Bricker Claims Federal Payroll Padding Ahead of Vote
Ohio Governor Bricker charged the Roosevelt administration with padding federal payrolls before elections and vowed a Republican housecleaning. He warned payroll growth could reach new peaks by Election Day and cited idle federal workers and a nearly 3.5 million federal civil employees.
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Nashville
Tenn
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Vice. Bricker
Gov. Bricker
Roosevelt
Jackie Cooper Acquitted in Delinquency Case
Jackie Cooper, 22, former motion picture star, and three co defendants were acquitted by Juvenile Referee Albert L. Doyle of charges of contributing to the delinquency of two South Bend teenage girls. Co defendants include George Bender 24 Pauline Frederick 19 and Olie Lowery. Cooper and Bender are naval V-12 trainees at the University of Notre Dame.
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South Bend, Ind
Jackie Cooper
Albert L. Doyle
South Bend
Cooper
George Bender
Sheffield
Pauline Frederick
Olie Lowery
South Hotel
Doyle
Cooper and
Bender
University of Notre Dame
Cedar Rapids Weather Forecast and Rain Summary
Rain continued across southeast Iowa with Cedar Rapids reporting 1.15 inches of rain and a 55 degree temperature at 2 30 PM. Humidity stood at 75 percent as overcast skies persisted. The forecast calls for lingering drizzle today and tonight with a warmer Wednesday outlook and lighter coolness. Burlington logged the heaviest rain last night.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Chambers
Burlington
Cedar
Dewey to broadcast 15 minute taxes program tonight
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey arranged a Mutual network broadcast from 7 45 to 8 p m central war time to address taxes. He planned a possible Charleston reply to Roosevelt's speech and kept his Charleston itinerary undecided awaiting Roosevelt's remarks.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Mutual
Roosevelt
Charleston
W. Va
Paul E. Lockwood
Blican
Dewey
Truman Praises Roosevelt As Leader For War Unity
In a Blue Network address Senator Harry S Truman of Missouri urges voters to reevaluate Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a man of leadership. He credits Roosevelt with assembling capable officials and guiding wartime policy, arguing reconversion jobs and security depend on strong leadership for the next four years.
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Washington
Harry S Truman
Missouri
Roosevelt
Truman
Ce Marshall
Ernest J. King
War and Navy Secretares
America
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
the Missourian
Franrllin Delano Roosevelt
TVA
Boulder Dam
United States and Britain to feed Germans after Nazi collapse
A U S and Britain will feed western Germany while Russia occupies the eastern bread basket, with 210 million tons of minimum relief planned for liberated Europe in the first year. The United Nations agency is barred from feeding enemy nations. Allied forces are expected to provide German food.
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Washington
INS
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Russia
War Food Administration
Europe
Hitler
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Eupe
Italy
Merit Awards for Two Cedar Rapids Army Colonels
The war department announced Legion of Merit awards to Col. Donald C. Sloan of the Fifteenth Air Force in Italy and Col. James B. Gordon in the European theater. Sloan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Sloan, civilian head of Park Chemical, entered service 1940 and led his unit since 1943. Gordon served from 1942 to 1944, rising from captain to lieutenant colonel with multiple overseas stints. Both citations note meritorious combat service.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
War Department
Donald C. Sloan
Fifteenth Air Force Command
Italy
James B. Gordon
Adjutant General's Department
Col. Sloan
Albert J. Sloan
J Street
Washington Avenue
Gordon
A Avenue
Coe College
Park Chemical Company
Col. Gordon
Ey Ee Setanee
Itwo
Over-Counter Cashing Draws Busy First Day
Cedar Rapids banks processed 1220 bond cashings totaling 40550.32 on Monday under a new federal treasury plan allowing 60 day matured bonds to be redeemed over the counter. The rush showed why residents needed cash for cars doctors bills and emergencies as banks described long queues and staff kept busy all day.
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Cedar Rapids
Federal Treasury Department
Cedar Rapids School Board Holds brief meeting approves bills
In one of the briefest sessions on record the Cedar Rapids board of education approved general bills totaling 8,495.51 and school house fund bills, instructed the secretary on insurance, and read a letter from the Northeast Iowa district praising local officials for the successful convention handling and noting a $7,498 grant from the Federal Works Agency for child care.
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Cedar Rapids Board of Education
Salt Aa Uaeaia Taeanaaetie Unien
Federal Works Agency For
Iowa
Iowa State Teachers Association
Warsaw Falls After Sixty Three Days of Battle
Polish resistance reports Warsaw has fallen after exhausting all food and ammunition on the sixty third day of combat against German forces. Commander in chief Komorowski announced cease fire at 8 p.m. October 2 as Soviet and German pressure intensified.
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Bor) Komorowski
Warsaw
Fstriats
Red Army
Komorowski
Polish National Liberation Committee
Con
Farsew
Navy Officer Recalls Fight At F R Rally
Lt. Randolph Dickins Jr a Midway hero and Bethesda hospital patient testified that after Roosevelt's 1944 campaign speech at the Statler hotel a group of AFL Teamsters banquet attendees attacked him and a friend for refusing to reveal political affiliation He said he floored four or five of them and that a man charged him with beating a presidential ally and warned of higher sanctions.
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Washington
Wne
AFL Teamsters Union Banqu
Roosevelt
Randolph Dickins, Jr
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Statler Hotel
Dickins
County Attorney Smith Appointed in Linn County
W. Howard Smith was appointed assistant county attorney by the Linn County board of supervisors to succeed the resigning David M. Elderkin. Elderkin has left to join the Marine Corps as a second lieutenant and is undergoing indoctrination at Quantico Virginia. Smith's legal career includes work with Frank C. Byers and B. L. Wick, then OPA assignments in Burlington and Moline before returning to Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
W. Howard Smith
Third Avenue SE
Linn County Board of Supervisors
David M. Elderkin
Elderkin
Marine Corps
Quantico
University of Iowa College of Law
Smith
Frank C. Byers
B. L. Wick
Burlington
Office of Price Administration
Moline
OPA
B. cc
First Army Breaks Siegfried Line Near Aachen
U S First Army troops pierced the Siegfried line north of Aachen capturing Ubach and threatening Aachen for encirclement. By 11 a m they had advanced four miles from their jump off point on Monday. Allied forces claimed to have displaced hundreds of thousands of German prisoners overall and opened a second major breach in the West Wall while advancing toward the Rhine. The Metz region saw heavy bombardment and rapid assaults with flame throwers and artillery preceding an assault on Fort One bastion guarding Metz.
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Sid
Hurtgen
Aachen
Echternach
Reich
Trier
U. S. Third Army
Metz
Maizieres Les Metz
Moselle
Berlin
U. S
First Army
Nee Ree
Brecht
Nijmegen
Aemastheny Cincenl An Ogreg Sas Sheree Tae
Parroy Forest
London
Siegfried Line
Ubach
West Wall
Fortre
Winter Curfew Now in Effect for Youths
Police Chief Tom Condon reminds the public that the 16 and under curfew changed on October 1. Children 13 and younger must be off streets by 9 30 p.m. while those 14 to 16 must be off by 4 p.m. unless with a parent or guardian. The curfew lasts through April 30 before summer hours resume.
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Cedar Rapids
Tom Condon
Tuesda
Condon
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