DIES AT FUNERAL NEAR NASHUA IOWA WOMAN DIES AT CEMETERY
Mrs. Matt Frein 47 of near Nashua collapsed and died at Riverside cemetery during funeral services for Donald John Christensen who drowned in the Cedar river. Earl Ettleman 62 died after being struck by lumber kicked from a Planet plant, while working at Omaha Standard. Inez Willis elected president of Iowa Association of Colored Women at Sioux City convention ahead of Des Moines conference expenditures reach 2.771 million. Perry board ends junior college program after first year due to small enrollment. Raymond Hickson 12 in critical condition after bicycle accident on Highway 61 near Otter Creek Jackson county.
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Riverside
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Omaha Standards
Sioux City
Iowa Association of Colored Women
Inez Willis
Corneil Bluffs
Rose D. Johnson
Marshalltown
Iowa City
Raymond Hickson
Frank Hickson
Otter Creek
Jackson County
Zwingle
Blood drive approved for Cass county Red Cross unit
A monthly blood collection program is approved by the Cass county Red Cross board Atlantic Memorial hospital board and the Cass County Medical society. The traveling unit will visit around July first staffed by Red Cross doctors and nurses. Total blood supplies go to the local hospital with excess sent to the Omaha Red Cross bank. A hospital survey will determine needs with about fifteen volunteers needed. Mrs. Irwin Pellett Cass Red Cross secretary notes.
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Cass County Red Cros Board of Directors
Atlantic Memorial Hospital Board
Cass County Medical Society
Red Cross Blood Bank
Omaha
Atlantic Hospital
Irwin Pellett
Cass Red Cross
Used Car Dealer Fined $900 in Des Moines
Justice of the Peace George Bidwell fined Des Moines used car dealer R. A. Middleton $900 for violating state rules on used car sales. Charges included lack of notarized transfers and missing transfer forms, filed by F. X. McCollough, inspector for the dealers' license division, Department of Public Safety. Birthday talks marked the Atlantic Rotarians weekly dinner at Hotel Whitney with speakers H. A. Smith Floyd Young and John Bell.
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Justice of the Peace
George Bidwell
R. A. Middleton
F. X. McCollough
Department of Public Safety
Hotel Whitney
H. A. Smith
Floyd Young
John Bell
Weather outlook with scattered afternoon storms
Partly cloudy to night with a few scattered thunder showers mainly in the east this afternoon or early tonight. Cooler Friday with mostly cloudy skies and cooler conditions in the east.
Senate set to vote on peacetime draft amid long debate
Washington reports a Senate final vote today on the peacetime draft bill for men aged 19 to 25. leaders forecast approval and move the measure to the House amid a series of amendments and a push to adjourn by June 19.
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Nebraska
Wherry
Russell
Malone
R-Nev
Capehart
R-Ind
Truman
Congress
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R-Colo
GOP
Senate Finance Committee
Perry Girl Burned Playing Near Fire
Justa McRun nels, 9, was hospitalized with serious burns after her clothes caught fire while near a bonfire. She reportedly threw cardboard into the blaze and was burned over about a third of her body. J R Crispin, nearby, was burned slightly while helping remove the flames from the girl.
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Justa McRunnels
R. M. Conley
J. R. Crispin
Schwellenbach Dies Labor Secretary at 63
Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach died at Walter Reed Hospital at 2:40 p.m. CST after weeks of illness. The Washington veteran and former senator from Washington served as labor chief since June 30, 1945 and was 63. The White House noted death from cardiac failure and no funeral plans were announced.
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Walter Reed Hospital
Labor Department
Truman
West Coast
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Federal District Court
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Roosevelt
Lane to Quit Liquor Commission After Term Ends
Des Moines Iowa Dick R Lane a longtime Iowa liquor control commissioner since 1948 plans to retire when his current six year term ends July 1 1949 He has served under governors Herring Kraschel and Hickenlooper and was named to the liquor study committee in 1933 He offered no further comment on retirement.
