St Luke's drive exceeds goal for hospital fund
Cedar Rapids area campaign raises 1 031 437 dollars surpassing the million dollar goal by 31 437 with large gifts from Cedar and Linn counties and expect more contributions. The drive totals include women 70 063 men 83 588 special gifts 353 899 pattern gifts 458 175 and area 65 712.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar
Linn
Cedar County
Jones
Benton
Buchanan
Iowa
Johnson
Arthur Poe
Pattern Gifts Committee
27 000 Pounds of Meat Hijacked
Two gunmen hijacked a meat truck carrying 27 000 pounds of meat valued at 15000 dollars in Chicago. Albert Uphouse 41 and his wife Eve lyn 36 were abducted as the truck was taken and the driver forced into the car. The second gunman drove off with the meat truck while the husband was later released.
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Chicago
Albert Uphouse
West 63Rd Street
Evelyn
Uphouse
No Progress Reported In Wilson Strike
A 75 millimeter shell found in a shack near Wilson and Company's Cedar Rapids plant was deemed harmless by Deputy Sheriff P J Whittemore. Union leaders reported the striker camp deserted pre-dawn. the shell, a World War I souvenir, was kept at union HQ. The seventy first day of the Wilson strike saw no figures on returns. unions said fewer entered than Monday, while the company claimed rising numbers. Wilson officials in Chicago cited INS that half the workforce had returned, but Cedar Rapids managers said this did not apply locally. The company disputed the union's claims and sent a letter to strikers outlining four assurances on wages rights and return terms, while peace bond applications rose for eight strikers. Cedar Rapids strikers planned a meeting to address alleged misrepresentations of the offer.
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James Hayward
Whittemore
Wilson
Cedar Rapids
Chicago
International News Service
Wilson and Company
Harry Palmer
INS
Edward Foss Wilson
C.S.P.S. Hall
UPW
Harold Smith
Smith
Eugene Cotton
Navarette
Frankfurt
le Havre
French youth pretends US veteran to gain free medical care
Jean Antoine Navarette, 24, posed as an American G I 1 for two years to obtain about 15000 dollars in free VA and military medical treatment at Whipple hospital. He confessed to fraud as FBI uncovered the ruse and found the real Gustavo Figueroa in Tucson. Navarette said he plans to study acting after deportation.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Jean Antoine Navarette
Navarette
United States
Veterans Administration and
Army Records
Whipple Veterans’ Hospital
Prescott
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
San Antonio
California
Whipple Hospital
van Cockerly
FBI
Gustavo Figueroa
Tucson
France
Woman Jumps Nine Floors From Office Building
Pensacola police report a 20 year old Galveston Texas woman named Mrs J B Welborn Jr leapt from a 10th story window onto a restaurant roof Monday. She survived with multiple fractures and internal injuries after leaving an unsigned note stating she could not reconcile with life.
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Pensacola
Fila
J. C. Maxwell
J.B. Welborn, Jr
Galveston
Texas
Maxwell
Convict Charged With Bigamy After Reading Paper
In Minneapolis Dale O Swenson 23 and Mrs Vernon Hyde 27 both prisoners at St. Cloud state reformatory face bigamy charges after Swenson read in a newspaper that his wife had applied for a marriage license Hyde and Swenson married last week at Belview Minnesota Hyde informed the warden who alerted police Swenson admitted knowing of the marriage saying it was a gamble but worth it Bonita’s husband is serving five years for robbery.
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Minneapolis
INS
Dale O. Swenson
Vernon Hyde
St. Cloud State Reformatory
Bonita
Hyde
Swenson
Belview
Minn
Senate approves $75 million boost for school lunches
Washington AP reports the Senate voted 75 million dollars for school children's lunches as part of the farm appropriation bill, ten million more than the House measure. The funds support school lunch programs nationwide.
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Washington
Senate
House
Defense Experts Testify on Missing Fitting in Havlik Arson Trial
In Judge Floyd Philbrick's court, Richard Havlik's defense prompts expert testimony on the Buccaneer club fire of November 22. Norman Bleakley and Dr. Ben H. Peterson describe heat above 2000 degrees and a melted brass plug that may have left no trace.
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Cedar Rapids
Richard Havlik
Tuessday Morning
Floyd Philbrick
Harry Wilmarth
Norman F. Bleakley
Dearborn Brass Company
Ben H. Peterson
Coe College
Ronald Sees Coney Island For Himself
A ten year old boy from Harrisburg Pennsylvania Ronald Lee Stover traveled with twenty dollars and a pet puppy named Cinders to New York to visit Coney Island and the Empire State Building. After days of being pursued by police he surrendered to a Times Square subway passenger and said he had given the dog to a man in Coney Island. He was placed in a child center and had one dollar ten cents left.
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New York
Empire State Building
Coney Island
Ronald Lee Stover
Cinders
Ronald
Harrisburg
Big City
Reading Railroad
Jersey City
Manhattan
Times Square
Diamond Ring Found Embedded In Cow Hoof After Six Years
PORTALES New Mexico AP For six years a milk cow on B F Holcomb farm limped. Holcomb investigated and found a diamond ring embedded in the cow's hoof. The ring was the one Mrs Holcomb said she lost six years ago. Both Mrs Holcomb and the cow feel better now.
Reds Block U.N. Probe On Czechs
Russia used its twenty fourth and twenty fifth vetoes to bar a United Nations inquiry into the Czech coup. The defeat on a Chilean proposal came 9 to 2 with Russia and Soviet Ukraine dissenting. Warren R. Austin urged action to expose facts and aid exiled Czech officials.
