Local price boards to close November 4 under OPA order
Washington AP fast vanishing OPA ordered 10 000 field workers cut off payroll and 1 642 local price control boards close Nov 4. About 33 556 board members and 10 177 unpaid volunteers will lose service, with duties shifted to 61 regional and 650 area offices staffed by paid workers. Porter praised volunteers for saving about 117 billion dollars in wartime living costs and outlined transfer procedures and continued access to forms and certificates during closure.
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Washington (Ap
OPA
Paul Porter
Porter
OPA Office in Linn County to Close After Four Years
The Linn county OPA office, started in January 1942 to handle wartime rationing, will close to the public Monday as staff ends a four year run. Initial tire control board members were G. O. Fletcher L. P. Boudreaux and Leo Pfeiffer. Fletcher was later replaced by Paul Engel.
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Cedar Rapids
Gazette
Linn County Opa
A. T. Pleune
Memorial
Linn County
G. O. Fletcher
L. P. Boudreaux
Leo Pfeiffer
Fletcher
Paul Engel
Pleune
Six Boys Face Charges After Throwing Eggs
Six seventeen year old boys were investigated for Halloween pranks in Cedar Rapids. They allegedly threw rocks through windows and eggs at groups of children, using six dozen eggs. Officers answered 50 calls on the 4 PM to midnight shift. two Halloween reports followed midnight. Highway signs were torn down between Walford and Fairfax and Marion and Springville. The six were taken to the station and ordered to report to juvenile authorities. judge recommended police court handling.
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S. L. Stolba
Highway Patrol
Walford
Fairfax
Marion
Springville
Lester Nieland
Highway Commission
Harry S. Johnson
Pgnisty
Third Avenue
J_ street
John Whyle
Cedar Rapids
Coliseum
Hanford Post
American Legion
Vic Miller
Decontrol Lifts Price Caps On Wide Range Of Goods
OPA frees nearly 100 items from ceilings including dairy farm machinery lighting fixtures lumber and metal products. Also textiles notions hats handbags and uniforms move to free list as supply balances demand and costs deemed unimportant.
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Washington
OPA
Mercury To Rise After Rain Stops
A damp, gloomy day in eastern Iowa eastern Iowa brings rain and mist with forecasts of clearing for Saturday football games. At 2:30 p.m. Friday the temperature was 53 degrees and one third of an inch of rain had fallen.
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Iowa
Janet Lind 12 is declared delinquent in Wisconsin case
Janet Lind age 12 confessed she killed her father to please her mother. She was found delinquent and committed to a home for wayward girls until she turns 21 in Superior Wisconsin.
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Superior
Wis
Janet Lind
Mamma
Welfare Drive Over the Top in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Community Chest drive surpassed its goal with 143 724.43 in pledges and contributions by Thursday night under co chairmen George Hearn and John W Miller. An audit will be held Friday evening as reports continue to arrive from reports out, and nearby Iowa cities have also topped their goals.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Community Chest
George Hearn
John W. Miller
Public Welfare Bureau
Shirley F. Bechtel
Iowa
Davenport
Sioux
Pereany
Dubuque
U.S. Opposes 50 Percent UN Budget Share
Senator Vandenberg urged against a 50 percent U.S. contribution to the United Nations and proposed a possible 25 percent cap. He cited the experts’ estimate as an educated guess and urged U.N. economy as the assembly moved from Flushing Meadows to Lake Success to debate disarmament Spain and veto issues.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United States
United Nations
Vandenberg
R-Mich
U.N. Assembly
U.N
Flushing Meadows
Cold War Danube Conference Hangs On Attendees
United States seeks Danubian conference at Vienna before November 1 to open river traffic. Greece and Britain gave unconditional acceptances. France and the Soviet bloc urged limits or refused. Yugoslavia demands American surrender of seized barges and opposes nonriparian participation. US cites unresolved compensation for nationalized property.
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New York
INS
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
United States
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Greece
United Kingdom
Vienna
France
Russia
Austria
Lie
The
Economic and Social Council
America
Spvince
General Probed In Jewel Theft
United States headquarters ordered a full investigation into allegations naming Maj. Gen. James M. Bevans as recipient of a silver pitcher from the Kronberg castle jewel theft in Hesse. Accuser Maj. David F. Watson, convicted and sentenced to three years, is the key witness in the case.
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Frankfurt
United States
James M. Bevans
Air Corps
Kronberg Castle
Hesse
Bevans
David F. Watson
Embezzler Nickel Charged With 650000 Theft
William Arthur Nickel of Freeport Illinois is jailed in Miami Beach awaiting New York charges for embezzling about 650000 from Morganthaler Linotype. NY DA says total may reach 900000 with monthly averages around 75000 and notes yachts homes and land bought with the funds.
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Miami Beach
Fla
William Arthur Nickel
Freeport
New York
Charlie Pierce
Morganthaler Linotype Company
Pierce
Nickel
Miles McDonald
Otier
Bronx
Guy Lombardo
Port Washington
McDonald
Morganthaler
Runaway Real Estate Market Reaches Peak In Cedar Rapids
Real estate men in Cedar Rapids say the market has peaked and begun a downward slide with slackening interest. Some note higher prices are crumbling as buyers shelter under roofs rather than seek ideal homes while builders expect a freer market within a year. Newcomers with money may be tapering off as local plants reach capacity.
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Cedar Rapids
the Gazette
G.I
Conference on soft coal wage talks draws wide view
Washington D C Friday saw government officials and AFL United Mine Workers representatives begin wage contract negotiations. UMW leadership was absent, Krug traveled west, Collisson acted for the federal mine administration, and Lewis sent a delegation. The talks follow government seizure of soft coal mines last spring amid a previous failed agreement. Stockpiles in October gave the nation a 237 day supply, signaling potential disruption if a strike resumes.
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Washington
AFL
United’Mine Workers
UMW
John X. ‘Lewis
Krug
Lewis
Corference
Navy
N. H. Collisson
John O'Leary
Collisson
Solid Fuels Administration
White House
Heit Sfa
Indus
Report Outside Income GI's Told
Hundreds of thousands of veteran students face loss of GI subsistence pay if they fail to report outside income by Tuesday. The VA said only 10 percent of 1,251,844 ex servicemen on school and training programs filed statements under a new law limiting combined private income and government subsistence to 175 dollars for single veterans and 200 dollars for married ones. Cedar Rapids regional office manager David R. Roberts disputed the Tuesday deadline, saying forms must reach Des Moines VA by November 12. He noted few Cedar Rapids area veterans would be penalized for missing the Nov 2 12 deadline and that efforts were made to forward reports to Des Moines.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
Zhei VA
David R. Roberts
Cedar Rapids
Des
Steubenville Pastors Propose Independent Vigilante Group
In Steubenville Ohio 11 Protestant pastors demand council approval to form an independent vice squad. They vow to recruit 20 World War II veterans to stamp out a crime wave amid three local slayings in 10 days. They offer to finance their own badges arms and equipment.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Jefferson
Robert K. Russell
Steubenvilie Ministerial © Association
No Wave Fails to Hit Hawaiians Despite Fears
In Honolulu authorities warned a tsunami generated by a Aleutian earthquake might strike Hawaii at 5 49 a m Hawaiian time. The Pacific fleet HQ said a wave formed by the quake could reach the islands but only a few high waves battered Oahu beaches and evacuations ended as residents returned home.
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Roger Os
Honolulu
Navy
Pacific
Fleet
Qahu
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