Atomic bottle recovered as probe widens over mis management
Washington report on the missing uranium bottle from Argonne Laboratory tank farm with seven-eighths of U-236 recovered. Senator McMahon says spill caused loss amid broader probe into AEC management and calls for Lilienthal’s firing.
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Washington
McMahon
D-Conn
Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee
David E. Lilienthal
Hickenlooper
R-Iowa
Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Argonne Nations
Chicago
Mapword
Wash
General Electric Corp
Atomic Commission
Iown
Commission
Wilson
Bank of America founder A P Giannini dies at 79
San Mateo California A P Giannini founder of Bank of Italy in 1904 which became Bank of America and a six billion dollar corporation died at his home after a monthlong illness heart disease attributed as cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank OF America
San Mateo
Cal
A. P. Giannini
Asd
Giannini
Bank of Italy
Bolivia Tin Miners End Bloody Strike
In La Paz Bolivia tin miners halt a bloody strike after a government official reports at least 40 dead including two Americans. The accord includes troop withdrawal from the mining region and indemnities to widows of slain workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Paz
Bolivia
Guillermo Estrada
Weather: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday
Partly cloudy conditions prevail with a cooler turn in the extreme southeast tonight and into Saturday as temperatures ease slightly across the region.
Ickes Refutes FBI Claim of Soviet Contact in Coplon Case
Interior Secretary Harold Ickes denied that a girl named Ruth Gruber acted as a Soviet contact in the Judith Coplon espionage trial. He called the FBI assertion a test of their accuracy and urged disbanding if true. Gruber, a freelance writer, denied any contact role.
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FBI
Interior
Harold Ickes
Judith Coplon
Washington
Ickes
Atlantic unveils first traffic lights in town
Atlantic installs four way automatic signal at Seventh and Poplar in a tape cutting ceremony led by Mrs. Charles McCauley and others. Sheriff Harry Jordan and Sgt. Lloyd Meyer attended as Ed O'Brien of H B Allen Co. begins work on blinker lights at Seventh and Walnut and other school crossings. Public subscription funded the project with Amvets and the P T A committee sponsoring the drive. city covers installation costs.
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Atlantic
Seventh and Poplar Streets
Mra
Charles McCauley
Don Smiley
P. T. A. Activities Committee
Harry Jordan
Sgt
Lloyd Meyer
Highway Patrol
Ed O’brien
H. B. Allen Company
Des Moines
Wil
Seventh
Walnut Streets
Th and Linn
Cedar
Second
Cedar Streets
Atlantic Canning Company
Seventh Street
Palm and
Plum Streets
Amvets
Rich gold strike may spark South Africa boom
The Free State Gold Areas Limited announced a sensational find on Farm Erfdeel near Odendaals-Rust yielding an assay over 400 ounces per ton. The revelation sent shares up from 13s 6d to 28s, fueling expectations of a new gold boom in the Orange Free State.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Free State Gold Areas Limited
Erideel
Odendaals-Rust
Orange Free State
Gedald
Free State Gold Aresa Limited
Erfdeel
Polio Patient Treated At University Hospital
Sherilie Mc Donald, 4, of Grinnell, is being treated for poliomyelitis at University hospital. Her case is among two on the active list today, the eighth polio patient admitted this year. She was admitted Tuesday and is listed in fair condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town City
Sherilie McDonald
Grinnell
University Hospital
Lucas backs amendments to Truman labor bill in last-minute switch
Senate Democrats gather behind closed doors as Senator Lucas of Illinois signals support for amendments to the Truman administration bill replacing Taft Hartley. Talks promise an all-day labor debate with figures like Sparkman Humphrey proposing seizure powers and added safeguards.
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Washington
Beott Luca
Ilinois
Senate
Truman
Lucas
CIO
AFL
House
Sims
D-Sc
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Sparkman
D-Als
Humphrey
Minnesota
Infant son of Bill Brown dies in Atlantic
Michael Brown infant son of Mr and Mrs James W Brown of 409 Cedar street born at Atlantic Memorial hospital at 5 35 pm yesterday died at 6 20 pm funeral rites held at Roland Peacock Baxter funeral home at 1 pm today Rev P N McDermott officiating interment in Atlantic Catholic cemetery Surviving are twin sisters Elizabeth and Elaine a brother Billy grandfather Frederick I Brown of Atlantic maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Herbert Bartley of Anita and great grandmother Mrs Bartley of Atlantic
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Michael Brown
James W
Bill) Brown
Cedar Street
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Roland, Peacock & Baxter
P. N. McDermott
Atlantic Catholic Cemetery
Elizabeth
Elaine
Billy
Frederick I. Brown
Atlantic
Ma. Herbert Bartley
Anita
Mrs. Bartley
Barber’s Gig Falls to Hiccuping Haircut Gone Wrong
In Pasadena Jim Butler fled a barber chair after his barber, jailed on drunkenness charges, began a shave with a straight edge razor during hiccups. Butler leaped from the chair with towel, shouting for help as a police officer intervened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Cal
Jim Butler
Butler
Compromise on Berlin in Sight
Four power talks on Berlin progress as Acheson plan gains Western backing. Discussions focus on four power control, city wide elections for an all Berlin council, and potential transfer of kommandatura duties. East West bargaining colors currency and access proposals amid blockade history.
