Weather and police notes fill Friday pages
Partly cloudy weather outlook through Sunday with a warmer Sunday followed by fair Monday and a chance of showers Tuesday. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph. Temperature highs near 68 Sunday and 67 Monday, with cool nights in the mid 40s. The page also lists numerous local fines for traffic and other violations, a birth record update from several cities, and a local fire call.
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S.el Ao
Sioux ‘Shepe City
Iowa
Heirs of Kenna Jolted by Back Taxes Estimate
In Chicago authorities estimated the estate of Michael Hinky Dink Kenna at about 932000 with more than 300000 due in back taxes. A Friday search of safety boxes tied to Kenna uncovered 331920 in cash, securities and jewels, raising questions about access and prior tax returns since 1940.
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Chicago
Michael “Hinky Dink
Kenna
Courthouse Records Leo Fitzpatrick Fined for Assault
Leo Fitzpatrick aged 24 of 1218 Fifth Avenue SE paid a $10 fine and costs and received a suspended 15 day county jail sentence after pleading guilty to assault. The incident followed a Tuesday night one blow fight in which Fitzpatrick struck Charles Randall and knocked him down.
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Ward O
Fort Dodge
Howard R. Churchill
Leo Fitzpatrick
Fifth Avenue SE
H. R. Churchill
Fitzpatrick
Charles Randall
Christian divorce petition dismissed in secretarial decision
Ardis L. Christian Friday dismissed a divorce petition she filed on October 11 against Gerald L. Christian in a court action.
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Ardis L. Christian
Gerald L. Christian
Hadsell Given Suspended Sentence For Vagrancy
Donald Hadsell aged 44 of 1115 Second Street SW received a six months suspended jail sentence Saturday from Judge G. K. Thompson after pleading guilty to a vagrancy charge filed in October. He was released at noon.
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Donald Hadsell
Second Street
G. K. Thompson
Hadsell
Nine Community Chest Groups Qualify for Distinguished Service
Nine organizations earned distinguished service awards for meeting their 1947 Community Chest quotas. The list includes Board of Education Tyler Franklin McKinley and Cleveland schools IOA foods Barron Motors the Sunshine Mission and Rubias Hardware. A mid drive audit Friday evening involved Business and Professional Women's club workers from 6 to 10 pm with Miss Annabelle Rindl as audit supervisor and Gene Phillips as banker.
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Board of Education
Tyler, Franklin, McKinley
Cleveland
IOA Foods
Barron Motors
Sunshine Mission
Rubias Hardware
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Annabelle Rindl
Gene Phillips
George Gillpatrick
Elsie C. Horn
Este M. Heath
Josephine Hexdall
Alice Bothell
Edna C. Baker
Olivene Hahn
Margaret Henzelka
Frances McFall
J. T. Grayson
Bettty Kleineck
Pleasant Weekend Forecast for Cedar Rapids
Pleasant weekend expected for Iowa with sun visible, mix of partly cloudy skies, and warmer temperatures ahead. Forecasted lows tonight 34 to 40 north and 40 to 44 south, with yesterday’s highs reaching the 57 degree range in several cities. Cedar Rapids reported a 53 degree high on Friday and a 39 degree low this morning.
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Cedar Rapids
AFL Eyes 10 Million Members and Possible Nurse Affiliation
The AFL seeks 10,000,000 members and may reaffiliate 600,000 machinists while admitting nurses in private hospitals and yardmasters. The Railroad Yardmasters of America receive a charter if no other AFL group claims jurisdiction. President Green said negotiations with the Machinists continue and hospital nurses may join the AFSCME.
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Chicago
American Federation of Labor
AFL Executive Council
International Association of Machinists
American Federation of State
John Pettinger Found Dead in His Apartment
John Pettinger aged 75 of 5 Ninth Avenue was found dead in his apartment Friday after neighbors worried when he did not fetch his Thursday newspaper. Coroner Dr. T Frank Hersch attributed death to internal hemorrhages with an estimated three days since passing. Surviving are sister Mrs. Rose Sulivan of Newark and brother George of California. body at Rohn funeral home pending arrangements.
