City Appropriations Show Increases to Buy Equipment
City council reviewed the 1945-46 budget with total appropriations of 1,716,635 and a general fund rise to 401,000. Finance Commissioner Burgus noted boosts in public improvements, fire and police funds, parks, and park maintenance while airport and other line items shifted, aiming to ready city services for possible postwar needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. D. Burgus
Public Improvements Department
Board of Health
Burgus
Public Improvement Department
Kenwood
Park Department
Humane Society
Lavish Yalta setting for Big Three talks on cruiser
On the presidential cruiser in the Mediterranean the Crimean conference is depicted as a glittering, Newport Hollywood and the South merged setting. The Soviets supplied luxury, food, and staff while war devastation looms outside. Roosevelt and Stalin and Churchill met for long, hard working sessions with limited social events and strict security measures.
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Mediterranean
Roosevelt
Newport
Hollywood
South
Moscow
Russia
Metropole
Mr. Roosevelt
Stalin
Churchill
Secret Service
No Recommendation Made on Medical Adviser to Board
Linn county selective service board No 1 has not named a successor to Dr V H Hasek who died Sunday from a heart ailment. He served 11 years as city physician and helped set induction physical standards. Adjutant General Grahl will propose candidates to the governor for appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. H. Hasek
Linn County Selective Service Board No
Arthur Huntington
Hasek
Grahl
New Resignation From Jap Cabinet
Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, minister without portfolio, resigns to form a powerful totalitarian party to direct the war. Premier Koiso accepts the resignation with imperial sanction as Tokyo broadcasts the move. Diet reaction not fully reported in summary.
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New York
INS
Seizo Kobayashi
Domei Agency
Tokyo
Kuniaki Koiso
Arthur H. Riss and Wife Liberated From Philippine Camp
Arthur H. Riss and his wife, long-time Cedar Rapids visitors, were freed from a Philippine internment camp by American forces on February 3. The couple, who had lived in Steen Minnesota before moving to the Philippines seventeen years ago as teachers, described their release as coming after more than three years of hell. In a Manila letter to his brother Joseph H. Riss, Arthur said they felt "pretty good" and noted his weight progression from 108 pounds toward seven pounds gained in three days on American food.
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Arthur H. Riss
Cedar Rapids
Riss
Joseph H. Riss
Fourth Avenue SE
Arthur Risses
Philippines
Steen
Minn
Manila
CIO Official Seeks Continuation of Seniority Rights in Strike Arbitration
Controversy in War Labor Board proceedings centers on Charles Hobbie, executive vice president of United Farm Equipment and Metalworkers, and LaPlant-Chaote Manufacturing. Hobbie’s recall from a leave of absence for union work triggers seniority forfeiture. company contends the extension beyond a year was an indulgence not enforceable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hobbie
United Farm Equipment and Metalworkers
CIO
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Hobbie
War Labor Board
LaPlant- Cinoate
Owen Elliott
Arbitrator Rules On Choate Seniority Grievance
The arbitrator J Harold Ennis of Cornell College Mt Vernon rules there is no basis for Choate's continued seniority since he no longer serves the company. The decision is final in this grievance proceeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Choate
J. Harold Ennis
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Purple Heart Award To Cpl. Schlotfelt
Cpl Robert Schlotfelt was wounded in action Nov 23 in the Pacific area and has been awarded the Purple Heart according to a delayed report to his parents Mr and Mrs Jack Schlotfelt of Dysart Letters from him since the injury make no mention of being wounded though a note says he has been lying around and expects to return to duty He is an aerial gunner formerly employed in the Rock Island railroad office Cedar Rapids A brother Jack is a pharmacist's mate in the navy stationed at Portsmouth Va Two sisters LaVonne and Virginia Schlotfelt live at 1434 Bever avenue SE
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Cpl
Robert Schlotfelt
Pacific
Jack Schlotfelt
Dysart
Schlotfelt
Book And Writing Paper Production Cut Prompted
Washington dispatch says the War Production Board advised the book and writing paper industry on Wednesday that printing paper output must be reduced starting April 1 due to manpower shortages in the woods.
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Washington
INS
WPB
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Jack Illian
Yalta
Cess
Koise
Third Ave
American Gem Society
Lichty
Philippine
Killian Company
ICIO
Cpl. Schlotfelt
Wit Canada Dry
Annetta
Crownshaw
Crown
Chartreuse
Rose
Charmer
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