Rioting Teen Gangs Linked to Butte Mine Strike
Police pursued arrests after marauding teen gangs damaged 14 homes and wounded two youths during a two night outbreak in Butte Montana linked to the CIO Mine Mill and Smeltermen's strike against Anaconda Copper. Witnesses said crowds of 3000 gathered as homes of Anaconda employees were looted or vandalized. Federal conciliator Robert Williams and union leaders urged peace.
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Butte
Mont
CIO Mine, Mill and Smeltermen
Anaconda Coppe Mining Company
Memrs
Robert Williams
James Guidoni
Raymond Butaka
Silver Bow
Williams
Iran Withdraws Complaint Against Russia at UN
Iran officiallly withdraws its complaint against Russia at the United Nations Security Council. Tehran cites fresh assurances that Red Army withdrawal will finish by May 6. In New York, Stettinius and Cadogan oppose Gromyko's push to drop the case immediately. Elsewhere in Iran, leftist Tudeh forces seize Isfahan labor control amid riots leaving one dead and about 20 injured. About 15,000 mill workers switch from rightist leaders to the pro-Russian Freedom party allied with Tudeh.
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Tehran
Iran
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Mozaffar Firouz
Firouz
New York
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Sir Alexander Cadogan
Andrei A. Gromyko
Stettinius
Cadogan
Isfahan
Tehrar
Freedom Party
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Needs Good Cook
A caller asks the Boston museum how to mix colors for violet frosting for an Easter cake. An expert suggests red and blue paint, but the caller insists she is baking, not painting.
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Boston (Ap
Mark Trail Begins On The Gazette Comic Page
The Ga zette debuts a new Mark Trail adventure strip by Ed Dodd. Outdoor photographer Mark Trail pursues wildlife sanctuary rescue amid forest scenes with Dr. Davis, his daughter, villains and a large St Bernard, while conservation themes attract support from natural resource authorities.
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Gazette
Mark Trail
Ed Dodd
Dr. Davis
Anderson to Quit Utility Post May 1
Cedar Rapids district manager and director of the Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric company, Mark Anderson, announces retirement effective May 1. He came to Cedar Rapids 15 years ago, led the Cedar Rapids Gas company, and will supervise farming interests in Kansas until a successor is named from Rock Island HQ.
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Cedar Rapids
Mark Anderson
Iowa- Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Anderson
Cedar Rapids Gas Company
Rock Island
Kansas
Pittsburg
University of Kansas
Kansas City Electric Light Company
Kansas City Company
Commonwealth Power Company of Michigan
Peoples Gas and Electric Company
Mason City
Fort Dodge Gas and Electric Company
More Slaughter Control Planned
Washington officials from OPA and the Agriculture Department announced the return of wartime slaughter controls. A quota system will regulate slaughter by each licensed operator to match their 1944 share, aiming to curb black markets and ensure distribution at ceiling prices through established channels.
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Washington
OPA
Agriculture Department
U.N. Mustn't Fail as Truman Addresses Pan American Day
President Truman declared the United Nations must succeed to avert global devastation in the atomic age. Speaking to the Pan American Union board, he urged international cooperation to eliminate poverty and fear, and reiterated democracy as the guiding ideal for a peaceful, prosperous world.
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Washington
Truman
United Nations
Pan American Union
Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Western Hemisphere
Wyatt Drafts Low Cost Unit Quota System
Washington AP Hous ing Boss Wilson W Wyatt drafts controls to push more homes on the market under 10000 dollars area quotas will require a share of new authorizations in each region to sell at under 10000 dollars the plan tests boosts based on local costs with the aim to maximize low price homes while some areas retain higher priced units.
