High and low temperatures and Iowa forecast notes
The weather table lists regional highs and lows for Thursday with precipitation. Iowa forecasts call for Saturday generally fair and colder east, with Sunday looking mostly cloudy and warmer. Local notices include fines for various traffic violations and a few birth announcements.
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Bismarck
Jacksonville
Chicago
Minneapolis
New York
Los Angeles
iSioux City
Iowa
Packers Face 16-Cent Wage Hike Proposal Amid Dispute
Washington reports the 3 man Wage Stabilization Board proposed a 16 cent hourly raise for packinghouse workers with five cents absorbed by companies and subsidies covering the rest. AFL AMCU accepted, CIO United Packinghouse Workers withheld comment, and industry leaders warned the plan could raise costs slightly. The panel said 11 cents could be approved under policy, with the full 16 cents retroactive to January 26 the seizure date.
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Washington
American Meat Institute
Meat Institute
AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
CIO United Packinghouse Workers
Chicago
Anderson
Wage Stabilization Board
Armour and Company
Swift and Company
Cudahy Packing Company
John H. Morrell and Company
Wilson and Company
Tugboat Strike Vote Aims to End Walkout in New York
Striking tugboat and barge crews began ballots on a compromise wage proposal, with union leaders predicting acceptance to end the tie up in the nation’s largest city. Officials waited for results as the Office of Defense Transportation stood ready to man struck tugs if the vote failed.
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New York
INS
Office of Defense Transportation
General Motors
Dewey
Walter F. Reuther
UAW
Washington
CIO
United Steelworkers
Philip Murray
Hess Stricken During Trial Recess
Rudolf Hess, defendant at the war crimes trial, was taken ill during the noon recess and moved to a cell for medical examination. Officials said he suffered abdominal cramps and would rest in his cell Friday afternoon.
Luce Pushes UNO Site Move For Senate Treaty Review
Rep Clare Boothe Luce urged that any plan to locate the United Nations home in the Stamford Greenwich area be brought to the Senate as a treaty. She argued the move would give Congress grounds to safeguard citizens property rights and protect her own Stamford home from potential impact.
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Washington
ULP
Clare Boothe Luce
R-Conn
United Nations Organization
New York-Connecticut
Senate
Sunspot sighting by amateur Johnston draws Gazette attention
Frank Johnston an astronomy enthusiast from 2912 Iowa Avenue SE examined a sunspot described as a worldwide communications disruptor. He noted the spot's movement from the sun’s right edge toward the center over Friday and advised using smoked glass to view the phenomenon.
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Frank Johnston
Iowa Avenue SE
Gazette
Ned
Johnston
Western Union
Right Man Gets Hay But from Wrong Barn
Cedar Rapids police hunted for 100 missing bales of hay after Joe Kloubec reported theft from his Ely area farm. At 7 p.m. Frank Skvor called to say he had the hay stored at his address and the trucker had taken it from the wrong barn.
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Cedar Rapids
Joe Kloubec
Ely
Frank Skvor
Thirtieth Street
Skvor
Kloubec
OPA Sues A and P Over Sugar Regulations
The OPA seeks a permanent injunction in federal court against the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. over sugar sale violations. It alleges the chain, with 6,000 stores, is short nearly 52 million pounds of sugar in its August 31 inventory and failed to police sales adequately. A and P says it acted to follow OPA rules and cites unavoidable shrinkage.
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New York
OPA
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company
A. and P
Flesh trade shocks Berlin amid famine murders
Berlin officials announced two German women were murdered and their flesh sold on a food black market. Police investigators search for killers while fearing larger gangs may be operating, peddling human flesh in local markets.
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Berlin
Criminal Investigation Department
Small Fabricators Push for Higher Steel Prices
Three metal fabricators testifying before the Senate Small Business Committee argued price controls make steel production unprofitable. M. T. Bentzen of General Metal Ware in Minneapolis urged lifting 1942 ceiling prices for sheeting to cover higher costs. Max L. Rysdon of Sioux Steel in Sioux Falls urged OPA not to set controls when they restrict output.
