Soviets End Boycott of U N Talks
At the United Nations in New York Andrei A. Gromyko resumed his seat on the Security Council as the body met. Moscow had boycotted since March 27 over the Iranian issue but the matter remained on the agenda with Byrnes opposing dropping the Iranian question. Gromyko attended a victory party with Iranian representative Hussei n Ala and their wives at the Waldorf Astoria.
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United Nations Security Council
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Gromyko
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Security Council
Byrnes
Iran
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U.N
Quo Tai-chi
Trygve Lie
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Hussein Ala
Ala
Williams Gets Three-day Stay On Arraignment
Judge Floyd Philbrick set Friday for Lawrence Wesley Williams to plead to the manslaughter charge stemming from a March 15 accident that killed one Coe College student and injured another. Williams received a three day postponement under Iowa law. a grand jury indicted him April 3 after hearing 16 witnesses. The petit jury was dismissed until next Monday.
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Cedar Rapids
Floyd Philbrick
Lawrence Wesley Williams
Williams
Iowa
First Avenue E
Twelfth Street
Coe College
June LaVelle Davy
Mazon
Hazeldel Yates
Palo
St. Luke’s Hospital
Miss Yates
Guy Yates
Petit Jury
Philbrick
Thomas Quigley
Sixth Street SE
Quigley
Mrs Worm Enters Plea of Innocence in Murder Case
BEDFORD AP Mrs Dorothy Worm 41 pled innocent to a first degree murder indictment in the 2 1 2 year old slaying of her husband Tommy Worm 42 The arraignment occurred at 11 20 a m with waiver of indictment and no reading The hearing was moved up due to a light docket Henry Schmitt Lenox Iowa horse trader 62 already serves 99 years for the earlier murder of Worm and pled guilty to second degree murder District Judge George A Johnson set April 29 for Mrs Worms further proceedings
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Chiefs Deny Contact with F R Before Pearl Harbor
Washington reports quote Gen. George C. Marshall and Admiral Harold Stark denying any contact on Dec 6 1941 with the President or knowledge of the intercepted Japanese message. They testified before the Pearl Harbor committee that Roosevelt did not reach them that night and that they learned of the Japanese note only the morning of the attack. The hearings also outlined Roosevelt plans to warn Japan with a two step approach and showed British and Australian notes outlining timing for warnings. The panel disclosed a British suggestion to join in warning Japan about Singapore and a Churchill plea to do all he could to deter Tokyo.
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Hirohito
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Famine Threat Covers Millions in China
A UNRRA survey warns that about four million Chinese face death by starvation unless action is taken. The report notes 30 million are already at starvation levels, with Hunan province worst hit as rice production collapses and survivors live on grass roots tree bark and clay amid war and poor crops.
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Hunan
City Officials Inspect Cedar Rapids Buildings On Footing Issue
City officials and Bricklayers Union leaders visit 17 Cedar Rapids homes to inspect footings and plastering. They find eight inch footings on 10 houses may risk buckling, while code requires sufficient footing size to support the structure and back plastering from footing to ground line.
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Jack Ferring
Bricklayers’ Union
Cedar Rapids
Don Whitney
William Klepach
Union
Gordon Hughes
James Lilly
Gazette
House Unit Slashes State And Commerce Dept Funds
The House Appropriations Committee approved a 1947 four department bill totaling 358.8 million dollars cutting the State Department’s intelligence unit and halving its international information service. Commerce saw a 30.75 million cut from 173.78 million proposed. FBI’s full 28.7 million was granted despite crime-wave warnings.
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Wallace
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Anderson Held on Eve of Congress Primary for Shooting
Charles Anderson Jr., 38, Republican congressional candidate, was held on an assault with intent to murder charge after shooting a 15 year old boy, Grover McLean, who was wounded twice. Anderson, who admitted the shooting, was held without bond before Wednesday arraignment. He had been repudiated by his party two years earlier over isolationist and anti Semitic remarks.
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Chicago
Charles Anderson, Jr
Anderson
Grover McLean
Charles Hutchison
McLean
Gerald First
Traffic Regulations Entering From Private Driveway
Driver entering or crossing a highway from a private road or driveway must yield to vehicles on the highway. Fourteenth in a series on city traffic ordinances.
