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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1947
Page
2
Iowa Agricultural Forecast shows cloudy weather with light snow and rain across the state Tuesday night through Thursday night with gradually cooling temperatures. Shippers should prepare for open country temps 10 to 30 degrees. Reckless driving fines listed for several individuals. Obituary notices and hospital births recorded for the week.
United Airlines begins operating four engine Mainliner DC-4s on nearby routes. The first DC-4 to land at Cedar Rapids Municipal joins existing DC-3 service, with eastbound DC-4 and westbound DC-3 seen at the field. The schedule shift combines the two flights into a five minute window, highlighting preparations for the new landings.
Judith Beilin former English actress who left the stage in 1938 to marry a Jewish Agency official will speak on conditions in Palestine Wednesday at 7 pm at the Roosevelt hotel. The United Jewish Appeal drive aims to raise funds for overseas needs and Palestine. Local organizers include Nate Cohn and Rabbi Schaalman.
Washington reports sweeping tariff reductions under a Geneva pact affecting about 75 percent of imports. Effective Jan 1, 22 nations cut duties on thousands of products, with the United States using an escape clause to curb harm to domestic industry if imports surge.
Federal court service filed Tuesday shows Elizabeth Beems Isett of 337 Twenty-first Street SE named as co defendant in a long running suit against Metropolitan Supply Company. Plaintiffs George Schoonover and Mary Schoonover are linked to Florida residency, with trial delayed after challenges to their Florida status.
Iowa utility commission hears 23 railroads seek a temporary 10 percent rate rise for freight within the state after a full day of testimony. Some witnesses approve with caveats, asking for product-specific consideration if broader exceptions are granted. The proposal, already cleared by the Interstate Commerce Commission for interstate and intra state lines, would affect most items except coal coke and iron, which would rise 10 cents per net ton. A Chicago bureau testified that rising costs and lower income justify the increase.
Pfc James L Craft of the U S Marine Corps Reserve, second Cedar Rapids war dead to be returned, will be buried with full military honors Saturday at Cedar Memorial Park cemetery. His widow Mrs Craft of 1115 Center Point Rd NE will learn her husband’s body arrives at 6 55 p m Wednesday aboard the Milwaukee train from Kansas City. A Marine escort led by M Sgt B J Lewis will attend the casket. Craft died in Hilo Hawaii in August 1944 at age 28. He was among 2000 WWII dead returned from the Pacific aboard the Honda Knot. The casket traveled from San Francisco to Kansas City by funeral train. Cedar Rapids escort to meet it Wednesday evening and accompany the body to Beatty chapel. The funeral cortege will leave at 9 30 a m Saturday for the cemetery where Rev A B Curran will conduct the graveside service. Memorial services were held at Daniels Park Presbyterian church. Besides his widow he is survived by four daughters and his parents Mr and Mrs James L Craft of 2478 C Street SW.
Jerry Hiland announces 1948 chairmen for 12 YMB committees under a new four-vice president structure. Jim Brady oversees finance program awards festival and golf with board reps. Ken Hastie handles public relations photography and model airplane groups. Ken Moon supervises project analysis sports youth activities governmental affairs and leadership training.
Dr Marvin B Kober pastor of St Pauls Methodist will be the speaker at the Cedar Rapids and Marion Council of Churches annual dinner meeting January 5 at the Y M C A A nominating committee for officers was named comprising Rev Grant Anderson Ralph Allen Robert Vernon Mrs L A Talbott Harold Hendricks Ernest Hamm and Mrs A E Kurth The board led by Dr Carroll C Roberts met at the First Christian church.
R Link of Cedar Rapids was elected secretary of the Midwestern Baptist Men's Council at a Davenport dinner Monday night. J Langerquist of Marion was elected treasurer. Other officers included N E F Hootman Davenport president, Ken Schrer Muscatine first vice, D F Bickerman Iton second vice. An executive board meeting is to be held for Cedar Rapids Sunday.
The board approved a cumulative sick leave policy for teachers at ten days per year up to sixty, with up to five days for death in a teacher’s immediate family, and moved to clarify applicability to disabilities and pregnancy. Substantive budget and staffing changes noted include hires, insurance bids, and property title work.
Roger F Waindle general manager of Sapphire Products division of Elgin National Watch Company will speak at the American Society of Tool Engineers meeting at the Montrose hotel after a 6 30 dinner His topic Sapphire An Engineering Material will be shown with motion pictures and slides A IIT graduate Waindle has metallurgical experience on nickel chromium alloys Coffee speaker Rev Waldermar Argow pastor of People's church will discuss The Art of the Motion Picture.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Mary Schriner 70 in St Marys church Iowa City. Coroner said she lay dead in an upstairs bed for five days while her invalid husband Schuyler Schriner 70 sat downstairs unable to summon help. He was found by neighbors Saturday and taken to Mercy hospital in satisfactory condition.
