St Paul and Minneapolis Teachers Strike Looms Over Budget
St Paul teachers walked picket lines closing 77 schools and affecting 30,000 students as salary scales and a $1,700,000 annual budget for instructional help and building improvements dominate talks. In Minneapolis a midnight truce halted a 70,000 student strike with a $150 cost of living bonus and $40 monthly raises to begin Jan 1.
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ST. Paul, Minn
AFL Teachers Joint Council
Minneapolis
Hubert Humphrey
Willard E. Goslin
AFL Federation of Teachers
St. Paul
Knife Battle Claims Life in Iowa City
Ernest R. Brown, a Kansas City welder, died from a knife wound after a confrontation with William A. Patton, a 31 year old Iowa City restaurant cook, at Patton’s home. Patton was charged with first degree murder amid details of the struggle and weapons found. Stucker and Dora Parsons are held as witnesses.
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Iowa
William A. Patton
Iowa City
Jack C. White
Ernest R. Brown
Kansas City
Patton
Brown
White
Ruth
Dora Parsons
Lewis Stucker
Des Moines
Bull In the Pen
Stucker
University Hospital
Frank L. Love
Miss Parsons
Johnson County
BPOE Seeks To Curb Delinquency With Legislation
Cedar Rapids delegates from the Iowa State Elks Association urged legislative action to curb juvenile delinquency. They called for parental responsibility to juvenile courts, powers to appoint and pay juvenile probation officers, expanded state facilities, adequate staff salaries, and each lodge to form a juvenile service committee.
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BPOE
Iowa State Elks Association
Cedar Rapids
Association
Juvenile Service Commission
Elks Lodge
Warmer Weather Expected After Cold Iowa Front
A sharp cold front hit Iowa Sunday night with eastern counties seeing a milder impact than the west. Cedar Rapids faces a low around 18 tonight while Estherville and other northwestern towns recorded single digits. By Monday afternoon Cedar Rapids measured 30, with Sunday highs near 54 and morning readings around 7 am.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Estherville
Pocahontas
Ft. Dodge
Sioux City
San Francisco Port Surges to Clear Pacific Cargo Backlog
San Francisco AP reports Shir shifted away from west coast ports to tackle a massive backlog of cargoes amid Pacific waters. The move reflects shifting supply chains as ships reroute for faster handling and ports seek increased throughput.
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San Francisco
Shir
West Coast
Pacific Water
French Lead Lost by Reds Gives MRP Narrow Win in Parliament
Paris reports revised results show Georges Bidault's MRP leading the French parliamentary vote with 24 751 electors to the Communists 24 544. An MRP leader called the Communist bid for leadership of the Fourth Republic rebuffed as the interior ministry updates figures from Sunday's election.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
MRP
Interior Ministry
Popular Republican Movement
Link-Belt Matter Tabled by Council
Cedar Rapids city council postponed action on rezoning near the Link-Belt Speeder plant. The plan commission forwarded recommendations and a Morrison letter urged rezoning and vacating Fourteenth Avenue. Hahn said council would act within the next 10 days.
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Cedar Rapids
City Plan Commission
M. H. Morrison
Northwestern Bella Eee Company
Fourteenth Avenue
Hahn
Metered parking starts in Cedar Rapids downtown
Police report a smooth start to metered parking as motorists adapt to the new system on Cedar Rapids streets. Chief T J Condon says most issues stemmed from failing to turn the handle after inserting coins, leaving a Violation Turn Handle flag until the turn is completed.
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Cedar Rapids
Parkers
Condon
Molotov Plans Visit to Byrnes in New York
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arranges a visit to Byrnes in New York amid U S discussions. The meeting aims to ease tensions and discuss ongoing wartime diplomacy with Allied representatives on neutral ground.
