Survivors Tell Of Torture by Jap Crewmen
A handful of U S merchant seamen and soldiers say they were bayoneted shot and clubbed by Japanese submarine crew after its torpedoing of a Liberty ship in the Indian Ocean. Of about 100 aboard 23 survived. Survivors describe a brutal torture gauntlet aboard the deck and aft, with killings before the sub dive and raft rescue hours later by a Catalina plane. John J. Gussak and Charles Pyle gave testimony confirming details.
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Colombo
Ceylon
United States
Indian Ocean
John J. Gussak
Brooklyn
N. Y
Charles Pyle
Lodi
Calif
Pyle
Catalina
Gussak
Army
St. Joseph Aspirin Ad Claims Fast Relief at 10c
An old advertisement touts St Joseph Aspirin as the quickest pain relief. It presents the product as the world’s largest seller priced at ten cents and urges buyers to refuse substitutes.
Mortgage Burning and Sermons at First Congregational Church
Dr Albert W Palmer president of Chicago Theological Seminary will preach at 10 50 a m Sunday at First Congregational Church The service includes a 12 39 p m fellowship dinner and a mortgage burning with G H Tellier presiding Dr Royal J Montgomery of Grinnell will speak in the afternoon Palmer a noted author and lecturer has held pastorates in Oakland Honolulu and Oak Park and since 1930 has led practical theology at the seminary
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Albert W. Palmer
Chicago Theological Seminary
First Congregational Church
G. H. Tellier
Royal J. Montgomery
Grinnell
Congregational Christian Churches of Iowa
Palmer
Oakland
Ed Honolulu
Oak Park
Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands to air from Cedar Rapids
Frankie Masters will headline a 25 minute Blue network broadcast from the Memorial Coliseum next Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. saluting Quaker Oats. About 5,000 Quaker Oats employees and families will attend, with Masters, vocalist Phyllis Myles, and the Gaylord sisters. The show leads into dancing until midnight and will be fed coast to coast via Blue network and WMT.
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Cedar Rapids
Blue Network
Burgess West
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Memorial Coliseum
Quaker Oats Company
Frankie Masters
Masters
Midwest
Chicago
Phyllis Myles
Gaylord
Quaker Oats
Grand Island
Neb
Blue
KXEL
Waterloo
WMT
CBS
Judy Garland to Wed Director Ben Minnelli
Judy Garland announced plans to marry director Ben Vincent Minnelli she worked with on her latest film and expects to wed early next fall in Hollywood.
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Hollywood
Judy Garland
Ben Vincent Minnelli
Lumir Stritesky Named President By South Siders
Lumir W. Stritesky assistant cashier of the First Trust and Savings Bank was elected president of the Southside Civic club at its annual meeting in C.S.P.S. hall. He succeeds Fred C. Henson with William Broulik as vice president and Joseph J. Janeba as treasurer. The club approved amended articles and adopted by laws. It voted to join the Veterans Service and Information Center. New officers will be installed January 22 at 8 p.m. in C.S.P.S. hall.
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Lumir W. Stritesky
First Trust and Savings Bank
Southside Civic Club
C.s.ps. Hall
Stritesky
Fred C. Henson
William Broulik
Joseph J. Janeba
Veterans’ Service and Information Center
C.S.P.S. Hall
CIO PAC and National Citizens PAC Financials Report
Washington AP The two CIO affiliated political action committees raised 858 822 and spent 1 327 774 last year. National Citizens PAC contributed 380 306 and spent 378 424. CIO PAC received 376 910 for its individual contributions account and spent 470 852 from that fund, showing a deficit and 21 426 in unpaid bills as of December 31.
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Washington
Congress of Industrial Organizations
House
National Citizens Pac
Cio-Pac
Wrecked Clipper Had Gone Farthest
The China Clipper builders said the 10 year old aircraft that crashed at Port of Spain Trinidad had gone farther and carried more than any other airplane. The Glenn L. Martin company stated under normal circumstances it would have been retired long since.
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Baltimore
Port-of-Spain
Trinidad
Glenn L. Martin Company
China Clipper Maiden Flight Founded in 1934 Milestone
The China Clipper first flew on December 20, 1934 and since then the Martin Company reports eleven lunar equivalents in passenger miles totaling over 12,000,000 with more than ten miles exceeding 1,000,000.
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Martin Company
Ball Plans Amendment to Enforce WLB Orders Versus Petrillos
Senator Ball announced a draft amendment to the Smith Connally war labor disputes act to extend enforcement of War Labor Board orders to the Petrillos as well as the Averys. He said the change would require WLB orders to be validated by the courts.
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Washington
Llp
Sen. Ball
R-Minn
Petrillos
Ball
Appointment of Executor for El Sraith Estate in Linn County
The undersigned hereby announces the appointment of Chas. Penningroth as attorney for the estate of El Sraith late of Linn County Iowa. An executor has been duly appointed in the year 1945 and all persons indebted to the estate are requested to make prompt payment to the executor.
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el Sraith
Linn County
Tows
Iowa
Chas
Penningroth
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Grover
1St Congregational
A. W. Peterson CO
Davenport and Chair
Walnut
Maytag
First Street SE
Lumir Stritesky
South Siders
Political Action Financial Reports
Look
America
Nan Carsons
Nan Carson
Dickey
Newman
Lenco
Firestone
Walt’ Firestone
Soe
Een Y Ks
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