Lewis Orders Diggers Back to Pits After Memorial Halt
United Mine Workers President John L Lewis announced that 463000 idle miners must return to work by Monday March 28, ending a two week memorial stoppage. The directive followed backers of James Boyd's federal bureau of mines appointment and urged full staffing as railroads rehired workers.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
UMW
Lewis
Senate
James Boyd
Federal Bureau of Mines
Boyd
Cedar Rapids barber Kermit Craft dies by own action
Kermit Craft 47 of 1554 Sixth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids died of a gunshot wound in his basement shortly after 8 am Thursday. Coroner Robert Brosh ruled death by own action. He owned a barber shop at Union bus depot. Survived by wife Florence Torson a son two brothers a sister and a father. Services at Turner chapel pending.
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Cedar Rapids
Kermit Craft
Sixth Avenue SE
Robert Brosh
Craft
Union Bus Depot
Tom Condon
Hawkeye
First Presbyterian Church
Mizpah Lodge
Iowa
el Kabir Shrine
Eagles
Barbers Union
Turner Chapel
Levee Breach Threatens Port Allen Louisiana
Mississippi River broke a 150 to 200 foot gap in the west bank levee near Baton Rouge causing floods across delta lands. About 6,000 people in plantations and Port Allen area prepared to evacuate as refugees moved toward the town and highway 190 was submerged.
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Baton Rouge
Mississippi
West Bank
Here
Port Allen
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Missiissippi
Council Urged To Act On Southwest Side Slum Area
Seventeen residents urged the city council to halt a move of a store building and two box car dwellings onto property near Twenty-eighth avenue SW arguing it risks creating an eventual slum district. The group demanded a thorough investigation and council hearing before any action.
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Twenty-eighth Avenue
Donald Osborne
Bofron
J and Sixth Streets
Osborne
Kofron
J M. Lilly
Gordon Hughes
Police Seniority Petitions Circulated After City Council Impasse
Over 100 petitions will circulate in Cedar Rapids requesting immediate action on a police seniority proposal. The Cedar Association of Cedar Rapids pushes the plan despite a department survey ongoing, with Prof. Richard L. Holcomb overseeing the University of Iowa study and a portion due soon.
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Cedar Rapids News
W. L. Fahey
Fahey
Cedar Rapids Policemen’s Protective Association
Cedar Rapids
Beleve
Gordon Hughes
Jesse Clift
Hughes
University of Iowa
Richard L. Holcomb
Clift
Bodies recovered of five of nine air force crew
Manila reports a ground party has retrieved the bodies of five of nine United States air force crewmen killed in the March 1 crash of a B 29 tanker. The search continues for the remaining four crew members and the cause of the crash is under investigation.
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Manila
United States Air Force
Stamp Book Security Tax Payment System Proposed
The administration proposed a stamp book tax system to expand Social Security coverage to 20 million new workers including farm workers and domestic staff. Commissioner Altmeyer described stamps carried by workers as evidence of earnings, with half the stamp cost paid by employees and most taxes still collected via payroll levies.
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Washington
Congress
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Social Security
House
Ways and Means
Truman
Altmeyer
Gallup
Ipost
Social Security Administration
Czech Spies Pair Sentenced by U S Military Court
Two Czech born Germans were found guilty of gathering information on American troops for Czech intelligence tied to Moscow. Jaroslav Konopisky received 20 years hard labor. Ernst Rudolf got five years for selling pictures of US planes and landing fields. Jerabek and Feifer reported Czech operators in the US zone sent findings to Prague and Moscow.
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Munich
Moscow
Jaroslav Konopisky
Counterintelligence Corps
Ernst Rudolf
United States
Ced
CIC
Yyormer
Vojetch Jerabek
Otaker Feifer
United States Zone
Prague
Senate Votes Rent Home Rule Amid National Controls
The Senate approved a 12 month extension of federal rent controls and a 5 percent rent hike provision while allowing local governments to override controls with governor approval. House plans a 15 month extension. Conferees will reconcile major differences before March 31 expiry.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate-House
Lucas
Council Gets Wage Picture Of Bus Line
Cedar Rapids City Lines faced the council with wage data showing driver pay compared to other cities and rising costs of living. Totten cited a two year drop in ridership and AFL demands of four cents more per hour, rebutting the union stance and outlining economic trends and pensions.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids City Lines
K. E. Totten
Totten
City Lines
AFL
City Ny Foto
Tatten
Cedar Rapids
Burlington
Ottumwa
Dubuque
Sioux City
Des Moines
Iowa Senators Split On Rent Control Amendments
Washington AP reports both Iowa senators backed the extension bill. Gillette pushed three amendments while Hickenlooper opposed two. An amendment extending controls six months failed 64 to 22, and a boycott on evictions failed 44 to 42. They supported removing criminal penalties for willful violations, 52 to 30.
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Washington
Iowa
Senate
Gillette
Hickenloo
Hickenlooper
Fahey Ordered to Pay Hruska in Guardianship Dispute
District Judge Floyd Philbrick issued an order in Cedar Rapids directing W L Fahey to pay Mary Hruska $6,548.75 plus $125 penalty on unpaid taxes and cover $130.14 foreclosure costs and $13 in objection costs. The ruling covers $2,000 uninvested funds and a loan of $2,500 with $540 interest, plus transfer of property at 212 First Street NE and costs from foreclosure. A supplemental final report is required after compliance to close the guardianship.
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Cedar Rapids
W L Fahey
Mary Hruska
Floyd Philbrick
Philbrick
Fahey
Hruska
First Street
Margin One Vote Sinks Rankin Pension Bill
The House shelved the Rankin veterans pension bill on a 208 to 207 vote. The measure was sent back to the veterans committee for study with a chance for a new bill to be written and returned, though Chairman Rankin said the recommit vote means the bill is dead for this Congress.
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House
Veterans Committee
Rankin Ef Washington
Congress
Rutledge case shows no new developments
No new developments in the Rutledge murder case. The arraignment for Dr. Robert C. Rutledge Jr. on an indictment charging the murder of Byron Hartman is expected early next week, likely Monday, before Judge Heiserman in Des Moines.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert C. Rutledge, Jr
Gaezette
St Louis
Byron C. Hartman Dée
Linn County
Willam Crissman
Rutledge
J E Heiserman
Spring Weather Sparks 66 Degree Readings in Cedar Rapids
Spring arrived officially last Sunday and Thursday saw Cedar Rapids reach 66 degrees at 2 p.m. The shift was followed by partly cloudy skies in the afternoon and rain expected tonight. Friday highs around 45 with cooler air forecast.
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Cedar Rapids
Hotel Blaze Kills Two in Dixieland Hotel Fire
A fire at the Dixieland hotel in Waverly Tennessee killed two people. One man leaped from the second floor to escape and died. The other was found dead in his room from smoke and fumes.
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Waverly
Tenn
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Associated Press
Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Burplus Record
Louisiana
Lilly
L. D. Burgus
Burgus
Health Department
Rankin
LeComptet
Teague
Texas
Rep. McCormack
McCormack
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