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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1944
Page
9
The Daily Record lists ration details for Meat Gasoline Foods Sugar Fuel Oil and Shoes with stamps and coupons valid through specified dates. It also records multiple local court fines for drunkenness disturbing the peace speeding and traffic violations plus several divorce petitions and birth announcements from St Luke's Mercy and other locales.
A Cedar Rapids delegate at the state Alcoholics Anonymous convention in Des Moines described a peer with a dramatic prior drinking career. He had five intoxication arrests in a year and time in four asylums, losing good jobs before turning sober six months ago. Now healthy, honored, and employed, he pursues a steady community role.
Frank Hradecky longtime Cedar Rapids Listy publisher died at his home 1625 B Street SW at 7 15 am Tuesday He was born December 15 1880 in Velenice Czechoslovakia and came to the United States 48 years ago He survived by his wife four daughters three grandchildren a brother and two sisters and several nieces and nephews He was a member of multiple Czech and fraternal organizations and his body lies at Janeba funeral home pending arrangements. Wendil F Mraz died in Cedar Rapids hospital after a brief illness He was born in Czechoslovakia April 4 1885 and came to Cedar Rapids 41 years ago He worked for South Side Sash and Door for 20 years He leaves his wife a daughter two sons two sisters and six grandchildren Services will be at Polansky funeral chapel then St Wenceslaus church with burial in St. John’s Cemetery. Mrs Joseph Ehrenlerger died at 75 at route 1 Ely Services will be held Wednesday at 2 30 pm at Bohemian Reformed church west of Ely Rev Ludvik Burian and Rev Francis Pokorny will officiate Burial in Truhlar Cemetery. Mrs Anna Jane McNeal died in Cedar Rapids hospital Saturday Services will be held at Turner chapel Wednesday at 2 pm with burial in Walker Cemetery.
Former secretary of the Cedar Rapids Life Insurance Co Charles B Svoboda died at his home 2135 Greenwood Dr SE after a long illness He was born March 25 1870 in Bohemia and came to the United States 42 years ago He married Mary B Pravovsky in Bohemia on August 15 1901 Surviving are his wife a daughter Mrs Arthur E Sulek a son Charles M Svoboda and a brother John Svoboda of Cedar Rapids
Vienna mourns two sisters Marie Hrabacka and Sophia Svoboda both of Prague with three grandchildren. Mr Svoboda belonged to the People’s church Sokols and Cedar Rapids Art association. Services will be in the Turner chapel at 11 a.m. Thursday with Dr W W Argow officiating. Family asks flowers be omitted and donations go to the Red Cross. Friends may call at the chapel.
Cedar Rapids stores switch to winter hours with downtown locations open Monday nights and closing at 9 p.m. Other outlets stay open until 9 p.m. except closed early at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays, a half hour later than summer.
The South Side Red Cross unit resumes surgical dressings Wednesday at 8 am. Sokol and Sokolice meeting set for Tuesday Sept 12 at 8 pm. Mrs Julia Gage recovering from operation in Iowa City. A Defense Transportation representative will be at the Davenport Chamber of Commerce Wednesday 10 to 5 for appointments. Svoboda family reunion held in Bertram. next reunion planned for Solon in Sept 1945. Public Finance Service sues Gunnell and Alberta Larson in Linn County for 180.20, seeking judgment and foreclosure. Lewis M Oden visits Cedar Rapids on navy technical mission. Cedar Rapids firm builds spark plug gap machines for navy. Three Cedar Rapids couples wed Saturday in a Townsend club meeting. Men and Mary E Taylor to Claus Ehlers. Orva R Bailey to Izara M Boone. Hattie S Lewis to Charles H Stern. about 250 attended.
Washington AP reports that due to kerosene and light fuel shortages, the Office of Price Administration will apply oil stove ration limits nationwide starting Sept 9. Ration certificates will go only to those unable to use other stoves or replacing an unusable oil burner, expanding beyond the prior 28 state emergency area.
Allied forces clear Antwerp and advance through Belgium capturing Louvain Aalst Mechelen and expanding from the Seine bridgehead. Germans suffer heavy losses with depleted divisions as Britain secures the port and presses toward Lille Tournai and Le Havre remains under siege while Dutch crossfrontier claims are unconfirmed.
U S Third Army troops clash with German forces in Pont-a-Mousson on the Moselle, with the town half-held by Americans as Germans retreat to the east bank. German bridges blown, fighting continues in hill positions across the river as patrols probe the waterway. French villagers report enemy regrouping on their side at night.
Cedar Rapids based Gazette Company and The Gazette daily paper announce publication details at 600 Drd Ave SE Cedar Rapids. The record notes second class mail status since June 18 1932 and lists subscription rates and offices in Chicago Detroit New York and other areas.
Soldiers move toward a French town while German troops and artillery stalk across the river. A plum orchard watch follows intermittent machine gun fire with two Mustang fighters overhead ending the bombardment and villagers observing the infantry’s steady progress along the highway.
AP bulletin lists front distances from Berlin: 322 miles to the Russian front near the eastern suburbs, 362 miles to Breda in the west, 560 miles to Bourg-en-Bresse in southern France, and 585 miles to the south of Rimini in Italy.
American air forces struck three major Rhineland targets while also hitting Budapest and northern Italian rail bridges. About 1,750 American planes from west and south assisted by 500 Mustangs engaged Stuttgart Karlsruhe Ludwighafen, and 500 Italian bombers attacked Szob Szolnok and Ferrara. German flak rose over Budapest as Liberators hit targets, destroying dozens of planes on the ground.
Frank Pavlis aged 55 of 907 Eave niue NW was fined 300 dollars after pleading guilty in Judge Floyd Philbrick's court to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
Pavlis arrested Sunday after his coupe struck a parked car owned by Mrs. Lillian Kahler on Seventeenth Avenue SE. Police revoked Pavlis's license for 90 days following the incident.
The Labor Day holiday period across the nation ended with 245 deaths. Over half resulted from traffic accidents. The 1943 toll included 137 traffic deaths, 54 drownings, and 54 from miscellaneous causes, with higher earlier years noted for comparison.
Berlin radio reported that Adolf Hitler met Monday with Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Oshima at the Reich Chancellery for a long conference on topics concerning the two nations and the conduct of the war. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop attended the talks.
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