Assured educators say no censorship of textbooks
The House Un American Activities Committee assures educators it does not intend to censor textbooks or interfere with academic freedom. Letters were sent to state boards, college presidents, and about 70 colleges seeking lists of textbooks and authors in sociology geography economics government philosophy history political science and American literature.
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Washington
House
UN American Activities Committee
National Sons of the American Revolution
Karl Marx
Pete
Sons of the American Revotion
Alabama Senate Bans Masks In Public Places
Montgomery lawmakers vote 28 to 3 to outlaw masks after Gov Folsom launches legal action against hooded orders. Governor seeks attorney general to pursue proceedings against hooded organizations in Alabama.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Senate
James E. Folsom
Folsom
Albert Carmichael
Alabama
Grandparente Visit Highlights Local Guests
Mrs. Robert E. Driscoll and her son Robert of Rapid City South Dakota stayed Thursday and Friday with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. James G. Whitney, at their home.
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Robert E. Driscoll
Robert
Rapida City
S. D
Jamea G. Whitney
Weather Forecast: Cooler, Partly Cloudy This Weekend
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with local thunder showers in the extreme southeast and extreme south central portion this afternoon or early tonight. Sunday: partly cloudy and cooler with light southeast winds.
Corn Borer Egg Masses Found Across Fields in Iowa
A three day survey reports corn borer egg masses in all fields with the heaviest counts in older corn reaching up to 600 per 100 stocks. Counts include a stalk with 22 masses and guidance on counting, timing for DDT spraying, and weather favorable to moth egg laying.
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Harry Codlin
Iowa
Glen Spieker
Victoria
Harold Wohlenhaus
Edna
Carl Kaufman
Massena
Lugeland Brothers
Union
John Brown
Franklin
B. D. Crozier
Lincoln
Louis Robinson Grant
William Thompson
Benton
Walter Clayton
Washington
Arley Riley
Bear Grove
Gerald Kay
Grove
Harold Zellmer
Pymosa
Douglas Polkinghorn
Brighton
Wilbur Wohlenhaus
Noble
Jim Sullivan
Pleasant
Frank Hofmeister
Cass
Twin birth in Naxon shares seven pound boy
Mrs. Lucien Cleroux gave birth to a seven pound son 47 hours after the birth of his six pound twin jalster in Naxon Ontario last night.
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Naxon
Ont
Lucien Cleroux
Jalster
Cambridge man builds scooter to travel 70 miles to Charlotte
Fank Grant, 76, of Cambridge Illinois, built a three wheeled scooter powered by a modified washing machine motor. He travelled 30 miles from Davenport to Charlotte in one hour, praising it as faster than walking and a solution for travel with economy.
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Charlotte
Fank Grant
Cambridge
Ill
Grant
Davenport
Four Iowa men die in Minn plane crash near Truman
Four Iowa men on a fishing trip were killed when a twin engined Cessna exploded and crashed three miles southeast of Truman Minnesota. Victims identified include Elmer Lee Wright 32 Grinnell IA pilot and owner of the plane Raymond Ferguson about 45 Grinnell IA carpenter Howard Raymond Walton Grinnell IA naval reserve lieutenant M L Goslin Ames IA state highway permit engineer. Witnesses saw the craft fail in midair near the Arthur Schlemme farm at 640 am with wreckage scattered over more than an acre indicating a fatal midflight breakup.
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Tramis
Minn
Elmer Lee Wright
Grinnell
Raymond Ferguson
Grinnell College
Howard Raymond Walton
Naval Reserve
M. L. Goslin
Ames
State Highway Commission
Truman
Jowans
Minnesota
Arthur Schlemme
Fairmont
Main Street
Walton
A R. Batterman
M. H .Martin
Kate Crolley 87 Cass County Resident Dies
Kate Crolley 87 of 1010 Poplar Street died this morning at 9 30 from age related illness. Born Des Moines February 17 1862 she lived in Madison then Cass counties before moving to Atlantic in 1926. Survived by sister Polly Crolley four brothers and other relatives. Funeral Monday 9 30 at SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church with Rosary tonight and tomorrow at 8 30. Interment Atlantic Catholic Cemetery.
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Kate Crolley
Poplar Street
Miss Crolley
Des Moines
John
Margaret Hughes Crolly
Madison County
Cass County
Wiota
Atlantic
SS. Peter and Paul's Catholic Church
Polio Epidemic Hits San Angelo With 74 In Hospital
Seven new polio cases are hospitalized in San Angelo Texas raising total with treatment to 74. The outbreak is described as the worst infantile paralysis epidemic in the history of the city which has about 42 000 residents.
