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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1942
Page
5
Lawrence Williams reports a general alarm after an oil stove overflow at 7 55 a.m. on Saturday. The incident occurred at 506 Thirty-fourth Street SE with Cedar Rapids and nearby cities noted in the report. Further details unclear due to fragmented text.
George Gero of New Brunswick New Jersey and Ruth Mason of Blencoe, along with Robert Maresh and Charlottee Kanealy of Cedar Rapids, are listed as individuals connected to the regional notice items.
Robert G Beers of 1154 J Avenue NW and Ed Lowenberg of 2753 First Avenue E each fined 10 dollars and costs for speeding. James Pickard of Norway fined 5 dollars and costs for operating a motor vehicle with faulty brakes.
St Luke s hospital Mr and Mrs George Klumpar 1062 G avenue NW announce a daughter born Oct 3 Mercy hospital Mr and Mrs Earl Abbey 526 Sixth avenue SE announce a daughter born Oct 2 Mr and Mrs Lyle Capper Lisbon announce a daughter born Oct 2 A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Varege Harris 714 B avenue NE on Oct 3 A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Firman LeFebure at Portsmouth Ohio Sept 26 LeFebure is son of Mrs Etta LeFebure 414 Fifteenth street SE former Cedar Rapids and Fairfax resident
French authorities in Marseilles arrested about 16 suspected British intelligence agents amid a vast roundup in southern France. Reports say seven noted anti Nazi Germans were handed to the Gestapo while a list of war order factories was found with one Polish detainee. A broader probe aims to break a wider undercover British network in unoccupied France.
Two of six Anamosa reformatory convicts employed at the Iowa state hospital pled guilty to conspiracy to commit larceny. Judge A B Lovejoy sentenced Eldon Gardner of Fairfield and Robert Wardell of Bloomfield to three years in Fort Madison prison. Arraignments set for Oct 16. officials have tracked grain disappearances worth several hundred dollars.
Washington high school crushed Bloomfield 18 to 0 on Friday. Marshall Turner and Schneider scored for Washington in a decisive victory highlighted by strong defensive play and a dominant first half.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette established in 1883 lists staff including Publisher JOUNG MILLER Editor MARRY BOYD and Managing Editor E O BOOYT. It notes postal privileges, wire services from Associated Press United Press International News Service and advertising representatives. Subscription rates and delivery areas are listed for carriers.
The order tightens wage controls, barring increases or decreases without National War Labor Board approval. It limits new salaries above 5000 and caps pay at 25000 after tax, with exceptions for hardship and essential war needs. The act stabilizes costs, raises farm price floors, and enables 90 percent parity loans. Byrnes named to key post, Roosevelt era appointee notes. The measure, swiftly passed by Congress, aims to steady living costs amid wartime strain.
The Cedar Rapids Council of Christian Youth will hold its second annual vespers at 4 30 p m Sunday in Sinclair Memorial Chapel Coe College The program includes organ preludes processional invocation offertory anthems and readings with Miss Alma Turechak directing and Miss Rebecca Stone John E Williams Mrs Robert Armstrong among those participating The service closes with a benediction by Dr Charles A Anderson and a postlude by Widor Organists are Ruth Mary Buresh David George Berger and Robin Oswald The council formed last year during Religious Education week and draws youth from local churches in Marion Cedar Rapids funded by area church groups.
Brown of Michigan argued the measure allows the President to place effective controls on 90 billion of the year’s roughly 115 billion national income. Senators Wheeler of Montana and Herring of Iowa protested a provision that lets the President keep government loans on feed crops below the 90 percent parity level, disadvantaging corn and wheat growers.
The Aluminum Company of America gave about 6000 workers at its New Kensington plant a five cent an hour raise retroactive to Sept. 20 after one day of talks with the CIO Aluminum Workers of America. The settlement follows prior gains at Detroit Edgewater N J and Cleveland by CIO locals. AWA President A Zonarich and Alcoa official R C Turner led negotiations.
