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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1946
Page
23
The paper reports temperatures across cities including Bismarck and Chicago with a stormy mixed forecast for the region. An Iowa weather forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and a rise in temperatures into Friday and Saturday with light westerly winds. The issue also lists divorce petitions and court notices, plus several local birth announcements and petty charges.
Forecaster Decker notes no official prediction but recalls 1940 patterns where a cold mass in Canada caused a blizzard in November. He says current signs lack a similar buildup, yet cautions weather can change. Cedar Rapids records 55 at 2 30 p m as temps swing from 77 to 69 by morning.
Larry Bowling four year old son of Mr and Mrs Guy Bowling of Maquoketa was critically hurt in a Davenport area auto accident Tuesday. The car left the road overturned several times and landed on its wheels in a farm field. He was taken to a Davenport hospital with a skull fracture.
Viola Jones, 23, of Albia, Iowa, died of infantile paralysis at University hospital in Iowa City Tuesday after a six day hospitalization.
Rear Admiral Charles A. Pownall, commander of the Marianas and Guam governor, urged more men money and matériel to build a Pacific defense line spanning Guams and Pearl Harbors. He warned against complacency amid atomic threats and emphasized US guardianship of Marshall Islands Marianas and Carolines.
Carrie Belle Coie died at 5 15 p m Tuesday at her home 1628 Fourth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids age 83 born March 12 1882 in Cedar Rapids she lived in Joy Newfoundland and Tingley Iowa earlier Survived by daughter Mrs M M Fowler three sons H R Coie C C Coie and R T Coie mother Mrs Mary E Tuttle two brothers Hawley Tuttle and Frank Tuttle six grandchildren Funeral services in Turner chapel with burial in Linwood Cemetery
Rebecca M. Rickard of 326 Third Avenue SW Cedar Rapids died at home at 9 30 am Wednesday after a brief illness. Survived by two nephews Fred Rickard of Cedar Rapids and BR Gillette of Estherville. three nieces Mrs William Prewof Spencer Mrs Mary Clark and Mrs Delphine Cartwright all of Los Angeles. Member of First United Presbyterian Church. Funeral services in Turner chapel at a time to be announced.
Private funeral services were held in Turner chapel for Bonnie Louise Brown infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Clyde A Brown of 431 Eighth Avenue SW. Surviving are her parents grandparents and several aunts and uncles with birth occurring Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs Mittie B Rodi baugh age unknown of 125 Twelfth Street NE died Monday. Services set for Thursday at 1 30 pm in Beatty chapel with Rev J Richard Wagner officiating. Burial in Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Gary Eugene Hartman three day old son of Mr and Mrs Harley Hartman Jr route 3 died at 1 30 am Wednesday Private funeral services were held in Beatty chapel at 4 pm Wednesday Burial was in Cedar Memorial Park.
Funeral services for Mike Eicher are set at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Rohn chapel with the Rev. J. E. De Long officiating. Burial will follow in Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home prior to the service.
Announcement by James Jennison Cedar Rapids civil service secretary lists two exams. One for training officer in the Veterans Administration covering Iowa Minnesota Nebraska North and South Dakota. The other for budget examiner and organization and methods examiner in Washington. Applications available at Cedar Rapids post office window 8 or any first or second class post office.
Carl Ellis faces eviction from trailer 72 at Kenridge Terrace as FPHA housing manager Ralph Pickering seeks court action over unpaid rent. Ellis calls $24 monthly rent and trailer condition unfair. settlement possible if back rents paid. Conference includes Sen. Frank C. Byers and Ellis’s attorney William Matias. repairs and veterans’ priority noted.
G T McHardy of Cedar Rapids filed suit against Paul Costas for 3078.38 alleging Costas ordered a hand carved chair for St John the Baptist Hellenic Orthodox church and supplied August 1943 blueprints. McHardy says prints were unusable but Costas helped with work and upholstery, refused acceptance on completion, seeking 383.38 for materials and 1.75 per hour for 1540 hours.
