Royal Couple's U S Visit Sparks Seat Rush at Capitol
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth tour Canada and head toward Niagara Falls as 8 560 seats are sought for Friday's joint congressional reception in the Capitol rotunda with 3 400 outside seats, as State Department officials prepare for a ceremony amid heavy public interest.
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J. N.S
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Elisabeth
Congress
United States
Key Pittman
Dem
Nevada
Senate
Pittman
Weather outlook for Nebraska and northwest regions
The forecast notes thundershowers tonight or Wednesday, with cooler conditions on Wednesday. In extreme west Nebraska, generally fair weather expected, while central and east portions may see local thundershowers this afternoon or tonight and possibly into Wednesday morning, with cooler temperatures tonight and Wednesday.
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Pink Tea Invitations Sparked Garden Party Controversy
The 15 writers received five tickets for Lady Lindsay’s Washington garden party amid debate over who should attend. An IS press correspondent proposed awarding spots to two women reporters and drawing for the remaining three, but the plan failed and names were drawn from a hat. The incident caused tensions among the American correspondents.
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Canada
Lady Lindsau
Washington
Lady Lindsay
United States
International News Service
Pabs
Des Moines holdup suspect given ten years in prison
Dean Weatherly of Le Mars was sentenced to up to ten years in the Iowa state penitentiary for the Des Moines light and telephone station holdup in which 150 was taken. He confessed and said he sought immediate sentencing after arrest in Cherokee.
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le Mars
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Weatherly
Cherokee
Franklin
Highland Park
Boy on 20th floor ledge seeks job in Minneapolis
A 19 year old, Robert L Evans, perched for over an hour on a twentieth story ledge at the Medical Arts building in Minneapolis before police persuaded him to descend. He says he cannot find work since returning from a CCC camp near Seattle six weeks ago and is despondent over his dead parents and a quarrel with his girlfriend's family. He handed a note to a passerby lamenting loss of respect due to unemployment.
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Minn
Robert L. Evans
Evans
Medical Art
Twin Cities
CCC
Seattle
Mediators Urge Equal Rural Charges In Atlantic Lines
A three man Chamber of Commerce mediation panel urged the light and water commission to charge farm consumers on the 10 rural lines out of Atlantic the same rates as city users. They advised circulating petitions to support rural rate reductions and noted moral obligations to honor decade old contracts linking farm and city rates.
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Howard Marshall
EB. P. Chase
T. P. Breheny
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Carl A. Zellmer
Willie Sarsfield
Harry Kay
S. Business
Chamber of Commerce Board
Pawl M. van Ackeren
Bbcesl Tien
Light Board
Elmer Busse
William Vindeman
Chamber
City to receive bids for new switchboard at light plant
Trustees of the municipal light and water plant will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. in city hall to open bids on a new electrical switchboard. The project is part of an improvement program funded by a recent PWA appropriation. In Cumberland Miss Georgia Byrne, county superintendent of schools, spent Monday in Cumberland checking school books.
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City Library Displays Charter of Local G A R
The Sam Rice post Grand Army of the Republic charter will be permanently placed in the Carnegie library. Library board, chaired by L H Pine, approved the plan at Monday night’s meeting and agreed to seek the regular library millage for the year. Adnah Bullock urged display for public viewing, with Mrs Janss tasked to obtain the charter from the Women’s Relief Corps now holding it.
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Women’s Relief Corps
Early Ball Scores From National and American Leagues
National League games led with Cincinnati losing 0 to 6 to New York in the third. Pittsburgh fell 0 to 5 to Brooklyn in the fourth. Chicago defeated Philadelphia 5 to 2 in the fourth. St Louis beat Boston 8 to 2 in the sixth. American League action saw New York and Detroit tied 0 to 0 in the second. Philadelphia edged Chicago 1 to 5 in the fifth. Boston won 2 to 1 over Cleveland in the second.
