Passenger Service To Be Halved May 15 ODT Moves To Conserve Coal
The Office of Defense Transportation ordered a 50 percent reduction in passenger service by coal burning locomotives effective May 15 to conserve dwindling coal. From May 10 to May 15 passenger mileage will be cut 25 percent from April 1. Embargoes cover freight except essential goods. electric trains remain unchanged. President Truman linked the coal strike to broader government actions and warned against unions causing government failure.
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Byrnes Demands Armistice Revision for Axis Satellites
Secretary of State James Byrnes pressed at a Big Four meeting for revising armistice terms to restore normal conditions in Axis satellites and warned the United States will not fund reparations relief. Molotov, Bevin, and Bidault debated Italy's reparations while Byrnes argued for immediate revision despite expected delays in final peace treaties.
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Georges Bidault
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Greece
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Britain
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Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Finland
United Nations
Vet Priority Bill On Surplus Signed
Washington coverage notes President Truman signed the surplus property act revision authorizing federal disposal agencies to sell scarcer items such as automobiles and trucks exclusively to veterans. The War Assets Administration ordered cars trucks jeeps typewriters farm machinery and medical and dental equipment set aside for veterans with veteran purchases granted second priority after federal officials, reducing prior criticism of surplus disposal.
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Washington
Truman
War Assets Administration
Carter Manasco
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Boy Bound and Pushed Into Moving Car Accident
James Marion Kirschner, 13, was hospitalized in Sioux City after being pushed into an alley by a playmate with arms tied, colliding with a moving car. He sustained a left chest wound, a protruding lung, multiple rib fractures, and a broken door handle, with investigators noting the restraint did not anticipate the car’s approach.
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Sioux City
James Marion Kirschner
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Thomas Haddad
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TWA Pilots Co-pilots Plan Strike May 7
Chicago based Airlines Pilots Association president David L Behncke announced that Transcontinental and Western Air pilots and co pilots will strike at midnight May 7 after negotiations broke down. The action marks the first major pilot strike in the nation's commercial airline history. The BOT are seeking wage hikes varying with none.
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Unfair Charge Filed Against LaPlant Firm
Cedar Rapids union Local No. 116 of the United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing. The charges allege discrimination against certain union employees. The union also filed a wage dispute with the Wage Stabilization Board over pay during arbitration and negotiations. Meetings with management followed a series of continuous meetings that idled the plant when the union demanded reinstatement of two suspended workers. One worker was immediately reinstated and the other was to return April 27, marking renewed labor tensions after a November strike.
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Cedar Rapids News
National Labor Relations Board
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
LaPlant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Cedar Rapids
Keith Churchill
Churchill
Wage Stabilization Board
LaPlant-Choate
CIO
Predict Rains To End by Saturday
Life giving rains continue across most of the state with the heaviest totals in Adair 4.17 inches Audubon 4.02 and Atlantic 2.78 inches. Cedar Rapids records near 0.99 inch since Wednesday night and saw 58 degrees at 2:30 pm. Expect clearing skies and warmer temperatures by Saturday.
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Chambers-Inskeep
Truman Snaps at Scribes At His Press Conference
Washington AP report notes President Truman lashed out at a reporter over questions on the army navy merger and declined to discuss cabinet or supreme court appointment specifics. He defended comments on Forrestal testimony and warned against overreading cabinet meeting notices as reporters pressed about Paris and France.
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Carey
Paris
France
Materials Shortage Triggers Century Engineering Layoff
Century Engineering to lay off fifty production workers for two weeks due to material shortages. President E. J. Lattner said some staff remain, while others are loaned to nearby plants. Efforts to reassign workers and preserve seniority are underway with vacation pay offered if shortages persist.
