Klatt Testifies About Beating at Eldora School
Kansas era court heard Carl Kitt former disciplinary officer testify that Martin ordered Klatt to whip Ronald Miller a 17 year old inmate Miller had plotted an escape and violated dormitory smoking rules Klatt described a brutal beating with a harness and a black jack detailing blows to Miller and himself as Brown Cooper and H J Martin provided competing testimony about the incident and Miller’s escape plot evidence was contested by both sides
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Dwight McCormack
Fort Dodge
Carl Kitt
Eldora State
Klatt
Miller
Cea
Watt
Harold Nelson
Afiller
Mikie
Davenport
Osta
Brown
Kistt
Darrell T. Brown
Fred N. Cooper
H. J. Martin
Cooper
Nijller
Martin
Guess
Veterans Hospitals Given Big List
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Friday approved a hospital construction program in a deficiency appropriation bill. The plan totals 29,480,874 for this year’s building program and 134,459,326 for construction of 19 new hospitals and improvements to 20 existing institutions.
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Washington
Senate
House
German Documents Claim Six Million Jews Executed
German documents and affidavits presented by American prosecutors allege six million Jews were killed in extermination camps and by mobile squads during World War II. The testimony cites figures attributed to SS and Gestapo officials, noting Auschwitz like camps and mass killings in Warsaw and Russia campaigns.
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Daniel de Lucetary
Hitler
Mernberg
Wilhelm Hostil
Frit
Eurnst
Kaltenbrunner
Mili
Russia
Hoettl
Adolf Richman
Eichman
U. S
Watana
Omaha Standard Body sale talks continue this week
Several firms outside of Council Bluffs show interest in buying Omaha Standard Body. No definite offers yet as liquidating of the Council Bluffs plant proceeds. Union to furnish 200 to 500 workers to finish trucks, while the plant is officially closed. Local 795 members told to seek other work and apply for unemployment. Pickets paid and told to stop. Union blames lack of financial facts for the strike. Weather notes: frigid conditions with possible snow flurries and subzero lows in parts of Nebraska and Missouri.
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Council Bluffs
Omaha Standard Body Company
James R. Stuffleheam
Kansas City
United Automobile Workers
AFL
Stuffleneam
Standish
Myles Standish
Herman Jorgensen
Fifth Avenue
Omaha Standard
Stufflebeam
National Labor Relations Board
Saveaste
Senate labor hearings end plan to rush labor bill
Washington The Senate labor committee halted hearings on the pending labor disputes bill and will not resume until after the holidays. Chairman Murray said it would be impossible to finish hearings and get Senate action before Christmas. CIO chief Philip Murray warned the industrial picture is explosive and urged confrontation of facts rather than rushed legislation.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
Murray
Montana
Senate
Sid
Christian
CLO
Philip Murray
House Labor Committee
CIO
Wat
Strike votes signal nationwide CIO electrical strike
About 200000 CIO electrical workers in GE Westinghouse and GM plants voted nearly five to one for a walkout to press a $2 day wage rise. Readings show 86704 in favor and 18216 against with unknown totals to come. The broader labor unrest includes UAW actions at GM and Steel Workers plans for Jan 14.
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Associated Preas
CIO
Ateel
Automotive
General Electric
Weatinghouse
Electrical
General Motors
Elettrical
United Auto
CIO United Steel Workers Union
United Electrical. Radio
Detroit
CIO Tha W
Pany
Tors Company
Ito
Harry W. Anderson
GM Glee
Atrixers
Cleveland
la Grange
Compa
Walter P. Reuther
UAW
Encourage Your Son to Become a Paper Carrier
A local note urges parents to have boys start paper routes early. Delivering papers trains punctuality and reliability, teaches money handling and customer interaction, and often funds schooling. Many successful men in Council Bluffs began this way, with routes continuing through high school and beyond.
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Council Bluffs
Gouneil
Confessions Unravel Chicago Area Mystery Slaying
Police credit a tangle of confessions with solving the Cecil "Red" Smith murder north of Chicago near Rogers Park. Renato Lolli's questioning led to a statement implicating gang members in a spree of robberies. Maxeranrs and Christ Pesres were killed or wounded as officers probed the gang. Detective Sgt. Hanrahan said the gang faced multiple robberies in Ohio Indiana and Illinois and was linked to the Smith killing in an automobile ride during late November.
