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PAGE SIX THE DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 1947 Death Notices Widow Given Entire Estate Under Will Of Joseph Deutsch Wife Helped Plan Adoption, Moyer Relates in Court Cordon-Van Tine Quad-City Stores Still in Operation Dog License Due City Treasurer C. F. "Ted" Schmidt today issued a warning to dog owners that the city license becomes due July 1. License fees are now accepted by the treasurer's office. The fee for a male dog is $1 and for females, $2.

EVERYWHERE they're switching to Calvert because Calvert is smoother. Navy Seeks Bids For Erection of New Armory Here Government to Furnish 3 Quonset-type Buildings for Project Allotment Plan to Dealers Scheduled By Standard Oil To Ration Gasoline on the Basis of Amount Received Year Ago Hearing Resumed in Fight by Mother to Recover Baby Boy The entire estats of Joseph Deutsch, proprietor of the Bee Hive, women's ready-to-wear store, who died June 14. is left to his widow, Mrs Ida Rothschild Deutsch, according to terms of the will filed in Scott county district court today for probate by Cook, MacLaughlip, Blair Balluff. E. P.

Adler was appointed executor of the instrument, which was dated Feb. 16, 1940. CALVERT RESERVE Blmded Whiskey Proof -6S Grain Neutral Spirit. Calvtrt Diitllltra Maw York City Marvin Moyer, divorced hus band of Mrs Gertrude Moyer who Although retail stores of Gordon-Van Tine Co. are closed temporarily for inv entory purposes in eastern Iowa and western Illinois, those in the quad-cities are operating as usual, it was announced today.

in the quad-city area are located in Davenport, Bettendorf, Rock Island and Mo-line. Assets of the company, purchased recently by a group of Cincinnati investors, have been offered for sale, and several deals are reported to be pending, but none has reached the stage where announcemnts can be made, it was said at the company offices. Purse Snatcher Eludes Pursuers GENERAL UDRIVE-IT prenticed to a licensed chiropractor, he said. According to Moyer, his former wife signed the adoption papers before him two days after the baby's birth in Mercy hospital. Ail assumed name was used during her confinement because they didn't want their own parents to read in the newspapers about the birth, he claimed.

Mrs Moyer previously testified that her husband did not want a baby, and that he suggested adoption, but she refused to give consent, and she said she didn't know what she was doing when she signed the adoption papers in the hospital. Also on the witness stand today is seeking custody of her five-months-old son, testified in Scott county district court today that his former wife planned with him the adoption of their child. The hearing, which was resumed before Judge V. V. Scott, is a result of action brought by Mrs Moyer in an attempt to obtain the child from Mr and Mrs L.

J. Carleton, whom she alleges adopted him without her consent. Moyer, formerly a Palmer School of Chiropractic student, related that they decided Johnson Infant Funeral services for the infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Leonard R. Johnson, Buffalo, who died at 5 p. m.

Monday in Mercy hospital six hours after birth, were held at 3:30 p. m. today in Rose Hill cemetery, Buffalo. In addition to the parents there survive three brothers, Duane Ray, Bruce Allen and Gary Lee Johnson, all at home; the paternal grandfather, Robert A. Johnson, Buffalo, and the maternal grandmother, Mrs Ethel M.

Stickley, also of Buffalo. lemons Funeral Funeral services for Howard Bertain Clemons were held at 1:30 p. m. today in Hill Fredericks chapel, the Rev. Dr.

Alfred S. Nickless officiating. Kenneth Peterson sang two hymns. Pallbearers were Howard Reynolds, Henry Rohwedder, Harry Nabstedt, Dr. Henry O.

Hansen, Jerry Dau and A. I. Naumann. Burial was in Oakdale cemetery. Wristen Funeral Funeral services for Betty Jean Wristen, infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Ottis Wristen, 1108 West Second street, were held at 1 p.

m. today in Runge chapel, the Rev. U. T. Vanderhoff officiating.

Burial was in Fairmount cemetery. Cadman Funeral Funeral services for Mrs Mary Cadman were held at 2:30 p. m. today in Runge chapel, the Rev. J.

