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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1944
Page
2
Daily notices list ration stamp validity for meat gas foods and sugar with book numbers and expiration dates through 1945. It includes fines for overtime parking and larceny sentences, birth announcements, a Long Beach Oklahoma trigger, and a divorce petition Kathleen Krug versus Arthur Krug.
Joseph H. Merrill 85 of 724 Vernal Street NW dies. Services are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Beatty chapel with Rev. S E Dooty officiating. Burial will follow at Linwood Cemetery.
The former Cedar Rapids resident Douglas E. Rooks died in Des Moines Wednesday. Funeral services are set for 4 p.m. Sunday at the Church of the Brethren on Fourth Avenue and Twelfth Street SE with Rev. H. L. Ruthrauff officiating. Friends may call at Beatty chapel until 2 p.m. Sunday.
George W. Ashby 71 of 215 Eighth Ave SW Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 9 40 p m Thursday after a long illness. He was born February 14 1873 in Shelbyville Kentucky and had lived in Cedar Rapids 34 years. He was a member of Mt Zion Baptist Church and Mt Olive Lodge No 17 A F and A M. Surviving are a daughter Mrs Marguerite Bailey Ennis Kentucky a brother M C Ashby Muncie Indiana six grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Services at Mt Zion Baptist Church Sunday at 2 30 p m with Rev D O Bell officiating burial in Linwood Cemetery. The body is at Rice Funeral Home.
Harriet Adams Moffit 73 dies at daughter's home Berenice 1749 A avenue NE Cedar Rapids burial at Rosehill Mechanicsville with Dr. David I Berger officiating. Born Solon daughter of Johnson county pioneers widow of Cassius Clay Moffit longtime resident of Iowa Minnesota farm then Cedar Rapids active in Woman's club Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs member.
Services for Mrs Maurine Alien Chapman of 1400 Second Avenue SE will be held at the Congregational church of Elkader at 2 p.m. Saturday with Rev. Mr. Richter in charge. Burial will be in Pee Dee. The body was moved from Turner Mortuary to Witt Funeral Home in Elkader Friday afternoon.
Miss Augusta Helen Marie Krueger of North Liberty died in a Cedar Rapids hospital Thursday at 9 50 p m after a long illness. She was born January 20 1867 near Villa and leaves a brother Dr Louis F Krueger of Toronto Canada and two nieces Fuhrmeister who made her home with her.
North Liberty and Mrs Edwin Long of Toronto announce services for a relative with burial at Oak Hill cemetery. A nephew Robert Krueger of Montana and three great nieces and a great nephew are named. Services at Turner chapel Monday at 2 p.m. Friends may visit the chapel.
Services will be held at 2 pm Saturday in the Barta chapel for Anna Alfrida Carlson with Rev. Carl Manfred officiating. Burial follows at Cedar Memorial Park. Pallbearers are George Svodoba, Harold Wright, Thomas Lekin, and Radavon Pasick. Friends may call at the chapel.
AP war report from the Western Front describes Allied troops racing along the Amiens Arras road toward Belgium. The piece contrasts peaceful Picardy landscapes with lingering death from World War I and notes a fading memory of trench life while German forces lie defeated on the Somme fields.
High school students ages 15 to 18 are invited to the Keen Teen Klub reopening at 8 p.m. Saturday in the YWCA. The event offers dancing bowling swimming and pi facilities with featured entertainers Larry Griswold and son a tumbling act plus Harry Gibson Louise Jean Hargar and Mary Louise Stolba. Membership opens after Oct 1.
London AP reports Heinrich Himmler restructured Berlin police command after bomb damage and Paris peace riot claims. Kurt Gocebrum named supreme police commandant. Erik Von Heimbur becomes Berlin security police commandant. Otto Kl. pensioned.
Helen Kinney and Louise Buck were sworn in at Waves Thursday. Jan Hus Odd Fellows invite Ely unit to picnic Sunday noon at Truhlar timber south of Ely bring lunch baskets. Paul Dewey Osborn and Laverne Harold Christensen enlisted in naval reserve through Cedar Rapids recruiting office. Ida M Palmer of South Side Unity Center of Kansas City will lecture Friday at Unity Center 1015 Avenue SE on The Way of Attainment.
David Turner H B Turner John B Turner II H Y Turner Rinald P Evans and W T Evans file suit against Wenks tern Hasley on a court led action seeking 5 percent interest from July 31 on an account dispute.
Allied forces push along a 90 mile front from Aachen to the Siegfried line, breaching in three zones. Third army advances toward the Saar while Pont-a-Mousson to Metz area tightens as British and Canadian troops clear pockets north and east of Antwerp and along the Schelde Meuse canal.
The Pacific command question is settled with the U S Navy to play the dominant role White House Secretary Stephen Early said Disclosure came before the Quebec conference began and Eden arrives to join Roosevelt and Churchill on vital war terms.
Fifty acres of torn woodland near Wattens in the Pas de Calais are described as the graveyard of a German secret weapon. Builders boasted it would burn London. 5,000 workers labored under heavy Allied air bombardment to complete it amid massive concrete structures.
London AP dispatch says German forces reported heavy combat on the approaches to the Belfort gap with no Allied confirmations. Seventh Army under Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch had last been reported about 16 miles south of Belfort, with no communiques issued.
Next Tuesday will be a big day in district court as Judge M C Hamiel presides over the September term and assigns 30 criminal cases. Defendants include Myles Robinson and Louis Straka for breaking and entering, Harry Noble for lascivious acts with a child, Betty Rhodes for lewdness, and others facing larceny, motor vehicle offenses, assault, rape, sodomy, and related charges.
At least four killed and twenty one injured when a large ammunition blast at the Hastings naval ordnance depot ruptured a transfer station crater. The blast damaged 23 Hastings businesses and shook communities up to 125 miles away. it was the depot's second blast in six months and third this year.
County auditor outlines a system to prevent duplicates for war ballots. Applications are filed alphabetically and cross checked. If a serviceman votes by war ballot and returns early, his sealed war ballot is counted only after the regular vote, then discarded if already cast.
A Russian push across the Vistula toward Warsaw is reported as German and Soviet sources describe bridges still standing, plans to use them, and Rokossovsky directing the assault. Other fronts note Transylvania gains, Narew river thrust, Beskid mountains patrols, and Tito's Yugoslav Partisans joining the Red Army near Negotin.
Friday Judge Floyd Philbrick announced district court equity assignments. On Monday Sept 18 Jinoch vs Jinoch probate estate of W J Blume deceased claim. Tuesday Sept 19 Larson vs Larson Pirie vs Baldwin. Friday Sept 22 Carringer vs Carringer modify Mrs Orgal to set aside waiver of extradition continued from Sept 11.
Miss Mae Rohlfs of Davenport, a repatriated missionary who returned from China after the Gripsholm voyage, will speak Friday night at 7 30 in the First Lutheran church at 1000 Third Avenue SE. She spent a year interned by the Japanese in Tsingtao, Shantung province.
A rising mercury brought slight relief to Cedar Rapids but more showers and cooler temperatures are forecast for Saturday. Reports show 2:30 p.m. readings near 76 degrees with 55 percent humidity, while morning figures ranged from 48 to 56 degrees with higher humidity. Iowa City recorded a state low of 46 degrees yesterday.
Clyde Eubanks a 33 year old Louisa County farmer was crushed when a caterpillar tractor toppled on a hillside while he cleared brush on the Bert Deam farm south of Wapello. His wife and three children survive.
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