Portal Pay Ban Moves Toward Conference and Veto Test
Senate and House clash over a nearly six billion dollar portal pay ban with lawmakers debating Truman's veto. The conference will mesh the Senate version banning past and present portal pay with a two year filing limit and the House one year limit. Democrats accuse the bills of widening the portal issue.
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Washington
Truman
Eightieth Congress
Senate
Lucas
Sen
Wiley
R-Wis
Earl Michener
R-Mich
House
Gwynne
Browa
Much Married J. F. Williams Does It Again
James F. Williams age 65 of 529 Fifth Street SE ties the knot for the sixteenth time with Louise Parker of Cleveland who became wife No. 16 on Oct 4 1946 after an eight month courtship through letters. Williams notorious for rapid-fire marriages dates back to 1904 and spans 15 prior unions with brief terms, paralleled by reports from Iowa.
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Louis Breuer
James F. Williams
Fifth Street SE
Iowa
Louise Parker
Cleveland
Williams
Mr. Vernon
James
Senate passes bill ending portal pay suits in U S District Court
The senate approved legislation by 64 to 24 to wipe out four portal pay suits now in U S District Court. The cases against LaPlant Choate Manufacturing Link Bell Speeder Midland Engineering and Rapids Equipment are set to open their spring term on April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portal
U. S. District Court
Senate
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Link Bell-Speeder Corporation
Midland Engineering Corporation
Rapids Equipment Company
Cedar Rapids Sees Warm Start as Spring Arrives
Cedar Rapids recorded 62 degrees at 2 30 p m marking a mild Saturday start to spring. The weather service projected warmer conditions for Sunday with a chance of temperatures again reaching the 60s. Overnight lows ranged from the mid 20s to low 30s as the day opened.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Embezzler Repays $935 After Two Decades
Geneva Illinois report notes Albion Carlson, once linked to forgery and embezzlement charges from 1929, repaid $935 to Charles Trafton and Frank Krasa after being located at a Rocky Mount home. The story details prior indictments and their later dismissal with right to reinstate.
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Geneva
Ill
Albion Carlson
Charles Trafton
Frank Krasa
Carlson
Trafton
Indianapolis
Rocky Mount
N. C
Quentin Biewitt
Phone Workers Vote to Strike Next Month
The nation s telephone workers vote 15 to 1 to strike next month. Officials said 75 to 90 percent of the union s members participated in the nearly complete strike ballots.
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Washington
National Federation of Telephone Workers
Leftist prisoners killed in Gythion raid by Rightists
Seventeen leftist inmates were reportedly killed when a group of Rightists seized the jail at Gythion in the Peloponnesus and overpowered a military garrison. The attackers dragged out thirty three prisoners before the killings were carried out, according to press reports.
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Athens
Gythion
Peloponnesus
Magazine saleswoman fined for disorderly conduct
In Chicago Mrs. Edward Gotham accused Rosemary Mull of forcing entry during a magazine sales pitch. Judge Victor A. Kula fined Mull ten dollars and costs after she left credentials and a dispute with Gotham escalated to a police arrest.
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Chicago
Edward Gotham
Miss Mull
Kula
Three Small Children Die in Central City Fire
A Central City home fire claimed the lives of three children, Rose Marie Kozletsky five, Barbara three, and Stella Ann 13 months, while their mother briefly left for a nearby store. The fire’s cause is unknown.
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Central City
INS
Johnstown
Rose Marie Kozletsky
Barbara
Stella Ann
John Kozletsky
Odd Recluse Found Dead in Fifth Avenue Mansion
Police found Homer Collyer 75 dead on the floor of the rat infested Fifth Avenue home while Langley Collyer 71 remained missing. The brothers had hidden in the mansion for decades amid vast wealth and antique treasures as a search for Langley continued through the debris filled rooms.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Collyer
Homer Collyer
Columbia University
Admiralty
Homer
Langley
Oxi
C-47 Crashes in Ethiopian Wilds
A United States C-47 transport with two state department officials and four crew crashed north of Addis Ababa during a flight from Asmara to the Ethiopian capital. All aboard were believed killed. Passengers included Don L. Sullivan petroleum attache at the Cairo embassy and Daniel C. Dennett cultural attache at Beirut. Crew names not released. Col. W. K. McNown led an investigation as a search party moved from Addis Ababa.