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York
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Rensa
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Cleveland
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Peacock
Drake
Hemsley
Arrest of Irish Rebel Officer Sparks Detroit Detention
Sean Russell, an Irish Republican Army officer, was arrested in Detroit on passport related charges. He was detained after stepping off a Chicago train and is awaiting fuller explanation of the case amid heightened security during royal visit preparations.
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Ireland
Chicago
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John L. Zubrick
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England
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Philadelphia
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United States
Foreigner held in court over shot at Duchess of Kent
Ledwedge Vincent Lawler a 45 year old welder's assistant recently arrived from Australia was arraigned in Westminster police court on charges of possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and firing at the Duchess of Kent's limousine. Scotland Yard investigated a second incident at the Harewood estate with a bullet hole found in a dining room window.
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Harewood
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Earl
George VI
Countess of
Three Survive Wreck In Ona Wao Iowa
Three survivors of a car collision in Ona wa Ia reported today while four others were listed as improving. Mrs Mildred Gingles 35 died from crash injuries. James Gingles 60 their son Emory 16 and nephew Stanley Folsom 14 were killed when their car collided head on with a machine driven by Fred Miller. Lola and Pauline Gingles and Miller were injured months. Irish Republican army sympathizers in Detroit hired an attorney to represent the two men.
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Lola
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Detroit
4-H Girls Rally Day Elects Cass County Leaders at Atlantic High
About 176 Cass county 4-H club girls and leaders gathered in Atlantic high school for Rally Day. Ruth Kuesel was named president succeeding Viola Joyce. other officers include Vera Anderson vice president Jean Kuhl secretary treasurer and Regina Edgar historian. The program featured music and memory contests with clubs earning high ratings and awards presented by Evelyn Hollen. Rev Claude W Cooper gave the afternoon address on democracy and privilege.
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Ruth Kuesel
Victoria Victors Club
Viola Joyce
Vera Anderson
Benton Township
Jean Kuhl
Pymosa Township
Regina Edgar
Massena Townshp
Evelyn Hollen
Claude W. Cooper
Methodist Church
Roosevelt third term would bind nation to strong federal control
Des Moines June 6 Dr Glenn Frank Republican platform drafting chief warned that a Roosevelt third term could bring more strong arm federal power than the New Deal. He said decent regulation is needed and that running economic life from political headquarters would erode democracy. He outlined four sections for the 1946 Republican platform and noted a draft would be ready by August.
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Roosevelt
Glenn Frank
Federal Centrol
Frank
National Committee
Two Boone Orphans Die in Des Moines River Drowning
Richard Fisher 17 and Virgil Fisher 20, brothers from Boone, were drowned in the Des Moines river northwest of Boone last night. Their bodies were recovered from eight feet of water after resuscitation attempts failed. Sonny Pepples, who swam with them, ran for help but it was too late.
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Iowa
Des Moines
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Defeated Mayor Now Heads City Officers in Stuart
In Stuart, Louisiana, Dr. Fred H. Nolte, defeated in the last mayoral election, was appointed by the city council to fill the unexpired term of Herman Jost who defeated him in March. Jost has moved to West Liberty.
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Fred H. Nolte
Dr. Nolte
Herman Jost
Jost
West Liberty
Youth pilot rescued after trans Atlantic attempt off Georges Bank
Chatham Massachusetts June 6 A 22 year old Pennsylvania student pilot Cheston Eshelman of Carlisle was rescued by the fishing trawler Villanova crew after his single engine monoplane landed in the Atlantic 300 miles east of Boston. Eshelman fled Camden New Jersey to fly to Mars in an unauthorised flight. He survived shock and exhaustion, picked up by the dory crew aboard the Villanova. The plane, bought for 2600 dollars last month, sank after landing in the sea.
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Edward Walz
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Passion for Flying Drives Carlisle Pilot to Atlantic Tragedy
Cheston Eshelman the 22 year old student flier who piloted the missing monoplanes crash off the Massachusetts coast possessed a passion for flying his parents in Carlisle Pennsylvania said today he earned his pilot license three weeks ago and left for New York without notice.
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