Pope Calls Insincerity Foiling Peace Across Nations
Vatican City AP Pope Pius XI in his Christmas message condemns insincerity among nations as blocking peace and urges a league of honest men to safeguard world order. He blames deceit in diplomacy and warns that propaganda harms dialogue while denouncing ideologies and power politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican City
Pius XI
League of Honest Men
Foreign Ministers
London
Russia
Rome
Alcide de Gasperi
Peter
Hotel Must Close Dec 31 Says Cedar Rapids Fire Marshal
Cedar Rapids state fire marshal Adrian Lubberden says the Grand hotel must close by December 31 with no modifications to orders. Tenants petitioned to stay, but owner Philip Leibsohn and manager Frank Wood clash on costs for enclosing stairs. Lease terminated. Wood may remove furniture while Leibsohn plans to lease or remodel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids News
Grand Hotel
Adrian Lubberden
Cedar Rapids
Philip Leibsohn
Frank Wood
Wood
Lubberden
Leibsohn
G. W. McLarand
Iowa
Mashal
Pastor Lewis Granted Christmas Pardon in Wisconsin
In Madison Acting Governor Oscar Rennebohm granted a Christmas pardon to Dr John Lewis an elderly ill Presbyterian minister serving a prison term for burning his church The pardon was announced Wednesday in the Wisconsin capital
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
John ‘Lewis
Presbyterian
Oscar Rennebohm
Jones Plans Robins Lake area land buy for park
Parks Commissioner Richard C. Jones told the city council he will seek to acquire about 175 acres along the river north of Ellis park for a game preserve and beauty spot. The plan, once supported by the City Plan commission, faces title questions as several owners are listed with clouded titles and state claims to the river channel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robins Lake
Richard C. Jones
Ellis Park
Ellis Boulevard
City Plan Commission
C. J. Kosek
George Hearn
Parks and Civic Arts Committee
Hearn
Jones
Brockman Rejects Post of Deputy County Auditor
Verne Brockman of Marion declined an offer to become Linn County deputy auditor after Auditor Otto Hanzlik appointed M G Linkletter as county assessor. The deputy post, $3 000 annually, will be vacant Jan 1. Hanzlik has no candidate in mind and no applications yet as tax lists for 1947 taxes due 1948 near completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Verne Brockman
Marion
Linn
Otto Hanzlik
Brockman
Hanzlik
M G Linkletter
Linkletter
State Tax Commission
Cedar Rapids
Culbertson Quits Program After Card Sharp Remark
Theo dore Granik reports Ely Culbertson refused to continue on American Forum of the Air after Arthur Gaeth called him a card sharp during a United Nations debate. The dispute grew heated. Culbertson left the microphone, no fists, no handshake afterward. The Longacre theater in New York hosted the broadcast with Norman Thomas and Dr. Frank King in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Theodore Granik
Granik
Culbertson
Gaeth
United Nations
Longacre
New York
Norman Thomas
Frank Kingon
Vaudeville on Broadway Ends with Last Show
Broadway mourns vaudeville as Loew's State Theater closes its four day run and shifts to second run double feature movies. The final variety act aired Tuesday night signaling the genre's end on the New York stage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Loew’s
State Theater
Christmas spending spree ends quietly in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids shopping surge neared its end with downtown stores thinning as Christmas Eve approached. Shoppers from out of town dwindled, toy sections emptied, and most shops planned to close early. Stores reported mixed results with higher appliance and home goods sales but overall dollars below last December, while tax receipts and bank clearings offered mixed signals. Credit conditions postwar easing influenced spending, with buyers increasingly paying on credit though some consolidation anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Des Moines
Billion Overpayments Found by House Subcommittee
Chairman Bender said the House executive expenditures subcommittee found evidence of nearly one billion dollars in overpayments to wartime contractors by Reconstruction Finance Corporation subsidiaries. The Defense Plant Corporation is named as the biggest offender with irregular contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
LLP
Bender
Ohio
House
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
United Press
Defense Plant Corporation
RFC
Wallace To Speak On MBS Monday
Henry A Wallace will announce his 1948 presidential campaign stance in a Chicago broadcast Monday night. He is expected to decide on a third party bid and will speak 9 30 to 9 45 p m, with Mutual Broadcasting System coast to coast. CBS and ABC cited scheduling conflicts though both had previously carried him. The Gazette station KCRG will also air the speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry A. Wallace
Chicago
Wallace
WGN
Mutual Broadcasting System
National Broadcasting Company
Columbia Broadcasting System
American Broadcasting Company
CBS
