Annex To City Adds Land For Veterans Homes
Dubuque city council annexed 59.6 acres for veterans home building sites. Cedar Rapids survey identifies rooms for rent and 60 surplus RFC grain bins to convert into homes costing $3,000 each. Holland seeks seven mile radius memberships to fund a new fire truck and fire protection. Elks convention at Burlington sees Boone lodge win top honor with Muscatine second.
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Dubuque
Elk’s
Burlington
Boone Lodge
Iowa State Elks Associatio
Muscatine
Cedar Rapids
RFC
Holland
Admiral Miller Weds in Washington After Norristown Wedding
Rear Admiral Harold N. Miller, 43, navy director of public relations and a Newton native, honeymooned with his bride Mrs Mary Whately-Smith 30, widow of a British army officer, in Washington after their Norristown ceremony.
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Norristown
Harold N. Miller
Newton
Washington
Miller
Navy
Mary Whately-Smith
Davenport-Allan Denny elected Iowa Junior Bar president
Davenport Allan Denny of Des Moines was named to succeed Walter Willet of Tama as president of the Iowa Junior Bar association at the annual convention. Other officers named were Robert Beebe of Sioux City as vice president and Scott Swisher of Iowa City as secretary. Des Moines June 16. The same report notes an OPA revocation of Harry Chasen’s used car dealer license in Mason City for failure to prove a contract with a service company. A Colfax collision killed 3-year-old James Richard Schmeckel of Davenport and injured six others on Highway 6. Fred W. Hill of Hamburg was named president of the National Editorial Association in Estes Park, succeeding Charles Ryder.
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Davenport
Allan W. Denny
Des Moines
Walter Willet
Tama
Iowa Junior Bar Association
Robert E. Beebe
Sioux City
Scott Swisher
Iowa City
Harry Chasen
Mason City
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Chasen
Colfax
James Richard Schmeckel
Here
Frank Swartz
Highway 6
Duane O. Paulson
NEA
Estes Park
Colo
Fred W. Hill
Hamburg
National Editorial Association Today
Charles L. Ryder
Cobleskill
N. Y
Times
Hill
Iowa Press Association
Inter-State Press Association
Nebraska
Iowa
Minnesota
South Dakota
Subsidy Deadline Sets June 30 For Beef Cattle Payments
Cass AAA chairman Carl H. Euken says cattle sold direct to a slaughterer must be marketed by midnight June 30 to qualify for the 60 cent per hundredweight subsidy. Feeder sales to order buyers require delivery before June 30 and payment forms due within 60 days at the county AAA office.
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Carl H. Euken
Cass Aaa
AAA
Weather brief: Partly cloudy and thundershowers
Partly cloudy tonight with scattered thunderstorms, warming trend in the east on Sunday.
United States Seeks World Peace Trade for Atomic Bomb
An unidentified source says the United States would trade its atomic bomb for a world government or security system to keep the peace. The plan envisions scrapping veto power in a strengthened UN or similar body, with Baruch proposing an international atomic development authority to oversee all atomic energy.
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New York
United States
United Nations Security Council
Council
Security Council
Bernard M. Baruch
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
International Atomic Development Authority
Baruch
Britain to Issue Final Word on Indian Freedom
New Delhi reports Britain will unveil a final position tomorrow in the stalemate over an interim Indian government. A high source says an imposed peace could speed independence as the Congress working committee rejects Hindu Muslim parity and compulsory provincial grouping proposals.
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New Delhi
Britain
India
Congress Party Working Committee
Congress
Bomb shelter proves protection against atomic blast says USC expert
Dr Verne R Mason of the University of Southern California told a civic group that three feet of concrete shielded 22 telephone operators who fled to a concrete shelter under the main blast area near Hiroshima. None were injured. Also noted is the arrival of Miss Esther Gif ford of Omaha to spend the summer with her uncle and aunt at 106 West Fifth Street.
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Los Angeles
Japan
Verne R. Mason
University of Southern California
Mason
Hiroshima
Esther Gifford
Omaha
C. S. Relyea
West Fifth Street
Escaped Convicts Captured Near Preston Iowa
Two inmates who fatally injured a guard and fled Anamosa state reformatory were recaptured near Preston. Charles Larson and Louis Hofer, both jailed originally for larceny and robbery, were seized after a statewide manhunt. Authorities said Hofer wielded the hammer in the assault.
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Anamosa
Anamosa State Reformatory
Henry Franzen
Preston
Maquoketa
Charles Larson
Fort Dodge
Louis Hofer
Indianapolis
Ind
R. W. Nebergall
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Des Moines
Davis
Larson
John Hint
Hofer
Old Browns Station
Leonard Kaufman
Ed Holtz
Jackson County
Hungary issues one trillion pengo note in hyperinflation
Budapest reports a gargantuan one trillion pengo note issued as inflation soars. The note, nicknamed the eggmillio milpengo, would have been worth about 200 billion dollars prewar and today trades for roughly five cents.