Anna Volak 59 widow of Frank Volak died at home 133 Nineteenth Avenue SW Monday afternoon from heart ailment. Born in Tremosna Czechoslovakia Feb 5 1888 she moved to Cedar Rapids in 1911. Surviving daughter Tilford Moore Kansas City two sons Charles and Frank Cedar Rapids brother Joseph Bock Chicago sister Marie Pavlisova Czechoslovakia four grandchildren. Member of Prokop Velky No 7 Z.C.B.J Anna Naprstek Damska Matice and Ctenarsky Spolek. Services in Kuba funeral home Thursday time to be announced. friends may call after 3 p.m. Wednesday.
Mrs Mary Foster Bard Williams a former Cedar Rapids resident and widow of Robert Williams died November 11 in New London Connecticut. She lived in Norwich Connecticut and at 834 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids from circa 1900 to 1918 while her husband directed the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway now part of the Rock Island system. Surviving are daughter Helen W Weil Albuquerque and brother Albert F Bard New York City. Funeral arrangements are not known here.
Phil G. Watterson aged 56 died at his home at 1 40 a m Tuesday. Surviving are his wife Josephine a son Edward G Cedar Rapids a brother Glenn Chicago two sisters Mrs Ellis Snow Manita SIL and Mrs Alice Trimble Cedar Rapids Funeral services set for 3 30 p m Friday at Beatty chapel with Rev A B Curran burial in Linwood cemetery Friends may call at the chapel.
Funeral services for Eugene Francis Allen a Robins resident and longtime grocer who died at his home Monday will be held at Turner chapel at 1 30 p m Wednesday conducted by Rev B F Buckingham of Robins The body will be taken to Nortonville Kansas for further services and burial Friends may call at the chapel
Funeral services for William Edward Chase of 210 Fifth Avenue SW will be held at 1 p m Thursday in Turner chapel conducted by Rev Frederick Haag. Burial will follow at Linwood cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Irvin W. Patton of 312 Tenth Avenue SE died in Long Beach California Thursday. A service in Beatty chapel will be held at 1 30 p m Friday by Rev A B Curran. The body will arrive by air early Wednesday. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery.
Funeral services for Mrs Ray LeHew of 607 Fifteenth Street SE will be held at 1 30 p m Wednesday in the Barta Hesser chapel with Dr Carroll C Roberts officiating Burial will take place at Campbell Cemetery provided services are completed as planned
Services for Mrs Hazel Sober of 323 A avenue NW are set for 1 30 p m Wednesday conducted by Reverend G H Bamford. Burial will follow at Linwood cemetery with friends invited to call at the chapel.
Paul Kilborn of Twin Gables Farm will have services at 1 30 p m Thursday in the Beatty chapel conducted by Rev D Loferski. Burial is planned in Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may attend or call at the chapel for details.
DES MOINES AP George Magoun a Sioux City attorney voluntarily surrendered his certificate to practice law to the Iowa supreme court. Clerk Charles W. Barlow said Magoun would not face trial by a three judge court appointed by Chief Justice Ralph A. Oliver after the grievance committee of the Sioux City Bar Association charged that while representing an estate he collected money due the estate and refused to deliver it after a demand to account.
SIOUX CITY AP District Judge D C Browning died in a hospital here on Tuesday after several days of critical heart attack illness. Born in Monona county he had served as district judge since 1939 and earlier as an assistant U S district attorney for the northern district of Iowa. He resigned in 1935 to resume private practice and also served as a justice of the peace from 1913 to 1921. He was active in Masonic and Shrine circles and was a past noble of Abu Bekr Shrine.
Thirty eight Coe College students from eastern Iowa were honored Tuesday at a special assembly in Westminster Presbyterian Church. The event recognized outstanding scholars for the 1946 47 academic year with remarks by Dr C Ward Macy, dean of the college, on the responsibilities of education for democracy.
Keith Gardner aged 18 and Francis O Connor 20 admitted a series of car thefts in signed statements to Cedar Rapids detectives and were arraigned on larceny of a motor vehicle charges. Gardner pled not guilty and O Connor pled guilty with sentencing set for November 25, and Gardner’s trial scheduled for November 24. A 16 year old girl was also questioned. Gardner and the girl were arrested in Toledo Iowa after a stolen car was spotted. Gardner’s statement places thefts in Iowa Nebraska and other states with sales for 300 dollars in Nebraska City.