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U.N
Lake Success
Russia
United Nations
Czechoslovakia
Security Council
Ukraine
Andrei A. Gromyko
Austin
United States
Paint Bucket Prank Sparks Campus Blaze at Coe University
A blue and white Cornell flag flew atop a greased flagpole on the Coe college campus as fire crews quenched a rubbish fire near Old Main at 12 47 am. Two Cosmo staffers saw flames and reported the burning wood and oil sign tied to a tradition of painting rival signs. Coe and Cornell students had mingled at a recent Paint Bucket Prom. officials issued "no damage" and "no comment."
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Cedar Rapids News
Cornell
Coe College
Old Main
Voorhees Hall
Williston Hall
Coe
Cosmos
Cedar Rapids
Truman urges federal aid to schools and wage boost
President Truman pressed Democratic leaders to push two measures this session. He seeks federal aid to education and a minimum wage increase from 40 to 75 cents. Senate has approved school aid. House action and wage bill are stalled.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
Senate
House
Lucas
Ill
McCormack
Mass
House Labor Committee
Head of State Hospital Dies
Dr. R. A. Stewart who headed the State Hospital since 1920 died at 6:50 p.m. Monday after a heart attack. A 69 year old native of Pennsylvania he trained in the Keystone State and practiced in Lock Haven. He served Pennsylvania and Iowa state hospitals before moving to Independence. Surviving are his wife two sons two brothers and a granddaughter. The body was taken to Turner funeral home Cedar Rapids. Services set at Turner chapel then Kansas City burial.
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Independence
R. A. Stewart
Stewart
Pennsylvania
Keystone State
Lock Haven
Penn
Iowa State Hospital
Mount Pleasant
American ‘Psychiatric Association
Marguerite Hoyt Stewart
Frank H
Chicago
Robert A., Jr
Los Angeles
T. B
Charles Stewart
Turner Funeral Home
Cedar Rapids
Turner Chapel
Kansas City
Elmwood Cemetery
U.S. Rejects Arab Blockade Recognition
The United States said it would not recognize a naval blockade of Palestine proclaimed by Egypt and Syria. The State Department ordered American diplomats in Cairo and Damascus to protest the blockade while awaiting an Arab reply. Beirut offered to free 41 Americans seized from the Marine Corp if they travel to the United States rather than Palestine.
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Washington
United States
Palestine
Egypt
Syria
State Department
Lebanon
United States Steamship Marine Corp
Beirut
Michael J. McDermott
Israel President Talks to Truman
Chaim Weizmann met with President Truman at the White House for 30 minutes. He said the President gave him hope that the U S may lift its arms embargo to the Middle East and discussed a possible loan of 90 to 100 million dollars to Israel.
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Washington
Chaim Weizmann
Israel
Truman
Middle East
Weizmann
White House
Chicago couple died in plunge from hotel window
Coroner's jury ruled that Harry B. Grundy a 49 year old Taylorville attorney died by his own hand and his wife Louijrena 48 was carried to her death when trying to stop him at the Commonwealth hotel in Chicago. Psychiatrist Dr William S Sadler testified Grundy had long term personal crisis tendencies.
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Chicago
Harry B. Grundy
Taylorville
Loujrena
Commonwealth Hotel
William S. Sadler
Grundy
Pay Boost Granted by Unique Plan
Detroit General Motors granted an 11-cent-an-hour wage boost to 225,000 CIO production workers to avert a strike. The formula costs about $75 million yearly, with quarterly COLA adjustments and future upward or downward revisions linked to the consumer price index. Chrysler resumes bargaining. Ford to begin talks. no retroactive pay change.
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Associated Press
General Motors
United Auto Workers
John W. Livingston
UAW
T. A. Johnstone
GM Department
Harry W. Anderson
Louis Seaton
Detroit
CIO
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler
Ford Motor Company
Mild Wednesday Rain Thursday Forecast for Iowa
Eastern Iowa to see showers Thursday after a mild Wednesday with temperatures near 74 in Cedar Rapids Tuesday afternoon. Five day outlook shows about two degrees below average overall with western counties receiving a quarter inch and eastern areas up to half an inch of rain.
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Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Boy Found Admits Writing Ransom Demand
Alan D. McCauley, 12, missing three days, was found on Hollywood’s Vine street. He told Patrolman Dave Einstein he authored the ransom note and had been sleeping behind billboards. He said he ate little of the food offered and gave no reason for his disappearance.
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Los Angeles
Alan D. McCauley
Hollywood
Vine Street
Dave Einstein
Alan
Princess Elizabeth Receives Honorary Law Degree at Oxford
Princess Elizabeth was made a patron of civil law on her first visit to Oxford University. She received the honorary degree during her stop in the ancient university city.
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Oxford
England
Elizabeth
Oxford University
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Hawkins
Poe
Robert Armstrong
R. D. Proctor
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Mercy Hospital
Armstrong
Earl Elijah
Roy E. Choate
Wayne J. Foster
Worth S. Averill
Edward Soboda, Jr
Joseph Lattner
Russell Knapp
Proctor
Robert Yaw
Howard Hall
John T. Hamilton HW
William Quarton
Pat Patterson
Howard T. Beaver and Associates
P. J. Whittemore
Gustavo L. Figueroa
America
Havlik
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Chile
Prague
Warren R. Austin
U.S
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