Three Hour Reich Talks End With Little Breakthrough
Paris AP report says the Big Four foreign ministers met for three hours with little progress on Germany disarmament. Molotov backed a four power commission to study disarmament in all four zones while opposing a 25 year mutual assistance pact. Bevin and France endorsed the pact as Byrnes urged long term goals and a peace conference.
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Paris
Germany
Molotov
United States
State Byrnes
Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
London
France
Russia
Ruhr
Austria
Trieste
Britain
Italy
Yugo- Slavia
Danube
Balkan
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Sen. Vandenberg
Army asks drafting men 25 to 29 in new plan
Washington AP The army urged President Truman to order conscription for men aged 25 through 29 due to a prospective replacement shortage after revisions to the selective service act. A War Department official said after June 30 discharges will proceed for two years of service or a point score of 40 but promises on shortening releases to 18 months cannot be made.
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Washington
Army
Truman
War Department
House approves airmail rate cut to five cents
The House voted unanimously to reduce airmail postage from eight to five cents per ounce. The bill now awaits Senate action and White House approval before taking effect.
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Washington
House
Senate
White House
Death March Veteran Seeks Carville Leprosarium Union
Maj. Hans George Hornbostel 65 and wife 52 pursue joint admission to Carville leprosarium in Louisiana amid uncertainty Washington may deny the request Surgeon General Thomas Parran involved as the pair, both former prisoners in Manila and Santo Tomas, plan to spend their remaining years together Hornbostel emphasizes he seeks companionship not martyrdom and his wife agrees hoping for their future together in the colony
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Associated Press
Hans Hornbostel
Carville
San Francisco
Hans George Hornbostel
Bataan
Washington
Thomas Parran
Hornbostel
Santo Tomas
Manila
Conservative Named Jap Premier Peace Advocate
Shigeru Yoshida is named premier of Japan after imperial command to form a government. A veteran politician and wartime peace advocate, Yoshida faces a coalition of conservatives and comes after a political stake through the Liberal and Progressives.
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Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Japan
House of Representatives
Yoshida
Liberal Party
Progressives
Takekichi Miki
Kenzaemon Kimura
Miki
Kimura
Traffic Tip Warns Speed Violations Drive Fatal Crashes
A cautions note from the National Safety Council links speed violations to fatal crashes. It warns faster travel increases stopping distance and crash severity, urging motorists to reduce speed for safety.
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National Safety Council
Cool Weather to Continue Friday
Weather report notes light frost and cool conditions for Friday in Cedar Rapids. chatter about a weathercaster being slandered at work amid cool to mild temps shows local tone but no concrete forecast changes.
Ten Million Beer Bottles Bound for Japan Troop Use
Honolulu reports ten million bottles of beer to be shipped to Japan for American occupation troops, marking a substantial supply move during the postwar period.
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Honolulu
Japan
Pay Plan of Rail Unions Is Rejected
Union leaders report no progress after talks with rail officials as wage demands are rejected and a nationwide rail strike looms. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen offered a $1.44 daily increase versus $2.50, while officials countered with $1.28 from a presidential fact finding board. A government seizure and wartime act penalties loom amid widespread fear of food shortages and industrial collapse.
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Washington
Alvanley Johnston
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
A. F. Whitney
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Johnston
Whitney
Truman
Ilinois Central Railroad
I. C
Truman Calls For Arbitration In Coal Strike
President Truman announced he urged John L. Lewis and coal operators to submit their deadlocked contract talks to arbitration. Lewis and operators' spokesman Charles O’Neill were to decide by day’s end. Truman pressed for an arbitrator after 42 days of mine shutdown and a renewed two week truce, with miners to stay at work during arbitration if possible.
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Washington
Truman
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Charles O’neill
Mr. Truman
O'Neill
White House
Civilian Production Chief seeks six month strike ban
Washington Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small urged emergency legislation to outlaw strikes for six months to halt wage and price leaps and restore public welfare. He blamed John L. Lewis for hindering production and warned sustained output for six to eight months is essential to avert inflation.
