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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1947
Page
1
Moscow shifted from hard line to armistice style bargaining on Austrian treaty terms. Feodor Gusev dropped anti fascist language and accepted Nazi wording. Marshall proposed German constitutional clauses to bind the peace without German officials signing the treaty. Bevin Bidault meanwhile press for the process and law questions.
A bargaining election at Iowa Manufacturing Co will decide between CIO Farm Equipment and the Machinists union. The 2 to 4:30 p.m. vote at NLRB offices in Minneapolis follows a Cedar Rapids hearing. Eligible voters are production and maintenance staff. supervisors and drivers are excluded.
President Truman will turn 68 on May 8 and receive a regulation size bowling alley with an automatic pinsetter. White House staff have been renovating the basement of the executive offices in recent weeks.
George A. Toombs 37 of 1320 C avenue NE Cedar Rapids died in a local hospital at 4 am Tuesday after drinking 12 ounces of rubbing alcohol. Coroner says he ingested the denatured alcohol Sunday afternoon and fell ill Sunday night, taken to hospital Monday. Born in Vinton November 26, 1909, he lived in Cedar Rapids seven years and worked for Quaker Oats. Survived by wife Grace and his mother and stepfather Bert L. Anderson of Cedar Rapids. Services in Beatty chapel at a time to be announced.
Nine men were aboard a U S Army C 54 transport when it crashed 25 miles southwest of Stephenville Newfoundland. The first survivor, Sgt William M Brotzman of Macon Georgia, was brought to hospital as a litter patient but not seriously injured. Rescue operations continued with no confirmed injuries among passengers from Iowa.
UNRRA official said the 7,607 ton St Lawrence Victory carrying relief goods to Yugoslavia hit a mine off the Dalmatian coast and began sinking. No immediate casualties were reported but risk to 6,500 tons of eating and seed potatoes destined for southern Yugoslavia.
About 200000 Parisians stopped work two hours early and joined a mass protest denouncing U S aid to Greece as imperialist and Fascist tinged. Demonstrators gathered in Paris to condemn American policy and demand changes.
Gov. Dewey on Tuesday approved a measure boosting the daily maintenance allowance for inmates from 60 cents to 1 dollar. The action affects state jails and reflects the administration's plan to adjust prisoner care costs.
The OPA ruled that landlords may collect one additional month's advance rent as a security deposit on newly built furnished dwellings rented for the first time after Tuesday. The rule applies to properties in Washington and mirrors prior security practices in new housing.
In Washington, Senator Hickenlooper opened Senate debate on David E. Lilienthal for AEC chair with support from some allies, while Senator Bridges led a bloc insisting Lilienthal is neither a great businessman nor a scientist. Debate may extend days with likely confirmation of Lilienthal and other nominees.
Ellsworth Sonny Wisecarver aged 17 wed Betty Zoe Reber a high school girl his own age in Las Vegas Nevada as reported by United Press. Wisecarver noted for eloping twice previously with married women, now marries again in a new episode from press coverage.
The National Federation of Telephone Workers policy committee voted unanimously to call a nationwide strike starting April 7 at 6 a.m. across 39 unions and 287 000 members. Negotiations with AT&T leaders to occur by April 1 over a $12 weekly wage increase and nine other gains.
A Labor Statistics report shows average food prices for moderate-income Cedar Rapids families increased 0.7 percent from mid January to mid February, with overall prices 33.9 percent higher than a year earlier. Fresh produce led gains while meat held steady.
Former Ambassador William C. Bullitt testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee that time is running short for Soviet plans to assault and conquer the United States. He calls the Communist Party a Soviet agency and urges stronger FBI funds to action against suspected communists.
Eight year old Joan Smith waded into a sand pit with muddy boots and slipped unable to retrieve a boot. She screamed as neighbors and police aided by Arial rescue efforts, finally freed by Henry Rann after an hour in the mire. boot lost, girl ill with a cold.
In Lake Success New York Andrei Gromyko used the United Nations veto to kill a Security Council measure blaming Albania for mines that damaged two British destroyers and killed 44 sailors in the Corfu Channel. He then criticized the Greek government over treatment of Soviet delegates and urged safeguards at the Balkans commission.
William Green of the American Federation of Labor told the House Un American Activities Committee there is a real danger from Communists but that outlawing the party would ruin American democracy. He said restrictive laws would drive Communists underground and make martyrs, defeating the legislation’s purpose.
Chicago traders saw all corn futures climb to 27 year highs with May at 1.81 dollars and July 1.75, September 1.69, and December 1.59 as concerns over overseas demand and government support push prices higher. The rally echoes the 1919 20 peak levels.
General Eisenhower told the National Press Club there is no immediate danger of a deliberately provoked war. He warned wars are stupid and could start badly, noting incidents around Venezia Giulia could cause trouble though no imminent conflict is foreseen.
Secretary Charles Kilgore objected to a swap of free tickets for patrolman Alton Messer after amateur fights. Kilgore returned to find his car tagged with IMMegees and a traffic ticket issued by the same patrol unit.
Washington reports Russia will take appropriate steps to transfer control of Dairen port to China. The note follows U S efforts to resolve the ongoing unsatisfactory situation at the Manchurian port, which has been under Soviet military control since the final days of World War II.
Winter kept up its dreary fight in Iowa with subfreezing readings across Cedar Rapids. Temperatures fell to the upper teens and low 20s overnight, with 2:30 pm readings at 28 degrees and morning lows around 24, as forecasts warned of continued cold and below normal temperatures.
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