Love Fueled Nazi Broadcasts Says Axis Sally
Mildred Gillars testified in treason trial that her German lover Max Koischwitz influenced her wartime broadcasts from Germany. She described trips to Holland and Paris with him and said he pressed her to join the propaganda section headed by him.
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Washington
Axis
Sally
Germe
Mildred E. Guillars
Max Otto Koischwitz
Koischwitz
America
Hunter College
Miss Gillars
Germany
James J Laughlin
Miss Gullars
Holland
Paris
Adolf Hitler
Laughlin
Red Cross
The
United States
Baha i Community Sponsors United Brotherhood Panel
The Cedar Rapids Baha i Community will sponsor a Sunday 2 30 pm panel in the YMCA Little Theater on United Action for Brotherhood. Jewish Rabbi Herman Schaalman and Moslem Sheikh Hussein Dahbour join Rukmin Ramaseshan the Hindu representative and William Foster of Chicago. Ramaseshan, a University of Iowa PhD student, is an Indian government funded scholar. Foster, a construction engineer, studied at Armour Institute and the University of Chicago.
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United Action For Brotherhood
Little Theater
YMCA
Cedar Rapids
Herman Schaalman
Hussein Dahbour
Rukmin
Ramaseshan
University of Iowa
India
William Foster
Chicago
SUI
Foster
Armour Institute of Technology
University of Chicago
Special Award Talk Ties to National Brotherhood Week
Discussion on the Manhattan district atom bomb project honors and individual contributions. Public forum moderated by Rev. Waldemar Argow as part of National Brotherhood Week activities.
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Manhattan District
Waldemar Argow
New Income Tax Bill Aims for Sharp Rate Cuts
Des Moines report notes Rep Harry Ward of Davenport introduced a bill to cut state income tax starting at 3 000 dollars with rates of 1 percent to 3 percent across brackets 3 000 to 4 000 4 000 to 5 000 and above 5 000 The session also features a long 148 page bill by Rep Robert Munger and three others to create an industrial commission for worker health and safety Other measures include warehouse districts for ever normal granaries and allowing interstate tax suits in Iowa courts The senate killed an appropriations bill for old age assistance funds and raised district judges pay while approving a social welfare board deficit appropriation and aid to dependent children.
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Des Moines
Harry Ward
Davenport
Ward
Robert Munger
Sioux City
Gene Poston
House
C M Strawman
Anamosa
Iowa
Senate
Appropriations Committee
State Social Welfare Board
Social Welfare Board
Collegians Raid Coed Dormitory During Initiation Week
A 10 minute riot at the University of Augustana dormitory housing about 300 coeds left the building in darkness after the power switch was opened. Beds overturned clothing scattered and several women fainted but no arrests were made. Policeman Harold E Utke called it a typical initiation week uproar. The dormitory housekeeper said it was the worst disturbance in 11 years.
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Rock Island
Harold E Utke
William J Lindman
MacNider Nominated For Major Generalcy
President Truman nominated Hanford MacNider of Mason City for promotion from brigadier general to major general in the officers reserve corps.
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MacNider
Washington
Truman Friday
Hanford MacNider
Mason City
Officers Reserve Corps
Beating Reported By Five White Men In Brother Hood Week Incident
Three teenage Negro boys told police they were kidnapped driven across the river to Alabama and beaten by five armed white men seeking information about Brotherhood week and NAACP activities at Columbus area schools. They described unmasked assailants demanded silence and disrobed them before gunfire and punches. The motive remains undetermined.
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Columbus
Brotherhood
Robert Ford
Matthew Brown
Ernest Chester
Phenix City
Ala
Alabama
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Ford
Spencer High School
Chester
Brown
Spencer
Juke Box Slump Sparks $688,608 Suit in Chicago
The Coin Machine Acceptance Corporation sues the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company for 688,608 dollars citing a drop in juke box popularity due to television installations in public centers. The suit claims Wurlitzer agreed to discount sales of coin operated music machines and failed to meet terms.
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Chicago
Coin Machine Acceptance Corporation
Rudolph Wurlitzer Company
Coin Machine Corporation
Wurlitzer Company
Character Actor Roman Bohnen Dies on Stage
Veteran stage and screen actor Roman Bohnen died of a heart attack on stage during a performance of Distant Isle at the Actors Laboratory Little Theater group in Hollywood. Bohnen collapsed as the curtain fell in the second act. his personal physician pronounced him dead minutes later. He was 47. He was known for Candy in Of Mice and Men and Jenni fer Jones father in Song of Bernadette.
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Hollywood
Roman Bohnen
Actors Laboratory
Bohnen
Candy
Jennifer Jones
Crash Survivor Settles Delta Suit for 132000
Mrs. Trpolina Meo the only survivor of a Chicago plane crash settles her federal personal injury suit against Delta Air Lines for 132000. The crash on March 10 1948 killed 112 people including her son. Attorney Lester Marshall filed the accounting in probate court and sought approval of an 11000 settlement for the son's death. The survivor suffered severe burns fractures and the amputation of her left leg.
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Chicago
Tripolina Meo
Delta Air Lines
Cook County
Meo
Lester Marshall
Mee
UN capital excavation finished ahead of schedule
New York United Nations site work completed excavation for the capital in midtown Manhattan a month early. Engineers set October 1 as the completion date for the steel superstructure of the secretariat building.
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New York
United Nations
Midtown Manhattan
Secretariat
Cedar Rapids Iowa Cedar Papas notice of curb construction
The Cedar Rapids City Council of Cedar Papas Iowa announces a resolution of necessity for constructing concrete curb and gutter. The notice states the time and place for objections, describes the project area, cost estimates, and plan details filed with the City Clerk. The hearing is set for 10 A.M. on February 24, 1949, at De Rapids Iowa, with final publication dates noted.
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Panenee
de Rapids
Ows
Notice of City Council to consider asphalt resurfacing
The Cedar Rapids Cedar City Council, Iowa, will meet at 1 oclock in the forenoon on March 14 to consider an improvement by asphaltic concrete resurfacing of Southeast Street from 3rd Avenue to 4th Avenue, and 3rd Street Southeast from 3rd Avenue to 4th Avenue. The plan includes planing, leveling, bitumen tack, asphalt mix, and wearing surface, with construction funded by public assessment.
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Cedars
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Ag
3Rd Avenue
4Th Avenue
Pon Brace
City hears appeals on proposed improvements in Cedar Rapids
The council outlines assessment methods under Chapter 391 to fund improvements and adjacent property costs. Property owners may file objections before final consideration. fourteen days’ publication is required for hearing notice. The resolution was approved February 24 1949 and Maude M Dieberk, City Clerk, published notices in the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Abyerson
Cedar Pids
Maude M
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