Truman Acts To Ease Housing Price Pressure For Veterans
President Truman called for price ceilings on old and new housing and ordered priority use of building materials for veterans housing. He named Wilson W. Wyatt housing expediter and endorsed Snyder recommendations to curb inflation risks and accelerate supply of government surplus homes and materials.
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Washington
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt
Louisville
Office of War Mobilization
John W. Snyder
OPA
White House
Snyder
House Bank and Currency Committee
Two Die In Wilton Auto Oil Truck Crash
Cedar Rapids men Frank Lin T Mitvalsky 26 and Harrison Brown 30 were killed when a car rear ended an oil truck on Highway 38 southwest of Wilton. Driver Martin Peters 28 of Moscow, Iowa, suffered arm injuries. Brown left two children. Mitvalsky, recently discharged from the army, left a wife Ruth and two children. Services set for Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Barta Hesser chapel.
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Tmen
Franklin T. Mitvalsky
Cedar Rapids
Wilton
Mitvalsky
F. S. Mitralsky
First Avenue SE
Fred Nesper
Muscatine County
Harrison Brown
Wilton Farmer
Brown
Mitralsky
Martin Peters
Moscow
Peters
Muscatine
Trucker Peters
Ruth
Franklin S
Karen Lee
F. S. Mitvalsky
Milo F. Mitvalsky
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Richard John Mitvalsky
Cédar Rapids
Mr. Mitvalsky
Army
Fort Benning
Elks Lodge of
T. B. Hiubucek
Bohemian National Cemetery
Help Germany Pay For Imports Policy Aims Western Aid
The United States proposes broad financial aid to Germany over the next two years to fund imports and avert disease and unrest. The plan, aimed at a 1948 recovery, would limit German living standards and curb industry to essential peacetime needs, with cooperation among the four occupying powers by February 2, 1946.
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Germany
Reich
Byrnes
United States
Russia
Britain
France
State Department
War Department
Byrnes Heads to Moscow on Secret Mission Flight
Secretary of State Byrnes departed Washington by plane for Moscow on a Friday night. At the airport to bid him farewell were his wife and notable figures including General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Justice Felix Frankfurter.
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Washington
State Byrnes
Moscow
Sugar Ration Easing Hinted By Spring
Chicago reports Earl B. Wilson of the agriculture department sugar branch hinted that civilian sugar rations may be eased in the spring. He noted no immediate improvement in the sugar situation despite government actions.
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Chicago
Earl B. Wilson
Agriculture Department
Former Eldora Dean Testifies About Inmate Plans
Ronald Miller a 17 year old inmate at Eldora State Training School for Boys testified he planned to escape and to burn a school cottage if the escape failed and that he had been violating dormitory rules by smoking. Former Eldora dean H J Martin testified in Carl Klatt s second degree murder trial.
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Ronald Miller
Eldora State Training School For
H. J. Martin
Carl Klatt
Eldora
Miller
Martin de Martin
Carlsen
Blue
Senate
Charles Triplett
Des Moines and Safety Commissioner
McCreery
Hopkins
Hardin County Grand Jury
Des Moines
Excess Profits Gifts For Housing Considered By Panel
At a Chamber of Commerce meeting Ira B. Mc Gladrey proposed a temporary housing plan funded by excess profits gifts to a veterans organization. The funds would finance emergency, not permanent, housing and would need to be donated before Dec 31 to count on the 1945 tax report. No conclusions reached and next steps set for Tuesday.
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Veterans’ Organization
Ira B. McGladrey
General Housing Committee
Chamber of Commerce
McGladrey
Henry Haegg
Russell Knapp
Hatch and Broeckman Lumber Company
Great Lakes Steel Company
Haegg
Big Springs
Smulehoff
No Chance Is Seen of Early Strike Check
Congressional leaders in Washington say the strike-prevention law Forder President Truman faces slim odds for adoption before Christmas. Pessimism follows Tuesday’s House vote to block moving a union-curb bill that supporters had hoped would be used to pressure the labor committee. The labor panel, now solidly pro union, continues to weigh Truman’s request for the measure.
