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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1948
Page
2
Agricultural forecast shows increasing cloudiness and warmer Wednesday with partly cloudy and cooler Thursday. Highs 40s to mid 40s, lows 32 to 33, winds NW at 15 mph. No precipitation expected. November total 2.58 inches. Police court lists fines for various infractions and multiple obituaries and service notices from cities including Minneapolis and Cedar Rapids.
Nineteen eastern Iowans were among Coe College students cited for scholarship at the annual Honors convocation. The event featured addresses by President Byron S. Hollins head and included Phi Kappa Phi initiates, sophomores earning honors, and Coe Scholars among incoming freshmen.
T J Combs manager of Combs grocery at 1600 Thirty second street NE faced a puzzle about when a safe is still safe. After a wave of safe crackings the decision was made to discard the safe. He emptied it and left it on a platform at the rear of the store. On Monday he found the safe smashed open after stepping out the back door.
Funeral services for Mrs. Marie Javurek age 57 of 57 Nineteenth Avenue SW will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Janeba funeral home by Rev. Zdenek F. Pauk. Burial is in Bohemian National Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home. She belonged to Cesky Viastenky and a local lodge noted in Monday's Gazette.
Services for Mrs. Robert Hegewald Hegewald who died Sunday will be held in Turner chapel at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday with Rev. E. H. Widmann of Trinity Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be in Linwood cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel. She lived with her stepson Edward Hegewald at 1918 Johnson Avenue NW.
Mrs. Della M. Bauer of Cedar Rapids reports her brother Henry Charles Thomas age 71 died Tuesday morning in Seattle after a brief illness. Born in Johnson County he lived much of life in Cedar Rapids and Minnesota. Surviving are wife Zadia son Henry Forde and brother Joseph of San Francisco.
The government charged Republic Steel Corporation and 19 other fabricators with restraining competition in sewer pipe sales and manufacture. In a petition by Attorney General Clark the firms were accused of dividing up sales territories in violation of the Sherman antitrust act.
The figure reflects an approximate total of primary and secondary schools nationwide, indicating a vast network spanning public and private institutions. The count underscores the scale of elementary, middle, and high school education across states.
Dr. Manfred Arie former Austrian state supreme court judge will speak at the Community auditorium 1947 Washington Ave SE tonight at 8 in support of the United Jewish Appeal Elmer Freud Cedar Rapids campaign chair will introduce him The drive aims to raise 250 million dollars for Jewish Palestine settlement European refugee relief and aid to newcomers in the United States
Britain on Tuesday dropped its blanket endorsement of Count Folke Bernadotte's plan to seize the Negev from Israel and cede western Galilee. Harold Beeley announced the shift to the U N political committee, aligning Britain more with the United States on partition boundaries while not endorsing the Bernadotte proposal.
Robert Swaney 18 of Franklin high earns national TV exposure on CBS Weekend with Music. He joins two other high school musicians for a New York Philharmonic broadcast December 14, travels December 12, and appears during Sunday airtime. Swaney studies piano pipe organ oboe and cello in Cedar Rapids and at Iowa. He is a Cedar Rapids symphony cellist and has performed with the SUI orchestra at Iowa City.
License plates for 1949 go on sale Wednesday at 8 a.m. in the Linn county courthouse treasurer's office. Deputy treasurer David Day asks applicants to bring car registration certificates and follow posted line signs. Two lines will serve passenger car and motorcycle registrants, and truck or trailer applicants. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays.
Dr. Donald J. Hughes spoke in Cedar Rapids saying atom powered ocean liners are a sure thing despite the need for heavy shielding. He suggested atom airplanes may work and noted ongoing experiments at Oak Ridge.
Induction reports list Fred J. Gartzke of Iowa City and Maurice Round of Independence as inducted Monday at the Cedar Rapids center. Also notes Ahepa election, stamp sales, and local civic meetings.
W Henry Galbreth editor of Midland Schools and IA association publications will speak at 7 PM in the Education building auditorium. The Linn County Educational Council and Cedar Rapids Education Association host the event inviting the public. John Schmoldt 23 paid $50 and costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving in traffic court on Tuesday. judge suspended $10. Police stopped his vehicle on the First avenue bridge after observing erratic driving late Monday night.
