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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1944
Page
1
Public notices list food fuel and shoe stamp details with validity dates and limits plus a traffic court column naming several defendants in speeding and related offenses. Married and birth announcements appear alongside marriage licenses and name changes with city references Cedar Rapids Marion Shellsburg and Mankato Minnesota.
The War Department announced a new discharge plan for soldiers whose physical condition no longer meets induction standards and for whom no suitable assignment exists. Overseas personnel released under the plan will be reported available for return to the United States without replacement.
Earl N Leatner is seriously ill at S Lukes hospital. Sixteenth Avenue Commercial club to meet at 8 p.m. Thursday. Cedar Rapids Bottling Works closes for a vacation, reopening Monday October 2. Maine lodge I O C F to conduct initiatory work at 8 p.m. Friday. Edward F Shors convalescing at 508 Sixteenth St SE after surgery at University hospital Iowa City. St Pauls Methodist book review postponed to 2 45 p.m. Friday due to James Barnett funeral. Mrs B E Warner visiting Wahoo Neb by death of her mother. Dr Karl Stiles to speak at lunch for northeast Iowa science teachers Friday at 12 15 m at Mrs Wursters tea room. call for reservations to Iola Tillapaugh. Rev C W Harp to preach Sweet Communion ere Have We at Pale Methodist church Sunday 11 a.m. world wide communion observed. Special offering for Overseas relief chaplains services and training camp work. Sunday school at 10 a.m.
The Rev. W Edward Epps pastor of the First Baptist church of Oelwein spoke at the Baptist Training union fall banquet in Calvary Baptist church on Tuesday evening. Rev Rodney Gould served as toastmaster and speakers included James Wentworth Miss Phelan Bridella Hauskins and J Gould.
Soviet military analysts called the Riga withdrawal plan strategically hopeless as German forces pull back from the Latvian port along a strafed escape road. Red forces widened their advance into Latvia and eastern Slovakia while Malinovsky aimed to trap Hungary and seize Tor Komlos oil fields near the Romanian border.
Approximately 49 sacks of Jersey Cream bleached and enriched flour were seized at 1108 B avenue NE by Deputy U S Marshal Joseph Petrus after a libel for condemnation was filed by Franklin E. Gill U S attorney. Judge George C. Scott ordered seizure for court action with an Oct 24 answer date for Carpenter Johnson Company.
The Donnelly child, son of Cedar Rapids Social Security staffer, is hospitalized with poliomyelitis confirmed by spinal puncture at St Luke's. Earlier polio deaths included Mrs. Clark Luedeman and George W. Benike. The Donnelly boy is not bulbar type, per Dr. Morgan J. Foster. The deceased Higbee family member will be buried after arriving at a local funeral home.
Harold Gibson 37 of 368 Thirtieth Street SE is in University hospital Iowa City with poliomyelitis. His wife Mrs. Gibson said Thursday he is vastly improved and may leave the hospital Sunday. The fifth local polio victim David Minshall 9 of 1911 Fourth Avenue SE was discharged two weeks ago and is back in school.
The Office of Price Administration reports 1.6 million passenger tires available for October rationing, unchanged from September. Heavy truck and bus tires rise by 3,000 to 105,000, while 280,000 smaller tires for these vehicles are allocated, the same as September.
The OPA files a treble damage suit in Cedar Rapids federal court against the Golden Star Creamery Association at Bennett claiming $1,280 in butter overcharges and improper invoicing of wholesale butter sales.
Gordon Hughes, chief officer in the Seabees and former Cedar Rapids police traffic head, arrived Wednesday for a 30 day leave. He and Mrs. Hughes stay at the Leonard Kohl residence, 306 Third Street SW.
In Dyersburg Tennessee nine airmen died after two Fortresses collided midweek. Authorities announced the fatalities on Thursday confirming the deadly crash involving two Fortresses and resulting in nine deaths.
