Iowa City notices and town police court summaries
Iowa weather forecasts predict dry, cool days with mild nights through Thursday across the region. In local notices, West Liberty mourns the death of Frances Ruth Weeppl with services held at St. Joseph's Church in Iowa City Monday morning. Various court actions include fines for disturbing the peace drunkenness reckless driving speeding and other infractions in multiple towns.
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Sioux City
Minneapolie
Phoenix
Duluth
Los Angeles
Chicago
Denver
Iowa
West Liberty
Frances’ Ruth Weeppl
Iowa City
St. Joseph's Church
Handler Motor Company Rebuilds Limited Building
The Handler Motor Company begins reconstruction of its 712 Second Avenue SE building. Smith Construction Company handles the project with a five month plan to rebuild in sections while business continues. Initial remodeling permit cites 70 000 dollars, not the final total as plans evolve. The estimate excludes heating, lighting, and equipment to be installed during progress.
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Handler Motor Company
Second Avenue SE
Smith Construction Company
New Work Dispute at Morrell’s 74 Fired
In Ottumwa Iowa seventy four men at Morrell packing plant pork cut department were discharged after a new work dispute. The plant halted hog market operations as both company and union cite contention over filling vacant ham trimming jobs following last week’s 10 dismissals.
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Ottumwa (Ap
Morrell Packing
Allied Departments
Company
Union
Tax Commission reports use tax on new vehicles
Des Moines area Town Tax Commission reported on Monday that use tax collections on new motor vehicles and trailers last month totaled 391,634 dollars. The figure reflects revenues for the period and suggests steady tax intake from local vehicle purchases.
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Des Moines
Town Tax Commission
Wherry Calls Small Firms to Take More Initiative
Senator Wherry asserts shortages harm small business due to lack of initiative among leaders. He cites 450 foundrymen unable to obtain steel and urges firms to form equity, borrow from RFC, and secure supply. He notes steel and petroleum shortages, export pressures, and predicts price easing as grain crops improve.
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Omaha
INS
Wherry
Neb
Senate
Small Business Committee
RFC
Washington
Berlin Council Urges Four Powers to Leave Berlin
Berlin's city government told the four occupying powers to depart if they cannot settle their differences. Acting Mayor Ferdinand Friedensburg read a resolution urging that while occupation continues Berlin remain under Four-Power control with no single power dominating, criticizing Soviet efforts to unseat the elected government.
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Berlin
Ferdinand Friedensburg
Germany
Council Bluffs Appeals For Aid in Polio Work
Council Bluffs reports 40 new infantile paralysis cases and a nurse shortage. The Red Cross relayed an appeal for six volunteer nurses from other communities via the Linn county chapter. Volunteers would serve one month, shorter than the two month stay required by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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Council Bluffs
Red Cross
American Red Cross
Linn County
National Foundation For
Rita Johnson Recovering After Coma and Brain Surgery
Hollywood report says actress Rita Johnson emerged from a two week coma and is slowly recovering after head injuries and brain operation. She is taking solid nourishment and no interview has been conducted about her injuries though there is strong belief a hair dryer caused the accident in her apartment.
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Hollywood
INS
Rita Johnson
Navy Seeks Officer Candidates for Pilot Training
The navy offers reserve commissions to men aged 18 to 25 who want to fly. Eligibility requires two years of college, citizenship, unmarried status, and passing mental and physical exams. After about 18 months of flight training, cadets are commissioned as ensigns or second lieutenants with aviator pay around $200 monthly. Details from Minneapolis or Chicago officer procurement offices or navy recruiting stations.
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Navy
Naval Reserve
Marine Corps Reserves
Minneapolis
Chicago
Japanese Prisoners Demand Repatriation Protest
About 100 Japanese began a fast on the steps of a Tokyo Buddhist temple to press Russia to repatriate roughly 500000 Nipponese war prisoners still being held.
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Tokyo
Memorial service honors Eduard Benes at Cedar Rapids
About 350 attendees gathered at Wilson High School for a memorial honoring Eduard Benes, led by Dr. Hollinshead of Coe College. The program, sponsored by the Federation of Czech Societies, featured Czech and American anthems, Sokol uniform rituals, and tributes from T. B. Hlubucek and others.
