Royalists Charge Irregularities in Italian Election
Rome sources report monarchists demanding Allied investigation into results that toppled King Humbert II. They cite grave irregularities and fear civil conflict as Italy’s cabinet argues political legality and the scope of the supreme court while tensions rise over a proclamation.
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Rome
INS
Humbert II
Tullio Benedetti
National Monarchist Union
Humbert
de Gasperi
Supreme Court
Admiral Halsey Headlines Eastern Iowa Band Festival
Cedar Rapids drew about 10000 spectators as Fleet Admiral William F Halsey spoke on naval postwar planning and peace at Hawkeye Downs during the first Eastern Iowa Band Festival. High school bands performed while Miss Fraseur was crowned queen with a $100 war bond and a watch.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
Admiral
Carl Kane
High Seas
William F. “Bull” Halsey
Hawkeye Downs
Eastern Iowa
Miral Halsey
Treasury Department
the Downs
Admiral Halsey
South Pacific
Monticello
Tipton
Moose Drum and Bugle Corps
YMCA
Drum and Bugle Corps
Miss Fraseur
Young Men’s Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Hick To Ask Quick Death Of Subsidies
Washington based OPA advocates plan a last-ditch Senate fight to salvage price controls on food and clothing amid a wary mood about the administration’s stabilization program. A four man minority group from the Senate Banking Committee will press to retain controls while challenging the extension bill due to open Monday. Senator Bourke B Hickenlooper vows a quick death to government subsidies as Downey Wagney Downey Mitchell and others condemn the price plan as a threat to economic safety.
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Washington
OPA
Senate
Senate Banking Committee
Bourke B. Hicken- Jooper
R-Ia
Robert F. Wagney
D-N.y
Sherieo Downey
D-Calif
Glen H. Taylor
Hickenlooper
Pacific Strike Averted New Offer in East
In Washington negotiators moved to ease maritime tensions as AFL Sailors Union halted a strike vote and began wage hour talks with West Coast shipowners. A plan for paid time off in port while keeping a 56 hour week at sea was proposed to bridge CIO and AFL positions.
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Washington
AFL
CIO
AFL Sailors Union of the Pacific
San Francisco
Committee For Maritime Unity
CIO National Maritime Union
Nylon production soars as senators cite output
Four senators report nylon hosiery production has risen since Jan 1 1946. They estimate the total output averages more than three pairs per woman aged 14 or older among 53 690 000 American women and girls. The statement names Senators Wagner Downey Mitchell and Idaho’s senator.
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Washington
America
Wagner
D-N
Downey
Calif
Idaho
Mitchell
Senate debates end of price controls raises fears for workers
Opposition figures including Hickenlooper warn extending OPA is unlikely and call for curbs on food and non agricultural subsidies. Both parties concede OPA may be a dead duck as lawmakers push tougher restrictions in the bill.
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OPA
Senate
Minority Report
Bread Price To Rise One Cent Per Pound
Government sources report the OPA will announce a one cent per pound increase in bread prices midweek. The move, agreed by the price control agency and agriculture department, applies to all bread except rye.
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Washington
INS
OPA
Price Control Agency
Agriculture Department
Howe
Senate panel approves silver price rise plan
The senate appropriations committee approved a staged increase in silver prices from 71.11 cents an ounce to 90.3 cents for two years and 129 cents thereafter.
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Washington
INS
Senate Appropriations Committee
Lenders Tighten Up on Home Loans in Iowa
In Des Moines and other Iowa cities lenders slow new loans on used houses amid rising prices. They fear a postwar price drop and expect a downturn if valuations peak. Federal Home Loan Bank president Robert Richardson cites a housing surplus now and rising construction needed to ease the crisis.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Robert J. Richardson
Federal Home Loan Bank of Des
Arab Plotter On Way East
Paris The pro Nazi grand mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin El Husseini reportedly escaped from France per the French Press agency. Interior ministry officials denied arrest or clandestine departure, saying he was free to travel. The mufti, ally of Adolf Hitler, was headed for an unspecified destination likely in the Middle East.
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Paris
Jerusalem
Haj Amin el Husseini
France
Ministry of Interior
Mufti
Adolf Hitler
Middle East
Saudi Arabia
Palestine
Grand Old Man Of Grand Army Leads A Prayer
John M. Gudgel, 98, state Grand Army of the Republic leader, heads a campfire prayer at First Presbyterian Cedar Rapids with the Woman's Relief Corps and allied Civil War groups. Delegates attend the 72nd G A R encampment as veterans from multiple wars stand with Gov. Blue absent and local dignitaries speaking.