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Paris
Russia
West
Berlin
Dean Acheson
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Kommandatura
Acheson
Germany
Vishinsky
County Creates Child Welfare Department and Appoints Director
The Cass county board approved establishing a child welfare department under the social welfare office, with a state appointed director in charge of all child welfare cases including juvenile delinquents. The aid to dependent children division stays with the county welfare worker. director salary is state funded. Atlantic High School Music Association names new officers: Mrs Don Blake president Lee Butler vice president Joe Moore treasurer Mrs Lloyd Hannon secretary.
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Cass County Board of Social Welfare
Cass Board of Supervisors
State Department of Social Welfare
County Social Welfare Worker's Department
Atlantic High School Music Association
Don Blake
Lee Butler
Joe Moore
Lloyd Hannon
Pious Burglar Leaves Blessing After Hungry Visit
In Columbus an east side home was entered by a hungry burglar who cooked a chicken and potatoes, drank two beers, and left a pious note. Mrs. Virginia Clark found Pana in the sink and a ham and beans pot untouched on the stove. The note said the intruder felt welcome and blessed them as a disciple.
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Columbus
East Side
Virginia Clark
Plans for Cass County Agricultural Center Development
Tentative plans for developing the Cass county agricultural education center on the former 4-H fairgrounds were discussed with Educational association board members including John Fitzsimmons of Iowa State College. A $75,000 funding drive was proposed to finance landscaping drives, parking, a community building, terraced access, and about ten pole sheds for livestock with bleachers and possible pavilion, linking to the fairgrounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cass County Agricultural Education Center
Palm Street
Sunnyside Park
22 CARS OF CGW FREIGHT DERAILED NEAR FORT DODGE
Twenty two cars of a 44 car Chicago Great Western freight derailed seven miles northeast of Fort Dodge near Vincent late Thursday afternoon. All crew members escaped injury. Wrecking crews arrived, track repair to be completed today. Over 250 feet of track torn up, third car derailed and next twenty one followed. Dozen boxcars piled four deep. Cause and damage not announced.
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Fort Dodge
Chicago Great Western
Vincent
Chambers Admits Perjury in Hiss Case
Whittaker Chambers, key prosecution witness, admitted he lied to the grand jury that indicted Alger Hiss last December. He testified he had no direct knowledge of espionage and that his previous answer was false, as the court adjourned until Monday.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
State Department
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Hiss
Chambers
Stryker
Priscilla
Communist Party
John Barrymore Jr Starts Movie Career
John Barrymore Jr aged 17 won court approval for his first film contract with Le May Productions. He will be paid 150 dollars weekly for at least three months, with a seven year pact and potential earnings up to 50 000 dollars per picture in the final year, as Dolores Costello watched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
John Barrymore, Jr
Dolores Costello Vruwink
Barrymore
le May Productions
Auditor General Finds Lost Alligator at Detroit Zoo
Detroit figures Tobin the auditor notes a missing city property case. After a year of vanished items he locates one unlikely culprit a small alligator eaten by a bigger gator at the zoo.
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Detroit
Benjamin J. Tobin
Tobin
Berlin Rail Strike Talks Fail Amid Four-Power Pressure
Berlin commands met for three and a half hours but produced no agreement on the crippling rail strike. Soviet Major General Kotikov requested the session, while strikers voted 13 477 to 398 to press demands for west mark wages union recognition and rehiring. In West Virginia, fourteen prisoners escaped a mass breakout at the state penitentiary, six with life terms and six in solitary, amid linked investigations to a farmer’s murder in Ohio.
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Berlin
Frank L. Howely
Alexander Kotikov
Moundsville
W. V
West Virginia
Otto Neff
Helly Starcher
Wayne Rays
Wheeling
Ohio
John D. George
Virginia
Carrollton
Here
Tech Dispatch
Roy Orwick
Georges’ Mons
West Virginia Conservation
Jackie
Orel J. Skeen
Ohio River
Glendale
Henry Cane
Jackson County
Parkersburg
W. Va
Holly Stradher
Sour Chy youth faces manslaughter charge
Sioux City reports 16 year old Farl Peterson is charged with manslaughter after a rifle he allegedly playfully pointed at his 15 year old friend Donald Wheeler caused a fatal neck wound. Wheeler died after the gun discharged in the Peterson home living room. Peterson posted a $5,000 bond signed by his mother Mrs Agnes Peterson and waived preliminary hearing.
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Sioux City
Donald Wheeler
Russell White
Wheeler
Farl Peterson
Peterson
White
Donald
Lt. White
Agnes Peterson
Rooney to wed third wife in San Fernando ceremony
Mickey Rooney 28 and actress Martha Vickers 24 plan vows at the Little Church of the Valley in San Fernando. Vickers secured a Nevada divorce decree from publicist A C Lyles last week, paving the way for the ceremony. Rooney’s California divorce from Betty Jane Rose, former Miss Birmingham, Ala., was finalized Tuesday.
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Mickey Rooney
Perpetual Juvenile
Rooney
Martha Vickers
Little Church of the Valley
San Fernando
Miss Vickers
Nevada
A. C. Lyles
Hollywood
Mickey
California
Betty Jane Rose
Birmingham
Ala
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