Prune Juice and Fruit Butters to Be Point Free
Washington announces changes in the Office of Price Administration ration chart for next month. Prune juice, dried beans, and four fruit butters shift to zero points through September, while pineapple juice rises to 25 points for 18 ounces and several canned goods see point increases. OPA cites supply expectations and war food administration actions to justify the adjustments.
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Washington
INS
Office of Price Administration
OPA
War Food Administration
Rationing Notes And Births In Daily Record 1944
Rationing details include five gallon allowances for B3 B4 C3 and C4 coupons and 10 point values for blue stamps A through Z8 and A5 F5 with a Feb 1945 term. Fuel oil No 4 and No 5 coupons valid through Sept 30. No 1 coupons of new issue now usable. Birth notices list at St Luke s Luther Crow Marion a son Aug 31 and Mrs Ralph Kinkead Whittier a daughter Aug 31. At Mercy Wilbur Perry son Aug 31. At Pecos Lt Duane A Cecil and wife a son Aug 31. Mrs Cecil formerly Laverna Dra Aot of Mrs Edward Hach. Two drunkenness cases with fines amounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Luke’s
Luther Crow
Marion
Ralph Kinkead
Whittier
Mercy
Wilbur Perry
First Street
Pecos
Texas
Duane A. Cecil
Cecil
Edward Hach
Nineteenth Street
Proarbited Zone and Overtime Parking Fines List
A list of fines and names for violations in the Proarbited Zone and overtime parking, each fined $1 and costs. Includes addresses such as 216 First street NE and 2040 Washington avenue SE, with names like G S Thompson and Richard Havlik. Also notes a fire incident at W O Lozenby home 829 B avenue NE and mentions several residents and divorce petitions for Mary Fink vs Nelson Fink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Harmston
First Street
R. G
Washington Avenue
G. S Thompson
G Avenue
D. White
F Avenue
Richard Havlik
Second Street
Youtzy
Seventh Street
C. C. Loomis
Second Avenue
Mustangs Bay 166 Aircraft Attack Romanian Airfields
In three strafing runs over Romanian airfields in the Mediterranean theater, United States Mustangs destroyed at least 157 enemy planes on the ground and shot down nine in combat. Lt. Col. Charles Boedeker’s group hit Reghin airfield in Romania, destroying about 60 grounded aircraft and achieving nine aerial victories. The previous day Capt. Alfonza Davis’s group claimed 83 aircraft destroyed at Groszwardin airfield. Only two Mustangs were lost across the three missions.
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Rome
United States
Mediterranean
Allied Air Force
Charles Boedeker
Dallas
Texas
Reghin
Romania
Alfonza
Davis
Omaha
Groszwardein
M.A.A.F
No Peace Bid From Germany, Hull Says No Peace Bid
Secretary of State Hull announced that the United States had not received any surrender or peace offer from Germany. He made the statement in Washington on Friday, clarifying the status of negotiations and peace prospects during the war.
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Germany
Hull
Washington
United States
Patton Spearheads Roll Over Verdun Battlefield
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s armored units pushed through Verdun at high speed, pursuing German remnants toward their border as the battlefront shifts. The scene echoes the old watchword they shall not pass, now applied to a rapid advance across historic mud and shell scarred ground.
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Verdun
George S. Patton
Rev Harrop to Speak on The End of the Law
City brief notes the Rev. C. W. Harrop will address The End of the Law at the 11 a.m. Sunday service in the Pale Methodist church. Sunday school is scheduled for 10 a.m.
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C. W. Harrop
Pale
Cedar Rapids real estate board holds annual picnic at Ellis Park
Members of the Cedar Rapids Real Estate board and their families and employees held their annual picnic at the Ellis Park river pavilion Thursday night. Bill Dutrt served dinner to 149 persons. The committee in charge included Gary Gohmann as chairman, Walter T. Hambright Leonard K. Tait, George W. Griffith and Alice Gustafsson.
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Cedar Rapids
House Votes State Rule on Job Benefits
The House rejected a liberalized unemployment benefit plan and sent demobilization legislation to a Senate House conference. The vote upheld state unemployment control while opposing federal standards and a federally funded job retraining program for 3.5 million workers.
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House
Washington
Senate
Von Model Replaces Rommel in Northern France Command
Britain's AP report says Marshal Walther von Model, formerly in southern Poland, has taken command of Nazi Army Group D in northern France, replacing Erwin Rommel who has been missing for weeks with reports of injury or death in a bombing incident. Von Model is noted as a cautious risk taker.
