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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1947
Page
2
The Daily Record reports fair and colder weather with a Saturday shift and warmer Monday across Iowa, with temperatures ranging from near zero to the mid thirties. It lists numerous birth notices and fire, traffic, and public safety reports, plus several divorce decrees and obituaries, naming many residents and addresses.
New York dispatch reports Louis Fineman, president of Jansa Woodworking Corp, withdrew 1561 dollars in payroll funds Friday and was escorted by a policeman through Brooklyn to his plant. At the plant door the officer left. Inside, two bandits appeared and seized the money from Fineman.
Soviet Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, speaking at the Allied Control Council, denounced Western Allied administration in occupied Germany for violating Potsdam and Yalta accords. He charged Britain and the United States with turning their zones into strongpoints to support imperialist aims in central Europe.
The Cedar Rapids and Marion Ministerial Association will run two Union Thanksgiving services Thursday at 9 am. Rev I E Linkletter speaks at Central Park Presbyterian with assistants from Kenwood Park and Central Park churches. Rev Milton Early speaks at First Evangelical and Reformed with assistants. The First Evangelical service will be broadcast on KCRK at 9 15. Offerings go to Iowa Inter-Church Council for Oakdale and University hospital chaplaincy funds.
Francis Lyon of Marion sped along Thirty second street NE between Oakland and Leonard avenues. He attempted to elude a police chase by cutting through Collins radio plant property and became bogged in mud. Lyon was fined 10 dollars plus costs in traffic court.
Charles Craven Jr aged 18 suffered minor bruises Friday night when the motorcycle he rode was struck by a hit and run car on B avenue NE between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets. The bike veered into Emil Rasmussen’s parked car at 1728 B avenue NE after the collision caused loss of control. Craven said the fleeing vehicle was dark colored with very dim lights.
Former Pennsylvania governor and diplomat George H. Earle urged atomic bombing of any nation that refuses UN inspections for atomic or biological weapons. In a letter to Secretary of State Marshall he asked how the Marshall Plan would stand if Russia claimed an atomic bomb and aimed to occupy Europe.
The French government has dropped charges against Rabbi Baruch Korff, an American detained in connection with a suspected plot to bomb London with Palestine propaganda leaflets, according to the State Department.
War saw AP Antini Ole sinski a shopkeeper complained taxes were heavy. He was ordered to pay an additional 100000 zlotys ten thousand dollars. He undressed in the tax collectors office threw his clothing on the counter and walked out. A judge fined him 1000 zlotys for disorderly conduct.
Washington report states that the navy has taken 18 submarines out of mothballs in recent weeks. These subs will be used for naval reserve training missions and to refresh readiness among reserve crews.
Lockport Illinois postmaster Joseph E Fitzgerald led a push to curb speed of the fast mail through town after 60 to 80 pieces of mail were found pulverized daily. He cited an engineer's constant whistle signaling and blamed the whistle-happy operator for mail scatter across a three mile area. Local businessmen backed the plea for calmer handling.
L Curtise Wood was elected president of the Linn County Chapter of the Reserve Officers Association at a Friday night meeting. He will take office January 1. Officers named include Robert Clark as first vice president, Keith Tow as second vice president, Alfred Pidgeon as secretary, and Guy Groff Jr as treasurer. Committee members named were John Wurster and William We. Nominating committee members were William Mineck and Sophus Klinger.
The First Church of Christ Scientist holds a Thanksgiving service at 10 45 a m. Marilyn Huber wins first prize in a Cedar Rapids Catholic high schools book review contest sponsored by the Daughters of Isabella. Scouts from troop 9 spend the weekend at Camp Waubeek led by Landis and McMillan. Don Hlubucek returns from two years in the U S Navy as pharmacist's mate third class. Kathleen Newman Bernice Prunskunas and Mrs Don Newell visit Des Moines Veterans Hospital to bring candy to veterans. Vernon Gavin fined 25 dollars and costs for disturbing the peace after a dispute with his wife. Cub Scout pack 24 at Garfield school awards badges to Sonday Warboy Helms Tompkins Clifford Stiles, with Webelos Tommy Bennet receiving the highest award. Service stars go to Sonday, Tompkins, Bennet, Lake and Skalicky, while Gary Dunohugh and Victor Clift join as Bobcats.
Police investigate a report from a 25 year old woman on Sixth street SE who said a prowler entered her first floor bedroom at 2 15 am and pulled back bed clothing. She described the intruder as about five feet two inches tall and fled through a back door after she screamed.
George W. Hearn of Cedar Rapids, a car dealer, was elected to the national council's board of directors. He now chairs Region 7's finance committee, covering Iowa Kansas Nebraska Wyoming Colorado and Missouri.
