Weather and hail damage across central Iowa from storms
A severe hail and thunderstorm system struck from Fletcher Chapel to Corning, damaging roofs, windows, crops, and power lines. Reports show heavy rainfall totals across multiple towns, with flooding threats on the Nishnabotna and Turkey Creek. Temperatures cooled but recurred storms expected through Sunday with highs near 80.
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Fletcher Chapel
Bridgewater
Orient
Corning
Adair
Wiota
U. S. Highway 6
Harold Mailander
Turkey Creek
Elliott
Red Oak
Wayne Cartrider
Ecix
Atlantic
Asa Brown
Bridgewater Dehoé
Winterset
Knoxville
Lamoni
Ottumwa
Albia
Washington
Fairfield
North English
Indianola
Burlington
Iowa City
Des Moines
Corncil Bluffs
Lamont
Council Bluffs
Escapee trio recaptured after work detail break
Anamoss- seven inmates from the state reformatory who escaped last Wednesday were returned to their cells. Chester Burke, 21, of Des Moines, was the final fugitive captured last night by Deputy Sheriff Lawrence Labarge of Jones county.
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Anamoss
Atute Reformatory
Chester Burke
Des Moines
Lawrence Labarge
Jones County
Federal Building Bill Advances to Senate for Iowa City
The House approved a bill to authorize construction of a $1,900,000 federal building in Council Bluffs Iowa and sent it to the Senate for consideration.
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Federal
Washington
House
Senate
Council Bluffs
Weather forecast notes mixed clouds and showers
Mostly cloudy through Sunday with occasional showers or storms mainly in the west and south. Temperatures steady. Monday brings scattered thunderstorms with little temperature change.
Conservation Tours Highlight Soil Week Observances
Two conservation tours are set for Sunday and Monday in Atlantic. The Atlantic Flying club and Cass soil district, with the Chamber of Commerce, will offer a Sunday air tour of soil practices using 15 planes from the Atlantic Municipal Airport. The Monday event features a forage field day at the John Olsen farm ten miles northeast of Atlantic with hay processing demonstrations and talks by Clarence Hill and Dale Hall. Noon luncheon will follow at the Wiota Methodist church where Mr. Hull will speak.
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Atlantic Flying Club
Cass Soil District Commissioners
Atlantic Chamber of Commerce
Atlantic
John 8. Olsen
Atlantic Municipal
Flying Club
Chamber of Commerce
Conservation Agencies
Olsen Farm
Clarence Hill
Minburn
Dale Hall
Iowa State College Extension
Atlantic Business
Agricultural Committee
The
Wiota Methodist Church
Hull
Democrats win congressional baseball game at Griffith Stadium
Democrats defeated Republicans 6-3 in the annual five inning congressional baseball game. The fund raising event drew 1,651 paying fans to Griffith Stadium, Washington. Proceeds will fund summer camp for underprivileged children sponsored by the Evening Star.
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Washington
Griffith Stadium
Washington Senators
Congress
Evening Star
Liquor by the drink dominates Iowa politics and Taft GOP split
Iowa politics focus on liquor by the drink with Ottumwa Mayor Herschel Loveless pushing for legalization amid church opposition. Nationally, Sen Robert A. Taft and Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower aim to craft a unified foreign policy plank to avert a party split, aided by John Foster Dulles drafting proposals.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chicago
Taft
Eisenhower
Ohio
New York
New Jersey
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Dulles
GOR
Truman
Acheson
UN Delegates Startle Reds in Korean Armistice Talks
In Panmunjom, UN truce negotiators say Russia favors voluntary repatriation of World War II prisoners. Communists press for return of allied-held prisoners, including those unwilling to go home, as talks stall after a 30 minute session. Maj. Gen. William K. Harrison cites Soviet practice of no forced repatriation. No progress after three day allied recess. next session set for 11 a.m. tomorrow.
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Munnan
Korea
United Nations
Russia
William K. Harrison
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Panmunjom
Avoca Man at Clarinda Mental Hospital Hangs Self
Herman Dittmar, 69, of Avoca, a patient at Clarinda state mental health institute, ended his life last night by hanging from a hospital ward window sash. He was admitted two years ago from Pottawattamie County. officials said he showed no signs of low mood and a ward attendant found nothing amiss an hour earlier.
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Clarinda
Herman — Dittmar
Avoca
Clarinda State Mental Health Institute
Dittmar
Pottawattamie County
Graham Scholarship Winners Announced for Atlantic High
Two Atlantic high school graduates Sidney Jones and Glenn G. Jones won the Alice L. Graham four year scholarships totaling about $500 yearly. Exams graded by University of Iowa researchers selected the top two among twenty candidates. Both winners are National Honorary Society members with four year averages above 90. Sidney earned vocal music and journalism awards while Glenn won FDR memorial v asay and Iowa Bar association citizenship honors.
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Atlantic High School
Sidney Jones
Glenn G. Jones
Graham
Georgia Byrne
Cass County
Roy Maxfield
Council Bluffs
Jrustee
Alice L. Graham
C. S. Jones
Glenn Jones
J. E. Jones
Bureau of Educational Research
University of Iowa
Duane Acker
Iowa State College
Ralph Keller
Simpson College
National Honorary Society
Iowa Bar Association
Prices Slide on Potatoes and WPI Decline
Prices drop as potato market weakness drags wholesale prices down. The government price index for the week ending June 17 falls four tenths of one percent to 111.2 percent of the 1947-49 average, marking a 3.3 percent decline since January 1951 when controls began.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics Index
California Trip Ends After Lund Family Motor Tour
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Lund and family of 00 Mulberry Street returned home after a three week motor trip to California, concluding their travels several days ago.
