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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1947
Page
19
New York AP report from Editor and Publisher notes 1946 marked a rebirth of interest in dailies as an advertising medium. Circulation rose five percent to a record 50,927,505 with 1,763 dailies. Advertising volume hit a 24.3 percent city-wide gain. wages rose to an all-time high amid higher newsprint costs.
A major blaze gutted the fifth floor of Baltimore's May Company department store and damaged stock on other floors after a two hour effort by firefighters. About 1,200 theater patrons fled Ford's theater nearby as evacuation was ordered for The Importance of Being Earnest. Officials could not yet estimate total damage and the fire origin was under investigation.
The War Assets Administration offers 2300 private railroad cars for sale. Built during wartime as troop train sleepers and kitchens, they cost the government about 28 million dollars and are priced from 2880 to 3780 dollars for sleepers and 3240 dollars for kitchen cars. Most units are stored at Illiopolis Illinois.
Twenty two railway labor unions representing over 1.5 million workers will pursue a united wage drive in 1947. Top union officials meet with presidents of 30 major railroads for preliminary talks. The pact follows similar moves by maritime unions and echoes the 1947 tie up by the engineers and trainmen brothers.
Unspecified non-operating railroad workers say they will join forces to bargain on wages. They claim they will coordinate only on pay, asserting they have no operating rules guiding their actions.
Friends of Edgar L. Warren, head of the United States conciliation service, said he would oppose an ouster move initiated by Rep. Frank B. Keefe. Labor Department sources indicated Secretary Schwellenbach was involved in related discussions.
Keefe, chairman of a House subcommittee on labor department appropriations, said he told Schwellenbach and John R. Steelman he would do everything in his power to oust Warren. He accused Warren of disdaining Congress, supporting a conciliation staff and rights of federal workers to strike.
The South Side Civic club voted unanimously Monday night for an aggressive public policy toward solving the Fourth street problem. Members urged active work without delay and endorsed the Linn county Greek War Relief campaign. Norman W Whelpley Richard C Jones and Gordon Hughes were elected to membership.
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