Mutiny Rumors Pervade Riot Aboard U S Liner Anna Dickinson
In Portsmouth harbor an on board riot aboard the United States liner Anna Dickinson left crews of American and Chinese sailors clashing with knives and axes. Police and U S military police intervened slowness and calm were restored as three merchant seamen were arrested.
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Portsmouth
England
United States
Portsmouth Harbor
Anna Dickinson
Atlantic
Southampton
A. C. West
Mrs. Walter Dunshee Dies After Stroke at 42
Cedar Rapids widow Kathryn Gibson Dunshee 42 died at 3 20 a m after a stroke. She was a Cedar Rapids social figure, attended Coe College and University of Chicago, and belonged to Delta Delta Delta and Esoteric society. Funeral 1 30 p m Monday at Turner chapel. Burial Oak Hill. Survived by husband Walter and three daughters.
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Cedar Rapids
Walter E. Dunshee
First Avenue
Turner Chapel
Robert Little
Kathryn Gibson
Dunshee
Coe College
Six Die in Philadelphia Trolley and Oil Truck Crash
In Essington a trolley and an oil truck collided and burst into flames. Six people were killed with seven injured and the coroner warned the toll could rise to eight. A grieving mother reported her five year old daughter died in the wreck.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Transportation Company
Essington
Charles Drewes
Drewes
Howard Ray
Lester
Peggy
Not Tax-free Sisters Gift Denial Upheld by Judge in Iowa Case
The Cedar Rapids board of review denied the Sisters of Mercy tax exemption on the Brown apartments. Judge G K Thompson upheld the decision in a 12 page ruling, noting the Browns retain substantial beneficial ownership and the exemption should tax the property. The decision signals potential appeal to the state supreme court.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids Board of Review
Sisters of Mercy, Inc
G. K. Thompson
Supreme Court
Thompson
Brown Apartments
Brown
Appellant Corporation
Sisters of Mercy
Packer Paper Warns Truman Over Labor Strike Call
The United Packinghouse Workers union warned the Truman administration is not on its side as it readies 125000 members for a nationwide walkout over a 25 cent per hour pay raise. The union said the administration is yielding to big business pressure and called for readiness to oppose anti labor actions from Congress and President Truman.
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Chicago
INS
United Packinghouse Workers Union
CIO
Truman
Packinghouse Worker
Congress
Truyman
Ship with Shifting Bomb Load Overcomes Danger
The Liberty ship Henry D. Thoreau reported 5000 tons of bombs breaking loose in a hold but said the danger was averted after securing the cargo. The master informed Eastern Sea Frontier that the danger had been controlled and the ship would proceed.
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New York
Henry D. Thoreau
Eastern Sea Frontier
Famed Novelist Theodore Dreiser Dies at 74
Hollywood reports the death of Theodore Dreiser 74, famed realist novelist, from a heart attack after a second stroke. He lived in semi retirement, recently completing two long novels The Bulwark and The Stoic, and had planned publication next year. He faced past investigations and indictments in Kentucky for alleged misconduct and criminal syndicalism.
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Theodore Dreiser
United States
Dreiser
Kentucky
Harlan
Middlesboro
John Dos Passos
Hollywood
Labor Board Sets Pay Scale for Northwestern Bell Union
The National War Labor Board has published its wage recommendation after hearings on November 1 and 2 in Washington. The plan would raise the payroll by about 3 million dollars annually for 11 000 women represented workers across Iowa Minnesota Nebraska North Dakota and South Dakota. Top plant maintenance wages would reach 1 50 per hour in the largest Iowa city with monthly take home around 314 dollars. Cedar Rapids would see 1 45 per hour and about 319 monthly. Operators would top at 32 per week statewide with Cedar Rapids at 31 per week and 188 monthly in 1945 terms.
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Cedar Rapids
National Telephone Commission
National War Labor Board
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Northwestern Union of Telephone Workers
Washington, D. C
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Dysart Woman Killed in Car Train Crash
Mrs Ethel Murphy 58 of Dysart died when the car she rode in collided with a northbound Rock Island train near Dinsdale. Driver Marvin Short of Jesup, poor visibility at the crossing, the car threw into a ditch and struck a tele phone pole. Mrs Murphy’s husband Lee Murphy and Elsie Fox of Traer were injured.