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Washington
John D. Small
Small
A . Small
John “L. Lewis
Car strike kills 12 year old on Johnson Avenue
Bill Tokheim twelve year old son of Mr and Mrs Elmer G Tokheim was killed when struck by a car while riding a bicycle on Johnson avenue NW near Edgewood road around noon Thursday. Driver John A Cox fifty six of 1730 Third avenue SE told police they both were heading toward town. hospital report said skull fracture. The Cedar Rapids area saw its third traffic death in 1946 and the second at the same spot in five years with another earlier fatality nearby. The boy was taken to St Luke's hospital and pronounced dead. body later moved to Moon Funeral home.
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Cedar Rapids
Billy Tokheim
Elmer G. Tokheim
Johnson Avenue NW
Edgewood
Road
John A. Cox
Third Avenue SE
Cox
J. H Clift
Johnson Avenue
T. Frank Hersch
Linn County
St. Luke's Hospital
Moon Funeral Home
Blood donors fly to aid ill Cedar Rapids man
Cedar Rapids resident Karl H Kainz 2428 Fourth Avenue SE is seriously ill in Madison Wisconsin with a hemorrhaging stomach ulcer. Five or more Cedar Rapids Optimist club members departed or planned to leave by air and auto to donate blood. Kainz is at Methodist Hospital Madison with his wife at his side. He is connected with DeKalb Hybrid corn.
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Cedar Rapids
Karl H Kainz
Fourth Avenue SE
Madison
Wis
Optimist Club
Milwaukee
Kainz
Methodist Hospital
Gene Baxter
Cooke Anderson
Bill Whipple
Bob Wilson
al G. Keyes
Argentine Official Dismisses Morgenthau Comment
Buenos Aires foreign minister Juan Cooke called Henry Morgenthau Jr. statement that Argentina seeks to form an anti democratic anti American fascist bloc in South America outside logic and reality.
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Buenos Aires
Juan Cooke
Henry, Morgenthau, Jr
Argentina
South America
Daily Record Index and Local Features Overview
A fragmented newspaper index page lists sections such as Editorial Features Farm Marion Movies and Sports with scattered numbers and garbled headings. It mentions Deaths, Editorial Features, Movies, Radio, and Women’s Features amid unreadable OCR traces.
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Seed
Veeseenas
Eboney
Marion
Ccce
Sible Peek Eave Tea
Viking Airlines Liner Crashes Near Richmond Virginia
A Viking Airlines air liner crashed into dense woods about five miles from Richmond killing all 27 aboard. The Newark to Miami charter carried 25 passengers and two crew. Weather was foggy with zero ceiling. pilot Anderson reported motor trouble and attempted to land at 1 32 a.m. The wreckage lay across a small stream after a vertical dive. Police recovered a passport bearing Jose Materredona Zambrini.
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Richmond
Viking Airlines
Glendale
Calif
Newark
Miami
Fla
Jose Materredona Zambrini
Civil Aeronautics Board
Anderson
Letty
Viking airliner leased to Texas firm before crash
The Vik'jing airliner involved in Thursday's crash had been leased by Viking to Coast to Coast Air Cargo in Galveston, Texas. Two Los Angeles men, Dell Anderson and David Hiner, served as pilot and co-pilot. Harry E. Ljung, former Viking president, and Jack D. Lewis, Viking traffic manager, provided the details noting the aircraft typically ferried merchant seamen from the East Coast to the Gulf Coast.
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Los Angeles
INS
Vik‘ing
Coast To Coast Air Cargo
Galveston
Texas
Dell Anderson
David Hiner
Harry E. Ljung
Viking Company
Jack D. Lewis
Gulf Coast
B 17 bomber crashes near Fairfax killing two
A four engine B 17 bomber en route from Los Angeles ran out of fuel and crashed into a hillside three miles west of Fairfax California early Thursday. Two men were killed and six were critically injured.
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Fairfax
Calif
Here
Los Angeles
Pauley to seek permission to visit Russian HQ in Korea
Edwin W. Pauley United States reparations commissioner arrived from Tokyo to Seoul and will be granted permission to visit the Russian headquarters at Heijo in occupied northern Korea.
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Seoul
Korea
Edwin W. Pauley
United States
Tokyo
Heijo
Plea for Guards Kin in Alcatraz Uprising
The San Francisco CIO council urged financial aid for the families of Harold P. Stites and William A. Miller, guards killed by convicts in the May 2 Alcatraz uprising.
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San’ Francisco
INS
San Francisco Cio Council
Harold.p. Stites
William A. Miller
Alcatraz
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