Weather and Local Births and Deaths Update
Cedar Rapids and vicinity forecast shows warmer conditions for Wednesday night and Thursday forenoon. Citizens got a mild sun as Cedar Rapids reached 72 degrees by 2:30 pm, four degrees above Tuesday’s 68. Overnight lows dipped to 47 and 53 at midnight. Mrs Catherine F Ryan, widow of John P Ryan, died Tuesday evening at her daughter’s home on Sixteenth Street NE Mercy hospital. New births reported include a son to James Bruce at 860 Fourteenth Street NE on Sept 29 and a son to Lloyd Hrdlicka at 1320 Hinkley Avenue NW on Sept 29. James C Lyons and wife welcomed a daughter Sept 30. Lyons is stationed with the navy at Pearl Harbor.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Mercury
Catherine F Ryan
John P Ryan
Clem Cashman
Sixteenth Street
Mercy Hospital
James Bruce
Fourteenth Street
Lloyd Hrdlicka
Hinkley Avenue
James C. Lyons
Seventh Street
Lyons
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Transient Dead on Tracks Near Tama
The body of Antonio Selles a 59 year old transient from Chicago was found on the North Western railroad tracks west of Tama on the Indian reservation about 8 a m Wednesday He apparently fell from a train with multiple injuries and a fractured skull Coroner Dr Wentien said Selles registered for the World War I draft as Tony Sowlipa No inquest will be held The body is at Harrison funeral home Tama County Iowa
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Boecial
Tama
Antonio Selles
Chicago
North Western Railroad
A. J. Wentien
Tama County
Wentien
Selles
Quarry
North Western Extra
Tony Sowlipa
Harrison Funeral Home
Farewell Party for Lawrence by Troop 4 and Canopus Club
A farewell party honors Ralph Lawrence assistant scoutmaster of Troop 4 at Harrison school Tuesday evening. He departs for Camp Dodge Friday after six years with the troop. James Manville Waubeck area Scout executive lauds Lawrence's Boy Scout work. Lawrence receives a gift from M J Babcock troop 4 scoutmaster. Guests include Committeeman and Mrs Jerome Lewis and daughter Janet, Committeeman and Mrs Arthur Lawrence and son William, and Mrs M J Babcock.
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Boy Scouts
Canopus Club
Ralph Lawrence
Harrison School
Lawrence
Camp Dodge
James Manville
Waubeck
M J Babcock
Jerome Lewis
Janet
Arthur Lawrence
William
M. J. Babcock
Navy seeks radio technicians for the armed forces
The navy calls for radio technicians with unlimited demand. Experience preferred but not required. Pay ranges from seaman second class at $54 per month to radio technician second class at $106 per month. A two hour written exam will be given on request at the navy recruiting station. Results are sent to Chicago for rating.
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S.O.S
Navy
Armed Service
Chicago
Scrap Drive Continues As Residents Rally For War Effort
Workers report strong local support as volunteers canvass precincts to collect scrap metal for wartime needs. By Wednesday noon the pile reached about 45 tons with police monitoring the site to ensure only scrap is sent to the war effort. Some radiators were smashed to prevent reuse.
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Twelfth
Ffteenth
Henry Haecgg
Yankees and Cardinals Duel in World Series Thriller
Yankees and Cardinals traded runs as DiMaggio and Hassett delivered key hits. Ruffing set a World Series record with 7 1/3 hitless innings before struggles opened avenues for St Louis. Slaughter and Ker of the Cardinals figured prominently with timely baserunning and errors shaping the late innings.
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Yankees
Gordon
Dickey
Hassett
Ruffing
Moore
Cardinals
Brown
Gordon Terry Moore
Keller Slaughter
Musial
Slaughter Gomp
Marvin Breuer
Cooper
Rizzuto
Slaughter
Rolfes
Cullenbine
Hopp
Keller Kurowski
Marion
DiMaggio
Keller
Browns
Dove
Gumbert
Harry Walker
Max Lanier
Walker
Herb Pennock
New York Yankees
Monte Pearson
Yanks
Terry Moore
Might
Lanier
St. Louis
Rolfe
Cullendine
W. Cooper
Sanders
Kurowski
O'Dea
Marrion
Crespi
O’dea
Chandler
T Moore
Cresp
Musia
Has
Gestapo Official Reported Killed in Prague
A Reuters dispatch datelined from the German frontier said Alois Gruber, a high Gestapo official, was killed in Prague while fighting enemies of the Reich in the protectorate. Turkey holds a world monopoly on the mineral meerschaum used for pipes and cigarette holders.
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London
Reuters
Alois Gruber
Gestapo
Prague
Protectorate
Turkey
Huntington Honored for 50 Year Utility Career
Arthur Huntington of Cedar Rapids was honored at a dinner at the Roosevelt hotel for 50 years of service in the electrical industry. The event drew more than 100 attendees from Iowa and nearby states, praising his rise from grunt lineman to public relations and经济 roles and his work with Westinghouse.
