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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1944
Page
1
Gasoline and sugar coupon details extend through 1945. Various court items list Drunkenness fines, divorce decree, marriage licenses. Traffic court penalties for speeding, losing control, wrong side, and yielding. Birth announcements from St. Luke's Mercy and nearby addresses.
Mrs. Viola Myers is a patient at St Luke s hospital with fair condition and visitors not permitted. Dr R L Mantz and wife returned from Lake Vermillion Minn. Cedar Rapids Bottling Works closes for vacation reopening Monday Oct 2. Mrs J A Pisarik reports coat stolen from McDonald s tavern valued at 15. Carl Joseph Kohl and Donald Claire Bittner enrolled in naval reserve. Jack Reynolds, ex Cedar Rapids wrestler, remains in care after a stroke in Covington Ky.
Plans for a Knights of Columbus initiation on October 8 will be announced at a buffet stage on Tuesday at 6 pm in the K C hall. Prospective members will be guests.
Mrs Thresay Steggal aged 59 of 932 Fifteenth Avenue SE pleads guilty before Judge M C Hamiel to selling beer without a permit. Sentencing set for October 2. In other items, Joan and Idris Wyatt of Cedar Rapids graduate from University of Iowa School of Nursing and an Iowa City ceremony omitted their names from a Gazette graduates list. The Cedar Rapids district honor board chaired by Fred Woolrich will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at council headquarters to review Star Life and Eagle applications ahead of the September court of honor at Wilson High School.
United Service Aides are requested to be at the Union depot at 5:45 am Wednesday to participate in sendoff ceremonies for inductees leaving the three Cedar Rapids selective service boards for Fort Snelling Minnesota.
A representative from the California Shipbuilding corporation will be in the Cedar Rapids office of the United States Employment Service at 308 Third Street Wednesday and Thursday. He will conduct interviews and offer immediate employment for war work in Wilmington California. Journeymen plumbers sheet metal workers electricians and pipefitters are needed.
Dr Myron L Koenig outlined seven core foreign policy principles for the United States highlighting self preservation as the basis of civilization and warning against participation in future wars He emphasized that policy is driven by self interest flexible in practice and shaped by public opinion and strong diplomacy with noted risk to ill prepared leadership.
In a campaign update Dewey says he will review his opponent's record with candor and will press ahead with war effort unity. He defends his campus tour speeches as outlining the country’s future and notes no program from Roosevelt’s rival. Dewey stops his train at Belen to confer with Herbert Brownell Jr. on securing more radio time.
A medium-sized American merchant vessel survived a torpedo strike off the North Carolina coast and the recent hurricane, reaching Norfolk under escort. The crew remained unharmed as tugs and coast guard cutters aided the rescue after lines parted during the hurricane and cutters capsized.
The Allied air command revealed that over the past two years more than 5000 tons of guns ammunition and other supplies were flown to Yugoslav partisans and to patriots in central and southern Europe. The Royal Air Force led the inquiry with substantial American transport pilots taking part.
Allied headquarters report heavy bombers dropped 105 tons of high explosives on Japanese positions in Celebes and the Moluccas. Runways were plastered. one enemy plane was destroyed and two attempted to intervene.
Three year old David Day, son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles S. Day, at 2051 Linden Drive SE, suffered a fractured pelvis when run over by a tag cart in the driveway. Hospital attendants described his condition as good.
Fred M. Popenhagen 1878 1:40 p.m. Sunday died after brief illness at a local hospital. He founded the Concrete Products company in Cedar Rapids after moving from Spokane. Surviving wife Matilda Baumgartner two children D I Roeland Jack Ann David Bolang and many relatives. Funeral 2 p.m. Wednesday Turner chapel with burial Linwood cemetery. He was active in several fraternal groups.
Mrs Ben E Miller a former Cedar Rapids resident died in La Jolla California Saturday at 8 30 pm The body will be brought to Cedar Rapids for services at a later date She moved to California 15 years ago Surviving are a daughter Mrs Wilbur D Kennedy Campaign Ill a son Elmer W Miller La Jolla Calif and two sisters Mrs E E Hill La Jolla and Mrs Al a E Durin 2326 Linden Drive
Dawson C. Schlemmer 40 of 1621 A Street SW died in a Cedar Rapids hospital Saturday at 8 15 p.m after a brief illness Born June 8 1904 in Preston Ia he had lived in Cedar Rapids four years Surviving are two children Carol Ann and Jerry and siblings Dorothy Weber Lillian Schlemmer two Schlemmer brothers in Washington D C Ellsworth Schlemmer Preston Sheldon Schlemmer Cedar Rapids a twin Don Schlemmer Prairie du Chien Wis Mrs Muriel Jost Cedar Rapids and John L Schlemmer Preston The body was moved from Monahan chapel Monday to Preston for Tuesday morning services
Mrs Alfred C Kincaid 65 former Cedar Rapids resident died Saturday at 10 45 p m in a Davenport hospital after a three week illness The couple lived in Cedar Rapids 1922 1935 then moved to Davenport Born Wilton Junction June 16 1879 she married there May 24 1905 She was a Seventh Day Adventist Her husband predeceased her Funeral services at Hill Wal Pockuniescks mortuary Davenport Tuesday at 1 30 p m with burial in Greenwood cemetery Muscatine
Mildred May Jacoby wife of Riley Adison Jacoby of 715 Rave ome NE died at 7 05 a m Sunday from a sudden illness in Cedar Rapids. Born December 17 1881 in Olin she moved to Cedar Rapids from Oelwein in 1929 and married Riley Jacoby in 1901 at Olin. Survived by her husband two daughters Mrs Tom Boleyn of Oelwein and Mrs.