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John Pettinger
Ninth Avenue
Pettinger
T. Frank Hersch
Rapids
Rose Sulivan
Newark
N. J
George
California
Rohn Funeral Home
Stakes High In Election Next Month
James Marion reports on the looming November elections with Republicans seeking control of either or both houses. A GOP win could block President Truman, give them chairmanships, and shift power in Congress with 435 House seats and 96 Senate seats up for grabs. Republicans hold 192 House seats and 39 Senate seats, needing 26 and 10 gains respectively amidst vacancy counts.
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Washington
Cag Ype
Senate
Congress
Truman
House
Veterans and Foreign Affairs
Byrnes Warns Against Veto and Inevitable Conflict
Former Secretary James Byrnes warns against states vetoing postwar peace efforts and delays to economic recovery. He cites Potsdam and Paris talks, urges reconciliation with the Soviet Union, and cautions that accepting inevitable conflict fuels artificial tensions and slows Europe’s recovery.
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Molotov
Trieste
Byrnes
Truman
Paris
Soviet Union
Europe
Deaths Joseph L Ludvicek Services Planned near Swisher
Services for Joseph L Ludvicek, who died Thursday, will be conducted in Broshcha at 2 p.m. Burial will be at Castek cemetery near Swisher. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Joseph L. Ludvicek
Swisher
Broshcha
Theodore B. Hlubucek
Castek
Obituary Notice for Fourth Street NW Resident
A local resident died in a city hospital at 10 a.m. Saturday. She is survived by a grandmother Mrs Lena Robinson of Cedar Racom and a grandfather George of Blairstown. Private services were held at Beatty chapel at 3 30 p m Saturday led by Rev LE Schmiege of Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial followed in Cedar Memorial cemetery.
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Fourth Street NW
Lena Robinson
Cedar Racom
George
Blairstown
Beatty Chapel
LE. Schmiege
Trinity Lutheran Church
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Warland Services for Mrs Matilda Warland
Obituary notice for Mrs Matilda Warland of 1615 Hinkley Avenue NW who died after a lingering illness. Rev Paul L. Miller of First Lutheran will conduct services at Brady mortuary at 2 p.m. Monday. Burial in Cedar Memorial cemetery family lot. Friends may call at the mortuary.
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Warland
Matilda Warland
Hinkley Avenue
Paul L. Miller
First Lutheran Church
Brady Mortuary
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Friends Imay
Measures 5 Inches in No 30 Foot Stitch Directions
Fragmentary notice provides stitching directions and requests name and address at Rando Street, Chicago. The legible portion mentions five inches and No 30 cot ee instructions, but the rest is unreadable.
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Rando Street
Chi
VFW Pow Wow Opens in Cedar Rapids for Iowa Posts
The first postwar Veterans of Foreign Wars pow wow begins in Cedar Rapids with 1000 plus members expected for a two day session. National leaders Ray H Brannaman and Lawrence A Rogers attend. events include a banquet and floor show at the Montrose hotel and a Sunday program with instruction schools and a model post meeting.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Adrian Ler
VFW
Ray H. Brannaman
Denver
Lawrence A. Rogers
Kansas City
Brannaman
Lisbon
Rogers
Newton
Montrose Hotel
John S. McVitty
Council Bluffs
OPA Drops Complaints Against Eastern Iowa Butchers
End of OPA control over meat followed last Tuesday with dismissals of three suits by the price control agency against eastern Iowa butchers. Defendants named include Ade’s Meat Market owner Adra Lane Wyoming Tama Meat Company G W Whitehead and Wayne H Carver partners Traer Food Locker Service Inc Traer Iowa.