Harold Fitzsimmons of 1241 Third Avenue SE was awarded the Purple Heart for a shrapnel wound in the chest suffered about an hour before the 1918 Armistice. He served near Metz with Company A machine gunners of the 131st Division, was hospitalized after the Armistice at Bordeaux, and returned to the United States on April 1, 1919.
Mrs Mary Ann Cowden 79 of Washington Iowa died Saturday morning at home after a long illness funeral services set for Monday at 10 am Burial in Crawfordsville She was widow of a Washington physician granddaughter of Dr Isaac Crawford founder of Crawfordsville She is survived by a son Bruce longtime city editor of The Washington Evening Journal and a daughter Margaret a missionary in Iran since 1915 An unrelated 1935 Soviet army dancing lesson order mentioned.
Advices from France say French naval reinforcements have been sent to Dakar, a key West African base. Admiral Jean Francois Darlan ordered a submarine flotilla from Toulon to Dakar on Sept. 20, successfully passing the Gibraltar Strait and arriving there. French submarines helped repel the British raid on Dakar in September 1940. The current fleet size at Dakar is not disclosed.
The long scoreless sequence features fielding gems by Musial and DiMaggio. A late frame sees Breuer pulled after protests, Slaughter scoring on a wild sequence, and DiMaggio making a running catch before DiMaggio singles and Kurowski and Keller contribute outs. One run, two hits, one error, two left.
Mr and Mrs Jess W Mason of 1401 Center Point road report three sons in the army. Corp Alva L Mason, home on furlough from Camp Tyson Tennessee, left Saturday to return to duty. Private Eldon A Mason has been moved from Camp Wallace Texas to a U S army radio school in Los Angeles. Jess Mason Jr has been promoted to private first class at Camp Cook California.
Corp John Hamilton Bell Jr and Corp John Kempton of the Fort Riley cavalry replacement center are visiting the J Hamilton Bell home at 545 Knollwood Dr SE and await aviation cadet assignments. Harold Wade, brother of Mrs Paul Cramer, at Camp Roberts California, formerly attended Roosevelt High in Cedar Rapids. Charles Joseph Balik at Great Lakes naval training station earned fireman third class. Jim Puryear, Cedar Rapids, ex Court Hussey band member, now with US Army Air Force band in Grenville Mississippi. Ernest Wilson at Camp Barkley Texas on a 12 day furlough with his wife and parents. Clifford V Laoby of Cedar Rapids completed a 16 week gunner’s mates training at Great Lakes.
The Office of Price Administration announced supplemental fuel oil rations for households with children under four. Zones A to D grant 125, 100, 75, and 50 gallons respectively to raise indoor temperatures from 65 to about 70 degrees in spaces used by children. Additional allowances possible for sick or elderly with doctor’s certificate, while no extra for multiple under four children or house size.
Mrs Earl Churchill of 827 Second Avenue SW is in Mercy Hospital recovering from burns suffered last Sunday in a coffee percolator accident. Mrs David D Flook of 1124 Sixth Street NE underwent major surgery at St Luke's Hospital Thursday and is in favorable condition. Miss Trene Brooks of 530 McKinley Street SE was inducted into the WAAC at Des Moines Friday and awaits orders to report for duty. she has been a stenographer at the Iowa Service Bureau.
London reports the German battleship Tirpitz has moved from Trondheim to a northern Norwegian port to help challenge Allied convoys bound for Russia as Arctic nights lengthen. Officials say extended darkness may shield German warships and submarines while hampering German air operations that damaged Murmansk and Archangel convoys in summer.
Milner M Simitz of Cedar Rapids, part of a 47 charged group accused of planning to distribute thousands of lottery tickets for the world series, will appear before U S Commissioner R L Whelan in Cedar Rapids Monday morning after a continuation from Friday.