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Grand Army of the Republic
John M. Gudgel
Woman’s Relief Corps
First Presbyterian Church
Cedar Rapids
G.A.R
Gudget
Jack Darnold
Shenandoah
Robert Blue
George E. Farmer
Dwight Krumholtz
Frank K. Hahn
Bruce A. West
D. T. Howe
Sons of Union
Amy Noll
GAR
Waldemar W. W. Argow
People’s
John J. Thomas Hurt After Truck ATV Smash Near Cedar Rapids
John J. Thomas 80 suffered chest bruises when a truck driven by his son went over a six foot embankment on the river road. He was thrown from the box and rushed by ambulance to Mercy Hospital. doctors said his condition was not serious.
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Cedar Rapids
John J. Thomas
Thomas
Mercy Hospital
Desertion from Ship In Midocean Mystery
Pearl Harbor reports a possible mid ocean desertion from the USS Epping Forest a landing ship with one man missing along with a 25 foot liferaft. The ship paused its voyage from Bikini to Canton Island to search for the missing sailor and raft while officials consider the possibility that more than one crewman may be involved.
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Pearl Harbor
INS
Epping Forest
Navy
Bikini
Canton Island
Missing Property Reported From La Salle Hotel Fire
Chicago public administrator investigator Jack Rubens said more than 100000 dollars in cash jewelry and personal property are missing from La Salle hotel rooms where 60 people died in the blaze. Relatives of 19 of the victims have filed complaints as investigators spar over neglect and responsibility. The sixtieth victim, Mrs Ann Palackis 24 of Waukegan, died in the blaze that swept the lobby and lower floors.
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Chicago
INS
Jack Rubens
la Salle
Rubens
Ann Palackis
Waukegan
Henrot
Rock Island Man Wounds Ex Wife and Kills Self
Bruce Stark aged 46 shot and killed after wounding his former wife Mrs Philip Newberry 32 at her Rock Island home. Stark killed himself as police arrived. Mrs Newberry was wounded and reported in fairly good condition at a local hospital.
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Rock Island
Rock Island, IL
Bruce Stark
Philip Newberry
Saturn A Banning Repo Banning
Stark
Health Camp To Open Soon As Volunteers Prepare
Cedar Rapids News reports Camp Good Health on Mt Ver non road will undergo its annual housecleaning next Wednesday with 25 or more St James Methodist women scrubbing lodge cabins and the infirmary. The camp has raised 2354.43 dollars from local groups and individuals to support its health services.
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Cedar Rapids
Good Health
Mt. Vernon Road
St. James Methodist Church
Public Health Nursing Association
Lie Detector Aids Solve $1.5 Million Gem Theft
Chicago police credit a lie detector test with unraveling a major crime involving the $1,500,000 theft of German crown jewels. Capt. Kathleen Nash Durant confessed after hours of questioning. her husband Col. J. W. Durant followed with admissions. Rest of jewels found in a baggage locker at Illinois Central station. Detective Leonard Keeler, inventor of the device, said he was retained by the army to help interrogation.
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Chicago
War Department
Kathleen B. Nash Durant
Col
J. W. Durant
W. Devent Falls Chace
Phietor County
Pledge Encourages Cedar Rapids Shoppers to Sign
A page 12 notice invites readers to clip and fill a pledge and return it to downtown Cedar Rapids stores. Signers will be entered as voluntary members of the President's Parsing Baskigency Billet committee.
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Cedar Rapids
Another Fraulein Shot To Death in G I s Room
In Frankfurt the U S army reported a German girl Doris Krath employed by the Red Cross shot herself in a US enlisted men’s room, the fifth such death in a month. The body was found in a recom belonging to Pvt Richard B ere. she sought Cpl Woodrow M. Kemp and did not know his home address.
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Frankfurt
INS
U. S
Doris Krath
Red Cross
Richard Bere
Woodrow M. Kemp
Georgia Moves To Dissolve Ku Klux Klan Civil Suit
Georgia Attorney General Eugene Cook announced plans to file a civil suit to dissolve the Ku Klux Klan within the next few days. He spoke at a press conference confirming a sustained action against the hooded organization.
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Atlanta
Eugene Cook
Georgia
Ku Klux Klan
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