April 24, 1948 Daily Record weather and police notes
The Daily Record for April 24 1948 reports regional temperatures and precipitation across cities including Bismarck Chicago Denver Los Angeles and New York. It also lists an agricultural forecast of generally fair mild dry weather through Friday with light winds and temperatures around 78 to 80 degrees. Police reports note gas siphoning thefts in Cedar Rapids arrests for drunkenness fines for multiple individuals and numerous traffic and public-safety incidents including fires and fire alarms.
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Iowa
NLRB Orders Election at Anamosa Factory
The National Labor Relations Board orders a bargaining agent election on April 30 at Reliance Manufacturing in Anamosa. Workers will decide if Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America CIO will represent them in collective bargaining.
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Minneapolis
National Labor Relations Board
Reliance Manufacturing Company
Anamosa
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Cio
Roxas Maintains Lead in Philippine Election Race
Manuel A. Roxas holds a strong lead over Sergio Osmena in the first Philippine republic presidential race. Incomplete returns from 505 precincts show Roxas at 84 052 votes to Osmena’s 51 079 with Cebu city split and Manila still favoring Roxas. The vote tally notes incidents including the wounding of Governor Ramon Imperial, seven Cavite ballot boxes stolen, and ink poured into one box. About 2.6 million Filipinos voted as 16 senators and 98 representatives also elected, with government to take over July 4 ahead of independence from the United States.
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Manila
Manuel A. Roxas
Sergio Osmena
Philippine Republic
Osmena
Commonwealth
Roxas
Cebu
Ramon Imperial
Camarines Sur
Cavite
United States
30 Day Mourning Ordered for Chief Justice Stone
President Truman ordered a 30 day national mourning for Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone. He planned to return from a seagoing voyage to Hampton Roads to attend Stone's funeral Thursday and directed flags at half staff and full honors. The tribute echoed Roosevelt’s prior mourning. Stone’s death ends a long judicial career.
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Washington
Truman
Harlan F. Stone
Supreme Court
Hampton Roads
Virginia Capes
U. S. Eighth Fleet
Justice Stone
Roosevelt
Warm Springs
United States
Stone
Supreme Court of the United States
Nazis Training Spanish Army Reported by London Paper
A Lisbon dispatch to the London Chronicle says thousands of Nazis, many ex Gestapo, are training regular Spanish army troops along the Franco border. Germans are posted with units from North Africa Reinforcing Generalissimo Franco. Most Nazis use Spanish names though they do not know the language.
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London
INS
Lisbon
London News Chronicle
Gestapo
North Africa
Yank Ace Who Downed 28 Planes Now a Dad
Oil City reports Col. Francis Gabreski, famed American air ace who downed 28 planes in Europe, has a newborn daughter weighing 7 pounds. Gabreski, stationed at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, and his wife Kay Cochran of Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, wed last June 11.
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Oil City
Francis Gabreski
United States Army Air Forces
Europe
Gabreski
Wrightfield
Dayton
Ohio
Kay Cochran
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Embroidery Pattern Describes Scottie Plaid Puppy Design
Readers are invited to mail 20 cents for Pattern 511 featuring an 8 to the inch scottie cross design described as scotch plaid applique with a gay amusing motif suitable for tea towels. The Cedar Rapids Gazette Needlecraft Dept lists 74 percent by 1 inch transfer details and offers a 1946 Needlecraft Catalogue for 15 more cents with 112 illustrations plus a free cuddle toy pattern.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Needlecraft Dept
West
Randolph Street
Chicago
Ill
The Front Porch Has Gone Like The Old Surrey
Naomi Doebel discusses changing home design trends as front porches fade. Francis Asbury Robinson of Des Moines advises homeowners to plan outdoor living spaces with privacy, balance, and strategic plantings for year round color. He emphasizes site choice, terrain, soil, and zoning to ensure a practical, pleasing yard that suits the house and climate.
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Surrey
Francis Asbury Robinson
Des Moines
Saia
Coe College Home Planning Institute
Iowa
Robinson
Hatchery owner flooded with offers after chick death story
COUNCIL BLUFFS Iowa AP Hatchery operator W H Otto said he received offers from across Iowa to buy 10 000 chicks after a news report claimed he drowned 2000 of them and warned he might destroy the remaining 10 000.
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Council Bluffs
W H. Otto
Iowa
Otto
Jap Priests Must Go Into Commercial Field
The Meiji Shinto shrine in Tokyo will shift to commercial activity due to reduced government and public funding. Priests will sell postcards and pamphlets, stage sacred music dances, and offer the shrine for marriage ceremonies to boost revenue.
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Tokyo
Meiji Shinto Shrine
Kyodo
Mrs. R B Elson Dies In Daytona Beach At 85
Former Cedar Rapids and Vin ton resident Mrs. R B Elson dies at her Daytona Beach Florida home at age 85. Survived by two daughters and a grandchild, service set for Thursday at Daytona Beach. Interment planned for Frank Noska at Bohemian National cemetery after prayers at St Wenceslaus church. Rosary to be recited Wednesday evening at the chapel.
