Contractor Planned Pay For Service
Washington report on a $2,500 payment by Tacoma defense contractor Eivind Anderson to Rep. Coffee for services in 1941. Anderson said it was not a campaign contribution and testified the money was for representation in Washington. He claimed Coffee promised to look after his interests and denied paying for influence. The hearing touched on broader munitions probe.
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Rep
Coffee
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Republican National Committee
Eivind.Anderson
Tacoma
Wash
Anderson
Senate
Capitol
Paul A. Olson
War Department
Paul
Sen. Connally
Texas
Connally
Garsson Munitions Combine
Byrnes and Molotov press for open peace conference
Secretary of State Byrnes pledged Big Four approval for any peace conference recommendations with two thirds support from 21 nations. Molotov backed full publicity, Evatt supported Byrnes as Spaak was elected rules committee chair. Delegates debated simple majority versus two thirds for further votes.
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Paris
Byrnes
United States
Molotov
Russia
Evatt
Paul Henri Spaak
Belgium
Edward Kardelj
Yugoslavia
Spaak
Evatt Kardelj
Kardelj
Marshal Tito
Jan Masaryk
Czechoslovakia
The Gazette Centennial Edition Extra Copies Offer
Place your orders before Saturday August 3 for extra copies of The Gazette centennial edition to be published Sunday August 11 honoring Iowa's 100 years of statehood. Extra copies mailed within the United States cost 20 cents each, including wrapping, handling, and postage. Remittance must accompany all orders.
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Gazette
Towa
The
United States
the Gazette
Gun Duel Staged In Crowded Store
In Memphis Tennessee a pistol and shotgun exchange between Patrolman C R Love and an unidentified man occurred in the basement of a large department store. A store porter Billy Williams said the man walked in with a shotgun and began shooting at a woman as shoppers fled. One person was killed and four were wounded as police cordoned the store and blocked entry and exit.
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Memphis, Tenn
Jim Hillin
C. R. Love
Billy Williams
Four Die in Hotel Blaze in Frisco
SAN FRANCISCO AP Fire swept a downtown hotel early Tuesday killing four firemen before it was brought under control in a three hour battle. About 240 guests were warned as flames shot from the Herbert hotel basement and all escaped, most in night attire. At least 20 firefighters were overcome by smoke, some needing hospital treatment. Cause of the blaze was undetermined.
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San Francisco
Herbert Hotel
Martin Kearns
Liggett and Myers Raise Cigaret Prices Nationwide
Liggett and Myers announced about a 3 percent wholesale price increase for Chesterfield and other cigarets, starting Wednesday. The rise amounts to roughly 22 cents per thousand cigarets, or about 4 cents per carton, with other cigar brands priced 10 to 20 percent higher as OPA controls were lifted.
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New York
Chesterfield
Liggett and Myers
Fatal Whipping of Negro Is Charged in Mississippi
Six white men face charges in Lexington after Leon McTatie was whipped to death, with his body found in a bayou. Authorities say the victims alleged the theft of a saddle, and some defendants admit to the onetime whipping on a farm near West, involving Jeff Dodd and kin.
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Lexington
Miss
Pat Barrett
Leon McTatie
Barrett
W. L. Murtagh
Increase in Price of Newsprint Discussed
Washington officials from the Office of Price Administration met with newsprint producers to discuss a price increase. They said the OPA can take no action until its legal staff interprets the new price control law.
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Washington
OPA
Price Ceilings Raised on Shirts and Shorts
Washington AP OPA authorized an immediate 11 percent general rise in retail ceiling prices for men’s shirts shorts and pajamas. An extra up to 10 percent boost may apply to men’s and boys’ dress shirts and boys’ sport shirts in lower brackets. The moves aim to offset higher costs through June 30 and follow March textile price increases. The CPAs CDA said it will deny aid to clothing makers who bottleneck by hoarding wool fabric without sufficient linings.
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Washington
OPA
Civilian Production Administration
Herbert Rose
OPA Textile
AFL Political Activity Planned
AFL President William Green said the federation would wage intensive political activity at all levels during the year. He noted national AFL bodies, state federations, city central labor groups and individual unions would be active, calling the drive the sharpest since World War I and stressing that party distinctions were unimportant.
