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Friday temperatures across major cities show highs in the mid sixties and lows in the forties with varied precipitation. Iowa forecast expects partly cloudy east, cloudy west with possible rain in the northwest. Sunday mild with winds shifting west and northwest. Police and traffic court records note multiple drunkenness and speeding penalties, plus several marriage licenses and several new births and a chimney fire incident.
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Bismarck
Miami
Chicago
Cornell College Players Stage Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard
Cornell College dramatic art department presents The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov at Mt. Vernon. Madame Ranevsky returns from Paris amid debt and a mortgage while Lopakhin rises from peasant to merchant to buy the cherry orchard. Firs the aged valet and Anya Varya leave, with the final axe signaling change as the house is cleared for new homes.
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Anton Chek ‘Hov
Cornell College Dramatic Art Department
Mt. Vernon
Russia
Madame Ranevsky
Charlotte Zeigler
Paris
Lopahkin
Kenneth Delaussen
Anya
Varya
Marny Hafer
Jon Tiedemann
Firs
Howard Orms
Chekhov
Sutherland Dows
Cedar Rapids
All Russia
Five Eidora youths captured in Illinois escape saga
Five youths from Ejidora Iowa state training school escaped seven days earlier. Two apprehended in Oak Park said they fled in two stolen cars. Three others were captured in La Salle, taken to Ottawa. Accused escapees include Robert A. Seolsky and Richard H. Wunschel both 16 from Rock Island. Ottawa detainees were Robert Amonds Merrill Runyon and Daniel Yeager. They rode a Rock Island freight train to Seneca.
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Chicago
Ejidora
Illinois
Iowa
Oak Park
la Salle
Ottawa
Robert A. Seolsky
Richard H. Wunschel
Rock Island
Benjamin Barsema
Robert Amonds
Merrill Runyon
Daniel Yeager
Illinois Line
Seneca
Mount Mercy club hears papers on secretarial work
Mount Mercy Junior College Commerce club heard papers by Catherine Theis of Osage and Patricia Loftus of Fort Dodge on secretarial qualifications at Thursday’s meeting. Community religious notices include Go-To-Church-Sunday and sermons at Mount Mercy chapel and the Sunshine Mission. Harold Royer missionary to Africa will speak Sunday at the Church of the Brethren. his family travels from Dallas Center to New York by jeep, with a basket dinner for the event.
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Mount Mercy Junior College
Commerce Club
Catherine Theis
Osage
Patricia Loftus
Fort Dodge
Sodality
Mount Mercy Junior College Chapel
M. J. Tracy
Harold Royer
Africa
Church of the Brethren
Royer
Dallas Center
New York
UAW Conferees Leave Local GM Issues to Unions
DETROIT AP The GM strike settlement was approved by the UAW CIO conference but local unions decide on return to work. Local issues and demands remain unsettled. ratification by 92 locals is required and most unions aim to vote by Sunday. No plants will reopen until national agreement is ratified.
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Detroit
General Motors
CIO
United Auto Workers
R. J. Thomas
UAW -Cio
Defense Rests in Infringement Suit
Attorneys for the Pickwick corporation indicated they completed their defense in the patent infringement suit in federal court here. Alexander C. Mabee of Chicago said he might present two more witnesses Monday morning before resting his case.
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Pickwick Corporation
Chicago
Iowa's WWII dead rise. toll near 8,000 in Iowa
DES MOINES AP The state historical war records division reported Friday that Iowa's World War II dead now number 7,510, up over 200 as early Iowa war deaths were added. Director Bessie Wilson expects the final toll to reach 7,800 to 8,000, with the statewide World War total at 23,578.
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Des Moines
State Historical War Records Division
Iowa
Governor's Office
War Records Division
Bessie Wilson
Churchill Speech on Dardanelles Demand and World Peace
The prepared text shows Churchill urging unity between Britain and the United States to defend freedom and world order. He argues Russia’s role, calls for UN charter principles, and supports a collective approach to the Dardanelles issue while urging cooperation beyond a formal alliance. He stresses responsibility of Allied nations and faith in a peaceful future through fraternal association.
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Russia
United Nations
United States
Hitler
New York Harbor
Great Britain
Organization of the United Nations
British Commonwealth
War and tyranny to be lifted by joint world effort
A speaker expresses faith in friendship and the world charter to lift the curse of war and tyranny. They anticipate broader opening of happiness and freedom to anxious, toiling millions as a central outcome of international solidarity.