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Washington
Senate Small Business Committee
M. T. Bentzen
General Metal Ware Company
Minneapolis
Max L. Rysdon
Sioux Steel Company
Sioux Falls
S. C
OPA
City Briefs Highlight Local Talks and Events This Week
Brig Morris speaks on The New Life at Salvation Army hall eight tonight with Mrs Morris also scheduled. Elmer Moore, recovering in St Luke s hospital, receives visitors at 1225 Fifth Street SE. Mrs E R Petro heads to California to visit relatives in Los Angeles and Pasadena. Rev A V McClure speaks How and When Will Things in This World Be Set Right at Seventh Day Adventist service Saturday at 11 am with Sabbath school at 9:30 and young people at 3 pm. An all college Valentine party for Coe students and faculty begins five pm Friday in the men s gym recreation room sponsored by Chi Omega. Reverend C W Harrop s sermon Serpents and Doves at 11 am Sunday Pale Methodist church. Sunday school at 10 am. Rev Lyle K Anderson speaks Serving Jesus in the Home Field at 9:30 am Sunday Shueyville United Brethren church with church school at 10:30 am Christian Endeavor at 7:30 pm and official board meeting at 8:30.
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A. V. McClure
Coe
Chi Omega Sorority
C. W. Harrop
Pale Methodist Church
Lyle K. Anderson
Jesus
Shueyville United Brethren Church
Church School
Christian Endeavor
Ministers Attend Iowa Conference at Madrid Iowa
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Dooty co pastors of Ellis Park Church of God will attend the Iowa State Ministers conference next Monday and Tuesday in Madrid. Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Grubich and Vern Nye will also attend.
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S. E. Dooty
Ellis Park
Stout Family Returns From South Mexico Trip
Dr C A Stout Mrs Stout and daughter Mary Eleanor arrive home at 110 Sixteenth Street NE Cedar Rapids after a four week journey through the South Mexico City and Monterey. Miss Stout previously served as assistant field director for the American Red Cross at Kelly Field Texas and will stay home for several weeks.
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C. A. Stout
Walter C Holmes dies at 84 known as Uncle Walter to the blind
Walter C. Holmes aged 84 died Thursday in New York. He organized the first magazine for the blind in 1906 and was widely known as Uncle Walter to blind people in the United States and abroad.
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New York
Walter C. Holmes
Walter
United States
Train Crashes Through Depot Injuring Two in Greenwood
A derailed troop train tore through the Pennsylvania station in Greenwood Indiana injuring two crewmen seriously. Sixteen coaches left the rails seven toppled and five overturned as the empty train charged toward Indianapolis after unloading soldiers at Camp Atterbury. Two porters and four trainmen were hurt. station agent Arvill J Bicknell and Harold Smock escaped unharmed as the coach demolished the depot and fire broke out.
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Greenwood
Ind
Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
Camp Atterbury
Indiana
Arvill J. Bicknell
Ralph S. Donica
St. Vincent’s Hospital
Bicknell
Harold Smock
Smock
Plans Made for War Dead Return
The San Francisco Chronicle reports the army has completed plans to return U S war dead with ships carrying caskets leaving this spring if Congress authorizes. The plan spans 18 months at an estimated 500 million dollars and allows next of kin to decide which of about 250000 deceased are repatriated. The first burial ship could depart San Francisco around April 1 with subsequent departures from San Francisco and New York to 454 sites in 86 countries and islands.
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San Franciso
The
San Francisco Chronicle
America
Chronicle
House
Senate Military Affairs Committee
San Francisco
New York
Hypochondriac and his endless pills
A verse vignette portrays a man obsessed with remedies for imagined ills. He inventories pills and cures at every trigger, questions every death as potential symptoms, and resents doctors who claim he is well. The poem lampoons the spendthrift on cures.
Dunn Seen as Next Ambassador to Rome
Washington sources say James C. Dunn United States deputy on the London council of foreign ministers will likely be appointed ambassador to Rome.
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Washington
INS
James C. Dunn
United States
London Council of Foreign Ministers
Rome
Republicans Push Bungling Charge in 1946 Drive
Washington report on Republican leaders at Lincoln Day events charging the administration bungled reconversion foreign policy and labor unrest. Martin Luce and Gov Martin criticize labor policies FEPC issues and racial equality aims amid push for anti discrimination action and GOP gains in the House.
