Community Welfare Foundation Formed in Cedar Rapids
The Community Welfare Foundation of Cedar Rapids was created to manage gifts and bequests for charitable and educational aims. Seven trustees will oversee funds from donors, with Van Vechten Shaffer as president and Edwin C. Evans as vice-president.
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Cedar Rapids
Community Welfare Foundation of
Des Moines
M W Lynhorst
Iowa
Chamber Commerce
van Vechten Shaffer
Cedar Rapids Bank
Shaffer
Edwin C. Evans
Soviet Union offers Norway non-aggression pact
Moscow proposes a non-aggression pact to Norway and warns against joining the Atlantic pact with the United States and Western Europe. The Soviet note to Foreign Minister Lange cites Norway's frontier with the Soviet Union and says inclusion in the Atlantic pact could draw Norway into aggressive power blocs.
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London
Russia
Norway
United States
Europe
Halvard Lange
Moscow
Soviet Union
United Nations
U S To Reassure Norway on Pact
American leaders prepared to tell Norway that membership in the proposed Atlantic pact would be reasonably priced. Officials said Lange and a Norwegian delegation would meet with Secretary Acheson and others to discuss Norway's role in defense coordination and avoid a demand for forward bases.
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Washington
Norway
Halvard Lange
Hese
United States
Soviet Union
Lange
Acheson
Truman
Boy Injured as Truck Hits Sled in Cedar Rapids
Five year old Keith Knuppe remained in serious condition at St Luke's hospital after a truck struck his sled on an icy Cedar Rapids street. Police say the driver, Vinton P Heaton, could not see the boy until he darted into the road. Keith suffered a definite brain concussion and skull fracture tests could not be completed. He lives at 957 Westwood drive NW with his parents Mr and Mrs Robert Waddington.
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Cedar Rapids
Keith Knuppe
St Luke’s Hospital
Keith
Westwood Drive
Vinton P Heaton
A Avenue NW
Heaton
St. Luke's
Robert Waddington
Transport Cuts Time Across U S Half Hour
A Constellation transport set a new commercial record by flying from Los Angeles to New York in six hours 17 minutes 39.25 seconds. Eastern Airlines announced the feat surpassing the previous 2,517 mile record by about 30 minutes.
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New York
Constellation Transport
Los Angeles
Eastern Airlines
Auto Workers Union Seeks 60 Age Pension Plan
CIO United Auto Workers president Walter Reuther announced the union will push for a pension plan enabling automobile workers to retire at 60 with a target of 100 dollars per month. The plan aims to provide retirement security for members.
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Auto Workers Union
Detroit
Walter Reuther
CIO
United Auto Workers
UN Reports World Economy Improves Despite Unclear Russia
The U N said 1948 saw higher food production and more industrial output with improved international trade. Inflation appears easing in some nations while Russia and satellites contributed significantly to global production. Poland up 25 percent. Italy declined slightly.
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Lake Success
United Nations
The
Economic and Social Council
U. N
Russia
Italy
Poland
Butler Urges Halt to Foreign Meat Buying for Army
Senator Butler of Nebraska asked Agriculture Secretary Brannan to stop foreign meat purchases for the army to ease the demoralized cattle market. He urged domestic sourcing and suggested a senate agriculture committee probe, noting a critical market with feeders losing 50 to 125 dollars per head after Argentina beef buys were halted January 31.
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Washington
Butler
Brannan
Senate Agriculture Committee
Army
Royall
Hoover Commission weighs civilian chairman for joint chiefs
The Hoover commission explores a civilian chairman for the U S joint chiefs to ease inter service rivalries. It also considers reducing the army navy and air force secretaries to undersecretary rank while trimming powers and keeping titles.
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Washington
Hoover Commission
United States Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army
Navy
Air Force
Herbert Hoover
Elkader Boy Dies on Way to University Hospital
Burnell Olson eight son of Mr and Mrs Millard Olson of Elkader died Saturday night while being driven to the University hospital at Iowa City for treatment. Ill with diabetes and influenza he grew worse en route and died on arrival at Bolin hospital in Manchester.
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Manchester
Burnell Olson
Millard Olson
Elkader
University Hospital
Iowa City
Burnell
Bolin Hospital
Peiping Bans Government Currency After Feb 22
The Communist government of Peiping announced that all Chinese government currency would be outlawed after February 22. The move signifies a sweeping monetary reform and raises questions about exchange and control.
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Peiping
Dewey Speech Sees Some G.O.P. Foes Skipping Dinner
Governor Thomas E. Dewey will address a Lincoln Day dinner in Washington with some Republican congressmen choosing not to attend. They oppose his past defense of the 80th Congress and dislike what he may say about them. Tickets sell well but fewer lawmakers are going than in past years.