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Columbus
Ohio
William Green
American Federation of Labor
AFL
Green
Nursing Association Names New Director in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Public Health Nursing association names Miss Lillian Henderson as director, succeeding Miss Lottie Mathison. Henderson arrives from Santa Ana Calif where she led Red Cross nursing, with prior roles in Dubuque Matawan N J and other states. She trained at Swedish Hospital Minneapolis and pursued post graduate work in Chicago New York Nopeming and Rutgers.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Public Health Nursing Association
Nursing Association
Lynne Swaney
Phone
Lillian Henderson
Lottie Mathison
Santa Ana
Calif
New York
Maternity Center Association
Nopeming Sanatorium
Nopeming, Minn
Dubuque University
University of Iowa
Columbia University
Rutgers
New Brunswick
N. J
Nourse Named to Head New Economic Advisory Board
The Senate banking committee unanimously approved Edwin G. Nourse, former Iowa State College professor, as head of the new three man Economic Advisory Council. Nourse, 63, is vice president at Brookings and will be paid 15000 annually. He supports private enterprise with government help and favors cooperation between management, labor, and government. He is independent of party.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Truman
Edwin G. Nourse
Iowa State College
New Economic Advisory Council
Congress
Leon Keyserling
John Davidson Clark
Nourse
Brookings Institution
Institute of Economics
Wharton School of Finance
University of South Dakota
University of Arkansas
District of Columbia
World War I Spruce Company Still Operating in 1947
Congressman Walter Norblad of Oregon uncovers that the United States Spruce Corporation, created in 1918 to supply lumber for planes, remains active after 28 years. The firm, run tax free with a government railroad and sawmills, is to be turned over to the army, amid questions about ongoing liquidation and future costs.
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Washington
United States Spruce Corporation
Congress
Walt Norblad
Spruce Corporation
Young Walt
Walt
Walter Norblad
Oregon
Spruce
Comptroller ‘General
Stallings
Corporation
Spruce | Company
Norblad
New Dean of College at Coe
Dr. C Ward Macy, longtime Coe faculty member since 1923 and former director of the 1946 summer session, was named dean of the college by the board of trustees. He will keep his economics professorship and oversee the social studies division, succeeding Dr. C Harve Geiger now president of North Central College.
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Cedar Rapids
C. Ward Macy
Coe College
Board of Trustees
Macy
Coe
C. Harve Geiger
North Central College
Naperville
Bulletin of the
National Tax Association
The
Social Science Quarterly
Grinnell College
University of Iowa
Stanford University
Phi Bee Kappa
Phi Kappa
University of Florida
University of Washington
Northwestern University
Pacific Northwest Banking School
Seattle
American Economic Association
Midwest Economics Association
Tax Institute
American Association of University Professors
Cedar Rapids Executives Club
Lydia King
Macys
Blake Boulevard
Janet Louise
Martha King
Youth Holds Firm During 3-hour Quiz
Chicago bound news reports 17 year old William Heirens, University of Chicago student and alleged prowler, refused to dictate a full confession after a three hour conference with State's Attorney William Tuohy. Heirens answered only I don't remember or I can't remember as Tuohy pressed for admissions. The meeting ended with Tuohy expressing anger and proceeding with the case. A defense request for more time followed and a stay of plea filing was granted until August 14.
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Chicago
INS
William Heirens
Heirens
William Tuohy
Tuohy
University of Chicago
Degnan
George Heirens
Weatherboy declines romance with Two-Ton Baker
Continuation of fair weather notes a 2:30 p.m. decision by the weatherboy who, at 87 degrees, says romance offers from radio figure Two-Ton Baker are declined. He cites busy duties including weather, songs, centennials, golf, bands, and circuses. Baker sent a photo of himself, not a weather gal. High Monday reached 91, with 9 a.m. reading at 77.
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Cedar Rapids
Weatherboy
Two-Ton Baker
Three children die as dump collapses burying them
In Norwalk California a rubbish dump collapsed trapping three children who used the site as a play area. Two cousins were injured in the incident and rushed to a hospital. Authorities investigated the accident scene and the cause of the collapse remained unclear.
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Norwalk
Calif
End Terminal Pay Deadlock End Terminal Pay Deadlock
A senate house conference committee agreed to pay enlisted men for unused furloughs in immediately negotiable bonds rather than cash. The compromise ends a deadlock over the $3 billion terminal furlough payments, with President Truman backing the bond plan to avoid inflationary cash outlays. Officers had previously been paid on discharge. enlisted men faced forfeiture or in-service use.
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Washington
Llp
Senate
House
G.I
Truman
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Fure Jough Bill
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