Louis Schaefer 38 of Toddville was rush to Mercy hospital by Ambulance Service Saturday morning after a fall on First Street NE near the ORC building. Hospital authorities report a possible ankle fracture.
The Buccaneer, a rustic Cedar River restaurant on the northwest city edge, was a total loss after a midnight blaze, with two hours of fighting by crews from stations 2 5 and central. Owner Richard Havlik, a Coe College student, believed fully insured. Fire started in the kitchen, no hydrants nearby forced a river hose draw, and nearby Robbins Road NW resident reported the alarm. The business opened in June after flood delays and did not serve beer. This was Cedar Rapids third property fire in 24 hours following two Friday losses, one of which left Harry Gibson with severe burns and hospital treatment, condition described as fairly good Saturday noon.
Washington AP reports the cost of living index rose to 66.1 percent above August 1939, up 12.3 percent from a year earlier and 22.9 percent since June 1946. From mid-August to mid-September the index climbed 2.2 percent with all major groups gaining. Food led with a 3.6 percent rise, rents up 2.2, house furnishings 1.8, apparel 0.9, fuels and ice 0.6, and miscellaneous goods 0.7 percent.
The Iowa JCC holds a quarterly board meeting with a smoker and dinner. Sessions run from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in Cedar Rapids, including a Young Men's bureau orientation demo for 140 JCC representatives. A Montrose hotel banquet follows at 11:30 a.m. with USJCC Vice-president Hunter Gehrbach as principal speaker. Invocation by Rev. Bernard Collins.
Detectives investigated a theft at the Maid-Rite Sandwich shop at 1323 First Avenue SE. A basement storeroom yielded 40 cartons of cigarettes, 10 boxes of gum, and two boxes of chocolate bars, valued at 69 dollars, taken between 5 p.m. Friday and 7 a.m. Saturday.
The Cedar Rapids Federation of Musicians sponsors a free concert in Wilson high school auditorium Sunday at 4 p.m. The Symphonette program features Mendelssohn Ruy Blas first movement Schubert unfinished Symphony Tschaikovsky Andante Cantabile and Berlioz Rakoczy march conducted by Prof Joseph Kitchin of Coe College.
Iowa City Secretary of State Rollo Bergeson will address journalism students and local Republicans at the University of Iowa Wayzgoose banquet on Sunday night. He will discuss "A Politician Talks Back" before an audience of Iowa newspapermen and students.
Daisy Roberts, 28, wed husband Harold Roberts after meeting him in a jail in Atlanta. She asked Judge A W Callaway to return her to jail so she could be near him, praising the stockade as a favored honeymoon spot. The judge ordered twenty days.
DES MOINES AP Senator George A Wilson announced approval of a volunteer Iowa move to measure how many European displaced persons can be absorbed in Iowa. A voluntary Iowa fact finding committee will report to Congress on the housing and labor absorption likely in the state. Wilson backs the Stratton bill to admit some displaced persons and notes demand for agricultural labor will continue.
Iowa City report says the finance committee of the state board of education accepted gifts and grants totaling 13926 for University of Iowa research and library work. A $4 cancer research gift came from an Iowa woman’s family, and $476 was donated for a memorial to Dean E N MacEwen of the college of medicine.
Members of the Iowa City Craft Guild attended a private showing of hand weaving by Cedar Rapids and Iowa City residents at the Little Gallery of the public library. Exhibits included hand woven dresses, skirts, aprons, towels, mats, upholstering material, bags, and rugs. Mrs. J. T. Bradbury and Mrs. H. B. Parker of Iowa City discussed organizing a Cedar Rapids weavers group and the current Cedar Rapids work, with the exhibit arranged by Mesdames James Noon and Lyman Jones of Cedar Rapids and under the charge of Mrs. A. I. Mason.
The notice states that Utie Duball was appointed and qualified as Administratrix of the estate of Frances McMillan in Linn County Iowa on November 21 1947. Creditors are asked to advise payments and file any claims with Geo F Heins Monona Iowa attorney.
El Kahir Shrine in Iowa initiated a class of 81 candidates from more than 30 communities. The event at Memorial building featured a banquet, performances by the El Kahir band drum and bugle corps patrol and a second section initiation by the wrecking crew plus ceremonial work and a stage show. Names list follows by community.
Miss Mary Louise Buchanan former Cedar Rapids resident and 21 year Stout Institute instructor in Menomonie Wis died Friday morning from injuries in an automobile crash. Surviving are her mother Mrs Elizabeth Buchanan and brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Robert E Buchanan. Body to be brought to Cedar Rapids for services in Turner chapel with burial at Linwood cemetery.