Dubuque city council approved a temporary 10 percent raise for police and all other employees earning under 5000 annually. The increase runs until March 31 next year while mayor studies a permanent raise.
Chicago report cites Detective Martin Tully saying the phrase who me is heard in nine of ten arrests. The remark underscores common reaction patterns detectives note during detentions.
Philip M. Clark pled guilty to larceny of Raymond Ashlock’s car, received an indeterminate term up to 10 years at Anamosa reformatory with bench parole granted. Others, Lloyd Dilts and Clyde Rasmussen, charged in the same case, were arrested in Richmond, Texas following the November 4 theft at the Elks club lot.
John Rogers, 57, pled guilty to perjury before the grand jury and was sentenced to an indeterminate term not exceeding 10 years at Fort Madison penitentiary. Judge Thompson suspended the sentence on good behavior as part of a county policy to pursue perjury cases. The Edgetons and LeRoy Freeman with Louise Jindrich faced separate grand jury indictments for conflicting statements in the Verlin Collins adultery case and related matters.
Two men were fined 300 dollars and costs each for driving while intoxicated in district court. Albert Sankey pled guilty to operating while intoxicated on First avenue near Marion last Saturday. he may pay 50 and costs now and 25 monthly. Lloyd Rozek admitted DWI from September 27 after highway patrol arrests at Second street and Fifth avenue SW.
Jurors were examined in district court Tuesday to form a panel for the accident damage case of Henry Vyskocil against Raymond W. Herring. Vyskocil seeks 5550 for damages from an April 11 collision at Oak land avenue and Center Point road NE. Herring originally filed suit against Vyskocil but dismissed October 2, and Vyskocil’s counter claim, with Herring as defendant, now drives the jury trial.
William A Fairbanks, 37, of 1137 Sixth Street NW, was arrested Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff Harlan Snyder on a grand jury indictment for uttering a false check. The indictment is one of five secret bills. two remain secret. He allegedly cashed a $100 check on September 5 at the Gurnty bank which bounced due to no account.
Louis Melsha of 919 Seventeenth Avenue SE pleaded guilty to indecent exposure and received six months in county jail from Judge G K Thompson. Indicted by the September grand jury, the May 23 offense followed an initial arraignment where he claimed innocence.
Richard Privoznik aged 19 of 830 Third Street NW pled guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a 15 year old girl. Judge G K Thompson fined 100 dollars and sentenced him to 30 days in jail. He was the last of four youths to admit the charge filed Oct 29.
Judge M C Hamiel signed a decree setting February 1 as the date a writ of ouster may be issued if Robert and Neela Hughes have not vacated the property. Geraldine Clark contends possession and seeks eviction under the court order.
Volcanic activity releases substantial sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, contributing to atmospheric chemistry and potential air quality impacts. Researchers note episodic spikes in SO2 corresponding to eruptive events, with implications for climate and aviation safety.
Kansas City UP reports Alfred Landon urged ending American financial support for governments hindering recovery. He faulted Britain's five day week, warned of Greece and France tax evasions, and pressed tough production conditions and anti black market probes at a South Central Business Association meeting.
Reports after two days of broadcasting show Cedar Rapids station KCRK delivering a strong signal across eastern Iowa. Listeners from Jefferson, Blackhawk, Cedar, Iowa, Poweshiek, Linn, Benton, Clayton, Muscatine, Delaware, Jones, Johnson, Louisa, and Dubuque counties praise excellent tone and minimal interference. KCRK operates at 18 000 watts temporarily, with plans to raise to 48 000 watts. Frequency 96.9 FM, channel 245, broadcasting daily 3 to 9 p.m.
ATLANTA AP Dr Samuel Green Georgia Ku Klux Klan grand dragon says the Klan urged Macon and Atlanta officials to enforce race segregation for Henry Wallace appearances Wednesday in Macon and Thursday in Atlanta The city auditorium seating will separate whites and Negroes for Wallace with officials maintaining the plan The Southern Conference for Human Welfare sponsors both events and argues segregations ordinances do not apply to church assemblies Atlanta Mayor Hartsfield declined comment.
Ray Pieper of Lisbon was fined $100 and costs for reckless driving by Justice H. R. Churchill on Monday. Pieper drove a panel truck in an November 4 collision on Highway 30 nine miles east of Cedar Rapids, injuring three people who were hospitalized and later released: Mrs. George Kohl, 51, Mrs. Alice Blaine, 26, and Pieper, all of Lisbon. The other driver was George Edwards, 1132 A Avenue NW.
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