Army restructures to discharge more medical personnel
Washington reports over 800000 additional Army personnel become eligible for discharge as new point scores lower for doctors dentists and medical staff. The Navy notes 3,469,000 personnel returned from major theaters, with broader discharge policies remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
War Department
Sanitary Corps
Navy
Atlantic
Pacific
China-Burma-India
Europe
Medical Corps
Pearl Harbor
Medical Administrative Corps
Eldora Trial To Call School Employes Next Week
In the Carl Klatt second degree murder case, the state will call Eldora training school staff including former blacksmith Henrik Fauerby and printer A P Johnson, with 45 witnesses total. Testimony centers on the night Ronald Miller 17 Des Moines inmate was beaten and later died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Dodge
Eldora Training School
Carl Klatt
Jens Grother
Ronald Miller
Des Moines
Robert Summers
Davenport
Miller
Klatt
Henrik Fauerby
P. Johnson
C. B. McKinley
Grothe
Bernard Ryan
Daily Record Highlights Index and Local News Briefs
A compact page note outlines items from the Index Comics to the Courthouse with brief mentions of daily events. It references Marion Men, Wormer, various films, radio, sports, and state service notices in terse summaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courthouse Daily Record
Marion
Wormer
OPA Sets Price Ceilings on 35 Housing Materials
Des Moines bulletin says price ceilings in dollars and cents were placed Friday by the OPA on 35 housing and building materials. Prices generally held steady from March 1942 levels. The new lists will be posted by dealers by Saturday and cover sales within the city and to customers within 10 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
INS
OPA
Soviets Begin Evacuation of Tehran Amid Tense Iran Crisis
Soviet troops begin a surprise pullout from Tehran delaying reports. Evacuations target railway stations communications centers and military billets. Iran protests deny Soviet political or economic interference while warning of potential clashes if Iranian troops enter troubled northwestern areas. Azerbaijan governor arrives in Tabriz from Tehran aboard Soviet‑provided plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tehran
Iran
Azerbaijan
Tabriz
Russia
Army leads Navy 32 to 13 in fourth quarter
Philadelphia AP report says Army football power leads Navy 32 13 midway in the final period. Cadets struck with a 20 point first period surge and added another in the third. Navy answered with two second quarter TDs and a fourth quarter score, quickly matched by Army.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Philadelphia
Navy
Cadets
Labor-Management Parley Ends With Unreached Goal
Washington AP reports President Truman’s labor-management conference adjourned without establishing postwar dispute handling machinery. The 25 day meeting saw sharp clashes between CIO AFL leaders over wages and collective bargaining and ended with little business beyond defeated proposals. Philip Murray pressed for immediate substantial wage increases while scolding AFL leaders for disunity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
CIO
AFL
John L. Lewis
Philip Murray
Murray
William Green
British Nab 76 Ruhr Steel Magnates at Their Homes
British security forces arrest 76 Ruhr steel magnates at homes in Isерlohn and other towns in a series of raids. Eight of 84 listed suspects remain at large as raids continue. aim is internment and seizure of documents for possible war crime charges.
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Ruhr
Iserlohn
Germany
August Thyssen Steel Works
Fritz Baum
Essen
Walter Eichorst
Thyssen Works
Karl Lipp
Hoesch Steel Combine
Dortmund
Lumber Tieup Being Broken
AFL lumber workers reached compromise wage agreements with operators representing half the west coast industry. Strike leaders said most fir operations could resume Monday and that talks would begin with pine operators in Montana Idaho central Washington and parts of Oregon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Federation of Labor Lumber Workers
West Coast
AFL
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Nazi General Dostler Executed by U S Firing Squad
Gen Anton Dostler of the German army was executed by a 12 man American firing squad in Aversa Italy for the murder of 15 American OSS men without trial. He was the first German general tried and convicted as a war criminal by the western Allies. Dostler admitted ordering the killings, saying he acted on Hitler's orders.
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Aversa
Italy
Anton Dostler
OSS
Dostler
Office of Strategic Services
Genoa
Adolf Hitler
Housing canvassers urged to keep findings confidential
Cedar Rapids New veteran housing survey head James F. Scolaro asked emergency housing interviewers to submit questionnaire cards to precinct captains so veterans can call on owners as soon as vacancies arise. He urged not to fill vacancies with friends and to rely on the Veterans Information and Service Center for occupants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids New
James F. Scolaro
Scolaro
Veterans Information and Service Center
One Yank Killed and 26 Hurt in Arms Blast
A Japanese ammunition dump at Kunsan exploded injuring 26 Americans among 325 total casualties and killing two people, including an American army captain. The blast marked the second such explosion in three weeks with cause not immediately determined.
