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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1944
Page
4
Daily Record lists A through Z8 and Ad through K5 food and gas coupons valid indefinitely with extensions for fuel oil to 1945. Also records police court penalties for drunkenness speeding and parking, plus marriage licenses, divorce petitions and decrees, a riverbank dump fire, and several birth notices from St Luke's and Willard Hospital with addresses across Cedar Rapids and Ames.
Gov. B. B. Hickenlooper, Republican candidate for senator, outlined a speaking itinerary through next week. He will address audiences in Oskaloosa, Ottumwa, Mason City, Cedar Falls, Waterloo, Monticello, Burlington, West Liberty, Muscatine, Keokuk, and Fort Madison with dinners, luncheons, and events scheduled across Iowa.
Cedar Rapids seniors Ellen Johnson and Jean Morris along with Traer resident George Muirhead have been elected to Phi Kappa Phi national scholastic honor society. Johnson majors in history, Morris in zoology, Muirhead in history.
Mrs. George Forsch reported $40 stolen from a cedar chest in her daughter Esther Genkinger’s room at 1002 Fifth Street SE. Detectives noted the chest lock was not forced. Mrs. Lois Swanson said a sweater package left at Woolworth on a Thursday afternoon was stolen. value listed as 3.
Daniel J Tobin announced 18 AFL leaders including eight vice presidents joined as advisory members and endorsed President Roosevelt for re election. The group represents a majority of AFL members with leaders from unions such as Brotherhood of Rail Way Clerks International Association of Machinists Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employers American Federation of Musicians Bricklayer and Plasterers Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Barbers International.
Coroner reports self-induced starvation led to the death of 14 year old Rose Marie Maccallini of Rochester. He says taunts about her weight by playmates drove her to diet despite a doctor's orders, reducing her weight from 188 to 88 pounds in a year.
Cedar Rapids and surroundings see partly cloudy conditions tonight and Saturday with cooler temperatures. Statewide highs reached 64 in Cedar Rapids and several cities. lows dipped to 39 in Mason City while other locations hit 38 at Mason City. Evening readings show 54 at 7 p.m. and 42 at midnight with 39 degrees at 7 a.m. Humidity stood at 35 percent.
London editors pushed Philippines coverage as the Evening News quoted a strong warning that Japan faced consequences for Pearl Harbor. Members of Parliament applauded Ellis Smith who said the British public would accept responsibility in the Far East.
Gov. B. B. Hickenlooper addressed about 500 Scottish Rite Masons at the 100th Iowa Consistory reunion, urging moral leadership and defense against tyranny. The evening included the conferring of the second section of the thirty second degree on 112 candidates, with remarks by Judge Floyd Philbrick, Dr. Russell D. Cole, and other dignitaries.
President Roosevelt joked that he was not interested in Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's foreign policy speech. He said reporters should claim he was not interested in the delivery and noted his own New York address could run 45 minutes to avoid being cut off while listening to Orson Welles.
A tri state conference of credit men from nine midwestern cities will be held in Cedar Rapids February 22 and 23 at the Montrose hotel. Attending will be representatives from Sioux Falls and Lincoln, Omaha, Des Moines, Waterloo, Sioux City, Burlington, Town and South Dakota. Glenn Mobry announced the event on Friday and noted the program is still incomplete.
New York AP reports that for the first time since last March the living costs of wage earners and lower salaried clerical workers declined in September in a majority of 63 industrial cities surveyed by the National Industrial Conference Board. Costs fell in 37 cities, rose in 22, and stayed level in four.
The Moscow radio said talks between the Polish factions from Lublin and London in Moscow were suspended without a decision but with clarifications of positions. It added that conferences would resume soon after Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk consults with his exiled cabinet in London.
Marine Earl McFarland 21 a Guadalcanal veteran pled innocent at arraignment on three counts charging murder and rape of Dorothy Berrum 18. Defense asked 10 days to study the indictment and no trial date was set.
Rep. Hampton P. Fulmer of South Carolina, 69, longtime House Agriculture chair and author of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, died after a sudden illness in his Capitol area apartment. He also wrote the cotton grading act and the veterans hospital bill, shaping wildlife conservation policy and 1930s farm legislation. He leaves a widow Willa Lybrand and three children.
Mr and Mrs Don Glandon were notified that their son Corporal Daryl R Glandon was fatally injured in an airplane crash at Cherry Point North Carolina The body will be returned for burial in Sigourney Iowa.
Matt G Merrill will lead the Grotto zone meeting at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Roosevelt hotel. A ceremonial of Ambar Grotto follows with dinner at 6 30 p.m. in Z C B J hall. Grottos from AH Iowa including Council Bluffs Burlington Ottumwa Waterloo Davenport Dubuque Des Moines and Cedar Rapids will be represented. Grottos of Rock Island and Moline are invited.
The Rt. Rev. Msgr John M. Molloy argued that war itself, not treaties, caused Europe’s economic dislocation. He urged a cooling off period, an effective substitute for war, and the application of force under law to prevent international anarchy at a dinner speaking for the Iowa State Council of Carpenters and Joiners.
Des Moines AP report states Chief C. A. Knee of the state highway patrol assigned 15 patrolmen to manage traffic for the Purdue Iowa homecoming game in Iowa City. Officers will cover all roads into the city from 40 to 50 miles away before the game and disperse with the crowd afterward.
The Rev. John A. O'Brien professor of philosophy at Notre Dame will conduct Forty Hours devotions at Immaculate Conception church starting December 8. He will also lecture December 10 at the Memorial Coliseum on the topic A Lasting Peace.
Florence Schnor of Bethel township seeks custody of her minor child. She filed an appeal from a Fayette county district court divorce decree that placed the child in the care of the paternal grandparents after Vernon W. Schnor’s divorce from Florence Schnor on July 6, 1944.
The bishop asserts Japan faces a long period of upheaval from loss of face, urges infiltration of brotherhood ideals through missionaries led by Dr. Kagawa and Bishop Abe, and plans expanded chaplain work in veterans hospitals to aid returning servicemen. He notes higher chaplain casualties in World War II and recalls four belts given by chaplains in a 1943 convoy disaster. He travels to Chicago and Hartford to speak on The World Ahead, while continuing loaned service with the methodist church and his mission history in Asia.
Miss Eleanor Pohorsky resigns after 18 years as bookkeeper at the Chamber of Commerce effective November 1. She will spend the winter in St. Petersburg Florida with her mother Mrs Josephine Pohorsky and leaves for Florida around December 1 after auditing chamber records for the Community War Chest and the All Iowa Fair.
Paris residents welcomed a large shipment of 54 tons of matches from provincial manufacturers. The Aurore reported the supply ends a three month Paris match shortage and restores basic household fuel.
Senator Truman pledged President Roosevelt to back private industry in using government war plants and completing power projects to spur postwar production and jobs. He urged a government that prioritizes workers and plant use over competitive fears and warned against Dewey’s alleged political tricks. He spoke at a Seattle rally with Governor Wallgren, stressing leadership for victory and lasting peace.
Allied forces assault Leyte as heavy bombers and rocket craft smash inland defenses. Troops, tanks, and landing craft push from transports to shore, establishing bridgeheads near Tacloban and Palo while MacArthur watches from Nashville. A three day carrier strike targets Manila area as Third Fleet sinks or damages hundreds of enemy ships and planes.
The South Side Civic Club will hold its annual sports banquet on December 7 at 6 30 p.m. in C.S.P.S. hall. A patriotic program and awards to community athletic leaders will be featured. T. F. McPartland is banquet chairman.
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