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the Gazette
Toledo
Ethel Murphy
Dysart
Rock Island
Dinsdale
Marvin Short
Jesup
Elsie Fox
Traer
Claude Mask
Cibula
Unions Set Friday Talk With Cedar Rapids Plant Leaders
Five Cedar Rapids area plants and four company chiefs will meet with three U S Conciliation Service commissioners at the Roosevelt hotel at 10am Friday. Commissioners White and Schaffer will attend with a third. Attending firms include Cherry Burrell Wilson Quaker Oats and Link Belt Speeder. LaPlant Choate undecided. Unions from all five plants will be represented. Negotiations continue at Cherry Burrell and Quaker Oats. LaPlant Choate strike enters seventh week with no settlement.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
United States Conciliation Service
Roosevelt Hotel
Conciliation Service
Walter C. White
Roy Schaffer
Cherry- Burrell Corporation
Wilson and Company
Quaker Oats
Link- Belt Speeder
LaPlant-Choate Company
Cherry-Burrell Corporation
Byrnes Set to Deliver Radio Talk From Washington
Secretary of State Byrnes arrived from Moscow aboard a four motor plane after bad weather delayed a Portland Maine stop. He was slated to deliver a radio ad at 9 p m Iowa time Sunday but a State Department spokesman later said the broadcast was uncertain.
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Washington
Byrnes
Moscow
Portland
Maine
Iowa
State Department
Truman backs cautious step by step atomic data disclosure
Washington AP reports President Truman favors a phased approach to sharing atomic secrets. He and officials stress testing inspection methods before full disclosure, with Britain and Canada first. Senator Vandenberg says security requirements must guide any plan and that a UN commission should pursue all four objectives together with safeguards.
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Washington
Truman
Moscow
International Atomic Control Commission
Missouri
United States
White House
State Department
Britain
Canada
Sen. Vandenberg
Vandenberg
International Commission
United Nations Commission
Senate
Death March Vet Dies of Wounds in Love Triangle
New York AP reports Capt. Eugene Dale 27 a Bataan death march survivor died from bullet wounds after a melee over a model. Capt. Archie Miller 25 estranged husband of the model held on felonious assault. DA calls it a triangle affair. Model Fay Hancock Miller planned divorce.
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New York
Eugene Dale
Bataan
Archie B. Miller
Edward Murphy
Fay Hancock Miller
Dale
Eva Braun and Hitler Married in 1945 Certificate Found
The marriage certificate dated April 29 1945 was found with Hitler’s private and political testaments in Tegrensee near US Third Army HQ. British intelligence says Hitler and Eva Braun died by self destruction in Berlin on April 30. Documents include witnesses Bormann Goebbels Krebs Bergdorf and Doenitz letter transmittal. The find also includes photos of Eva and a young unnamed boy.
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Karl Doenitz
Tegrensee
Third Army
Bormann
Joseph Pagel
Hims
Goebbels
Hans Krebs
Wilhelm Bergdorf
Nicolaus von
Icy Roads Send Cars To Ditches Across Eastern Iowa
The Cedar Rapids area faces cloudy skies with light snow or freezing rain and temperatures around 25 at night dropping Sunday. Highway patrol reports many cars in ditches as ice turns "soapy" and dangerous. A crash east of Marion involved W C Mosely, with facial cuts and bruises. Authorities warn drivers to stay home as conditions worsen.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
State Highway Commission
Marion
M. G Swords
W. C. Mosely
Anamosa
Highway 64
Mosely
Harvey BE. Bansack
Milwaukee
Council Bluffs
Iowa Weather Station
Ames
Chambers-Inskeep
Mercury
U S Policy Critique on Reich Industry in Berlin
In Berlin the American deputy division head Russell A. Nixon accuses military authorities of pampering German industrialists and failing to arrest key figures. He cites Farben leaders released from jail and argues the joint chiefs of staff directive to confiscate Nazi assets is not enforced. Nixon notes 83 percent of Farben Industrie still exists in the American zone and warns of a growing industrial nucleus evading control.
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Berlin
Russell A. Nixon
Nixon
Harvard University
CIO Washington
United Electrical Workers
Joint Chiefs of Staff
I. G. Farben Industrie
Lucius D Clay
Germany
Farben
Harley M. Kilgore
Farben Industrie
Asa
I Npses
Lewis Patterson Listed as Dead
Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Patterson of 400 Fifth Avenue SW receive word their son Carpenter's Mate 1/c Lewis Srl Patterson has been declared killed in action. Missing since the sinkings of the U S S Langley and Pecos near the Java sea battles on Feb 28 and Mar 1 1942. He enlisted in 1925 and served in the medical corps before transferring to carpenters. Surviving are four sisters including Mrs. Joe Rinella Iowa City Genevieve a nurse in Chicago Nellie L recently discharged from the Wacs and Emmazelle discharged from the marine corps reserve. He was a Viola high school graduate.
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D. B. Patterson
Fifth Avenue
Carpenter
Lewis Srl Patterson
U.S.S. Langley
Pecos
Java
Patterson
Viola
Navy
Medical Corps
The
Carpenters
Joe Rinella
Iowa City
Genevieve
Hines’ Veterans Hospital
Chicago
Nellie’ L
Wacs
Emmazelle
Women’s Marine Corps
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Victor Mature
Paul Dreiser
Edward Dreiser
Terre Haute
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Smith’s Magazine
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