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Cairo
State Department
Addis Ababa
Don L. Sullivan
Beverly Hills
Canif
United States
Daniel C. Dennett
Boston
Legation
Beirut
Lebanon
Asmara
Eritrea
W. K. McNown
G O P Stalemate on Budget Amid Conference Deadlock
Washington reports Republican agreement on a budget compromise collapsed at a senate and house conference. House conferees rejected a senate plan to cut 5.25 billion from Truman's 37.5 billion budget for 1948, leaving the committee recessed subject to call.
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Washington
Senate
House
G.O.P
Truman
Congress
Train Hits Auto Kill Six Children in Utah Crash
Wilford H. Webster 55 survived with daughter Dorothy 20 and son Dee 12 after the Union Pacific Los Angeles Limited struck their car in Kaysville Utah. Six children ages 14 9 7 14 10 10 died. State patrolman reports Webster waited for a northbound freight to pass before crossing double tracks.
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Kaysville
Utah
Union Pacific
Los Angeles
Wilford H. Webster
Dorothy
Dee
Ed State
Webster
Hal Barnes
S Barnes
David Barnes
Carol Lee Presler
David Sandall
Jo -Ann Webster
Firm Boosts Price of Newsprint Six Dollars a Ton
The Canadian International Paper Sales Company announced a six dollar per ton price increase for newsprint effective April 1. The price rises from eighty four dollars to ninety. Analysts expect other domestic and Canadian producers to follow suit after the move. Newsprint had been eighty four dollars under OPA control at year start 1946. Earlier increases of seven and ten dollars per ton were authorized in August and October respectively.
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New York
OPA
Auto Thief Offers Eye to Blind Girl in Court Room
Gloria Garrity, 14 and blind, wonders if she may receive an eye from Joseph Ross, a 26 year old auto thief awaiting sentencing. Judge Leibowitz weighs the legalities of voluntary eye transplantation as a possible act of mercy. Ross, a two time felon with a long record, says he wishes to do something honorable for the girl.
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Leo Turner
New York
Gloria Garrity
Astoria
Long Island
Brooklyn
Joseph Ross
Gloria
Ross
Samuel Leibowitz
Lucy Garrity
Ross Friday
Leibowitz’ Court
World of Darkness
Leibowitz
Potsdam and Yalta Deals Will Be Told
The state department plans to publish full texts of the Yalta and Potsdam agreements within days. Rep. Mundt says publication will ease congressional doubts on aid for Greece and Turkey and other U S foreign policy issues. He urges disclosure of Tehran as well. The piece summarizes wartime understandings including Soviet entry against Japan and reparations bases.
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Washington
State Department
Yalta
Potsdam
Rep
Mundt
R-S.d
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Greece
Turkey
United States
Congress
Tehran
Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Truman
Russia
Japan
Kurile Islands
United Nations Assembly
Soviet Union
Woolly Dog Charms Riverside Tiny Tots In Rinkledorff Play
Louise Johnston reports on 6000 Cedar Rapids children visiting the Paramount theater to watch the Junior League production The Tinder Box in Rinkledorff. The woolly dog Round Tower dazzled the crowd with tricks while a quirky cast including a giggling witch and a stern king entertained.
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Cedar Rapids
Rinkledorff
Paramount Theater
Quaker Oats Strike Ends With Compromise Vote
The nine day old strike at the Quaker Oats plant ends as 60 percent of CIO United Cereal Workers approve a compromise contract. The world’s largest cereal mill will not reopen until Monday as rest periods are restructured to 1 1/4 hours. About 950 workers walked out March 13 over rest breaks.
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Bayne Freeland
Quaker Oats Company
CIO United Cereal Workers Local Bargaining Committee
Quaker Oats
Robert Forster
Chicago
Quaker
Tito orders reserve officers to report for duty
A Belgrade dispatch reports that Tito has ordered all reserve officers to report for two years of military duty beginning soon. The call signals intensified wartime measures amid escalating tensions in the region.
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Tito
London
INS
Reuters
Belgrade
Robert Han Negan Returns to Miami Beach for Recuperation
Extremely pale Robert Han Negan arrived in Miami Beach on Friday night with his wife and a nurse for an extended recuperative vacation.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Reem Robert Hannegan
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