Investigator in Cedar Rapids Probes PMA Charge
A senate subcommittee investigator, Victor H. Anderson, visited Cedar Rapids to probe charges of politicking by PMA officers. Anderson met with Linn County PMA chairman John F. Wagor for about 40 minutes, with details undisclosed. The inquiry centers on Hatch Act violations tied to PMA campaigning for Albert Loveland.
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Cedar Rapids
Senate
Iowa
Federal Production and Marketing Administration
Victor H. Anderson
Guy M. Gillette
Anderson
John F. Wagor
The
Linn County P.M.A
Wagor
P.M.A
Des Moines
Albert Loveland
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Chamber of Commerce
Defiance by Enemy Has Empty Ring
Tokyo dispatch reports North Korea’s forces, aided by Chinese troops, vow to fight to the last man while Allied units push toward final victory. South Korean forces escape two traps between Pyongyang and the Manchurian border as 40,000 Chinese troops are claimed to have crossed the border. Yu Hae Heung says Chinese troops guard key Yalu power plants. allies press on.
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Manchurian
Pyongyang
Yalu River
Korea
Manchuria
Yu Hae Heung
North Korea
China
Yalu
Pace Eases In Calls For Reservists
Washington reports a slowdown in mobilization as all four services declare plans to wind down calls. The Army aims to release National Guardsmen next summer, the Navy and Air Force halt or limit reserve recalls, and the Marine Corps will call only a few as voluntary recruiting proceeds.
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Air Force
Navy
Marine Corps
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Marshall
Fort Lewis
Wash
Department of the Army
Air Reserve
Air National Guard
Air Guard
Trouble Ship Tamara Finally Reaches Hong Kong Harbor
AP report tracks the 10 month voyage of the Tamara a Honduran registered 1160 ton tramp with a multi national crew and a cargo including Chinese deportees animals and a gorilla. After a string of fires fights and mutinous acts the ship limped into Hong Kong with authorities holding all aboard ashore until order is restored.
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Hong Kong
Tamara
Australia
Borneo
Samarinda
Manila
Asia
Wife alleges abuse to force weight loss in Chicago divorce
Mrs. Eileen Barrett 20 charges her husband struck her in the stomach to compel weight loss from 200 pounds. The divorce was granted.
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Chicago
Eileen Barrett
Aged Millionaire Found Dead With Rock Necklace
Horace Kirby 83, reclusive and reputedly the wealthiest man in Dade County, was found dead in a creek with a 10 pound rock tied to his neck. Sheriff Evans says all signs point to death by his own hand. Kirby valued around 3 million dollars with land holdings near 10,000 acres in Missouri and Texas. He never married and spoke of land ownership with detachment.
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Dadeville
Horace Kirby
Dade County
Everett Evans
Evans
Kirby
Missouri
Texas
Big Shot of Dry Era Sentenced in Tax Case
Newark AP James "N ig gy" Rutkin a prohibition era big shot was convicted of evading income taxes on 250000 described as extortion money by the government. He was sentenced Friday to four years in prison and fined 10000.
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Newark
James “Niggy” Rutkin
Community Chest at 53 Percent of Quota in Cedar City
The Cedar City Community Chest reports $116 080.59 raised or 53.7 percent of the $216 317.09 goal to fund 12 Red Feather agencies plus two war related groups. Divisions show wide variance with the residential section at 84.1 percent and several others well under half.
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Cedarmunity Chest
Red Feather
F. C. Waples
Morgan Foster
Cedar Rapids
Army reports lower death and disease rates in Korea
The army announced the death rate of wounded would be about 1 percent, far below 4.5 percent in World War II and 8 percent in World War I. General MacArthur praised the Army Medical Service as vastly superior, while Maj. Gen. Bliss noted disease made up about 50 percent of hospital cases, versus 86 to 90 percent in World War II.
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Washington
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Army
MacArthur
R. W. Bliss
Bliss
Korea
Rocket expert Walter Zimmermann vanishes in Reich report
Frankfurt dispatch says Dr. Walter Zimmermann a rocket and radar expert from Goettingen, once fleeing a Soviet institute, has disappeared. The Abendpost notes his residence in the university town within the British zone and reports the missing status amid postwar tensions.
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Frankfurt
INS
Walter Zimmermann
Zimmermann
Goettingen
Landlords Line Up For Rental Forms In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids and Marion landlords authorized to raise rents 23 percent above the June 30 1947 level queued in the Guarantee building corridor outside the defense area rental office Friday morning. Forms were distributed as the office opened at 10 am and by noon only about 50 had been handed out. Rent director T. J. Wilkinson announced extended office hours from 8:30 am to 4 pm next week to handle demand. Petitions for higher rents must be filed on government forms through the rent control office.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion
Guaranty
Defense Area
T. J. Wilkinson
Cedar Rapids Rent Advisory Board
Rent Control Office
Hen lays egg on car seat in Elwood dealer’s lot
A hen at Elwood Indiana laid an egg on the driver's seat of a car owned by tractor dealer Robert Dellinger. Dellinger sat on the egg causing embarrassing results.
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Elwood
Ind
INS
Robert Dellinger
Dellinger
Don Berry Urges Probe into Spry Antifreeze Order
Indianola Iowa Record-Herald calls for an immediate open inquiry by the legislative interim committee into Secretary of Agriculture Clyde Spry's approval of a salt based antifreeze deemed essential to government. Don Berry publisher and Beardsley ally argues voters deserve full facts before the election.
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Iowa News
Indianesa
Genesaty 'S
Clyde Spry
Iowa
Legislative Interim Committee
Record-Herald
Spry
Don Berry
William S. Beardsley
Warren
Jay C. Colburn
Harlan
Gene Poston
Corydon
Colburn
Poston
Republican Party
Hand Trapped in Machine Nine Hours
A 21 year old chemical plant worker, Stanley Kielma, became trapped when his hand caught in a centrifuge drain. Firemen police and coworkers worked through the night to free him using custom tools and dismantling the machine. He avoided amputation and was taken to a hospital in shock but stable.
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Chicago
Stanley Kielma
Perspirl
Kielma
Alexian Brothers Hospital
Allied Chemical and Dyes Company
Kie
Noiseless Popcorn Reported on Way
A spokesman at a popcorn convention said noiseless popcorn has passed experimental stages and will soon be on the market. The product results from years of university research and promises the same taste with an orange tint.
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Chicago
Europeans Move Toward Free Trade Step
At Paris the Marshall Plan countries agreed to broaden free trade by removing restrictions on all but 25 percent of their commerce. Irish Foreign Minister Sean McBride announced the plan after a two day OEEC ministerial council meeting. The pact would lift barriers on an additional fifteen percent of trade among 18 Western governments.
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Paris
Europe
Sean McBride
Organization
A European Economic Coopertion
Cheap Drug Said To Act Like ACTH
A cheap old drug furacin may mimic ACTH by stimulating adrenal cortisone production. Researchers Friedgood and Ripstein report potential use for arthritis rheumatic fever and possibly some cancers with human tests just beginning. Early results note nausea as a side effect and note uncertain cancer outcomes.
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Boston
American College of Surgeons
Charles E. Friedgood
Charles B. Ripstein
Maimonides Hospital
State University Medical Center
New York
Chinese Troops Not Old Reds With U S First Corps
An AP report cites a Chinese soldier captured by South Koreans who said many fresh troops sent into Korea to aid the Reds were former Nationalist soldiers not old Communists. He claimed about 40,000 Chinese troops entered in the last two weeks and he arrived nine days ago.
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U. S
North Korea
Korea
Red Army
Dable
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