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Iowa Electric Light and Power
Roosevelt Hotel
Arthur Huntington
Cedar Rapids
Mt Vernon
Marion Jefferson
Belle Plaine
Tams
Toledo
Marshalltown
Boone
Huntington
Carrscomb Club
Walter Shadle
Finemans
Olio
Dows
Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing Company
George Westinghouse
Evanston
Chicago
Sioux Falls
Montana
Iowa
Ohio State University
Bitter Root Valley Irrigation Company
Hamilton
Mont
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
F. W. Linebaugh
C. O. Ingersoll
Iowa City
Owen Tisdale
Ray Ingham
Frank Flack
Dave Roach
Jefferson Louise Hathaway
Sutherland Dows
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
City Briefs Items From Cedar Rapids and Marion
Mr and Mrs W B Wheeler plan to reside in San Francisco the former Olga Neighbour listed as a contact. Advertisement seeks man to run filling station good location at 1939 Grande avenue SE. Mount Hermon lodge No 263 AF and AM to meet Thursday at 730 pm in Masonic hall with refreshments. Willian Chadima returned from China after attending a cold storage convention at 2200 Washington avenue SK. City-wide canal of Christian Youth chorus rehearsal Wednesday 7 pm at Coe College chapel. urging participation from Cedar Rapids and Marion churches.
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J Ll Dostal
Grande Avenue
Mount Hermon
Masonic Hall
Willian Chadima
Washington Avenue
China
Christian
Coe College Chapel
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Navy Calling For Cedar Rapids Sailor Seabee Duty
Dele Cunningham Cedar Rapids police sergeant takes a leave of absence and departs Wednesday for Des Moines to report for active duty as a boatswain mate second class with the Seabees. Cunningham enlisted in the navy two months ago.
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Dele Cunnimgham
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Witch the Seabees
Cunningham
Navy
Reed Files for Son's Lost Insurance Papers
Mrs Evelyn Reed of 883 Center Point Road appeared at the Red Cross to obtain life insurance papers for her son Charles Edward Reed who disappeared from Cedar Rapids a week ago as a selectee. She said the documents arrived Monday from an Des Moines insurance company.
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Evelyn Reed
Center Point Road
Red Cross
Charles Edward Reed
Cedar Rapids
Reed
Des Moines
South Side Cuan club dedicates service flag at CSPS hall
At the September meeting the South Side Cuan club dedicated a six by four foot service flag denoting 10 members now in the armed services. Capt Charles Penningroth, commandant of Company L, Second Regiment, State Guard, spoke on the guard’s origin and training. New members elected were William D. Bayless and F. W. Yanda.
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South Side
Cuan Club
Armed Services
Csps Hall
Ed E. Hach
Charles Penningroth
State Guard
Penningroth
William D. Bayless
F. W Yanda
Fruit Reception At Home for Women
The annual open house and fruit reception for the Home for Aged Women at 202 Twelfth Street NW will be held Thursday. Guests will be welcomed and tea served. donations of fruit jams jellies and other extras are welcome to support the home.
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Home For
Twelfth Street NW
Des Moines Motorist Reads Vehicle Code After Stop
A Des Moines driver, after refusing to yield, challenged a Dallas county patrol car. Chief C A Knee of the Iowa highway patrol issued a summons and kept him reading the Iowa motor vehicle code for four hours.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Dallas County
Chief C A Knee
Iowa Highway Patrol
Chief Knee
Hitler declares aims and resilience in speech to rally German defense
Hitler outlines wartime goals including securing Sevastopol, halting a Russian breakthrough near the Don and Volga, and seizing Russia's wheat lands and oil regions. He frames Stalingrad as strategically vital, claims German rail rebuilds and communications must stay open, and asserts Allied weaknesses while promising never to capitulate. Goebbels and Ribbentrop deny any Nazi rifts and insist Germany faces continued endurance.
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Sevastopol
Don
Russia
Volga
Stalingrad
Stalin
Dnieper
Rhine
Elbe
Donny
Egypt
Tobruk
Hitler
Germany
America
Dr Finegan to Speak at Church School Workers Dinner
Dr Jack Finegan head of religious education at Town State college Ames will speak at a church school workers dinner at St Pauls Methodist church Thursday evening. Rev Grant Anderson is general chairman with Dwight Krumholtz toastmaster and Paul Anthony song leader. McKinley High School pupils will perform with Harold Reeves as soloist.
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Jack Finegan
Town State College
Ames
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Grant Anderson
First Baptist Church
Dwight Krumholtz
Paul Anthony
Finegan
I. E. Linkletter
Cédar Rapids Ministerial Association
McKinley High School
Harold Reeves
Newsboys Raise 50 Million in War Stamps Sales
In Chicago at a Central States Circulation Managers meeting, newspaper carrier boys were credited with selling 50 million dollars worth of 10-cent war stamps, aiding Uncle Sam.