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Byron Hollinshead
Coe College
Eduard Benes
Wilson High School
Benes
Lincoln
Washington
Hollinshead
Federation of Czech Societies
Cedar Rapids
T. B. Hlubucek
Czechoslovakia
Czech
Sokol
American Federation of Musicians
Joseph Kitchin
Rosejmarie Jan
Final G A R Encampment in Grand Rapids
Six aged veterans attended the Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Grand Rapids Michigan with ages from 99 to 107. Organizers noted declining attendance and health issues foreshadowing a possible final meeting. Veterans from Tucson Rochester Joplin Atwater Long Beach Minneapolis shared views on continuation versus disbandment.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Grand Army of the Republic
Cora Gillis
G.A.R
James Penland
Penland
Tucson
Ariz
James Hard
Rochester
N. Y
Gannett
William Osborn
Joplin
John H. Grate
Atwater
Ohio
Charles L. Chappel
Long Beach
Calif
Albert Woolson
Minneapolis
Salvation Army Worker To Conduct Two Meetings
Maj. Elsie Gauntlett a Salvation Army veteran of Eur ope service will lead two Cedar Rapids meetings this Friday at the headquarters. A 2 pm session with Dubuque Clinton and Maquoketa corps members precedes an evening public meeting at 7 30. Gauntlett has aid women's work across 11 states and has done relief work in Holland Belgium Austria Germany and Czechoslovakia.
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Elsie Gauntlett
Salvation Army
Europe
Cedar Rapids
Gauntlett
Central Territory
States
Dubuque
Clinton and
Maquoketa Corps
Holland
Belgium
Austria
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Union seeks recognition at Belmont Radio Co
The CIO United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America seeks recognition Monday as the collective bargaining agent for Belmont Radio Corporation employees in Charles City. Charles Hobbie reports a letter of recognition has been sent and that a majority of the plant’s more than 100 workers support the move. earlier efforts by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers ended months ago.
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Charles City
INS
CIO
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
Belmont Radio Corporation
Charles Hobbie
Cedar Rapids
Belmont
Hobbie
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Two Men Plead Guilty on Reckless Driving Counts
Robert Eaton of Marion was fined 25 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving in traffic court Monday. Russell Eddins of 600 First Avenue was fined 100 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving following a Saturday incident in which his bumper locked and dragged another car 60 feet at A Avenue and Seventh Street NE.
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Robert Eaton
Marion
Russell Eddins
First Avenues
Jerry Fix
Y.M.C.A
Marvin Nove
Second Avenue
Clair Cavendaugh
Henry Burt
Palo
Lumir Pavlick
Anchorage
Alaska
Frank Jelinek
James Klaner
Ronald Lutz
Bever Avenue
C. A. Thurston
W. E. Bixby
Nineteenth Street
Winifred Vanous
N Street
David Coco
Fifth Avenue
Melvin Baker
Third Street
Costes
Harry Irvin
Second Avenue SW
Flrst Avenue
Eaton
Kills Boulevard
L Avenue
Eddins
A Avenue
Seventh Street
Pickets Halt Journal of Commerce Publish Cut
The Journal of Commerce failed to publish on Monday as its press room employees refused to pass ITU AFL picket lines. Executives attempted to run the presses in khaki work clothes while ITU tensions centered on contract terms separate from the NYC Publishers Association agreement.
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New York
Journal of Commerce
International Typographical Union
AFL
Typographical Union
International Printing Pressmen’s Union
ITU
Joseph Ridder
Bernard J. Ridder
Eric Ridder
New York City Publishers Association
Journal
Bevin Accuses Russia at UN Over Berlin Crisis
Bevin quotes Lenin and accuses Russia of blocking agreement on atomic energy and threatens Western action. Delegates fear steps toward war as the West drafts a formal protest to the Security Council to lift the Berlin blockade and place Russia on trial before world opinion.
