B-29 Crew Displays At Cedar Rapids Airport
A B 29 Superfortress landed at Cedar Rapids Municipal airport at 3 20 p m after a flight from El Paso Texas and will be on display all day Sunday. Crew members led by Capt K E Harris will explain operation in a 3 p m program. Harris will present a Hellcat to Mayor Hahn for the Cedar Rapids victory bond contest winner.
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Cedar Rapids
el Paso
Texas
War Department
Linn County
Bill Norris
George Hearn
K. E. Harris
Norris
Harris
Frank K. Hahn
Linn County Victory Loan
Bombardier N. A. Ramsey
Woodward, Ia
Earlville
Cpl. G. Schlesinger
Milwaukee
Bob Fasig
Elizabeth, N. J
Lasswell
Thompson
C. R. Port
New. Menicipal Aiport
Soviet Duplicity in Manchuria Settles into Battlefront Headlines
Chungking charged Russia with allowing large numbers of Chinese Communist personnel into Manchuria after Nationalist troops breached the Great Wall defenses at Shanhaikwan. The Shih Chieh Jih Pao warned that Soviet entry could undermine the Chinese Soviet treaty rights and urged explanation for the Communist foothold around Port Arthur and Dairen.
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Chungking
INS
Russia
Manchuria
Great Wall
Po Gulf
Shanhaikwan
Chungking Information Ministry
Shih Chieh Jih Pao
Changchun
Manchurian
Peiping
Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Kai-shek
Chungking- Moscow
Red Army
Soviet Union
Liaotung Peninsula
Port Arthur
Dairen
Yinkow
Russians May Ask For Delay In War Crimes Trials
The international war crimes tribunal opened as scheduled for Nazi trials but Russians are expected to seek a postponement. U S Prosecutor Jackson cited illness of Moscow chief prosecutor Rudenko as a likely reason. France and Russia protested the decision not to indict Alfried Krupp, while Gustav Krupp’s trial was postponed indefinitely. Martin Bormann to be tried in absentia.
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Mernberg
Germany
International War Crimes Tribunal
Alfried Krupp
U. S
Robert H. Jackson
R. A. Rudenko
Moscow
Jackson
Alfried
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen Und Halbach
Krupp
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Charles Dubost
Neacy Ey
Triunal
Dubost
Russia
France
United States
Yuri Pokrovsky
Los Angeles Landlords Face Opposition Over Rent Eviction Threat
Opposition forms to evict 35,000 tenants unless rent ceilings rise. Citizens housing council and welfare representatives protest. Harry Myers of the American Legion cites 16,000 unused LA apartments and urges owners to rent them immediately. Housing group asks Mayor Bowron to declare a state action.
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Los Angeles
OPA
Citizens Housing Council
Welfare Agency
Harry Myers
American Legion
Housing Council
Fletcher Bowron
Trailer Camp Is 97 Percent Full
Cedar Rapids reports Kenridge Terrace trailer camp at 97 of 100 units occupied. War workers, now veterans and families of service members, share compact living with limited heating and no internal water, relying on outside pumps and a communal laundry.
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Cedar Rapids
Kenridge Terrace
Federal Public Housing Administration
Senator McKellar Urges Outlawing Atomic Bomb by Treaty
Senator pro tempore Kenneth D. McKellar called for a treaty to outlaw the atomic bomb as a weapon of warfare. He urged a congressional resolution to express that stance while the Senate atomic energy committee prepared to visit Oak Ridge, Tennessee for inspections and hearings on control legislation.
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Washington
Kenneth D. McKellar
Senate
United States
Congress
L-Man
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Oak Ridge
Tenn
B 29 Lands at New Airport On Bond Tour
Civil Air Patrol roped off the area as the crew exited the giant B-29, the first on a bond tour and the largest aircraft to touch the new airport. Capt. Harris praised the field while admitting a slight bump on landing. A fire crew waited, and the crew noted the cold high above the ground.
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Civil Air Patrol
Bowles Set to Release 1946 Car Price Statement
Washington OPA Price Administrator Chester Bowles will issue a Sunday statement on 1946 automobile prices. The talk may indicate how much new cars will cost compared with 1942 prices, with clues rather than full model prices. Bowles aims for prices close to 1942 levels amid dealer and manufacturer tensions.
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Washington
INS
Chester Bowles
Bowles
OPA
U S Involvement in Chinese Tangle Cited by U P Leader
Hugh Baillie president of the United Press association says the United States is arming and backing one Chinese army against another in Manchuria. He warns extricating the U S from northern China and Manchuria will be a difficult near-term task after his 20,000 mile Pacific tour. He spoke at a Society of Silurians dinner in New York.
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New York
Hugh Baillie
United Press Association
United States
Manchuria
China
Baillie
Pacific
Society of the Silurians
Edward Stettinius Released After Gall Bladder Operation
New York reports former Secretary of State Edward Stettinius was discharged Saturday from Harkness Pavilion hospital following a gallbladder operation.
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New York
INS
Edward Stettinius
Harkness Pavilion Hospital
De Gaulle declares interim presidency over Communist cabinet demands
In a radio address Gen. De Gaulle says he resigned as interim president after communists demanded control of foreign affairs or war or interior. He argued accepting such posts would endanger France's policy of equilibrium between the United States and the Soviet Union and threaten peace. He pledged to continue efforts to form a government or transfer the task to another, and noted his resignation letter cited incompatible demands with independence and authority.
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Paris
de Gaulle
France
DeGaulle
United States
Russia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, War
Interior
Eisenhower Wife Treated for Possible Pneumonia in Boone
Mrs Dwight D Eisenhower was taken to Boone county hospital after a cold on the train and medical staff feared pneumonia though later reports said her condition was not serious. Dr A B Deering began penicillin treatment and an X ray was planned. General Eisenhower stayed at her side as he weighed his own travel to Chicago for an American Legion convention.
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Boone, Ia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Boone County Hospital
A. B. Deering
Boone
James Stack
Eisenhower
Washington
Chicago
Deering
General Eisenhower
Joel C. Carlson
Dr. Deering
Carlson
John S. Doud
Denver
American Legion
Brewster
Inglis
Atlantic
Pacific
North Carolina
Jap Attack Plans Revealed 1941 Details
Washington disclosures show Japan mapped Pearl Harbor action in 1941 with January planning and an October order to strike on December 7. Admiral Inglis testified the task force was 800 to 1,000 miles from Hawaii when the Mt Niitaka message signaled attack, with carriers guiding ships to within 200 miles as dawn broke.
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Washington
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
U. S. Navy
Congressional
T. B. Ing
Naval Intelligence
Cordell Hull
U. S
Inglis
Mt. Niitaka
Tokyo
Imperial Naval Command
Hawaiian
Brewster
R-Maine
Pacific
Atlantic
Maine
Navy
Indonese Parley Ends in Failure
A British sponsored conference between Indonesian and Netherlands leaders ended with disappointing results after nationalist radio in Surakarta broadcast a declaration of war against the British. The official communique said no conclusions were reached. Sultan Sharif met with Dr. Van Mook as British observers watched.
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Batavia
INS
Surakarta
Java
Sultan Sharif
Hubertus J. van Mook
Netherlands Indies
Aneta
Netherlands
Soerabaja
Semarang
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Pearl Harbor Inquirers
Lucas Assalis
Sen
Lucas
D- IL
Leceuring
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Bark
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