Cedar Rapids City Budget for 1946 47 Increases Over Last Year
City budget for 1946 47 totals 1 877 360 to break even starting April 1. Increase of 168 405.25 over 1945 46 funds projects in streets sewers street lighting and office supplies. Hearing on April 1 at 10 a m to consider final adoption. Major rise in Williams department for streets and public improvements and higher salaries in fire police engineering and parks.
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Jack Ferring
Cedar Rapids
Louis D. Burgos
Dave L. Williams
Department of Streets and Public Improvements
Williams
Burgus
Frank K. Hahn
Board of Health Fund
Fire Department
Police Department
Parks
Ed Stefan
Parks Department
Heiress Missing for Week Found With Truck Driver
Suzanne Froedtert a 16 year old heiress from Milwaukee vanished March 11 from an exclusive Madison boarding school. She was found in a Highland Park rooming house with 24 year old Ollie Williams a truck driver. Williams faces Mann Act charges and Suzanne is held on juvenile delinquency and as a material witness.
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Detroit
Suzanne Froedtert
Ollie Williams
Suzanne
Kurtis R. Froedtert
Milwaukee
FBI
Madison
Wis
Williams
Ivan S. Brown
Highland Park Detective Bureau
Hillman Idie
Highland Park
Sue
Brown
Sue Muer
Miss Froedtert
Idie
Infant Dies In Suspected Suffocation At Cedar Rapids
Mrs. Clarence L. Moore awoke Monday to find two month old Dorothy Mae lifeless beside her after nursing the night before. Linn county coroner Dr. T Frank Hersch ruled suffocation. Survived by the infant's parents brother and four grandparents all of Cedar Rapids. Funeral planned at Moen chapel at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
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Cedar Rapids
Clarence L. Moore
Forty-ninth Street
T. Frank Hersch
Linn County
Dorothy Mae
C. H. Moore
Harlan Butters
Moen Funeral
No Auto Model Changes in 1946
Ford Motor Co said no new 1947 cars this year and any new models will wait until after January. The statement signals a broader industry pattern as automakers delay model changes to focus on volume in the current production year.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
War Dept. declares KIA for airman Brecht
Staff Sgt. Raymond P. Brecht aerial engineer on a B-24 was declared killed in action Feb 6 1946 per War Department notice to his mother Mrs Henry Brecht Watkins. He was missing over the North Sea since Feb 5 1945 after leaving Cheddington England on an operational mission. He had entered service Oct 21 1941 and went overseas in Dec 1944. his last home visit was May 1944 after his father’s death. He belonged to Catholic Order of Foresters St Josephs Court 1360 Norway and the Eagles Aerie No ...
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Cedar Rapids
Raymond P
Jim” Brecht
War Department
Henry Brecht
Watkins
North Sea
Cheddington
England
Order of Foresters
St. Joseph's Court
Norway
The
Eagles
Aerie No
Mildred Woolstrchill
Virginia Barta
Artesian
S. D
41 Pointers Eligible For Return March 21
Enlisted men with 41 points will be eligible for return to the United States by March 21. Eighth Army Headquarters announced Monday. First contingents of the 2,000 men affected will leave for the United States aboard the transport Marine Robin Marci. 24 or 25.
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Yokohama
United States
Eighth Army
Robin Marci
Li Chao ling chairman of Sino-Russian group assassinated
The New China news agency in Yenan reports Kuomintang reactionaries assassinated Li Chao ling, head of the Sino Russian Friendship Association, on Sunday night.
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Yenan
China
Communist New China News Agency
Kuomintang
Li Chao-ling
Sino-Russian Friendship Association
Woman 43 Rescued After Two Weeks on Lonely Isle
A 43 year old woman from Van Nuys California was rescued by the coast guard after spending two weeks on Anacapa Island off the southern California coast. She survived by signaling fires and clinging to a gas drum after a fishing trip with her husband Roy Brown and John Barta ended in a wreck. Her husband and Barta were believed lost at sea. The coast guard located her at Anacapa island and returned her to Port Hueneme where doctors said she was recovering.
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Los Angeles
Coast Guard
Roy Brown
van Nuys
Calif
Rocky Anacapa Island
Santa Monica
Maxine Trader
Brown
Port Hueneme
Navy
John Barta
Long Beach
Nancy Lee
Johnny
Roy
Mrs. Brown
Anacapa Island
Barta
Williams Waives To Grand Jury In Manslaughter Case
Lawrence Wesley Williams 29 of 723 Fourth Avenue SE waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury after arraignment before Justice Howard R Churchill Monday. Williams held at city jail then moved to county jail. bond set at 5000. An agency of the state parole board attended. The charge stems from a car strike Friday night that killed Coe College sophomore June LaVelle Davy. another Coe student Hazel del Yates 18 of Palo improved at St Luke's hospital.
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Cedar Rapids
Lawrence Wesley Williams
Fourth Avenue SE
Howard R. Churchill
Williams
Justice Urchill
State Parole Board
June LaVelle Davy
Coe College
Coe
Hazel del Yates
Palo
St. Luke’s Hospital
First Avenue
Twelfth Street
Egyptian clerk Ahmed Ali held on hazardous device charges
In Cairo Ahmed Ali, a former clerk described as American, was detained Monday on charges related to a hazardous device incident at a movie theater last Sunday. Police provided تفاصيل limited information about the case.