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Washington
House
Martin
Mass
G.O.P
Clare Boothe Luce
R-Conn
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
FEPC
Senate cools on Case strike labor bill amid overhauls
The Senate gave a cool reception to the Case strike control bill passed by the House. Senate labor leaders plan a milder measure and may overhaul the bill to remove its harsher provisions. Sen. Murray hopes to finish hearings on the President’s fact finding bill with CIO President Philip Murray testifying.
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House
Francis Case
R.D
Washington
LLP
Senate
Senate Labor Committee
Sen. Murray
D-Mont
CIO
Philip Murray
Senate Committee
Labor Department
Gerald Smith Rally Jeered by Youths in Chicago
About 1,000 people clashed with police outside a West Side meeting hall where Gerald L. K. Smith spoke. Twenty-one youths were released on their own recognizance after brief police processing. fourteen faced disorderly conduct charges and three faced illegal possession of stench bombs.
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Chicago
Gerald L. K. Smith
West Side
Smith
Hitler
America
America First Party
U S Reds Reach Korea Trade Pact
A joint communique announced an agreement to lift trade and communication barriers between the Russian and American occupied zones of Korea. It notes decisions from the U S Soviet conference and requires approval by commanding generals in both zones. Routes for rail and water transport will open, mail exchange to occur, radio frequencies to be set, and Korean south residents to return north.
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Seoul
Korea
Deanna Durbin Delivers First Child Jessica Louise
Movie singer Deanna Durbin gave birth to a six pound five ounce girl named Jessica Louise on Thursday. Durbin's husband producer Felix Jackson was present at the hospital.
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Hollywood
Deanna Durbin
Jessica Louise
Miss Durbin
Felix Jackson
Bicycle Owners Urged To Obtain Tags Saturday
Police urge bicycle owners to register on Saturday at the station garage from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The 25 cent fee requires a horn or bell, a red reflector, a jiffy stand and a headlight for night use. Weather has slowed the program but officials expect about 6 000 total plates.
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Jesse H. Clift
William Maritakis
Clift
Youth for Christ Banquet in Cedar Rapids Saturday
Ray Schulenburg of Moline will speak at a Youth for Christ banquet in the Roosevelt hotel at 6 30 p m Saturday. Schulenburg directs the Mississippi Valley Youth for Christ serving the Tri City area and bi weekly meetings draw about 2000 people. Burchard Hamm of Waterloo is toastmaster. performances by McKinley high vocal sextet and Roosevelt high string trio led by Don Johanes. Local meetings are in Cedar Rapids at Trinity Methodist Church every other Saturday.
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Ray Schulenburg
Moline
Cedar Rapids
Youth For Christ
Roosevelt Hotel
Schulenburg
Mississippi Valley Youth For Christ
Tri-City
Burchard Hamm
Waterloo
McKinley High School
Roosevelt High School
Don Johanes
Chicago
Trinity Methodist Church
Third Avenue
Fifth Street
Deaths Naomia Curless of Cedar Rapids Dies at 73
Funeral services set for Sunday in Urbana for Naomi Elizabeth Curless a Cedar Rapids native who died Wednesday at her daughter's home. Age 73 born February 28 1872 married Milo J Curless in 1889. Survived by three daughters a sister two brothers 11 grandchildren seven great grandchildren. Burial Oak Hill Cemetery Cedar Rapids.