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Lenin
Vishinsky
Soviet Union
Bevin
Russia
U.N
Security Council
Berlin
Council
Boycett
United States
Butter Drops Again On Wholesale Market
The New York Mercantile Exchange announces a two to three cent drop per pound on wholesale butter. Exchange president Milton G. Inkeles notes consumer buying limits. Safeway Stores says retail prices fall for one pound bricks to 73 cents, with grade A and C adjustments planned.
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NEW York
INS
New York Mercantile Exchange
Milton G. Inkeles
Exchange
Safeway
Paper mill looted from Canton to be shipped to China
Japanese forces seized a Canton China paper mill valued at five million dollars and set up in Hokkaido. The stolen mill will be returned to the Chinese government, with the transfer reflecting wartime restitution and ongoing asset repatriation.
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Tokyo
Canton
China
Hokkaido
Deaths Pfc Harvey H Wehde 21 Killed in Action France
The body of Pfc Harvey H Wehde 21 son of Mr and Mrs Tom Mullinex 718 Sixth Street SW Cedar Rapids will arrive Tuesday. Funeral services are set for 1 30 p m Wednesday at Beatty chapel with Rev A B Curran. Burial will be in Shiloh cemetery. Wehde died in action in France June 18 1944 after entering service December 1942 He came from near West Branch and worked for Wilson and Company before enlistment Surviving are four brothers Russell Le Roy Donald Howard and a sister Mrs Gladys Wolvers Cedar Rapids.
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Pfc
Harvey H. Wehde
Tom Mullinex
Sixth Street
Cedar Rapids
Beatty Chapel
A. B. Curran
Shiloh
Pic. Wehde
France
West Branch
Wilson and Company
Russell
LeRoy
Donald
Hanover
Iil
Howard
Savanna
Gladys Wolvers
Lendeken Infant Dies in Cedar Rapids Hospital
Claude G. Lendeken two-day old son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Lendeken of Rockford Road SW died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 9 45 am Monday. Private funeral services were held at Mt Calvary cemetery at 2 30 pm Monday by Teahen chapel. Surviving are his parents two sisters Mary Frances Ida Rose one brother Theodore and grandparents Mrs John Latterner of near Dubuque and Mrs Ida Lendeken of Cedar Rapids.
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Claude G. Lendeken
Elmer Lendeken
Rockford Road
Cedar Rapids
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Teahen Chapel
Mary Frances
Ida Rose
Theodore
John Lattner
Dubuque
Ida Lendeken
20 Year Olds Still Trying To Register
Draft boards in Linn County, Iowa, and other areas are still signing up late registrants. Some 18 year olds turning 18 must register within five days, and colleges like Coe and Linn County high schools are aiding the signup effort.
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Linn County
Iowa
FBI
Linn County Board
Coe College
Linn County High Schools
Hick To Speak In Truman Town Independence Rally
Senator B. B. Hickenlooper will speak in Independence Missouri the home town of President Truman Tuesday evening. He will address a Republican rally assigned by the speakers bureau of the GOP national committee. Independence Republicans requested his assignment according to the committee.
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B. B. Hickenlooper
Independence
President Truman
Hickenlooper
G.O.P. National Committee
Independence Republicans
Cedar Rapids Council Approves Tree Planting on Franklin Ave
The Cedar Rapids city council approved a petition from 48 residents to plant trees along Franklin avenue NE between the 2000 and 2500 blocks. Arborist R. K. Alman will supervise the planting in the street parking strip with costs billed to nearby property owners.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Franklin Avenue
R. K. Alman
Two Men Fined for Disturbing the Peace
Robert Erickson of Mason City and Gilbert Rutledge of 314 Sixth Street SW pled guilty in police court to disturbing the peace. Each was fined 25 dollars and costs after arrests Saturday near a high school football game and at home, with Judge Johnson suspending 15 dollars of Erickson’s fine.
