Azeri Front Advances Amid Irredentist Claims Across Province
Tehran reports say forces crossed the frontier into Azerbaijan province pushing toward Mianeh within a day. The advance involved heavy fighting and captures as Iranian troops press toward Ghaflankuh area while Jaafar Pishevari’s semi autonomous Azeri regime resists. Ghavam also moves into Azerbaijan as radio from Tabriz denounces foreign influence.
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Iran
Buffer
Russia
Ahmed Ghavam
Azerbaijan
Tehran
Azeri
Takab
Ontier
Azerbai
Jaafar Pishevari
Tabriz
Pops
Vari
Swats
Packing Firms End Annual Wage Fight Across Iowa
Nation's meat packers gain wage stability as CIO negotiates 52 week employment clauses. The Tobin Packing Co of Fort Dodge Iowa and Estherville Iowa facilities reach contracts under CIO leadership.
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United Nghorse Workers
CIO
Tobin Packing Co
Fort A
Ay Packing Co
Cudahy
Fort Dodge
Estherville
Plane Crash Kills 28 in Japan Near Itami
A C-46 transport of the 317th Carrier Group crashed shortly after takeoff from Itami near Osaka. About 28 dead reported, one survivor. Plane en route from Eden to Fukuoka. crash occurred two minutes after departure. Names of victims withheld for 48 hours. Investigation board appointed to determine cause.
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Japan
Kyo
Om Itami
Osaday
Tler
Fuuguoka
Lerse
Next of
317Th
Attorneys to Attend Seventh Annual Tax School in Des Moines
About 700 lawyers from across Iowa are expected to attend the seventh annual Tax School of the Iowa State Bar Association in Des Moines Thursday and Friday. Miles O'Brien, ne Kemmerer, R. C. Ingersoll, Sanford, and Lyle Pleshek are listed as attendees. Carl Rix of Milwaukee, Wis., president of the Iowa Bar Association, will address the school at the annual dinner on December 13.
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Banent XR
Liveln
Iowa State Bar Association
State Agriculture Budget Seeks $93,000 More
The Iowa Department of Agriculture seeks 539,904 annually for the next biennium up from 446,250 last year. Agriculture Secretary Harry Linn said salaries would rise 18 percent. The request covers 21 sections with the main office at 164,769, animal health and veterinary 162,257, dairy and bacteriology 30,000, and soil conservation 31,600.
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Des Moines
Department of Agriculture Today
Robert Blue
Fred Porter
Agriculture
Harry Linn
Agriculture Department
Soil Conservation Committee
CIO starts new wage drive in 1947 labor push
CIO unions across autos steel and other basic industries rally for leadership in the 1947 wage drive as soft coal output nears pre strike levels. CIO aims for 25 cents an hour boosts to about $2 a day while John L. Lewis faces Supreme Court contempt issues in the UMWA case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
CIO
Labor
John L. Lewis
Supreme Court
Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
UFL
Milwaukee
Allis-Chalmers
United Automobile Workers
New York
UAW
Walter P. Reuther
Reuther
United Steel Workers
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Miner Still Alive Trapped Three Days In Buckeye Mine
Globe Arizona reports rescue crews pressed efforts to reach copper miner Orekar trapped since Saturday after a cave in at Buckeye mine. Nearby workers York escaped earlier and Orekar reportedly answered signals from an iron pipe. Rescue chief Orr Woodburn预计 two to three more days of digging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GLOBE
Ariz
John Orekar
Buckeye
John York
Orekar
York
Orr Woodburn
Globe-Miami Rescue Station
Klenzman Opens Fairbank Business
Martin Klenzman opened his cleaning and dying shop on Main Street in Fairbank in the building he recently purchased. The couple will also repair fur coats and previously operated a similar business in Oelwein before moving to Fairbank.
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Fairbank
Martin Klenzman
Westgate Baby Dies After Car Crash Near Westgate
Glor ia Jean Potratz two month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Potratz died Monday at Mercy hospital Oelwein after a collision about 2 30 PM six and a half miles south of Westgate. Mrs Potratz and daughter Patricia 3 are hospitalized with injuries. Virginia 5 and Mr Potratz escaped serious injury. The family had been returning from a shopping trip to Oelwein. Children were with grandparents Ed Diercks on afternoon prior to accident.