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Urbana
Naomi Elizabeth Curless
Cedar Rapids
Rush Cumberland
Milo J. Curless
Christian Science Church
Cumberland
E. 8
Graft
Fort Madison
Reuben Smith
Prophetstown, Ill
Will Terrell
Sioux City
S. M. Brainard
H. E. Brainard
Chicago
Oak Hill Cemetery
Funeral services for Mrs Lou Sweeney announced
Funeral services will be held at 1 30 p m Saturday in the Rohn chapel for Mrs Lou Sweeney former Cedar Rapids resident who died Wednesday at her daughter s home in Mason City She was 78 born May 15 1867 Her husband Dan died in 1939 Surviving are two sons Robert of DeKalb Sr and John of Chicago two daughters Mrs Pettis and Mrs J H Pollock of Cedar Rapids two brothers Henry and Fred Wagg of Wapello three grandchildren and two great grandchildren Burial will be in Linwood cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
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Rohn
Lou Sweeney
Cedar Rapids
Lillian Pettis
Mason City
Dan
Robert
DeKalb
Henry
Fred Wagg
Wapello
Linwood Cemetery
Mrs Rosetta Fox 51 Died After Long Illness In Cedar Rapids
Mrs Rosetta Fox 51 of 809 Second Avenue SE Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 1 10 a m Friday after a long illness She lived in the city 36 years She was born April 30 1894 in Oxford Junction Her husband Capt Glenn Fox a former Cedar Rapids firefighter died in 1939 Surviving are a daughter Mrs Hugh L Rick Jr four sons George Robert Donald and Glenn and three sisters Funeral is at 9 a m Monday at Immaculate Conception Church with burial in Mt Calvary cemetery Monsignor Molloy will recite the rosary at the Brady mortuary at 8 p m Sunday Friends may call after 1 p m Saturday
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Rosetta Fox
Second Avenue SE
Cedar Rapids
Oxford Junction
Glenn Fox
Army
Earl Farrington
W. W. Kyle
Alice Kelsh
Immaculate Conception Church
John Molloy
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Molloy
Brady Mortuary
Penny Carnival at Coe After Lawrence Game
Coe college YWCA sponsors a Penny carnival for students and faculty in the men's gym after the Coe versus Lawrence basketball game. Proceeds go to the World Student Service Fund to aid student war relief work.
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Coe College
Y.W.C.A
Coe-Lawrence
World Student Service Fund
Section of Manchuria Proclaims Independence
A Chinese Catholic paper reported that a Mongol inhabited region in northwest Manchuria declared independence. U. R. Tan, a Mongolian native and Soviet military academy graduate, was elected president.
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Peiping
INS
Yi Shih Pao
Manchuria
U. R. Tan
Mongolian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
Soviet Military Academy
Appointment of Administrator in Iowa Estate
Notice announces the appointment on February 7, 1946 of E A Fordyce as administrator of the estate of Anna B Gibney of Linn County Iowa deceased. Creditors are instructed to present claims to the Linn County Clerk.
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State of
Iowa
Linn County
Anna B. Gibney
Linn TB Assn Names Gayle Zedick as Secretary
Gayle Zedick of 1640 First Avenue NE will become executive secretary of the Linn County Tuberculosis Association on February 15. The appointment was made at the association’s quarterly meeting at the Roosevelt hotel, succeeding R. C. Karlan who resigned after two years.
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Gayle Zedick
First Avenue NE
Ling County Tuberculosis Association
Roosevelt Hotel
Miss Zedick
R. C. Karlan
Twenty-sixth Street
Racine, Wis
University of Minnesota
Link Belt Speeder Corporation
Gayle Zedick Ager
University of Iowa
Allied Industrial League Board of Control
C. W. Kammerer
Iowa Tuberculosis Association
Yanks Girding for Greek Vote Vigil
Twenty five planeloads of Americans have left for Europe to observe the Greek elections on March 31. Special Ambassador Henry F. Grady leads a group of 600 plus observers arranged in five control zones with military personnel aiding the vote count in Athens Salonika Thrace and Crete. The operation includes initial coaching in democracy protections and two months of post election supervision.
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Washington
Europe
Henry F. Grady
Naples
United States Army
Grady
California
Truman
Byrnes
Greece
James Grafton Rogers
Athens
Salonika
Thrace
Crete
United States
UNRRA Activity Doubles in Scope
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration nearly doubled its operations in the three months to Sept 30 1945. Director General Herbert H. Lehman said shipments abroad rose from 1 100 933 tons valued at 217 431 000 to 2 126 222 tons valued at 433 816 000. Increase due to available shipping space and easier purchase of most commodities except sugar oils fats rice and cotton textiles.
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Washington
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Herbert H. Lehman
Lehman
International Relief Organization
Poem by C R Girl to Be Printed by Catholic Poetry Society
Mount Mercy academy sophomore Joan Donnelly will publish a poem titled The Ugly Island in The Spirit. Inspired by the death in battle of Bob Russell, a Marine from Cedar Rapids who served after Immaculate Conception high school. Donnelly is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Donnelly of 315 Nassau Street SE.
