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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1944
Page
9
Digest of wartime ration stamps and fuel coupons valid rules plus police court results and local births. Meats and foods stamps listed with book numbers and expiration dates. Gasoline and fuel oil coupons extended. airplane shoes stamps noted. Court fines for drunkenness and failure to yield. overtime parking fines. Births at St Luke’s Mercy and local hospitals include two boys and two girls born Sept 25 26.
Ches ter Johnson, personnel manager for Century Engineering, told the Canopus club that postwar industry, if allowed to expand, will absorb all available labor. He cited that about 500000 women aged 20 24 are employed now, with most war workers coming from the 35 64 group who will return home after peace.
A citywide conference of church and school workers is set for 7 30 p.m. Tuesday at the First Presbyterian church to mark Religious Education week September 24 to October 1. Cedar Rapids ministers sponsor the event with special group sessions for nursery to adult departments and a final assembly with reports and fellowship.
Senator Ferguson charged that Attorney General Biddle misread the Hatch Act by clearing CIO and National Citizens PACs of illegal practices. He cited testimony of PAC chairman Sidney Hillman claiming unions gave large sums and said PACs are political committees, thus gifts over 5 000 dollars violate the act.
Sapulpa and central Oklahoma welcomed Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey with about 15 000 people gathering around a bandstand in a park. Dewey quipped about his title and praised his wife Frances Hutt Dewey who graduated from Sapulpa High in 1921 as the governor thanked residents for their friendliness and let her pursue her life with him.
Scouts will pick up tin cans with wagons and haul them to collection centers for truck pickup early next week. Keith Benner says curbs should have cans stacked by 8 am Saturday. Cubs and Scouts aim to double last pickup’s 22 tons.
Hollywood band leader Tommy Dorsey and actress Pat Dane pleaded not guilty to charges they tried to slash Jon Hall’s nose during a midnight balcony brawl. Allan Smiley also entered a not guilty plea and the trial was scheduled for November 14.
Acting Registrar A W Meyer reports 47 men and 330 women enrolled with 170 freshmen for the fall quarter. Open registration continues until Oct 2 despite incomplete tallies. President Arthur Poe welcomed students at chapel as Dr David I Berger urged education to fit one to the universe and daily life.
In a 24 hour span Allied forces pushed the Eindhoven area corridor wider on both sides and opened a second supply road toward Nijmegen. US and French units pressed toward Duren and Belfort from Lorraine, with gains of several miles despite heavy shelling and rain.
Stark continued list includes A Erlacher Charles Van Cleve Walter J Dunahugh Howard G Rowley Orie S Imes all of Cedar Rapids Lucy Pyle Marion Barbara Schaefer Central City Clifton G Crull Cedar Rapids J M McArthur Shellsburg and Georgia J Colbert Cedar Rapids.
Community notices cover church events including a supper at Supper John Huss and a rummage sale at First Evangelical Church. Also reported are travel for a funeral, hospital patient improvements, a pre communion service at Westminster Presbyterian, a hospital wrist injury, Cub Pack meeting plans, a club dance, political headquarters opening, and insurance and marketing briefings with industry representatives in Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
Texas voters face six slates of presidential electors on November 7 including Roosevelt pledged Democrats and anti-Roosevelt Democrats labeled Texas Regulars. The anti Roosevelt faction, losing control of the state convention, filed its electors under a new label Monday.
Senator Arthur Vandenberg said President Roosevelt has met his match after hearing Gov. Thomas E. Dewey's radio address. He noted Dewey swung into his victory stride and declared the indispensable man has met his match. Vandenberg spoke while visiting his daughter at Cold Spring Harbor L I.
Ben Thompson 64 of 706 Fifth Avenue SE fatally injured in a Sunday car collision. A car struck him as he walked, sending him 75 feet. Born June 25 1880 in Clay County Missouri, he lived in Cedar Rapids since 1928. Burial at Linwood Cemetery. Mothers Mary Thompson Miller Missouri and nine grandchildren survive. Services set at Turner chapel 4 p.m. Wednesday.
James Wood Barnett 58 of 1407 Third Avenue SE Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital after a brief illness at 10 30 AM Tuesday He was born May 16 1886 in Cleveland Ohio lived in Cedar Rapids since 1913 and married Lota Trevarth on May 1 1915 in Dixon Illinois He worked as sales manager for the Bapane Gas Co wrote sports for the Cedar Rapids Republican and officiated Golden Gloves events Funeral arrangements to be announced.
Emmett Grant Needles 76 of 319 Third street SE died in an Independence hospital at 6 30 p m Monday after a long illness Born Oct 19 1868 near Mt Vernon he attended Marion high school and Cornell college Surviving are a sister Mrs Eva
A brother Elson R Needles of Mt Vernon, a niece and five nephews are listed among survivors. Services will be held at Neff funeral home in Mt Vernon Thursday at 2 pm with burial in Mt Vernon cemetery. Friends may call at the Neff funeral home.
Services for Fred M Popenhagen 318 Center Point road NE Cedar Rapids died in a Cedar Rapids hospital Sunday at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Turner chapel conducted by Dr. David Berger of Coe College burial in Linwood cemetery friends may call at the chapel Pythians asked to meet in Pythian hall at 1 30 p.m. Wednesday to attend the funeral.
Mrs Mildred May Jacoby wife of Riley A Jacoby of 715 Avenue NE Cedar Rapids died Sunday in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Services scheduled in Turner chapel at 1 30 p m Thursday with Rev Frank H Ward officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery at Oclwein. Friends may call at the chapel
About 260 Ottumwa Iron Works employees stayed out on Tuesday despite a War Labor Board plea to return to work. The plant remains shut since Saturday and is operating on war contracts. War Labor and War Production Board officials stayed in Ottumwa to seek an agreement, with United Steel Workers president Vincent Huberty saying talks continued after extensive discussions Monday.
War columnists Ernie Pyle, back in Indiana, believes the European war could extend through winter. He notes German forces are fighting hard and shows no signs of surrender. Pyle will visit relatives in Dana after passing through Indianapolis.
Democratic leaders condemned Gov. Dewey's Oklahoma City address as an hysterical outburst. Hannegan called the mouse and molehill remark a line of attack while Sen. Guffey contested Dewey's unemployment figure, citing March 1940 census data of about 5 million jobless people over 14.
The House campaign investigating committee moved to contempt against Edward A. Rumely for refusing to supply a contributors list for the Committee for Constitutional Government, founded by publisher Frank E. Gannett.
NBC reporter Robert St John from London says an official report confirms 1,000 German tanks were knocked out in ten days during the campaign.
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa schools at war program will award facsimiles of the Bill of Rights to every school achieving a 90 percent monthly purchase rate of war bonds or stamps by their pupils this year.
Crossley Poll shows Roosevelt ahead in a close national race with 52.2 percent to 47.8 percent as of Sept 22. The survey covered nearly 400 locales in 48 states, noting variations in electoral and popular votes across past elections and highlighting the unreliability of polls in tight contests.
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