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Washington
Truman
House
House Labor Committee
Labor Committee
Truman Confident Congress Will Pass Strike Prevention Law
President Truman expressed confidence that Congress will approve his request for a strike prevention law before the Christmas holidays. He urged swift action to avert labor disruptions and protect national interests.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House Labor Fight Blocks Union Black Jack Measure
Lawmakers blocked a fast track for a House military committee bill aimed at penalizing unions that strike under contracts and curbing union political activity. Opponents led by Rep Marcantonio say labor will resist the Truman proposal while planning to press the measure later, as another bill under the 1934 anti racketeering act faces a full House review.
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Organized Labor
Labor
House
Labor Committee
Marcantonio
Al-N.y
White House
Iowa
Dolliver
Bond Movie Shorts for Children at Paramount Dec 22
Paramount Theater presents eight animated and comedy shorts for a bond fund fundraiser on Saturday December 22. Donald Duck Popeye and Bugs Bunny star in multiple shorts with two Anchors Aweigh items and vendor can issue 25 dollar bond tickets that credit to participating schools. No adults admitted and only 2000 tickets available.
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Cedar Rapids
Paramount
Harry Moore
Donald Duck
Duck
Popeye
Olive -Oyl
Gene Kelly
Bugs Bunny
Doc” Bunny
Hiawatha
Paramount Theater
Bond
Memorial Building
Navy stopped tapping Japanese consulate lines before Pearl Harbor
Congressional records reveal Lt. Col. Clausen said the Navy ordered an end to tapping the Japanese consulate telephones in Honolulu five days before the 1941 attack. Rear Admiral Mayfield ordered the halt after an FBI protest and concerns over security.
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Congressional
Navy
Honolulu
FBI
Henry C. Clausen
War Stimson
Clausen
Donald Woodrum
Naval Intelligence Division
Pearl Harbor
Woodrum
Mayfield
Naval District
Robert L. Shivers
I Dluly
Naval Intelligence Office
Knox
Tokyo
Manila
Alwin D. Kramer
Rural Area Has Big E Bond Day
Tuesday sales lifted Cedar Rapids and Linn County as workers tallied 645 520 in E bonds before the campaign ends December 31. Rural Linn County total reached 305 059, about 60 percent of its 500 000 quota, with outside Cedar Rapids teams contributing 28 356 for the day. Leaders urged more purchases to reach 2 007 000 by month end and noted bonds as gifts for the Nile Kinnick Memorial Fund.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Ee E
Nile Kinnick
Not Time To Talk Wages Ford Asserts
DETROIT AP Ford Motor company told the CIO United Auto Workers that this was not the time to settle their general wage problem. The Ford statement said a general increase would be a heavy burden on the future of all of us.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
CIO Leader Signals Wage Talks After Steel Strike Action
United Press reports CIO President Philip Murray opened room for negotiations by calling the $2 a day wage demand negotiable. He said the industry has made no attempt to negotiate. Sidney Hillman announced a contract granting 20 to 31 percent increases for men’s and boys’ clothing workers.
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CIO
Philip Murray
Sidney Hillman
CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
Truman appoints fact finding board for GM labor dispute
President Truman announced a fact finding board headed by Judge Walter P. Stacy to address the General Motors labor dispute. The panel includes Lloyd K. Garrison and Milton Eisenhower, with a similar steel industry board planned. Truman downplayed labor claims that the process would delay wage talks.
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Washington
Truman
General Motors
Walter P. Stacy
Stacy
Lloyd K. Garrison
War Labor Board
Milton Eisenhower
Kansas State College
Organized Labor
Senate approves housing fund to aid veteran dwellings
The Senate passed a 195 million housing program to move abandoned war housing to shortage areas for veterans, with 100000 dwelling units planned and about 75000 from converting university dormitories, funds include 160 million and 35 million in deficiency appropriations.
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Washington
Senate
D-N.y
House
Patton's Condition Unchanged Despite Respiration Rise
Heidelberg dispatch reports Gen. George S Patton remains in good general condition with no change in the fractured neck vertebra. His respiration rose from 16 to 24 after a low nightly rate. doctors describe him as one of their best patients and note he accepts his paralyzed state without panic.
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Heidelberg
Georges
Patton
McCreery Resigns From Iowa Board of Control Over Ill Health
David R. McCreery of Alburnett resigns as chairman and member of Iowa's 15‑member state board of control effective Saturday citing ill health. Gov Blue plans an interim appointment to fill the term through July 1, 1947.
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INS
David R. McCreery
Alburnett
State Board of Control
McCreery
Robert D. Blue
Blue
Board of Control
Chicago
Mt. Pleasant
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