Teen Age Gangs Riot in Butte Linked to Mine Strike
Police battled teen gangs amid rioting in Butte Montana injuring two youths and causing thousands in damage to homes. The unrest followed a six day CIO Mine Mill and Smeltermen strike against Anaconda Copper. Federal conciliator Robert Williams urged peace as injuries and property damage mounted.
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Butte
Mont
CIO Mine, Mill and Smeltermen
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Robert Williams
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Needs Good Cook
A caller asks the Boston Museum of Fine Arts what colors to mix for violet frosting. An expert answers that red and blue will create purple, noting the caller intends to bake an Easter cake.
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Boston (Ap
Mark Trail Debuts as Green Conservation Adventure
The Ga zette introduces Mark Trail a new outdoor adventure comic strip by Ed Dodd. It follows photographer Mark Trail Dr Davis and his daughter Cherry in a wildlife sanctuary rescue amid forest scenery with villains and a large St Bernard.
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Mark Trail
Ed Dodd
Dr. Davis
Cherry
Anderson to quit utility post in Cedar Rapids May
Mark Anderson announced his retirement as district manager and director of the Iowa Telings Gas and Electric company effective May 1. He will be replaced from Rock Island headquarters and will oversee farming interests in Kansas. Anderson has long held key utility roles in Cedar Rapids and Mason City and is active in community organizations. He and his wife live at 2214 Mt. Vernon Ave SE. they have two children, Samuel C. and Mrs. Margaret Sharp.
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Cedar Rapids
Mark Anderson
Iowa- Telingis ‘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
Community Hover
Waubeek
Boy ‘Scouts
Atlantic
Pacific
Washington, D. C
Margaretee Sharp
Green Bay
More Slaughter Control Planned
Washington AP government to restore wartime slaughter controls via a quota system. The OPA and Agriculture Department aim to improve distribution through established channels at ceiling prices and curb surge by certain slaughterers who increased slaughter recently. Each legitimate killer will be allowed to kill a proportional share of cattle calves and hogs as in 1944.
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Washington
OPA
Agriculture Department
Truman Urges UN Success At Pan American Day
President Truman told the Pan American Union board that the United Nations must succeed to avert complete devastation in the atomic age. He warned destruction stems from poverty and urged international cooperation to raise living standards and expand trade. He praised Roosevelt and Hull and affirmed democracy as the guiding objective for the Americas.
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Washington
Truman
United Nations
Pan American Union
Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa
Roosevelt
Cordell Hull
Westcoit
Wyatt Drafts Low Cost Unit Quota System
Washington AP reports Housing Boss Wilson W. Wyatt drafts new construction controls to boost the share of homes sold under 10 000. The plan would set regional quotas guiding authorizations toward lower price brackets based on local building costs.
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Washington
Wilson W. Wyatt
National
NHA
Draft Holiday Act Passed by House
The House approved a bill extending the draft law from May 15 1946 to February 15 1947 with prohibitions on inductions before October 15 1946. The measure passed 290 to 108 and now goes to the Senate. Rep LeCompte voted for it while Iowa’s other seven representatives opposed it.
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Washington
House
Senate
Rep. LeCompte
R-Ia
Iowa
Iran Withdraws Complaint Against Russia at UN
Iran announced it requested the United Nations Security Council to withdraw its complaint against Russia. Tehran cited fresh assurances that the Red Army withdrawal would be completed by May 6 and expressed confidence in the Soviet pledge. Separately, left wing Tudeh forces seized control of Isfahan's labor element, triggering clashes and injuries as workers shifted allegiance to the pro-Russian Freedom party.
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Tehran
Iran
United Nations Security Council
Russia
Muzaffar Firouz
Sir Alexander Cadogan
Andrei A. Gromyko
Stetttinius
Cadogan
Isfahan
Freedom Party
Killers of Flyers Get Prison Terms
A Shanghai based AP report states three Japanese officers were sentenced to five years hard labor and a fourth to nine years for war crimes tied to the 1942 execution of the Doolittle airmen. The five member commission cited higher officials and “mitigating considerations” noting the defendants merely followed orders and showed limited initiative.
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Shanghai
Shugeru Sawada
13Th Army
Satojiro Natsuta
Kiang-wan
Kusei Waka
Ryuhei Okada
Boost in Freight Rates Requested by Railroads
The nation’s railroads urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve a 25 percent rise in freight rates with some exceptions, to take effect May 15.
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Washington
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
War Dept Declares Sgt Frank E Machen Dead
Technical Sgt. Frank E Machen 24 radio gunner on a B 17 of the Eighth Air Force was killed in a Dec 31 1944 crash over Bartelsdorf Germany after his plane fought enemy fighters during a Hamburg mission. He earned multiple Air Medals Purple Heart and a Presidential Citation posthumously and had prior college study at Franklin and Coe.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank E Machen
Eighth Air Force
Bartelsdorf
Germany
Frank E. Machen
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
Capper representative clarifies sale of Gazette subscription
A Capper Publications district representative explains that the Gazette offered in Center Point was the Breeder's Gazette not the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Residents paid $6 each for subscriptions to this paper and two others. receipts listed only Gazette. The Auxiliary Project hospital equipment initiative was cited as the beneficiary.
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Cedar Rapids
Gazette
S W Carter
Center Point
S Gazette
Negro Injured in Unknown Circumstances
Willie Williams alias Ed Smith a 54 year old Black man of 917 Seventh Avenue SE was taken to St Luke s hospital Saturday in critical condition with possible skull fracture and unconscious since arrival. Police were not notified until Monday and are investigating the case while circumstances of the injuries remain unclear.
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Cedar Ranlds News
Willie Williams
Ed Smith
Seventh Avenue SE
St. Luke’s Hospital
St. Luke's
Iman
The Anonymous Alcoholics Meet in Iowa City Anniversary
Five hundred AA members from Iowa and seven Midwest states gathered in Iowa City for the first anniversary of local groups and the Cedar Rapids group. Speakers included a lawyer-judge and a cofounder, with a large church service, a hotel dinner, and an afternoon meeting in the Top Flight ballroom. The piece explains AA’s purpose, philosophy, and statistics, noting a belief in two guiding words love and service and a high rate of sobriety among first-time attendees.
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Alcoholics Anonymous
Iowa
Midwest States
Iowa City
Marengo
Cedar Rapids
First Methodist Church
Hotel Jefferson
The
Jefferson
Ohio
Des Moines
Waterloo
Yanks Move To Ward Off Nazi Revival
In Shanghai authorities disclosed a postwar Nazi network known as the Ehrhardt Bureau with 20 agents led by Ludwig Ehrhardt. The group operated codes and a radio listening post, blamed for ship sinkings and aiding Japan. arrests and deportations will follow with Ehrhardt, Habe nicht, Rathje, Schenke and Takashima among those detained.
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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 RathjJe
Hermann Goering
Luftwaffe
Wolfgang Schenke
High Command
Chungking
Free China
Taiji Takashima
Oji Paper Mills
Japan
Ingward Rudolff
Traffic Regulations on Unattended Vehicle Collisions
Officials remind drivers that a collision with an unattended vehicle requires an immediate stop and either locate and notify the owner or leave a written notice inside the struck vehicle with the striking driver’s name and address and a statement of the circumstances. This is the seventeenth in the city traffic ordinances series.
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