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France
Walther von Model
Poland
Erwin Rommel
Rommel
von Model
Nelson Hearing at Decorah Postponed
Decorah delay postpones misconduct charges against J A Neilson key Decorah attorney as exam reveals at psychopathic hospital in Iowa City and hearing postponed despite judges meeting Thursday Special to The Gazette.
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Gazette
Decorah
J. A. Neilson
Oemenn
Psychopathic Hospital
Iowa City
NAM Denies Political Campaign Donations
Washington UP reports President Robert M. Gaylord of the National Association of Manufacturers testified before a congressional committee that the NAM does not contribute to political campaigns in primaries or general elections and has used no other means or influence to aid candidate election.
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Washington
Robert M. Gaylord
National Association of Manufacturers
Gedur Rapids Sayette Established 1883
Local notice fragment references an 1883 establishment in Gedur Rapids and lists subscriptions and rates from a wire service era newspaper. Content is fragmented with pricing for editions and states, offering limited readable facts about the period publication.
Pastor Allan E Schoff Chosen for Central Park Presbyterian Church
Rev Allan E Schoff of Highland Park Detroit is named to lead Central Park Presbyterian Church Cedar Rapids after Labor Day. Princeton Theological Seminary graduate has pastored Grand Street Rahway N J McBain Michigan and most recently Highland Park. Church has been without a pastor since January when Rev John Vander Meulen left for Lansing Mich.
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Central Park Presbyterian Church
Allan E. Schoff
Cedar Rapids
Highland Park
Detroit
Mich
Princeton Theological Seminary
Schoff
Grand Street
Rahway
N. J
McBain Presbyterian Church
Michigan
John Vander Meulen
First Presbyterian Church
Lansing
Allies Penetrate Gothic Line At Three Points In Italy
British and Polish forces punched through the German Gothic line at three points as they push toward a 20 mile corridor to Bologna and the Po valley. Montecchio and Monte della Croce fell inland while Belvedere Fogliense neared Monte Gridolfo. Pesaro remained contested along the Adriatic coast as British destroyers supported the assault front.
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Rome
Apennines
Adriatic
Bologna
Foglia
Montecchio
Monte Della Croce
Urbino
Monte Calvo
Belvedere Fogliense
Monte Gridolfo
Pesaro
Eighth Army
Cassino
Gothic Line
Montgomery Elevated to Field Marshal in Britain War
London AP reports General Bernard L. Montgomery was promoted to field marshal by George VI. The step places him above Eisenhower in title though not command, as Bradley becomes a full American field commander of equal status. The promotion follows his leadership in El Alamein and during Allied operations in northern France.
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London
Bernard L. Montgomery
War Office
George VI
el Alamein
France
Montgomery
Eisenhower
Omar N. Bradley
United States
North Africa
Imperial General Staff
Britain
Report FFI at Site Where Petain Held
London AP dispatch says Paris radio reports French Forces of Interior reach Liantellers in eastern France where Marshal Petain and Pierre Laval of the former Vichy regime are under guard by German Montvillars. The town faces encirclement as FFI advances.
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London
Paris
Liantellers
France
Marshal Petain
Pierre Laval
Vichy
Montvillars
FFI
Bulgarian Cabinet Out Budapest Coup by Nazis
German troops reoccupy Budapest as reports claim the Bulgarian cabinet has resigned amid peace talks with the Allies. Berlin counters with measures as Patriot bands oppose Nazis in Slovakia. DNB says Bagdanov quit to avert war with Russia and Bulgarian forces withdraw from occupied zones.
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London
Budapest
Berlin
Slovakia
Balkan
United Nations
Algiers
DNB
Ivan Bagdanov
Bulgaria
Danube
Bagdanov
Cairo
Yugoslavia
Greece
Russia
State Nets More Than 4 000 000 In Liquor Sales
Iowa liquor control commission reports net earnings of 4 305 662 for the year ended July 1 194. transfers to the general fund total 22 565 195 since 1934 with total net income since establishment at 28 321 896. Inventories 4 723 359 on hand, whisky share rising from 47 to 80 percent year over year. Liquor sales 19 372 308. cost 14 279 116. permits 389 764. expenses 1 367 476. other income 190 183. War bond sales reached 30 482 768, about 10 million more than liquor sales.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa Liquor Control Commissond
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Commission
Far-Ranging Blow at Japs in Extensive Allied Raids
Allied bombers raided Japan from the equator to Paramushiro in the North Pacific in raids announced Thursday night. The heaviest blows hit the southern Philippines with Davao set ablaze in the eighth raid in weeks. Four Japanese ships were sunk or crippled in the Dutch Celebes, with Palau and Yap struck in daily raids. Tokyo said Americans bombed Formosa.
