Severe Cold Wave Grips Iowa Statewide Conditions
Iowa faced its first severe cold wave of the season with subfreezing to below zero temperatures across the state. Snowfall ranged from an inch to six inches, with Decorah recording 21 below zero and Cedar Rapids fluctuating as sun emerged. Trains and buses ran near schedule, AAA praised roads except near Sioux City, and three deaths were linked to the cold.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Allamakee County
American Automobile Association
Sioux City
AAA
Hunterfield
Gromyko Rejects U S Veto Demand On Atomic Pact
At Lake Success the Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko rejected the U S call to waive the veto on atomic control and urged item by item discussion of the American plan. He pressed that the draft align with the general assembly decision and the UN charter, postponing final commission action. The U S report aims to establish an international control and inspection treaty to ban weapon manufacture, require disposal, and enforce compliance.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Andrei A. Gromyko
United States
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Gromyko
General Assembly
Bernard Baruch
Commission
U.N. Security Council
Baruch
U.N. General Assembly
Security Council
Two Dogs Save Injured Woman in Freezing Night
Mrs. Julia Miller, 83, lay in her yard for 30 hours after a fall that fractured her hip. Two dogs Prince and Pulley kept her warm through near freezing temperatures until a rural carrier found her. The dogs barked at passing cars but the locator was a block away. she is now recovering in good condition.
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Council Bluffs
Julia Miller
Mrs. Miller
Prince
Pulley
Paul Perkins
Charles Larson Receives 99-Year Sentencing in Prison Break Murder
Charles Larson, 21, was sentenced in Anamosa district court to 99 years hard labor at Fort Madison for his role in the murder of John Hinz, a 49 year old reform school guard, during a June prison break. Larson and Louis Hofer, an Indianapolis inmate, killed Hinz with a claw hammer while being returned from a prison farm. Hofer was sentenced to death. Larson had prior larceny conviction and was sent from Ft. Dodge.
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Anamosa
Charles Larson
Ft. Madison
John Hinz
Larson
Louis Hofer
Indianapolis
Ind
Reformatory
Hinz
Hofer
Ft. Dodge
Atom Commission Manager Chosen in Truman Appointment
President Truman named Carroll Louis Wilson of Framingham Massachusetts 36 engineer as general manager of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Wilson has advised the commission since October and worked with Dr. Vannevar Bush on wartime weapons programs.
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Washington
Truman
Ed Carroll Louis Wilson
Framingham
Mass
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Wilson
Vannevar Bush
Commission
Wilson, Last American Envoy to Nazis, Dies
BENNINGTON Vt AP high Wilson career diplomat and last United States ambassador to Nazi Germany died Saturday night. He was appointed ambassador to Germany in March 1938 and recalled in November 1938 as a protest against persecution of Jews.
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Bennington
High Wilson
United States
Nazi Germany
Germany
Ten Liberal Groups Form Progressive Citizens of America
In New York Henry A. Wallace spurs 10 liberal groups into a single Progressive Citizens of America umbrella. About 30 delegates from 21 states joining a 15 000 member network voted to affiliate and hinted at a possible third party. Wallace criticizes the two major parties as a fake one party system and backs a genuine two party setup.
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Associated Press
Vic Davidson
Henry Wallace
Frank Kingdon
New York
Progressive Citizens of America
Henry A. Wallace
United States
Wallace
Th National Citizens Political Action Committee
Frank King’ Don
NCPAC
Jo Davidson
Independen Citizens Committee of the Art
Sen
Tal
Ohio
Fall injures Lowell Junge in Minnesota porch
Lowell William Junge, 30, of Preston Minnesota, fell 20 feet from a second floor porch at about 2:15 am Monday. Mercy hospital attendants described his condition as poor. Mrs Charlotte Hennessey and Gretchen Stade accompanied him home after a dance as police reported.
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Cedar Rapids
Lowell William Junge
Preston
Minn
Mercy Hospital
Charlotte Hennessey
Twelfth Street SE
Junge
Gretchen Stad¢é
Third Avenue SE
Fire at Fort Crook Barracks Destroys Center Section
AP reports a fire at Fort Crook Nebraska destroyed the barracks center section early Monday forcing about 2000 soldiers to evacuate. Pvt Claude E French received minor burns and was hospitalized. A boiler room housing a coal heating plant was swept by flames making the building unusable as investigators probe the bowling alley basement origin.
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Omaha
Fort. Crook
Neb
Claude E. French
G O P Warned Against Abrupt Control Abolition
Senator Wiley urged the Republican steering committee to resist swift scrapping of all war and emergency controls. He warned that abrupt repeal could cause chaotic effects in the atomic age and urged a comprehensive study before dismantling wartime powers. Senator Revercomb cautioned against admitting Europe displaced persons with communist leanings.
