CIO President Murray Seeks Aid For Unions On Red-Affidavit Clashes
Washington AP CIO President Philip Murray moves to aid three left wing CIO unions facing organizing and bargaining snags linked to sworn anti Communist affidavits. He protests Atomic Energy Commission blacklisting of United Electrical Workers and United Public Workers and urges the Maritime Commission to press Pacific waterfront employers to resume negotiations with longshoremen. He also challenges the Taft Hartley affidavit rule in a court test and criticizes pre judgement by Lilienthal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
CIO
Philip Murray
Murray
National Labor Relations Board
Atomic Energy Commission
United Electrical Workers
United Public Workers
General Electric
University of Chicago
Maritime Commission
Pacific Waterfront
Harry Bridges
Taft- Hartley
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
Truman rallies crowd in Lexington on Nov. 2 race outlook
President Truman told a Lexington crowd that his party would deliver for labor farmers and small business, contrasting the Republicans with a “black record” of the 80th Congress. He cited gains in farm and industrial income and profits, saying unity in foreign policy helped bipartisan collaboration. He urged voting Democratic ticket for continued deliveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Congress
Washington
Democratic Party
Truman
Dewey
Iowa Briefs Highlights from Various Iowa Towns
The fourth district Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters gather in Manchester with delegates from Waterloo Dubuque Cedar Falls LaPorte City Oelwein and Grundy Center. George W Fiser and Cecil buy J J Furlong machine shop in Marengo. Highway patrolmen for Marshalltown area listed. Wyoming Community Club elects Thomas Eichhorn president. Mildred Dalziel and Carol M Lunde wed in Arkansas. Rainbow girls installed in Oxford Junction. Rotary Club to host Rotary Ann dinner with Dr Less Royal speaking. Winthrop and Wellman see property sales and engagements announced. Tipton and Quasqueton report legal and civic notes. Cedar County dealer licenses issued. polio patient treated in Iowa City. Belle Plaine band mothers elect new officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Distict Knights of Pythias
Pythian
Waterloo
Dubuque
Cedar Falls
LaPorte City
Oelwein
Grundy Center
Presbyterian Church
Marengo
George W. Fiser
Cecil
J. J. Furlong
Furlong
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Oxford Junction
Luanna Mizaur
Louis Mizaur
Order of Rainbow
Shirley Vacek
LaWanda Winter
Laurabelle Straka
Jacqueline Kleineck
Peggy Barber
Phyllis Burda
Betty Benhart
Ethel Busch
Made
Tipton
Chalmer Meaker
G. K. Thompson
Arnold Mente
Meaker
Albert
Iowa City
Winthrop—Myrs
Marie Alden
Mildred
Mae
Richard Cameron
Clifford Cameron
Independence
Methodist
Wellman
Music Boosters Club
Dysart
R. E. Robertson
Walker
Elsie Holmes
Dudley Holmes
Belle Plaine
Band Mothers Club
Walter du Toit
Lyle Woods
Kenneth Frazelle
Bernard Perry
Weather and local notices from the Daily Record
The October 2 1948 issue lists weather lows and highs for several cities with rainfall totals, a weekly forecast including warmer periods and scattered showers near the Missouri River, and winds 10 to 15 mph. It also records a string of local fines for traffic violations, divorce decree, marriage licenses, fire incidents, newborns, and deaths with brief funeral notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismarck
New York
Sioux City
Milam
Apolis
Phoenix
Green Bay
Los Angeles
Chicago
Oudenver
Towa
Missouri River
Eagles Host Music Program for Blind Students in Cedar Rapids
A group of girls from the Town School for the Blind at Vinton will present a ninety minute musical show in the Eagles club on Sunday starting at 3 p.m. Glen Bachman states this is the second such program the Vinton group has presented in Cedar Rapids under Eagles auspices. The musicale is open to the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School For the Blind
Vinton
Eagles ‘Club
Glen Bachman
Eagles
Cedar Rapids
Stricken Child Killed on Way to Specialist
Sharon Hebner four died in a car crash while en route to a Saginaw specialist. Earl Hebner, her father, and four others were injured in the collision near Bad Axe as they traveled for medical care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saginaw, Mich
