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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1944
Page
19
Public notices list food and fuel stamp extensions for 1944 45 and earlier coupons. Includes detail on divorce decrees marriage licenses offenses fines and local fire calls with multiple addresses and names. Also reports several birth announcements from St Lukes Mercy hospitals and related locations.
Harry H Ap gar, 53, wounded at the Mil ner hotel Tuesday night, shows improvement at Mercy hospital but remains in serious condition. LeRoy Brookman, 49, of 1038 Fifth Avenue SE, jailed on charges of assault with intent to commit murder after failing to post $5,000 bail.
Edward George Pulda 17 of 1138 Evehirth street is enlisted in the naval reserve through Cedar Rapids recruiting office. Second degree conferred at Maine lodge No 643 700 tonight. Cub Pack 29 meets 730 at Westminster Presbyterian church. Linn County Radio club meets 7 pm Saturday in Coliseum basement. War emergency radio transmitters to be repaired. Frances Bennett Chicago Bible worker speaks 2 pm Saturday at Children’s Home Bible Classes in the Coliseum. Rev C W Harrop speaks Following Jesus Then and Now 1 am service Sunday at Pale Methodist church. Sunday school at 10 am. Rockne Bernard O’Deen son of Mr and Mrs John O’Deen 513 Seventh Avenue SE operated pneumonia patient at St Luke’s Hospital Wednesday. Condition reported fairly good.
After hearings by the War Labor Board enforcement division, Sears and Davenport canvas and leather goods makers agreed to settlements totaling about 63 thousand dollars for employee overpayments. The board approved 20 percent settlements for several Cedar Rapids firms and added the amounts to taxable income. Some cases were continued or moved to Kansas City for further hearings.
Washington AP reports the National Housing Administration and the War Production Board authorized higher ceilings for new houses up to 8000 dollars purchase price and 65 dollars a month rent in high cost areas. Occupancy restrictions were removed enabling broader buy or rent by non war workers.
Rabbi Herman Schaalman urged a Linn county postwar psychiatric plan at a luncheon of the Council of Social Agencies. He warned of rising demand for trained psychiatrists to help soldiers with combat stress and others rejected for service, plus a need for marriage clinics to address deep rooted psychiatric issues.
Linn county land owners will vote November 4 on adding territory to the county soil conservation district. Clyde Spry of the Iowa soil conservation committee said ten polling places will be open from 7 to 9 p.m.
Robert Armstrong urged volunteers to finish the Community War Chest drive as $154,267 was counted toward a $186,398 quota. Women’s division captains Gossard and Grove far exceeded goals, while Lynch and Cejka led other totals. In men’s small business, Knox and Piper topped their quotas, and Swaney’s division surpassed its target. Terry Durin and Salvation Army received awards for full employee participation. County drive in Maine Townshi p raised $1,418.72 against $1,327 quota.
Admiral Taylor spoke in Chicago about the Pacific theater as the war’s hardest, noting Saipan had more guns per mile and eight times the casualties of the Spanish-American War. He urged victory first, then a lasting peace through allied cooperation and vigilance, with navy support to prevent future war. Preflight bands from Iowa City played at the luncheon.
Police blotter reports 15 broken windows at the Sanitary Farms Dairy garage 408 E avenue NW with $35 damage. A service station at 500 Third street SE was broken into with $5 taken. A woman lost $4350 from a Yellow cab ride home. A child's tricycle was stolen from a garage at 1126 Elmhurst drive NE. A 14 year old boy was arrested for suspected window peeping after being seen at 608 Third avenue SE.
President Roosevelt issues the 1944 Armistice Day proclamation urging the nation to rededicate efforts to win the war and build a lasting peace. He calls on all Americans to continue war work and support national unity.
Navy reveals 16 battleships and 37 cruisers as backbone of Pacific force, with 103 ship resumes showing action through mid August. Details include carriers Indpendence Long Island Yorktown Lexington Santee Nassau Sangamon Suwanee Newark etc and new units Wisconsin Missouri Alaska Guam adding to the fleet.
Soviet forces pressed into East Prussia with strong armored drives around Konigsberg, seizing Gruneweitschen and a road junction near Gumbinnen amid fierce hand to hand combat. Reports say up to 2,800 Germans killed and 39 tanks, with more losses elsewhere as Cherniakhovsky and Petrov push advances through Czechoslovakia and into the Carpatho Ukraine.
A wartime communique from Gen. Stilwell notes Fourteenth Air Force bombers hitting a fleeing Japanese task force in the South China Sea. Reports tell of battleships, cruisers, destroyers at Leyte Gulf and near Surigao strait, with Japanese fleet leaders seeking to land reinforcements but being repelled. Ensigns describe close shellfire as Jeep carriers fought back while destroyers shielded operations.
London AP reports more than 1,850 American warplanes attacked the northern Ruhr and nearby areas including Munster Bielefeld and Hannover along rail lines toward the central Netherlands. Royal Air Force bombers also hit Leverkusen. Over 1,200 Fortress and Libera tor bombers with 650 Mustang and Thunderbolt fighters dropped about 3,000 tons. One American fighter was separated from its group and engaged by six German planes. no bombers were attacked.
The 9-year-old Tommy Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Elliott Davis of 2735 B Avenue NE, was reported improving at St. Luke's Hospital. Doctors ruled out poliomyelitis and diagnosed the illness as a blood stream infection as of Friday.
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