R. Uhlinger officiating. Burial was in Fairmount remetery. New bids on construction of a navy reserve armory for Davenport are being sought by Ninth Naval district headquarters at Great Lakes, III, according to a notice received today at Davenport postoffice. The notice states that bids will be accepted at Great Lakes until 3 p.

m. Wednesday, July 2. The armory, according to navy plans, is to consist of three quonset-type steel buildings, each 40 by 100 feet, connected by a two-story administrative wing, 26 by 160 feet, of frame construction. All work on the armory will be done on contract, the navy notice discloses, with the quonset buildings to be furnished by the government. Contractors may obtain full plans and specifications from the construction officer, district pub-lice works office, Great Lakes, 111.

NEW A youth who snatched a purse containing $3 belonging to Thel-ma Kreiter, 2403 Tremont avenue, at Kirkwood boulevard and Perry street at 7:30 a. m. today escaped after being chased for several blocks, according to a report made to police. He was described as being 20 to 25 years old, wearing a sport coat and tan trousers. She called for help, and started chasing the thief.

Ben Waugh, 1524 Pershing avenue, whose attention was attracted by the woman's call, also took up the chase, but the youth managed to escape by running through an alley to LeClaire street. to delay divorce proceedings until after the baby's birth. After the divorce, which was granted in Scott county district court, Moyer remarried March 27, 1947 He and his present wife live in Des Moines, where he is ap- Allotment of gasoline to its dealers during" the three summer months in amounts that will approximate the total quantity delivered in the corresponding period last year was announced today by the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. No comment was forthcoming at the district office of the company here, where it was said no official notice of the rationing plan, made necessary by greatly increased consumption of gasoline, had been received.

Other oil companies are expected to follow with a similar plan in the next few days. "How the dealers will divide the supply of gasoline available to them is a matter for the dealers to determine, inasmuch as they are independent business men," said the Standard announcement, released through the Associated Press and United Press. The effect of the plan in this and other localities, will be that dealers will take care of regular customers first, and transients will take what is left, it is believed. The tourist, in consequence, will be hardest hit as supplies diminish. The marine oil terminal, Bettendorf, reported today that though fuel shipments have been a' by flood conditions, the situation is not serious.

A tow is due this week carrying a cargo of 900,000 gallons. Reserve supplies in Bettendorf are said to be sufficient to met ordinary demands. '47 MERCURY COUPES or SEDANS LOWER RATES Take a U-DRIVE-IT Car ON YOUR VACATION 320 Pershing, Davenport, 7-7209 were Mrs Moyer, Dr. W. E.

Foley, who was the attending physician, and Mrs Mover's mother, Mrs Marie Campbell, of Des Moines. Dr, Foley testified that Mrs Moyer told him arrangements had been made to adopt the baby, and that the husband later sustained this story. Mrs Campbell related that she learned the circumstances of the baby's birth from Mr Moyer, who had claimed in a letter that the Plan Track Meets At Playgrounds in Bettendorf Friday The second major event in Bet-tendoif's new summer playground schedule will be a track and field meet Fiiday for all school children, it was announced today by Frederick Jacobi, playground supervisor. The moot will be divided into contests fT both boys and girls, Jacobi said, and will be open to children of high school age or younger. Each large playground, at Washington and Lincoln schools, will conduct its own contests, while smaller meets will be held at the neighborhood centers.

The summer band and orchestra group will continue its practice sessions at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday in the city hall, according to Director Earl Van Rees. News in Brief Ask Dick LeBuhn child had died. For That "New Car Feel Total $34,451 in Behind the Wheel" ST Dance Operators Find Good News In Upheld Decree Augustana Drive Carlin Tullberg Specialists In Wlieel About a busy lawyer who was using the telephone.

"I want Central double-two, double two," he said. "Two-two, two-two," repeated the exchange girl, reproachfully. "All right," said the lawyer, patiently, "you get the number and we'll play train later on. He met this girl, they were married, and he found it necessary to increase his Life Insurance. A total of $34,451 was reported all divisions by Davenport in Allnement A Steering Blackhawk Garaga 323 East 3rd Dial 2-1M1 workers in the Augustana cam paign for funds for the proposed Personnel Director At Arsenal Retires; In Service 37 Years Bernard H.

Pohlmann, 2720 Bridge avenue, personnel director of Rock Island arsenal, who retires Friday after 37 years of governmental service, was given a testimonial dinner Monday night at the arsenal post restaurant, with 127 of his fellow employes present. Fred Glass, Davenport, was toastmaster, and talks were made by William Baumbeck, chief superintendent; Camille Lorraine, Carl H. Dall and Martin W. Johnson. Mr Pohlmann was presented with a fishing rod and reel, and with a ring.

