French Blows Up Radio Berlin Towers in Allied Dispute
In Berlin, French forces dynamited Radio Berlin towers near Tegel field, ending a four power dispute over the Soviet zone station. Brig. Gen. Jean Ganeval said the action was necessary to protect Allied airlift, with management warned in advance to relocate. The Kremlin-held outlet remained off air. German authorities cited destruction of tower control installations.
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Radio
Germany
Deutschland
Jean Ganeval
Tegel
Exira Honors 107 Year Old Mrs Kilworth at Birthday Party
Exira Ia plans a birthday celebration for Mrs Mary Kilworth age 107 with a 9 am community breakfast. She will be interviewed on radio and receive an orchid from Hollywood and honorary Camp Fire Girls membership. Mayor Lensch will rename her street Kilworth Street in her honor.
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Exira
INS
Mary
Kilworth
Hollywood
Camp Fire Girls
American Legion
Herbert Lensch
America
England
Illinois
Audubon County
Cedar Rapids Official Seeks Pension Change for City Workers
Public Improvements Commissioner David L. Williams urged Cedar Rapids to seek state action to extend pension coverage beyond police, fire and waterworks to about 350 city employees. He framed a council resolution asking Des Moines to draft a bill for the next legislature, noting past defeats and urging state relief.
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Cedar Rapids
Public Improvements
David L. Williams
League of Iowa
Des Moines
Williams
Hiss Perjury Trial Slated For Jan 24
Alger Hiss pleaded innocent to a federal grand jury charge that he lied about giving secret government papers to Whittaker Chambers. Judge John W. Clancy tentatively set January 24 for the trial after fingerprinting and photographing. bail was set at 5000 dollars and posted. He remains on leave from a Carnegie Endowment post paying twenty thousand dollars a year.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
John W. Clancy
Hiss
Carnegie
Alger Hiss Indicted on Perjury Charges by Grand Jury
New York AP reports Alger Hiss indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of perjury. He later issued a statement asserting his testimony was entirely truthful and a defense against the charges.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Solons See Spy Probe Vindicated
Washington House investigators claim victory in the Hiss-Chambers case praising Alger Hiss perjury indictment as vindication of the committee espionage probe and rebuff to President Truman calling the inquiry a red herring. Rep. Nixon lauds FBI work and Mundt praises the Attorney General’s office for its diligence.
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House
House un-American Activities Committee
State Department
Alger Hiss
Truman
Rep
Nixon
R-Calif
FBI
Mundt
Clark
Crippled Veterans Clash With Rome Police
In Rome a crowd of crippled veterans demonstration for higher pensions clashed with police lines outside a government building. Mobile police reserves in jeeps charged the crowd, knocking several veterans. It marked the first mass violence in Italy’s new wave of unrest among workers jobless and pensioners.
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Rome
Italy
Christmas Store Hours In Cedar Rapids Extended Week
Local retailers in Cedar Rapids announce extended holiday hours starting Saturday. Stores open 9 30 a m to 9 p m this Saturday and on December 20 21 22 and 23. Christmas Eve hours close at 5 30 p m on December 24.
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Cedar Rapids
Papers Show Hitler Talks Soft Pedaled
Washington dispatch reveals state department officials urged secrecy on 1938 trade talks with Nazi Germany to aid the Democratic party in the 1938 elections. Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss figures surface as documents allegedly stolen by a Red espionage ring.
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State Department
Hitler
House un-American Activities Committee
Alger Hiss
Europe
Far East
United States
Japan
Whittaker Chambers
Hiss
Nazi Germany
Francis B. Sayre
Department
Rep. Mundt
R-S.d
Germany
Cordell Hull
Charles F. Darlington
U S Asks High Court Not Tamper With Jap Verdict
The United States asks the Supreme Court to avoid reviewing the Tokyo tribunal's death sentences for Tojo and six other Japanese leaders. The government argues the court has no power to review war crimes decisions and warns of dangers to world law and UN cooperation.
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U.S
High Court
Washington
United States
Supreme Court
International Tribunal
Tojo
Tokyo Tribunal
Philip B. Perlman
United Nations
Perlman
Tokyo
George A. Furness
Boston
John G. Brannon
Kansas City
George Yamaoka
New York
Allied Military Tribunal
Gen. MacArthur
Vivien Kellems asks to be indicted over tax refusal
Vivien Kellems renewed her tax fight by notifying Secretary Snyder she did not withhold taxes from her workers and demanded indictment. She argued the law forces involuntary servitude and urged the Treasury to test the tax law in court, saying she would no longer remind taxpayers by breaking the law.
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Vivien
Treasury Department
Snyder
Congress
Internal Revenue Department
United States
Walsh Named Inspector of C. R. Police
Cedar Rapids council promoted Captain Howard Walsh to inspector of uniformed police. Also advanced were Ray R. Murdock to captain and Harold M. Mackey to traffic sergeant. Safety Commissioner Hughes cited compliance with a 1941 advisory board recommendation and departmental harmony.
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Howard Walsh
Cedar Rapids
Ray R. Murdock
Harold M. Mackey
Force
Murdock
Jesse Clift
Gordon Hughes
Hughes
Murder of Engineer in Cedar Rapids Follows Annoyances
Cedar Rapids detectives say Byron C. Hartman a 29 year old St. Louis instrument designer was murdered in room 729 of the Roosevelt hotel in a premeditated slaying. Investigators note Hartman faced a series of nuisances and a framed chicken bones clue tied to his trunk while missing items including his glasses and room key complicate the case.
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Gazette
Blake Shipton
Tom Condon
Cedar Rapids
Harley Simon
Detective Bureau
Deloras Shimerda
Potstock
Hartman
Lou Breuer
Byron C. Hartman
St. Louis
W. J. Kudina
Roosevelt Hotel
Hattman
Paul Deam
Fred Gaez
Emerson Electric
Deam
Gaez
Ieee
Emerson Plant
Emerson
Mtny
Door 729 Locked From Outside: Hartman Murder Solved
A chambermaid observed room 729 door knob turn only partway, indicating the room had been locked from the outside. She unlocked with a pass key, found Byron C. Hartman dead, and the clue led detectives to Hartman’s own key found beside the body.
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Cedar Rapids
Byron C. Hartman
Room 729
Ro Hartman
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