House Upholds Tax Reduction Veto Iowa Briefs
Ames services will be held Thursday afternoon for H W Richey 67 professor of horticulture at Iowa State College since 1921 He received his bachelor’s degree at the University of Nebraska in 1914. Wendell Ditsworth 28 suffered head cuts and knee injuries in a plane crash north of Swea City while flying his own plane after earning a flying license Sunday morning at Fairmont Minnesota. Des Moines Mrs Jantha Johnson Marshalltown was the only nominee for state president of the Daughters of Union Veterans at an election today. Nettie Billhymer Ottumwa was elected state president of the Woman’s Relief Corps. Washington Rep LeCompte Bla has asked a special congressional committee to inspect flood damage in Ottumwa and Eddyville to assess flood control needs. $15,000,000 has been authorized for Des Moines River projects but no appropriation is available.
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H. W. Richey
Iowa State College
Richey
University of Nebraska
Algona
Wendell Ditsworth
Swea City
Ditsworth
Fairmont
Minn
Des Moines
Mra
Jantha Johnson
Marshalltown
Daughters of Union Veterans
Nettie Billhymer
Ottumwa
Woman’s Relief Corps
Washington
LeCompte
Bla
Eddyville
House
Truman
Halleck
Indiana
Carl Andersen
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Marcantonio
New York
Senate
Martin
Republicana
Spirit of Constitution
Taft
Ohio
Congress
Ohio Republican
Darrell Reece
Republican National Committee
Strawberry Point Teen Plans Best Holstein Herd
Strawberry Point youth Behrens, at 18, aims to build the best Holstein herd. He already owns 10 purebreds bought as calves with funds borrowed from his father. He serves as Clayton County 4 H club president and earned the Iowa farmer award this year, after serving as F F A chapter president in Strawberry Point.
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Strawberry Point
Douglas Behrens
Behrens
Clayton County
Denison Youth Fatally Injured in Auto Collision
Denison Iowa June 17 Leon Powers II 21 of Denison son of former State Supreme Court Justice Leon Powers Sr was fatally injured in a car crash at 330 am. Paula Runge 20 also of Denison was seriously injured after the vehicle missed a turn and rolled at the highway 59 141 junction seven miles south of Denison Sheriff N P Cavett said both were returning from Manning where they visited friends. The elder Powers formerly served as general counsel for the Federal Land Bank at Omaha.
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Denison
Leon Powers I Jr
State Supreme Court
Leon Powers
Paula Runge
Here
N. P. Cavett
Young Powers
Miss Runge
Manning
Elder Powers
Federal Land Bank
Omaha
Flood Control Conference Draws 15 States
Indianapolis officials report a flood control conference set to begin tomorrow with 15 states represented. Indiana flood control chief David Harker said reservations are secured from Arkansas Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Michigan Minnesota Missouri Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Tennessee West Virginia and Wisconsin for the meeting.
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Indianapolis
David H. Harker
Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission
Harker
Arkansas
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Actress June Haver files for divorce from Jimmy Zito
Hollywood report says June Haver 21 will sue for divorce from musician Jimmy Zito 28 for incompatibility. They wed in Las Vegas March 9 and remarried here two weeks later amid a short marriage.
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Hollywood
June Haver
Jimmy Zito
Las Vegas
Nev
Weather Outlook Shows Cloudy Intervals and Showers
Weather forecast indicates cloudy skies with scattered local showers tonight ending in the west by noon Wednesday and in the east by early Wednesday night Cooler temperatures expected Wednesday afternoon in all areas.
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West
East
Free Speech Test Promised In Hungary Amid Clashes
Szeged reports that anti communist leader Dezso Sulyok pledged another freedom of speech test soon at Miskolc despite a violent interruption at a rally. About 150 intruders clashed with 700 attendees and 15 000 bystanders as police intervened. several were injured and some arrested.
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Szeged
Hungary
Dezso Sulyok
Szabadsag (Freedom
Miskolc
Sulyok
National Assembly
Tisza
Stalin
Social Democratic
Freedom Party
Janos Nagizan
Vincens Nagy
United States
America
Ferenc Nagy
Anti-Semitism Rise Is Tackled In Britain Conference
London June 17 AP Gerald Rufus Isaacs the Marquess of Reading warned at a Council of Christians and Jews conference that a growing atmosphere of hostility to Jews threatens the country. He said anti semitism affects all inhabitants and could lead to police state abuses. Also mention of Mrs Park W Burrows and her daughters visiting relatives in Evanston Illinois.
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London
Brittain
Gerald Rufus Isaacs
Marquess of
Reading
Council of Christians and Jews
Park W. Burrows
Susan, Anne
Cheryl
Evanston, M
R. W. Allen
Peter White 73 former councilman dies at Atlantic Memorial
Peter White 73 longtime LaVista resident and former Atlantic City councilman died at Atlantic Memorial Hospital after a two week stay. He served as state food and dairy inspector for 25 years before retiring and was a Mason and Davenport Consistory member. Survived by widow, brother Mark, sister Edith, no children. Funeral Thursday at Taylor Funeral Home with Masonic service. burial in Garnaville Cemetery.
