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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1946
Page
5
Washington AP The OPA explains how wage boosts affect ceiling prices under the stabilization formula. It stresses that price hikes depend on costs, profits, and volume, not automatic full wage pass-through, and outlines five key points for industry applications to speed processing and ensure reasonable profit levels.
In Portland Oregon an unclaimed pair of false teeth was found on the floor near the nylon counter at a department store. Clerks said a heavyset woman dropped the item, ran to the nylon line, clamped her hand over her mouth, and stayed in place.
The Associated Press lists arrivals of tens of thousands of troops and war brides at New York, New Orleans, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other ports. Ships including Wisteria, Algonquin, Bridgeport, Zebulon B. Vance, Costa Rica Victory, and Oneida Victory carry troops, war brides, and children. Additional vessels transport miscellaneous personnel and naval units from Antwerp, Marseille, and Yokohama with detailed counts for each ship.
The column surveys Broadway mood and Hollywood sightings at clubs and events. Notables including Walter Winchell, Walter Pidgeon, Nancy Guild, Keenan Wynn, and Jane Pickens are noted amid society chatter, with Ed ward G Robinson at the Museum of Art and Peggy Guggenheim in residence. A Tallulah Bankhead anecdote closes the vignette.
Jean Luchaire, head of the collaborationist press during the German occupation, was executed for treason Friday.
Mrs. June Virginia Benson, 23, convicted of perjury over a marriage license to one of her three serviceman husbands, sentenced to one to two years in a New York state prison for women. She fainted in court after the verdict. time served since Aug. 8 credited. She was acquitted of bigamy.
Thomas Henry McMonigle, 21, an ex convict already found guilty of murdering Thora Chamberlain, confessed to strangling a San Francisco Negro woman and dumping her body over seaside cliffs. He named Dorothy Rose Jones from a set of 13 photos and identified Jones, with San Francisco police and Santa Cruz officials present.
English war bride Edith May Price Kanwell arrived in Philadelphia January 8 to have her baby in America. She and her husband Edward H. Kanwell live in Northumberland, Pennsylvania. Their son Edward Price, born at a local hospital, weighed nine pounds eight ounces.
A 13 year old Chicago girl Loretta Peters was slugged and left in a gas filled room by a robber. Her 12 year old brother Robert returned from school and rescued her by acting quickly. The incident occurred while the mother was at work. The intruder knocked the girl down and fled.
A man found Loretta on the floor at lunch hour and summoned neighbors. The kitchen stove jets were on and gas filled the room. An inhalator squad worked 20 minutes but the girl could be revived. Mrs Peters reported a jewelry box stolen.
The Toledo Peoria and Western railway rejected mediation proposals in its dispute with 13 railroad brotherhoods. The decision came after a three hour conference led by Illinois Commerce Commission chair John D. Biggs, at Gov. Green’s suggestion, with arbitration demanded and a violent strike nearing five months. A February shooting left five union pickets wounded or dead, and arrests followed for armed guards. Senate committee chair Wheeler ordered March hearings to probe TPW violence.
Larry Bome's office assistant vows to quit unless an apartment is found soon. The assistant works for the executive secretary of the Portland realty board, a top statewide real estate group. He issues a special bulletin appealing to members.
The imperial government announced that Japan will deploy its first female police officers in Tokyo. Uniforms will follow American G I style with trousers and overseas caps.
Frederick Emil Bauer a former army sergeant and German native faced a federal hearing in Indianapolis to decide if his U S citizenship should be canceled The government seeks to deport him to Germany for espionage background and a prior naturalization before his 1941 draft The court had halted deportation at Ellis Island pending citizenship resolution with assurances from the justice department and was to hear the case in federal court in Indianapolis
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