Edith Melissa Durin 1834 First avenue NE Cedar Rapids died at home Friday at 9 10 p m after months of illness born July 19 1862 in Arlington Ia lived in Cedar Rapids 52 years survived by son A E Durin sister Jennie M Little brother Ben B Little and grandchildren Jack and George Durin funeral Monday 3 30 p m at Turner chapel Rev D A Loferski burial Oak Hill cemetery friends may call at chapel
Services for Ross A. Murdock, 1207 Fifth avenue SE, who died Thursday, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in Beatty chapel by Rev. John K. Moore of St. Paul’s Methodist church. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Services for John W Netolicky of 810 Thirteenth Street NW will be conducted in Brush chapel at 2 p.m. Sunday by Rev Ludvik Burian. Burial follows at the burial chapel.
Dale S. Clark 1507 C avenue NW was fined 50 dollars plus costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving. Police clocked him at 45 mph on First avenue E near Thirtieth Street and 55 mph near Thirty-fourth to Thirty-eighth streets, with erratic driving and lane departures noted. Albert F. Barnes 628 Twenty-second avenue SW also fined 25 dollars and costs with 15 dollars suspended for speeding in First avenue E from Tama street to Fortieth street.
Linn counties November petit jurors report at 9 a.m. Monday with little work seen Saturday. One criminal case, state v Raymond Tapia for lashing acts with a 15 year old, is set for trial. Four civil cases slated, including Brown v Fulmer. Welch v Roening continued to Dec 8. Iowa-Illinois Fixture Co v James settled. Judge Philbrick awarded Sharp brothers damages in a May collision at Third Ave and Second St SE.
Two Cedar Rapids youths Keith L. Gardner age 18 and Francis B. O Connor age 20 were sentenced to terms not to exceed 10 years each at Anamosa reform school for car thefts. Gardner pleaded guilty to larceny of a motor vehicle after admitting to a series of thefts with a 16 year old girl. O Connor pleaded guilty at arraignment.
Two indictments charging embezzlement of mortgaged property were dismissed Saturday by Judge G K Thompson on motion of the state. Mr and Mrs Paul Bunker of Peru Nebraska were accused by the November grand jury of buying tools from L B Lamb Sales Company Cedar Rapids on a conditional bill of sales Sept 15 and moving them to Nebraska before payment. County Attorney William Crissman said he moved for the dismissals after the defendants restitution and costs payment. The court said the offense did not warrant sending the couple back from Nebraska.
Two ouster suits were filed in district court. Frank E. Moyer Jr and Adelyn Moyer seek to remove Paul and Mrs Schwindt from 421 Seventeenth Street NE. Lyle E Brown seeks to oust W Thompson and Jennette Thompson from 1325 Third Street SW alleging nuisance from fighting and property destruction. The Moyers aim to move into the Schwindt residence they bought Oct 23.
Clyde Rasmussen of Independence faced a larceny charge on a motor vehicle. Judge G K Thompson granted a continuance and extended the plea deadline to Monday at 10 a.m.
Raymond Kloubec aged 29 of 131 Nineteenth Avenue SW was arrested Friday morning on contempt of court for violating a divorce petition injunction. He was released from the county jail Friday afternoon on order of the court.
A Saturday Cheney Sentinel classified ad targets J. C. who deserted his wife and 22 years ago and their son Michael. The message vows that if J. C. returns home, Michael will “take pleasure in knocking hell out of him.”
Cedar Rapids photographers earned two awards in the fifth annual Iowa Associated Press newsphoto contest announced in Des Moines Friday night. John Reynolds of The Gazette won third place in spot news for Flood Time Phone Call showing a man in a rowboat making a call for help from a boat house during the June Cedar Rapids flood. Carl E. Franks earned second in sports for a boxing scene. Bob McHugh of the Waterloo Courier won second in feature.
Iowa City AP reports H Garland Hershey chair of a governor named committee will meet in Des Moines next month to study testimony from a public hearing on the Coralville flood control dam project. The panel will hold multiple sessions before final recommendations to Gov. Blue, with a Washington submission likely after final action.
Iowa’s Safety Commissioner announced plans to display a graphic county accident record in each county seat. Large county maps with colored pins will show fatal and non fatal accidents and traffic violations, plus a card detailing damage to life and property. Maps exclude large cities due to density. updates will be kept by patrol officers to highlight dangerous highways and roads.
Toledo report states Rev. Howard Pilchard, a field representative of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, pled guilty and received three days in jail. He was fined 50 dollars, his license suspended for one year, and his league spokesman condemned the act, pledging he will not return to his post.
In Linn County Iowa Marilyn Ann Gould seeks divorce from Charles R Gould on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. She requests restoration to maiden name Marilyn Ann Niemeier, alimony costs and attorney fees, and general equitable relief. Defendant must appear at Cedar Rapids Court House by December 29 1947 or default and decree may be entered.
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