantry were fishing along the Pacco river when a Yugoslav band appeared inside Yugoslavia. The United States protested through Lt Gen Terence Airey to Belgrade, noting the earlier border seizures in September and the release of those captured.
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Trieste
United States Army
Gorizia
Duel Farrell
Starkville
Miss
Italy
Joseph Pilape
Dubois
351St Infantry Regiment
Pacco River
Belgrade
Memorial services mark Cedar Rapids war dead repatriation
The memorial honors Cedar Rapids service members with a funeral cortege to the Memorial building and a caisson service. R O T C band will play the funeral dirge and many veterans organizations will participate. Stores are asked to pause as the cortege passes downtown, flags to be half staff Saturday per Mayor Hahn’s proclamation. A memorial committee meeting is set for Thursday at the VFW club with members Moon Marek Greelee Matus.
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David W. Lehti
Manufacturers Bureau of the
Chamber
Hahn
Seaman Heim
Cedar Rapids
Pilicer
War Dead Memorial Committee
Veterans of Foreign Wars Club
Ken Moon
al Marek
John Greelee
Wilburt Matus
State refuses to pay Graves moving bill
DES MOINES Iowa UP the state executive council on Wednesday refused to pay Dr Charles Graves moving expenses from Marlboro New Jersey to Des Moines He is the new director of mental institutions for the board of control The council said the policy is not to pay moving expenses for new employees The sale of the last of the University of Iowa farms was approved A 160 acre farm ten miles southeast of Iowa City was sold to Mr and Mrs Raymond Lovetinsky for 36000 The farm was acquired by the board of education in 1934.
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Des Moines
State Executive Council
Charles Graves
Mental Institutions
Board of Control
Graves
Marlboro
N. J
University of Iowa
Iowa City
Raymond Lovetinsky
Board of Education
Vernon Henderson Held On Charge of Assault
Vernon Henderson, 35, of 1502 H avenue NE, was held on a justice court warrant charging assault and battery and making threats to do great bodily harm. Arrested Tuesday evening on the warrant issued by Justice W A Ball, the action was brought by Henderson's wife after a home argument. Hearing set for 3 p.m. Wednesday.
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Vernon Henderson
H Avenue NE
Justice Court
Henderson
W. A. Ball
U.S. aid to China seen insufficient to revive industry
Shanghai experts on the proposed 300 million dollar aid program say it would rescue the nation from threatened bankruptcy but fail to bolster war battered communications and industries.
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Shanghai
United States
Judge Moffit Rites At Tipton Thursday
Funeral services for Judge John T. Moffit will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Moffit home. Dr. Russell Cole, president of Cornell college, and W. R. Boyd of Cedar Rapids, chair of the state board of education finance committee, will officiate. Moffit, 85, died Tuesday after a long illness.
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Tipton
John T. Moffit
Russell Cole
Cornell College
W. R. Boyd
Cedar Rapids
State Board of Education
Moffit
Judge Moffit
Three Years as Slave: Irma Mohaupt's Wartime Escape
Irma Mohaupt born in the United States was seized by Russians in Yugoslavia in 1944 and spent three years in a Soviet labor camp. She recently escaped, with page 13 marking the first of four articles detailing her experiences.
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Irma Mohaupt
United States
Yugoslavia
Cedar Rapids pupils show speech defects in survey
LeRoy Peterson Cedar Rapids special education director told Kiwanis at the Roosevelt hotel that 535 of 2679 public school children tested suffer from speech defects needing attention. He outlined four program projects including homebound teaching bedside instructors and speech therapy and noted future expansion. He cited 1946 national figure of 47 deaf teachers and urged Kiwanis support.
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Cedar Rapids
LeRoy Peterson
Kiwanis Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Peterson
United States
Pilot Saves Flight In Gallup Airport Fire Rescue
DC 6 measured ten feet long and four to five feet wide after fuselage damage. State Sen. W E Clarke credited son D B Clarke with averting disaster by stopping a fuel leak and directing a extinguisher. Aboard were Indonesia ambassador Soemitro, a navy nurse Lieut Ruth Edwards, Lykens PA, and others who thanked Pilot Chatfield for saving lives.
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W. E. Clarke
Gallup
D. B. Clarke
Clarke
Indonesia
United Nations Security Council
R. M. Soemitro
Navy
China
J.g
Ruth Edwards
Lykens
Chatfield
Apprenticeship Rules Eased by Milwaukee Carpenters Union
Milwaukee carpenters union official told a House subcommittee that the apprentice ratio was cut from one to five journeymen after the war to one to three. Charles Barthalamas said Milwaukee districts have 500 apprentices for 3,033 journeymen, praising the system as American.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
Gwinn
R-N.y
Barthalamas
Man admits plan to shoot wife in Cedar Rapids case
Vanston confessed after a six month marriage to Golda Bolton ended in divorce. He described meeting her, adopting the boy Richard, and accumulating property. Drinking worsened tensions over the adopted son, leading to Nov. 11 shooting at their Cedar Rapids home. He fled to Marion then confessed to authorities, with his wife seeking a divorce decree and control of cars and household goods.
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Vanston
Smith
Dougherty
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Golda Bolton
Richard
Lewis Bottoms
Pleasant Prairie School
Monroe Township
Golda
Seventh Street SE
W. R. Watsabaugh
G. K. Thompson
Inspection program on G I homes is started
Washington VA inaugurated a program to inspect homes built under G I loans to shield veterans from unscrupulous builders. VA will handle construction quality with pre construction estimates and at least three interim inspections as work progresses, with appraisals by VA chosen architects contractors and engineers.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Veterans
Thomas Addes Beaten in UAW Leadership Fight
Atlantic City (UP) R. J. Thomas vice president of the CIO United Auto Workers and former seven year president was ousted by Walter Reuther loyalists. Thomas lost to Richard Gosser of Toledo. George Addes was defeated by Emil Mazey of Detroit. Mazey pledged to stay loyal as a bloc supports Reuther for greater union influence in any government Europe aid plan.
