Pact Averts Western Union Walkout Pay Hike
Washington AP reports a nationwide Western Union telegraphers walkout was averted as a five cent hourly wage hike and benefits were agreed in New York. Union leaders say ratification by CTU and others is required, with peace guaranteed for six months and possible reopening after. The NFTW plans to present a demand for a twelve dollar weekly rise to President Truman and Congress.
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Washington
Western Union
Truman
Congress
New York
Union
Western Union Telegraph Company
CTU
Telegraph Workers Union
Teegraph Employes Union
ART
Ronald W Haughton
Coperiator
Apt
Westey Unen
Bell System
Cedar Rapids teen nominated for two hero awards
Donald Ribble, 16, of Cedar Rapids, credited with saving George Ellison, 28, of Anamosa from the Wapsipinicon river, is recommended for the Carnegie Hero Medal by Jack Shepard and for the Jova Valor Award by Ed Polson. Ribble also rescued his sister Susan, 11, and another Florida man from the sea near Hollywood last January.
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Cedar Rapids
Donald Ribble
George Ellison
Anamosa
Wapsipinicon
Ribble
Jack Shepard
Ed Polson
Iowa Division of Safety Education
Susan
Hollywood
Fla
Florida
Chinese Reds To Free Two Yanks
A Chinese Communist broadcast said Maj. Robert Rigg and Capt. John W. Collins, captured by the Communists in Manchuria March 1, will be released April 24. They will be escorted from liberated areas at noon and American envoys with white flags are asked to receive them at a point between Changchun and Harbin.
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Nanking
Robert Rigg
John W. Collins
United States
Manchuria
Hungsangtze
Changchun
Harbin
Fire Wrecks 5 Story Iowa Flour Mill
In Sioux City Iowa fierce flames engulfed the International Flour Milling Company plant in Leeds destroying most of the five story mill. Explosions at 1 am followed hours of blazing until 3 am. One and a half million bushels of wheat were saved and no injuries were reported. A southeast wind pushed flames toward nearby fuel tanks but did not ignite them.
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Sioux City
International Flour ‘Milling Company
Leeds
Great Lakes Pipe Line Company
L. L. Gunkelman
American Popcorn Company
CIO workers at Cherry-Burrell settle contract in Cedar Rapids
Cherry-Burrell Corporation workers in Cedar Rapids voted by a substantial majority to accept a contract with a 12 cent wage increase. About 340 employees are covered. maintenance of membership remains. a strike over premium pay safeguards and merit raises was settled. arbitration is required for wage disputes.
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Cedar Rapids
CIO
Cherry-Burrell Corporation
Arthur McGuire
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers Union
Former Polk County Official Sentenced for Defrauding County
William H. Cotton, ex Polk county supervisor and Des Moines Loan executive, receives seven years in state prison and a $500 fine for obtaining county funds by false pretenses. He aided Elmer G. Croft in taking $1,285. Parmenter and Thompson face similar charges. Appeal bond set at $6,000. Trial of Parmenter ongoing.
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Des Moines
INS
William H. Cotton
Polk
Des Moines Loan Company
John M. Schaupp
Fort Dodge
Cotton
Charles E. Parmenter
H. H. Thompson
Elmer G. Croft
Board of Supervisors
Croft
Schaupp
Parmenter
Kenridge tenants protest low amperage fuses plan
Kenridge Terrace residents protest replacing higher amperage fuses with low amperage units in about 100 trailers. They cite safety, heating, and heating-iron limits, flooding in laundries, and crowding as reasons for the petition and for forming a committee to address the issue.
Iowa Labor Crisis Favors orderly protest over mass tieup
The editorial argues against a one day mass labor protest against the closed shop bill in Iowa. It urges organized labor to send official delegations to Des Moines while members continue work in Sioux City Cedar Rapids Des Moines Waterloo Council Bluffs, maintaining the economy and public convenience.
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House
Iowa
Organized Labor
Des Moines
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Council Bluffs
U.N. Rebuffs Reds on U.S. Greece Turkish Aid
The United Nations ended formal consideration of its stance on the United States Greek Turkish aid program after a brief clash. The Security Council defeated a Soviet motion to appoint a U.N. commission to supervise Greek aid, with Russia and Poland abstaining. The council signaled openness to defer decisions until after U.S. aid legislation passes, while approving a Balkan border watchdog commission proposed by the United States.
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U.N
Austin
Greece
Turkey
United States
Lake Success
Balkan Commission of Inquiry
Geneva
Balkan Border Commission
Russia
Poland
Britain
Australia
Belgium
Brazil
Freezing Weather Predicted Tonight
Weather forecast calls for freezing temperatures tonight after today’s rain and fog across the state. Lows expected 28 to 32 degrees, with warming likely tomorrow afternoon. Reports include light hail at Ottumwa and measurable precipitation in Cedar Rapids earlier today.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Ottumwa
Texas City worker finds 10 million in ruined railway safe
Paul Stokes, a rescue worker in Houston, discovers ten million dollars in insurance policies and company funds inside a damaged Texas City Terminal Railway safe after the blast. He aided in body recoveries and received a medal, though the award is uncertain.