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OPA
Price Control Organization
Iowa
Adra Lane
Ade
Wyoming
Tama Meat Company
G. W. Whitehead
Wayne H. Carver
Traer Food Locker Service, Inc
Raer
Poet Edgar A Guest Recounts Parental Dread for Progressive Times
Fragment from Edgar A. Guest reflecting on parental fears as children grow up. The speaker imagines a boy wanting a bicycle a later era sees ambitions for a car, a plane, and even a moon rocket. The verse explores mothers’ anxieties about expanding technological dreams.
Parade Winners Named In Coe Homecoming Flings
Kappa Delta sorority and Chi Beta Phi fraternity won prizes at the Coe College Homecoming parade with a traveling trophy for the "serious" entry and a $10 prize for the Beta butcher shop replica. Judges were five Coe faculty, and the event featured a variety-show program with music by the Coe band and a loyalty song finale.
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Coe College
Kappa Delta Sorority
Chi Beta Phi
Coe Chapel
Bud Leitner
Mt. Carroll
Ill
Kd’s
Coe
Betty J. Eilertsen
Ruth Zika
John A. Fisher
Robert V. Drexler
Gene Waller
Byron S. Hollinshead
SS Ous
Harris Lamb
Maurice Trickey
Immb
Ben Peterson
Coe Cee
Jack Matheus
Dr Laura Nanes Aims for State School Aid Reform in Iowa
Dr Laura Nanes Ot tumwa the only woman candidate for state office on the Democratic ticket in Iowa this year urged increased state funding for public schools at a Cedar Rapids Democratic Women’s club event. She promoted rural school consolidation, fairer funding beyond property taxes and higher teacher pay to attract and retain educators.
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Laura Nanes
Ottumwa
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Democratic Women’s Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Nanes
Paul Huston
Progres
George Novak
Jaroslava Holub
Joseph Mekota
Teagan Argow
Tension at Cedar Rapids Kenridge housing camp
Residents accuse Ellis trailer tenants and others of poor repairs long delays and hostile responses. Manager Pickering defends FPHA policy, vows eviction of the Ellis family and promises to route complaints to the proper channels.
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Pickering
Ellis
Picky
Kenridge
the Gazette
No Indictments Voted In Canfield Disaster
DuBuque Iowa fire laws labeled antiquated and not correlated after a grand jury studied 525 pages of Canfield hotel fire evidence. The jury urged revision and consolidation of statutes and requested the inquest evidence be released to public fire officials for proper duties under current law.
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Dubuque
Iowa
Incorporation Notice for Craemer Enterprises
Mary Josepha Craemer, Craemer, and Jentine Craemer form a for profit corporation under Chapter Bode 1946 to conduct wholesale goods general merchandise and department store trade. The company, with principal place of business and assets described, may purchase lease convey and exchange property and to secure payments. Capital of 11000 is stated and the corporate board is to operate as a going concern in Iowa.
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Mary Josee Craemer
Craemer
Jentine Craemer
Said Corporation
Oy Department
Hs Iowa
KRRM
General Mercanacd
Cotas oWa
Harsh living conditions reported at Kenridge camp
Residents describe toilets that won’t flush, blocked drains with chicken feathers and fish scales, and empty light fixtures. Maintenance complains of parts shortages while campers recount discarded dead animals and children mocked for poverty.
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Kenridge
C. Mahannah
No. 17
Dixie Lee
Marine Band Performs News Reel at Cedar Rapids Concert
The 55 member United States Marine Band will present News Reel by William Schuman at Memorial Building Auditorium in Cedar Rapids at 8 15 p m Tuesday. The piece links news reel scenes with music and the program includes classical to popular selections plus traditional American marches. Tickets available in The Cedar Rapids Gazette lobby and by mail for out of town orders. Proceeds go to Gazette Charities, Inc and community philanthropies.
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William Schuman
United States Marine Band
Cedar Rapids’ Memorial Building
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Pi Delta Epsilon Plans Informal Reunion On Homecoming
The oldest Coe campus honorary Pi Delta Epsilon will hold an informal reunion in Old Main basement at 3 30 p m Sunday as part of Homecoming observances. President Byron S Hollinshead with Mrs Hollinshead will attend. Prof Ethel R Outland is grand vice president.