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Seoul
Korea
Kunsan
Santa Claus helps recover as fire destroys toys at Four Star
Santa Claus aided by workers and volunteers Saturday to recover from a Friday night blaze at the Four Star Manufacturing plant in Chicago. The fire destroyed Christmas toys valued in the thousands, prompting donations and community support to replace them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Santa Claus
Four Star Manufacturing Company
GM Suggests Reopening of Parts Plants
GM proposes to reopen its parts and accessory division to supply materials for other manufacturers while seeking to renew talks with the CIO United Auto Workers. President C. E. Wilson sent the plan amid a wage dispute seeking a 30 percent rise. Harry W. Anderson said Friday’s meeting on illegal picketing could lead to broader negotiations, though core demands remain unchanged. A public support bid for a settlement was issued, naming Bernard Baruch and James B. Conant as committee leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Corporation
C. E. Wilson
Harry W. Anderson
Bernard Baruch
James B. Conant
Harvard
Beardsley Rul
Packer Strike Approved by Wide Margin in Cedar Rapids
National Labor Relations Board results show CIO United Packinghouse Workers backing a strike 25 to 1 to press for a 25 cent hourly raise. In Cedar Rapids 1,301 to 44 voted yes. Of 1,611 eligible voters, 1,349 ballots were submitted and four void. Union leaders Scurlock and Nemec travel to Chicago for talks with Wilson officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Labor Relations Board
CIO United Packinghouse
Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
Third Street SE
William C Auer
Minneapolis
Auer
Memphis meat packing vote: strike approval Missouri Valley union backs wage hike
At Armour and Co in Memphis one of 62 eligible workers voted for a nationwide strike. Union leaders Ralph Helstein James Stanton and Lewis J Clark advocate a 25 cent hourly raise as talks with four major packers begin, with meetings set in Chicago Ottumwa and Des Moines.
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Memphis
Armour and Co
Lewis J Clark
Cedar Rapids
United Packinghouse Workers
Ralph Helstein
James Stanton
Chicago
Cudahy
Wilson
Swift
Armour
John Morrell and Company
Ottumway
Iowa
Sioux City
Swift, Armour and Cudahy
Ottumwa
Des Moines
of Iowa Packing Company
Industrial Ball Crowns 7 000 Attendees Queen and King
Seven thousand persons saw Joanne Sebern an 18 year old secretary and Richard R. Sills a 32 year old welder crowned queen and king at the ninth Allied Industrial ball held Friday night at the Memorial Coliseum. Four entries from each of 19 Cedar areas were presented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joanne Sebern
Universal Engineering Corporation
Richard R. Sills
Iowa Steel and Iron Works
Allied Industrial
Memorial Coliseum
Cedar
Rapids ceremony features six industry era tableaux
A photo feature describes six scenes shown on a revolving stage at the crowning of the arch bishop Rev Waldemar Argow of the Peoples Unitarian church. It traces from the agricultural age to the postwar era with modern working conditions and leisure time, each age paired with music or dance.
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Miss Sebern
John L. Sebern
Third Street NW
Roosevelt High School
Aristotelian Society
Sebern
Sills
Tenth Avenue SE
Hess Flight For Peace Aimed To Meet King George VI
Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in 1941 seeking to arrange a peace conference with King George VI. He claimed the mission was secret and driven by a belief that two great nations risked annihilation. Hitler and Goering later called Hess insane while a British tribunal ruled him sane after his dramatic memory loss confession.
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Mernberg
Rudolph Hess
Duke of Hamilton
George VI
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Russia
United Press
Hitler
Hess
Hermann Goering
Goering
Fuhrer
Fuehrer
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ernest Bohle
Foreign Office
Bohle
King George
Geoffrey Lawrence
Cross examination recalls German intelligence officer Lahousen
Maj. Gen. Erwin Lahousen testifies that Canaris warned of anti Nazi sentiment among anti Hitler leaders. He hints Papen secretly opposed Hitler’s war policy while denying knowledge of RAF prisoner murders. Prosecution and defense clash over war prisoner policy and alleged treachery.
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Lahousen
Canaris
Papen
Hitler
G. D. Roberts
R.A.F
Keitel
Otto Nelte
High Command
Gere Ymany
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South Gate
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George Clayton
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International
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Sgt
Robert Oske
Buffalo
N. Y
Araki
Nippon
Japan
William Needham
Duesseldorf
Allied Control Commission
Nazi Party
United
Packer
By Jack Ferring
George Scurlock
Joe Nemec, Jr
Company
M R. Swanson
Richard Winkler
Omaha
Robert R. Rissman
Ihter Field Examiner
NLRB
St. Louis
Kansas City
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Aina Dorheim
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