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Lge
Rogers Park District
Chicago
Ohe
Cecil
Smith
Walter Storma
Lawrence Mazzanais
Jed
Smithi
George Hellatern
Charles A.’ Brady
Vslayer
Renato
Lolli
Rockford Il
Maxeanars
Christ
Pesres
Joliet i
Matsanarsi
Brand
Maz
Kanars
John Hanrahan
Alumber
Tinoia
Cleveland
Vandalla
Beasts of Belsen Executions Reported at Hamelin
Hamburg dispatch reports Field Marshal Montgomery’s list of 11 Nazi camp guards and inmates executed by British hangman Pierrepont at Hamelin on Thursday. The condemned, from Bergen and other camps, included Ilse Irma Grese and Josef Kramer. Eleven executions followed trials at Lueneburg on Nov 17 for crimes at Bergen and Oswiecim.
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Hamburg
Germany
Montgomery
Josef Kramer
Len Othera
Belen
Krms Grese
Diatshal Montgomery
Belden
Oswiecim
Elizabeth’ Volken
Fath
Klein
Rea
Peter’ Weingart
Nery
Karl Prancioh
Ansgar Pichen
Frank Startle
Wilhelm, Dore
Bergen
Lueneburg
Hamelin
A. Ma
Elizabeth
Below Zero Prediction For Cold Weekend
A frigid weather forecast warns of record low temperatures this weekend across Nebraska and South Dakota. By Saturday morning readings may plunge to 25 below zero in northern Nebraska and to about 28 below in parts of northern Iowa, with similar extreme lows expected in western Nebraska counties. Continuous clouds replace Friday’s clear skies as a cold front moves in from the Plains.
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U. S Weather Bureau
Cornell Bluffs
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Burray
Coun
Ireau
South Dakota
Norchert
Satur
Towa
CofC Approves Plans for Farm Projects in 1948
The Chamber of Commerce board approves creating a farm advisory and horticulture program linked with the Town State College agencies. Donors totaling 37,880 by merchants are noted to fund the farm, with a $20,000 drive planned by June 1 for tax-deductible gifts. The board proposes a farmer chamber inner circle in Cornell Bluffs in late February.
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Friddy
Chamber ‘of Commerce
Traore
Chamber
Stfleets
Ear H. New
Sibconmitted
Nes
New
Weiß
Cornell Bluffs
Roy ‘Harding
Brown
Activitie Tra Heyes
Guatataon
Theoard
China to Repatriate Germans and Austrians
The Associated Press reports China plans to repatriate Germans and Austrians, including Jews, with cooperation from foreign affairs and interior ministries. The move aims to place these nationals within China rather than abroad amid ongoing policy discussions.
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Associated Press
China
Shanghai
Ministries of Foreign Affairs
Entire Pearl Harbor committee legal staff seeks excusal
The full legal staff of the Pearl Harbor inquiry asked to be excused from further participation. William D. Mitchell, chief counsel, said some members broadened the scope, prolonging the inquiry beyond the planned Jan. 5 windup and that only eight witnesses had testified since hearings began November 16.
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Pearl Harbor Committee
Washington
Congressional
Pearl Harbor
William D. Mitchell
Senate-House
Mitellel
Congress
Gearhart
Calif
Mitchell
Regal
Counseil
Aole
Commaltese
Dt de
Seriua
Comiitttee
Demand for enlisted men' Pearl Harbor story from 1942 raid
Rep Gearhart urged a formal demand that the Pearl Harbor inquiry hear from ordinary enlisted men who were in Hawaii on December 7 1942. He tired of hearing from brass and wants direct soldier testimony as hearings have thus far featured high ranking officers and civilians.
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Washington
Gearnayt
R.-Calif
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Gearhart
Bark- Ney
D.-Ky
Senate-House
Californian
Gerow
Hany
Leonard T. Gerow
Army War Prong
Haa
Navy
Tokyo
Berlin
Japan
Yeport
Army Board
Alwin Kramer
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County Passes Halfway Mark in Victory Bond Drive
West Pottawattamie County reports 454 711 dollars raised, 53.45 percent of its 852 000 quota for the victory loan drive. Emer Joe, war finance chair, noted the county remains in ninety eighth place statewide as plans for farmer surveys and quicker county-wide inoculation of the effort proceed.
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West Pottawattamie
Emer. Joe
War Finance
Isatill
Atate
Planator
Thia
Juel
Thia Ares
Ooo
Tuel
International Harvesters Company
Des Moines
Iowa War Finance Committee
W. le Clark
sTowana
Aerien E
Weat
Pottawattamte
He Atate
Barkley May Resign From Pearl Harbor Inquiry
Senator Barkley of Kentucky signaled he may resign from the Pearl Harbor committee as the legal staff sought to withdraw. He said he would weigh obligations to the Senate and the committee, noting broad cooperation from legal staff and government departments to date. He warned of a potential break in hearings unless prompt arrangements allow new counsel to proceed.
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Barkley
Washington
D-Ky
Pearl Harbor
Senate
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