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Texas City
Texas
Paul Stokes
Houston
Stokes
Texas City Terminal Railway Company
W. H. Sandberg
Sandberg
Virginia Court of Review
United States
Bequest of 50000 For Coe Library In Stewart Will
Robert W. Stewart estate of about 2 million is probated in Chicago. Coe College receives 50000 for Stewart Memorial library as an endowment yielding 1500 annually to help meet operating expenses. Other Cedar Rapids bequests include William Stewart 2000 Edwin Stewart 2000 Mrs C H Fliebler 2000 and Harry M George 10000. Stewart died February 25.
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Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Stewart Memorial Library
Robert W. Stewart
Chicago
Hollinshead
Stewart
William Stewart
First Avenue
Edwin Stewart
Sixth Avenue SE
C. H. Fliebler
Harry M. George
Second Avenue SE
Flyer Goes Off Tracks In Illinois
Two killed and 20 injured when an Illinois Central streamliner City of Miami derailed near Champaign after an improperly set switch failed to stop the train. Conductor Charles Redus and baggageman C N Woods died. Witness Clyde Andrews described cars thrown, debris and passengers injured as the train slowed for Champaign.
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Illinois
Miami
Champaign
Illinois Central
Streamliner
Charles Redus
Centralia
Ill
C. N. Woods
Chicago
Clyde Andrews
Bryan, Ohno
Andrews
Redus
Cedar Rapids Plans One Day Labor Holiday Over Anti-Labor Bill
About 25 AFL representatives in Cedar Rapids vote a city wide work stoppage for Monday affecting over 8,000 workers in some 50 AFL unions. CIO unions plan joint action, with Quaker Oats and packinghouse workers likely to join as mass protest against state anti labor legislation moves in Des Moines.
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AFL
Cedar Rapids
State Federation of Labor
CIO
Louis Jedlicka
United Cereal Workers, Cio
Quaker Oats Company
House of Representatives
Des Moines
J. C. Blodgett
Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor
A. A Couch
White
Labor Temple
Blodgett
Labor unions plan statewide one day walkout in Iowa
Des Moines union leaders announce a spontaneous state wide walkout Monday to pressure the Iowa House to defeat the senate approved anti closed shop bill. CIO and AFL leaders urge voluntary participation with some services to run, and mass meetings and caravans are planned in Mason City Sioux City and Cedar Rapids as protests organize to curb labor restrictions.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Congress of Industrial Organizations (Cio
Iowa State Federation of Labor
AFL
Ben Henry
CIO
Sioux City
James Hilsinger
Joesph Nemec
United Packinghouse Workers At
Cedar Rapids
Capitol
Senate
David Ainsworth
R-Spirit Lane
C R Man Admits 295 Ring Theft
Orville Wright 36 of 411 First Avenue SW admitted stealing a $295 diamond ring from Ginsberg's Jewel Box at 205 Second Street SE. Police say he hid the ring in his overalls, was arrested Friday, arraigned Saturday, and remains jailed pending trial Monday. He used the alias George Kra mer during the shop visit on Wednesday afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Orville
Wright
First Avenue
Ginsberg
Second Street
George Kramer
Wage Pact Reached Between U S Steel and CIO Union
A Pittsburgh dispatch reports that United States Steel Corporation and the CIO United Steelworkers have reached a wage agreement. The union wage policy committee is expected to approve it in Pittsburgh Monday, with the deal aligning with recent raises for electrical workers at General Motors and Westinghouse.
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New York
Dow, Jones and Company
Pittsburgh Dispatch
United States Steel Corporation
CIO
United Steelworkers
Pittsburgh
Dispatch
General Motors Corporation
Westinghouse
Steel stock climbs on wage pact report
United States Steel common stock rose by 2 as market gains spread to the general list on Saturday amid reports that a wage agreement had been reached.
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New York
United States Steel
City Employees' Wages Raised Ten Cents an Hour
Cedar Rapids Mayor Frank Hahn and the city council approved a 10 cent hourly wage increase for about 350 municipal workers retroactive to April 1. The raise costs the city over 90000 dollars next fiscal year and includes a proportional boost for police and firefighters.
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Cedar Rapids News
Frank Hahn
Cedar Rapids
Louis D. Burgos
Burgus
CIO
AFL
Town Dealers in Blanket Price Cut in Newburyport
Ninety percent of downtown merchants in Newburyport Mass responded to President Truman's price cutting appeal by announcing a 10 percent reduction effective Monday.
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Newburyport
Mass
Truman
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Rion
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Raymond Dunham
Dunham
Pickering
Iowa House of Representatives
U.S
Val Boyle
Coe Library
Bayne Freeland
Ray Dillman
Independent International Association of Machinists
James D White
Truckers Union
Labor
Hosspitals
Caus Tol
Seaate
A. R. Toepfer
Northwestern Union of Telephone Workers
Statehouse
M. I. Gilbert
Street Car Workers Union Local 441
Douglas McMannes
Mason City
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