Cedar Rapids Airport Future Depends on New Oversight
The Cedar Rapids City Council weighs keeping the airport under council control or transferring it to a specialized airport board. The port has completed 5,450 by 150 foot runways with taxiways and a central apron, plus lighting and water systems, earning Class IV approval though no permanent admin building exists yet.
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Cedar Rapids
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Collins Radio Company
Civil Aeronautics Board
United
Midcontinent
CAB
Congress
Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee
Airport Commission
Bombing War Oil Port of Balikpapan Rages On
Allied air forces pounded Balikpapan and nearby airfields for a 16th day with 230 tons of bombs as Japanese defenses failed to halt the assault. MacArthur reports continued air attacks and heavy ships offshore, while Tokyo claims imminent invasion.
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Manila
Balikpapan
Borneo
Douglas MacArthur
Tokyo
MacArthur
Manggar
Oclin
Tabanio
Bandjermasin
Nippon
Truman Signs Wage Rise for Federal Workers
President Truman signed a bill granting about 1.4 million federal employees basic pay raises and time and a half for overtime over 40 hours. The measure, effective Sunday, costs about 700 million dollars yearly and lifts base wages by an average 15.9 percent, graded by each worker's total pay under civil service rules. It excludes 1.6 million other federal workers.
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Kansas City
Truman
Brereton Takes Command of Third Air Force
Washington AP reports Lt. Gen. Lewis H Brereton has assumed command of the Third Air Force based in Tampa Florida with the War Department announcing the change on Saturday.
Dixie Democrats Block FEPC in House
Southern Democrats in the House shouted objections as they blocked a Senate approved compromise to fund the Fair Employment Practices committee for a year. The move stalled the $752.6 billion war agencies appropriation, leaving FEPC unfunded at midnight and delaying broader defense spending and price control extensions.
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Washington
House
Fair Employment Practices Committee
OPA
War Production Board
FEPC
Senate
Roosevelt
Cannon
War Department
Japan
Truman
Kansas City
U. S. Employment Service
Red Proposal On Dardanelles Reveals Soviet Turkish Talks
Radio Ankara said Saturday that Russia has proposed closing the Bosporus and Dardanelles to all warships except those of the Soviets and Turkey in a new Soviet Turkish friendship treaty. The plan would largely supersede the Montreux pact giving Turkey control of the straits. London diplomatic circles say Britain advised Russia to seek Big Three consensus rather than Soviet sole control.
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Ankara
Russia
Bosporus
Dardanelles
Turkey
FCC
Aegean
London
Britain
Egg shortages widen across the nation amid meat scarcities
A cross country AP survey finds eggs becoming scarce as the meat shortage drives egg demand, with officials warning the shortage will persist through the year. Clinton Anderson assumes agriculture post and the food committee reports mounting shortages while Wickard notes bleak statistics. Meat supplies show slight improvement but remain tight in parts, and corn delays threaten future pork and beef output.
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Associated Press
Clinton P. Anderson
Agriculture Department
House Food Committee
Claude Wickard
OPA
Maria Leonard to Retire as Illinois U. Dean of Women
The University of Illinois board of trustees announced the voluntary retirement of Miss Maria Leonard as dean of women, effective Sept. 1, after 22 years in the post. Mrs. Leah F. Trelease will become acting dean and an English instructor. Leonard, born in Indianapolis, previously led Coe College scholastic honors founder of Alpha Lambda Delta.
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Chicago
University of Ilinois
Miss Maria Leonard
University
Leah F. Trelease
Indianapolis
Butler
Colorado College
Miss Leonard
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
Alpha Lambda Delta National Scholastic
Linn County E Bond Auction Adds to Quota Progress
Linn county reached 3 132 011 dollars toward a 3 490 000 quota in the war bond drive largely from Friday's B n ai B rith youth bureau auction which brought 158 719 dollars in cash and 204 958 dollars in maturity value. The event netted 114 969 dollars from bids on over 200 items and 38 750 dollars from bonds purchased by B nai B rith members. County Chairman George Hearn praised the effort and noted theater and bank staff aided the process.
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Treasury Department
Linn County
George Hearn
B’nai B'rith
B'nai B'rith
Young Men’s ‘Bureau
Hearn
Paramount Theater
J. C. Penney Company
Merchants National Bank
Cabinet shakeup signals broad reorganization in labor and agriculture
Washington four new cabinet members took office in a Saturday shakeup that aims to reorganize labor and agriculture departments. James Byrnes is slated to become secretary of state pending Senate approval. Schwellenbach pledged rapid department consolidation and invited major unions to discuss structure, while Anderson assumed agriculture and Jones became War Food administrator.