HOLLYWOOD UP The weekly Benny broadcast to the Pacific coast is canceled as the AFM fights transcription use. Blue network officials said the union demanded live talent or double wages for both Benny shows. Early west coast airing forced a late transcription repeat.
Admiral Thomas C. Hart visiting Tampa says he is very saddened by widespread government expenditures that he believes do not contribute to the war effort. He cites complaints from young officers and enlisted men about a lack of equality of sacrifice and urges those earning big wages to stop crowding the plate for more.
DES MOINES AP Iowa counties report 3659 tons of scrap collected in the first five days of a three week salvage drive led by state officials. Harrison County tops both total and per capita, with 444 tons and the day’s high. The roll includes Dubuque Cerro Gordo Woodbury Sac Audubon Sioux Washington Johnson Clayton Clinton Union and others over 100 tons in five days.
Warren A Guritz 21 of Oelwein admitted deserting the army at Jefferson Barracks Missouri last July. Cedar Rapids police arrested him Thursday night at the request of the assistant provost marshal at Jefferson Barracks. Army officials will return Guritz to Fort Des Moines.
CE Jones, a scientist, spoke on light at a Wilson high school assembly Thursday. Floyd Hill introduced him. Jones covered many modern light applications and showed a blackout demonstration with Vernon Kriz assisting as Irfy.
The United States granted Syria and Lebanon limited recognition by appointing a special delegate to Beirut and Damascus. George Wadsworth of New York was chosen, a veteran through the Near East, to carry out the new diplomatic role as recognition followed independence proclaimed by General de Gaulle.
Cedar Rapids Masons honor E. E. Sparling senior grand warden of Iowa's Masonic grand lodge with Grand Master Ford L. Van Hoesen visiting. Event at Masonic hall 7 30 p.m. Oct 14, sponsored by Cedar Rapids Blue Lodge Inter Relations committee. Masters from three lodges preside. Simultaneous meeting planned Oct 19.
Cedar Rapids police and the city traffic court show enforcement with two drivers fined ten dollars and costs after being clocked at 39 mph on First Avenue East. Judge Harry S Johnson issued a speeding schedule: under 40 mph ten dollars, 40 to 50 mph twenty five, over 50 mph one hundred, with costs.
The navy announced the torpedoing of a medium sized United Nations merchant vessel off the northern coast of South America late in August. Four of the 87 crew members were lost. Separate report notes weeds and insects cause an annual loss of 6.5 billion dollars in the United States.
In New York Irwin Goodman a popular mathematics teacher at Brooklyn's William J Gaynor junior high was shot to death Friday by one of two boys he had caught smoking in a school washroom. Assistant District Attorney Nathan Math said Joseph Annunziata 19 admitted firing the fatal bullet after Neil Simonelli 16 had pointed the pistol at Goodman and pulled the trigger twice. Neither boy was a student at the school but Simonelli was a former student.
In Belfast a court sentenced two to three months in jail for Italian women who acted as spies between Northern Ireland where British and American troops are stationed and neutral fire. The case revealed the covert activity during the wartime period.
VICHY AP Edouard Herriott, former head of the defunct chamber of deputies, has been placed in forced residence in a formal announcement made Saturday. The action marks a political move amid ongoing legal and governmental restructuring in the region.
American medium bombers based in India attacked Tingka near the China Burma border on Sept 27, hitting one building directly and scoring near misses on other targets. Brig. Gen. Clayton L. Bissell announced the raid, with additional strikes on Myitkyina and Katha in northeast Burma. All aircraft returned safely, though villages near Myitkyina were set ablaze by fire bombs.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek sent a $10,000 check to J. B. Powell, former editor of the China Weekly Review, for services to the Chinese republic. Foreign Minister Soong presented the gift at the New York hospital where Powell is recovering after captivity during the war.
Washington AP reports the Office of Price Administration allows gasoline stations to charge the same profit margin as the first half of October 1941. The move lets few outlets that cut prices in March raise them back to the October level, while wholesale prices also rise toward the ceiling, squeezing dealers.
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