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Washington
Wilson W. Wyatt
NHA
Holiday Act Extends Draft Through 1947
The House approved the Holiday Act by 290 to 108, extending the draft law to February 15, 1947, with inductions barred for 18 and 19 year olds before October 15, 1946. Rep. LeCompte supported the bill, while Iowa’s other seven representatives opposed it. The measure also limits force size, caps induction duration at 18 months, and allows renewal after October 15 if needed.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rep. LeCompte
R-Ia
Iowa
Killers of Flyers Get Prison Terms
A Shanghai AP report says three Japanese officers were sentenced to five years at hard labor for wartime executions of three Doolittle Airmen in 1942. A fourth defendant received nine years. The five man commission cited unusually strong mitigating considerations and said the defendants merely obeyed orders from higher officials.
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Shanghai
Shugeru Sawada
13Th Army
Satojiro Natsuta
Kiang-wan
Kusei Waka
Ryuhei Okada
Railroads seek 25 percent freight rate hike to take effect May 15
The nation's railroads asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 25 percent increase in fre ight rates with some exceptions, to begin May 15.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Declared Dead By War Dept Sgt Frank E Machen
Radio gunner Technical Sergeant Frank E Machen, 24, of the Eighth Air Force, was killed in a Germany crash December 31 1944 after his B 17 was damaged on a Hamburg mission. He had been missing in action since that date. He earned Air Medals with clusters, a Purple Heart, a presidential citation and an honor citation from H H Arnold. A Franklin graduate he attended Coe college before enlisting. He reported overseas July 1944 and earlier traveled Europe with his family in 1936 and 1937.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank E. Machen
Eighth Air Force
Bartelsdorf
Germany
Third Avenue SE
Hamburg
Machen
War Department
Europe
Machek
H. H. Arnold
Army Air Forces
Franklin
Sgt
Coe College
Air Force
England
James
Coast Guard
Yanks Move To Ward Off Nazi Revival
In Shanghai authorities reveal a postwar Werewolf network led by Lt. Col. Ludwig Ehrhardt with 20 German, Italian, and Japanese agents arrested. Ehrhardt's Ehrhardt Bureau operated from Shanghai Canton and Peiping and included code breakers like Bodo Habenicht. The group is linked to sinking ships and Pacific losses, with repatriation of 1500 Germans arranged.
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Shanghai
United States
China
Adolf Hitler
Ludwig Ehrhardt
Asia
State Department
Jeremiah O’connor
Washington
Ehrhardt
Okinawa
Pacific
Canton
Peiping
Bodo Habenicht
United States Coast Guard
Johannes Rathje
Hermann Goering
Luftwaffe
Wolfgang Schenke
High Command
Chungking
Free China
Taiji Takashima
Oji Paper Mills
Japan
Ingward Rudolff
Capper Rep Clarifies Center Point Gazette Sale
A Capper Publications district representative explains that the Center Point sale involved the Breeder's Gazette, not the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Residents paid 6 each for subscriptions to two farmers' papers with receipts listing only Gazette. the auxiliary project linked to the sale is a hospital equipment initiative.
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Cedar Rapids News
Gazette
S. W. Carter
Center Point
Breeder’s Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Negro Injured In Unknown-Cause Incident
Willie Williams alias Ed Smith, a 54 year old Black man of 917 Seventh Avenue SE, remained in critical condition Monday at St Luke's hospital with a possible skull fracture and unconscious since arrival. Circumstances of the injuries were not released and police were investigating Monday afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Willie Williams
Ed Smith
Seventh Avenue SE
St. Luke’s Hospital
St. Luke’s
The Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous Visit to Iowa City
Five hundred members from Iowa and seven Midwest states gathered in Iowa City to mark AA anniversaries and share fellowship. The event featured services at First Methodist Church, a two-group dinner at Hotel Jefferson, and a major address by an AA cofounder. The judge quoted described AA as Love and service, aiding only those who want to quit, with 25 000 members nationwide.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Iowa
Midwest States
Iowa City
Marengo
Cedar Rapids
First Methodist Church
Hotel Jefferson
United States
Traffic Collision Duty Under City Ordinance Seventeenth
The driver of any vehicle involved in a collision with an unattended vehicle must stop and provide name and address and a statement of the circumstances at the scene. This reflects the seventeenth city traffic ordinance.
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Green Bay
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