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Chicago
Uncle Sam
Central States Circulation Managers’ Association
Mrs Emmet Murray Dies at 33 in Cedar Rapids
Mrs Wilma Ho Murray aged 33 wife of Emmet Murray of 1115 Second Avenue SE Cedar Rapids died at Mercy hospital after a brief illness. Born Tama March 4 1909 she lived in Cedar Rapids 13 years married Aug 10 1937. Survived by husband mother sisters and brothers and infant son Michael J preceded her in death. Funeral details pending.
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Wilma Ho Murray
Emmet Murray
Second Avenue SE
Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Tama
John J Ford
Belle Plaine
John Cunningham
Cushman
Mass
Wilford Cunningham
Dixon
H. Benner
Michael J
Monahan
Joe Walsh
Grande Avenue SE
Knights of Columbus
NLRB Hearing Opens in Cedar Rapids AFL Tiff
A Tuesday NLRB hearing in Linn county courthouse aired a dispute between AFL unions at the Iowa Electro Light and Power plant. Judge Edward G Smith noted the unique case as the company seeks a ruling on whether IBEW Local 931 or IUOE Local 275 should have plant jurisdiction. Local labor leaders say representation is split near evenly at the Cedar Rapids facility.
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AFL
Iowa Electro Light and Power Company
Linn County
Edward G Smith
Thal
National Labor Relations Board
Smith
NLRB
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International Union of Operating Engineers
Cedar Rapids
IBEW
Executives Club To Hear Carveth Wells Wednesday
Carveth Wells of New York will be guest speaker at the Cedar Rapids Executives club opening meeting for the 1942-43 season at the Country Club. Van Vechten Shifim, newly elected president, will preside after a 6:45 PM dinner. Wells will discuss Africa and the Struggle for Strategic Supplies, topic he has presented in 30 army camps last summer. He has led two central Africa expeditions and authored a major text on the continent.
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Carveth Wells
New York
Cedar Rapids
Country Club
Van
Local servicemen receive promotions and leaves
From McQuiston in Northern Ireland rising from corporal to sergeant to Spicher brothers Dean and Donald assigned to Camp Crowder Missouri and Will Rogers field Oklahoma, Bowker on 10 day leave from San Diego with wife, Love from Great Lakes on 9 day leave to optical trade school, and others on leave or stationed at Norfolk Norfolk Naval base Camp Dodge Leesville Fort Riley Great Lakes and Alaska.
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Carl Spicher
Fourth Avenue
Dean Spicher
Signal Corps
Camp Crowder
Donald Spicher
Ordnance Company
Will Rogers Field
Oklo
Herbert H Love
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
C. A. Love
Twentyfourth Avenue
Great Lakes
Kiwanis Luncheon Addresses Liberty and Religion
Dr. David I Berger of Coe College told Kiwanis members at a Roosevelt hotel luncheon that liberty and religion are intertwined. He warned that denying God undermines both freedom and human dignity.
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David I Berger
Coe College
Kiwanis Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Religious Education Week Address Urges Unity in Nation
Dr Berger urged religion and daily life be fused in the United States during Religious Education Week. He warned that separating education from religion creates a generation of spiritual literates, lacking guidance in daily living.
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United States
Berger
Five Iowa counties to be honored daily for scrap drive
Des Moines Iowa W S Rupe Ames chair man of the state newspapermen committee announces a daily honor for the five scrappiest counties by per capita scrap collected the plan runs through Oct 17 The state salvage drive reports show Dubuque ahead with 172 tons Cerro Gordo 131 tons and Harrison 106 tons with 22 counties reporting so far The American Legion pledge to boost county chairmen reports aims to speed up the process
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Des Moines
Iowa
W. S. Rupe
Ames
Rupe
Dan O'Brien
American Legion
Ring County
Herbert C. Plagman
State General Salvage Section
Plagman
Dubuque County
Cerro Gordo
Harrison
Fear 69 Dead as Allied Ship Sunk
An East Coast port reports 69 seamen listed as missing after a torpedo sank a United Nations merchant ship. Only 16 survived. two believed captured. The vessel was torpedoed early in August about 500 miles west of the African coast.
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United Nations
County Officers Convene Oct 15 in Des Moines
A joint meeting of the Iowa Sheriffs association and the Iowa State Association of County Officers will be held in Des Moines October 15. Topics include bills to be introduced at the next legislature and arrangements for the annual school and institute set for December 15 and 16 in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa Sheriffs’ Association
Iowa State Association of County Officers
Boone Bond Rally Tonight Draws Diverse Groups
Boone AP reports a bond rally and auction at the high school athletic field with business labor church and other groups uniting. Participants include women’s army auxiliary corps from Fort Des Moines Lieut. William Reed of Marion sailors from the Ames training station and several bands.
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BOONE
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
Fort Des Moines
William Reed
Marion
Ames
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