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John Dawson
Seventh Avenue SE
Robert Erickson
Mason City
Gilbert Rutledge
Sixth Street
Hill Park
Johnson
Wallace Supporters Attacked in Georgia
Five Progressive party workers from Henry Wallace were beaten after a mob raided their Augusta headquarters. Police reported 40 to 50 men in about a dozen cars abducted them to Grovetown, where they were slapped and beaten before release. The group sought signatures to place Wallace on the general election ballot.
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Augusta
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
Grovetown
Atlanta
Wallace
Case of McManus Goes to Trial on Lascivious Acts Charge
The state reports John McManus faced a jury Monday morning before Judge M C Hamiel charged with lascivious acts with a 14 year old boy.
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John McManus
M. C. Hamiel
Council Receives Labor Federation Letter On Police Promotion
The Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor lodges opposition to the police promotion plan and an outside survey. The letter, presented by J. C. Blodgett, urges a local citizen committee to study department affairs, mentions local media outlets and the Chamber of Commerce as possible survey partners. Mayor Hahn will place the letter on file for council action, while Safety Commissioner Hughes awaits word from a New York institute.
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Municipal Island
Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor
J. C. Blodgett
AFL Teamsters
Cedar Rapids
The
Federation
Gordon Hughes
Gazette
AFL
Tribune
Chamber of Commerce
F. K. Hahn
Hughes
Institute of Public Administration
New York
Bruce Smith
J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Short Term of Federal Court In Cedar Rapids
The fall term in Cedar Rapids will be brief with Judge Henry N. Graven arriving Tuesday to handle a pre trial conference in a rent suit between Jack Burke and Mary M English, both Marion residents. He will hear motions in the $50 518 damage suits by Eldora minister Esmond C Lasswell against Dartel and others and the $46 000 alienation of affection suit by Thurman R Rigdon against Bruce and Charity Wright of Anamosa. Rigdon cannot be reached. he is believed to have left Anamosa.
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Cedar Rapids
Henry N. Graven
Graven
Jack Burke
Mary M. English
Marion
Peter Davzes
la Salle, I
Eldora
Esmond C. Lasswell
Dartel
Thurman R. Rigdon
Bruce
Charity Wright
Anamosa
Rigdon
Des Moines Painter Dies After Fall From Church Steeple
A Des Moines man, 40, Arle F. E. Allen, was killed Monday when the painter’s chair rope broke and he plunged about 65 feet to the sidewalk while painting the steeple of Luther Memorial church at 1201 Grand View Avenue.
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Des Moines
Luther Memorial Church
Grand View Avenue
Arle F E. Allen
City Briefs Roundup of Local Notices and Events
City Cab promotes courteous taxi service with a telephone contact. Mr and Mrs Byron T Peterson welcome guests. Mrs Peterson is Marion Breiholz of Cedar Rapids. Dr B J Radford podiatrist opens new office at 1026 ard Ave SE with phone 3 6331. Retail Merchants Meet at Roosevelt Hotel to discuss Christmas plans. Cedar Rapids Charles Duster named director of Town Retail Food Dealers Association. W T Dehl reelected president at Des Moines convention. Coe College chapel service Tuesday at 10 am features T Z Koo of World Student Christian movement. Free Methodist church hosts Rev Francis Archer of Seattle Tuesday at 7 48 pm. Archer recently returned from Mexico.
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B. J. Radford
Ard Ave
Duster
Diester
Charles Duster
Cedar’ Rapids
Town Retail Food Dealers Association
Des Moines
W. T. Dehl
Coe College
First Christian Church
T. Z. Koo
World Student Christian Movement
Francis Archer
Seattle
Free Methodist Church
Mr. Archer
Mexico
Iowa Synodical Guild Sees 200 Women Register
More than 200 women registered Monday for the Fourth Biennial convention of the Iowa Synodical Women's Guild. The Evangelical and Reformed church event opened at the Roosevelt hotel with a talk on visual aids in religious education by Cochran of the University of Iowa.
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Iowa Synodical Women’s Guild
Roosevelt Hotel
Evangelical and Reformed Church
Iat Cochran
University of I Owa
Taxes Due Notice Delinquencies Warning
The second installment on personal and property taxes is due with County Treasurer Frank Bates noting Monday as the deadline. Taxes become delinquent if unpaid and a penalty attaches.
