Papen Sentenced Eight Years By German Court
Franz von Papen, 68, was convicted as a major Nazi by a German denazification court and sentenced to eight years in a labor camp with life ban on public office. The court confiscated most of his fortune, canceled his pension, barred political activity, and ordered work limited to labor for 15 years. Papen may appeal.
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Mernberg
Franz von Papen
Courts of
Europe
Nuernberg
Hermann Goering
Papen
Camille Sachs
Adolf Hitler
Allies Crack Down On German Underground Plot
In Berlin and across occupation zones, hundreds of suspected Nazi underground members were seized by US and British forces. Officers from SS SA and Hitler Youth, including Col Hans Einsmann, were captured as authorities warned the group sought to reestablish militarism and Nazism. US general Lucius Clay said the move aimed to deny danger and aid denazification while noting not all were deemed highly dangerous.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Sunaay
Hitler Youth
Herford
Hans Einsmann
Europe
Russia
United States Army
Lucius D. Clay
U. S
Nationwide Sugar Ring Under Federal Scrutiny In Chicago
Federal grand jury and officers have probed a nationwide sugar black market ring tied to the Capone era mob. The undercover inquiry spans six weeks with possible warrants and indictments anticipated as agents from Los Angeles to Chicago pursue leads across the country.
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Chicago
Capone
Los Angeles
Daily Record Deaths and Local News Briefs
Fragmentary page notes deaths and notices from the courthouse and local sites. Mentions Marion area, Farm topics, Radio and State fee items, plus scattered sports and movie references. Data is incomplete but preserves named entities and page context.
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Marion
Fast Work Saves Auto Overturned In Path Of Train
Five aboard a car toppled onto Chicago and North Western tracks after driver Charles Freeman collapsed from heart disease. A quick motorist flagged the train to stop, saving the passengers as a police chief recounted the near tragedy near Fox River Grove.
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Chicago
John Venesh
Fox River Grove
Harold Costa Rica
Charles H. Freeman
Chicago and North Western
Freeman
William Pohlmann
Pohlmann
Venesh
Costa Rica
Midlands Plants Power Restored
The government announced power would be restored to northwest industries within a week. It had already been restored to Midlands plants. Prime Minister Attlee said restoration would extend despite bad weather slowing fuel movement and warned it was too early to say when power would reach the southeast.
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London
Midlands
Attlee
Commons
FBI Says It Didn't Check On Lilienthal
Washington report states an FBI spokesman said the bureau never investigated David E. Lilienthal or any Atomic Energy Commission member. No requests for inquiry were received. Justice Department said no complaints or investigations were conducted regarding the nominee. The act assigns presidential appointment but requires internal checks by the commission.
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Washington
FBI
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
United Press
Lilienthal
Commission
Justice Department
Clark
The
Lilienthal Needs Eight of 23 Undecided to Win
A Senate poll indicates David E. Lilienthal must win over eight of 23 undecided senators to secure confirmation as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. AP canvass shows 40 in favor and 28 opposed among 91 members polled, with 48 votes needed if full membership votes. Republicans split 22 against and 13 for, Democrats 27 for and six against, while 12 Republicans and 11 Democrats remain undecided. The four unreachable are all Democrats.
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Washington
Senate
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Associated Press
Chamber
Truman
Lilienthal
Fire Blasts Chicago Building in South Side
A three story block long South Side industrial building in Chicago was destroyed by fire fed by a dozen explosions. Estimated damage reached 500000 dollars. Firemen evacuated tenants from a nearby apartment building as two blasts sent debris 300 feet into the air and ten smaller explosions followed.
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Chicago
South Side
Cab Strike Ends in St. Louis as Drivers Accept Contracts
Striking taxicab drivers end walkout in St. Louis after voting to accept $36 weekly contracts with two employers. They return to work pending arbitration of wage disputes with three other drivers.
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ST. Louis
A Day with Hickenlooper At the Lilienthal Hearing
Iowa senator Hick enmeshed in major duties from atomic energy oversight to foreign relations and elections. The piece follows his morning routine in the Senate Office Building, detailing his multi committee roles, staff, and a day in Cedar Rapids’ Man on Capitol Hill.
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Iowa
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Robert Patterson
William F. Knowland
John Reynolds
Durke Blakemore Hickenlooper
U. S. Senate
Senate
Hick
Cedar Rapids Coffee Club
Subcommittee On
Maryland
West Virginia
Capitol Hill
Wick
President Orders Inefficient Federal Workers Fired
President Truman orders discharge of inefficient federal workers under a new merit based executive order. The consolidated rules replace 54 Civil Service Commission orders, effective May 1, aiming to shrink the federal workforce and attract capable staff as peacetime size returns.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Civil Service Commission
Lone Bandit Robs Bank in Wisconsin
A lone gunman robbed the Farmers and Merchants bank of Reedsburg at Loganville near Madison, threatening manager Reuben Black with a pistol and escaping with several thousand dollars after taking all the bills on the counter. The incident occurred just before noon Monday, with Black alone in the bank.