Churchill praised Allied logistics and the ongoing assault on Germany while denying Burma stalemate. He described Paris and most of France liberated, named Normandy as the war’s decisive battle, and lauded Arnhem and the Italian and Riviera operations. He noted coalition forces include Polish, Brazilian, and colonial troops and welcomed a Jewish brigade.
Washington AP reports the maternity and infant care program for servicemen families was extended Thursday to cover health supervision for infants during their first year.
Malcolm Scott Hallman principal of Franklin school was reported fairly good by hospital attendants at St Luke's after a severe asthma attack. He remains under care and observation Thursday.
Allied air forces including Corsair fighters based near Peleliu joined the push in the Philippines theater. The communique notes attacks on Babelthuap and Koror in the Palaus, with 100 American planes reported by Domei. Nimitz announced continued raids and enemy losses on Peleliu and Angaur totaling 8 537.
Evelyn Hess Reddick wife of Kenneth W Reddick 1836 Fiftieth street NE Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 6 p m after an illness of several months She was born April 15 1917 in Windham Indiana and married Oct 14 1935 in Iowa City Survivors include her husband three sons Wayne Jackson Kenneth Duane and Donald Thomas Reddick all at home her father Frank Hess mother Mrs Esther Hill step mother Mrs Annie Hess sister Mrs Eloise Davis a grandmother Mrs Jane Thomas and a son James Richard from a former marriage Services will be held at Turner chapel at a time to be announced and friends may call there
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey completed an 8,545 mile campaign trek through 22 states then returned to Albany. A Columbia Broadcasting system poll of correspondents aboard the special train found 37 believers Dewey strengthened his White House bid, five said he lost ground, and six saw no change.
The Iowa commerce commission denied Poole Transfer Company of Muscatine its bid to run a motor freight line linking Muscatine West Liberty Iowa City Cedar Rapids Vinton Waterloo Waverly and Charles City A Sept 7 public hearing heard opposition from four other truck lines the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City railway and the Water loo and Cedar Rapids Chambers of Commerce Twelve shippers testified in favor but the panel found no unreasonable delay and insufficient volume to justify new service The commission did approve Railway Express Agency Inc to operate between Calmar and Decorah.
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa conservation commission extended the trout season to 9 p.m. October 31 from the planned September 3 date after fisheries staff found heavy trout populations in northeast Iowa. The agency noted bass and catfish are active and inland streams remain clear with normal water levels statewide.
GNATUS KREMENDY a 52 year old resident of Thirtieth Street SE suffered cuts to the head and injuries to a leg and hip when struck from behind by a hit and run driver on Mt Vernon Avenue near Thirtieth Street SE. He was taken to Mercy hospital where attendants said his condition was fairly good on Thursday.
Fordham University reported that its seismograph recorded a fairly severe earthquake on Wednesday located about 7,600 miles west of New York near Formosa. The report notes the event was detected from the New York observatory.
Services for Mrs. Anthony Pus ateri are set for Friday at 9 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Church with Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. M. Molloy officiating. Burial will follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery. Rosary is recited Thursday at 8 p.m. by Msgr. Molloy, and the Knights of Columbus along with the Catholic Order of Foresters will say the Rosary at 8:30 p.m. at the residence where friends may call.
Mrs Mercedes Stephenson 51 wife of Walter R Stephenson of 1710 First Avenue NW died at home Wednesday. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Friday at Beatty chapel with Rev George Stauffacher presiding. Burial in Linwood cemetery. Friends may call at Beatty's.
Perry Jordan died at 3 30 a m Thursday at the Linn County Home where he had lived since 1928. Relatives are asked to contact Yocom funeral home in Marion.
The naked body of Sam Peck, 25, was recovered from a gravel pit near his home Wednesday. A comb was clutched in his hand and his clothes were found piled near the water. Coroner A. E. Shaw said the youth apparently had suffered a cramp while swimming.
The term Oyer in announcing the opening of court was brought to England by the Normans. It marks the adoption of judicial practice from Norman governance and influenced legal proceedings in medieval England.
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