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Cairo
Ahmed Ali
Ali
R. B. Williams Fined for Drunk Driving in Cedar Rapids
Raymond B. Williams, 34, of 521 Cobbancourt SE, failed a district court plea of guilty to drunk driving after a head on collision on Fifth Street SE. Judge Floyd Philbrick imposed a $300 fine plus court costs and allowed release on $100, with the remaining balance due in 90 days. John Fletcher, driving the other car, testified Williams was on the wrong side of the street and attempted to avoid the crash.
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Cedar Rapids News
Public Safety
Cedar Rapids
Raymond B. Williams
Cobbancourt SE
Floyd Philbrick
Williams
Fifth Street
Third Avenue
Philbrick
Thement
John Fletcher
Bover Avenue
Fletcher
Chapman To Be Named Krug Undersecretary
Julius A. Krug assumed the interior secretary post and Oscar L. Chapman was nominated as undersecretary. The changes were announced in Washington by the AP on Monday.
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Chapman
Krug
Washington AP
Julius A.krug
Interior
Oscar L.chapman
Baruch Nominated as U S Member on UNO Atomic Board
President Truman designates Bernard Baruch 75 veteran financier and adviser for the United States representative on the 12 member UNO atomic energy commission. Baruch will help formulate a plan to control atomic energy for peace and outlaw atomic weapons. He led the War Industries Board in World War I and advised on rubber and demobilization in World War II.
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Washington
Truman
Bernard Baruch
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Baruch
Wall Street
Senate
United States
UNO Commission On Atomic Energy
War Industries Board
War Production Board
Armed Services
Roosevelt
James F. Byrnes
South Americans To View Cedar Rapids Industry
Twenty one South American engineers and experienced construction men will visit Cedar Rapids next summer to study local road machinery operation and maintenance. Frank F P D Aquirla, ex port sales manager for Iowa Manufacturing, announced at a Rotary luncheon. He said exchanges promote goodwill between South and North America and noted Cedar Rapids plants as examples.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank FP. D’aquila
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Rotary Club
South America
North America
D’aquila
South
United States
Reds Pulling Out of Reich
London reports Russian troops withdrawing from eastern Germany they occupy since V-E day. 75 percent already gone with remaining forces to be replaced by Soviet military police, instruction to transfer large German estates to German communities for landless peasants.
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London
Germany
Berlin
London Sunday Observer
British Foreign Office
Sunday Observer
War Office
John R Nickolls Listed Killed in Action Over Germany
Staff Sgt. John R. Nickolls 20 gunner on a B 26 bomber listed killed in action over Germany. Missing since March 13 1945. Awards include air medal Purple Heart and an oak leaf cluster. Plane wreckage near Frankfurt claimed two crew survivors. Surviving family listed incl parents Mr and Mrs John T Nickolls and three sisters.
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Cedar Rapids
John R. Nickolls
Germany
War Department
John T. Nickolls
Avenue
Air Corps
Franklin High School
Nichols
Las Vegas
New
Nickells
John
Frankfort
Marjorie
Dayton
Ohio
Helen
Dorothy Ann
Gazette Photographer Robbed of $200 in Parking Lot
Gazette photographer Del Blumenshine was attacked Sunday night in The Gazette parking lot by a knife-wielding prowler who stole $200 after a brief chase. He described the assailant to police as squad cars and detectives searched the area.
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Cedar Rapids
del Blumenshine
Gazette
Third Avenue
Fifth Street
Blumenshine
Sixth Street
Tenth Street
Giving Friend Carfare Nearly Fatal for Boy
A newspaper delivery boy Boyd Foster Jr. eleven walked twelve blocks home after giving his last pennies to friend Alvin Johnson. They were after a movie when a hit and run driver struck Boyd, sending him to a hospital with a possible skull fracture and facial injuries.
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Chicago
INS
Boyd Foster, Jr
Boyd
Alvin Johnson
Alvin
Iran Leaders Define Stance on Oil Talks With Russia
London embassy officials say Iran will negotiate oil concessions with Russia only if Soviet troops leave Iran. They discuss Qavam’s possible role, a dissolved parliament, and the risk of a leftist revolution backed by Moscow as conditions tilt toward an oil settlement.
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London
Iran
Russia
Ahmed Qavam Es Saltaneh
Tehran
Q@avam
Qavam
Ahmed Ahmedi
London Daily Telegraph
Moscow
American Vice-Consul Detained in Tabriz Incident
Washington said Robert Rossow, American vice consul in Tabriz, was detained for about 30 minutes at a Red Army post. Moscow expressed regret, while the State Department downplayed significance. Tehran warned against reopening UN Security Council discussions.
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Washington
Iran
Tabriz
Robert Rossow
Red Army
State Department
Tehran
Qavam
Russia
United Nations Security Council
United States
Rossow
Soviet Union vows no expansion but seeks strength
Moscow radio quoted stating the Soviet Union has no expansionist desires and no plan to conquer foreign territories or subjugate countries. It adds the USSR must grow stronger with modern tech and economy and to stay on guard against possible incidents.
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London
INS
Moscow Radio
Soviet Union
Atomic element found in India sparks energy debate
London reports the house of commons heard of vast deposits of a valuable atomic element in the Indian state of Travancore. Arthur Henderson said the deposits are property of the state and could influence atomic energy policy.
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London
House of Commons
Travancore
Arthur Henderson
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