Blue Opens Conference on Housing
Gov. Robert D. Blue of Iowa opens a 14 state housing conference in Des Moines urging production of materials price ceilings and manpower reforms. He criticizes federal policy delays and calls for coordinated federal action and stabilizing economic policies to meet an expected 12.5 million housing units in ten years. The event runs with six midwestern governors and eight other states attending.
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Otto Weber
Des Moines
INS
Robert D. Blue
Iowa
Blue
Woman Ambushed on Cedar Rapids Street by Suspected Thief
Betty Jane Struesky of 1715 First Avenue East escaped injury after a man accosted her near Seventeenth Street and First Avenue East about 12:15 a.m. Monday. He implied a gun, she hit him with her purse, he punched her to the ground and fled. Police note this is the third attempted hold up in a week targeting women after bus arrivals.
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Cedar Rapids
Betty Jane Struesky
First Avenue E
Seventeenth Street
Murray Praises Thomas as UAW Battle Fuels Candid Endorsement
CIO President Philip Murray lauded R. J. Thomas at the CIO UAW convention in Atlantic City while denying involvement in the UAW political feud with Walter Reuther. He blamed strikes on AFL and industry leaders, defended CIO strength, and dismissed a GM wage-cut rumor as a malicious fabrication.
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Atlantic City
N. J
CIO
Philip Murray
United Auto Workers
R. J. Thomas
Walter Reuther
UAW
Reuther
Murray
Thomas
United Auto Workers Union
Thomas Forces
AFL
Four-month-old Baby Suffocates in Crib in Marion
Frank Joseph Gallo, four months old, son of Mr and Mrs Michael Gallo in Marion, died Sunday morning from accidental suffocation by blankets in his crib. Dr T Frank Hersch, Linn county coroner, reported the death about 8 am. The infant, born in Cedar Rapids December 1 1945, had hands over his face as blankets slipped over his head. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery after services at Barta Hesser chapel Wednesday at 10 am.
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Cedar Raunds
Frank Joseph Gallo
Michael Gallo
Marion
T. Frank Hersch
Linn County
Third of Java City Is Reported Put to Torch
The Netherlands news agency reported that more than one third of Bandoeng was burned after Indonesian forces were ordered by the British to leave the city by midnight Sunday. Dutch authorities blamed the fire on the Indonesians, who said it followed a refusal to postpone evacuation.
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London
INL
Netherlands
Bandoeng
Java
Balloting Light in City Election Up To 2 p.m
A total of 2,288 votes were cast by 2 p.m. in Monday’s city election with 20 of 23 precincts reporting. Balloting barely exceeded the city primaries two weeks earlier at the same cutoff.
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Cedar Rapids News
Atomic Test Windup Seen Before Autumn
The atomic bomb task force said tests can be finished this summer despite Truman’s delay. A joint army navy spokesman said the second experiment could be completed before September weather at Bikini makes conditions impossible.
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Washington
Atomic Bomb Task Force
Truman
Army-Navy
Bikini
Long Delay Confronts Military Training Bill
The House military committee plans to postpone the controversial universal military training bill until January and have the new Congress decide the fate of the measure.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Congress
Army Vet Confesses Navy Deserter Status in Great Lakes
Harold Leroy Friedman twenty of New York admitted deserting the army after eight months at Camp Hale. Inducted into the navy at Chicago under an alias George Fischer he revealed his identity at Great Lakes where he trained as a signalman and earned high marks. If returned to the army he faces desertion charges while his service jurisdiction remains under review.
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Great Lakes
Ill
Naval Training Center
Army
Harold Leroy Friedman
New York
Camp Hale
Colo
Navy
Chicago
George Fischer
Friedman
Sixth Service Command
Navy School
University of Illinois
Attlee Declines Moscow Visit to Stalin over Security Talks
In London Prime Minister Attlee told the commons he does not consider a Moscow trip advisable at present to discuss security with Premier Stalin. He said he is ready to improve great power relations but noted UNO Security Council meetings in New York make a direct proposal to Stalin unlikely now.
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London
Attlee
Commons
Moscow
Stalin
Vernon Bartlett
Britain
UNO Security Council
Traffic Regulations Cedar Rapids News
The city ordinance sets speed limits: 20 mph in business or school districts, 25 mph in residence districts, and 45 mph in suburban districts. This is the first installment in a series on city traffic ordinances.
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Cedar Rapids
Baruch urges supreme economic council and anti inflation plan
Bernard Baruch told the House Banking Committee that strikes must be barred for at least a year to boost production and curb inflation. He proposed a high court of commerce to settle economic clashes and backed extending price controls for a year while detailing a broad program including taxes, bonds, loan controls, licensing, and production boosts.