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Russia
World Organization
Security Council
Lago-Grupe Negotiations Reach Blanket Bargain Talks
The Lago-Grupe labor talks centered on a blanket agreement for seven Cedar Rapids area plants. The union seeks retroactive pay from February 1 and insists on an 8 hour day with a 44 hour weekly guarantee. Manager Keehn says retroactive pay will be negotiated at each house. Negotiations with US Conciliation Commissioner Mike Sherman ran from Wednesday until Friday evening.
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Cedar Rapids
Keehn
Mike Sherman
Des Moines
Winners Named in Lions Club Music Contest
Winners announced for the Lions club music contest at the Roosevelt hotel. Prizes of 50 dollars go to each winner for music lessons with a teacher of their choice. Hailing from Franklin, McKinley, Roosevelt, and Wilson high schools, the top placers cover violin, cello, trombone, cornet, clarinet and oboe with alternates noted.
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Lions Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Norman Pauly
Franklin High School
Robert Swaney
Franklin
Jo Fran Kouba
McKinley
Herbert Wise
Roosevelt
Jane Bell
Roger Ronk
Forest Steels
Marjorie Long
Ruth Vornhall
Wilson
Neil Borden
Paul Anthony
Ronald Fleming
Stanley Vesely, Jr
Red Cross Fund Rises to 88191 in Linn County Drive
Auditors tally contributions at 88191 for the 1946 Linn county Red Cross campaign led by county chairman Reginald B. Figge. The county quota stood at 86500 with volunteers urged to submit the remaining funds by early next week as the Cedar Rapids division surpassed its 3000 target.
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Red Cross
Linn
Reginald B. Figge
Figge
Prof Eversole to Speak At Accountants Meeting
Professor Harold B. Eversole of the University of Iowa will address the Cedar Rapids Chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants at a dinner meeting in the Roosevelt hotel Wednesday. He will discuss Cost Accounting in Price Determination, with directors meeting at 5 30 p.m research duties noted and his prior role in price administration during 1942 45 in Chicago.
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Harold B. Eversole
University of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
National Association of Cost Accountants
Roosevelt Hotel
Eversole
Iowa Society of Certified Public Accountants
Office of Price Administration
Chicago
Iowa
Deaths Mrs E P Rowland 81 Circle Drive NE
Funeral services for Mrs E P Rowland 81 Circle Drive NE will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at Janeba Funeral Home with Rev Allen E Schoff officiating. Burial will follow in Linwood Cemetery. Surviving granddaughter Norma Jean Pease. Friends may visit at the funeral home.
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E. P. Rowland
Circle Drive
Janeba
Allen E Schoff
Linwood Cemetery
Norma Jean Pease
Board hears Hamilton but takes no action
Dr Samuel W. Hamilton of the U S Public Health Service outlined a long list of recommendations for improving conditions at state mental hospitals to the state board of control in Des Moines. The board took no action. Hamilton suggested abolishing county insane commissions in a Thursday address.
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Des Moines
Samuel W. Hamilton
U.S. Public Health Service
State Board of Control
Hamilton
Hickenlooper To Get Medal In Honor Ceremony
The Selective Service medal will be awarded Monday to 13 former governors now serving in Congress for their role in establishing the system. The ceremony will be in the vice president's office and include Senators Bourke B. Hickenlooper Forrest C. Donnell and Harlan J. Bushfield among the recipients.
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Washington
Congress
Selective Service Headquarters
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Forrest C. Donnell
Missouri
Harlan J. Bushfield
South Dakota
Two Dead In Iowa Woman Killed In Vehicle Crash
A Cedar Rapids crash leaves two deceased. Williams a convicted ex offender tied to prior federal and state paroles appears amid a separate case involving Miss Davy a 18 year old Coe College music student born Coal City Illinois. The accident prompts funeral plans for Miss Davy in Mazon Illinois with family support and local reactions.