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Molotov
Byrnes
Rescued from Glacier 12 Americans Head for Vienna
Twelve Americans stranded on Gauli glacier above Interlaken after a plane crash were rescued by Swiss military planes and moved via army hospital train toward Vienna. The group includes 11-year-old Alice McMahon, Col. William C. McMahon, Brig. Gen. Loyal M. Haynes, Lt. Irving Mathews, Sgt. Louis Hill, civilian Harvey, and others, with Hazards like frostbite and nosebleed reported.
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Interlaken
Switzerland
United States Army
Vienna
Meiringen
Gauli Glacier
Pisa
Munich
Pand
United States
Austria
Alice McMahon
William C. McMahon
Buffalo
N. Y
United States Forces
Loyal M. Haynes
le Mars
Council Bluffs
Irving Mathews
Richmond
Louis Hill
Portales
N. M
George Harvey
Iron Mountain
Mich
Harvey
Haynes
Hill
Tate
Penick and Ford Plant Still Idle
The Penick and Ford plant remained idle Monday after contract talks broke off Saturday night. Local 18619 members met at the Labor temple with union president R. E. Lacy saying the session continued Monday afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids News
Penick and Ford
Federal Labor Union Local No. 18619
Labor Temple
R. E. Lacy
Comn
J. Max Widmer
Company
Union
Utility Death Rule Upheld By Tribunal
Washington AP The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence clause of the public utility holding company act. In a 6 0 decision Justice Murphy said dissolution of American Power and Light and Electric Power and Light would not destroy real value and could be done by fair methods. The two New York based holding companies faced SEC orders to dissolve amid concerns they plus the Bond and Share system unduly concentrated voting power.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Public Utility Holding Company Act
Securities and Exchange Commission
American Power and Light Company
Electric Power and Light Corporation
New York
Electric Bond and
Murphy
Reed
Douglas
Jackson
Rutledge
SEC
American Power and Light
Electric Power and
Commission
American and Electric
Bond
Share
No General Labor Layoff In Sight Here
Cedar Rapids faces no immediate general labor layoffs from the coal dispute as stocks grow critical at one firm awaiting peacetime dim out. The CPA order cuts lighting, curtails power use, and may force further reductions, while Quaker Oats and Petranek report no planned cuts. officials anticipate possible relief if the mine crisis ends soon.
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Cedar Rapids
Civilian
Cooper
Krug
Quaker Oats
Petranek
United Mine Workers
Office of Defense Seinepeieien
Earle G. Nichols
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
CPA
Nichols
Frank Hahn
John L Lewis Defies U S Court Over Strike
Washington UPI John L Lewis defied a government restraining order as Federal Judge Talan Goldsborough ordered him to trial Wednesday on contempt charges. The hearing, a prelude to a larger legal battle, focused on whether the union and its president cleared themselves of contempt after Lewis canceled the union contract with the government triggering the coal strike.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Talan Goldsborough
Goldsborough
Lewis
UMW
John F. Sennettetr
Congress
Greeks Deny Civil War Exaggeration Claims
Greek Minister of War Philip Dragoumis dismissed reports of a civil war as exaggerated and alarming. He said the government controls western Macedonia and that no major guerrilla clashes are happening. He noted no clear explanation for the UN council trip postponement and his comments followed prior border tensions with Yugoslavia Bulgaria and Albania.
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Athens
INS
Philip Dragoumis
Greece
Yugoslavia
Bulgaria
Albania
Macedonia
United Nations Security Counci
U S protest over Polish election rights noted
The United States issued a sharp note to Poland demanding equal rights for opposition parties in the January 19 Polish elections. Washington said it was surprised at the Polish stance and called for a fair competitive process.
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Washington
United States
Poland
State Department
G I wins $20000 in poker game but leaves it on bus
Pfc William W Gruver 22 of Butler lost an army overcoat containing 20000 dollars in cash a jewel set watch and two diamond rings after alighting from a bus on the Pennsylvania Turnpike during a weekend trip from Fort Meade Md He recovered the next bus to Pittsburgh but officials said no coat or money was turned in leaving the haunting loss unsolved.
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Fort George Meade
Pennsylvania Turnpike
Grover
Pittsburgh
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