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Loganville
Wis
Llp
Farmers and Merchants Bank of
Reedsburg
Reuben Black
Black
Madison
Rescued in Greenland by Daring Flight
New York reports the 11 man crew of a wrecked B 29 was saved from a Greenland ice cap in a bold rescue by an Army Air Transport Command C 54. Lt. Bobbie Joe Cavnar landed near the Kee Bird wreckage and flew the men to Thule Greenland. Rescue planes and supplies were dispatched from bases along the Atlantic coast amid brutal Arctic weather.
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New York
Greenland
Thule
Army Air Transport Command
Iowa
Bobbie Joe Cavnar
Okmulgee
Okla
Atlantic
Air Transport Command
Coast Guard
Elizabeth City
N. C
Goose Bay
Labrador
Arctic Circle
Train Car Crash Claims Seven Hogan Family
The last survivor of a seven member Hogan family died Monday after their car was struck by a passenger train at a grade crossing near Muncie Kansas. Kenneth Dale Hogan, age three, was the lone survivor who escaped instant death when the vehicle was hit on Sunday. Also killed were Harold Hogan, 31, Ruth Hogan, 27, Sharon Hogan, 7, Lavon Da Hogan, 5, Arlie Joseph Hogan, 4, and John Raymond Hogan, 10 months.
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Muncie
Kan
Kenneth Dale Hogan
Harold Hogan
Hogan
Ruth
Sharon
Lavonda
Arlie Joseph
John Raymond
Farmers Dump 30 000 Gallons Milk After Snow Blockade
Snow blocked roads forcing farmers to dump between 30 000 and 40 000 gallons of milk over the weekend. QO W Anderson, county agricultural agent, reported Monday. The milk represented about one third the supply consumed daily in the District of Columbia, with a loss around 20000 dollars.
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Rockville
QO. W. Anderson
District of Columbia
Exodus from Polar Sector Ends in Abandonment Plan
Rear Admiral Byrd and Cruzen ordered the abandonment of Little America with equipment stored underground and personnel evacuated to the icebreaker Burton Island. The move comes as ice conditions worsen with a harsh Antarctic winter forecast, while the Currituck and western group head home via Sydney after half around the continent. Dufek’s eastern unit continues reconnaissance in the Weddell Sea zone.
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U.S.S. Mount Olympus
INS
Little America
Burton Island
Richard E. Byrd
Richard H. Cruzen
R. S. Quackenbush
Bay of Whales
Ross Sea
Byrd
Cruzen
Charles Bond
Antarctic
U.S.S. Currituck
Currituck
Henderson
Opler
Cacapon
Sydney
Australia
Balleny Islands
States
Ralph Dufek
Dufek
Weddell Sea
Resolution Seeks Extra Money for Four Cedar Rapids Funds
The Cedar Rapids city council filed a resolution Monday to appropriate extra funds from unappropriated reserve cash for four city funds without raising taxes. Funds would cover library operations, park maintenance, garbage disposal, and memorial maintenance, with specific transfers and a planned March 6 hearing. The memorial surplus could allow next year’s levy to be avoided if trends continue.
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Cedar Rapids
L. D. Burgus
Board of Health
Burgus
Ed Stefan
Dick Jones
Memorial Coliseum
Armory
Memorial
Memorial Commission
Walter E. Miller
Senate Committee Votes Portal Ban
Washington AP report says the Senate judiciary committee approved a bill by a 9 to 3 vote to outlaw almost all portal to portal pay claims. The action signals a move to curb employer practices in processing wage claims across portals.
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Senate
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Hog prices soar to record highs in Chicago market
Hog prices climbed to a top of 29 dollars at Chicago and Indianapolis and 28.25 in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota as Monday trading showed demand outpacing supply. Analysts forecast further increases amid a tight corn hog feeding ratio, with retail meat prices likely to support higher hog values for days to come.
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Chicago
Iowa
Indianapolis
Minnesota
USDA
Temperature Rise Forecast Tuesday
Occasional snow flurries that began in eastern Iowa Monday will continue into Tuesday as a warming trend moves across the state. The high Tuesday is forecast to reach 25 to 30 degrees with little change tonight, and Cedar Rapids records show 25 degrees at 2:30 p.m. Monday.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
US court hangs Haebner for WWII airmen murders
A United States military court in Dachau sentenced Fritz E Haebner to death by hanging for the 1944 murders of three American airmen. The verdict returns from the postwar war crimes proceedings against Nazi officials and collaborators in Germany.
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Dachau
Germany
United States
Fritz E. Haebner
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