Pickets and Cops Clash in Violent GE Strike in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia police break up a mass march by CIO electrical workers and sympathizers near General Electric after days of picketing. About 20 injured, around 20 arrested, including CIO organizer Francis White. The confrontation ends with a 55 block march to City Hall and heavy police intervention.
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Philadelphia
General Electric Company
Francis White
CIO
CIO Electrical
General Electric
William J. Morrow
Morrow
City Hall
City Fall
Delaware County
Upper Darby
Pennsylvania
May to Introduce Draft Extension Bill
Rep. May announces a bill to extend selective service six months from May 15 to Nov. 15 and raise the induction age to 21–30, exempting fathers and 18–20 year olds, with hearings likely in April. He notes the war department’s views are unclear and says a decision on peacetime training comes after drafting policy.
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Washington
INS
May
D-Ky
House Military Affairs Committee
Lewis B. Hershey
War Department
Congress
Tax Load in Cedar Rapids Near Year End
Cedar Rapids Treasurer Walt Miller reported 99.8 percent of the current year's taxes collected with $1 037 050 35 levy and $1 035 017 47 received. This week $596 54 arrived bringing total taxes collected this fiscal year to $1 043 631 41 including specials and roads.
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Cedar Rapids News
City of
Cedar Rapid
Walt Miller
Miller
Long Beach Transit Strike Paralyzes City Services
Long Beach workers representing drivers and maintenance at Long Motor Bus walked off the job seeking higher wages. The strike halted public transportation in the California city of about 200000 residents.
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Long Beach
Calif
Long Motor Bus Company
Ae Public
Water Held in Kidnap Case Forces NJ Move
Sidney Water, a Linn County fugitive, is jailed in Atlantic County New Jersey on a kidnapping charge after allegedly forcing a motorist at gunpoint to drive him across cities. He awaits possible prosecution while a detainer ensures his custody if the charge proceeds.
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Sid Water
New Jersey
Cedar Rapids News
Sidney Water
Linn County
Mays Landing
N.J
Harlan Snyder
Linn
Sheriff's Office
Atlantic County
N. J
Snyder
Atlantic City
Walter
M. Anderson
Walker
M. D. Huffman
Iowa Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Foreign minister Masakaki Tani jailed at Sugamo for war crimes
Masakaki Tani, foreign minister in the Tojo Pearl Harbor cabinet, was placed in Sugamo prison on Thursday to await trial on charges of war crimes.
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Tokyo
INS
Masakaki Tani
Sugamo
Senate Votes to Cut OPA Cash in Half
The Senate approved a 45 to 25 vote cutting operating funds for the Office of Price Administration from 1.854 million to 927 thousand, with a parallel cut to the Civilian Production Administration to 750 thousand. The action aims to fund the agencies through the new fiscal year starting July 1, while subsidies for meat and flour were increased. Senate talks included warnings about housing and reconversion, with final action postponed to Friday over Rural Electrification funds.
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Senate
Washington
Office of Price Administration
House
Civilian Production Administration
McKellar
D-Tenn
Barkley
Dky
CPA
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hayden
D-Ariz
OPA
Senator Hickenlooper
R-Ia
Wherry
R-Neb
Rural Electrification Administration
Register by Friday for March elections in City
City Clerk Maude M. Krebs warned that Friday is the last chance to register for the March 11 school board election, March 12 city primaries, and March 25 city election. The clerk’s office on the third floor of City Hall will open Friday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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Cedar Rapids
Maude M. Krebs
Five Candidates Enter City County Primaries
Five candidates announced for city and county primaries including two Democrats and two Republicans. Fr ank F Bates and Arthur Axmear seek Republican county posts while Mary Margaret Goodman runs for county recorder and Bernard Greenwood for county auditor. Raymond B Williams pursues municipal public safety commissioner nomination. Bates and Axmear bring long local service. Goodman and Greenwood bring professional backgrounds in teaching banking and insurance.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank F. Bates
Arthur Axmear
Mary Margaret Goodman
Sixth Street
Bernard E. Green
Share Homes with Vets Calls to Open Dwellings
President Truman urged citizens to house homeless veterans to ease the housing shortage. He backed forming housing committees in churches and synagogues and urged each citizen to help. Religious leaders said churches could provide rooms and homes for veterans in their congregations.
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Washington
Truman
White House
Vet Group Moves to Secure Veterans Housing in Cedar Rapids
The Ruptured Ducks veterans group voted to launch an all-out effort for Cedar Rapids housing. An 11-man committee, led by Howard McLaughlin, will meet with five local veterans groups to form a citywide housing body and push for idle building reuse, a building code revision, prefab low-cost homes, and support for the mayor’s program.
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Ducks
Cedar Rapids
Howard McLaughlin
Navy
Robert Blue
State Housing Group
American Legion State Housing Committee
McLaughlin
B. D. Silliman
Don Alt
Carl Kirwin
Jack Ferring
John N. Nichols
Ralph Mack
Clayton Ellis
John Greenlee
Joe Ward
Bob O’meara
Council Approves FPHA Housing Contract in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids city council authorized Mayor Hahn and City Clerk Krebs to sign a contract with the Federal Public Housing Authority to deliver 80 trailers for veterans families. An FPHA engineer will inspect sites next Wednesday, with site selection by the engineer and delivery of 80 living units plus 3 toilet trailers and 2 laundry units, date to be set.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank K. Hahn
Maude M. Krebs
Federal Public Housing Authority
Hahn
FPHA
Man Reports Theft of Wallet at Downtown Hotel
Richard Hartman reported to police that a wallet containing $700 and his discharge papers disappeared while he was in a downtown hotel Wednesday night. He said the wallet was in his possession during the visit and the theft was reported Thursday.
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Richard Hartman
Hartman
U S Backed Plan for Spain to Oust Franco
Diplomatic officials report Britain and France have approved in principle a U S proposal for a joint declaration urging Spaniards to remove Generalissimo Franco. The text would urge a broadly representative interim government, warn against meddling in Spain by outsiders, and call for amnesty and free elections after Franco's exit. The move follows Byrnes's earlier denial of new communications, later corrected.
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Washington
U. S
Franco
London
Paris
Spain
Byrnes
Theu. S
France
Department
Michael J. McDermott
Spanish Troops Move as Frontier Closes With France
Paris dispatches report Spanish forces moving along the sealed frontier and Madrid garrison units sent north. Normal traffic between France and Spain halted several hours before the midnight deadline set by the French cabinet to close the frontier.
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Paris
Madrid
France
Spain
House Votes Split Over Emergency Housing Bill
The House rejected Rep Rankin's bid to strike the enacting clause by a 143 to 29 vote and debated the housing bill. Earlier the chamber voted 145 to 88 to end emergency powers by June 30 1947 while supporters argued against scuttling Truman's veterans housing plan.
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Washington
House
Rankin
D-Miss
Rep
Patman
Texas
Truman
Missing 4 year old in South staged kidnapping
Charlotte nurse Rosemary Johnson, 19, is sought on kidnapping charges in connection with the disappearance of Terry Taylor, age 4, daughter of Dr. Andrew Taylor. Police fear the religious fanatic may harm the child as a possible idol sacrifice. A bus search traced Johnson and Terry toward Virginia with tickets to Danville and Richmond.
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Charlotte
N.C
Chumky
Rosemary Johnson
Terry Taylor
Terry
South
Andrew Taylor
Frank Littlejohn
Miss Johnson
Tonda
Littlejohn
Danville
Richmond
Winston-Salem
N. C
S. L. Hinkle
Winston- Salem
Massachusetts
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Bates
Sixth Avenue SE
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Axmear
Keokuk County
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