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Bob Russell
Cedar Rapids Marine
Iwo Jima
Joan Donnelly
Mount Mercy Academy
Joseph Donnelly
Nassau Street
Catholic Poetry Society In America
Russell
Immaculate Conception High School
Marines
Briggs Co and CIO Sign 184-Cent Raise in Auto Jobs
Briggs Manufacturing and the CIO UAW reached a labor contract delivering an 18 cent an hour raise for 12,000 Detroit and Evansville workers, plus a 15 percent raise for salaried staff earning $500 monthly or less. The pact runs to May 15, 1947 and includes vacation bonuses and a city wide seniority clause with bump rights.
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Detroit
Briggs Manufacturing Company
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Evansville
Ind
W. D. Robinson
Briggs
Champion Spark Plug Company
UAW
James F. Dewey
Labor Department
General Motors
Melvin Bishop
Fay Taylor
Briggs Detroit
Dewey
Robinson
Atom Bombing of New York Urged
Dr. David Inglis, a noted atom bomb scientist, urges dropping an atomic bomb on New York to shake the nation from lethargy. He prefers New York near the proposed UNO site in Connecticut and lists Baltimore as an alternative near Washington, arguing evacuation would precede international cooperation.
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Baltimore
David Inglis
New York
Inglis
UNO
Connecticut-Westchester
Washington
Retail Credit Assn Elects 1946 Officers Cedar Rapids
Frank Mekota elected president of the Cedar Rapids Retail Credit association. Stanley Mohrbacher named vice president Inez Fisher treasurer and R E Walker secretary. Directors include W A Koster Carlos Miller Josephine Herdall F E Fluegel Wilson Carpenter and H H Morse.
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Frank Mekota
Cedar Rapids Retail Credit Association
Stanley Mohrbacher
Inez Fisher
R. E. Walker
W. A. Koster
Carlos Miller
Josephine Herdall
F. E. Fluegel
Wilson Carpenter
H. H. Morse
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Daily Recordebruary
Howard
Walter McIntosh
Harry Wilcox
Sixteenth Street
James Ryan
Sixth Avenue
Herman Kobusch
Tenth Street
William E. Taylor
Adolph B. Bracy
Lake Avenue
Joe E. Steggall
D Avenue NW
James R. Murphy
Ninth Street SE
Robert E. Hoff
Marion
Morris Katzoff
Grande Avenue SE
Joseph N. Melsha
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Frank Hess
Second Avenue
John S. Vavra
Blake Boulevard
James Maloney
Bever Avenue
Robert McAllister
Leo Ortner
Magnus Hotel
R. B. van Cleve
A Avenue
Henry Gundling
Meadowbrook Drive
Alice Gustafsson
Johnson Avenue
Elaine Polk
Oakland Road
E. IL. Ries
Mt. Vernon
Louise Jindrich
Sixteenth Avenue
Harry E. Maire
Thirty-third Street
Police Theft Report
Raymond van Hamme
B Avenue NW
F Avenue
Fourth Street NW
Rapaport
Sixteenth Avenue Auto Wrecking Company
Jesse Bige
Lillian Mae Bige
Olivia M. Redfearn
Leonard A. Redfearn
Elaine Dolores Williams
Dale Edgar Williams
Craig E. Seeley
Flora Mae Seeley
Second Street
Company No. 5
Tenth Avenue
First Street
L. E. Slaymaker
Third Street
At Mercy
William Watson
Twenty-second Avenue
Luther Couillard
Thirty-eighth Street
Packers
AFL
Tug
Hess
Mfg
Red Cross
Candy Bros. Mfg. Co
St. Levis, Me
Rep
Luce
S.E
Gridley
Bloomington
Lit
Roy Daily
Everett Parks
Raleigh Smith
Lewis Smith
Brig. Morris
New Life
Salvation Army Hall
Mrs. Morris
Alberts
Elmer Moore
St. Luke’s Hospital
E. R. Petro
First Avenue SE
Pasadena
Blind Dead
Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
Rome Post
Gerald Smith
U.S
Deanna
Mrs
Naomi Curless
E. A. Fordyce
Attornez
Marylu Jenkins
Fashionable Stephens College
Columbia, Mo
Linn TB Assn
Yanks
UNRRA
C.R
Briggs Co
Champion
Retail Credit Assn
Lapes
Florist
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