Vast Pacific Hunt For 12 Missing From Fort Dearborn
Honolulu reports the cruiser Tucson and 19 destroyers lead a massive search for 12 sailors missing from the lifeboat launched from the tanker Fort Dearborn after its mid Pacific breakup. Ninety crew were rescued from the stern and bow sections as daylight fades on a days long perilous mission.
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Pearl Harbor
Fort Dearborn
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Long Beach
Calif
Dobbins
Navy Amphibious Force
el Dorado
American President Lines
W. H. Gordon
San Francisco
Hawaii
Showdown on House Labor Bills Delayed
A heated Iowa House quarrel over five restrictive labor bills ended in a temporary sidetrack agreement. The move pauses action, with a later call of the house possible if both sides notify each other. Governors, Congressmen, and party splits shaped the maneuver as bills target closed shops, picketing violence, secondary boycotts, and union affiliations.
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DES Moines
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Robert D. Blue
Iowa
Blue
Political Action Committee
Cio-Pac
Wilson Reed
Fairfield
Senate
U S Navy Leyte Carrier Heads to Dardanelles Visit
A U S Navy task force led by the 27 000 ton aircraft carrier Leyte will visit the Dardanelles in Turkey next month. The group includes three light cruisers and six destroyers and will also call at Suda Bay Crete Gibraltar Naples Istanbul and Alexandria during its Mediterranean voyage. The plan, under consideration for two months, was announced in Washington.
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Dardanelles
Prince Philip Becomes Naturalized British Subject
LONDON UP Prince Philip of Greece has become a naturalized British subject, a development tied in public speculation to his ties with Princess Elizabeth. The announcement was revealed Tuesday.
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London
Prince Philip of
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Princess Elizabeth
And Still the Judge Refused Him Divorce
NORWICH England judge Carey Evans refused a divorce to Richard Cook farmer 33 on cruelty grounds. Cook testified his wife 23 struck him with a bottle dumped butter swore at him tossed his clothes out the window and soaked his shirt. Evans ruled the acts did not harm his health and ordered him to return to his wife within 14 days.
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ULP
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Richard Cook
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Credit Conference Breaks Into Specialized NRCA Sessions
Louise Johnston reports the District Credit Conference shifted from combined meetings to separate NRCA sessions. The National Retail Credit Association, Collection Service division and Credit Bureau division of the Associated Credit Bureaus of America held focused discussions. Smaller NRCA groups met at the Montrose hotel to address issues specific to their businesses.
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National Retail Credit Association
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Duluth Leader Reuben Shapiro Elected Sixth District President
Reuben Shapiro of Duluth was elected sixth district president of the National Retail Credit Association on Monday night. Duluth was chosen as the site of the 1948 convention. Other officers include K G Slocomb Winnipeg vice president Neal Paul St Paul secretary treasurer C Ray Stowell Sioux City national director Rex Smith Lincoln alternate Tom Elliott Sioux City J L Allen Minneapolis Louis R Waters Des Moines Fred Aldrich Pec an Don Bassler Omaha rectors. Margaret Welch Council Bluffs was elected sixth district president of the Midwest Council of Credit Women’s Breakfast Clubs of North America. Other officers are Mrs Perdita Mockett Lincoln vice president Florence Simonson Superior Wis secretary and Marie Nugent Fr Dodge treasurer. District officers of the Credit Bureau Division elected Tuesday morning are C A Wildes Minneapolis president John Coad Duluth vice president Godfrey Grosz Fargo Louis Ludke Fort Dodge L E Uden Hastings Neb E S Miller Sioux Falls S D Patricia Barloon Muscatine and Allen Hupp Omaha directors.
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Duluth
National Retail Credit Association
Shapiro
Hee Morse
Cedar Rap
K. G. Slocomb
Winnipeg
Neal Paul
St. Paul
C. Ray Stowell
Sioux City
Rex Smith
Lincoln
Tom Elliott
J. L. Allen
Minneapolis
Louis R. Waters
Des Moines
Fred al
John Coad
Godfrey Grosz
Fargo
Louis Ludke
Fort Dodge
L. E. Uden
Hastings
Neb
E. S. Miller
Sioux Falls
S. D
Patricia Barloon
Muscatine
Allen Hupp
Omaha
Credit leaders urged broader civic involvement at Roosevelt talks
Max Meyer of Lincoln urged credit bureau managers to engage with community leaders to grow in stature. Patricia Barbon of Muscatine challenged the beauty over brains hiring theory, saying enterprise and effort matter for work performance.