Nellie McBride wife of Luke R McBride of 1532 Fifth Avenue SE died Sunday evening at home after a long illness. Born in Muscatine November 1 1257 she leaves four daughters Mrsie Hendryx, Mrs Viola Smith, Mrs Gertrude Damge and Jack McBride Cedar Rapids and five grandchildren. Services Wednesday at 9 am in Immaculate Conception church with burial at Mt Calvary. Rosaries to be said by St Mary Agnes circle and Knights of Columbus at Monahan funeral home and church events.
The Committee for Constitutional Government founded by Frank Gannett defied a congressional subpoena for its contributors list and financial records, saying the demand exceeds congressional power. E. A. Rumely argued the committee spent no money in campaigns and warned the move could set a dangerous precedent against citizens who advocate political ideas.
Robert Armstrong announced the War Chest campaign committees for October 17 to 25. The speakers bureau will be chaired by A. L. Taylor and includes Ray Short Ray Phelan and Edwin Zeller. The publicity committee is chaired by Howard Kenyon with Herbert Stamats as vice chairman and Alfred Higgins Orville Rennie Harold Rowe C. E. Parks Walter Shupp and R. B. Booth.
At CAMP MACKALL North Carolina a mass parachute exercise ended in disaster when a C-47 transport crashed killing eight parachutists and four crewmen. A board of inquiry will determine causes. names of the victims will be released later as thousands of troops carried out the large night jump behind enemy lines.
U S reports indicate a major Rhine push with heavy bombardment and fortification work by German forces. Patton's Third Army presses toward Metz while British and Canadian units push to Arnhem and Turnhout canal. Across the front, First and Third armies tally 276,427 Allied prisoners since June 6.
An army air force examining board from Des Moines will visit Cedar Rapids Monday to test 17-year-olds seeking future training in air combat crews or the ASTRP. Examinations start at 10 a.m. at the recruiting office in the federal building with transportation provided to Des Moines for follow up physicals. The program opens eligibility to all men 17 to 18 for one of four phases of the army reserve.
A continuance delay was granted by Judge Henry N. Graven in Mason City for the estate case Elmo E. McCormick trustee of Ben B. Hogenson vs. Hardin County Savings Bank and others. The trial, set for the September session in Cedar Rapids, is continued to the next term on Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company’s request due to attorney Frank J. Comfort’s illness hospital confinement.
The mileage rationing record must be shown to the rations board with renewal or special A or B gasoline coupon applications. A T Pleune, chief clerk, said records prevent delays in coupon receipt and that inspections are no longer required with renewals. He urged sending all ODT truck certificates to the board promptly as third quarter coupons expire October 1.
A stipulation waiving a commissioners hearing in federal condemnation proceedings over land on Cedar Rapids northeast side has been filed. The suit seeks a jury trial. land is used as a trailer camp for war workers. Defendants include Frank L. Martin and Hollis G. Roasa of the Martin Roasa Tractor Co. and their wives Helen L. Martin and Rosetta Roasa.
Paul Wilbur Stark, 48, of Cedar Rapids route 3, faced a fifth offense drunk driving charge and pled not guilty before Judge M. C. Hamiel as trial began with jury selection and defense examination. Witnesses were discussed as Mrs Stark, a key witness, was ill, and another intoxicated driving defendant, Ray Waller, 32, pled innocent.
Clinton reporters say Herbert Jepsen 54, cashier of Goose Lake Savings Bank, was found dead Monday in the directors room. Acting coroner E. E. Martindale ruled heart attack the cause, occurring while Jepsen was on duty Sunday.
Mrs. Mary Berry of 529 Eighth street SE faced Judge M. C. Hamiel and pled innocent to larceny in the daytime for allegedly stealing flowers from John F. Popelka at St. John's Cemetery. A previous $200 suspension of a $300 fine for selling beer to a minor was revoked. she was released on the $200 fine and bail.
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