More Cold Weather in The Making
Cedar Rapids battles sub zero chill as a midweek dust storm settles. A Dakotan dust cover darkens the sun while temperatures swing from 6 below at midnight to 25 degrees by mid afternoon with another cold snap forecast for Saturday. International Falls posts 19 below as storms threaten the upper Mississippi Valley and distant blizzards cut off Sarles, Calvin, Munich, Clyde and Weaver.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
United States
Minnesota
Iowa
Decorah
International Falls
Minn
Mississippi River Valley
Indiana
West Virginia
Missouri
Illinois
North Dakota
Sarles
Calvin
Munich
Clyde
Weaver
Company pays $8,000 to former salesman to give up job
Middlefield Ohio AP reports Johnson Sperry discloses an agreement paying William T. Maguire of Larchmont New York 8000 dollars in lieu of his old position after reemployment talks. Sperry said Maguire agreed to accept the largest prewar annual figure as settlement rather than return to the old post.
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Middlefield
Ohio
Johnson- Sperry Company
Sol Sperry
William T. Maguire
Larchmont
N. Y
Maguire
Sperry
Navy
Mrs. Carlan Freed of Manslaughter Charge
Boston court records show Rose Carlan freed on a manslaughter charge in her baby son’s death after a grand jury returned a no bill, ending the case. The case drew national sympathy when a purported kidnapping hoax gripped the public for 16 days.
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Boston
Llp
Rose Carr‘Jian
Army Lowers Its Standards For Draftees
The Army will accept draftees with lowered physical standards and asks $125000 in April. It will induct 4-F and 2-AL/2-CL classifications, aiming to reach 250000 men in the first five months, with 18 to 25 as standard age and volunteers 26 to 34. Conditions include spine deviation, past thyroidectomy, certain hernias, mild neurosis, and mild mental deficiencies.
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Army
Selective Service
The
War Department
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Deadlines and Dividends Highlight Today's Index
A compact page lists daily sections including Courthouse, Deaths, Editorial Features, Farm, Marion, Men Women in Service, Movies, Radio, ML Sports, State, and Women’s Features. The layout notes page numbers and teased items across features and news briefs.
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Marion
Ceeveeseeeesae
ML Sports Cove
Ee Shiebens
Walter Winchell
Ed Stefan Seeks Re election as Parks Commissioner
Parks Commissioner Ed Stefan announced Friday that he will run again in the March 12 city primaries. Stefan, first elected 1928 to 1942, later reassumed the post after Charles I Kosek’s 1943 death, and he notes parks are in good shape and he aims to meet rising wartime demand. He and his wife reside at 2424 E avenue NE.
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Cedar Rapids
Ed Stefan Friday
Stefan
Charles I Kosek
Kosek
E Avenue NE
Air Force Outlines Secret Atom Flight Tests in New Mexico
Gen Henry H Arnold disclosed a secret unit in New Mexico is conducting atom war experiments using radio controlled B 17s to study blast proximity shock waves radioactivity and fallout. The planes will fly land and transmit data without a crew, with some destroyed in the process.
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Philadelphia
INS
Army Air Force
New Mexico
Henry H. Arnold
Arnold
Special Unit
Public Invited To Hear Hickenlooper
Linn county Republicans sponsor a meeting at the Montrose Hotel. The public is invited at 8 15 p m Saturday to hear Senator B B Hickenlooper speak after a 615 p m Republican organization dinner for precinct and township workers and committee members. Sheriff Jim Smith, county chairman, notes the event and Bill Slade, attorney, invites veterans to meet at the Montrose after the talk.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Montrose
B. B. Hickenlooper
Jim Smith
Bill Slade
Sen. Hickenlooper
Northwest states rocked by powerful quake
Seismic quake rattled a 120000 square mile area from northern Oregon to Canada at 7 18 pm PDT causing damage including collapsed walls a 150000 gallon tank and brief injuries. Washington University seismograph tracked tremors for 20 minutes as witnesses recalled the event.
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Seattle
Oregon
Canada
University of Washington
Hanford
Pearl Harbor Probe Extension Approved
The Senate and House adopted a resolution to extend the deadline for concluding the Pearl Harbor investigation to June 1, with no dissent recorded.
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Pearl Harbor
Washington
Senate
House
Beetle Smith Named U S Envoy to Russia
President Truman named Lt Gen Walter Bedell Smith as ambassador to Russia, replacing W Averell Harriman who resigned to return to private business. Smith, 51, previously Eisenhower's chief of staff and a veteran diplomat, will take the post while maintaining military status.