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Coe
Pi Delta Epsilon
Old Main
Byron S. Hollinshead
Bucknell University
Hollinshead
Ethel R. Outland
Record Pear Shipments Left Cedar Rapids This Season
Eight carloads of Kiefer pears grown near Cedar Rapids are shipped to Minneapolis and northern points via Lagomarcino-Grape. Charles Zisko, arranger for purchase and resale, says this is Cedar Rapids’ largest Kiefer pear shipment in 35 years. A bumper crop met weak local demand, delaying picking. The eighth carload was ordered Friday.
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Cedar Rapids
Minneapolis
Lagomarcino-Grape Company
Charles Zisko
Gazette
Zisko
Allied Generals Face Criticism Over Goering News Suppression
Kingscary Smith of the combined American press reports from Nuremberg that news of Goering's execution was suppressed for more than seven hours. The dispatch says British and French generals on the Allied commission opposed rapid news release, with American, Russian, and French officials noting the confusion and restrictions.
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New York
Kingscary Smith
Niernberg
Goering
Rickard
Riots Spread in Bengal Across 300 Square Miles
An Indian relief official said Hindu Muslim rioting expanded over 300 square miles of predominantly Muslim eastern Bengal, displacing not less than 100000 people. Bengal officials claimed Noakhali and Tippera casualties were lower than the 5000 killed figure but released no government casualty lists.
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Calcutta
Bengal
Noakhali
Tippera
Bengal Provincial Congress Committee
Troop Arrivals by the Associated Press
More than 11 000 service personnel on five ships were scheduled to reach U S ports Saturday from Europe and the Orient. Only one transport the President Tyler docked Friday bringing 261 war brides and children and 78 troops to Newark.
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Associated Press
U.S
Europe
Orient
President Tyler
Newark
Mrs. Clayton L. Meskimen Returns Home After Major Operation
Mrs. Clayton L. Meskimen of 2006 Washington avenue SE has returned home from Mercy hospital where she underwent a major operation. The brief note appears in a city notices section accompanying local advertising and savings lines.
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Clayton L. Meskimen
Washington Avenue SE
Mercy Hospital
Stamp Club Set to Meet in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Stamp club will meet at 8 p.m. Monday in the Montrose hotel. The program includes a T.M.P.S. circuit a 50let:ction and a duplicate bourse. Prospective members will be honored in a pledge service.
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Stamp Club
Cedar Rapids Stamp Club
Montrose Hotel
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Tama
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William Ingold
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Juanita Smith
Roe G. Kirkpatrick
Mt. Vernon
Dorothy M. Jandik
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Russell W. Peterson, Jr
Alta
Illa Patrick
Victor Vanesse
Ellen M. Hubler
Gretchen Ione Statler
Clarence Otis Statler
Gladys Wilson
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St. Luke’s
Willard Grummer
Luzerne
Joseph Kristman
Seventeenth Avenue
Dale Cook
Vernon
Ira Rahmel
Andrew Flender
Ely
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Louis Dircks
Ninth Street
Richard Simmering
Johnson Avenue
Frank Havlicek
Truman Berryhill
Fifteenth Avenue
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Ark
Luther Mc
C.R
AFL
James Marion
United States
Ludvicek Services
Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Kappa Delta and
Chi Beta Phis
Carl Kane
Marjory Swanson
Jones
Ellis Trailer
John Stoner
Stoners
Stoner
Cr. L. Sawyer
Lloyd Hamer
Hamers
Federal Public Housing Authority
FPHA
Canfield
Psey Josephine Craemer
Marine Band
Goering Gay
Krebs Dutch Girl Dairy
Ist Ave
Charles W
Hobbie
Linn County
Bishop
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Menager
Bishop Coakeue
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