Beaten Tot Given Chance To Live In Shore Cliff Tragedy
Four year old Mary Bernice Williams remained a fight to survive after being battered by her father Wayne Lee Williams who then allegedly pushed husband and child from a Puget Sound cliff. Doctors reported skull damage greater than first believed but said she was holding her own after surgery. Prosecutor Sherman would decide on murder charges once the girl's recovery outlook is clearer.
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Everett
Wash
Phil Sherman
Mary Bernice Williams
Wayne Lee
Puget Sound
Tom Warnock
Hattis Lucille
Funeral Rites Held for O. E. Shepherd at Adair
Memorial services were held at 2 p m Sunday at the Ridenour funeral home with Rev. Elmore Eliott of Des Moines delivering the sermon. Short Masonic rites by J E Miller preceded rangeside rites at Van Meter cemetery where Adair Masons accompanied the body. Casket bearers were T W Arnold J A Driscoll Robert Wilson Geo Parrott Lawrence Huss and P A Travis.
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O. E. Shepherd
Ridenour
Elmore El-iott
Des Moines
J. E. Miller
van Meter Cemetery
T. W. Arnold
J. A. Driscoll
Robert Wilson
Geo. Parrott
Lawrence Huss
P. A. Travis
Russians Bar Berlin Entry as Currency Clash Deepens
Soviet authorities barred German and Allied officers from entering Berlin by train or car while allowing freight trains under strict checks. Western-bound travel halted at the edge of the Soviet zone as currency reforms loom in western Germany.
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Berlin
Germany
Marshall Vassily D. Sokolovsky
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Sokolovsky
Greater
Birth of a 7 Pound Son in Dell Rapids
Grandnephew Bern Wiota Mrs J H Shey reports the birth Monday at 10 30 p m of a 7 pound son to Mr and Mrs Melvin Huss of Dell Rapids South Dakota in a Sioux Falls hospital The mother is the daughter of Mrs Sheys youngest sister Mrs Den Maher and husband at Dell Rapids Mrs Frank Crosley of Council Bluffs has gone to Dell Rapids It's always train time at a railroad crossing Look both ways.
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Bern. Wiota
J. H. Shey
Melvin Huss
Dell Rapids
Sioux Falls
Shey
den Maher
Frank Crosley
Council Bluffs
Young Des Moines Mother Killed as Car Rolls Over
A young mother Beverly Turnquist aged 19 died when a car carrying relatives lost control on a turn at the east edge of Des Moines on Highway 60 near the Great Lakes Pipeline station. Injured were driver Robert Erickson 23 and others Harry Lloyd 23 Norma Jean Riley 14 and Ray Erickson 23. The group had been visiting Mrs Turnquist's aunt.
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Des Moines
Beverly Turnquist
Beverly McGuire
Robert Ericksan
Harry Lloyd
Tractor overturns kill Brighton man on state highway
Guy Wallace Hesseltine, 82, of Brighton was killed when his tractor overturned while making a U turn on state highway four miles northeast of town.
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Brighton
Guy Wallace Hesseltine
Brighon
Here
Health notes on local surgeries and hospital stays
Claire Smith from south of Walnut had major ear surgery in Iowa City on Friday. Ray Miller of Western Auto Supply recovered at home after heart attack illness and is up around the house. Virgil Moore, released from Atlantic Memorial, is improving and able to be out yesterday. Gale Ullerich, formerly of Atlantic, underwent brain surgery in Denver for an abscess and shows improved condition. Bonnie Jean Weaver fractured a hip bone from a bed fall at 11 months old. Elk Horn operator Larsen cracked a bone in her hand. Katherine Freund, sister of Al Freund, remains critically ill with a brain tumor in Iowa City University Hospital.
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Claire L. Smith
South of Walnut
Iowa City
Ray Miller
Western Auto Supply Associate Store
Virgil Moore
Atlantic Memorial Hospital
Gale Ullerich
Denver
Atlantic
Paul Dreager
Wayne Ullerich
Howard Petersen
Gale Ullerichs
Safeway Chain
Elk Horn
Meta Larsen
Lyle Wittrup
Harlan
Carroll Hospital
Wiola
al ‘Freund
Iowa City University Hospital
Hsi
Katherine Freund
Raymond Hopke
Ventura
Calif
Pete P. Anderson
Raymond
Ford Showrooms Crowded With 1949 Ford Unveiling
More than 2,500 people visited the D. J. Cornelison Motor Company to view the new 1949 Ford models. Visitors counted at 35 every ten minutes in the forenoon, with crowds lingering until 11 p.m. The agency displays four models: two custom four doors, one custom two door with overdrive, and a custom sedan coupe.
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D. J. Cornelison Motor Company
Ford
Cornelison
Local Notices Roundup From Atlantic Area
Multiple brief items report travelers visiting Atlantic residents from California Nebraska and New Jersey. Names include Mrs Mary Herchenbach 602 East Fifth Mr and Mrs William Heinl Ridgefield N J and the Mallette family. Also notes on weather and a talk by Robert Blakely at the Atlantic summer school.
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William Heinl
Ridgefield
N. J
F. G. Mallette
Manney Mallette
Des Moines Bid Openings for Governor's Mansion Remodel
State Senator Fred Maytag of Newton announced that bids for remodeling the Iowa governor's residence will be opened July 21. The committee plans general alterations including porch closing, kitchen modernization, and remodeling three bathrooms, after purchasing the former Gerard B. Nollen home for 27,000 dollars and receiving 75,000 dollars appropriated in 1947 for construction or purchase.
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Des Moines
Fred Maytag
Newton
Iowa
Maytag
Gerard 8. Nollen
Taft’s whistle stop remark sparks nationwide city rebukes
Mayors of Los Angeles and Crestline led the rebuke to Taft for calling Truman’s rail tour a whistle stop. Chambers of Commerce nationwide join protests as Democrats tally 35 whistle stop replies. Indignation runs from Gary Indiana to Eugene Oregon as timetables and turnout are cited.
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Washington
Los Angeles
Gary
Ind
Crestline
Ohio
Taft
Chambers of Commerce
Pocatello
Idaho
Laramie
Wye
Democratic National Committee
Philadelphia
Truman
Congress
Earl McNutt
Eugene
Ore
A. P. Sener
Fletcher Brown
Draft Proposals for Military Service Revisions
Draft proposals outline changes to court martial procedures and veteran job rights after the war. They include extending wartime absentee voting to service members, 19 through 25 year olds enlisting for 21 months, lowering the general test passing grade to 70, and reestablishing the Selective Service with a national director at 12500 dollars per year, operating through local boards.
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Armed Services
Regular Army
Malicapl Selective Service Organization
Walk Against Traffic on Open Highway Urges Caution
A safety advisory warns pedestrians to walk against traffic only when necessary and to keep to designated shoulders on open highways to improve visibility of approaching vehicles. It stresses using crosswalks and headphones lowered to hear hazards.
Taft and Dewey Backers Claim Added Delegates
Governor Earl Warren of California said the Republican presidential nomination is a wide open affair while reporting a special train stop in Creston. Warren noted his parents once lived in Eagle Grove Iowa as Crestonians greeted the delegation en route to the Republican national convention.
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Creston
Earl Warren
California
Warren
Eagle Grove
Iowa
Farmers favor universal military training, poll shows 69 percent
Successful Farming magazine reports that 69 percent of American farmers, from a cross section of 6,000,000, favor a universal military training law even if it required farm labor. The nationwide poll highlights broad support among farmers for UMT.
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Des Moines
UMT
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