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Washington
Truman
Walter Bedell Smith
Russia
Eisenhower
Dan Smitit
W. Averell Harriman
Far East
Harriman
Charles G Ross
Smith
This Means War Quote At White House Preceding Pearl Harbor
Naval officer Clier L. R. Schulz testified that on the eve of Pearl Harbor he handed FDR a briefing, prompting the president to say this means war. Schulz recalled Harry Hopkins noting a first strike was possible but Roosevelt argued democracy and peace. He remembered no Pearl Harbor mention and only Indo China as a geographic name.
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Washington
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
Clier L. R. Schulz
White House
Schulz
Harry Hopkins
Indo- China
Electric Brain Performs Miracles in Mathematics
The ENIAC, an army project at the Moore School, Penn, is a 30 ton, 18 000 vacuum tube computer that runs 1000 times faster than prior machines. Inventors J W Mauchly and J Presper Eckert say it will speed weather forecasts, radar exploration, atomic energy study, and engineering math, transforming science despite wartime origins.
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Washington, D. C
NEA
Army Ordnance Department
Moore School of Electrical Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
ENIAC
J. W. Mauchly
J. Presper. Eckert
Moore School
Hope Seen for End of LaPlant Strike Tonight
Indications point to a settlement ending 14 week LaPlant Choate strike at Cedar Rapids site. Management and Local 116 United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers CIO report an agreement ready for union rank and file vote tonight at 7 30 in the union hall. 700 workers involved have been on strike since November 16.
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Cedar Navids
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Cedar Rapids
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
CIO
Walter C. White
Des Moines
U. S
Second Avenue SE
Labor
White
LaPlant- Choate
Labor and Management
Levantines Blast British and French Occupation
Lebanon and Syria accuse Britain and France of violating sovereignty and call for immediate, simultaneous troop withdrawal. Lebanon's Hamid Bey Frangie, Syria's Faris el Khoury, France's Georges Bidault, and Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan address the UN Security Council in London on the issue as delegates return home.
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London
Lebanon
Great Britain
France
Hamid Bey Frangie
Britain
Security Council
1St-Nation Peace Agency
UNO
Frangie
Faris Bey el Khoury
Council
Georges Bidault
Syria
Alexander Cadogan
Plane Missing with Nine USO Troupe Members
USO Camp Shows reports a plane carrying nine members of the Merry Madcaps troupe has been missing in the Philippines since February 5. The incident involves the troupe traveling to perform for troops overseas and details from the search are not yet available.
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New York
INS
USO
Philippines
Bowles Wins Expanded Role in Inflation Fight
Washington reports Chester Bowles, top inflation fighter, gains control over wages and prices as stabilization director. He accepts a more liberal price policy to offset wage hikes while Paul A. Porter shifts to OPA leadership and Bowles maintains a broad, freer remit amid internal government negotiations.
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Washington
Chester Bowles
OPA
Bowers Seeks Second District Supervisors Nomination
J F Bowers a retired Lisbon dairy farmer announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for county supervisor from the second district. He would succeed Elmer M Seevell who has held the post since 1936 after winning a short term. Seevell did not announce this year.
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Cedar Rapids
J. F Bowers
Lisbon
Bowers
Elmer M. Seevell
Marion
Seevell
Bert C. Busby
Busby
John Carville
Mechanicsville
Robert L
U. S. Army
Paul
Donald C
Treasury to Redeem Nearly 3 Billion in Debt
The treasury announced a cash redemption of about three billion dollars of securities. One billion in certificates mature March 1, with cash redemptions of 489.1 million in bonds and 1.29 billion in notes maturing March 15. The national debt will be trimmed by roughly 2.76 billion.
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Washington
INS
Treasury
Basis Seen For Strike Settlement
Detroit reports C E Will son GM president and R J Thomas UAW chief conferred for the first time since the GM strike began. Washington officials expected a steel strike settlement linked to Truman wage price policy and Bowles leadership. The plan would require wage approvals, higher price ceilings, and reestablish Bowles as head of the Office of Economic Stabilization to guide reconversion.
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Associated Press
Bowles
OPA
Chester Bowles
Detroit
INS
C. E. Willson
General Motors
R. J. Thomas
United Auto Workers
Washington
Truman
White House
United Steelworkers
U. S. Steel
CIO
National Wage Stabilization Board
Office of Economic Stabilization
Paul A. Porter
Federal Communications Commission
OES
Office of Stabilization Administration
John C. Collet
Collet
John W. Snyder
Missouri
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G. E. Goodstreet
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Olympian
Charles Denny
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Beetle’ Smith
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Electric Brain
Levant
Porter
Charles E. Denny, Jr
Wage Stabilization Board
W. W. Wirtz
Snyder
U.S
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