Blue Flags Proposes Citizen Panel Overhaul of Iowa Prisons
Des Moines Governor Robert D. Blue blasted the state penal system as haphazard and weak, urging appointment of a citizen committee to study and report reforms. He said the board of control needs a uniform plan and cited 20 years of troubling conditions at Eldora. letters of complaint span prior governors and include brutal punishments. The panel includes Mae Lynch and Grace Gilbert King among six members. five were present for the briefing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
INS
Robert D. Blue
State Board of Control
David McCreery
Blue
R. W. Nebergall
State Bureau of Investigation
Eldora State Training School
Mae Lynch
House
Pocahontas
Grace Gilbert King
West Union
Iowa American Legion Women’s Auxiliary
P. M. Longshore
Woodward
Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs
F. H. Cooney
Carroll
Clarence Johnston
Ottumwa Daily Courier
Supreme Court
Robert Mitchell
Fort Dodge
Board of Control
Hickenlooper
Kraschel
Herring
Control Board
Tear-Gassed From House After Gunfight Centerville IA
A 58 year old bachelor, Henry Bailey, fired on five officers and held them at bay for two hours in Cincinnati Iowa. He was dragged unconscious from the house after a tear gas assault. George Ross was wounded by pellets but not critically harmed. Bailey was charged with attempted murder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centerville
Cincinnati
Jack Bailey
Henry Bailey
George Ross
Ross
Bailey
Income Tax Night Tragedy Ends In Hammer Attack
In Buffalo New York Lloyd Breeser 41 a railroad fireman killed his wife Isabel with a hammer after an argument over income tax. He then cut his throat with a butcher knife and was critically injured. Their five children were in school and Breeser’s mother witnessed the violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
Lloyd
Breeser
Isabel
Deaths Editorial and Notices in Today's Record
Fragmentary page shows sections for Marion men features radio sports and services with a courthouse index and daily death notices. Content is incomplete but indicates a typical local paper layout with death notices and editorial items alongside entertainment and radio listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Record
Marion Men
Ww Movies Radio
Sporta
State
Haiti President Ousted in Bow
Haiti President Elie Lescot was overthrown and held prisoner in his private residence after protests against the closing of the La Ruche student newspaper and the dissolution of demonstrations. Lescot had led Haiti since May 15, 1941 and previously served as ambassador to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port AU Prince
Haiti
Elie Lescot
Lescot
la Ruche
Washington
Coast Guard Discharge Point Scores Updated Feb 2
Washington AP reports new coast guard discharge point scores effective February 2 for enlisted males and officers, with reductions applied to remaining personnel later in February and March. Yeomen storekeepers and pharmacists mates exempt from upcoming cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Coast Guard
Yuletide Returns To Hollan House After Three Years
LeRoy E Hollan Jr returns from the European war to Cedar Rapids after three Christmases apart. A bright candle and a decorated tree glow in the window as neighbors and family celebrate his homecoming. Presents wait under the tree for LeRoy Mickey and the Hollan family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeRoy E. Hollan, Jr
Second Street NW
Camp Dodge
Hollan
Cpl
3110Th Signal Service
Cedar Rapids
LeRoy
Mickey
LeRoy, Sr
Mrs. Hollan
Navy vetoed prewar scouting of Tarawa by Pacific fleet
Washington informed Senate-House investigators that Navy Department vetoed a prewar survey of the Gilbert Islands including Tarawa. Admiral Kimmel said he sought to survey Gilberts but was told to keep fleet units away. The Gilberts were later seized by Japan, then retaken by U S amphibious forces in late 1943 amid the war’s central Pacific push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy Department
Husband E. Kimmel
Gilbert Group
Tarawa
Gilberts
United States
Central Pacific
Kimmel
Senate-House Committee
Congressional
Roberts Commission
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Supreme Court
Owen J. Roberts
Short
Army
Naval Court of Inquiry
Fleet
Pacific
Flight Engineer Guilty in Navy Plane Crash at Sea
John R. Patrick, 27, of Tulare California, civilian flight engineer, convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the November 3 crash of a four engine Liberator 500 miles northeast of Honolulu with 18 dead. He received six months confinement and a $2000 fine. Patrick was one of eight survivors and was accused of failing to determine if the plane had been refueled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Pacific Division
