Truman Minimizes Spy Probe Furore In Washington
Senator Hickenlooper questioned whether the Chicago atomic lab located the container for missing uranium 235. Dr. Walter Zinn defended the lab, while Hickenlooper pressed charges of mismanagement and urged Lilienthal’s resignation. President Truman backed Strauss remaining on the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Argonic Atomic Laboratory
Hichenlooper
Conateatemic
Tab
Walter H. Zinn
Chicago
FBI
Zinn
Cimuernet Ad Hieckenloper
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
Truman
Strauss
Lewis Strauss
Lilienthal
Des Moines hold up suspect tied to Iowa City raid
Luther W. Roy 22 of Harvey Illinois was identified by an Iowa City finance company manager as the hold up man who fled a May 9 robbery. Roy was captured June 10 in Indiana after a South Bend bank robbery netted 68000. Des Moines police say Roy also shot a woman in a May 10 attempted loan company robbery. Junior Legion baseball team to organize. meeting set for Friday at 8.
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Des Moines
Indiana
Iowa City
Luther W. Roy
Harvey, Il
la Porte
Ind
South Bend
Iowa’ City
E. J. Ruppert
Lund
Weather outlook fair with warming trend
The forecast notes generally fair conditions tonight and Friday. Temperatures rise with highs around 85 to 90 degrees in western areas and 85 to 90 in the northeast, with lows near 63 to 67 west and 59 to 64 east. East and south central regions warm most tonight.
Coal Czar Plan In Works For Miners' Contracts
Harry M. Moses of H. C. Frick Coke, owned by U S Steel, is seen as the coal czar under a plan by northern operators and John L. Lewis. The post would pay 75 000 to 100 000 a year to negotiate miners' contracts and allocate about 200 million tons of soft coal annually between slack and peak periods. Southern operators protest the plan.
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Harry M. Moses
H. C. Frick Coke Company
U. S. Steel
Northern
UMW
John L. Lewis
Southern
East Heat Claims Eighty Lives Amid Heat Wave
The Associated Press reports 80 deaths in New England from five days of extreme heat and humidity. Maine bans smoking and firemaking in woodlands as 18 small fires are controlled. New Hampshire adopts similar ban while Chicago meteorologists note no rain and a persistent dry spell.
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Associated Press
New
Black Hawk County Lauds Guy Gillette
Black Hawk County Bar association adopted a resolution praising Senator Guy Gillette for his efforts toward selecting a new U S district judge for southern Iowa. The resolution does not mention President Truman's appointment of Carroll Switzer. Gillette has protested Switzer's appointment. Black Hawk County lies in the northern district.
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Waterloo
Guy Gillette
Berle Rewed to Former Wife Joyce Matthews
New York stage and television comic Milton Berle remarried his former wife Joyce Matthews. The couple, previously divorced in Reno on October 22, 1947, plan to take their four year old daughter and depart tomorrow for Hollywood.
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New York
Milton Berle
Joyce Matthews
Berle
Reno
Hollywood
Kathleen Breaks Down At Babich Trial
Kathleen Birmingham Babich cried under cross examination as she testified she had pondered that her husband Milton might know something about her sister Patricia Birmingham's disappearance. The 18 year old wife, soon to be a mother, answered in a sobbing voice about events the night Patricia vanished and questioned whether Milton knew more than he admitted.
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Milwaukee
Kathleen Birmingham Babich
Milton Babich
Patricia Birmingham
William McCauley
Kathleen
Patricia
Milton
McCauley
Minneapolis
Milt
Kathleen Babich
Wis
Babich
Albert Birmingham
Mra
Fabian Babich
City Band Concert At Park Tonight
The city band conducts its second weekly season concert at the city park under Ralph W. Young this evening at 8. Ellen Jane Poch will sing Smilin Through in a program that includes The Show Boy March Gypsy Festival Overture Wings of Army There’s Something about a Soldier Blue Skies Coast Guards March Washington Post March Sousa The Star Spangled Banner and other works.
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Ralph W. Young
Ellen Jane Poch
Hays Wings of Army
Smilin
Noel Gay
Irving Berlin Coast Guards
Buchtel Washington Post
Sousa
Soviet-Led Cominform Worries Over American Spread
Washington officials cite a Bucharest bulletin from the Communist International Information Bureau asserting it is the cardinal task to block American influence. The report suggests a shift in tactics from westward expansion to holding eastern Europe, with Yugoslavia as a testing ground.