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Atlantic City
R. J. Thomas
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter P. Reuther
Tommy
Philip Murray
George F. Addes
Thomas
Richard Gosser
Toledo
Addes
Emil Mazey
Detroit
Reuther
Europe
Corn Estimate Drops Slightly
Washington AP said the Agriculture Department's semi final crop report estimated the corn harvest at 2,447,422,000 bushels, down 11,252,000 from last month, well below last year's record 3,287,927,000 and just under the 10 year average of 2,639,102,000. Other major crops were unchanged.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Labour to Raise Clothing and Shoe Costs in Inflation Fight
London report says the Labour government will end subsidies on leather, cotton and wool this year. Chancellor Hugh Dalton announced in Commons that subsidies totaling 132 million dollars last year will be scrapped. The profits tax on distributed profits doubles to 25 percent and 10 percent on anticipated profits. All purchase tax rates rise, with luxury goods duty increasing from 100 to 125 percent.
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London
Hugh Dalton
Commons
Dalton
Marine Fatally Beaten In Fight With Filipinos
AP report from GUAM says Pfc. Herbert H. Oliver of the First Marine Brigade died after a tavern fight involving two marines and about 20 Filipino laborers. Four Filipinos were detained by Guam police. Oliver’s hometown was withheld pending next of kin notification.
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Guam
Pfc
Herbert H. Oliver
First Marine Brigade
Navy
Oliver
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Russia Wins U.N. Tussle Over Seat
LAKE SUCCESS India withdrew from a protracted contest with Soviet Ukraine for the 11th United Nations Security Council seat. The move cleared the way for Ukraine to replace Poland on January 1, ending a sharp East‑West deadlock. India said the current geographic allocation is unfair to Asia and vowed to raise the issue formally.
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India
Ater
Two Fined 25 Each on Police Court Charges
Joseph T Callan of 1840 Washington avenue SE and Vivian Wynn of 412 Sixth street SE paid fines of 25 dollars and costs after pleading guilty in police court to drunkenness and disturbing the peace. Callan, a soldier on furlough, was arrested early Wednesday on an information from his father after returning home intoxicated and causing a disturbance. Wynn was arrested Tuesday after an argument in a tavern and allegedly insulted officers and caused a rumpus at headquarters.
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Joseph T. Callan
Washington Avenue
Vivian Wynn
Sixth Street
Callan
Dagupan Housing Fire Blazes Over Centurion Street
A downtown Dagupan fire on Lingayen gulf, 105 miles north of Manila, destroyed properties worth 500000 pesos. Three people were reported missing as flames raged through the Tuesday night blaze.
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Manila
Dagupan
Lingayen Gulf
Copper Wire Thefts At Iowa Manufacturing Plant
Police investigate the theft of about 400 pounds of copper wire from the Iowa Manufacturing Company. The wiring, taken outside the plant to burn off insulation, was discovered missing Tuesday morning after a report by Walter Peterson. The theft likely occurred during the night of November 10.
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Iowa Manufacturing Company
Walter Peterson
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Marion Moneypenny
Margaret Moneypenny
Marlin Foust
Springville
Opal Schminker
Carlton D. Lotta
Dorothy Stephan
Earl E. Edwards
Mr. Vernon
Lillian E. Kelley
Johns Dixon
Mechanicsville
Winifred Cornthwaite
Maxine V. Howe
Emmett Howe
Dorothy Jean Heneks
William E. Heneks
Margaret McCune
Walter V. McCune
Bette Garner
Reggie H. Garner
Magdeline K. Sherwood
Albert W. Sherwood
J. W. Albright
Washington Avenue SE
Quaker Oats Company
M. A. King
Fourth Street
Rudolph M. Rodriguez
Seventh Street
Norman L. Davis
Alex Noble
George Stratton
Robert Houser
Fallis Noggle
H. R. Churchill
Mercy
Dean
Fruitland Boulevard
St. Luke’s
W. B. Jelinek
Third Avenue
Walter Schmidt
John R. Boyanovsky
Bmirs
Vincent Reinke
Center Point Road
Milwaukee Rail
Palestine
Speeder
Third Street SE
OMVI
Stockmans
Creighton Services
Schlemmer Services
G.I
U.S
C.R
Carpenter Union
Larry Belles
AFL
Gravel and Composition Roofers Union
Tuck Pointers
Ralph F. Himmelhoch
Belles
Fred H. Fry
Roofers Local
Tuck Pointers Association
Himmelhach
Edward Gallagher
Tuck Pointers Union
Louis Langlotz
Tuck
Joh B. Turter
SOD
S.E
Milo Shibetka
Larry Condon
Joseph Frasinger
Frasinger
Blairs Ferry
Hallwood
Minnie Zuhlkie
Twentieth Street
Frank Schlueter
Schlueter
G.I. Homes
UAW
Russia
U.N
Seat
Beatty
Ave St
Poe Ame
Ce West S.3
Eey
Flexifone
Jim Reeder
Radio & Sound Service
Third Ave
Lapes Florist
Third Avenue SE
Lionel
American Flyer
Iowa Theater
First Avenue
Rohn Funeral Home
Linn County
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