United States backs full U N debate on disarmament
In New York the 14 nation general committee agreed to place the Soviet disarmament proposal on the United Nations Assembly agenda and refer it immediately to the political committee. Warren Austin urged strict inspection and enforcement safeguards to prevent secret arming while Molotov pressed for broader arms limits and abolition of atomic weapons. The U S stated it would cooperate with other nations and insisted on safeguards against evasion, warning against unilateral disarmament as a past mistake.
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New York
Russia
United Nations Assembly
General Committee
Assembly
Philip J. Noel- Baker
United States
Warren Austin
Vu. M. Molotov
Austin
U.N
United Nations
Molotov
Byrnes
Truman
Wife Gives One Eye To Blind Mate
In Detroit 22 year old Sally Tesch donated a cornea to her wartime husband Albert to restore sight. After Normandy injuries left him legally blind she learned about corneal transplants, raised funds, and the operation succeeded. They live in Chateau Mont with a farm implement shop and plan a family.
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Detroit
Ann Zapata
Sally Tesch
Albert Tesch
Normandy
Sally
Albert
Stove Company
Tesch
Temperatures To Stay Unchanged In Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids area will see little or no change in temperatures through Friday with cloudy skies and chances of rain in the southeast portion of the state. Wednesday highs reached 70 as temperatures fluctuated from 58 at 2:30 p.m. to a low near 32 by morning.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Weather Bureau
Veterans Center in Linn County to be abandoned
Veterans Service and Information center funded through a four point liquidation plan was accepted by the advisory council as the center dissolves. Offices will close November 3, about 300 open cases to be cleared by December 1, with dissolution set for December 31. Miss Caryl Austin to receive $225, records to Linn county welfare office, assets about $3,000 to be audited and handed to the public welfare bureau.
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Veterans Service and Information Center
Henry Haegg
Advisory Council
Chamber of Commerce
Linn County Veterans’ Problems
Community War Chest
Community Chest
Public Welfare Bureau
Haegg
Paramount
Caryl’ Austin
Linn County Welfare Office
Boy 8 Bets 10 Days With Bullet In Head
Eight year old Bruce Axberg wandered about for 10 days with a .22 caliber bullet lodged in his head. A neighbor found him bleeding in the street on October 20 and he was treated at home before a hospital operation by Dr. Gregory Green. Police sought the shooter as Bruce recovered in Rockford hospital with good condition.
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Rockford
Ill
Bruce Axberg
Gregory Green
Bruce
Magnus Hotel Sold to Bayfield and Mitchell
The Eppley company announced the sale of the Magnus hotel lease to W. E. Bayfield and John J. Mitchell. Plans include extensive remodeling of the structure. Bayfield, ex owner of the Hotel Jefferson and operator of other Midwest hotels, will stay in Cedar Rapids. Mitchell, a veteran hotel manager, will lead operations.
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Cedar Raunds News
Eppley Company
W. E. Bayfield
John J. Mitchell
Bayfield
Jefferson
Iowa City
Kirkwood
Des Moines
Ottumwa
Indianapolis
Mitchell
Indiana
Ohio
York
Cedar Rapids
Indictment in Sullivan Hollow clash near Raleigh Miss
In Raleigh Mississippi four Black men and a white farmer were indicted on assault charges connected to last Augusts Sullivan Hollow fracas where four white officers were wounded.
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Raleigh, Miss
Sullivan Hollow
Slaying Ends Marriage of Scion and Janitor's Daughter
In White Plains New York 10 year marriage between a wealthy colonial scion and a janitor's daughter ends with wife Marie Shannon Purdy 37 shot dead in her bedroom. Husband Charles Purdy 42 is charged with homicide after their 6 year old son witnessed the incident. Police say the couple had been drinking. Purdy led police to a .32 caliber revolver. A 4 year old daughter slept in another room. The arraignment set for November 7.
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White Plains
N. Y
Frederick E. Weeks, Jr
Marie Shannon Purdy
Charles
Purdy
Charles, Jr
Poppy
William Miller
Youths Halloween Hop At Coliseum Shifts Cedar Rapids
The city-wide Halloween Hop for teens is set for Memorial Coliseum tonight from 8 to 11. Vic Miller and his broadcasting orchestra will provide dancing as the decorations committee outfits the venue for a three act floor show. Tickets are at the Coliseum box office. Bernie Kozberg, Hanford post of the American Legion sponsor, says Cedar Rapids City Lines buses will be ready to shuttle dancers home after the event.
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Memorial Coliseum
Vic Miller
Coliseum
Bernie Kozberg
Hanford
Demos Disavowed Support From Communists
Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan repudiates Communist aid as elections near. GOP charges Democrats are dominated by Communists and the CIO PAC, while the party urges voters to back Republicans. Communists say they support several Democratic candidates.
