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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1946
Page
2
A patchwork round up notes divorces engagements and career moves involving Walter Winchell style anecdotes. It mentions several film people musicians and society figures with weddings affairs and rumored plans across Reno New York and Hollywood including Gen eral Smith the ambassador to Russia and Louis Bromfield.
Secretary Vinson announced a three agency drive to smash the textile black market. The treasury justice department and the OPA will pursue tax evasion and price ceiling violations to curb illegal profiteering in fabrics. Internal Revenue agents will focus on suspected tax violations in textiles.
Chen Tom a Chinese cook once vowed to rule a South Sea island he called his own. After years in the United States as a waiter and chef, he accumulated enough to return there, but the Navy chose Bikini Atoll for an atomic test, ending his dream of ruling the island.
Florida fisheries produce an estimated twenty million dollars in catch each year. This figure reflects the state's robust coastal industry and its significant contribution to local economies.
CHICAGO INS Thomas Hart Benton, a Missouri painter out of Washington, says Harry Truman is right to critique the ham and eggs school of artists, even if he disagrees. Benton quips that pianists and painters seek careless mastery, noting critics rate him among the ham class. He adds he has never had Lauren Bacall on his easel.
Harold L. Ickes the Old Curmudgeon joins the New York Post syndicate as a columnist. He will write three times weekly with his first column scheduled for April 1, placing him among the country’s top paid columnists according to a syndicate official.
Notice is hereby given that Anna Kvac, late of Linn County, Iowa, has been appointed administrator of the estate of the deceased. All persons indebted to the estate are requested to make payment, and all claims against the estate must be verified in the office of the district court in Linn County, Iowa. Attorneys: P. H. Kubicek and Covert.
Five former Japanese soldiers were sentenced to be hanged by a U S military tribunal for strangling and cremating three American B 29 airmen at Hankow in December 1944. The victims were paraded through the streets and clubbed to death. Names named include Maj Gen Masatake Kaburagi and Warrant Officer Tsunomu Fujii, with three others admitting pulling the cords. Nineteen defendants faced charges for the killings of Lt Lester R White Sgt Henry W Wheaton and Sgt James E Forbes Jr.
Harry Bridges, president of the CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, issued a board statement condemning President Truman. The missive decries mere lip service to Roosevelt era policies and argues Truman's path would bring the money changers back into the temple.
In Los Angeles a divorce case reveals Bernard Neiditch preferred his horse to his wife. He sold her engagement ring to buy the horse and said he could not keep both. Mrs. Neiditch wins the divorce and custody of the horse.
The inaugural Japanese merchant fleet begins with a 5,000 ton cargo vessel launching in Yokohama on Saturday marking the first postwar launch.
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