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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1942
Page
4
A brief weather note lists Cedar Rapids and New York temperatures with a format showing a high level forecast. The fragment indicates a single line of temperature data for two cities, García-like misreads aside, providing minimal usable specifics.
Sunday at 12 20 p m a short circuit in a truck generator at 317 Twenty second Street NE triggered still alarm from Harry Glesser Co No 3. At 4 09 pm a fire of undetermined origin in an attic at 1104 Tenth Street SE. Clarence Baldy Wilson reported a general alarm at 6 14 pm for grease in a gas oven in a lunch room at 1028 First tng E Marvin Levsen also reported a general alarm.
Mrs John OBrien of 1612 Sixth avenue SE died Sunday at 245 am Miss Christine M Schneider of 1614 Third avenue SE died Sunday at 630 am Sister Mary Regina died at Mercy hospital at 5 am Sunday Joseph Just died at 5 am Monday at his home 1799 Mallory street SW
Dominic Sanches of 1113 Thirteenth Avenue SW faces fines totaling 20 dollars and costs for driving without a license and damaging glass on the highway. M L Myers at 1408 Tenth Street SE is fined 10 dollars and costs for permitting an unauthorized person to drive. Clinton Kueble of Marion is sentenced to 30 days in jail with 20 suspended and no license. James O’Neill of Cedar Rapids is sentenced to 30 days in jail.
John Burns of 112 Tenth street NE and Charles E Crago of 623 First street SW each paid 25 dollars and costs for drunken and disturbing the peace. Ed Reed of 888 Center Point road NE fined 25 dollars and costs for drunkenness. James E Brundrett of 512% C avenue NE fined 25 dollars and costs for reckless driving with 15 dollars of the fine suspended. John Rugg of 210 Fifth NE fined 19 dollars and costs with the fine suspended on a failure to have his car under control. David Darling at 3019 Cottage Grove avenue SE was dismissed upon payment of costs.
A long list from St Luke's and Mercy hospitals records multiple births on Sept 12 13 and 14. Parents include Gerald Ashley Francis Brown Gordon Maivitz Glen Higbee Jr Lumir Holets Milo Soukup Don Miller James Coleman Gilbert Franklin Howard Bellow Robert Conrad Roy Marion Leo Hanson Bil Davis and Charles Cerveny with addresses across Cedar Rapids and surrounding streets.
Practically all diplomatic letters address the President as Excellency, a form not aligned with American custom. The practice highlights a cultural etiquette gap in formal correspondence between nations.
AVG Hero Bill Reed spoke at a noon plant floor rally urging production support for the war effort. He described air combat experiences and honored by China with gold wings for shooting down three Japanese planes. Cedar Rapids officials praised workers and unions presented cigarets as thanks.
Kubler 18 of 1011 by Kathleen Hughes 13 of Davenport admitted operating a vehicle without a license after a 2 am Sunday crash on Tenth avenue and First street injuring John Lange of Springville and wife. Lange suffered a compound leg fracture while Mrs Lange had facial bruises. Kubler was sentenced to 30 days in county jail with 20 suspended for good behavior in Justice Churchill's court after arrest by Marion Police Chief Gene Miller.
C E Sully Stuff of 219 Seventh Street NE posted a $500 bond in Justice H R Churchill's court after being charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Stuff was arrested by Police Chief Gene Miller in Marion at 12 15 a m following a collision with a parked car on Marion Boulevard. G E Berchenbriter of Route 2 and three companions Betty Oxley Robert Hampton and Carol Chapman assisted at the scene. Oxley Chapman and Hampton suffered minor injuries. Sheriff Jim Smith and Deputy Pete Whittemore jailed Stuff. his truck contained a pint of whisky and a quart of wine.
Enlistment of six men in the marine corps was reported at the Cedar Rapids recruiting station on Monday. The inductees include Car F. Hettinger of 3354 Center Point Road NE, John G. Krabbenhoff of 550 Forest Drive SE, H. Fox of 534 McKinley Street, Edmund G. Gould of Glencoe Minnesota, George J. Vacik of Iowa City, and Eugene L. Gookin of Douds Iowa.
A United States lieutenant arrives in Mexico City for discussions on Mexican military operations with President Manuel Avila Camacho and members of the defense board.
Washington authorities discussed a possible 13 000 000 man army for 1943 and the potential draft of married men with children. Major General Lewis B. Hershey said there are not enough married men without children to meet mobilization goals and that army needs may precede industry aims.