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Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Congress
Go.p
District of Columbia League of Republican Women
League
Dewey
Truman
Albany
Inside features in The Sunday Gazette preview
The Sunday Gazette highlights feature stories across pages and sections. Joan Liffring reports on spastics feelings in page 8 Section 1. Howard Handleman covers Red Wave in China from the Philippines on page 3 Section 1. Art Heusinkveld notes Cedar Rapids pigeons and trapping in page 9 Section 1. Rex Conn analyzes July to now commodity slump on page 1 Section 4 with meat prices. Loyal Meek and Del Blumenshirie present a steel workers school feature on page 10 Section 4.
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Sunday Gazette
Joan Liffring
Howard Handleman
Philippine Islands
China
Art Heusinkveld
Gazette City Hall
Cedar Rapids
Leon Hanson
Rex Conn
Loyal Meek
del Blumenshirie
Gazette
Society
Halt Noted In Uptrend Of Wages
New York AP reports signs of a wage upswing slowing as the textile sector blocks 10 cent an hour increases for CIO and AFL workers in two large groups. January 17 also saw cotton textile workers denied raises. The buyer’s market and postwar readjustment raise questions about further wage hikes in 1949 contracts and broader industry ripple effects.
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New York
CIO
AFL
Maurice Tobin
Henry Ford II
Senate Taft Hartley hearings end with heated clash
The sixth day of Taft Hartley hearings closed amid a bitter exchange as Senator Neely told Taft to keep his mouth shut after Taft accused Neely of blackguarding a witness. Democrats accused Republicans of stalling to miss the February 10 deadline. Senator Murray denounced Reilly for helping draft the act. Printing industry witnesses pressed to keep Taft Hartley provisions, with NLRB counsel Denham and ITU head Woodruff Randolph among those appearing.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Bette
Neely
D-W. Va
iTaft
Ohio
Senate
Pecs
Aiken
R-Vt
Murray
D-Mont
Gerard D. Reilly
Reilly
Taft
Congress
Ludwig Teller
New York
Robert N Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Woodruff Randolph
International Typographical Union
NLRB
Belle Plaine man found shot dead at filling station
Fred Benda 34, Belle Plaine filling station operator, was found dead with a single bullet wound Friday afternoon. Coroner John Burrows said the case could be murder, accident, or self-inflicted, with missing receipts and a police revolver recovered at the scene. Investigators will continue the inquest amid questions about the wound size and lack of powder residue.
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the Gazette
Belle Plaine
Fred Benda
Oper
Benda
John Burrows
Katherine
Burrows
Iowa
Charles
Fred
Des Moines
State Division of Criminal Investigator
Ballistics
Benton County
Nile Morend
Louise Coburn
CIO research chief forecasts fourth postwar wage rise
Stanley Ruttenberg, Washington CIO research director, said his big union will push for a fourth postwar wage increase this year despite falling living costs. AFL economists suggested raises should not fall below five percent, implying hourly gains from seven to fifteen cents. The two unions total more than 13,000,000 organized workers.
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Washington
CIO
Stanley Ruttenberg
Ruttenberg
AFL
Mother Delivers Baby in Family Car by Firelight
Mrs Charles Hines of Carnegie held a flashlight for Dr Stanley Babercak as his patient delivered a 6 pound 12 ounce girl in the couple’s auto while en route to Haddon maternity hospital. Father Charles Hines noted the birth occurred fast and he remained nervous. both mother and baby were reported fine.
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Pittsburgh
Charles Hines
Carnegie
Hines
Haddon Maternity Hospital
Stanley P. Babercak
Ave
Vatican Paper Attacks Mindszenty Trial Tactics
L Osservatore Romano denounces the Budapest treason trial as a moral and physical torture chamber. The Vatican paper portrays Cardinal Mindszenty as exhausted and oppressed and ridicules alleged confessions, rejecting the Communist proceedings and their forced admissions.
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Vatican City
Vatican
L’osservatore Romano
Josef Mindszenty
Budapest
L’osservatore
Cardinal Mindszenty
Mindszenty Trial Called Sham by Former Hungary Leader
New York AP reports Zoltan Pfeiffer, former head of Hungary's Independence party, said the Budapest trial of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty was a sham.
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New York
Zoltan Pfeiffer
Hungary
Independence Party
Budapest
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Burglar Steals 53 Cents. Laundry Plant Damaged by Fire
A Mobile cleaner found 53 cents missing from the cash register and about 3000 dollars in fire damage after a burglar apparently dropped a match on clothes. Most of the customers’ cleaning and laundry went up in smoke.
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Mobile
Ala
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United Church of Christ
Sunday's Index
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Marien
U.S
U.N
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Elkader Boy
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