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Frank Bates
Berlin Crisis Drives West to UN Security Council
The Aug 23 Berlin accord aimed to lift the blockade unconditionally and allow Soviet currency in Berlin under four power control. Sokolovsky pressed for conditions giving Moscow control of all transport and currency, derailing talks and prompting Washington London and Paris to seek UN intervention.
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Russia
Berlin
Germany
Wassily Sokolovsky
United States
Britain
France
Stalin
Sokolovsky
Bern
Moscow
Washington
London
Paris
Marshall
Bevin
Schuman
United Nations Security Council
Nodaway River Bridge Collapses Closing Two Highways
The State Highway Commission reported the Nodaway river bridge a mile east of Clarinda on Iowa highway No 2 collapsed Sunday night, closing the route indefinitely. The incident also shut down highway No 71 at its junction with No 2.
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Ames
State Highway Commission
He Wouldn't Get Up So It Cost Him a Neat $31
The burglaries occurred while Jesse Cannon slept in his tavern apartment. Police found the front door jimmied at 4:35 a.m. His wife heard a noise over the intercom but he dismissed it. A second break in at the Barrel Inn on Fourteenth Avenue and Third Street SE showed a rear window broken with $65 missing.
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Jesse Cannon
Cannon
Barrel Inn
Fourteenth Avenue
Third Street
George Pelisek
Ralph Mikesell
Japanese artist confesses to Tokyo bank poisonings
Sadamichi Hirazawa, 57, admits administering deadly poison to twelve Tokyo bank staff posing as a welfare ministry official. Fifteen workers drank the medicine. eleven died within minutes. He fled with substantial yen after the Jan. 26 incident and was arrested while unable to account for large sums of money.
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Tokyo
Sadamichi Hirazawa
Welfare Ministry
Hirazawa
Hanson To Report At Annual Meeting
Fair Manager Andy Hanson will deliver a complete report at the All-Iowa Agricultural Association annual general meeting next Monday at 3 PM in the Chamber of Commerce building. Following the meeting, the board of directors will convene and officers and an executive committee will be elected. Plans for next year and fair date approvals will be discussed.
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Andy Hanson
All-Iowa Agricultural Association
Chamber of Commerce
Hanson
Margarine Prices Cut Again by Durkee Famous Foods
Durkee Famous Foods cut wholesale prices of its table goods margarine by two cents per pound, following a prior two cent cut last month. The price range now stands from 41 to 43 cents a pound for white and quartered yellow margarine, aided by abundant crops of cotton seed soya beans and corn lowering raw materials.
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Cleveland
Durkee
Betzold
Ad address correction for Sunday pet ad
The Sunday advertisement contains an incorrect address. The correct pet ad address is 815 3rd Ave.
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3Rd Ave
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Twenty Fourth Street Drive
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Siegel
Wildwood Drive
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Robert Malnix
Meredith Strang
Fairfax
Lester Valenta
Thirtieth Street
George Lawrence
Wendell Freeman
Eleventh Street
Elmer Keiper
Atkins
Walter O'Connor
Central City
Mercy
Louis Balik
C Avenue NE
Robert Wells
Gene Oswald
Fourteenth Street
Irving Fitzpatrick
Woodrow Wilson
First Street
Charles Havill
Vernon
James Dozier
Tenth Street
Edward Simon
New York City
Davenport West
West
Patricia Jane Salter
Alice B. Salter
Harold E. Johnson and
Harriet Dauchy
Morrell’s
Belmont Radio Co
Wholesale
Beatty's
Lendeken Infant
Truman Town
Georgia
McManus
Federation of Labor
Dial
City Cab
Poplar, Ment
Byron T. Peterson
Peterson
Marion Breiholz
Retail Merchant’s Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce
Iowa Synodical ‘Guild
State Department
United Kingdom
Bureau of the Police
Milady Beauty Shop
Turner
Lapes Florist
Third Avenue SE
Iowa Iron and Coal Co
Reesevelt
Ae Cai
Netal
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