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Japan
Equator
Paramushiro
North Pacific
Philippines
Davao
Palau
Yap
Tokyo Radio
Formosa
Fire Destroys Kitchen and Wall at W. Lozenby Home
A Thursday noon fire at 829 B Avenue NE started from an oil stove in the kitchen. The kitchen and rear wall were destroyed and the dining room sustained damage. The family dog trapped in the kitchen suffocated from smoke.
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W. O. Lozenby
B Avenue NE
W. ©. Lozenby
James Millikan Gets 60 Days for Writing Bad Check
James F Millikan 59 of Shenandoah changed his plea to guilty in Judge Floyd Philbricks court and was sentenced to 60 days in Linn county jail. He was accused of passing a false check for 39 65 on Page County State Bank of Clarinda to buy a ring at Star Jewelry Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Millikan
Shenandoah
Floyd Philbrick
Linn County
Mil
Page County State Bank of
Clarinda
Star Jewelry Company
Cedar Rapids
Administratrix Sues To Collect 600 Rent
Julia R. Allen administratrix for Col. C. B. Robbins estate sues Delbert Crowl and Eileen Crowley to recover six hundred dollars in rent and claims they owe the amount for removal from the premises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia R. Allen
Col. C. B. Robbins
Delbert Crowl
Eileen Crowley
Victory Day Guide for Cedar Rapids Business Leaders
A cross-section Cedar Rapids committee chaired by Orville Rennie issues a Victory Day guide renaming V-day to U-day and urging restraint. It prescribes closing rules based on announcement timing, finishing runs in progress, and safety measures for plants while outlining banner slogans and church services planned for the day.
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Cedar Rapids
Orville Rennie
Pacific
Frank K. Hahn
Rex Conn
John W. Beck
James Plumb
Carl Heinen
Marvin Cobb
Henry Gundling
Lee Winger
Arthur Wells
William B. Quarton
Wes Benesh
J. C. Micrigett
Lumir Striesky
Y. J. Hastings
J. L. Procha
Memorial services for Pfc Donald E Kuhn in Cedar Memorial
Memorial services will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Chapel of Memories Cedar Memorial cemetery for Pfc Donald E Kuhn 20 who died July 17 from wounds received July 11 in France. He was the son of John Kuhn of Walker and Mrs Katheryn Kuhn of Los Angeles. Veterans of Foreign Wars and Rev George Stauffacher will conduct the service. His wife and daughter Patricia live with Mrs Kuhn's parents Mr and Mrs Ray McCune at 1854 Ellis boulevard NW.
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Pfc
Donald E. Kuhn
France
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Kuhn
John Kuhn
Walker
Katheryn Kuhn
Los Angeles
George Stauffacher
First Evangelical Church
Patricia
Death of Nellie G Thanner 81 Widow of J J Thanner
Word has been received of the death of Nellie G Thanner 81 widow of J J Thanner in a Duluth hospital Monday. Born in Philadelphia she married in 1913 and lived in Cedar Rapids until 1937 then moved to Duluth. She was a member of First Presbyterian Church Cedar Rapids. A grandson a stepdaughter and a daughter in law survive. Burial was in Duluth.
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Nellie G. Thanner
J. J. Thanner
Duluth
Philadelphia
Mr. Thanner
Cedar Rapids
First Presbyterian Church of
Duluith
Funeral services for Hume H Glackin planned in Cedar Memorial Park
Services for Hume H Glackin 1726 A avenue NE who died after a brief illness will be conducted by Dr Charles J Bready in the Moon chapel at 2 p m Saturday Burial will be in Cedar Memorial park Friends may call at the chapel All Knights of Pythias are asked to meet in the K P hall at 1 30 p m Saturday to attend the funeral in a body.
