Denial Munitions Work Dangerous
CHICAGO WP Employes in American munitions plants are less likely to be injured while loading 240 mm shells than while cooking dinner in their kitchens. Colonel T C Gerber, army ordnance safety director, says the industry’s accident rate has fallen as 6 000 000 000 pounds of explosives have been produced since 1941. He notes the main danger is not from explosions but dropped objects and finger injuries, and urges more workers to meet fighting men’s needs.
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Chicago
Ladies’ Garment
Col
T. C. Gerber
Army Ordnance
Gerber Ae
Miners Journal Claims Lying Over Munitions Output
The United Mine Workers Journal says someone lied about wartime munitions production in October and December 1944. It questions how output could be near perfect in October and ruined in December, urging scrutiny of war material requirements. AFL notes surprise at modest Department of War needs amid calls for emergency manpower across unions.
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Washington
United Mine Workers Journal
UMW Journal
American Federation of Labor
War Department
AFL
Molders
Wrong Way Corrigan Son Repeats Bizarre Drink Incident
In Los Angeles Harry Corrigan 18 month old son of Douglas Wrong Way Corrigan ingested camphophenique after a household bottle mix up. He previously drank poison and was saved by a stomach pump at a hospital. The incident echoed his father’s famous transatlantic flight tale.
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Los Angeles
Harry Corrigan
Douglas
Corrigan
Harry
New York
Ireland
California
Grandpa’s Duty At Christmas By Edgar A. Guest
A nostalgic verse by Edgar A. Guest reflects on a family Christmas scene. Grandpa trims the tree for his granddaughter and her mother while a soldier-dad is remembered. The poet muses on modest holiday cheer, a blue bow-tie purchase, and seasonal changes in talk and behavior.
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Grandpa
Hi i
Saipan Leader Saito Dies in Cave After Failed Harakiri
The charred body of Lt. Gen. Yeoshiji Saito, Saipan commander, was found in a cave amid evidence he attempted harakiri and failed. Capt. Richard L. Sullivan reports the cave held four charred bodies and a deadly sequence with Saito’s adjutant and two other officers.
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Saito
Sullivan
Milwaukee man objects to divorce settlement beer pump
In Milwaukee a husband objected to a divorce settlement that included furniture and cash but asked for one item the court denied the beer pump. He noted the pump was needed by the family and laughed off other terms while overseeing the split.
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Milwaukee
Charles Michalke
Charles
War Notes From Germany Night Drift in a Guarded Cellar
A night in Germany with the Second Infantry Division finds four doughboys bunking in a cellar as guards postures and a potential Nazi raid loom. A wandering pig disrupts the scene while Pvt Crowley recalls the odd moment. Alton Massey from Texas had gained fame in Chicago for a jitterbug win before overseas service. T/5 Earl Lovelace outruns Sgt Joe Verock into a shallow trench during shelling, a rescue later needed to free Lovelace wedged tight by the surge of the blast.
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Germany
G.O.P. Reports First Post Election Surplus
Chicago report shows $350000 surplus funds for the Republican party since the presidential election. James S. Kemper notes surplus exists as party plans year round operations and ongoing fundraising. Brownell does not plan to resign and will work toward the 1948 campaign with Dewey and Bricker.
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Chicago
James S. Kemper
G.O. P. Finance Committee
Kemper
Ilinois Finance Committee
National Republican
Brownell
Thomas E. Dewey
John W. Bricker
New York
National Committee
Manville Furnishings Fetch About 70000 At Auction
Pughey Tommy Manville’s 29 room mansion Bon-Repos produced about 70000 in three days of bidding ending Thursday. Auctioneers said 822 articles sold were worth about 100000 and called the sale highly successful. The Office of Price Administration halted Wednesday over chrome garbage can prices but items were sold with ceiling tags by Thursday.
U S Aid to Italy Urged by Taylor
Rome report that C Taylor Roosevelt aide urged Americans to fund economic relief for Italy to prevent communism. He spoke at a dinner with touring members of the congressional military affairs committee and clashed with Rep. Paul J. Kilday over wartime guilt and relief strategy.
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Rome
C. Taylor
Roosevelt
Vatican
Italy
United States
Taylor
Congressional Military Affairs Committee
Paul J. Kilday
Texas
Kilday
Nimitz Plans Forward Pacific Fleet Headquarters
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz announced that his Pacific fleet will establish an advanced forward headquarters in a forward area while the main command remains at Pearl Harbor. Australian reports had suggested Guam as the site.
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Pearl Harbor
Chester W. Nimitz
Guam
Boost Approved in Navy Officer Units
The Senate passed a bill to raise naval reserve officers training corps capacity from 7,200 to 24,000 students until one year after the war. In peacetime the cap is 14,000, with 6,500 already enrolled in 27 units. the measure now goes to the House.
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Washington
Senate
Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
A Naval Affairs Committee
House
Spanish Shipments To Nazis Reported
London based Daily Express said a Paris source described Spanish resistance witness see gasoline, ammunition and other supplies from Spanish army barracks loaded onto ships at Bilbao for shipment to French Atlantic ports still controlled by Germany.
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London
London Daily Express
Paris
Bilbao
Spain
Iowa Electric seeks motor carrier permit in Linn County
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company trading as Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway requests a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity to operate passenger service between Cedar Rapids Hawkeye Downs Highways 84 and 381 Dra ft Inn Western Shueyville and other Linn and Johnson Counties routes. A public hearing is set for Thursday January 4 1945 at 9 30 AM in the Linn County Auditor's office Cedar Rapids Iowa. Docket No H-3554.
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Iowa State Commerce Commission
Linn County
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Cedar Rapids and
Iowa City Railway
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
49Th General Assembly of Iowa
Hawkeye Downs
B. M. Richardson
David B Lone
Carl W. Reed
Geo. McCa
the Moines
Notice of Appointment of Executor No 17787
State of Iowa Linn County notice. On the 30th day of November 1944 Arl Muhlhaupt has qualified as Executor of Louis C Kaiser late of An Iowa deceased. All persons indebted to said estate must make immediate payment and those with claims will file them in the Clerk of Linn County District Court with proper authentication. Perrine and Albright attorneys.
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State of Iowa
Linn
Louis C Kaiser
Iowa
Ose
Linn County
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