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Washington
Bernard Baruch
Congress
High Court of Commerce
Supreme Economic Council
Baruch
House
OPA
Chester Bowles
Robert E. Brosh enters race for county coroner
Robert E. Brosh, Navy pharmacist mate veteran, announced his candidacy for Republican nomination as county coroner. Born July 28, 1920 in Solon, he trained at hospital corps school and served 19 months in the South Pacific. He lives at 1107 Third Street SE and is active in Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Erin Brosh
Solon
Brosh
Franklin High School
Neen
Navy
South Pacific
Hospital Corps
Portsmouth
Veterans of Foreign Wars
The
American Legion
Czechs of America
Third Street
Hirohito Welcomed In Tokyo On Third Meet the People Tour
Crowds shouted Banzai as Emperor Hirohito greeted admirers in Tokyo during his third meet the people tour within a month. The public appearance showcased the monarch’s continued outreach amid postwar Japan.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Anamosa Man Fined for Drunk Driving Collision
Ray H Boland, 43, of Anamosa, was fined 300 dollars and costs after pledging guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He paid 100 dollars at once and will pay the balance monthly. A collision at Second avenue and Tenth street SE involved a pickup and a car driven by Rose Mary Murray. Boland’s license was suspended for 60 days.
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Cedar Rapids
Ray H Boland
Anamosa
Floyd Philbrick
Boland
Second Avenue
Tenth Street SE
Rose Mary Murray
Twenty-second Street
Scotty Duncan
John Stodola
Philbrick
Stassen urges U N veto misuse fight with US power
Harold E. Stassen says the United States should be ready with economic and military resources to counter aggression through the United Nations even if it requires opposing a major nation using its veto. He spoke at Greece's 125th independence anniversary celebration in New York.
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New York
Harold E. Stassen
United States
United Nations Organization
UNO
Greece
Solons Hiring Soviet Agent News to Them
Washington officials puzzled by Monsignor Sheen claim that a full fledged Soviet agent worked for a congressional committee. He provided no names and said the man listed Chicago as home. FBI and lawmakers denied any knowledge of such an employee or arrests.
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CIO
Murray
General Motors
General Motors Corporation
Solons
Washington
Fulton J. Sheen
Catholic University
New York
Chicago
House
Senate
Sheen
FBI
United States
Aval
Wylie
Poland
State Department
Andrew Wylie
Stettin
Army to survey court-martial procedure
Secretary of War Patterson named a nine member panel of judges and lawyers to review army courts-martial. Dean Arthur T. Vanderbilt of New York University will head the committee, formed on Willis Smith’s recommendation, with first meeting planned in Washington in April. Recommendations may form the basis for updates to a system unchanged for 25 years.
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War Department
Secretary of War
Patterson
Arthur T. Vanderbilt
New York University Law School
Willis Smith
Raleigh
N. C
American Bar Association
Dean Vanderbilt
Washington
Mihailovic Taken in Hills by Tito’s Men
Gen Draja Mihailovic, once hailed as a guerilla hero, is reported under arrest as a traitor and war criminal after capture by Yugoslav authorities. Rankovic announced Mihailovic was seized March 13 amid rumors of capture near Vishegrad. radio says he was trapped in a mountain cave guarded by 11 remaining fighters. The Chetnik leader organized resistance in 1941 and was later accused of collaboration. his army dissolved in 1945 and his family endured wartime tragedy.
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Belgrade
Draja Mihailovic
Alexander Rankovic
Interior
Chetniks
Marshal Titos
Rankovic
Mihailovic
Yugoslav Federal Republic
Ivan Subasic
Chetmik
Yugoslavia
Peter
Soviet Union
Tito
Rain and Cooler Weather Forecast
The Gazette reports a weather boy lesson in Greene square where he sat under a toadstool. Temperatures ranged from 70 degrees at 2:30 pm to 44 degrees by 7 am Monday with forecasts of rain and a cool spell later.
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Cedar Rapids
the Gazette
Weatherboy
Greene Square
Chambers
British Intervene In Trieste Clash
Dispatches from Trieste report British police stepping in during violent scuffles between pro Yugoslav and anti Yugoslav sections of the population. The disturbances followed a Sunday political demonstration tied to the four power commission and featured Italian flags without the red star signaling Yugoslav support.
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London
INS
Trieste
Hungarian Education Minister Sentenced to Life in Prison
Balint Homan, Hungarys education minister during the Nazi occupation, was sentenced Sunday to life imprisonment. The ruling, delivered in Budapest, marks a dramatic postwar move against wartime officials.
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Budapest
INS
Balint Homan
Hungary
Soviets Say They'll Get Out of Iran
The U N security council opened at Hunter College with Byrnes urging nations to settle disputes in negotiations and not by force. Russia announced troop withdrawals from eastern Iran with Tehran confirming start of a withdrawal that could take weeks. Continuous sessions will act as world watchdog to preserve peace.
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Iran
New York
Byrnes
United Nations Security Council
Hunter College
Bronx
Truman
Security Council
United Nations
Russia
Tehran
Mozaffar Firouz
Keraz
Lids Boosted on Some Machinery Prices
The OPA in Washington ordered an immediate four percent increase in price ceilings for machinery parts and industrial equipment where steel constitutes over forty percent of selling prices. The move aims to offset recent steel price rises and applies to all sales levels. The agency notes alloy steel costs in finished machinery rise about four percent.
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Washington
OPA
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