Too Expensive Outside Convicts Return to Pen
Mississippi life-term prisoners granted 10 day Christmas leaves found freedom costly and many returned after two or three days. Prison Superintendent Marvin Wiggins reported the trend at Parchman as 48 convicts cut Christmas furloughs short and went back to the state pen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parchman, Miss
INS
Mississippi State Penitentiary
Marvin Wiggins
U S Army Plan Evacuation From Panama Bases
The United States outlined immediate withdrawal of about 2000 troops from 14 Panama bases following the Panama assembly’s rejection of a bases lease. The plan lowers the U S footprint to the Canal Zone defending the waterway with Albrook field the main airfield while reducing terms to five years for most sites and 20 years for Rio Hato.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Panama
Panama Assembly
Capitol Hill
Sen. Knowland
Rio Hato
State Department
Republic of Panama
Canal Zone
Canal
Albrook Field
Modern Jean Valjean Tale Ends Happily
INDIANAPOLIS UP A husky Negro policeman a judge and a kind hearted grocer helped a family in trouble after a man stole to feed them. Patrolman Jacques Durham released Walter Ballard and slipped him a $10 bill. The grocer Lloyd Stanford provided a hospital basket of groceries and candy with a kind note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Jacques Durham
Lloyd Stanford
Durham
Walter Ballard
Diana
Ballard
Alex Clark
Stanford
Slashes Four Leaps to Death in Lawyer's Office
A middle aged man in West Palm Beach attacked in a lawyer's office with a knife, killing his wife and slashing his son and two attorneys before leaping seven stories to his death. Police sorted the scene but witnesses could not testify immediately. David R. Burnside and family may have come to settle divorce matters. Attorney Edgar G. Hamilton and ex judge E M Baynes were critically injured, the boy also critical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Palm Beach
David R. Burnside
West Gate
Edgar G. Hamilton
Burnside
Hamilton
E. M. Baynes
Rail Hobby Helps Wife Locate Missing Berkeley Man
Joseph Leger 38 vanished from Berkeley five months ago. His model railroad hobby led his wife to contact Model Railroader magazine in Milwaukee, where employee Lawrence Kumferman identified him. Leger, with amnesia, recalled details after reuniting with his wife, though he kept memory gaps and used the alias Ed Smith while in Milwaukee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Berkeley
Joseph Leger
California
Leger
Lawrence Kumferman
Ed Smith
City
Russia Abandons V-E Day as Public Holiday
Moscow radio said Russia will no longer observe V E Day as a public holiday. By decree of the presidium of the supreme soviet the day marking Allied victory in Europe will henceforth be a working day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Moscow Radio
Russia
Supreme Soviet
Europe
Postmaster Rules Three-Cent Stamp Not Divisible
SPOKANE AP Postmaster Will W. Simpson ruled that half of a three cent stamp is not a one and a half cent stamp after a woman cut three cent stamps in two and placed a half stamp on each Christmas card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Will W. Simpson
Rebels Establish Mountain Government Opposing Athens
Greek guerrilla forces claim a rebel government led by Gen. Markos Vasthiades in the northern mountains. The Athens regime vows strict measures against leftist exiles and dissolving Communist affiliated groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Markos Vasthiades
Greek Communist Party
Yannis Kokkalis
University of Athens
Porphyrogenis
Stringos
Greece
Bulgaria
Albania
Markos
Christmas Fund Still Needs Cash
The Christmas Exchange fund stood at $1 166.38 on Wednesday while Mrs Shirley Bechtel warned the budget would be exceeded by food basket costs and late donations. Donors included Mrs C E Bleedner Ethel Shean the Fellowship class of the Church of the Brethren the public library H M Murdoch Miss Alice Bethel and several local groups and clubs. The Y Teen club knitted an afghan that sold for 29 dollars and proceeds were given to the exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids News
Christmas Exchange
Shirley Bechtel
Exchange
Bechtel
C E. Bleedner
Ethel Shean
Church of the Brethren
the Public Library
H. M. Murdock
Alice Bethel
Man Gives Firefighters a Merry Christmas Joke
Detroit report says twenty firemen rushed to a box alarm only to find John Stanislaski 54 leaning against the box with no fire. He admitted wanting to wish the crew a Merry Christmas and was later arrested on a drunkenness charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
John Stanislaski
Stanislaski
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marshal
Pastor Lewis
Old Robins Lake
Bayne Freeland
Frank K. Hahn
Midwest
Mexico City
The
Santa Claus
Peter Kramer, Jr
Arlington, Mass
MBS
KCRG
U.S. Army
Stand
Yanks
Jean Valjean
Darlene
David
Cleveland
Today's Index
Ernest
Snecersees & Farm 8
Cobo
Red
Coalition
By Alkaios Angelopoulos
Free Movement
Constantine Tsaldaris
Themistocles Sophoulis
Vasthiades At Helm
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!