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Illinois State Penitentiary
Illinois Institution
Henry N. Graven
OPA
Williams
Graven
Sterling Harman
Rock Island Police
Harman
Miss Davy
Coe
Alma Turechek
Pleiades Society
Coal City
Coal City Township
Leonard A
Hawaii
Cedar Rapids
Turner Funeral Chapel
Mazon
Veteran Navy Destroyer Vet Bound By Drunk Driving Fine
Eugene D. Wickham, 21, a four year navy destroyer veteran, was sentenced by Judge G. K. Thompson to a $300 fine for a drunk driving charge and released after agreeing to installments. Wickham and two Marion youths survived a late Friday crash near Indian Creek bridge. Benedict suffered a broken wrist while Mike Rouse was uninjured. Wickham was arrested by Highway Patrolman Harry A. Cloud and taken to St Luke's hospital with Benedict and a third passenger.
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Eugene D. Wickham
G. K. Thompson
Wickham
Thompson
Marion
Indian Creek Bridge
Mike Rouse
Benedict
St. Luke's Hospital
Morris A. Lave
Olin
Harry A. Cloud
Appeal Upheld in Ouster Action Against Miss Marak
Judge G K Thompson reversed a previous ruling by Justice H R Churchill and sustained Miss Florence Marak's appeal in an ouster case brought by Tonkinson family. The Tonkins claimed unpaid rent for a second floor apartment at 1203 Ninth Street NW. Thompson found the Tonkinson's mother did not attempt rent collection and that Marak was told the landlady was too busy when she offered to pay on February six, and the action was filed the next day.
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G. K. Thompson
Justice of the Peace
H. R. Churchill
Florence Marak
Ray
Tonkinson
Ellis Boulevard
Miss Marak
Ninth Street
Tonkinsons
Second Marriage of Douglas Kohl Voided
Judge Floyd Philbrick ruled Saturday that the marriage of Douglas Kohl also known as Douglas Kingsley and Jeanette Robicheau, which occurred on October 12 in Waco Texas, is null and void. Kohl said he believed his first wife had divorced him and learned while on furlough from army duty that the divorce never occurred.
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Floyd Philbrick
Douglas Kohl
Douglas Kingsley
Jeanette
Robicheau
Waco
Texas
Kohl
Perrine Matriarch Dies. funeral Monday at Monticello hospital
Mrs J H Perrine mother of Beahl T Perrine, of 224 Crescent Drive SE, died in John McDonald Hospital Monticello Friday. Funeral services will be conducted there Monday.
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Jd. H. Perrine
Beahl T. Perrine
Crescent Drive
John McDonald Hospital
Monticello
Marion News People at Williams Burg a funeral and visits
Marion residents report travel to Williamsburg for Mrs. C H Pierce funeral. Dodd and Nidey shipmates from U S S New Mexico plan weekend at Tabor Iowa with Frank Nidey. George E Starks enters St Luke's hospital for operation. Mrs Charles Luse's condition unchanged at Universal Iowa City. Harold Martin of St Louis visiting family in town. Janitor position open. contact numbers listed. Crim visits St Louis. husband is captain stationed there. Gallagher family returns from Richland Center to visit Catherine Ryan. Peter Flickinger from Ida Grove visiting son Albert. Irene Schultz recovering from hip fracture moves to daughter’s home in Park Ridge Illinois.
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Charles Luse
Lou Kassler
Universal Hospital, Iowa City
Irene Schultz
M. H. Knapps
Park Ridge
Evanston
Multiple area churches schedule Sunday services and events
Local churches list morning worship times Bible schools and special services across Marion St Joseph St Congregational Free Methodist Methodist Presbyterian Westminster St Paul Lutheran Prairie Chapel and Seventh Day Church of God with pastors and event times including midweek lentents and crusade opening services all noted in their weekly schedules.
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Baptist
Charles Moore
Bible School
St. Joseph’s Catholic
T. J. McElliott
Vernon H. Carter
Christian Crusade
Zone Youth Fellowship
J. A. Dillinger
Des Moines
Orval Walker
Waterloo
Congregational
Presbyterian Church
Ella Humble Wilson
Free Methodist
Carl M. Cunningham
Glen Williamson
Young People’s
James P. Gable
Presbyterian
C. V.R. de Jong
India
Westminster Fellowship
Wilson
Spiritual Life Group
St. Paul’s Lutheran
Carl T. Wuerffel
Alfred Schmid
Springville
E. W. Waggazer
Cedar Rapids
Prairie Chapel
A. B. Curran
Epworth League
Seventh Day Church of God
Sixth Street
Ninth Avenue
W. W.mcmicken
House Votes War Powers Extension to 1947
Washington AP reports the House extended government rationing, priority, and allocation powers to March 31, 1947, with building materials authority to June 30, 1947. The measure moves to the Senate as debate over price controls and subsidies continues. The Senate also approved 150 million dollars to extend meat and flour subsidies to June 30, 1947.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Banking Committee
Witneses
Capitol
Barkley
Two Boys Run Away From Children's Home
Mrs Anna A Anderson superintendent reports two boys aged 9 and 12 fled the Children's Home around 7 30 pm as Bible class began. Police alerted. One boy is described as wearing a blue shirt and dark pants. The other wore a gray sweater.