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San Angelo
Texas
Family Moves to 1011 Cheatnut Street Residence
The Willenburg family relocated yesterday from Shenandoah to the Mrs Roy Graham property located at 1011 Cheatnut Street in Atlantic-Ray.
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Atlantic
Ray Willenburg
Shenandoah
Roy Graham
Cheatnut Street
Gun battle ends bandits flight with 75000 loot
Two bandits and a Lincoln salesman were robbed on a country detour near Lyons Nebraska. State patrolmen and a sheriff killed both bandits in a crossroad exchange of fire. The loot valued at 75000 in jewels was recovered. The sheriff was wounded in both hands. Fingerprints did not match state files.
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Lincoln
Neb
Elton Goldberg
Lyons
Here
John Meistrell
Meistrel
Three Boys Now For Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck and wife Greta welcomed a son weighing seven pounds thirteen ounces named Carey Paul born yesterday at California Lutheran hospital. The child honors actor Harry Carey. the Peck family already has sons Jonathan aged five and Stephen aged three. Both mother and baby are reported doing well.
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Los Angeles
Gregory Pecks
Greta
Carey Paul
Harry Carey
Lare Jonathan
Stephen
Under Guard Arch bishop Beran Faces Communications Clash
ArchBishop Josef Beran, premier Catholic prelate of Czechoslovakia, is under guard at his Prague palace after the chancellor of the consistory and another priest were arrested. He rejects a Prague education ministry demand to control all his correspondence.
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Prague
Josef Beran
Bohemia
Czechoslovakia
Ministry of Education
Mrs Agnes Garnier Convicted of Manslaughter in Owen Slaying
Riverside California UP an air woman jury convicted Agnes E Garnier of manslaughter in the slaying of her employer and former lover John E Owen. The 63 year old secretary testified she acted in self defense after Owen shot in his Rancho Jusupa Hills home on April 22. The verdict followed eight hours of deliberation with sentencing set for 10 am Wednesday. Garnier plans a new trial.
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Riverside
Cal
Aifwoman
Agnes E. Garnier
John E. Owen
Busineas
Owen
Th National Apartment House Owners Association
Jusu
Russell
Waite
Allen
Iowa Supreme Court to Hear Oskaloosa Shade Tree Case
The Iowa supreme court will hold a full hearing in September on whether shade trees in Oskaloosa should be removed for a street widening project. The court denied the highway commission's motion to dismiss the appeal by property owners seeking an injunction against the city and the commission.
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Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
Oskaloosa
State Highway Commission
Mahaska County
Supreme Court
Weather Picture Shows Heat and Snow
Weather map depicts extreme conditions across the region with floods in the Virginias and West Virginia, missing persons reports in Bridgewater Virginia, and tornadolike storms in Colorado. Cooler air moves into the northern plains while heat remains in the Southwest and Northeast drought continues with no rain in central New York.
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Associated Press
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Montana
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Shenandoah
Virginia
West Virginia
Bridgewater
Petersburg
Moorefield
W. Va
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Mont
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Tex
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Vermont
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Minnesota
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Akron
Colorado
Lamar
Colo
Oregon
Oklahoma
Raina
Texas
South Plains
McDonald Pass
Boulder Hill
Butte
Two Union Men Shot in Zinc Co Melee
In Fairmount City Illinois two union men were shot during a melee among striking American Zinc Company workers. Joe Petroski former Local 82 CIO Mine Mill and Smelter Workers official and Colmara Rodriguez a strike committee member were hospitalized. Angelo and Joe Verdu were roughed by about 300 demonstrators including strikers’ wives.
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Fairmount City
Angelo
Joe Verdu
Smelter Workers’ Union
Neighbor Rescues Family From Creek Car In Iowa
Mrs Delvin Cross 28 drove home after hitting gravel and her car toppled into a creek from a 15 foot embankment. Neighbor Tom Johnson plucked her son Donald 5 and daughter Imogene 2 from the water. Mrs Cross sustained a back injury. children escaped unharmed.
Fifty-Seven New Lawyers Take Oath in Towa City
Seventy eight men passed the state bar exams and were sworn in as new Towa attorneys yesterday. District Judge Floyd Philbrick of Cedar Rapids administered the oath. All but nine of the new lawyers are University of Towa graduates.
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Towa City
New
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