Situation on Men's Suits Delivers Hope in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids dealers report an OPA price revision will free up about 700000 suits nationwide, with local firms expecting limited stock and long waits. Manufacturers allotments may reach 40 percent of 1941 quota, prices likely up modestly, veterans given priority, and optimism rising as stock is promised by month’s end.
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Cedar Rapids
OPA
Louis Rothschild
National Association of Retail Clothiers and Furnishers
CIO
Leo Goodman
Factor's Plea Turned Down By High Court
Washington AP report states the Supreme Court refused to review John Factor's plea to avoid trial due to fear of gangsters. Factor had pleaded guilty to using the mails to defraud in Cedar Rapids after claiming Touhy gang threats endangered his life and family. He received a 10 year sentence and a $10,000 fine.
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Supreme Court
John Factor
Chicago
Factor
High Court
Roger Touhy
Touhy
Illinois State Penitentiary
United States District Court
Cedar Rapids
FBI
Jake the Barber
Federal Correctional Institution, Sandstone, Minn
Robert C. Bell
Minneapolis
Bell
T. E., Diamond
Max Oxman
12 Apostles of Fraud
Marshall Leaves To Confer with Truman
Gen George C. Marshall, presidential envoy to China, left Chungking for Washington to confer with President Truman on Chinese military and political situations. He is expected to arrive in Washington Thursday.
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Chungking
George G. Marshall
China
Washington
Truman
Wilson questions War Assets board legality
Senator George A. Wilson of Iowa demanded a Justice Department opinion on President Truman’s authority in creating the War Assets corporation for surplus property disposal. The Iowa Republican, a member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, accuses the administration of bypassing the War Powers Act and vows further inquiry, noting a tense committee meeting and press access debates for the next session.
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Washington
IDPA
George A. Wilson
Iowa
Tom Clark
Truman
War Assets Corporation
Senate
Sen. Wilson
Wilson
Mail Easter Greetings To Men Overseas Early
Washington AP urged friends and relatives of troops abroad to send Easter greetings now. The War Department expects a large mail volume before Easter Sunday April 21.
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Washington
War Department
Department
Vinson Named Head of World Bank Board
Savannah Georgia reports Secretary of the Treasury Fred Vinson was named chairman for the governing board of the World Bank and Monetary Fund by the 35 nations in the postwar finance plan.
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Vinson
World Bank Board
Savannah, Ga
INS
the Treasury
Fred Vinson Monday
World Bank and Monetary Fund
Ickes Heads Independent Voter Group
Former Interior Secretary Harold L Ickes announces the Independent Citizens committee of the Arts Sciences and Professions to mobilize about 10 million independent voters. James Roosevelt leads as national director as the group seeks influence in upcoming congressional elections while denying ties to a Communist outfit.
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Washington
Harold L
Ickes
Independent Citizens’ Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
James Roosevelt
Republican Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Ickes-Roosevelt
John E. Rankin
D-Miss
New Deal
Independent Citizens’ Committee
Congress
Truman
Wares G. Harding
Russia-allots 500000 tons grain to France
Paris AP reports Russia's foreign office announced an allotment of 500000 tons of grain to France in response to a request by French Communist leader Maurice Thorez. The cargo comprises 400000 tons of wheat and 100000 tons of corn to be shipped from Black Sea port warehouses.
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Paris
Foreign Office
Russia
France
Maurice Thorez
Black Sea
Cleveland Man An Optimist Thinks Utopia Is Near
Carl Kane profiles F. O. Richey a Cleveland patent attorney visiting Cedar Rapids for a federal suit. He argues optimism, invention, and labor-saving devices will usher in a utopia, citing agricultural tools radios automobiles and hormone medicine. He credits liberal patent laws for rapid progress and cites historic shifts from stone age tools to modern production.
