Senate approves housing bill with material subsidies
The Senate passed a trimmed emergency housing bill by 63 to 14, preserving price ceilings on existing homes while approving a $600 million subsidy package for building materials. The measure empowers Housing Expeditor Wyatt to direct policy, expand mortgage insurance, and give veterans priority in housing built over the next two years. The vote also capped attempts to reduce subsidies or add direct veteran purchase subsidies.
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Washington
Senate
President Truman
House
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt
Wyatt
OPA
Buck
R-Del
Wherry
R-Neb
Sen
Cordon
R-Ore
Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats Idle Amid CIO Walkout Sympathy
Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats plant and its 2 000 workers idle as CIO Local 110 meetings suspend to await Akron Ohio actions. Union leaders cite sympathy with Akron walkout while denying a local strike. Affected plants include St Joseph Missouri and Akron, with no picket lines planned.
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CIO Union
Cedar Rapids
Akron
Ohio
Quaker Oats
Wes Kopecky
United Cereal Workers
CIO
St. Joseph, Mo
CIO Labor Center
Hugh Moneypenny
Akron Union
Arthur Poe
Iowa Senators Back Amendments In Emergency Housing Bill
Washington report notes Senators Hickenlooper and Wilson voted together on key amendments to the emergency housing bill. They backed the Revercomb amendment to remove home ceilings and supported the Wherry amendment proposing direct subsidies to veterans. the latter passed 63 to 14.
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Washington
Iowa
Hickenlooper
Wilson
Wherry
First Navy Dependents To Philippines May 1
The 12th Naval District announced the first group of naval dependents will depart the United States for the Philippines on May 1. Families will join personnel on the Philippine Sea Frontier and must remain there for at least one year.
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San Francisco
United States
Philippines
12Th Naval District
Philippine Sea Frontier
Traffic Regulations Crossing Fire Hose
City ordinance sixteenth in a series prohibits driving over an unprotected fire department hose laid on streets or private driveways to be used.
Communists Surpass Expectations in Japan Election Wake
Early returns show Social Democrats leading with 37 seats, Liberals 35, Progressives 34, Communists 3. Women turnout soars at 70 percent, with 15 seats forecast for the Communists as 30 million ballots remain to be counted amid Allied oversight comments.
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Tokyo
Communist Party
Social Democrats
Liberals
Progressives
Cooperatives
Courtney Whitney
Allied Headquarters Government Section
Plot Owners Seek Removal of Dog From Grave Site
In Indianapolis, a Carmel cemetery dispute pits plot owners against a dog buried beside his master. A 14-year-old rat terrier named Trixie, buried January in a cemetery for humans, is challenged in Marion County circuit court as an offense to the dead and their families. Mrs. Nora M. Bray defends the burial.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Carmel
Nora M. Bray
Trixie
Bray
Marion County Circuit Court
Sthanes
Training program chaos cited by VA official
Veterans and employers misread on the job training under the G I bill says David D. Elliott manager of the Cedar Rapids VA sub regional office. He warns many cases were unapproved causing delayed or missing subsistence checks and outlines check off lists for veterans and employers to fix the process.
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Jack Ferring
David D. Elliott
Veterans Administration
Cedar Rapids
G.I
State Department of Public Instruction
Elliott
Etter
Des Moines VA
Aberan
Paramount Building
Des Moines
Wrecker offers High School back to city for 6500
Quincy contractor Guy Hawkins wrecking the old Washington high school building says he would sell the structure back to the city for 6500 after 250000 board feet remain in place. Civic leaders and the veterans housing committee weigh converting the site into apartments. He has paid 625 upfront and 625 at the job’s halfway point.
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Guy Hawkins
Quincy
Ill
Washington High School
Frank K. Hahn
Hawkins
All-Veterans Housing Committee
Joe Wand Tate
Comand
C. B
Cold snap blankets Iowa as snow covers state
Cedar Rapids woke to snow with a trace in many towns and up to three inches in Burlington. Also reported were 1 inch in Ottumwa and light amounts in Des Moines and Iowa Falls. Temperatures fell from a high near 50 to subfreezing lows, though fruit trees were not damaged per the state horticulturist.