He will go to "Lake of the Woods," Canada, for a fishing trip after which he plans to spend several months with a son at Santa Fe, N. M. new fine arts building at a lunch eon at Hotel Blackhawk today. The special gifts and unit gifts sections reported 517,110 and $12, i NYLONS! NYLONS! 650, respectively, for a total of $29,760 for the advance gifts di vision, while the general solici Three Arrested on Speeding Charges Pay Fines of $15 Three motorists arrested for speeding were assessed fines of $15 and costs each when arraigned before Police Magistrate John J. McSwiggin today.

They were William Stotler, 23, of 4231 Fourteenth avenue, Rock Island; Art Wulff, 20, of 3110 Telegraph road, and Myron Levet-zow, 17, of R. R. No. 4, Davenport. Donald Sountris, 18, of 426 West Fifth street, charged with viola Bertha W.

Shaw filed a petition for divorce today in Scott county district court against Daniel W. Shaw, to whom she was married July 14, 1925. She asks custody of two children, support money, distribution of their property and an injunction to restrain him from molesting her or the children. A delegation of five Davenport Knights Templar, headed by Commander Ed Haglund, was at Templar park on Spirit Lake today to attend opening sessions of the Iowa Grand Commanders. With Commander Haglund were Elliott McDonald, generalissimo; Charles A.

Grover, recorder; Thomas A. Turner and Elmer Jens. The Rev. John W. Koning, pastor of Newcomb Memorial Presbyterian church, the Rev.

David A. Searfoss of Mt. Ida Presbyterian church, and Ross E. Bee-dee, treasurer of First Presbyterian church, are attending the 69th annual meeting of the Iowa Presbyterian synod which opened Monday in Ames. Franz Krause, farm editor of The Times, sustained a bruised leg when he was struck by a motorcycle at Third and Ma fit streets Monday afternoon.

The operator of the machine failed to stop, he said. WE WILL GIVE 1 PAIR NYLON STOCKINGS and tation and alumni section has secured $4,691. The final report meeting will be held next Tuesday noon at Hotel Blackhawk. $30 CfiSSfl For Your Old Drophead Sineer Sewing Machine, Model 15-30 DICK LeBCHN General Agent When you see us, don't think of Life Insurance. When you think of Life Insurance, SEE US.

Francis Fiemj Mllo Lawton Albert K. Fahrner Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. "That's the best news the ballroom operators have had in a long time," one Davenport manager declared today when informed of the U. S. Supreme Court's upholding of Federal Judge Charles Dewey's decree that band leaders, instead of ballrooms, must pay the federal unemployment and social security taxes for musicians.

According to ballroom operators here, it has not been the money, but the considerable extra bookkeeping and expenses thus incurred, that have been the crux of the objection to the circuit court ruling that operators were responsible for the deductions from the salaries of each member of the band. "Our side has taken the view that we contracted the band through the leader, not the individual member, and could not hire or fire a member of the organization," the manager of one ballroom said. During the past year he has handled the deductions of over 800 orchestra members. tion of the automobile registration law, was assessed $5 and costs. Mrs Marion Petcoff, City Resident Many Years, Is Dead at 83 Mrs Marion Petcoff, 83, of 822 SEWING MACHINE EXCHANGE Owens Is Fined for Drinking and Driving John Owens pleaded guilty in Scott county district court late Monday to a charge brought against him in a county attorney's information of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.

He was fined $300 of which $200 was suspended and his driver's license was revoked. Main street, mother of Mrs Art Wagner, Bettendorf, and a resi Phone 3-7014 or Oui-of-Town Readers Wrlie Box No. 430, Times Our representative will pay $20 cash for all other Round Bobbin Drophead Singers; $13 for Long Shuttle Singer Dropheads; $15 for White Rotary. WILL GO ANTWHERE, ANY TIME, ANY PLACE! dent of Davenport since 1895. died at 1 p.

m. Monday at her home following! 0' I Iff an extended illness. A native oJ Bedford. Mrs Petcoff was One-Day Campaign For New Members Is Waged by C. of C.