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Hume H. Glackin
Avenue NE
Charles J. Bready
Moon Chapel
Cedar Memorial Park
Knights of Pythias
K. P. Hall
William Snyder dies after long illness at Cedar Rapids hospital
William Franklin Snyder age 63 longtime Quaker Oats employee who retired May 29 1943 died after a long illness in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 10 45 a m He was born February 26 1880 in Anamosa Iowa He married Florence Eye on May 3 1964 in Marion He is survived by his wife two sons Kenneth L Snyder of Cedar Rapids and Lawrence R Snyder a Navy petty officer stationed in San Diego two sisters Nell Lumadue of Portland Oregon and L J Ranas of Anamosa and a grandson Kenneth II Snyder Jr of Cedar Rapids
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William Franklin Snyder
Second Avenue SE
Quaker Oats Company
Cedar Rapids
Anamosa
Florence Eye
Marion
Kenneth L. Snyder
Lawrence R. Snyder
San Diego
Calif
Kenneth Bracy Wounded in Action in South Pacific
Mrs. Bessie Bracy of Belle Plaine reports her son Kenneth E. Bracy a seaman suffered multiple wounds June 15 aboard a battle ship in the South Pacific but returned to duty. Known locally as Cookie Bracy, he is an ex roller skating expert who has opened many rinks and has served since Jan 5, 1944. He is brother to Robert Bracy, fatally injured Aug 14 in a Cedar Rapids area truck crash. Sisters are Mrs. Charles Fox and Mrs. Gerd Christophor.
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Bessie Bracy
Belle Plaine
Kenneth E. Bracy
South Pacific
Robert Bracy
Cedar Rapids
Kenneth Bracy
Cookie” Bracy
Bracy
Charles Fox
Thirty-second Street
Gerd Christoffer
Tenth Street
Ration forms flub show Americans’ careless filing
The article notes widespread errors in wartime ration applications. It highlights missing signatures, wrong numbers, blank fields, and mismatched stubs. Pleane cites lawyers and professionals as top offenders while advising applicants to read, fill all blanks, sign the back cover, and include the old book to receive a new ration promptly.
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Ration Board
LaPlant shows 67 percent sales gain for year
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing reports net sales of 13.08 million for the fiscal year ended June 30 1944 up 67.8 percent from the prior year driven by demand for earth moving equipment. After taxes earnings on common stock reach 360 556.08 and per share 1.95. Cash and assets rise with a 1.9 million total sales. Directors declare 20 cent common stock dividend and 25 cent preferred stock dividend. new directors include Alfred Kauffman Howard Hall Owen N Elliott Archis D Dennis. Alfred Kauffman named chairman.
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LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Alfred Kauffman
Link Belt Company
Chicago
Company
Detroit
Howard Hall
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Iowa Steel and Iron Works
Cedar Rapids
Owen N., Elliott
Elliott, Shuttleworth and Ingersoll
Archis D. Dennis
Elmer Johnson Observes 45th Anniversary in Law
Elmer A Johnson Cedar Rapids attorney marks the forty fifth anniversary of opening his first law office in Lisbon before moving to Cedar Rapids in 1919 He is a 1899 University of Iowa Law School graduate who served eight months in the Spanish American War and sat in the Iowa House in 1933 34 39 40 and 41 42 He and Mrs Johnson reside at 1809 Second Avenue SE Their daughter Ella lives with them and her husband Lt Erroll Miller serves with the Seabees on Saipan.
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Elmer A. Johnson
Cedar Rapids
Lisbon
Mr. Johnson
University of Iowa Law School
Iowa House of Representatives
Johnson
Second Avenue SE
Ella
Erroll Miller
Seabees
Saipan
Robot raids shift to northern sites in France and Belgium
Allied forces report dozens of flying bomb launch sites captured along the French coast while only a few robots were released against Britain on Thursday night. The strikes originated from the northernmost sites yet used, in extreme northern France or Belgium.
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London
French
Britain
France
Belgium
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Fourteenth Avenue SE
Leonard E. Wagner
Annabelle M. Anderson
John Wade
Halifax
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Guy Ellis Clark, Jr
Betty Jane Mahon
Russell Alleman
Madrid
Betty Losee
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Maurice Cummings
Mary Fink
Nelson Fink
Mustangs Bay
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United Press International News Service
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C. R. Church
Petain
Bulgar
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Donald Kuhn
Glackin Service
William F. Snyder
Flower
Srd Ave
Pleane
Roy E. Singe
S. E. Coquillette
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