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Des Moines
Dick R. Lane
Iowa
Lane
Davenport
Clyde L. Herring
Control Commission
Nels G. Kraschel
B. B. Hickenlooper
Diplomas Mixed In Darkness At Omak High
Omak Washington seniors graduated but had to wait for diplomas as a storm damaged power lines nearby. Principal David Ellis handed out the diplomas in the wrong alphabetical order after the outage, exchanging the sheepskins from the wrong end of the list.
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Omak High School
David Ellis
Okanogan
Brewster
Ellis
Eight year old Tommy Kelley dies after leukemia fight
Eight year old Tommy Kelley, son of Mr and Mrs Gene Kelley, died today at Onawa hospital after a leukemia illness. He was flown to a Boston children's hospital for examination on May 1. Gifts from Onawa residents funded the Boston trip and a benefit ball game was held to raise funds. His parents and a sister survive.
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Tommy Kelley
Onawa Hospital
Tommy
Gene Kelley
Children’s Hospital
Boston
Trumanesque clash in Spokane signals race intensifies
President Truman and GOP lawmakers traded blows as the Western swing heated the campaign. Truman blasted the “worst congress” while Republicans called him the “poorest president since Washington.” Taft and Taft allies planned NBC appearances as summer battles loom. Civil rights politics enter pre convention talks in Nebraska.
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Truman
Congress
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Chicago Tribune
Spokane Spokesman-Review
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Halleck
Indiana
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Wherry
Nebraska
Dubuque Lad Boys State Elects 1948 Officers
The Hawkeye Boys State elected officials for 1948 with Bob Hansel of Dubuque as governor after yesterday’s vote by 720 attendees at the American Legion camp. Cedar Rapids delegates won many other state offices as sessions began.
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Bob Hansel
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids
Mihai and Anne Married In Glittering Greek Rite
Royal wedding reports Mihai of Romania and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parata wed in a Greek Orthodox ceremony at the Romanian palace. The groom wore a Romanian marshal's uniform and guests included King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Anne, age 24, wore a white satin gown and a diamond necklace as crowns connected by a ribbon signified their union.
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France Premier Schuman Edges Through German Pact Crisis
Paris reports a easing crisis with a noisy national assembly debate expected over a western Germany federal government plan. Supporters of de Gaulle on the right and Maurice Thorez on the left rally against Schuman's centrist government amid tension over the pact.
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Robert Schuman
Charles de Gaulle
Maurice Thorez
Schuman
Thomas Says One Fourth of Americans Live on Savings
Norman Thomas, Socialist party candidate for president, said in Des Moines that about a quarter of Americans live on savings or borrow money. He claimed free enterprise rhetoric masks no such system and charged the boom is funded by military spending, warning that outcomes are war or depression without reform.
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Taegliche Rundschau
Deither Friede
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Air Force X-1 speeds near sound barrier at high temps
Air Secretary Symington announced the XS-1 known as the X8-1 has flown seven times, claiming speeds faster than the sound barrier as air temperatures rise. The jet, built for experimental flight, operates at high altitude where air is thinner, and may reach about 662 miles per hour. The Air Force ordered more XS-1s from Bell Aircraft, Niagara Falls, amid ongoing security considerations following a prior Aviation Week disclosure.
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Air Force Plane Collision Kills Three Near Griffiss Base
An air force accident board investigated a collision in rain between a C 45 transport and an ATS trainer near Griffiss Air Base. Victims were Lt. Col. Charles C. Wilder Jr and 1st Lt. Daniel E. Hisse, pilots, and 1st Lt. Jacob Foster. All stationed at Griffiss, Wilder based in Colgate ROTC duties, Wilder home in Hapeville Georgia, Hisse in West Liberty Iowa.
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Iowa
Bias
Ee Unversity of
South Bay
Burial forms overdue for World War I dead relatives
Des Recrating notes that next of kin have not returned burial inquiry forms for World War I dead. Red Cross state relations officer Elven N. Mellrath urges immediate return so next of kin wishes for disposition can be determined.
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Red Cross
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