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Cedar Rapids
Burlington
Ottumwa
Des Moines
Iowa Falls
Great Lakes
Iowa
Severe quake recorded near Romania on Weston seismograph
Weston AP reports a very strong tremor, likened to a recent tidal wave, was detected Wednesday night on Weston College seismograph. Reverend Daniel Line-seismologist Linehan says the event lasted about three hours, with uncertain direction, centered roughly 4,745 miles from Boston, probably in Romania.
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Weston
Weston College
Daniel Line
Thurs- Fete Linehan
Boston
Romania
Detroit Veteran Jailed 14 Years In Marsiden Case
Walter J. Blattert, 17, an overseas army veteran, was sentenced Wednesday to 14 to 15 years in prison for the death of Mrs. Gladys Marsiden, a 43 year old divorcee and grandmother.
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Detroit
Walter J. Blattert
Gladys Marsiden
Silent Witness Fears Testimony in Lichfield Case
A court martial witness refused to testify about mistreatment at Lichfield army prison camp, citing fear of retaliation from London guardhouse. The case involves Sgt. James M. Jones and allegations of brutality against G I prisoners, with military officials trading confrontations over investigative scope. Prosecution and defense clash over orders and stipulations aimed at influencing trials as Lt. Frank M. Johnson Jr. presses for accountability.
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London
Lichfield
William F. Pond
A.w.o.l
James M. Jones
Earl J. Carroll
United States Army
John T. Lewis
Western Europe
Frank M. Johnson, Jr
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Jones
Johnson
Lewis
Paris
G.I
Army
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Benito Gaguine
New York
Gaguine
Col
Clarence Brand
Brand
Senate Units Propose Expanded Draft Limits and Pay Raises
The Senate Military Affairs Committee recommended a one year extension with cap limits on inductions and urged elevated service pay to attract volunteers. House panels backed up to 50 percent raises for all ranks, with detailed step increases for enlisted personnel and officers up to colonel and captain levels.
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Washington
Senate Military Affairs Committee
House Military Affairs Committee
House Military Affairs Subcommittee
Armed Forces
Army
Marine Corps
Navy
Lamont Sow Faces Contempt Charges
The House Un-American Activities Committee moved to hold Corliss Lamont, Richard Mor ford and George Marshall in contempt for refusing to reveal financial records under subpoenas. Lamont is head of the National Council for American Soviet Friendship, connected to New York banker Thomas E. Lamont.
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Washington
House
American Activities Committee
Corliss Lamont
National Council For American- Soviet Friendship
New York
Thomas E. Lamont
J. P. Morgan and Company
Richard Morford
Young Larmont
George Marshall
National Federation For Constitutional Liberties
U N Chooses Flushing Meadow as Interim UN Site
New York mayor William O Dwyer announces the United Nations will hold interim meetings at the World's Fair site in Flushing Meadow Queens The Sperry gyroscope plant at Lake Success Long Island is selected as the office headquarters for the interim UN operations The decision marks a shift from Lake Success to the Queens venue for UN meetings
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New York
William O'Dwyer
Flushing Meadow
United Nations
Lake Success
Long Island
Long
Infamous Devil's Island Prison To Be Abandoned
New York AP reports Devil's Island in French Guiana, famed for tortures and starvation, will be abandoned by France. Major Charles Angangles, a government representative, announced the plan while traveling from Paris to the penal colony.
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Devil’s Island
New York
French Guiana
Charles A. Anangles
Paris
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U.N
Military Staff Committee
Henry Hudson
Sir Henry Moore
United Kingdom
A. P. H. Vasiliev
Russia
Shang Chen
China
George Kenney
Martial Valin
France
Alben W. Barkley
Ball
Brooks
Bushfield
Gurney
Hawkes
Millikin
Revercomb
Robertson
Wher
Overton
O’daniel
Cedar Rapids News
Information Committee
Moneypenny
Carl Benz
Poe
Iowa State Department of Public Instruction
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