C R Packing Plant Faces Beef Crisis
Rex Conn reports that the Cedar Rapids plant of Wilson and company is operating at half capacity due to OPA price rules, threatening to exit beef operations. Manager H A Palmer cites inability to buy cattle at compliant prices, with receipts down and weather hindering transport. Industry-wide declines in slaughter and tighter meat supplies push prices to OPA limits amid rumors of policy changes.
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Wilson and Company
Cedar Rapids
H. A. Palmer
Palmer
Iowa
Minnesota
$25,000 Loss Estimated In Killian Blaze
A smouldering two alarm fire Monday night damaged a Killian company warehouse in the old Central hotel building on Fourth avenue SE. The blaze started in the basement and burned about five hours, with five engine companies and one aerial ladder responding. Damage to the building was about $5,000 with stock losses possibly $15,000 to $20,000. Fire officials noted heavy smoke and heat hindered operations. the origin was undetermined.
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Old Central Hotel
Fourth Avenue SE
Second
Third Streets
E. P. Kohout
Edwin Locke Named Assistant to Truman
Edwin A Locke Jr 35 a Boston native is named special presidential assistant by President Truman The White House said Locke will help with government reorganization and other duties He previously served as executive assistant to Donald M Nelson at the War Production Board and later as the President's representative on economic issues in China
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Truman
Edwin A. Locke, Jr
The
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Locke
Boston
Donald M. Nelson
War Production Board
China
Must Perfect Charter Drives Truman Speech to Congress
President Truman urged Congress to perfect the United Nations Charter in a report on the recent London UNO meeting. He said the United States backs the Charter and aims to fully implement its principles to ensure lasting peace and security for all.
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Truman
Congress
United States
UNO
London
America
CIO Voters Ratify GM Agreement
Detroit AP CIO United Auto Workers ratified the national contract with General Motors after a 113 day nationwide strike. Vice President Walter Reuther announced in a letter to GM Vice President Harry Anderson that sufficient local votes already ensured overwhelming approval. About 175,000 strikers had been out for 119 days. some plants were preparing to resume work while 18 plants remained on strike over local issues.
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United Auto Workers
General Motors
Walter P Reuther
Harry W. Anderson
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Reuther
Saginaw
Mich
Flint
Buick
Atomic bomb cocktails blamed for bigamous marriage
LOS ANGELES AP Ten atomic bomb cocktails were blamed for her bigamous marriage to Hugo Fred Bente Jr. The Palm Beach Florida woman, 24, said they wed in Las Vegas Nevada on March 9 eight hours after meeting. The recipe included two jiggers of whisky seven-up shaved ice grenadine and a vodka floater.
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Los Angeles
Hugo Fred Bente
Palm Beach
Fla
Bente
Las Vegas
Nev
Betty Hutton announces pregnancy after quick Chicago marriage
Hollywood actress Betty Hutton says she is expecting a baby several months from now. She wed Ted Briskin on September 2 in Chicago after a brief courtship, confirming the forthcoming arrival.
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Miss Hutton
Ted Briskin
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British Hold Physicist for Trial for Telling Secrets
In London and Washington reports, British physicist Dr. Alan Nunn May, 34, is held for trial on charges of divulging atomic research information to an unidentified person. Bail is refused. May, a senior Atomic Energy Committee figure, faces questions about Russia as defense counsel contests the secrecy breach.
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INS
Alan Nunn May
Russia
May
King’s College
Canada
Wallace Akers
Atomic Energy Research
Gerald Gardiner
Ieat
Cedar Rapids teachers get 135 percent base pay hike
Cedar Rapids school board voted a 135 percent of the 1929 base pay schedule for starting teachers effective September, raising starting salary to 1798.20 from 1665. A $5000 cap applies to high school principals' salaries for 1946-47, with several principals near or reaching the ceiling. Board debated outside experience credits and the need for a new base schedule, with a temporary compromise proposed. The board also approved seven new pianos for the music department and garden spaces for summer playgrounds.
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Franklin
Fred J. Kluss
Roosevelt
William L. Paxson
McKinley High School
Ed Moorman
Ames
Waterloo
Arthur Deamer
Douglas Grant
Moorman
Deamer
Charles Penningroth
J. K. von Lackum
J. C. Blodgett
Dwight Krumboltz
Krumboltz
George Kosek
Playground and Recreation Commission
Fillmore
Cleveland
Russians Set Sail on New 5-Year Plan
Moscow reports Russia launched a five year plan to push atomic energy use and industrial output to 1.5 times pre war levels by 1950. Targets include iron 19 million tons steel 25 million tons coal 250 million tons oil 35 million tons and electricity 85 billion kWh.
