Hoover urges stronger labor unit and nonpartisan post plan
Former President Hoover, chairing a bipartisan commission, calls for a strengthened labor department and removal of 20 000 postmasterships from politics. He forecasts final recommendations will save money over five years and outlines three initial fields: a presidential service agency, a career civil service, and a reorganized post office with revolving funds and regional districts.
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Washington
Hoover
Labor Department
Bipartisan Commission On Organization
Executive Branch
Congress
80Th Congress
Civil Service Commission
Post Office Department
Post Office
General Accounting Office
Senate
Airlift Roars On in Face of Soviet Threat
Berlin dispatch reports American and British planes continuing the Berlin airlift despite a Soviet threat to force down planes outside the 20 mile wide corridors. Gen. Clay pledged that airlift will be kept flying as Allied officials warned Moscow.
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Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Britain
United States
C. K. Gailey
Clay
G. S. Lukjantschenko
Gailey
Germany
Flight of Czech Leader Reported
London Daily Telegraph reports Gen Bocek commander in chief of the Czechoslovak army has fled to the American zone in Germany. Prague papers say a new army commander Gen Simon Drgac has been named by the Communist government. Gen Moses reportedly tried to escape with Bocek but was arrested at the border.
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INL
London Daily Telegraph
Bocek
United States
Germany
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Simon Drgac
Telegraph
Moses
Chinese Reds Accused of Using Japanese War Prisoners
Paris dispatch reports T. F. Tsiang stating at the UN political committee that Chinese Communists employ 50,000 Japanese war prisoners as artillerymen airmen and tank crews in China. He adds about 30,000 more Japanese perform technical work in Manchuria, allegedly captured by Russians and turned over to the Chinese Communists.
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Paris
China
Manchuria
T. F. Tsiang
30th Armistice Day Observance in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids marked the 30th Armistice Day with brief ceremonies at Municipal Island Plaza. Color guards and a firing squad from local veterans groups participated as 50 to 75 onlookers watched. The program included aerial bombs, a minute of silence, prayers by Rev. D A Loferski and Dr. Carroll C. Roberts, taps by Bugler Harold Grierson, and a closing benediction.
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Cedar Rapids
Municipal Island
American Legion
Hanford Post
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Charles Decker
Memorial Coliseum
Carroll C. Roberts
First Christian Church
American Legion and Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Auxiliary
Disabled American Veterans, National Guard
Naval Reserve Unit
Edward A. Kopp
Chuckle Moment Name Ben Hur
A light joke plays on a cat named Ben Hur chosen after years of calling him Ben until he had kittens. The gag hinges on a pun about biblical and cinematic titles. The playful line appears in the humor column titled Electric Current.
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Ben Hur
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Mystery Sub Hunted Off Pearl Harbor Search
Navy air and surface craft swept nine miles off Pearl Harbor in a wartime search for a suspected submarine after the USS Bluebird reported possible contact. Pacific fleet officials cautioned no submarine verification was obtained and said the report was released to curb rumors.
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Washington
Police Investigate 3 Cedar Rapids Gas Station Breakins
Police probed three Cedar Rapids gas stations within a block after thefts at Trax Oil 801 Third St SE where a $9 watch, $2 in pennies, and 18 cigarette cartons vanished. Bulk Oil 703 Third St SE reported entry with two cigarette cartons missing and Superior Oil 725 Third St SE showed no reported loss.
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Cedar Rapids
Trax Oil Company
Third Street SE
Bulk Oil Company
Superior Oil Company
Third Street
Mutiny by Baby Elephants Aboard Pacific Ship
In San Francisco a navy plane prepared to drop emergency hay and worms to eight baby elephants aboard the S. S. Swarthmore Victory after food shortages sparked a mutiny. The ship carried 17 crates of monkeys, 20 birds, three bears, three ducks, four snakes and cats.
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Navy
Pacific
S. S. Swarthmore Victory
Pacific Far East Lines
Sacramento Zoo
Madison
Siam
Attlee Opposes Big Three Parley Proposal
Prime Minister Attlee rejected a Commons proposal to arrange a Big Three meeting with Stalin and Truman. He said international problems should be handled through the United Nations if not settled by normal diplomatic channels.
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London
Attlee
Commons
Stalin
Truman
United Nations
Idle at Chrysler Plants Reaches 12000 Workers
Detroit reports 12000 workers idle as day shifts fail to report to three Chrysler plants. CIO United Auto Workers members began walkouts Tuesday night prompting disciplinary actions against three workers.
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Detroit
Chrysler
CIO
United Auto Workers
Man Admits He Wrecked Train at Valley Forge Site
NORRISTOWN Pa AP ex convict James M Johnson 30 admits wrecking a train to grab money from dead and injured. He will face murder charges after a coroner jury found tracks tampered with at Valley Forge near Washingtons encampment site.