Sharon Hebner
Earl
Bad Axe
Saginaw
Sharon
82 Year Old Man Held on Morals Charge
Perry Smith, 82, of 330 F avenue NW waived to the grand jury after arraignment in justice court on lascivious acts with a six year old girl. Cedar Rapids police arrested him at 5 15 p m Friday. He could not furnish $1 000 bond set by Justice H B Churchill. He was remanded to Linn County jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Smith
F Avenue NW
Justice Court
Cedar Rapids
Smith
Justice of the Peace H
Churchill
Linn County
Man Fined for Reckless Driving in Mt Vernon Road Incident
Clement L. Murphy Jr of 1807 Grande Avenue was fined $50 plus costs after pleading guilty to reckless driving in traffic court. Police said he narrowly missed several vehicles on Mt Vernon road between Thirtieth and Thirty-fourth streets early this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Beranek
Mt. Vernon Road
Louis Kieper
Palo
Fred A. Beck
Springville
Carl E. Liabo
Center Point
Mildred Schultz
Ninth Street
Clement L. Murphy, Jr
Grande Avenue
C. L. Murphy, Jr
Murphy
Mt Vernon
Thirty
Security meeting to plan defense plant protections
The Defense Department says about 40 top industrialists will meet in Washington next week to discuss an internal security program for armament plants. The talks will cover all measures to protect factories in a national emergency. Royall warns army doctor shortages could slow the whole defense program, stressing the need for 3,900 physicians within nine months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Defense Department
Army
Roysall
Civil Defense Planning Office
FBI
Joint Chiefs of Staff
National Security Council
National Resources Board
Munitions Board
Offi ‘Cers
Navy
Air Corps
Royall
Amnesia Sufferer Finds Identity by Newspaper Photo
Arthur Craddock, 38, who vanished June 13 while fishing, recovered after recognizing his own photo in the Evansville Courier. He spent 100 days with memory gaps, worked in Wichita grocery, and was brought back by his brother after the newspaper clue linked him to Evansville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evansville
Ind
Arthur Craddock
Wichita
Craddock
Des Moines Man Confesses Burglary After Car Crash
Charles E. Brown of Des Moines faced Iowa City police court on a breaking and entering charge after admitting he took cigars and candy from a west side inn. He was held in Johnson County jail following a single-vehicle crash near Coralville that caused $300 in damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Charles E. Brown
Des Moines
Johnson County
Brown
West Side Inn
Lester Abbot
Fairfax
Abbott
Coralville
Sally Quinn Struck by Car in Iowa City
Sally Quinn a student dietitian at University Hospitals suffered a fractured nose and facial cuts after being struck by a car driven by Charles F. Collins in Iowa City. Police also reported Joseph Keefe another University student bruised when struck by a car driven by S. E. Smith of West Liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sally Quinn
Iowa City
University Hospitals
Charles F. Collins
Joseph Keefe
S. E. Smith
West Liberty
Just the Newsboy by Edgar A. Guest Poem Preview
A reflective verse by Edgar A. Guest honors newsboys as humble beginnings of great careers. It urges readers to look beyond present roles and recognize potential in every boy who passes daily by doors and streets. The poem contrasts youth and eventual achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Small
Court Dismisses Deed Petition in Nissen Suit and Grants Probate
Judge J E Heiserman dismissed Ilsegret Elizabeth Nissen versus Nissen Trampoline Company seeking to set aside three deeds. If redress exists it must be by action at law against former husband George Peter Nissen, president of the trampoline company. George E MacFalls will probate shows Violet MacFalls executrix without bond. she is sole heir. A divorce suit by Mabel A Pisarik was dismissed. Esther M Jutting’s divorce from Harold H Jutting was set aside by Judge G K Thompson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ilsegret
Elizabeth Nissen
Nissen Trampoline Company
J. E. Heiserman
George Peter Nissen
Trampoline
Nissen
George E. MacFalls