About 199 absentee ballots were returned by noon Wednesday to Linn County Auditor Otto F. Hanzlik. Roughly 6 ballots are service members, with 193 civilians. An additional 98 ballots went to Cedar Rapids residents and 38 to others outside Cedar Rapids. all must reach the Cedar Rapids post office by midnight Monday to count.
Judge J E Heiserman continued Wednesday to hear the sixth day of testimony in a case filed by Leo T Krausnick of 1109 Fourteenth Ave SW against the Haegg Roofing company of Cedar Rapids and William Seilhamer of 1124 Fifteenth Ave SW. Krausnick seeks 8500 damages for the death of his five year old son after a truck owned by the roofing firm and driven by Seilhamer struck the child on Oct 2 1943 at Eleventh Street SW between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.
A vandalism report from Roger's Crossing School three miles west of central City notes slight damage as pre Halloween pranks begin in Linn County. Sheriff James H. Smith adds extra help to cover the area with four deputies and warns that property damage is a crime and will be prosecuted.
Mayor John Mullin of Marion sentenced William A. Edgar, 21, of Cedar Rapids to three days in Linn County Jail after being arrested by Marion police on an intoxication charge.
Goodman’s Jewelry store in Dubuque filed suit Wednesday against Orville and Aileen Breitbach of Linn County seeking $145 on an account. Purchases on which all but $95 are acknowledged.
Payments totaling most of a listed value were made in $2 weekly installments from December 19 1938 to July 3 1940. The items included a watch cuff link set two bracelets a lady's diamond ring a radio a cross and chain and a necklace.
In Minneapolis Henry A. Wallace brands Harold E. Stassen a phony progressive and says Republicans labeled liberal reformers use liberalism for their ends. He questions 1948 Democratic prospects and suggests peace advocates face accusations of communism while urging hard stance toward Russia.
Milwaukee AP reports county law officers deputized to guard Allis-Chalmers gates as Local 248 strike nears day 183. Police chief Kastello says the law has the upper hand and residents can enter the plant. deputization of 120 Milwaukee officers ended two days of picket violence.
Washington reports that Austria received U S approval to enter the United Nations as a country in good standing. The move followed Foreign Minister Karl Gruber's White House visit and a State Department statement noting Austria’s liberation from Nazi domination and its status as not an ex enemy state.
Britain proposed scrapping an independent world food board in favor of a sweeping international authority to regulate commodities including rubber and metals as well as food. With US opposition, the plan likely ends at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization meeting, as Britain supports stabilizing farm prices and nutrition while urging one global organization for all commodity problems.
Molotov defended the Soviet line in a UN Security Council session, denouncing a campaign against the veto as a bid for world domination. He blamed Churchill and Western allies for imperialist aims, warned that weakening the veto could dismantle the United Nations, and criticized Baruch’s atomic control plan as selfish. He urged respect for the UN charter and cautioned about dollar and pound sterling diplomacy influencing small nations.
Las Vegas defense lawyers announce Bridget Waters will claim she shot her estranged husband Frank K. Waters in a moment of insane jealousy last Labor Day. Court testimony details alleged links to a chain of events driving her mental state as witnesses describe Waters’s associations and a tragic aftermath.
In Dubuque Grace Kellogg four died from injuries after a child ran into the path of a machine driven by Leo Sprank of Bellevue. The driver was not held. It marks the twelfth fatal highway accident in Dubuque county this year.
In a heated open forum Parker argues education is a state duty while locally administered. Byers calls for a state funding plan as audience supports raising tax limits. Hobbie praises public willingness to fund better schooling. Kosek probes teacher pay, council backs raising minimum from 80 to 150 dollars. Lundquist urges statewide school legislation efforts.
Scotland Yard made its first arrests in the jewel heists as $4,800 in gems were stolen from Princess Hilda of Bavaria. Robert McPherson and Patricia McPherson, both remanded, provided early clues from the Kensington case amid cooperation from American operatives and servicemen questioned in connection with the thefts.
Robert Pospisil of Mr. Vernon was fined 25 dollars and costs in police court Wednesday for speeding. He was stopped Tuesday night by Sgt. Ray Murdock and Patrolman Henry Overman after clocking 45 miles per hour from Twenty second to Eighteenth streets on Mt Vernon avenue SE.
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