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California
Raymond H. Lund
Mulberry Street
Ban Lattimore Barred From Leaving U S for Soviet Visit
The state department ordered Owen Lattimore barred from leaving the United States while it investigates an allegation that he arranged for a visit to the Soviet Union or its satellites. Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins professor, has been attacked by Senator Joseph McCarthy as a red spy and architect of U S Far East policy. he denies the charges.
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Washington
State Department
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Johns Hopkins University
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
McCarthy
Truman
Baltimore Sun
United States
Department
Customs Bureau
Latiimore
U. 8
Kennan Learns Of European Conflicts In Moscow Stop
U S Ambassador George F Kennan returning from Moscow says he has learned a great deal more about east west problems but is not optimistic or pessimistic about a solution He plans talks with Secretary Acheson in London and will visit Bonn for his newborn daughter before returning to Moscow.
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Berlin
U. S
George F. Kennan
Moscow
Kennan
Adm
Alan Kirk
State Department
Dean Acheson
London
Bonn
Government backs salt water to fresh water research bill
Washington approves a bill to fund fresh water from salt water experiments with up to 1 million dollars authorized over the next five years. The measure moves back to the house for amendments.
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Washington
Senate
House
Controls Law Faces Sharp House Action
The House tentatively votes to lift price controls on most consumer goods and to reorganize the wage stabilization board. A broader extension of the defense production act prompts further changes next Wednesday, with a key vote on invoking Taft Hartley injunctions in the steel strike. Absences weaken administration votes.
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Washington
House
Wage Stabilization Board
Truman
Senate
Rep
Talle
Iowa
Chinese Stop in Savage Night Battle in Korea
Filipino infantry with U S forces beat back a reinforced Chinese regiment on a three mile western Korea sector in five hours of night fighting. The push on T Bone hill near Chorwon included tanks and heavy artillery with 3000 to 4000 Chinese attackers and 5000 plus rounds of fire before the Reds began to withdraw.
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Seoul
Korea
T Bone Hill
18Th Battalion
Chorwon
Down Payment Relaxation Yet Fails to Boost Iowa Housing
An Associated Press survey shows Iowa realtors in Marshalltown say looser down payment rules have not spurred buying. The order affects only homes built since October 1950, with 5 percent down for homes up to 7000, 40 percent for 25000 or more, and a 10-40 percent sliding scale between, plus unchanged mortgage terms and potential VA waivers for hardship.
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Associated Press
Veterans Administration
Possibility of Opening Talks in Steel Strike
Reports of high level steel industry and union figures in New York fueled talk of resumed direct negotiations in the 19 day steel strike. An industry spokesman said no meeting occurred but could not rule out phone contact. Philip Murray and Arthur Goldberg were in New York while Benjamin Fairless led U S Steel in town on routine business.
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New York
Philip Murray
CIO Steelworkers
Arthur Goldberg
Benjamin Fairless
U. S. Steel
Fairless
Murray
Gary
Ind
Harriman urged to resign as director of foreign aid
Sen. Knowland of California urged Averell Harriman to resign immediately as director of the foreign aid programs. He said Harriman should step down now to aid the mutual security program before congressional committees begin hearings on funds for the new aid program.
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Washington
Sen
Knowling
Calif
Senate Today
Averell Harriman
California
Harriman
Congressional Appropriations Committees
United States seeks U N inquiry into Soviet germ warfare charges
The U S placed Russia in the spotlight by asking the U N Security Council to sponsor an inquiry into Soviet germ warfare charges. If blocked by Russia or by China and North Korea denying access, the issue may backfire on Moscow.
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Jacob Malik
June Seaaion
UN Security Council
U. S
Korea
U.S.S.R
Council
United Nations
N. Y
United States
Russia
U.N
U.N. Security Council
Yesternday
Communista
China
North Korea
International Red Cross
Red Cross
Security Council
Matte
Ernest A. Grosa
Masterson Gets Five Year Term
John C. Masterson of Des Moines was sentenced to up to five years for stabbing Theresa OConnor at the cathedral last September. District Judge Dring Needham set bond at 7500 and ordered confinement at the Iowa men’s reformatory in Anamosa with an appeal planned to the state supreme court. He had been found insane earlier and hospitalized, later adjudged sane enough to aid his defense.
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Des Moines
John C. Masterson
St. Amerose
Dring Needham
Masterson
Iowa
Theresa O'Connor
State Psychiatric Hospital
Iowa City
Steel Union Issues Food to Striking Workers
The CIO steelworkers union began issuing food orders to hungry members amid a three week long strike led by Philip Murray. Joseph P. Molony said hundreds of idle workers asked for relief and a commissary will open at union headquarters Monday to reduce household costs for striking families.
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Pittsburgh
CIO Steelworkera
Philip Murray
Buffalo
N.Y
Joseph P. Molony
USW
Idte
New York
Molony
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Clarinda Mental Hospital
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Ban Lattimore
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