Air Transport Command
John R. Patrick
Tulare
Calif
California
Patrick
Jap Cabinet Shaken Up Five Dropped In Shuffle
Tokyo Prime Minister Kijuro Shidehara reshuffled his cabinet dropping five ministers amid an Allied blacklist linked to militarist and ultra nationalist groups. New ministers, all in their sixties, require MacArthur’s personal approval. investiture by the emperor set for Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Kijuro Shidehara
Kyodo
Chuzo Iwata
Japan
MacArthur
Shidehara
Gen. MacArthur
Hitchhiker Says Red Skelton Was Robbed Of $51
In Los Angeles AP reports Red Skelton picked up a hitch-hiker in uniform who spoke of a .38 pistol. The man offered to sell the gun and took $51 from Red, then covered him with the weapon and vanished. Police were notified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Red Skelton
Red
Masked bandits rob train near Haifa in daylight
In Jerusalem, masked bandits staged a bold daylight train robbery south of Haifa. One robber fled with an estimated 140 dollars. Police search is underway as authorities review evidence and witness accounts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Haifa
Soviet Setback on UNO Ballot Vote in London
The United Nations General Assembly rejected 34 to 9 a Soviet motion to delay forming the non permanent security council. James Byrnes opposed the delay, naming it a dangerous precedent as six nations were elected to non permanent seats while Byrnes urged moving forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United Nations General Assembly
Vital Security Council
United States
James F. Byrnes
Security Council
Brazil
Egypt
Mexico
Poland
Netherlands
Australia
Peter Fraser
New Zealand
Southwest Pacific
Jan Masaryk
Ernest Bevin
Byrnes
Assembly
Andrei Gromyko
Russia
Colder and Snow Expected Sunday in Cedar Rapids
Cold week returns as old man winter resumes duty with a strong northwest wind and subzero readings forecast for Sunday. Snow flurries tonight and Sunday forenoon, with highs around the mid 20s then near zero by Sunday morning. Iowa roads icy in eastern areas as flood threats ease. state guardsmen to be relieved in Louisa county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids News
Iowa
Mercury
Iowa Weather Bureau
Towa
Louisa County
Rock Island clash as police break picket lines
In Rock Island Illinois on Saturday, about 350 striking United Auto Workers and CIO allies tried to block entry to the J I Case plant. Police forced open the lines. eight pickets arrested on disorderly conduct charges and one man seriously injured. Two officers were hurt and many strikers suffered bruises. The riot followed three days of intensified union activity amid a strike starting December 27 demanding a new contract and a 30 percent wage rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island, Ill
United Auto
CIO
Tri-cities
J. I. Case
Joseph Summers
Rock Island
Parleys Switched to White House as Talks Move
Washington AP A presidential fact finding panel proposed an 18 percent wage rise for CIO oil workers while Truman moved stalled steel talks to the White House. With half a million idled and more than 1.5 million threatening action, federal seizure looms as a possible remedy. Negotiations with CIO leaders Murray and Fairless continued amid court orders, picketing changes, and GM rejecting board recommendations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
CIO
United Press
Truman
White House
United States
General Motors
Philip Murray
United Steel Workers
Benjamin Fairless
United States Steel
New York
Murray and Fairless
British Indian troops clash with Indonesian forces near Soerabaja
British authorities reported two Indian soldiers killed and two wounded in clashes southwest of Soerabaja, a Dutch naval base, as Indonesian forces pressed operations in Java. The report notes ongoing combat between British and Indonesian units and the volatile security situation in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Batavia, Java
Soerabaja, iDutch
Also Mentioned on This Page
Blue Flags
Eldora
Eldora School
Ronald Miller
Surround House
Swanson
Sheriff Bailey
Today's Index
Pupa Naeagee Sys
Aaseaene
New Coast Guard
Gazette
LeRoy E. Hollan
Hollans
the Hollows
John Reynolds
Halsey
William F
Bull) Halsey
Wake Island
Wake
I Enterprise
Navy
Walter C.’ Short
Seal
Ames
Atlantic
Ottumwa
Montezuma
Burlington
Dubuque
Spencer
State Highway Patrol
United States Conciliation
Howard T. Colvin
Atlanta
Dallas
San Antonio
Houston
Oklahoma
Kansas
New York City
Western Electric Company
Bell System
USW
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Lackawanna, N.Y
C.E. Wilson
Factfinding Board
Java
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!