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R. B. Elson
Cedar Rapids
Vinton
Daytona Beach
Fla
Charles McManes
Glenn Cook
Morton, Wyo
Services for Joseph Pesava at Polansky chapel
Services for Joseph Pesava will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Polansky chapel conducted by Rev. Zdenek F. Pauk. Burial follows in Bohemian National Cemetery. He resided with Mr. and Mrs. Louie Sames at 634 Ninth Street SE. friends may call at the chapel.
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Joseph Pesava
Louie Sames
Ninth Street
Polansky Chapel
Zdenek F. Pauk
Bohemian National Cemetery
Obed J. Bean Services Set at Beatty Chapel
Services for Obed J. Bean of 1004 First Street SW, who died Monday, will be at Beatty chapel at 2 p.m. Thursday led by Rev. F. O. Hillman. Burial in Linwood cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel. Services for Charles W. Drake of Chicago, who died at Sunshine Mission Saturday, will be in Brush chapel at 1:30 p.m. Thursday led by Rev. Frank Ward. Burial in Oak Hill cemetery.
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Frank Noska
C Street
Brush Chapel
St. Wenceslaus’ Church
W. C. Hradecky
Bohemian National Cemetery
Rosary Society of
St. Wenceslaus's Church
Obed J. Bean
First Street
Beatty Chapel
F. O. Hillman
Linwood Cemetery
Charles W. Drake
Chicago
Sunshine Mission
Frank Ward
Oak Hill Cemetery
Courthouse Adjourns With Cemetery Lot Sale and Appointments
Linn county board of supervisors sold two lots across Mt. Calvary cemetery to the cemetery for 75 dollars. They also accepted John Taylor’s first quarter report as constable showing 20 dollars 70 cents in civil cases and 1 dollar 50 cents in a criminal case, appointed John S. Wilson as Center Point justice of the peace for 1946, and moved to send two requests to the state comptroller to transfer funds between accounts. Agnes T. Jensen filed suit against Everett F. Brown and his wife seeking eviction for nonpayment of rent on her Central City home for March and April.
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Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Linn County Board of Supervisors
John Taylor
John S. Wilson
Center Point
Agnes T. Jensen
Everett F. Brown
Jensen
Central City
Cub Leaders To Meet At Coe's Main Hall
Waubeek area cub leaders gather Thursday at 7 30 p m in Coe college main hall to plan a Cub-Pow-Wow training event for May 18 19 at Camp Waubeek. The program aims to train 850 cub scouts plus den mothers and committee men with Dr George Warkentine presiding.
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Waubeek
Coe College
Camp Waubeek
Council
George Warkentine
French Socialists decline join Communists on May 5 referendum
Paris reports the French Socialist party refused to align with the Communists in backing the new national constitution ahead of the referendum scheduled for May 5. The split broadens opposition to the referendum plan.
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Paris
INS
French Socialist Party
Prison Rioters Surrender at San Vittore in Milan
MILAN AP Twenty five hundred inmates at San Vittore prison surrendered after four days of revolt led by Erzo Barbieri. More than 30 guards were freed unharmed while eight prisoners died. A tower was half destroyed by shelling as authorities issued a final ultimatum to release captives or face assault.
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Milan
San Vittore
Erzo Barbieri
Airpark plan defeated as Cedar Rapids faces zoning debates
Planning body recessed into a broader zoning discussion as airpark rezoning failed eight to two while votes postponed on height and area changes near 1834 First Ave NE to aid veteran housing. Officials urged careful notification, noted heavy industry needs, and approved several subdivision plats and park-site changes.
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Cedar Rapids
Dan Hunter
First Avenue
Nineteenth Street
CIO Picket Mob Breaks Up at Stinson Plant, Michigan
Detroits CIO UAW pickets numbering 400 to 500 were dispersed by county and state police at the Consoli dated Vultee Aircraft Corp Stinson plant. No blows or arrests reported as officers restored order after a morning disruption that blocked a road and kept some supervisory employees from entering. Governor Harry F Kelly ordered state police to assist following a Wayne County sheriff request.
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Tom Bagot
Wayne County Sheriff’s Road Patrol
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Poice
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Wayne County
Andrew C. Baird
40 Scout Leaders Earn Certificates At 1946 University Banquet
One hundred Scout leaders attended the 1946 University of Scouting banquet at the YMCA Tuesday night. Dr. George Warkentine presided and Marvin B. Kober urged leaders to join in a “we” world. Keith Benner urged the 40 graduates to apply skills, and certificates were presented by course leaders across Cubmasters, Scoutmasters, Explorer, and commissioners training sections.