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Washington
Labor
Agriculture
Senate
James F Byrnes
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Lewis B Schwellenbach
Frances Perkins
Schwellenbach
Agriculture Department
War Food Administration
Rep
Clinton P. Anderson
D-N. M
Secretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard
Indiana
Anderson
Marvin Jones
Texas
Court of Claims
Robert E. Hannegan
Missouri
Frank C. Walker
Pennsylvania
Tom C Clark
Francis Biddle
Labor Department
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
United Mine Workers
Railway Brotherhoods
Schnellenbach
Submarine Kete Presumed Lost with All Hands
The Navy announced that the 1,525 ton submarine Kete is overdue from patrol and presumed lost. The skipper Lt. Comdr. Edward Acker man, 29, of Cincinnati is missing along with the crew of 80 to 85 men.
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Washington
Navy
Edward Ackerman
Cincinnati
Ohio
Japan Raises Insurance Premiums After Air Raids
Radio Tokyo announced premiums in occupied Asia will rise 400 percent due to recent conditions caused by enemy air raids. The increase takes effect Sunday, as heard in San Francisco via FCC broadcast.
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San Francisco
INS
Radio Tokyo
Occupied Asia
FCC
Gazette Circulation Reaches Unprecedented June High
The Cedar Rapids Gazette reports record June circulation with daily averages over 48 800 and Sunday averages over 49 200. The Audit Bureau of Circulations notes the 12 month period ending March 31 marks the paper’s largest yearly average, with Sunday circulation finally surpassing daily.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette
Audit Bureau of Circulation
The
Gazette
Vinson Outlines Postwar Economic Charter
Fred M. Vinson, head of the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, urged preparedness for a swift Japanese fall and presented a postwar charter favoring high wages, lower taxes, and public works. He warned of a rapid drop in munition output and rising unemployment, and forecast living standards 50 percent higher as the nation shifts to peacetime recovery.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Fred M. Vinson
Vinson
Office of War Mobilization and
OWMR
Congress
U S Bombers Hit Jap Shipping and Oil Installations
U S air forces damaged 16 enemy ships and attacked offshore targets while long range bombers struck the Kudamatsu oil refinery near Tokuyama. Tokyo said Japanese planes hit U S installations at Okinawa and Ie Jima.
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Guam
Japan
Okinoerabu
Okinawa
U. S
Okjinoerabu
Amami
Nimitz
Kyushu
Home Islands
Kanoya
Chushira
20Th Air Force
Nippon Oil
Kudamatsu
Tokuyama
Honshu
Tokyo
Ie Jima
Land Bank Loan Measure Signed Extends Farmers Aid
President Truman signed legislation continuing the land bank loan program for farmers for another year. The act also expands lending authority enabling federal land banks to issue loans up to 65 percent of the normal value of farm land and improvements.
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Washington
Truman
Program of Land Bank Commissioner
Federal Land Banks
Byrnes Named Secretary of State to Await Senate Vote
President Truman named James Byrnes 66 as secretary of state. Senate confirmation is expected quickly with no committee delay. Byrnes, a former senator and justice, would be next in line for the presidency under the current succession law.
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Kansas City
James F. Byrnes
Truman
Supreme Court
Senate
Byrnes
Washington
Chicago
Missourian
Yalta
White House
Roosevelt
State Department
William S. Clayton
Bernard M. Baruch
Baruch
South Carolina
Charleston
Mr. Roosevelt
Churchill
Marshal Stalin
Berlin
No Sugar Permits For Next Few Days
Des Moines AP The Des Moines district OPA office ordered local boards to issue no sugar certificates for several days to let the district office compute June sugar issuance. Walter D. Kline district director said the wait will be brief to decide July availability.
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Des Moines
OPA
Walter D. Kline
Cedar Rapids War Casualty Totals Summary
Cedar Rapids reports casualty figures: 37 killed in action, 3 killed in training, 22 missing in action, 2 died in service, 2 prisoners and 40 wounded in action in Linn County. Partial totals reflect local war toll and servicemember status.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
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Jap Oil Center
Spencer Davis
Brereton
Third Air Force
Sunday Index
Drew Pearson
William L. Shirer
GI Gazelle
Pewerres Financial
Pamereseere
Harry Haney
Seventh Street
St. Luke's Hospital
Jane Ann
Jean Ann
Dixie Democrats
Sabath
D-Ii
House Rules Committee
Rules
Maria Leonard
Illinois U. Dean of Women
Cedar Ranlds News
Farm Dept
Kete
New High
U.S
White
Maine
Charles G. Ross
Muehlebach
Stalin
Edward R. Stettinius
United Nations Organization
Capital
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