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Iowa Manufacturing Company
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Lattner
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G. K. Strausser
Harmony Lodge
International Association of Machinists
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Cedar Rapids Council Proposes Pay Increases for City Workers
Cedar Rapids city council offers raises of 54 cents an hour for hourly workers and 10 dollars a month for monthly staff. Bargaining groups include CIO Local 617 and other AFL CIO unions plus city police. CIO rejected the proposal with membership to vote again. mayor says budgets cannot sustain larger raises.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
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International Association of Firefighters
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Municipal Workers of America
CIO
Police Department
CIO Union
Frank K. Hahn
Milton Phillips
CIO Group
New Demand Made By Rail Workers
Three railroad unions in Chicago notified management of wage demands for an additional 1.20 a day on top of a 1.28 raise set by an arbitration board last month. If unsatisfied, they will hold a strike vote and may strike. The joint statement was issued by Carl J. Goff Harry W. Fraser and Thomas C. Cashen.
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Carl J. Goff
Cleveland
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Harry W. Fraser
Celdar Rapids
Order of Railway Conductors
Thomas C. Cashen
Buffalo
Switchmen’s Union of North America
Briggs Workers Authorize Strike In Detroit
About 12 500 Briggs Manufacturing employees in Detroit authorized the United Auto Workers to set a strike date after a 30 day cooling off period. Several hundred Briggs workers had already walked out at the main plant, with 6 400 others and 2 500 at the Plymouth plant participating.
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3 000 Arabs Hurl Stones At Tommies
In Jerusalem more than 3 000 Arabs demonstrated at Damascus gate to protest British Arab policy and the inquiry report. British troops with tommy guns and armored cars held the crowd, barbed wire barricades limiting movement as shops closed and transport halted across Palestine. The strike, tied to the Moslem Sabbath, echoed across the region, with Arab leaders warning of continued resistance while British forces massed divisions to quell unrest. Jamal El Husseini called the protest the start of a broader national struggle amid threats of wider hostilities in Iraq and neighboring states.
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Baghdad
Bloody riot at Alcatraz leaves two guards dead
Rioting convicts at Alcatraz fight off guards using mortars and shape charges. Marines and prison staff pour in heavy weapons support from Benicia Arsenal, Englewood and Leavenworth units as a hostage crisis unfolds. Two guards killed, 13 wounded, six ringleaders named, battle to breach the cell block continues.
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Meanines
Benicia Arsenal
Army
San Quentin State
Clinton T. Duffy
Island Prison
San Francisco Bay
James A Johnston
Duffy
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Englewood
Colo
James V. Bennett
Bureau of Prisons
Washington
Leavenworth Prison
Kansas
William A. Miller
Harold P. Stites
Ralph D. Gray dies at 64 long-time Cedar Rapids insurer
Ralph D. Gray Cedar Rapids insurance man died at 3 30 a m Friday at his home 1624 Avenue SE He was 64 and ran R D Gray and Company for 36 years until retiring 18 months ago Born Sept 29 1881 in Traer he came to Cedar Rapids in 1904 He married Alice Vaala in Lawler in 1911 Surviving are his wife three sisters two brothers and several nieces and nephews He belonged to First Congregational church Crescent lodge 25 A F and A M Lowe Consistory El Kabir Shrine ICCF Chamber of Commerce Canopus club and attended Iowa State College Funeral services at Turner Chapel 11 a m Monday with Rev Wagner and Rev Jacobs officiating. burial at Cedar Memorial Park Mausoleum Friends may call after 6 p m Friday.
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Avenue SE
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R. D. Gray and Company
Traer
Lawler
Alice Vaala
Eleanor Richeson
Phoenix, Ariz
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Vinton
James Gorman
Marshalltown
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Branson
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William A. Jacobs
Oak Park, Ill
First Congregational
Chapel of Memories
Cedar Memorial Park
Papered Windows Tip Clues to Safer Driving
A National Safety Council caution urges motorists to keep car windows clean to avoid driving blind. The message compares dirty windows to weathered visibility and stresses the danger of impaired sight on the road. Regular cleaning prevents hazards and improves overall safety.
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