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Westgate
Gloria Jean Potratz
Walter Potratz
Mercy
Oelwein
Potratz
Wilbur Brickman
Virginia
Mr. Potratz
Ed Diercks
Hoepfner Sells Randalia Garage
Randalia business owner Pete Hoepfner has sold his garage business buildings and residence to Dale Gordon of Highland Ind. The deal closed Monday afternoon. Hoepfners will move to a small Randalia farm while plans develop. Gordon is brother of Mrs George Buhman and Mrs Cecil Kelly of Randalia.
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Randalia
Pete Hoepfner
Dale Gordon
Highland
Ind
Hoepfners
Gordon
George Buhman
Cecil Kelly
Santa's Toy Load Heavier Despite Soaring Prices
United Press notes Christmas toy demand rises despite wartime shortages and rising costs. Stores report record toy lines with wagons bicycles and roller skates pricier than before. Dolls dolls wigs and eyes scarce while aluminum jeeps and electric trains sell fast at high prices.
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Delis
Cigarette believed to start fatal Hotel Winecoff blaze
Atlanta investigators ruled the Hotel Winecoff fire started from a cigarette discarded near a mattress after hearing reports such blazes are common in hotels. Fire officials noted drunks light fires nightly in city hotels, many prewar buildings lack 1943 code compliance, and the 15 story hall blaze began with a bed in the third floor corridor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Harry Phillips
Phillips
Potato Prank Gone Tragic at Scranton School
In Scranton Pennsylvania seven year old Robert Kuchensky carried a potato shaped object to his classroom. A janitor identified the item as a live hand grenade prompting police response and a deadly accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Robert Kuchensky
Robert
Complete Office at Local Hangar for GI Flight Training
Jed Frothinger announced completion of the new office at Daewein municipal airport to support the GI flight training course. The upper floor will later be shingled and painted white and serve as an apartment, with remaining work including runway markers lighting pole painting wiring and a heating plant. The Iowa CAA regards the airport as one of the best small ports in the state amid daily flight instruction and charter activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jed Frothinger
Daewein
Iowa
Ike Reported Ready To Quit
Washington up to date several top bracket military leaders have considered retirement and passing posts to younger officers war department sources said Gen Dwight D Eisenhower army chief of staff now in Florida for arm treatment tops the list another is Gen Jacob L Vers 59 commander of army ground forces though Eisenhower will not reach 75 retirement age until Oct 31 1954 he may retire under a 1935 act that allows pre 1918 officers to retire at 75 per cent of base pay many generals who led the war admit fatigue desire for quiet and to avoid constant telephone calls they say they have fulfilled their duty but with the postwar reorganization ending they feel able to retire
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Washington
War Department
Dwight D. Hisenhower
Army
Florida
Jacob L. Devers
Eisenhower
Carols Ring Out Over City Streets
The annual Chamber of Commerce Christmas program in Oelwein features holiday music played daily from now until Christmas. Recordings amplified by a system rented from a Waterloo firm will play when crowds gather and may be used for a few planned programs originating from the Chamber of Commerce office.
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Chamber of Commerce
Oelwein
Waterloo
Vet Expenses Fourth Of U S Costs
Senator Edwin C. Johnson said in 1947 veterans costs will exceed 7.0 billion dollars and in 1948 rise above 8.0 billion, claiming one quarter of all federal spending goes to veterans. He warned only by blocking new veterans legislation can the 1948 total stay at about 8 billion.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
Cole
Johnson
Senate Committee On Veterans Legislation
Robert A. Tait
Senate Republican Steering Committee
Congress
Close Farm School At Strawberry Point Ends With Record Attendance
The tenth and final meeting of the adult farmers evening school at Strawberry Point was held Friday with social time and lunch. It ranks as a top attendance in 15 years, with 73 attendees this year and 34 percent attendance. John G. Davis led the group and Harold Knight served as council president. Ten men attended all sessions, including Arthur Rees and George Fousek, among others. The 1947 council elected Deane Satterby, Robert Wiltse, Rees, Johnson, Knight, Hebron, Fousek and Feulner.
