Iran slows oil take over as allied tanks pound Red stronghold
Iran delays formal nationalization move on the Anglo Iranian Oil Co as Mossadegh faces pressure and protests while Allied tank patrols hammer gates at Chorwon and Kumhwa in Korea. UN forces advance inching toward the Chorwon area amid tight censorship and casualties.
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Tehran
Iran
Lelsure
Mohammed Mossadegh
Khusistan
Wendate
Moosadegh
Fedayan Islam
Tokyo
Chorwon and
Kumhwa
United Nations Army
AP Tokyo
Robert Bunson
Eighth Army
Korea
Chorwon - Kumkwa - Pyonggang
Bunson
Chorwon
Yonchon
Kumhwe
Kwaches-Kesibwa
Sithoug
To Athe Eifinsae
Eatimaates
Chorwon-Kumbwsmeg
School Opposes IHSAA Action Des Moines
Des Moines board votes to oppose the Iowa high school athletic association action barring sportscaster Al Couppee of KRNT from telecasting a prep track meet in Ames. The board calls the ban an infringement on constitutional rights and vows to protest. meanwhile a nine point inquiry into IHSAA suppression of news is requested by radio station officials.
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Des Moine
Des Es Adocome
Jews High School Athletic Association
al Couppee
KRNT
Des Moines
Ames
IHBAA
All Americans
Clark Gable fights wife’s divorce suit
Clark Gable answers the divorce action filed by his fourth wife Lady Sylvia Ashley. He denies cruelty and alimony claims and says she is worth more than $1,000,000, having inherited much wealth after Douglas Fairbanks's death.
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Los Angeles
Clark Gable
Sylvia Ashley
Gable Eaid
London
Douglas Fairbanks
Weather Forecast for State With Storms and Winds
Mostly cloudy this afternoon with light easterly winds. Thunderstorms begin southwest portion. Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday with showers in west and north. Southeasterly winds 16 to 80 mph Thursday. Showers or thunderstorms most of state Thursday night and Friday. Saturday showers in the east, clearing and cooler in the west.
Iowa Methodists Open Second Conference Day
Ottumwa reports the Iowa Des Moines Methodist conference proceeding with a mass communion for over 800 at First Methodist Church. Bishop Charles Wesley Brashares of Des Moines and district superintendents led the service. Rev. Lawrence Lacour of Des Moines addressed the gathering before about a thousand attendees.
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Ottumwa
Iowa-Des Moines
Cres- Serlier
Charles Wesley
Brashares
Des Moines
First Methodist Church
Genera
Lawrence Lacour
Wage Policy Clash Delays Stabilizer Formula in Washington
Washington's Economic Stabilizer Eric Johnston and the wage stabilization board clash over a formula for pending wage increases. They plan another meeting within a week as disputes flare in shipyards and northern mills. The board weighs productivity linked raises and a 12 percent ceiling above January 1860 wages versus the current 10 percent cap.
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Washington
Eric Johnston
Wage Stabilization Board
Johnston
CIOQ
United Auto Workers
WSE
Sana Menbera
Defauen Feyne
Court to Consider Appeal for Seven Condemned Nazis
Washington report states a Supreme Court attache announced the court may hear a last minute stay request for seven condemned Nazis. Warren E. Magee filed the motion citing unresolved constitutional questions and potential changes in the court’s readiness after a summer adjournment.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Nasis
Vinson
Warren E. Magee
Dying Betty Thompson Finds Happiness At Graduation
Betty Thompson an 18 year old cancer patient smiles through her high school graduation as classmates depart for life beyond. She has lost a leg to cancer, awaits a brief marriage to sailor Tom Amburn, and received a graduation ring from friends along with Tom's engagement ring. Betty read her diploma aloud and accepted well wishes with a gentle, hopeful spirit.
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Betty Thompson
Atlanta
Betty
Tom Amburn
Municipal Auditorium
Aenor
Martha Aan
Tom
Eight Women Overcome By Gas At Legion Auxiliary Meeting
At the Atlantic Legion Memorial building, eight Legion Auxiliary members fainted from carbon monoxide as a plugged heater vent pipe blew fumes back into a second floor room. Six others and three children were ill. Meredith Skaug first fell ill, and firemen treated all on site and at Atlantic Memorial Hospital.