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Peter White
LaVista Place
Atlantic City
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Mr. White
Garber
George
Mary E. White
Anna Thern
Elkader
Garnaville
Taylor Funeral Home
Bulgaria Premier Di Mitrov Affirms Friendly Ties
Sofia June 17 Communist Premier Georgi Dimitrov rejected US criticism but urged no action that could hinder normal and friendly relations between Bulgaria and the United States.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Georgi Dimitrov
United States
Hoover lauds right wing freedoms at Princeton dinner
Former President Herbert Hoover quipped about the “terrible reactionaries” at Princeton University’s bicentennial dinner. He praised the century and a half of American progress under freedoms, noting vast wealth, infrastructure, and education while joking about nostalgia.
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Princeton
N. J
Herbert Hoover
Princeton University
Hoover
Freeman suffers heart attack after May Garason trial
Joseph F. Freeman wartime Washington agent for the Garason munitions combine collapsed today and was sent to a hospital in very bad shape after testifying at the May Garason war fraud trial. Attorney Austin Canfield said the defendant, who had just left the witness stand due to illness, suffered a serious heart attack moments later and was taken to a hospital. Freeman had been acquitted earlier after the government’s case.
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Washington
Joseph F. Freeman
Freeman
Henry A. Sehweinhaut
Hospital Advance Gifts Fund Reaches Sixty-One Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy-Five
Atlantic Memorial hospital’s advance gifts drive chaired by L L Balding has reached 61775 toward a 95000 goal. The kick off dinner at Hotel Whitney drew 140 with 66 firms or individuals contributing. O A Otto noted the campaign to raise 150000 this month to build a new wing, with trustees pushing safety standards guided by national medical groups.
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L. L. Balding
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Hotel Whitney
Lions Club
O. A. Otto
Atlantic
Otto
George Hartmany
The
Lions
Ernest Burke
Anita
Ed Krogstad
Cass County
Elden Kay
Gail Burke
Gus Kuester
J. O. Stahl
Frederick Brown
Atlantic Sales Army
Ralph Finkbine
Rex Moorman
American Hospital Association
American Medical Association
American College of Surgeons
Iowa Judge Barred From Serving as Counsel in Trial
Northwood Indiana district Judge M H Kepler was barred from acting as counsel in a United States district court case in Fort Dodge. Federal Judge Henry N Graven sustained the motion under a Iowa statute. Kepler sat with spectator status as jury selection began for George Potiriades of Manly charged with receiving stolen interstate goods.
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Fort Odge
M. H. Kepler
Northwood
Henry N. Graven
Kepler
John Senneff
Mason City
George Potiriades
Manly
Iowa
Potiriades
United States
Tobias Diamond
Sheldon
Graven
Diamond
Senneff
12Th Judicial District
Widow Sauckel Convicted as Lesser Nazi in Germany
In Berchtesgaden on June 17, Mrs. Fritz Sauckel widow of the executed labor leader, was found a "lesser Nazi" by a denazification court. She received a 1000 mark fine and was sent home to educate her children democratically, the first widow of a major Nazi to be tried.
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Berchteszaden
Germany
Fritz Sauckel
Violinist Bronislaw Huberman Dies in Switzerland
Geneva reports the death of Bronislaw Huberman at 64 at his Nant sur Corsier home after returning from a concert tour of Italy. He was renowned internationally as one of the era’s greatest violinists, praised in the United States and abroad.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Bronislaw Huberman
United States
Abrond
Nant Sur Corsier
Italy
Iowa high court upholds gas tax law including fourth cent
The Iowa Supreme Court unaniTimously sustains the entire gas tax law and the 1945 fourth cent levy for cities and towns. The decision affirms Johnson County Judge Ev ans and rejects Stanley W. Plank's challenge to the tax as a property levy, citing a 1934 Supreme Court ruling that it is an excise tax.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Supreme Court
John Mulroney
Johnson County
H. D. Evans
Stanley W. Plank
Kalona
Plank
Supreme Court
L. V. Carlton
U. S. Supreme Court
Truman to veto wool bill in effort to salvage Geneva talks
Rep. Cooley forecast that President Truman will veto a wool protection bill as the House accepts a conference report to hold support prices and let the president set import quotas or higher tariffs if imports harm domestic prices. The measure returns to the Senate, with expected Senate approval following the House action.
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Washington
Rep
Cooley
D-N. C
Truman
Geneva
House
Senate
Chamber
80 Potta wattamie Bridges Out After Flood
Potta wattamie county faces destruction of over 80 bridges as flood waters wreck or severely damage them. Supervisor C. O. Nickell called it the worst in county history, while Supervisor Mervin Knott said repairs will need outside help due to lack of manpower and materials.
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Council Bluffs
Pottawattamie County
Board of Supervisors
C. O. Nickell
Mervin Knott
Truman says universal training needed to deter totalitarian pressure
President Truman, at Princeton University for the bicentennial, calls universal military training a necessity to prevent war and sustain free nations. He warns uncertainty could invite totalitarian encroachment while stressing training strengthens youth morally and physically for national service.
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Jal
Truman
Auch
One of Montana Quads Is Dead
Donna Mae Randash, smallest of the Randash quadruplets, died last night sixty five hours after birth. The three siblings, two girls and a boy, are reported healthy. Mrs Edward Randash is recovering well. The surviving infants Dorothy Dolores and Dean weighed two pounds 15 ounces and three pounds 6 ounces respectively.
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Miles City
Mont
Donna Mae Randash
Randash
Edward Randash
Elna Howard
Dorothy
Dolores
Dean
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