Jan. 15 Set For Housing Drive Start
The government plans to launch a housing drive January 15 under CPA rules. Dwellings costing $10,000 or less will be offered first to veterans with top rents at $80 per month. The program expects about 400,000 homes in 1946 and adds a priority system for scarce building materials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John D. Small
Civilian Production Administration
Small
CPA
Federal Housing Administration
Truman
FHA
E Bond Sales Rally Boosts Linn County Victory Drive
Thursday's E bond sales report shows Linn County investments reaching $1,881,900, $125,100 shy of the $2,007,000 goal. To reach the target by December 31 the county must average $15,638 daily for the remaining eight reporting days with participation from local schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Bond Show Saturday for Kids at Paramount Theater
The Paramount Theater opens at 9 30 a m with cartoons at 10 am for a kids bond show. Tickets can be bought at the theater office with the doorman directing buyers. Featured characters include Donald Duck Popeye and Bugs Bunny in eight cartoons and no adults are allowed.
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Paramount Theater
Donald Duck
Popeye
Bugs Bunny
County Chairman Sees Funding Target Within Reach
The report shows Cedar Rapids contributing 222,092 in Thursday sales with 40,000 from other parts of the county. Of Cedar Rapids total, over 83,000 came from an auction sponsored by Fraternal Order of Eagles Cedar Rapids Aerie No 2272 at the Paramount theater Thursday night. A large portion of the rest came from payroll deductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Order of Eagles, Cedar Rapids Aerie No
Paramount Theater
Witness says alert fleet would have smashed raid
Admiral Richmond K. Turner testified that the Pacific fleet would have destroyed the Japanese task force at Pearl Harbor if alert, and that war with Japan seemed inevitable by mid 1941. He cited disagreement over diplomatic codes and questioned officials’ handling of intercepted messages.
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Washington
INS
Richmond K. Turner
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Turner
Husband KE. Kimmel
Hawaiian
T. S. Wilkinson
Navy
Japan
United States
Hawaii
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Stark
Husband E. Kimmel
Hawai
Leigh Noyes
Kimmel
Thomas C. Hart
Asiatic
Noyes
Hart
Admiral Kimmel
Hart and Kimmel
MacArthur denies report of Russian troop dispute in Japan
Gen. MacArthur publicly rejects a Tokyo broadcast claim that his headquarters argued with the Russians over Soviet occupation troops and that he threatened to resign. He said he is here to serve and see the mission through, and called the report by Larry Tighe of ABC untrue. Col. Sams says Japan’s food problems are overstated and winter starvation danger is not present.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Japan
Larry Tighe
American Broadcasting Corporation
Tighe
Crawford F. Sams
Public Health and Welfare Section
Sams
Five Iowa Coal Miners Killed in Walnut Creek Crash
Five coal miners died when the car carrying them to work plunged over an embankment and smashed on Walnut Creek banks near Clive Iowa on highway 6. The wreck occurred before daylight but was found about 11 a.m. Driver Shonley Carew of Des Moines, identified as Black, was the owner and driver. other victims were not yet named.
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Des Moines
Walnut Creek
Clive
Shonley Carew
Sight Restored Then Death Follows Christmas Homecoming
Mrs Bertha Ratke, 71, regained sight after a delicate operation aimed to see her son Corporal Henry Ratke when he returned from overseas for his first Christmas at home in three years. Two hours after bandages were removed she died from a weak heart, before seeing him. The family planned a homecoming party.
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Rochester
Bertha Ratke
Cpl
Henry Ratke
Ratke
Tire rationing ends but full supply still months away
Washington AP reports tire rationing ends Jan. 1 after four years with no transport breakdown risk. Production rises to 28 million passenger tires this year and 66 million next year, but dealers warn many motorists will wait for tires and some non-rationing rules stay in effect.
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Washington
OPA
Civilian Production Administration
CPA
John D. Smal
Chester Bowles
Pearl Harbor
Bowles
Marshall greeted by Chiangs at Nanking
Gen George C Marshall arrived in Nanking as President Truman's special envoy to China and was met at the airfield by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mme Chiang.
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Nanking
George C. Marshall
President Truman
China
Generalisisimo
Chiang Kai-shek
Mme. Chiang
Administration grants fact finding panels broad wage pay review powers
Washington administration on Friday gave government fact finding boards authority to inquire into a company's ability to pay when recommending wage increases. The directive allows examination of employer books in certain cases, though no subpoena power is granted, and prompts continued bargaining between oil companies and the CIO oil workers union over a 30 percent wage demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Oil Industry
Secretary of Labor
Schwellenbach
Ol-Wage Factfinding Board
CIO Oil Workers Union
Truman
General Motors Corporation
Pure Oil Company
Congress
Keehn Named Cedar Rapids Chamber President for 1946
P F Keehn 1907 Glenway Dr SE elected president of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce succeeding Don Hines at a luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel. Keehn advanced from first vice-president, with David W Lehti named second vice-president and Herbert Stamats elevated to first vice-president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
P. F. Keehn
Glenway Drive
Lagomarcino- Grape Company
Herbert Stamats
Stamats
E Coquillette
Merchants National Bank
Coquillette
Veterans’ Memorial, Inc
Senators Read Newspapers as Butter Ration Cuts Pass
U S senators rushed through a mass of legislation aiming to finish before Christmas and passed a resolution calling for an end to butter rationing. The OPA had ended butter rationing on November 24.
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Washington
Senate
OPA
Weather Watch Cedar Rapids Sees Mild Snowy Weekend
Cloudy tonight and Saturday with light snow possible and little temperature change. Cedar Rapids near zero tonight, a few spots to minus two, Des Moines at plus five, Decorah bottoming near minus nine, overall for Iowa no major shift. Buffalo reports three more inches of snow.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Decorah
Des Moines
Iowa
Chicago
Canada
Dakotas
Minnesota
Montana
Nebraska
Chambers-Inskeep
South
Gulf States
Texas
Florida
U. S
New England
Buffalo
N.Y
Gen Patton Dies After December Crash In Europe
Heidelberg Germany. Gen George S Patton Jr dies at 60 from pulmonary complications after a Dec 9 traffic crash that fractured his neck leaving him paralyzed from the shoulders. Brig Gen John M Wilsen announces the death as Mrs Patton remains at his side.
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Heidelberg
Germany
George
Patton
John M. Wilsen
Seventh Army
Africa
Sicily
France
Belgium
Austria
Czechoslovakia
A. W. Kenner
Europe
Frankfurt
130Th Station
Joseph T. McNarney
United States
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Associated Press
UAW
General Motors
R. J. Thomas
C. E. Wilson
Labor Department
Resale
George Hearn
ACA
Osa
Reds
M'Arthur
Marshall
Chiangs
Oil Company
Keehn
Chamber of Commerce
Keelin
Red Cross
Y.M.C.A
Cedar Rapids Country Club
Chamber
West Front
George Smith Patton,Jr
General Patton
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