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Washington
State Department
Europe
Communist International Information Bureau
Bucharest
Romania
United States
Polson
Cardinform
Germany
Yugoslavia
Senate Adds Non Communist Oath to Truman Labor Bill
The Senate approved a Taft Hartley style amendment to the Truman labor bill requiring non communist oaths for union and company leaders and policy forming bodies before NLRB cases. Exemptions exist if an entity proves effective anti subversive leadership. Senator Douglas argued the change would affect unions led by John L Lewis and Philip Murray despite their opposition to communism.
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NLRB
Douglas
Dem.-Ill
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Philip Murray
CIO Steelworkers
Lewis and Murray
Two Iowa youths die in Sheldon car cycle crash
At 12 30 a m two Sheldon boys died when their motorcycle collided with a car driven by Merlynn Miller 22 of Sheldon. Victims were Robert Holtrop 17 and Carl Lode 16. Miller is hospitalized with cuts and bruises at the Sheldon hospital. The crash occurred at the junction of Highway 18 and Eighth avenue in Sheldon.
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Sheldon
Robert Holtrop
Carl Lode
Merlynn Miller
Miller
Highway 18
Eighth Avenue
Modest price cuts may spur 1949 consumer sales
The Federal Reserve Board reports that Americans have the money and desire to buy large quantities at lower prices. Auto demand rises with price expectations, new houses remain strong but priced higher, durable goods show slight softening, and the board urges more aggressive merchandising to tap latent demand.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Televieien Sete
Reserve Board
Two Year Old Dies From Car Fire Near Church
Jimmy Winkler two died from burns after a car blaze at Syria Methodist church south of Elgin while his mother attended a Ladies Aid meeting. Sister Jennie Belle 12 left him briefly. he likely found a match. He died four hours later at West Union Hospital.
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Elgin
Ladies Aid
Jimmy Winkler
Clarence Winkler
Winklers
Otis Rothlisberger
Here
Winkler
Syria Methodist Church
Jimmy
Jennie Belle
West Union
Towboat sinks in Mississippi after collision
Bettendorf reports a towboat named Alexander valued at $860,000 sank Wednesday night after striking a rolling boulder in the river. Capt. Paul Rose said the hull was caved in with damage around $100,000. He unloaded two barges to reach safety and the vessel rests on the river bottom with water up to its main deck.
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Bettendorf
Alexander
Paul Rose
Rose
Standard Oil
Oppenheimer Defends Lilienthal at Atomic Committee
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer backs AEC Chairman David Lilienthal calling his work good. He says no known use of American isotopes by Russia could bolster its war effort as the joint congressional atomic energy committee probes Hickenlooper charges of mismanagement.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
Atomic Energy Commission
David E. Lilienthal
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Washington
Oppenheimer
Russia
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
SGT. O’Leary in New Swindle Reappears in Wheelchair Scam
Donald E. Taylor 46, once known as Sergeant O’Leary for an Eldora inmate recruitment stunt, faced new charges in Sibley Iowa for obtaining property by false pretenses. He arrived in a wheelchair, rented a home, forged a $659 truck payment, and vanished, leaving the chair behind. He was jailed in Buffalo County Wisconsin after selling the truck. Taylor previously impersonated a federal officer in 1941 recruiting youths for Fort Des Moines, later serving prison terms for embezzlement. Deputy Emory Stage called him a smooth operator and noted no real disability.
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Gibley
Eldora
Army
O'Leary
Donald E. Taylor
Emory Stage
Taylor
Iowa
Sibley
American Legion
Lake Park
Richard O'Leary
Iowa State Training School
Fort Des Moines
Kansas
Fort Madison
Algona
Stage
Love visits Council Bluffs with niece Mia
Jennie Love of 700 Olive Street spends several days in Council Bluffs with her niece Mia and the Ferrier family.
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Council Bluffs
Mrsa
Jennie Love
Olive Street
Mia
N. W. Ferrier
Truman links spy furor to postwar hysteria
President Truman said the intense reaction to espionage probes stems from postwar hysteria that fades after each conflict. He urged reading Jefferson era history and noted that hysteria then died out without the nation suffering. He defended Hoover’s FBI role and declined comment on specifics of Coplon and Hiss cases.
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Washington
Truman
Man
Jefferson
KKK
Wea
Indiana
Justicn
Ite
Judith Coplon
Faothee Department
Russia
Alger Hiss
State Department
New York
Providence, R. 1, Journal
FBI
Hoover
Clark
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