Vets Split $111,106 in SRA Pay
Unemployed servicemen in the Cedar Rapids area received $111,106 in SRA payments over three months. The figure covers 1,113 claims in Linn, Jones, Benton, Cedar and Iowa counties served by the Cedar Rapids USES. Statewide SRA totals reached a record $2,289,429.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Hogan
Cedar Rapids
Linn
Jones
Benton
Cedar
Iowa
United States Employment Service
USES
SRA
Sea
Guard House
Mrs Hasley Sets Out On New York Trip For Cinderella Land
Mrs. William Hasley of Williamsburg Indiana heads to New York for a month long stay as a guest of Cinderella Inc. She joins three other women chosen from across the country for a physical and cultural overhaul. A motorcade and police escort greeted her in Cedar Rapids before a Greene Square sendoff with local officials and community members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Bavids
William Hasley
Williams‘burg
Cinderellaland
Cinderella, Inc
New York
Columbia Network
Hasley
Williamsburg
Cedar Rapids
Greene Square
Dean Landsear
WMT
Frank Hahn
Gus O’donnell
Keystone
Hahn
Hasleys
Wac Falls From Sedalia Victory Troopship
An enlisted Wac bound for New York fell from the Sedalia Victory 36 miles off Montauk Point and is presumed lost. The army withheld her name pending next of kin notification. Crewmen searched two hours. rescuers heard her but could not reach her. she wore no life belt. Coast Guard air search planned. 2 Wac officers and 6 enlisted women aboard with 649 other troops aboard from Le Havre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sedalia Victory
Montauk Point
Wac
Atlantic
Coast Guard
le Havre
Tuskegee Choir to Sing at Constitution Hall
The Daughters of the American Revolution opens Constitution Hall to the Tuskegee Institute choir on June 3 with no hall fee. Proceeds go to the United Negro College Fund as the group tours starting May 23 in New York. DAR President General Mrs. Julius W. Talmadge vows support to the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Daughters of the American Revolution
Constitution Hall
Tuskegee Institute
United Negro College Fund
New York
D.A.R
Julius W. Talmadge
3500 Children Hear The Symphony At School Event
John Reynolds writes about roughly 3,500 Cedar Rapids schoolchildren attending the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra matinee at Memorial Coliseum. The crowd overflowed into the foyer as youngsters sat everywhere from seats to instrument cases, with buses and car caravans bringing many attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gazette
John Reynolds
Tony Tzortzoudakis
Tony
Greene Square
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Memorial Coliseum
Cedar Rapids
Coliseum
Patrols disobeyed orders to link with Reds on Elbe
In April 1945, three American First Army patrols defied a strict order to stay within 3 to 5 miles of their lines and pressed through German territory to meet Russian forces on the Elbe. Maj. Fred W. Craig and Lt. Albert L. Kotzebue led patrols near Leckwitz, Torgau, and Clanzschwitz, encountering Red cavalry and a lone Russian horseman as they witnessed the final collapse of the Third Reich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Fox
New York
Clanzschwitz
Fred W. Craig
Friendship, Tenn
Craig
Coed Sets Snakes Loose in Halloween St Patty Stunt
Evanston officers chase several snakes released by Linda Mueller a Northwestern biology student and Herpetology Society member. She kept six snakes for study but released 24 into a back yard claiming they are harmless and helpful against pests. The search by police found no snakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evanston
Ill
St. Patrick
Sigmund Wroblewski
Daniel Drieske
Chicago Avenue
Wroblewski
Drieske
Linda Mueller
Northwestern University
Cigaret Retail Ceilings Raised by OPA on pack pricing
Washington AP OPA announced Thursday increases in cigarette retail price ceilings due to rising manufacturing costs. The changes add half a cent per pack on two pack and larger sales, one cent per pack on vending machine sales, and no change on cartons or single packs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
OPA
Pethere
County Clerk Safe Stripped Of Cash Inbreak
Dubuque AP An estimated 1200 in cash and 4000 in government bonds were stolen from County Clerk Vallies vault after burglars gained entry by a basement window. Envelopes totaling 1099.20 were found emptied. four 1000 bonds left for inheritance tax were taken. Insurance covers the loss. night watchman Res reported no early alarm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque
Vallies
Kies
Joseph Strub
Don Whelan
J. A. Res
Mother of Two Gets Suspended 10-Year Sentence
In Cedar Rapids a divorced mother of two, Ruby Elizabeth Maresh, 25, Iowa City, received a determinate ten year sentence but Judge Floyd Philbrick suspended it and parole d her to the state board for parole. She pled guilty to cashing five bad checks totaling 261.25 and was released on bond after Johnson County jail arrest for a sixth bad check. County Attorney Crissman recommended parole given family hardship and her lack of prior arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Floyd Philbrick
Ruby Elizabeth Maresh
Iowa City
State Board of Iparole
Johnson County
William W. Crissman
Maresh
Des’ Moines
Truscott Ill in Heidelberg Hospital Quarters
Lt General Lucian K Truscott commander of the US Third Army has fallen ill with a heart condition and is confined to quarters in Heidelberg Germany according to AP reports. The development affects the army's leadership as officers and crews monitor his condition.
