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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1946
Page
14
A third letter quotes a girl lamenting the need to take “those little things in that glass tube” with a note that it’s best. The brief item appears in the Jan 24 issue with no further context or identities.
Long Beach police report that 15 year old Shirley Johnson and 17 year old Aubrey Matthews were found dead in a car in the Matthews garage after missing since Tuesday night. A vial of poison crystals was found on Matthews, and letters from Shirley hinted at their intent. The couple had hoped to wed but Shirley’s father withhold permission.
In Los Angeles the divorce suit of actress Darlene Welch and bakery executive Sidney Raskin features a bizarre claim she charged her husband five dollars per kiss to deter him from buzzing around. She says she took money when he had it, and the judge denied alimony. The contested case goes to trial next summer.
Washington reports Bikini Atoll as the atomic bomb test site far from most places. It lies 170 miles from Eniwetok and Kwajalein, 1 573 miles from Guam, 2 086 from Honolulu, and features a 21 1/2 mile long coral atoll with about 20 small islands and 161 native residents. The navy pledges adequate safety measures for inhabitants.
The schedule lists feature times and short subjects across theaters including Paramount Spellbound with 1:50 4:25 6:55 9:30, Iowa Tars and Spars 1:05 4:05 7:10 10:15, Allotment Wives 2:35 5:40 8:45, Dangerous Partners 2:15 4:55 7:30 10:10, Northwest Trail 1:15 3:50 6:30 9:05.
Linn County draft board two reported Thursday that Joseph F. Mateju Jr. was inducted into the army at Ft. Snelling on January 18. Induction calls went to Lyle R. Henry, Richard H. Krohn, and Manuel R. Wise from board two, while board one sent James Wesley Gillam, James Muli nix Grissel, Joseph Hamilton Hubbard, and Robert Howard Bugenstein to Ft. Snelling on Wednesday.
In Tokyo Gen. MacArthur announced that Japan must end the centuries old practice of selling daughters into prostitution. He ordered the government to abolish licensed prostitution and invalidate contracts forcing women into prostitution as required by the Potsdam declaration. The move follows Japan halting licensing of houses but keeping the sale law.
In Pittsburgh AP reports judges suspended alimony orders Wednesday for striking steelworkers to ease their finances during the strike. Judges Harkins and Montgomery said other cases could be approved if husbands cannot pay. The rulings favor alimony recipients under state relief rules. Alimony resumes after the strike ends.
Los Angeles AP reports actress Marsha Hunt 28 and writer Robert Presnell Jr. 31 plan to marry February 3, the couple has disclosed.
A group led by Lawrence Farlow pressed legal action to restore service on the Toledo Peoria and Western railroad. They report substantial shipper subscriptions to hire counsel for court action against the railroad and others hindering operation amid coal shortages and a million bushels of soybeans stored in local elevators.
Farlow criticizes both sides for prioritizing their own interests, arguing that the railroad and unions place their agendas above the needs of the shippers they serve.
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