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Washington
INS
Wiley
R-Wis
Republican Steering Committee
Revercomb
R-V. Va
Europe
United
Republicans push federally subsidized public housing plan
Senate Republicans plan to split off and push the public housing portion of the Wagner Ellender Taft bill. The proposal would create 125000 public housing rental units annually for four years with federal subsidies up to 22 million dollars per year per 125000 units, and consider subsidies for rural and urban redevelopment. Details on total scope and rest of the bill were not given.
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Washington
Senate
Republicans
Taft
Ohio
Senate Republican Steering Committee
Congress
N Y Butter Drops Again
New York wholesale butter prices fell by 3 54 cents per pound on Monday erasing most of Friday's gains and widening the post Christmas drop to nine to ten cents A 92 score butter sold at 76 1/2 cents a pound and 92 score grade A at 74 cents Retail chains did not announce price changes last week but merchants expect the decline may prevent a retail rise due to heavy Midwest shipments trying to exploit price disparities between New York and Chicago.
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New York
Midwest
Chicago
German Court Sentences 4 in Euthanasia Deaths
A Frankfurt court convicted Dr Friedrich Mennecke a former SS lieutenant colonel and three subordinates of euthanasia murders at Eichberg asylum. Mennecke was sentenced to death with the others receiving prison terms. The case marked the first German war crimes trial by a German court. The victims were Germans among the Nazi regime's mental and physical victims.
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Frankfurt
Friedrich Mennecke
Eichberg
NAM Says Nathan Stand Is Nonsense
The National Association of Manufacturers calls a CIO backed study that 25 percent wage rises without price gains feasible as statistical nonsense. NAM chief economist Ralph Robey argues wages should stay steady to keep prices down, and accuses Nathan of biased data use and guesswork while contrasting index baselines from 1945 and 1939 to discredit the report.
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Washington
National Association of Manufacturers
CIO
Ralph Robey
N.A.M
America
Robey
Robert R Nathan
Nathan
Cafe at Manchester Burglarized Again
Burglars hit the Dina-Mite cafe in Manchester on Sunday night ransacking the interior and taking only nickels from the cash register. Two weeks earlier the thieves stole $55. both break ins followed smashed front door glass and an unlocked inside latch.
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the Gazette
Manchester
Lowell Hanson
Peiping sees students flood the streets in anti American protest
Chinese and foreign authorities report mass student demonstrations in Peiping Shanghai and nearby cities over an alleged rape by a US marine. Marines are confined to their compounds as protests spread and calls for withdrawal from China grow.
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Peiping
China
United States
Yenching University
Yenching
Fujen Catholic University
National Peking University
Shanghai
America
Wen Hu Pao
Ma Ying Chu
Tientsin
Peiyang
Nankai
Truman
Manchuria
Marine Corps
Bloom
D-N.y
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Estate
War Departments
Russia
France
Four British Officers Flogged in Jerusalem by Jewish Extremists
In Jerusalem police and troops hunted for attackers after four British officers were flogged by Jewish extremists in revenge for 18 cane strokes imposed on an extremist convicted of raiding the Ottoman bank. Maj. Brett, one victim, said the assailants warned others that more punishments would follow. The condemned raider received 18 years in prison.
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Jerusalem
Maj
Brett
Solons Attack Russia in Broad Postwar Policy Report
The House special committee on postwar economic policy charged Russia with economic enslavement, political terrorism, religious repression, broken promises and arms ambitions. It urged sweeping U S leadership in Europe, probes into German plant rearmament, and a tougher stance on Potsdam compliance and wartime lend lease.
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Washington
Russia
Special House Committee
Germany
United States
Rep
Colmer
D-Miss
Potsdam
Peenemunde
Cedar Rapids agencies to share Palmer estate proceeds
Following the settlement of Mrs. Austin N. Palmer’s estate about 53 000 will be distributed to four Cedar Rapids welfare groups The Children’s Home The Community Chest Camp Good Health and St Luke’s Hospital The gifts may fund endowment growth or permanent improvements with specific plans still undecided by each agency
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Cedar Rapids News
Austin N. Palmer
Cedar Rapids
the Children's Home
the Community Chest
Camp Good Health
St. Luke’s Methodist Hospital
Palmer
Cedar Rapids Business College
St Luke's Hospital
Arthur Poe
Children’s Home
David Beardsley
Public Health Nursing Association
Gazette
Public Welfare Bureau
Community Chest
Government Says Living Cost Rose 18 Percent in 1946
Washington reports a Bureau of Labor Statistics survey showing an 18 percent rise in living costs for 1946, driven by a 34 percent jump in food prices. Wages averaged 45.45 dollars weekly in July 1945, vs 40.58 in February 1946, with prices rising 18 percent overall and wholesale prices up 31 percent.
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Washington
LLP
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Coal output returns to normal levels in December week
Washington reports soft coal production for the week ending December 21 reached 13,100,000 tons, signaling a return to normal output levels per the Solid Fuels Administration.
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Washington
Solid Fuels Administration
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