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Heidelberg
Germany
Lucian ’K. Truscott
United States
Third Army
Action Taken By Engineers And Trainmen
Cleveland AP A nationwide railroad strike to start May 18 was ordered by officials of the two large rail brotherhoods the trainmen and locomotive engineers The chairmen rejected a fact finding board's wage and rule recommendation and approved the walkout by acclamation The strike could be called if no satisfactory settlement is reached with carriers and a Monday negotiating session in Chicago is planned with carriers and union leaders present
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Washington
Chicago
Wreck in Naperville Kills About 30 on Trains
Two Burlington fast passenger trains collided in Naperville Illinois causing many deaths and injuries. Police reported the rear car of one train crushed as wrecking crews worked to free passengers from tangled coaches. The Exposition Flyer and Advance for Omaha departed Chicago at 12 35 p.m.
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Naperville
Chicago
Burlington
Naperville, Ill
Burlington Railroad
San Francisco
Omaha
Ed Smith Negro dies after fracas injuries at plant
Ed Smith 57 known as Willie Williams died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 3 30 a m Thursday from injuries suffered in a fight at the Wilson and company plant April 13. He allegedly threw a knife at William H Soper wounding him in the eye. Soper then struck Smith as his head hit an iron rail. Born in Birmingham 1888 Smith had lived in Iowa 19 years. Surviving wife Eva a sister and two brothers. Services set for 2 30 p m Sunday at Mt Zion Baptist Church with Rev D O Bell presiding.
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Cedar Rapids
Ed Smith
Seventh Avenue
Wilson and Company
T. Frank Hersch
Smith
William H. Soper
Carlisle Avenue
Willie Williams
Soper
Birmingham
Ala
Iowa
Eva
Fannie Proctor
Chickasaw
Okla
Rufus Smith
Richmond
Calif
Ocie Hoffman
J. D. Proctor
Los Angeles
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
D. O. Bell
Slaughter Quotas In Effect April 28
Government quotas set to spread meat supplies and curb black markets go into effect April 28. The plan, announced by OPA and the agriculture department, allows slaughterers to butcher cattle and calves at the same monthly rate as 1944, but limits hog slaughter to 80 percent of the 1944 monthly total.
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Washington
OPA
Agriculture Department
It Was a Mighty Suspicious Offer
Albany AP report says Nathan Solomon, Albany merchant, found 450 pairs of pre war women silk hose in his shop. He set a sidewalk box and offered three pairs for a dime, drawing a sharp retort from a passerby who asked if he thought she was a sucker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Nathan Solomon
Big Four Conference Opened for European Peace Talks
U S Britain France and Russia opened talks in Luxembourg to draft postwar treaties for Italy Romania Hungary Bulgaria and Finland. Byrnes Bevin Bidault Molotov led initial sessions with secret meetings and a nightly communique planned. A key result is a tentative Italian Trieste border decision. France seeks fuller participation beyond treaty talks.
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Paris
United States
Russia
Great Britain
France
Luxembourg
Byrnes
Italy
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Finland
London
Truman
San Francisco
I Ernest Bevin
Britain
Georges Bidault
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Tripolitania
Dodecanese
Big Four
Trieste
Delay Granted in Williams Case in Manslaughter
Still another delay occurred Thursday in the manslaughter case against Lawrence Wesley Williams. Judge Floyd Philbrick set Friday for Williams to enter a plea. Williams’ attorney R S Milner sought a delay to next Monday, but County Attorney William Crissman urged trying within the current term if possible. The petit jury to try the case, if Williams pleads not guilty, will convene Monday after Williams appeared on a $5,000 bond for the hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Wesley
Williams
Floyd Philbrick
R. S. Milner
Philbrick
Milner
William W. Crissman
Petit Jury
Former Bund Leader Kuhn Freed From Asperg Prison
Fritz Kuhn former head of the German American Bund was released from Asperg prison on Thursday becoming a free man. He rose during the Nazi era and led the Bund, which supported Hitler's regime amid postwar scrutiny and denazification efforts.
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Asperg
Germany
Fritz Kuhn
Bund
Grim Asperg
Hitler
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