Housing Fund Bill Sent to White House
A 253.7 million dollar appropriation to provide 102 350 temporary homes for veterans by remodeling war time barracks and shifting facilities to college towns is sent to President Truman after Congress passed the measure. Senate debates building material subsidies and OPA pricing policy sparking shortages with calls to remove Chester Bowles from office.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Truman
Lumber exports cut 20 percent for housing boom needs
The Civilian Production Administration announced a 20 percent cut in lumber export quotas. Only 179,200,000 board feet may be shipped abroad in the next three months, down from 225,000,000 in the January to March quarter.
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Washington
Civilian Production Administration
Woman Follows Fortune Teller Advice Into Forest
Police in West Caldwell New Jersey rescued a 32 year old Newark woman who spent four days and nights in a forest seeking a supposed cure after paying a fortune teller one dollar for guidance. Authorities said they are seeking the fortune teller who advised the strange expedition.
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Newark
Bulk of U S Output To Be Hit Saturday
CIO and AFL unions said a strike will start midnight Saturday at seven east coast refineries handling 70 percent of the nations cane sugar. More than 8,000 workers may walk out as wage talks stall with companies rejecting binding fact finding panel recommendations.
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CIO
AFL
Schwellenbach
Eugene Cotton
Louis H. Wilderman
Philadelphia
Senate unit backs civilian control in military unification plan
A Senate military affairs subcommittee proposed unifying the armed forces under a civilian secretary of defense in Washington. The plan creates a cabinet member for defense and separate civilian secretaries for the army navy and air force, aiming to curb waste and delays through centralized command. Navy officials caveat that concentrating power could strain leadership, citing World War II joint operations under the existing system.
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Senate
Department of Common Defense
Army
Navy
Air Force
Sen. Thomas
Utah
Subcommittee
Joint Chiefs-Of-Staff
Sys
Cloudy and Cool Weather To Stay
The weather summary notes persistent cloudy and cool conditions. A weatherboy reports a curious forecast influenced by local informants with varied opinions on the day’s mood and temperature ranges. Temperatures fluctuated with a high around 49 and a low near 29, dipping below freezing overnight.
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Weatherboy
Weather Boy
Draft Halt May 15 Gets Double Veto
Washington Senate and House military affairs committees rejected bills to end draft inductions by May 15. They signaled support for a one year extension of the draft and tempering measures, with a Sparkman plan favoring a delay and possible reinstatement if enlistments lag. A Harness proposal to end the draft next February 15 was defeated. voting on the Sparkman plan stood 21 to 2.
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Washington
sena=ate
House Military Affairs
Army
Navy
House
Rep
Sparkman
D-Ala
Harness
R-Ind
Congress
Fifteenth Marriage Annulled in Court Case of James F Williams
James F Williams, long known as a serial spouse, won an annulment Tuesday from Judge M C Hamiel for his fifteenth marriage to Augusta McGary. The decree nullifies the August 3 marriage in Iowa City after new evidence, including neighbors' testimony, was presented. Williams said the union was a plot and McGary took about $850 and household items when she left, likely returning to her prior home in Wisconsin. Williams noted discrepancies in his stated age and time since 1904 marriage, with his present age appearing inconsistent with his testimony.
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Cedar Rapids
James F. Williams
M. C. Hamiel
Williams
Hamiel
Iowa City
Augusta McGary
Kansas City
Fifth Avenue
New Lisbon
Wis
Linn County Mareriage
Shy Mr. Williams
Husband of Seven Is Given Term in Prison
Jim Vargo a 34 year old merchant seaman was sentenced in Milwaukee to one to two years in state prison for violating probation. The charge stemmed from a 1944 complaint that he failed to support six children by a woman he called his common law wife. Vargo said he was wanted in Wisconsin for abandonment while Detroit police held him on a separate charge from which he was cleared.
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Milwaukee
Jim Vargo
Vargo
Wisconsin
Detroit
Vets To Compile List Of Unoccupied Housing
Cedar Rapids News reports an all veterans housing committee will compile a list of unoccupied houses and apartments in the city. Committee member Den Alt says the group will review landlord OPA controversies with involved parties to place veterans in every available housing unit. Residents with knowledge of vacancies should contact the committee.
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den Alt
Don Alt
OPA
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