Union Sues LaPlant for Two Million
A federal wage suit filed in Cedar Rapids claims LaPlant Choate Manufacturing underpaid 700 employees. The United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America seek $2 million plus legal costs, alleging portal to portal overtime violations from 1938 to 1940 and unpaid prep and post shift activities.
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Bruce Fishwild
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company of
Cedar Rapids
Federal District Court Clerk’s Office
Charles W. Hobbie
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
CIO
Harold P. Fischer
Raymond E. Dillman
Union International
Panama Limited Derailment Destroys Rail Near New Orleans
Six cars of the Panama Limited derailed on a narrow isthmus north of New Orleans injuring 40 to 50 passengers aboard the Chicago to New Orleans flyer. A Negro cook suffered serious injuries, others had broken bones or were shaken. Passengers described a violent swaying before cars left the rails near Ruddock, with about 500 feet of track torn up. ABC sports director Harry Wismer was among the injured en route to the Sugar Bowl game.
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New Orleans
G. R. Kimball
Illinois Central Railroad
Ruddock
Lake Pontchartrain
Lake Maurepas
Harry Wismer
American Broadcasting Company
Stanley Tondu
J. H. Price
Man Entombed 9 Hours by Cave in NORWELL Mass
Donald L. Morris a 32 year old man was entombed nine hours in a cave in well 23 feet underground in Norwell Massachusetts He was buried Thursday when the well sides crumbled as he laid pipe He was trapped with eight feet of cold water and tons of gravel above him A large boulder wedged against the sides reportedly lessened the pressure and saved his life officials said
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Norwell
Mass
A.P
Donald L. Morris
Morris
Truman Praises Lend Lease Settlements Outcome
President Truman told Congress settlements covering 34 billion dollars in lend lease accounts are highly satisfactory and foundation of postwar economic stability. The report shows 50.692 billion in total lend lease deliveries through Sept 30 1946 with about 10 billion in materials and services provided by allies in return. Russia and three other Soviet orbit nations are yet to negotiate. talks opened with Russia invited.
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Washington
INS
Truman
Congress
United States
Russia
Yugoslavia
Poland
Czechoslovakia
China
Greece
Netherlands
Norway
South Africa
Burma
India
British Empire
France
Italy
Beloan
Canada
Brazil
Three Injured as Car Strikes Pole
At about 12 45 am Friday an automobile collided with a telephone pole at First Avenue and Thirty-eighth Street. Mrs R R Stevens of Indianapolis suffered abrasions and facial cuts. T C Jackson of 1930 Park Avenue SE had lip, back and knee injuries. Cliff Jordan of Montrose Hotel had forehead lacerations and a leg injury. Jackson said the eastbound car turning in front of him caused the crash. the other driver fled. The trio were taken to Mt. Luke's Hospital by Ambulance Service.
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Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
Thirty
Eighth
Mt. Luke’s Hospital
R. R. Stevens
Indianapolis
T. C. Jackson
Park Avenue SE
Cliff Jordan
Montrose Hotel
Jackson
Jerry Navratil
Art Zimmerman
Four Boys Detained Over Davenport Safe Theft Ring
Davenport police chief Reed Phillips said four youths aged 15 and 16 admitted involvement in a series of Scott county safe thefts. The suspects, three of whom are parolees from Eldora, implicated themselves in robberies at Bill Glynn's tavern Bettendorf and B F Goodrich Davenport, plus a glass company store. About six safes, totaling 11 647 dollars, were stolen since early November. The youths will be turned over to juvenile authorities. no charges filed yet.
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Davenport
Reed Phillips
Scott County
Eldora Phillips
Bettendorf
Chief Phillips
Bill Glynn
B. F. Goodrich
Glass Company
Phillips
Gardner Cowles Granted Marriage License in Stamford
Stamford reports Gardner Cowles 44 publisher of the Des Moines Register and Fleur Fenton 33 New York ad consultant were granted a marriage license. Town Clerk George R. Close said the license was issued Friday. Both had prior marriages. Cowles recently obtained a divorce.
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Stamford, Conn
George R. Close
Gardner Cowles
The
Des Moines Register
Fleur Fenton
New York
Cowles
Butter and Egg Prices Slip in C R
Louise Johnston reports Cedar Rapids prices mirrored national trends with butter and eggs sliding after New York Chicago declines. Dairy wholesale shifts sparked by an Anderson inquiry, while local retailers cut some prices yet kept quality goods at Christmas levels.
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Louise Johnston
Cedar Rapids
New York
Chicago
Anderson
F. W Orr
Wapsie Valley
Higher Rents Authorized On Newly Converted Units
Washington officials pursue veteran housing by allowing landlords to charge higher rents on new conversions. The OTC raises the ceiling margin from $3 to $4 per $1,000 building cost, equating to roughly $12 to $16 monthly. FHA may assume future conversion ceilings, a change still under consideration.
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Washington
Office of Temporary Controls
Federal Housing Administration
OTC
Frigid Wave Affects Iowa With Snow and Cold
A cold wave moves into Iowa tonight lowering northwest temps near zero and southeast to seven above by morning. Light snow accompanies the air mass from North Dakota and Montana. Parts of Iowa see mist, light rain, and ice on highways as temperatures fall and a warming trend begins Monday.
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Iowa
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Lamont
North Dakota
Montana
The
Highway Commission
RFC Director Allen resigns as act rewrites loom
Washington AP George E. Allen resigns as a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation effective Jan 16 after urging drastic changes to the RFC act to eliminate wartime powers and consolidate lending under one law. John D. Goodloe named interim replacement. Henderson remains chairman.
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Ross
Allen
RFC
Charles B. Henderson
Goodloe
Richmond
Kentucky
Paroled: 300 High Nazis Freed After Nuernberg Acquittals
FRANKFURT AP More than 300 high Nazis including former general staff leaders and cabinet ministers, acquitted at Nuernberg, were paroled this week in the American zone. Internees awaiting denazification were not affected. About 40 Nazi historians received Christmas furloughs while army officers with historical duties had 10 to 14 day leaves.
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Frankfurt
Storm
Nuernberg
UNRRA Probers Uphold Yugoslavia Findings
An American British and Russian Commission reported distribution of UNRRA supplies in Yugoslavia was efficient and in line with UNRRA principles after a five week tour across the republics and Venezia Giulia. It found no political discrimination in UNRRA aid.
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Belgrade
UNRRA
Yugoslavia
Venezia Giulia
Searchers Find Airliner Wreck in Laguna Mountains
SAN DIEGO Calif AP wreckage of Western Air Lines transport missing since Christmas Eve with 12 aboard was found Friday by a search party in the Laguna mountains. Ed Neil San Diego Tribune Sun photographer telephoned from near the scene that he counted 10 bodies, two badly burned.
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San Diego
Calif
Western Air Lines
Laguna Mountains
Ed Neil
San Diego Tribune-Sun
Marines Wives and Children May Now Go to China
Secretary of the Navy Forrestal said wives and children of Marine Corps personnel may join their husbands in China under the same rules as Army and Navy personnel. The announcement covers travel to the Orient for dependents and aligns with existing regulations.
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Washington
Secretary of Navy
Forrestal
Marine Corps
China
Orient
Army
Navy
Hearing Slated on Eleanor Roosevelts Driving Case
Albany AP report says the New York motor vehicles bureau subpoenaed Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt for a Jan 8 hearing at White Plains to decide if her license should be revoked suspended or kept after a Yonkers three car crash on August 14 in which five people were injured including the late President's wife who said she dozed at the wheel
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Albany
N. Y
New York State Bureau of Motor, Vehicles
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White Eruins
Yonkers
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