Big Four pledge on German peace and Austrian independence
The Big Four foreign ministers ended their session with a promise to ease East West tensions in Germany and to forge an Austrian independence treaty. They agreed to avoid a Berlin blockade and to revive on street trade, while planning another meeting in New York during the UN summit. Austrian leaders hailed the move as a step toward peace and freedom.
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Paris
Germany
Berlin
Reish
New York
United Nations General Assembly
Samuel Reber
Austria
Russia
Robert Schuman
Eesen
Vishinsky
U.S
Dean Acheson
Ernest Bevin
Andrei Vishinsky
Sit
Moscow
Vienna
Leopold Fig
W. T. Babcock
U. S
Babcock
Minimum wage law takes first hurdle in senate panel
A seven member subcommittee of the senate labor committee voted unanimously for a 76 cent per hour minimum wage. It rejected extending wage-hour law coverage to 6,000,000 more workers. The panel’s majority indicates the full committee will likely back the measure for Senate action.
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Wahington
Senate
Senate Labor Committee
Cerain
Weather outlook: cooler tonight and warm with isolated thundershowers
The forecast calls for fair and cooler conditions tonight. Wednesday brings partly cloudy skies and rising temperatures with scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers in the western portion.
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West Portion
Government reorganization plans aim to skip long session
Congressional leaders seek quick approval of President Truman seven reorganization proposals without an August 20 veto wait. A cabinet level welfare department and changes to agencies like Civil Service and Public Roads face possible bypass strategies to avoid a lengthy adjournment.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Department of Welfare
Bureau of Employment Security
Post Office Department
National Security
Civil Service Commission
Maritime Commission
Public Roads Adminstration
Senate
McClellan
D-Ark
Herbert Hoover
Governors back arms aid for western Europe in anti communism push
In Colorado Springs governors rally around Lt Gen Walter Bedell Smith urging support for the administration’s 1.13 billion dollar program to rearm Europe against communism. Smith warns of potential Soviet atomic tests while downplaying capability to weaponize fission materials. New York Governor Thomas E Dewey backs the plan.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Russia
Europe
Walter Bedell Smith
Smith
Moscow
Thomas Ek, Dewey
New York
Escapee Captured After Iowa Prison Break Near Marshalltown
Charles Orricer of Sioux City, one of five convicts who escaped from Iowa state prison farms, was captured at a road block near Marshalltown at the junction of highways 30 and 64. He had earlier seized a car from Cedar Rapids officer Arthur Zimmerman and offered no resistance when police and state patrol closed in.
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Marshalltown
Charles Orricer
Sioux City
Iowa
Orricer
Arthur Zimmerman
Cedar Rapids
Czech Church Faces Arrest Threat as Beran Years-Long Stand
Prague reports say government controlled papers hint a crackdown on the Roman Catholic church may target Archbishop Josef Beran for anti-state activity. Clergy and lay leaders are reportedly arrested in Moravia as Beran remains semi-captive in his palace with security police present.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Moravia
Beran
Josef Cardinal Mindsszenty
Hungary
Cardinal Mindszenty
Budapest
Josef Matocha
Olomouc
Walker receives 8 years to life for Colorado co ed murder
Bouler Colorado. Joe Sam Walker 33 was sentenced to 80 years to life for the brutal murder of Theresa Foster 18 a University of Colorado freshman from Greeley. The judge said punishment should fit the crime noting the act was violent and atrocious. Time off for good behavior could reduce the term to 40 years. Foster’s body was found under a bridge near Boulder after she disappeared while walking from campus to her residence.
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Greeley
Colo
Boulder
University
Women campaign to oust Fairmont City police chief
In Fairmont City women from Local 82 CIO Mine Mill and Smelter Workers unions circulated ouster petitions to Mayor Anthony Thomas after a riot between rival CIO unions. Two men were shot outside city hall. thirty Local 82 members are free on bond.
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Fairmont City
Wil
Arthur Wylie
Local 82
CIO Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union
CIO
CIO Progressive Metal Workers Council
Anthony Thomas
LeMars Man Sentenced 10 Years for Forgery
LeMars resident Chatsworth 34, LeMars Roy Rounds was sentenced to ten years in the state penitentiary at Fort Madison for uttering a forged check.