Violet MacFalls
Bond
Esther M. Jutting
Harold H. Jutting
G. K. Thompson
Woman Killed in Two Car Collision Near Fayette
Hopkinton resident Mrs Clarence Moulton 39 died on arrival at Mercy hospital. Her husband and two daughters Dorothy 19 and Mary Patricia 10 were seriously injured with multiple fractures and cuts. Don ald D Martens of Fayette drove the other car. The family was en route to visit daughter Roberta at Upper Iowa University. The body returned to Hopkinton today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
Oelwein
Hopkinton
Fayette
Clarence Moulton
Mercy Hospital
Dorothy
Mary Patricia
Moulton
Fayette County
Traffic toll in Cedar Rapids rises since March fifteenth
Traffic bureau figures report two deaths and multiple injuries in Cedar Rapids since March 15 as part of an eight month safety contest sponsored by the Young Men's bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Traffic Bureau
The
Police Department
Young Men’s Bureau
Dewey vows to end communists influence with open action
Dewey declares that communists will be purged from government after January 20 and promises traitor handling, stronger laws, and public disclosure of enemies. He says witnesses will not be kept from grand juries and that communist activity will no longer be a red herring. The Cheyenne speech caps a long West Coast campaign swing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dewey
United States of America
Truman
House Committee
Cheyenne
West Coast
Deaths in Cedar Rapids Area Prompt Obituary Notices
Multiple local death notices report Edwin C. Morrison 62 of Cedar Rapids died of a heart attack at the Milwaukee Road station washroom. Also listed are Donald W. Anderson 43 of Chapel Hill dies in Cedar Rapids hospital. Mrs Dugard McTavish and Mrs Joseph Fisher notices with funeral details and survivors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin C. Morrison
Milwaukee Road
Robert Brosh
Mr. Morrison
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Hazel
E. A. Branson
Muscatine
Dorothy Morrison
Darien
Donald W. Anderson
Chapel Hill
N.C
Everard Anderson
K Street
Blanche
Dolores
Elaine
Donald
Gladys Welch
Army Rules Bar First Enlistments by Family Men
The army ordered recruiters to stop accepting first enlistments by men with dependents. A former soldier with dependents may re enlist after 90 days, and only if he qualifies for his first three grades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Six in Family Hurt in Crash Near Earlville
A car carrying six family members crashed into the side of a Great Western railroad diesel engine at a crossing two miles north of Earlville at 10 am. All six were injured. Tony Hildebrand, the driver, had internal injuries and bruises, while others including Mrs Hildebrand, Rose Mary 11 Josephine 9 Martha 6 and Henry Miller suffered various injuries. They were treated and released by an Earlville doctor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Great Western Railroad
Earlville
Tony Hildebrand
Henry Miller
Polio Drops Lead Cedar Rapids Reportable Diseases Count
Health officer Clyde H. White lists September cases in Cedar Rapids showing eight polio cases this year and four whooping cough, plus one each of chicken pox scarlet fever and measles. Mumps fell to zero after seven in August as schools reopened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde H. White
Cedar Rapids
White
Rives Heads to Confederate Veterans Encampment
Jno R T Rives national commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans says only four or five Bray clad veterans of a once million-strong army are expected to answer roll call at the fifty-eighth national encampment of the United Confederate Veterans in Montgomery Alabama October 5 6 and 7. He notes there are 54 Confederate veterans left in the United States with ages averaging just over 100 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Confederate Veterans
Montgomery
Ala
Jno
R. T Rives
Cedar Rapids Railroad
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Rives
Birmingham
United States
Lefebure Decorated For Meritorious Flight To Greece