The final of four portal-to-portal pay suits against Cedar Rapids industries by CIO members was dismissed Tuesday in federal court. Judge Henry N Graven granted the motion by plaintiffs Charles W Hobbie Harold P Fischer and Raymond E Dillman to dismiss the case against Link-Belt Speeder Corp, filed January 2 1947 seeking about 500000 for overtime.
Warren R. Austin United States delegate to the United Nations was operated on Tuesday for a fairly serious yet successful procedure. He returned from Paris ten days ago for treatment and will recover at an unspecified location.
The Cedar Rapids post office received the season's first Santa letters on Tuesday but workers cannot read them as the preschool script resembles wavy lines, leaving Santa translations unread.
Nine men reported for pre-induction physical exams at Cedar Rapids draft center. Herb Wilkinson, a former University of Iowa star, is not slated for army duty due to age and height limits. The group also included James F. Hammett Jr. from Athens, Georgia, and other university affiliates from across the country.
Natchez prepares for December events as Villa Matchett of Chatam New Brunswick arrives December 4. She will light the tree of a thousand lights on December 6 and host a December 7 orphanage banquet, then tour stores and hotels in Natchez before departing December 11.
States Attorney Keith Scott filed a kidnapping warrant in Macomb Illinois at the request of Wesley Strickler of Ryan Iowa. Strickler says Joan Brakis 30 disappeared from Macomb on September 30 taking his six year old son. The search extends from Kansas City to Columbus Ohio with a claimed Dubuque meeting and plans to marry in Macomb. The warrant was issued October 5.
Dr. Charles Graves described severe overcrowding at Iowa state mental hospitals as hearings opened on the board of control budget. He noted beds in corridors and recreation rooms and 300 to 600 patients beyond ideal capacity across facilities in Mt. Pleasant Cherokee Independence Clarinda Glenwood and Woodward.
Two damage suits heard in Linn County district court on Tuesday in separate juries. In Judge Floyd Philbrick court Lewis J. Scott seeks 15200 for injuries from a December 14 1947 accident on Highway 151 near Marion while Schumacher seeks 145.38 for car damage. In Judge G K Thompson court Richard S. Chapin sues John and Mrs Sullivan for 2679 for injuries from a June 7 collision at B avenue and Sixteenth street NE with counterclaim totaling 7391.75.
President Truman called for improved teamwork on the domestic scene to support world recovery and lasting peace. In a message to state labor commissioners at a three day conference he urged continued will and determination to meet grave state and national problems and to strengthen world commitments.
H L McKinney age 64 of 1112 Maplewood drive NE and Eugene D Garber age 26 of 903 Oakland road NE were injured Tuesday morning when their feet were caught in a section of pipe tubing at the Rock Island railroad shop. Both were taken to St Luke's hospital by ambulance with Garber treated and released while McKinney had an X ray for a possible fracture.
Cedar Rapids Engineer club invites members to a party for wives and guests at Danceland Thursday evening beginning at 9 with a floor show. Tickets available by telephoning Roy Allen at 5171 or 20247.
Ray E. Morris, back from LaCrosse Wisconsin, pleads innocent at arraignment before Judge J. E. Heiserman. He is charged with passing a forged $100 check stolen from Eldred J. Stallman of Fairfax on October 9 and altered to bear a different name in Cedar Rapids. Morris had worked as a farm hand for Stallman.
Teresa Adelaide Mc Ginnis died November 15. Linn County District Court admitted her will to probate on Monday. Daughters Bernadine McNally and Alice O Rieley named executrices without bond. After mass benefits, remainder goes to Mrs. McNally.
Herman Harbach of Delaware county sues Paul Allen in Linn county district court for 783.02 dollars. He claims 311.52 dollars is due as principal and interest on a promissory note dated March 26, 1942 and 471.50 dollars for principal and interest on a loan made January 1, 1942.
New York AP report notes a staff officers meeting on November 17 led by Lt Gen Cornelius Wickersham. A special order required any knowledge of General Wickersham coat to be reported promptly and mentions his lecture on court martial in military government.
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