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Cleveland Man
Utopia
F. O. Richey
Cleveland
Ohio
Richey
Cedar Rapids
Russia
Argentina
Spain
Iowa
Illinois
United States
B. C
Marshall
Restoration Funds Restored for OPA CPA
Washington AP Two key reconversion control agencies won restoration of funds Monday from a senate house appropriations conference The agreement restores CPA to 1 5 million as approved by the house while OPA is set for 1 6 million after prior senate cuts The senate and house must approve the conference result with added clerk hire funds for each senator at 2400 annually
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Washington
Senate
House
Office of Price Administration
Civilian Production Administration
CPA
Troops Told Not to Talk Anti Russia
In Wuerzburg Germany American troops were ordered by Lt Col Frank Ebey to stop disparaging the Soviet Union to German civilians. Ebey urged restraint, stressed Russia as an ally, and recalled Allied sacrifices from Pearl Harbor to the Elbe while warning that anti Russia talk could reheat conflict.
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Germany
Soviet Union
Frank Ebey
Venice
Calif
203Rd
United States
U.S.A
Pearl Harbor
Bataan
Elbe
Hitler
Fraulein
Frauleins
Russia
Florida poultry merchant's aid in patent case trial
In federal court Judge Henry N Graven heard testimony from Herman W Please a Tampa based poultry merchant who closed his shop last summer to avoid Florida black market competition He built a chicken picker circa 1935 and used it until suspending business The deposition described a rubber overshoe used as the chicken for a demonstration of the picker as evidence in the Pickwick corporation case continued on Page 2 Column 5.
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Cedar Rapids
Florida
Pickwick Corporation
Henry N. Graven
Herman W. Please
Tampa
Please
Alexander C. Mabee
Britain backs U S protest on Manchuria note
London reports Britain has joined the United States in protesting Soviet troops and industrial removal in Manchuria. A foreign office spokesman said a note was sent to Moscow insisting factories remain in Chinese custody until Allied disposal decisions.
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United States
Russia
Red
Manchuria
Foreign Office
Moscow
Iran
Red Fleet
China
Strife Flairs as Forces Reach Mukden in Manchuria
Chinese Nationalist and Communist reinforcements move toward Mukden as fighting erupts after a sudden Soviet withdrawal. Reports say the city of 2,000,000 is occupied in parts by Communists and martial law may be proclaimed. Trains bring troops and equipment from Mukden to Changchun and Port Arthur.
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Chungking
Mukden
Manchuria
Marshal Rodion Y Malinovsky
Manchurian
Chiang Kai-shek
Rockwell's Voting Scenes to Be on Exhibition
Cedar Rapids paintings by Norman Rockwell depicting local voters from the last national election will be sent to the National Society of Illustrators exhibition in New York. A. L. Taylor of the Chamber of Commerce said the originals will travel with the show and return to Cedar Rapids after the exhibit closes May 20.
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Cedar Rapids News
Norman Rockwell
Cedar Rapids
Chamber of Commerce
National Society of Illustrators
New York
A. L. Taylor
Casinos of Commerce
Mona Kenneth Stuart
Saturday Evening Post
Rockwell
Stuart
Pravda accuses Churchill of trying to start a war
The Moscow paper Pravda accuses Winston Churchill of plotting to start a war against Russia and warns that an Anglo American alliance would destroy the United Nations. It denounces his Fulton speech and claims his anti communist posture masks hostile aims toward the Soviet Union.
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Moscow
Pravda
Winston Churchill
Russia
United Nations Organization
Fulton, Mo
Stalin
Churchill
Europe
Soviet Union
Vandenberg
Uncle Sam
England
UNO
Britain
United States
Manchuria
Germany
Egypt
Supreme Soviet
M. Molotov
Moscow Radio
America
United Nations
School Election Voting Heaviest on East Side
A total of 917 persons voted in the independent school district election up to 2 p.m. Monday. Heaviest voting early in the day was on the east side, with a few precincts doubling their prior turnout.
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Cedar Rapids News
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Korea
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