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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1947
Page
13
Kenneth L. Dixon notes Washington DC faces a legal gap allowing searches for concealed weapons without a warrant. After several shootouts and police shootings, a bill by Congressman Eddie Herbert aims to empower police to search suspects. Opposition centers on civil liberties concerns.
About 300000 German coal miners in the Ruhr area walked out in a one day protest against food shortages in the British zone. The strike, 95 percent complete, shut down 170 pits and halted production at roughly 250000 tons. Some groups returned to work while others stayed out in Duisburg and Hamburg and in Gelsenkirchen and Remscheid. The stoppage followed a union meeting in Bochum.
UNRRA and the Czechoslovak Red Cross located 17 Lidice children dispersed in Germany after an urgent search. The group of 35 Czech and Slovak youngsters left the Prien international children’s center in Bavaria and began their journey home under UNRRA displaced persons operations.
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