The Davenport Chamber of Commerce was waging an intensified one-day membership campaign today, with a goal of 85 sought as a means of increasing finances to carry on a more ambitious and expanded program of community advancement. Approximately 40 workers, members of the "Contact" club of the organization, started out following a "kick-off" breakfast at the chamber, under the chairmanship of Art Muhs. Results will be announced at a meeting at the chamber Wednesday noon. hnrn Nov. 35 1 Dfil XtTncf iuudi aim naoi married to Wil-' liam T.

Fisher in Kansas. May Mrs Petcoff 1899. He died a number of years The Rock Island Rocket from Denver was the only eastbound train seriously affected by the floods today, officials reported. The train was not scheduled to make "the Kansas detour, but was coming the regular route and was eight hours late. The will of Charles W.

Stew- ard, who died June 9, was admitted to probate in Scott county district court today, with everything left to his wife except $15 to be divided evenly by three children. Fire Chiefs Plan to Expand Organization Quad-city fire chiefs, who were guests of the Rock Island arsenal ago, and she was married to Mar ion Petcoff March 27, 1933, ii in Truly a Superior School For Superior Students Farm Bureau Arranges Athletic Contests for Annual Picnic July 29 Softball championships for 4-H boys and girls, a trap shoot and other games and entertainment are scheduled for the annual Scott county Farm Bureau picnic in Maysville July 29, it was announced after a meeting of the county events committee in Eld-ridge Monday night. The committee also set Oct. 20 as the date for the Farm Bureau's annual meeting. It will be held at Davenport Masonic temple, with J.

Kelley of the U. S. soil conservation service as principal speaker. THE SAME AS CASH and there is no worry about loss WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Brady at Seventh Davenport Dial 3-2751 Chicago. Surviving are her husband; two daughters, Mrs Wagner and Mrs J.

Wesley Richmond, Louisville, a son, Chester T. Fisher, Indianapolis; four grandchildren, Mrs Richard J. Bruce, Bettendorf, and Mrs Marcella Reed, Chester W. Fisher and Raymond N. Fisher, all of Davenport, and a niece, Mrs Art Bailey, Peoria.

The body was removed to Hor-rigan funeral home, where services will be hel dat 2 p. m. Wednesday, with Edward Schmidt, Christian Science reader, officiating. Burial will be in Oakdale cemetery. Call fire department at a dinner Mon THOMSEN For Complete Line day at the post restaurant, decided to expand at their next quarterly meeting by inviting representatives of fire departments TONIGHT at 8:00 Cubs vs.

Decatur tmrnmrn JANITOR SUPPLIES WE DELIVER from nearby towns. The technical aspects of their work also were discussed, and Col. Carl A. Wald-mann, commanding officer of the arsenal, spoke. TICKETS AT: ffif THREE Business Property Is Sold for $20,000 According to a warranty deed filed in the Scott county recorder's office, Mr and Mrs George C.

Thompson have sold business property at 324 East First street to Margaret B. Lusk for $20,000. Another deed reveals the sale of 120 acres of farm property in Princeton township for $16,000 to Mr and Mrs Harry G. McCon-nell by Mr and Mrs F. H.

Mail Orders Harrison St Grille Hickey'g Sportsmen'! Grille Smoke Ring Martin's Indict Mrs Metcalf On Driving Charge Mrs Ethel Metcalf. 38, Daven Jolson Signed for Radio Show NEW YORK. (AP) Al Jolson, whose recent guest appearances in Bing Crosby's and other programs gained considerable attention on the grounds he was in for a "radio comeback," finally has decided to return to the air on a regular basis. He has been signed to go into the Thursday night Music Hall on NBC beginning Oct. 2.

HOMSEIU port, was indicted in Whiteside circuit court, Morrison, 111., Mon CHEMICAL SUPPLY CO. 118 Harrison. Davenport Dial 3-693? Municipal Stadium Davenport day afternoon for driving while intoxicated. She entered a plea of innocent before Judge Walter Stevens of the county court, and her bond was fixed at $1,000. Her husband, Harold Metcalf, obtained a surety bond for her release within an hour.

No date has been set for the trial. Crosby Plans British Film HOLLYWOOD. (UP) Crooner Bing Crosby agreed today to make a movie in England for British Producer J. Arthur Rank with an English cast, English story and setting and songs by English composers. PROGRESS twd-de ill If I aCc ioi ii In ON YOUR VACATION THIS YEAR TAKE TRAVELERS CHEQUES Don't have the worry of traveling with a large amount of money or risk the embarrassment of trying to cash personal checks away from home.

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