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Supreme Soviet
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State Planning Department
Voznesensky
Soviet Union
A. E. Yefremov
Council of the Union of Supreme Soviet
Moscow Radio
London
U.S.S.R
J Linetsky
Hoover arrives in Paris on mission for Truman
Former President Hoover lands at Orly Airport on a food mission for President Truman arriving from the United States.
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Paris
Truman
Orly
United States
Nimitz Says Navy Need Six Months To Restore Strength
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz told the House Naval Committee a six month minimum would be required to rebuild the navy to 1945 strength in an emergency. He warned a proposed 2.1 billion dollar cut could jeopardize US world influence and homeland defense, detailing expected manpower and ship reductions by March 1, 1947.
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Chester W. Nimitz
House Naval Committee
Nimitz
Naval Operations
Congress
Indefinite Draft Extension Recommended by Draft Director
Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey urged the House Military Affairs Committee to extend the draft law indefinitely with an 18 month service limit for inductees. He suggested the extension be cancelable by the President or Congress and would keep the 18 to 45 age group, with inductions capped at under 27 by executive order.
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House Military Affairs Committee
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Hershey
Congress
Canadian Red Split Opposed By W. L. King
Prime Minister Mackenzie King told Parliament Canada faces grave espionage concerns tied to Soviet activities through the Ottawa embassy. He cited 1943 44 operations, warned against severing ties with the USSR, and urged careful action while seeking full facts and allied cooperation.
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W. L. Mackenzie King
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Stalin
Igor Gouzenko
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Public Service
B-29 Missing Over California District
The Fourth Air Force reports a B-29 from Hickam Field Honolulu is missing over Fairfield California presuming fuel exhaustion. Public officials say the search is underway with military aid and coastal tracking teams deployed along the flight path impact area.
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Fairfield
Calif
Fourth Air Force
Hickamfield
Honolulu
New Anti Flu Vaccine Issued For Public Use
Princeton based report states a newly developed influenza vaccine provides immunity for one to two years. Dr. Wendell M. Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute explains the vaccine, produced by injecting influenza virus into fertilized eggs and refining the solution, will be sold in drugstores as a preventive measure against flu outbreaks.
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Princeton
N. J
Wendell M. Stanley
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
Stanley
King Claims Atlantic Dash Saved Atomic Secrets
Ottawa Prime Minister W L Mackenzie King says he personally crossed the Atlantic last fall to intercept a British scientist he believed planned to divulge top atomic energy secrets to Russia. He did not name the scientist.
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Ottawa
Canada
W. L. Mackenzie King
Atlantic
Russia
King
Iran says Russia breaks 1942 treaty in Iran
Tehran charges Russia with violating the 1942 treaty by keeping troops in Iran after March 2. Iran files complaint with the United Nations Security Council as diplomatic circles consider a possible direct appeal to Stalin by President Truman for Big Three unity before the council meets. UK reports U S appeal to the Shah to bring the issue to the UN, per Tehran dispatch.
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Iran
Russia
Gholam Abbas Aram
United Nations Security Council
UNC
Trygve Lie
Lie
Truman
Josef Stalin
Stalin
UNO
Security Council
V. M. Molotov
Andrei I. Vishinsky
Andrei A. Gromyko
Mild Weather To Return to Iowa
Cedar Rapids and eastern Iowa enjoyed sunny skies and springlike warmth on Tuesday as the weekend rain faded and temperatures rose. It was 59 degrees in Cedar Rapids at 2:30 PM with forecasts calling for more mild conditions tonight and tomorrow, a notable improvement from Monday’s cold spell.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Mercury
Chambers
Police Release Runaway Heiress
Detroit police freed 16 year old Suzanne Froedtert after questioning her runaway trip that sparked a nationwide search. Prosecutor Gerald K. O'Brien ordered her release at noon Tuesday and said 24 year old Ollie J Williams, her bus trip companion, would be released later the same day.
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Suzanne Froedtert
Milwaukee
Gerald K. O’brien
Ollie J.williams
Suzanne
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