Pythian Sisters meet at 8 p.m. Thursday in Crescent lodge AF and AM to confer four first degrees. Trowel chapter of Royal Arch Masons will hold a special session at Masonic hall Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Mrs. Carl E Bowman and Mrs. Andrew Emmerich are recovering in St Luke's and Mercy hospitals with visitors allowed. Cedar Rapids Marine Corps League detachment to meet at 8 p.m. Monday at Montrose hotel. Dorothy McCann reports her car hit by another vehicle near her home around 11 40 p.m. Saturday.
LaPlant Choate auxiliary members will gather Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the YMCA for the annual meeting. An election of officers for the coming year will be held and all members are urged to attend.
Mrs E M Victorine of 2410 Grande avenue SE has been referenced in a terse public notice in this newspaper row, with details truncated but indicating a relocation or status change associated with the listed address.
Howard A Baxter visited his parents Mr and Mrs Ar with family members noting the informal gathering. The article records a family occasion in a local society column.
Harry Tucker of 619 Center Point Road NE told police Sunday a Friday theft at his junk yard included about $35 worth of tractor gears and scrap aluminum.
The first annual South Dakota picnic occurred Sunday evening at Thomas park with twenty four South Dakotans from Mitchell and Alexandria in attendance.
Welcom W. Reams selects a contact person to coordinate activities and communications for the upcoming year, aiming to streamline organization and planning among members and committees.
A service member has been reported gone A W O L from Camp Edwards in Massachusetts about a week ago, prompting an official search and inquiry by local and military authorities.
Chicago youth Schuelke and Shirley Wright 15, both of Chicago, charged with robbery in Cedar Rapids case. Wright given until Friday to plea. Arrest in Iowa City ended a cross state pursuit from Michigan to Iowa. Carthage, Illinois, holds warrant for armed robbery charges.
Prof. George D. Haskell of Des Moines told Cedar Rapids Rotarians that price controls must be enforced against violators. He warned of rising living costs since 1939 and urged cooperation from buyers and sellers to prevent inflation, with rationing to follow shortages and essential wartime needs prioritized.
Rain moved Pershing day to the Memorial coliseum where 24 men enlisted in the U S Navy and Flying Tiger Bill Reed appeared to a cheering crowd. Lieutenant Truman Jones swore in the enlistees as the Moose Cavaliers drum corps played and Mayor Hahn introduced Reed on the program.
Sergeant John T. Melvin 25 formerly of Cedar Rapids drowned at Fort Bragg North Carolina on Labor Day. A Sunday dispatch to his aunt Mrs. G A Sanders from his parents Mr and Mrs Ralph Melvin of Ambridge Pennsylvania gave no further details. Survivors include his wife three brothers and three sisters.
Christine M. Schneider died at 6 30 a.m. Sunday after a long illness. A Keokuk native born March 27, 1872 she lived in Cedar Rapids nine years. She taught 31 years in Iowa schools and was a First Evangelical church member. Survived by three sisters a nephew and a niece. Funeral services were held in the city.
A short funeral service was held at Barta chapel at 2 on Monday before the body was transported to Keokuk for burial.
Mrs John O'Brien 80 died at 2 45 a m Sunday at her home 1612 Sixth avenue SE after a two weeks illness Survivors include five daughters Velenda Stingley Cora and Ruth O'Brien Cedar Rapids Mrs Irvin Ganin Anamosa and Sister Mary Jane The service will be at St Martins Cascade at 36 am Wednesday with burial in St Martins cemetery
Sister Mary Regina McNamara, born December 25 1888 in Anamosa, died. She joined the Sisters of Mercy in Cedar Rapids May 24 1911. Survivors include her father and several siblings. Requiem high mass will be held at Sacred Heart convent chapel at 9 am Tuesday with sermon by Rev Maurice J Tracy. Burial at Mt Calvary cemetery.
Joseph Just 64 died at 6 a.m. Monday at his home 1790 Mallory Street SW after a lingering illness. Born March 19, 1878 on a Linn County farm near Ely, he lived in Cedar Rapids 32 years and worked 20 years for Cherry Burrell. Survived by wife Mary two sons Leo J Cedar Rapids and Private Robert Just Army Air Corps Galveston Texas a brother Frank Just Walford and sister Mrs Joseph Klima of nearby.
Funeral arrangements for Center Point residents are noted as taking place at the Polansky chapel with details pending local notices. The notice provides a brief location reference and asks for further information to be published in due course.
British troops in Madagascar occupy Maevatanana on the road to Tananarive, the capital, in an early Sunday action. A southern landing force advancing inland from Morondava reports continuing success with little opposition, according to a war office communique.
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