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Atlantic Legion Memorial
Legion Auxiliary
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Oscar ‘Dahlberg
William Kelso
Earl
Beech
Charles Ballard
Reginald Larsen
Claude McConnell
Roy Schuler
Troy Fisher
Wilbur Eblen
H. B. Parrott
H. M. Lash
F. D. Simpson
C. H. Carl
Harry Coe
Louise Vidmar
Cindy Hart
Meredith Skaug
Rcenue
Auaitary
Wilbur Skaug
Iowa Grandmother Claims Women Equal to Men
Mrs Raymond Sayre of Ackworth Iowa and chair of the Association of Countrywomen of the World told delegates at the Federation of Women's Institutes annual meeting in London that women are not inferior to men. She urged international understanding and peace and joked that a housewife with an apron and apple pie could be a powerful UN influence.
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Raymond Sayre
Ackworth
Association of Countrywomen of the World
Federation of Women's Institutes
United Nations
House Group To End Work On Tax Hike
Washington The house ways and means committee opened final voting on a proposed 7.1 billion dollar tax package. Democrats anticipate limited changes while Rep. Simpson and Rep. Reed urge reconsideration of the excess profits tax. Proposals include a 3.31 percent levy on electricity sold by public power, REA cooperatives exempt, and a 12 percent personal income tax increase.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Richard M. Simpson
Rpa
Simpson
Rep. Reed
New York
REA
Packing House Cuts Beef Slaughtering
Omaha based Cudahy packing company announced beef slaughter operations are about 30 percent of normal with plant workers reduced by about 50 percent. A spokesman blamed low cattle receipts and fierce competition from unfamiliar order buyers for the cutbacks across several Cudahy plants.
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Omaha
Cudahy Packing Company
Cudahy
St. Paul
Kansas City
Sioux City
Wichita
Plan Calls For More National Guard Units
Washington says the army will add two to three National Guard divisions and form new regular divisions within a year. Gen. J. Lawton Collins expects two or three state guard divisions to be federalized, keeping total strength near 1.6 million.
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Washington
National Guard
Army
J. Lawton Collins
Nas
Fifty Children Attend Crippled Child Clinic at Elks Club
Fifty children registered at noon for a crippled children clinic at the Elks Club under a state federal project. Free examinations are offered to children from Cass Audubon Adair and Shelby counties with Dr. R. R. Rembok directing and a team of University of Iowa specialists assisting local doctors.
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Elks Club House
Cas
Audubon
Adair
Shelby
R. R. Rembok
I. V. Ponsetti
University of Iowa
John Berg
William A. Blair
Pauline Craven
Ruth Fisher
Mary Smith
Bill Jahnke
Burnham
Lorraine Vandsvanter
Ines Yost
Jo Simonsen
Legion Auxiliary
Atlantic Chamber of Commerce
Medical Society Auxiliary
Farm Bureau
Notable Gas Incident At Business Meeting
The business meeting ended around 9 45 when several women fell ill. Among the victims was Mrs Wilbur Eblen who previously suffered a gas exposure at home with her son, causing serious illness for days.
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Wilbur Eblen
General Warned of Korean Attack Debated in MacArthur Inquiry
Secretary Acheson testified that MacArthur’s command had a March 1950 note predicting a June invasion of South Korea by the North Korean army but the report was disputed as unconfirmed. The exchange highlighted disagreements over a Wedemeyer warning and the likelihood of an attack.
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Washington
Acheson
Douglas MacArthur
South Korea
Adm
Roscoe A. Hillenkoetter
U. S
Central Intelligence Agency
Wedemeyer
Korea
Albert Wedemeyer
Truman
Far East
Bridges
R-Nh
Hillenkoetter
Senate Appropriations
MacArthur
Peoples Army
So Pr
Southeast Asia
Kores
Indo-Ckinema
Thailand
Behn
Asia
Oo Bridges
Eisenhower Warns Aggressors On D-Day Anniversary
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower spoke on the D-Day anniversary at Ste Mere Eglise France warning aggressors that the free world will rally if Western civilization is threatened He recalled the soil of France as sacred and urged preemptive actions to prevent new conflicts Also noted a Jaycee meeting of the Atlantic Junior Chamber of Commerce at the club rooms at 8 oclock.
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Ste. Mere Egisse
France
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Alled
The
Atlantic Junior Chamber of Commerce
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Red
Iowa
Fourth Division
Europe
Eisenhower
Western Defense Army
Mannheim
Germany
U. S. Seventh Army
International Soundphoto
I Lebet
Michael V. DiBallo
Roy Turner
Oklahoma
Chicago
American Meat Institute
Meat Institute
Middle West
Packing House
Ike
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