Staff Sgt. Roland Lefebure son of Mrs Kathryn Lefebure 416 Twelfth Street SE received The Order of Phoenix Greek decoration for a B-29 flight from New York to Athens covering 5200 miles in 22 hours 50 minutes. King Paul decorated all eleven crew members for delivering medical supplies and observing Greek air force day. Lefebure served four years with the air force and spent six months last winter in Alaska. He plans to discharge Oct 30 and enroll at Coe College for the second semester.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Force
Lefebvre
97Th
Alaska
Coe College
British Press Exclusion Cancels News Conference
In Washington a British representative halted a scheduled press conference after Clem Leslie urged that Tribune reporters be barred. The Tribune opposes the European recovery program, and ECA official Bryan Houston canceled the event with support from attending reporters. In Los Angeles Henry Wallace quipped about finding tomatoes in the salad, drawing laughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Economic Cooperation Administration
Bryan Houston
ECA
Clem Leslie
Stafford Cripps
Tribune
Houston
Los Angeles
Henry Wallace
Kathleen Winsor and Shaw Beach Settlement
New York AP Bandleader Artie Shaw and his sixth wife Kathleen Winsor agreed to a peaceful separation and seek an uncontested divorce. Attorneys said Shaw made restitution of joint account funds totaling $116,000 and Winsor dropped claims for support and alimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Artie Shaw
Kathleen Winsor
Amber
Shaw
Miss Winsor
Arnold R. Krakower
Hog Prices Sink Across Corn Belt Markets
Hog prices fell for the fifth straight day at major Midwestern markets with declines of 50 cents to 1 per hundred pounds. Department of Agriculture officials attributed the drop to weak demand and warned farmers to slow hog movement amid prices near support levels set for March 15. Retail dairy prices eased as milk and cream cuts appeared in Milwaukee, while butter also showed reductions at grocers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Wife Calls Police in Cedar Rapids Domestic Dispute
Officers responded to a 1:10 am family trouble call in Cedar Rapids. The wife had summoned help, witnesses noted the husband asked to join the officers at the station and, at his request, spent the night in a jail room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Notice of Probate and Ancillary Admin in Linn County
Notice dated October 1 1948 appoints Bernard McMeel and Mrs Ann Murphy as Executors of Mary McMeel estate with claims and debts to be filed in Linn County District Court. Also notices probate hearing for Lumir Severa last will and testament on October 1948 and appointment of Halle G Bunting as ancillary administrator of William Bunting estate in Linn County Iowa with debts due and claims to be filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Iowa
Linn County
Mary McMeel
Iowa
Lind County
Bernard McMeel
Ann Murphy
Rieley
Lumir Severa
Cedar Rapids
Arthur
Axmear
Sargent
Spangler and Hines
State of
William Bunting
Iate
Los Angeles County
Caifornia
Sodher Area
Batice Ga
Cere of
In Unty
Laws
Halle IG. I
Buntin Ancillary
Crissman and Bleakley
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Atom
Mellalde Murray
Cites Prosperity
Iowa Briefs
Rotary Club
F. Hall
Less Royal
Rebekahs
Winthrop
John Gaffney
Wayne
Frank Wetmar
Wining
Julia M. Husak
William Husak
Toledo
Joseph J. Benda
Ben Benda
St. Patrick’s Church
Tama
Waukon
Emmett F. Dougherty
Jeanne
Robert McDonald
Daily Record
Henry Smith
Delpha Ware
James Caston
Odell Bogan
Jesse Rigman
Otis Road
Bill Coldbeck
Highway 30
149 Junction
Marvin Klouda
Tenth Avenue
Mercy
Otto Blackwell
L Avenue NW
Clark Pease
Wilson Avenue
James Colbert
C Street
James Leedon
Thirty Fourth Street Drive
St. Luke’s
Albert Hart
Council Bluffs
Fussell F. Herwig
Edgewood
Sandra Fay Kheil
Roy Kheil
Littleport
Frank Vickery
Martin
William Kelly
Mae L. Reeder
Wilson Funeral Home
Sand Hill Cemetery
Edgar A. Guest
the Poet of
the People
the Newsboy
Joseph A. Pisarik
Mabel A. Pisarik
Mrs. Dugald McTavish
Dugard McTavish
Miriam E. Baker
Twentieth Street
Grayling
Mich
Mary Blivins
Margaret Ann Baker
John Baker
Confederate
D. R. Auman
Second Avenue
St. Luke's Hospital
City Cab
Don Lonnie
Youth For Christ
Board of Education
David R. Darling
Cottage Grove Avenue
First Avenue E
Waneta Wilson
Shaw Beach
Ird Ave
Turner
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