Former guard Klatt accused in beating of inmate Miller
Dwight McCormack reports in Fort Dodge that former Eldora state training school guard Klatt testified about a brutal beating of 17 year old Roland Miller by Klatt and others. Clifton, a former inmate, said Miller was struck 95 times with a harness tag and 10 to 12 times with an oversized billy club about 27 hours before Miller’s death. Miller also allegedly faced threats to kill.
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Fort Dodge
Douglas Clifton
Eldora State Training School For
Klatt
Roland Miller
Miller
Cedarapids
Ody
Wheeler Demands End to Appeasement of Russians
Sen. Burton Wheeler blasts appeasement of Russia in a 10,000 word speech opposing a bill to authorize UN forces. He calls for real peace talks with or without Russia and multilateral disarmament while urging U.S. relief administered by Americans and greater congressional oversight of UN Security Council decisions.
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Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
D-Mont
United States
Russia
Europe
Asia
Senate
Wheeler
United Nations Organization
United Nations
Great Britain
League of Nations
Congress
Security Council
Council
Daily Record index and features snapshot
A condensed page index listing sections such as Comics Courthouse Editorial Features Farm News Men Women In Service Movies Radio Sports and State news with line references. It notes Walter Winchell and Women’s Features among the items.
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Ertenwarecvassy
Baus Oe Toe
Navy Orders Court Martial For Lost Cruiser Skipper
The navy orders Capt. Charles B. McVay III to stand general court martial over the loss of the cruiser Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea after a July 30 torpedo attack. The ship had left Guam July 16 bound for the Philippines with atomic bomb material. 880 crew members were killed or missing.
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Washington
Navy
Charles B. McVay III
Indianapolis
Philippine Sea
San Francisco
Guam
Philippines
Five Leaders Chosen for Cedar Rapids Emergency Housing Survey
Five division leaders were named to supervise Cedar Rapids emergency housing survey work this week. The Legion auxiliary will handle survey mechanics with co chairs Mrs Harry Gunderson and Mrs Louis Schirm. Leaders oversee southwest northwest loop northeast and southeast districts and will meet precinct captains to distribute interview packets. Interviewers will visit homes starting Thursday morning and 308 women will conduct house to house calls, aiming to complete by Friday evening.
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C. R
Cedar Rapids
Harry Gunderson
James F. Scolaro
A. E. Schoendelen
Louis Schirm
Ning
A E. Schoendelen
American Legion Hanford Post Auxiliary
The
Legion Auxiliary
Alma Vokolek
Northwest
H . Steele
Loop
Charles J. Jasa
Northeast
AD. Holbrook
Southeast
W. Dart Smith
Hanford Post
Cooper ate editorial appeals Cedar Rapids aid for veterans housing
Scalaro urges Cedar Rapids residents to fully cooperate in the campaign to locate housing for veterans and their families. During the war every person in Cedar Rapids expressed the desire to help servicemen in every possible way. The piece continues on page 2.
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Scalaro
Cedar Rapids
Army editor in Pacific under review after ship inquiry
Lt. Gen. W. D. Styer will rule on Pvt. Robert W. Young's fate following an investigation into a mimeograph story from Tacloban noting ships converted for Japanese prisoners. Young was reduced to private after publication and claims editors may publish facts within ethics and security limits.
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Manila
W. D. Styer
Western Pacific
Robert W. Young
Young
Tacloban
Styer
Pacifican
Robert O. Wright
Wright
Stor
McNarney predicts decade-long Allied occupation of Germany
Gen Joseph T McNarney new American forces in Europe commander says the Allied occupation will last at least ten years. He details continued denazification and staffing changes in the U S command as a civilian German government is slated for June 1.
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Frankfurt
Joseph T. McNarney
Europe
Germany
McNarney
Eisenhower
Gen. Marshall
United States Army
Walter B. Smith
H. R. Bull
Smith
Miller White
White
Washington
George S. Patton
15Th Army
Truman
Return of Dead to Home Soil Mapped
Washington officials announced plans to bring home the bodies of over 274,000 World War II servicemen for burial in the United States. Quartermaster units will locate graves overseas, identify remains, and contact next of kin for burial in national cemeteries, family plots, overseas American cemeteries, or at the grave site.
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Washington
INS
War Department
Quartermaster Corps
Secretary of War
United States
House
America
Gas Explodes At Anamosa Injuring No One
Anamosa oil station operator Ray Huerter escaped injury after a gasoline explosion blew out an 18 foot wall section. The blast was caused by a blow torch propelling flames through the structure.
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Anamosa
Ray Huerter
Tragic Chelan Bus Crash Claims Students and Driver
Families gathered as divers resume search for a school bus missing after a snowstorm crash near First Creek Lake Chelan. Fifteen children and driver Jack Randall are believed trapped. five survived, including hero Mrs. Glenna Brown who helped others escape. Ronnie Ayers drowned en route to shore. Donnie Mack described the shock and cold.
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First Creek
Wash
Chelan
Creek
Ronnie Ayers
Jack Randall
Glenna Brown
Ronnie
Nazis Started Big War Gas Project in 1938
MERNBERG Germany began mass production of poison gas more than a year before World War II, with Goering ordering 4 000 tons monthly by 1938 and rising to 8 000 by 1940. The plan was handed to I G Farben for execution, though actual output lagged due to shortages.
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Mernberg
Germany
Hermann Goering
George Thomas
I. G. Far‘ben Industrie Chemical Trust
Sidney Alderman
United States
Alfred Jodl
Adolf Hitler
Jodl
Munich
Italy
Hull Defends Self Over Infamous Note Charge
Cordell Hull testifies before a Senate House committee calling the army board’s Pearl Harbor note interpretation infamous. He argues the note to Japanese envoys did not start the war and contends Japan sought to dominate the Pacific, while criticizing the board’s conclusions and defending prior remarks.
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Washington
Cordell Hull
Army Inquiry Board
Pearl Harbor
Army Board
Pacific
Hull
Hittler
United States
Sen. Lucas
D-Ii
Joseph C Grew
Grew
Mercury Static As Snow Begins in Cedar Rapids
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with a low around 24. A long subfreezing period ended Tuesday as a light snow moved in from northwest Iowa. Northern Iowa towns reported several inches of snow with Estherville at 3.8 inches and Sioux City at 18 degrees in the morning.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Chambers-Inskeep
Mercury
Weather Bureau
Estherville
Storm Lake
Waukon
Spencer
Fort Dodge
Charles City
Sioux City
Burlington
Atomic bombs fell free of parachutes, experts confirm
Washington reports army atomic bomb experts confirm the Hiroshima Nagasaki devices were free falling not parachuted. The parachute seen over the city carried instruments recording internal bomb activity while the bomb dropped, with the B 29 turning away and detonation about 11 miles off.
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Charles Degges
Washington
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Hurley resigns as ambassador declares U S policy sabotaged
Patrick J. Hurley quits as ambassador to China charging State Department diplomats back imperialist aims. He blasts a split between stated policy and actions, says career diplomats favored Communist and imperial blocs, and recounts efforts to unify Chinese forces and avert civil war.
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Washington
Patrick J. Hurley
United States
China
State Department
United States Foreign Service
Hurley
Truman
Roosevelt
Chiang
Chungking
Communist Party
Communist Armed Party
Chung
King
Flights to China Costing U.S. Lives
AP reports that about 700 American fighters and transports, flown over the Hump from India and Burma to China, are involved in a major mass airlift for distribution to the Chinese government, with lives at stake.
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Shanghai
United States
India
Burma
China
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