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Meyer
Patricia Barbon
Muscatine
Cedar Rapids prepares new teacher pay plan
The Cedar Rapids School Board agrees to a revised salary schedule for 1947 48, ranging from 1900 to 3800 dollars with increments every five years after the maximum. The plan dates from 1929 style pay and excludes supervisors principals and teaching principals. Admitted funding is not yet secured and starting college graduates with one year experience would earn 2100 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids
Board of Education
Clyde Parker
Mickey the singing mouse records a full song at home
In Lancaster Massachusetts Mickey a pet mouse with a baritone canary voice has made a 90 second recording of a song. Mrs Edmister says the mouse sings every few days and Robert 15 used a business recorder to capture it while Mickey perched under a bookcase. Thornton Burgess calls singing mice possible though rare.
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Lancaster
Mass
Mickey
Ruel M. Edmister
Edmister
Springfield
Thornton W. Burgess
Plane crash kills couple near Rapid City army base
Mr and Mrs Jess Randolph Ice of Spearfish South Dakota were killed instantly Monday evening when the airplane they were flying crashed a mile west of the army air base near Rapid City.
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Rapid City
S. D
Jess Randolph
Spearfish
Army Air Base
New Cedar Rapids Summer School Program Approved
Cedar Rapids school board approved Clyde Parker's three part summer plan for public students. The slate includes a baseball program with possible IHSAA tournament entry, a music festival, and a self directed summer school. Tuition targets and enrollment limits were set with costs around 4000 dollars for baseball and music.
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Clyde Parker
Parker
Joint Policy Statement Draws Senate Criticism
Senator Vandenberg denounces a Democratic-Republican joint statement backing Truman’s anti communist policy as bringing foreign affairs into politics. In the House, Eaton sponsors aid to Greece and Turkey totaling 500 million dollars with a RF C loan. The measure aims to arm the President with discretion and advisers while hearings are planned.
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Vandenberg
R-Mich
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Senate
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R-N.y
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Turkey
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Pioneer of Auto Industry Is Dead
New York AP reports William Crapo Durant founder of General Motors died in his sleep at 2 15 am aged 85 after a five year illness. Durant helped build GM and Chevrolet shaping early auto industry amid failed consolidations and later bankruptcy. He and Catherine Lederer were at his side. Durant had joined automotive pioneers in the Automotive Hall of Fame last May.
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William Crapo Durant
General Motors Corporation
Catherine Lederer
Durant
General Motors
Ford Motor Company
Eastern Banking
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General Motors Company
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Star
Flint
Automotive Hall of Fame
Big Four Talks Darken Over German Reparations
In Moscow, Secretary of State Marshall and British Foreign Secretary Bevin denounced Molotov's claim that the western zones owe 10 billion dollars in reparations. Bidault pressed for Ruhr Saar regimes and opposed raising German industry levels, urging transfer of western capital goods and a staged unity approach.
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Andrei Vishinsky
Moscow
United States
Marshall
Russia
Germany
Council of Foreign Ministers
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Molotov
Britain
France
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Bidault
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Kremlin
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Saar
British Girl and Coal Miner Finally Married
Eileen Edwards and Theodore Crabtree wed after weeks of frustrated wedding plans in Welch West Virginia. The British girl and the coal miner mended a broken engagement with a ceremony that ended a long wait for the couple and their families.
Pastors Pledge to Refuse Divorcee Marriages in Ontario
In Ontario California ministers pledged not to marry divorced persons who cannot prove their grounds were sufficient from a Christian standpoint. The ministerial union adopted a pledge requiring couples to consult a pastor before seeking legal action in domestic troubles.
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Ontario
Calif
Ministerial Union
Truman urged world disarmament conference now
Senator Tydings declared in Washington that President Truman should convene an immediate world disarmament conference due to the impotence of the United Nations as presently constituted to deal effectively with international affairs.
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Tydings
D-Md
Senate
Truman
United Nations
Temperatures To Remain Unchanged In Snowy Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids saw light snow Tuesday with temperatures dropping from 36 to 33 degrees by 2 30 pm. The Weather Bureau forecast only a slight drop in temperatures for Wednesday and values near the 36 degree average across the five day outlook.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Mercury
Tn Rs
Procter and Gamble Raises Soap Prices Five Cents
Cincinnati report says Procter and Gamble announced a five cent increase in wholesale prices for soaps and soap flakes citing higher material and labor costs as the reason.
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Cincinnati
INS
Proctor and Gamble Company
Grain Prices Drop Sharply In Late Trading
Chicago AP reported grain futures fell sharply as March wheat slid the 10 cent daily limit from an early 3.05 a bushel amid 18 percent drop. The decline followed rumors the government was negotiating with Kansas City interests to delay spring wheat delivery at the Great Lakes opening, freeing wheat for millers and short holders.
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March
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