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Washington
Democratic Party
Truman
Congress
Robert E. Hannegan
CIO
Political Action Committee
GOP
Hannegan
MBS
Republican Party
U S Information Unit Reopening in Yugoslavia
Secretary of State Byrnes announced the U S Information Service will resume activities in Yugoslavia within the next day or two. The move marks a reopening of U S government information efforts in the region following disruption.
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U.S. Information Unit
Yugoslavia
Washington
State Byrnes
U. S. Information Service
Bomb hits British embassy in Rome causing wing damage
A powerful blast shattered a wing of the British embassy in Rome early Thursday injuring two Italian passersby. The explosion tore through the three story building, with its heavy masonry cracked and windows shattered. British officials expressed bafflement as to motive while Italian investigators considered radical groups but offered no concrete suspects.
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Rome
J. G. Ward
Noel Charles
Italy
Ward
Michael Stewart
Stewart
Palestine
Benito Mussolini
Pietro Nenni
Hidinger Named Manager of Cedar Rapids Airport
Francis Hidinger, 28, a 1942 Coe graduate and WWII veteran, was named manager of the Cedar Rapids Municipal airport to succeed William Norris who resigned to take a pilot job. Hidinger will assume duties Friday at a salary of 3250 dollars. He led traffic control at Kansas City airports and served in the Army Air Forces in Europe, Africa and South America, helped establish the Miami to Natal air route, and later worked to consolidate traffic facilities across North Africa before Germany.
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Cedar Rapids
Francis Hidinger
Coe College
William Norris
Hidinger
Oelwein
Don Hines
Airport Commission
Norris
Civil Aeronautics Administration School of Traffic Control and
Kansas City
CAA
Kansas City, Mo
Fairfax
Kan
Army
Army Air Forces
South America
Africa
Europe
U. S
Miami
Natal
Brazil
ETO
North Africa
Casablanca
Cairo
Germany
Taft See In 1948 GOP Choice, Childs Says
Journalist Marquis W. Childs told Executives Club members in Montrose hotel that a Republican president will lead after 1948, likely Taft or Vandenberg, with Truman contrasted and price control as a key domestic issue. He urged a Philadelphia constitutional convention to study government structure.
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Taft
Childs
Jack Ferring
Congress
Marquis W. Childs
Executives Club
Montrose Hotel
Washington
Gazette
Truman
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Harold Stassen
Thomas Dewey
John Bricker
Arthur Vandenberg
Philadelphia
England
Australia
Canada
Senate
House
Republican Committee
House Explosion Tied to Maritime Strike Inquiry
In Baltimore three men died and six were injured when a waterfront lodging house exploded after a mysterious blast. Police suspect a link to the maritime strike, noting a note about harboring scabs found with a wrench hurled earlier. Owner Chester Rodriguez said most roomers were Panamanian seamen and there had been no trouble since the strike settlement.
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Baltimore
Emanuel Sandler
Chester Rodriguez
Rodriguez
U S Action Is Sought in Allis Strike
Washington hotel strike ends after Reconversion Director John F R Steelman mediates a final agreement between hotel operators and union representatives. President Roosevelt secretary Ross says terms will be announced and stresses government operations influenced the lengthy 21 day picket in 18 hotels.
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John FR. Steelman
Charles G. Ross
Ross
Steelman
Labor unrest hits Midwest as West Allis plant faces 400 cops
United Press reports 400 police and sheriff deputies patrolled the Allis-Chalmers plant in West Allis amid violence as 184 day strike continues. In Detroit the UAW threatened a 30 day strike at Ford River Rouge, citing health hazards in open hearth furnaces. Western Union workers avert a 17,000 person walkout by accepting a company union pact. AFL teamsters push an embargo on Pittsburgh rail shipments to pressure breweries. Trans World Airlines plans to resume operations despite AFL pilot strikes.
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United Press
West Allis
Wis
Allis-Chalmers
Detroit
CIO United Automobile Workers
Ford Motor Company
CIO Committee For Maritime Unity
Transworld Airlines
AFL
Western Union
New York
AFL Teamsters
Pittsburgh
Arnold Klentz
Schwellenbach
UAW
Ford River Rouge
Postwar strikes in 1946 far exceed 1945 totals
Washington officials report that nine month labor disputes in 1946 caused 98,225,000 lost work days, nearly triple 1945’s 38,025,000. Total strikes and lockouts numbered 3,575 for Jan–Sept, versus 3,784 for all 1945, with longer postwar walkouts noted as the cause.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
OPA Ends Pulpwood Price Controls on Canadian Imports
The OPA removed price controls on pulpwood imported from Canada, targeting Quebec New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The action affects shipments from these provinces and changes pricing rules under wartime controls.
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OPA
Canada
Pulpwood
Washington
INS
Canadian
Quebec
New Brunswick
Nova’Scotia
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Tesches
Montana
Veterans Center of
Linn County
Bayne Freeland
Warren R. Austin
U.N. Assembly
Andrei, Vishinsky
Feodor T. Gusev
Magnus Hotel Is Sold By
Eppley
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