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George Warkentine
Council
Marvin B. Kober
Keith Benner
Harold Gilleney
George Meyer
Earl Edgington
Paul Stevens
Pat Ryan
L. A. Henderson
Louis Buresh
Elmer Tokheim
Arthur Nesset
D. C. Marchant
Bill Sorenson
LaVerne
George Gohmann
Verne Swanson
K. C. Campbell
Linn
John Breitbach
Marion
Hope for Chinese Compromise Held
Chiang Kai-shek postponed convening the national assembly in Nanking after Communist demands for delays and settlement of civil strife. The move sparks belief a compromise is near in China's Manchurian civil war and internal problems, with a new constitutional assembly date to be set later.
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Nanking
China
Democratic League
State Patrol to Get Seven New Cars in Plan
Des Moines AP says the state executive council approved buying 10 automobiles Tuesday. Seven cars go to the State Highway Patrol with mostly outright purchases. one car goes to the State Health Department, one to Agriculture, and one to the Commerce Commission. Prices ranged from $1,064 to $6,000 for the outright buys.
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Commerce Commission
Native Iowan Honored by War Department
Washington AP reports Brig. Gen. Gordon M. Wells a Mapleton Iowa native has been awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his wartime service as chief of the artillery division in the ordnance department.
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Washington
War Department
Gordon M. Wells
Mapleton
Ordnance Department
State Dept Intelligence Unit Revamped and Chief Quits
Washington AP A drastic revamping of the State Department’s intelligence service was announced with Col Alfred McCormack resigning as chief He cited three objections to the new plan including the loss of a real intelligence unit within the department and weakening its standing versus military components of the National Intelligence Authority. His resignation follows budget cuts and a clash with the House military committee over alleged pro Soviet sympathizers.
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McCormack
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Truman
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House Military Committee
Fritz Kuhn To Be Freed From German Internment Camp
Fritz Kuhn head of the German American Bund will be released by the United States army from a German internment camp. After long confinement and heart illness he is deemed not a threat to American forces. He will go to Munich to join his wife and two children in a bomb damaged house.
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Fritz Kuhn
Fuehrer
Volkbund
Kuhn
Germany
Munich
Cooper To Speak at Young Men's Bureau
Supt. Bred N. Cooper of the Iowa Training School for Boys at Eldora will address Cedar Rapids Young Men's Bureau at the Chamber of Commerce building Thursday evening after a 6 15 p.m. dinner. A meeting for all new members since Jan 1 will follow. Over 100 new members have joined the YMB this year. This marks Cooper’s second Cedar Rapids appearance since taking his current position. The youth activities committee has collaborated with him on Cedar Rapids boys programs.
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Supt
Bred N. Cooper
Iowa Training School For Boys
Eldora
Young Men’s Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Supt. Cooper
YMB
Cedar Rapids
Reds Fire on More Yanks in Austrian Skies
United States army headquarters said four Russian planes attacked an American C-47 transport over Linz on Sunday during a Vienna to Munich flight. General Mark W. Clark protested the Linz strike, mirroring the earlier Tulln incident. The C-47, at 4500 feet, carried only its crew and sustained no hits.
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United States Army
Linz
Tulin
Here
Mark W. Clark
United States
Austria
Tulln
Munich
Linz-Tulln
Committee on State Institutions to Meet in Des Moines
The coordinating committee for improving Iowa institutions has called an organization meeting in Des Moines May 1. The group grew from a ministers and social action chairmen meeting in Marshalltown last December. Dr Samuel Hamilton of the U S public health service spoke at a Des Moines mass meeting last month.
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Iowa Falls
INS
Coordinating Committee For
Iowa
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Samuel Hamilton
U. S. Public Health Service
Last Rail Passenger Traffic Control Ends
Washington officials announce the Office of Defense Transportation lifted the last rail traffic controls. An order placing all day coaches baggage and express cars at military disposal ends May 1 as demobilization peaks and overall controls are deemed unnecessary.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Bank officials ousted in Allied purge of Japan
Kyodo news agency reports that the Bank of Japan governor and other top officials were removed from office under the Allied headquarters purge directive. The move signals a sweeping overhaul of the central bank as occupation authorities reshape economic leadership.
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Tokyo
Kyodo
Bank of Japan
Allied Headquarters
Nash Finch strike action and reinstatement talks in Cedar Rapids
The Nash-Finch union dispute spanned Cedar Rapids with 13 workers on strike as the company and NLRB held talks after a Feb 26 accusation of intimidation and bargaining refusals. Reinstated workers Faaborg and Cook were named. injunctions blocked union interference at three stores while writs of replevin impacted five motor freight firms. Sheriff James Smith was added to the Truckers’ unfair list.
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Cedar Rapids
White
Wash- Finch
Faaborg
Cook
Nash~ Finch
Replevin
Nash-Finch
James Smith
Linn County
Frisco Police Halt Screening of The Outlaw
Police in San Francisco stopped the showing of Howard Hughes film The Outlaw and arrested the theater manager on charges of exhibiting a movie offensive to decency.
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Howard Hughes
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