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Anna A. Anderson
Men and Women In Service Honors and Transfers
Sgt Earl M Whited son of Mr and Mrs Milton Whited 1123 Nineteenth street SE has been honorably released from the army after 38 months of service Keith Johnson seaman 2/c transferred from San Diego to Jacksonville to attend aviation fundamentals school son of Mrs Betty Johnson 1034 F avenue NW Ralph A Sharf with the 65th Engineers battalion stationed in Osaka Japan promoted from sergeant to staff sergeant has been in the army 28 months His wife and son live at 25 Kenridge terrace
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Earl M. Whited
Milton Whited
Nineteenth Street
Army
Keith Johnson
Seaman
San Diego
Calif
Jacksonville
Fla
Betty Johnson
F Avenue
Ralph A. Sharf
65Th Engineers Construction Battalion
Osaka
Japan
Sharf
Kenridge Terrace
Troop Arrivals by the Associated Press
More than 13 764 service personnel including 152 patients were set to arrive aboard 10 vessels at four U S ports on Saturday. Arrivals included 5 187 troops at New York and Bardstown Victory with 997 more at Bremerhaven, Sea Robin at Le Havre with 2 019 troops, and hospital ship Aleda E Lutz from Oahu with 152 patients. At Seattle 241 army and 336 navy personnel disembarked while San Francisco hosted Sea Cat and Kershaw among others and Norfolk reported no troop details.
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Associated Press
U. S
New York
A. E. Anderson
le Havre
406Th Inf
M.P
Bardstown
Bremerhaven
Med
Treadway Bridge
Sea Robin
Eng. Aen. Bn . Co
U. S. Army
Aleda E. Lutz
Oahu
Seattle
Henry Failing
Alaska
Army
Navy
San Francisco
Sea Cat
Manila
Kershaw
Okinawa
Thomas Jefferson
Norfolk
Benjamin H. Grierson
Leaving Accident Scene Now Means Fine of 25
Donald E. Schwinn of 2238 Meadowbrook Drive SE was fined 25 dollars and costs in police court Saturday for leaving the scene of an accident without identifying himself. The fine reflects a new policy raising hit and run penalties from 5 dollars. Police say Schwinn was picked up Friday after sideswiping a car driven by Earl Davis on Mt Vernon Avenue near Thirty first Street SE. Davis pursued but could not overtake him.
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Frank Burr
Eleventh Street
Donald E. Schwinn
Meadowbrook Drive
Meadow Brook Drive
Dwight Krumboltz
Krumboltz
Polce
Schwinn
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Thirty-first Street
Earl Davis
Mt. Vernon
Davis
Cedar Rapids Men To Quarter Million Club
Twelve Cedar Rapids men are among Iowa life insurers earning 1945 Quarter Million Club status, ranking second behind Des Moines with 13. Membership requires top 100 producers and at least 250 000 in paid business. Cedar Rapids honorees include Robert O. Bickel Ira T. Carruthers Charles Filipi John B. Heidel and others.
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Cedar Rapids
C.V. Shepherd
Des Moines
Vicinity
Robert O. Bickel
Ira T. Carruthers
Charles Filipi
John B. Heidel
H. Perkins
Richard D. Ryan
C. V. Shepherd
Ray Short
R. M. Threlkheld
Kenneth L. Warboy
Vern White
Fred C. Woolrich
Herman. O. Leichsenring
Amana
Frank Peyton
Ryan
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George Faches
Second Street SE
A. L. Shakespeare
Thomas Naso
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Edward M Conrad
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Ida Grove
Albert Flickinger
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Willis A. Glassgow
Y.M.C.A. Indian Guides Committee
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Marvin Smyle
Tom Radloff
Crissman
Larry
Louis Christiansen
John
Gibbs
Radloff
Freddie
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David
Paul Strainland
Jeff
Smylie
Tommy
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