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Budapest
Hungary
Court denies Mihailovic defense bid to summon U.S. airmen
In Belgrade the court handling Gen Draja Mihailovic treason case refused the defense request to call United States aviators as witnesses. Mihailovic and the prosecutor opposed the move, with Mihailovic saying he did not agree in principle. The defense planned to cite Capt Walter Mansfield and others.
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Belgrade
Draja Mihailovic
United States
Mihailovic
Walter Mansfield
New York
Mike Mrkur
J. K. Levin
W. L. Rogers
Committee For Defense
Envoys Resume Peace Treaty Talks In Paris
In Paris on June 15 the foreign ministers of France Britain Russia and the United States returned to work at Luxembourg Palace to draft peace treaties for eastern satellites and bridge East West Europe. They seek to end the April May deadlock and advance plans on Austria Danube transport evacuation and postwar German government while Moscow has not replied to the US draft.
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Paris
France
Great Britain
Russia
United States
Easi
Germany
Europe
Luxembourg Palace
James F. Byrnes
Ernest Bevin
Britain
V. M. Molotov
Georges Bidault
Byrnes
Washington
Moscow
Austria
Molotov
Danube
Balkans
Men of Twenty One Months Service to Receive Discharge
The army announced the return from overseas of all non volunteer enlisted fathers and men with at least 21 months of service and authorized discharge for those with 21 months or more. An estimated 133000 men would be affected, including 77000 in the Pacific and 28000 in Europe. The plan aims to have them home by August 31 and to keep troop ships full for continued discharges.
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Washington
Army
Pacific
Europe
United States
Congress
Protest removal of two morning local trains
Mayors and businessmen along the Rock Island lines urge restoration of trains 5 and 22 removed during the coal strike. Milton E Hoelzen asks the Iowa commerce commission to investigate and for communities to protest. Loss of service harms mail deliveries and parcel post, especially to smaller towns served by Atlantic.
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Atlantic
Rock Island
Milton E. Huelzen
Atlantic Chamber of Commerce
Iowa Commerce Commission
Hoelzen
Rocket
Flyer
Reorganization Bill of Congress Likely to Pass
Iowa lawmakers react to a national move toward reform as the bill would cut committees from 48 to 18 and raise salaries from 10 000 to 15 000 with a 62 retirement pension up to 7500. Supporters cite 50 percent pay hikes and pensions as attractors for able members. Opponents warn against traditional risks and question retirement plans.
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Washington
House
Iowa
Ben Jensen
Jensen
Tom Martin
Iowa City
John Gwynne
Congress
Paul Cunningham
Karl LeCompte
Frank Jones Wins Swine Growers Contest Award
Frank E. Jones of Atlantic and Boone wins second award in the hog breeders national 4 H and FFA purebred story contest. Albert Hinrichs Jr of Benson Illinois takes first. Floyd Tripp Imogene and David L Williams Villisca win third and fourth.
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Frank E. Jones
John E. Jones
Atlantic
Boone
Albert Hinrichs, Jr
Benson, Ill
Southwest Iowa Club
Floyd Tripp
Imogene
David L. Williams
Villisca
Jones
Poland
Jack
Jones Farm
Young Jones
Ak-Sar-Ben
St. Joseph
Shenandonah
Robert Williams
Villisea
Darrell G. Diges
Hamburg
Ubico Dies Former Guatemalan President in New Orleans
Gen Jorge Ubico 68 a former president of Guatemala died in Baptist hospital New Orleans where he had been patient since May 17 He and his wife Maria Lainfiesta arrived in October 1944 amid Central American unrest Also noted farmers search for lost spectacles ends as hayload yields glasses found by his sons in a load of hay
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New Orleans
Jorge Ubico
Guatemala
Baptist Hospital
Maria Lainfiesta
New Ulm
Minn
Mike Hegler
Hegler
Seamen Win Big Gains in New Wage Pact
A nationwide seafaring labor settlement ends a looming walkout as CIO unions reach a wage-hour agreement with 39 eastern shipping firms. Seamen gain $17.50 monthly retroactive to April 1 and 1 per hour overtime pay for Sunday work at sea and weekend port shifts, while longshoremen receive 22 cents more per hour retroactive to Oct. 1. The pact, ratified under government mediation, covers ships operated for the war shipping administration and many privately owned vessels.
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Washington
Harry Bridges
Joe Curran
Labor Department
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
CIO
Bridges
CMU
Frank J. Taylor
War Shipping Administration
Taylor
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House of Savoy
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