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Strawberry Point
Thms
George Fousek
John G. Davis
Harold Knight
Arthur Rees
Alva Johnson
Bruce Hebron
Harold Feulner
Elmer Borcherding
Walter Weger
Marl Stoner
Marvin Skibbe
Deane Satterbry
Robert Wiltse
Rotary hears woman specialist on auto parts
Delwein Rotary heard Mrs Royce Yargason discuss the wholesale automotive parts business from a counter woman’s view. She noted the industry’s vast parts variations across models, the Sieg organization’s reach with Davenport HQ, and the Cedar Rapids branch network including Oelwein Marshalltown and Iowa City. January anniversary honors went to Lyle Butler and James Forster with a program committee named. A board meeting is set for next Thursday evening.
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Delwein
Royce Yargason
Registep
Vargason
Gelwein Supply Company
Sieg
Davenport
Sieg Company
Cedar Rapids
Oelwein
Marshalltown
Iowa City
Lyle Butler
James Forster
Palmer Wilson
Elmer Zahn
National Income and Production Reach Peacetime Peak
Government economists estimate this year national income will reach about 165 billion dollars, nearly 1.75 times the prewar 1941 peak. Gross national product is expected near 190 billion dollars, below last year’s wartime record but well above 1941.
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Washington
Swartz Named AMA Public Relations Director
Charles M. Swartz of Philadelphia assumed the post of director of public relations for the American Medical Association today, succeeding Dr. Morris Fishbein. Swartz previously worked on General MacArthur's staff in Manila and Tokyo and did PR work in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and New York City. Dr. George F. Lull said Fishbein will remain editor of the AMA journal Hygeia and other publications.
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Chicago
Charles M. Swartz
Philadelphia
American Medical Associations
Today
Morris Fishbein
Swartz
Douglas MacArthur
Manila
Tokyo
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
New York City
George F. Lull
AMA
Fishbein
Hygeia
Association
Four Party Rule Proposed for France
Paris leaders agreed in principle to form a four party coalition government of communists socialists popular republicans and left republican unionists. The proposal came from Vincent Auriol president of the assembly as France remains without a government since November 28 when Georges Bidault resigned to permit reorganization after elections.
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Paris
Vincent Auriol
Assembly
France
Georges Bidault
Race Haters Linked With Berman Group
Georgia Attorney General Eugene Cook announced confessions pointing to the Columbians Inc as a Nazi modeled plot to overthrow the government with arms from occupied Germany. The confessions, given in New York City, named two youths Banished after public tale. An anti Nazi league agent posed as a fascist to extract secrets. Grand jury urged to investigate the group amid alleged plots to dynamite and burn Negro homes and to flog figures including Ralph McGill and Dan Duke. A Ku Klux Klan propaganda sticker appeared in the capitol.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Eugene Cook
The
Columbians, Inc
Germany
New York City
James H Sheldon
anti-Nazi League
Cook
James Ralph Childers
Lanier Waller
Childers
Waller
Renée Forrest
New York
du Calle
Ralph McGill
Atlanta Constitution
Dan Duke
Emory Burke
E. E. (Shorty) Andrews
Fulton
Capitol
Farm Bureau denounces cheap food subsidies policy
In San Francisco Ed ward A. ONeal president of the American Farm Bureau Federation declares opposition to subsidies for farmers calling a cheap food policy dangerous. He urges continuation of price stabilizing features like the ever normal granary commodity loans and other programs proven valuable in peace and war as delegates plan further sessions with reports at the 28th annual convention ending Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Edward A. O’neal
American Farm Bureau Federation
AFBF
O'Neal
West Union Rotarians Share Humorous Moments
West Union Rotary meeting featured guests Bill Ayers Decorah Fred Gremmers Oelwein and Dr Cass Fayette recounting their most embarassing moments in a light hearted program led by Dr H H Buchmann The event suggested upcoming church activities with a note about a Monday schedule at the Presbyterian Church.
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West Union
Bill Ayers
Decorah
Fred Gremmers
Oelwein
Cass
Fayette
West Union Rotary
H. H. Buchmann
Ech
Londay
Presbyterian Chirch
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Klenzman
Diane Seavey
Murray Seavey
Wakefield
Mass
Diane
Hoepfner
Randalia Garage
Deak
Santa Claus
Kansas City
Jordon Marsh
Boston
Ike
Tesk
U. S
Strawberry
Rotary
Newa Derk
Benk Oelwein
Laws
Sister Kenny Foundation
Berman
Farm Bureau
W. U. Rotarians
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