Truman urges price ceilings for housing and material priorities
President Truman directs price ceilings on old and new housing and reinstates a materials priority system to aid veterans. Wilson Wyatt named housing expediter. plan includes rapid release of surplus housing and a material priority regulation for units under 10 000 dollars.
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Washington
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt
Louisville
Office of War Mobilization
John W. Snyder
OPA
White House
Snyder
House Banking and Currency Committee
Two Die In Wilton Oil Truck Crash Near Cedar Rapids
Two men died in an automobile oil truck crash on highway 38 near Wilton. Franklin T. Mitvalsky 26 of Cedar Rapids and Harrison Brown 30 of Wilton were killed. truck driver Martin Peters 28 Moscow, Ta., survived with arm injuries.
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Cedar Rapids
Franklin T. Mitvalsky
Wilton
Mitvalsky
Mitralsky
First Avenue
Fred Nesper
Muscatine County
Harrison Brown
Wilton Farmer
Brown
Martin Peters
Moscow
Peters
Mivalsky
Muscatine
Trucker Peters
Byrnes Leaves for Moscow Flight with Notables
Secretary of State Byrnes departed by C 54 for Moscow on a European route with stops at Bermuda the Azores Paris and Berlin. He was seen off by his wife Army Chief of Staff General Dwight D Eisenhower Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter Undersecretary Dean Acheson and James C Dunn. The flight is expected to reach Moscow late Friday night.
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Washington
State Byrnes
Moscow
Sugar Ration Changes Hinted For Spring
Earl B. Wilson, chief of the agriculture department sugar branch, told the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages that civilian sugar rations may ease by spring. He said no improvement is seen before April and hopes wartime sugar controls end in 1947.
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Chicago
Earl B. Wilson
Agriculture Department
Wilson
United States Plans Broad Germany Aid to Finance Imports
The state department announced a two year program to finance German imports to prevent hardship and unrest in a shattered nation. The plan envisages American and allied funding possibly reaching hundreds of millions with Germany kept below neighboring living standards while its industry is trimmed to peacetime needs.
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Washington
State Department
Germany
United States
Department
Reich
Byrnes
Russia
Britain
France
War Department
Former Eldora Dean Testifies in Klatt Murder Trial
Former Eldora Dean of Boys H J Martin testified about Ronald Miller a 17 year old inmate who admitted planning an escape and to smoking in the dormitory Miller also described a plan to burn a school cottage if the escape failed Martin testified the usual punishment at Eldora for escape was withdrawal of merits 30 strokes from a harness tug and 20 to 30 days in a discipline cottage Smoking carried a punishment of removal of merits and 10 strikes.
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Fort Dodge
Ronald Miller
Eldora State Training School For
H. J. Martin
Carl Klatt
Eldora
Miller
Martin
Carlsen
Blue
Senate
Charles Triplett
Des Moines
McCreery
Hopkins
Hardin County Grand Jury
Creery
Excess Profits Gifts Suggested for Housing
Ira B Mc Gladrey proposed a financing plan at the mayoral housing committee meeting to fund temporary emergency housing via gifts from excess profits taxpayers to a veterans organization. If feasible, gifts must be made before Dec 31 to count on the 1945 tax report. No firm conclusions or immediate housing solutions were reached.
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Jack Ferring
Veterans’ Organization
Ira B. McGladrey
General Housing Committee
Chamber of Commerce
McGladrey
Henry Haegg
Navy halted tapping Japanese consulate lines before Pearl Harbor
Congressional records show Navy officer Mayfield ordered end to surveillance of the Japanese consul in Honolulu on Dec 2 1941, after FBI tapped a line and learned of paper burnings. Lt Donald Woodrum cites incidents of security concerns and a 1941 FBI tap discovery in a tense prewar setting.
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Washington
Navy
Honolulu
FBI
Henry C. Clausen
Stimson Clausen
Donald Woodrum
Naval Intelligence Division
Pearl Harbor
Woodrum
Mayfield
Naval District
Robert L. Shivers
Clausen
Naval Intelligence Office
Naval
Knox
Tokyo
Manila
Alwin D. Kramer
No Early Strike Law Hoped Before Christmas
Congressional leaders on Wednesday abandoned hope of enacting a strike-prevention law before Christmas. The pessimism followed Tuesday’s House action where lawmakers refused to consider a union-curb bill that backers hoped to use to pressure the labor committee. The labor panel, with strong pro union membership, has been weighing President Truman’s request.