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LeMars
Roy Rounds
Chatsworth
Fort Madison
Thirty Two Sign Up For Blood Clinic
Thirty two volunteers have signed up for a blood donor clinic on June 30 when the Omaha Red Cross mobile unit visits Atlantic. Donor cards are available at local businesses and from several names in Atlantic and nearby towns. A March of Time film on the Red Cross blood campaign was shown in Maine and will tour Maine Atlantic Lewis Griswold and Griswold theaters this week.
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Omaha
Opal Gress
Maine
John DeWitt
Griswold
Fred Dory
Lewis
Red Cross
Atlantic Theater
Vivian Billa
Allen Boller
Dean Borcherding
Donald J. Brehmer
Harlow Butcher
Bernard Butler
Joan Byers
Jack Cook
Joe Cardio
Mra
Ed Eickelkamp
Frank W. Garnney
Clifford T. Grover
Norlin Hagen
Lyle Hayes
Stacia Haslitt
Dale E. Hoegh
Eleanor M. Johnson
Richard Lowers
Howard Lundberg
Harry E. Lytle
R. Kent Martin
Ernest Math
Scooter drivers warned as a traffic hazard
Des Moines report says youthful scooter riders raise safety concerns. The state safety department reiterates that no one under 16 may drive a motor vehicle without a special school permit, a rule intensified during vacation season. Enforcement rests with local communities as patrols cannot patrol every road.
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Des Moines
State Safety Department
Ima
Alfred W. Kahl
Atate Safety Commissioner
Ronald Reagan Slips to Base With Fractured Thigh
Ronald Reagan, 37, wearing a traction cast, has a fractured right thigh from a comic slide into first base during a benefit game in Los Angeles. The former Iowa track star will be sidelined about six weeks.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Los Angeles
Iowa Sports
Typhoon Hits South Japan Killing Dozens
Tokyo police report 40 killed and 863 missing as a powerful typhoon struck Okinawa and southern Japan with winds up to 115 mph. Heavy destruction followed with over 800 houses destroyed and 4500 farms flooded. Forecasters warned swollen rivers could flood larger areas into Honshu.
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Tokyo
Okinawa
Japan
Honshu
Disciple Arrested for Child Support in Reseda Case
Francis H. Pencovic, 38, self styled Messiah, jailed in Los Angeles county on failure to support two children from a former marriage. He claims 145000 followers in Reseda California, though the Chamber of Commerce lists the town population at 6000.
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Francis H. Pencovic
Messiah
Los Angeles
Pencovic
Reseda
Calif
Chamber of Commerce
International
Milwaukee Murder Verdict and Navy Carrier Plan
Milton Babich, 19, was found guilty of first degree murder in Milwaukee and sentenced to life with parole possible after 20 years. In Washington, Secretary Johnson proposed modernizing two aircraft carriers at a total cost of 80 million dollars, stressing unified defense and ending atomic secrecy.
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Milwaukee
Milton Babich
Waupun
Kathleen
Babich
Herbert J. Steffes
Wisconsin
Patricia Birmingham
Victor
Lawrence Papke
Albert T. Birmingham
Steffes
Washington
Louis Johnson
Truma
Johnson
National War College
Truman
Jehacen
United States
National Defense Establishment
Navy
Airm Arm
Robert A. Patterson
Defense
National Guard and Reserves
Patterson
Carriere Johnson
Susariek
Medical Dean Dr Mayo Soley Seems To Die By Own Action
Coroner George Callahan reports Dr Mayo Soley dean of University of Iowa medical college 42 committed suicide in his garage this morning stating no apparent reason for the act.
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George Callahan
Mayo Soley
University of Iowa Medical College
Callahan
Dean Soley
He Wants Wife Not A Tram Conductor In Blackpool
William Brindle sought to halt his wife Violet from driving a tram and move her home. He faced probation after disrupting seafront traffic by addressing a crowd about his woes. He later burned her conductor jacket while she wore a green smock and vowed to reclaim his wife.
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Blackpool
Eng
William Brindle
Violet
Brindle
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Chicago
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