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Norristown
W. Arnold Forrest
Forrest
James M. Johnson
Pocomoke City
Valley Forge
Washington
Johnson
Stanton
Del
Tito Won't Turn To West Refugee Crisis Echoes Tito's Moves
A 26 year old Yugoslav Communist commissar defected to the British zone of Austria claiming Russia prepares for war. He said Tito will not align with the West and aims to repair relations with Cominform before erasing remaining freedoms in Yugoslavia.
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Austria
Russia
Tito
Cominform
Yugoslavia
Ship Strike Spreads on East Coast
Spread ing maritime strikes shut down most East and West Coast shipping with Gulf ports still moving. About 6 500 AFL longshoremen in Philadelphia joined wildcat action, as 45 000 ILA members faced possible nationwide stoppage. 227 ships blocked New York traffic and the Mauretania diverted to Halifax as the Kitty Hawk’s arrival was delayed.
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AFL
Philadelphia
Boston
International Longshoremen’s Association
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Norfolk
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Joseph P. Ryan
West Coast
Agun
CIO
Inde
Pacific Coast
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Halifax
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Washington
Prominent Cedar Rapids Pastor Dr. Robert Little Dies at 67
The Rev. Dr. Robert Little 67 longtime Cedar Rapids clergyman died at a Cedar Rapids hospital at 7 am Thursday after four years of poor health. He led First United Presbyterian Church and previously served 20 years at First Presbyterian, retiring in 1945. He was educated at Williams Johns Hopkins Wabash McCormick and served churches in Winchester Newcastle Fort Wayne before moving to Cedar Rapids in 1925. Burial is set for Oak Hill cemetery with funeral Saturday at Turner chapel.
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Charles Little
Wabash
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Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
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Chicago
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Newcastle
Fort Wayne
Edward Read Burkhalter
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Mary Little
Hollywood
Calif
Turner Chapel
Oak Hill Cemetery
Great battle rages near Nanking in Chinese civil war
Government and Communist forces clash along the Suchow defense line north of Nanking with over 1 million involved. Government spokesman Teng Wenyi reports redeployments as Reds push 21 armies. casualties cited and air power unleashed as martial law stabilizes Shanghai and Nanking. American families evacuate to Tsingtao and Shanghai.
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Teng Wen-yi
Suchow
Teng
China
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Batttle
Sushow
Shanghai
Tsingtao
Shangai
Center Point and Swisher Breakins Solved
Cedar Rapids detectives solved a series of October breakins in Center Point and Swisher and a September tavern burglary in Cedar Rapids. John Good and Arnold Block, both of the Hi-Way hotel, were arrested after signing statements admitting prowls and thefts including two autos.
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Center Point
Swisher
John Good
Arnold Block
Frank Bukacek
Toll in Java rises after widespread attacks in Java
The Dutch army reports 47 killed 46 abducted and 18 wounded across 305 terrorist incidents in Java over the past two days. The casualty figures reflect ongoing violence in the region and indicate a sustained security crisis.
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Batavia
Java
Psalm Quotation Dissuades Bandit in Denver
Mrs. Oretta Huck faced a night invader who demanded money outside her home. She quoted Psalm 23 aloud and the would be robber wheeled away without violence, choosing to flee into the dark.
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Denver
Oretta Huck
Clayton Resigns From State Dept
Washington AP report states William L. Clayton, an eight year senior official, resigned as economic assistant to the secretary of state. He plans to return to directing his cotton brokerage firm in Houston after leaving government service.
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Washington
William L. Clayton
Secretary of State
Clayton
Houston
First Major U.S. Guns and Ammo to China Near Departure
The first large shipment of American arms to China since the Manchuria sweep is nearly ready to leave. China has drawn over 112 million of 125 million approved by Congress for military aid this year, mainly for vehicles radios and equipment rather than weapons. Hoffman says an on site survey in China is a definite possibility.
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Washington
China
Manchukia
State Department
Congress
Paul G. Hoffman
Repeal urged for closed shop ban in new labor law
Senator Thomas of Utah proposed that Congress restore the closed shop in any labor law replacing Taft Hartley. He urged minimizing injunctions in labor disputes and indicated he would likely chair the Senate labor committee next year.
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Washington
ULP
Thomas
Utah
Senate Labor Committee
Congress
Federal jobholders decline in September
Washington AP reports federal employment fell in September for the first time since December. Senator Byrd of Virginia, chairing the joint committee on reduction of non essential federal expenditures, said the decline amounted to 5,876, leaving 2,114,994 people employed in the executive branch.
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Byrd
D-Va
Joint Committee On
Pope urges real European union before it is too late
Pope Pius XII addressed 300 delegates at the second congress of the European Union Federalists in Castel Gandolfo on Thursday urging the realization of European unity before it is too late.
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