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Washington
Truman
House
House Labor Committee
Labor Committee
Truman seeks strike law as Congress balks at quick action
President Truman urges a strike prevention law and fact finding boards to curb major labor disputes during the Christmas period. Opponents in Congress block speeded action and threaten to tie up the measure in committee. The House also votes to consider penalties under the 1934 anti racketeering act against unions.
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Organized Labor
Labor
House
Labor Committee
Marcantonio
Al-N.y
White House
Iowa
Dolliver
Bond Movie Shorts for Cr Kids at Paramount Dec 22
Paramount Theater hosts 8 shorts for Victory bond fund with Donald Duck Popeye Bugs Bunny and more. Kids 25 dollar bond buys one movie ticket, no adults admitted, 2000 tickets available, proceeds credit to schools for navy Hellcat fighter contest.
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Cellar Rapids
Paramount
Harry Moore
Donald Duck
Duck
Popeye
Olive Oyl
la Cat
Mouse
Gene Kelly
Bugs Bunny
Doc” Bunny
Paramount Theater
Bond
Memorial Building
Navy
Rural Area Reports Strong E Bond Day
Rural Linn county reported 40 345 in E bond sales on Tuesday with 645 520 needed daily to reach a $2 007 000 campaign quota. Cedar Rapids and outside workers boosted totals, bringing Rural Linn to 305 059 toward a 500 000 local quota as the drive continues through December 31.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
Victory Loan
Nile Kinnick
Not Time To Talk Wages Ford Asserts
Ford Motor company told the CIO United Auto Workers it did not believe this was the time to settle their general wage problem. The Ford statement warned that a general increase would amount to a heavy mortgage on the future of all of us.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers
Ford
CIO Chief Signals Negotiation After Steel Strike Action
Philip Murray, head of the CIO, said the $2 a day wage demand is negotiable and promised talks while warning industry has made no move. Sidney Hillman announced a contract raising wages 20 to 31 percent for men’s and boys’ clothing workers.
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United Press
CIO
Philip Murray
Sidney Hillman
CIO Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
Truman names board for GM labor dispute
President Truman appointed a fact finding board to handle the General Motors labor dispute headed by Judge Walter P. Stacy. The panel also includes Lloyd K. Garrison and Milton Eisenhower. He planned a similar board for the steel industry and questioned organized labor claims that the process would delay wage increases.
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Washington
Truman
General Motors
Walter P. Stacy
Stacy
Lloyd K. Garrison
War Labor Board
Milton Eisenhower
Kansas State College
Senate Votes Housing Fund Move War Housing to Veterans
The Senate approved 195 million for moving abandoned war housing to shortage areas as veteran dwellings. 160 million now and 35 million in deficiency funds would create about 100 000 units mainly in cities and university towns with 75 000 from reconverted dormitories.
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Washington
Senate
Sen. Mead
D-N.y
House
Patton’s Condition Holds Steady Despite Fractured Neck
A Heidelberg bulletin reports Gen. George S. Patton remains in good general condition with no change in the fractured neck vertebra. Respirations rose from 16 to 24 after a low night. nurses note his acceptance of paralysis and his rational moments when awake. A nurse quotes his insistence on whiskey before eating or drinking.
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Heidelberg
George S. Patton
Patton
Bertha Hohle
Grygla
Minn
Des Moines Board Member McCreery Resigns Over Health
David R. McCreery of Alburnett resigns from the Iowa state board of control effective Saturday due to ill health after serving since May 1939 as chairman. Gov. Blue will appoint an interim successor. term runs to July 1, 1947 amid calls for reform after Eldora riot and Mt. Pleasant death disclosures.
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Otto Weber
DES Moines
INS
David R. McCreery
Alburnett
State Board of Control
McCreery
Blue
Board of Control
Lowar
Eldora
International News Service
Mt. Pleasant
Chicago
Grand Jury
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Cédar Rapids
Mr. Mitvalsky
Army
Fort Benning
Elks Lodge of
T. B. Hlubacek
Bohemian National Cemetery
U. S
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War Dept
Eldora Dean
Russell Knapp
Hatch and Brookman Lumber Company
Great Lakes Steel Company
Haegg
Big Springs
Smulekoff
Federal Public Housing Administration
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Congress
C.R. Kids
Dave R. McCreery
Steel Ray OF Hope
GM Board
Housing Fund
Robert D. Blue
Mece- Creery
Legislative Interim Committee
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Linn County
George A. Wilson
P. F. Hopkins
Mason City
R. T. Pullen
Spencer
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