Gillette Holds Line in Fight Over Switser Nomination
Senator Gillette faces President Truman in a clash over Carroll Switser to the federal bench in Iowa. Gillette cites training and background gaps while pledging Senate scrutiny and a July 5 hearing. The dispute echoes past battles and regional political dynamics. A new pathologist, Dr. William E. Youland, joins Cherokee hospital staff. Officers of the SCS were installed at Buck Creek Methodist Church.
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Washington
Gillette
Truman
Ilona
Gisette
Iowa
Carroll O. Switser
McCarran
Senate Judiciary Committee
Kilgore
D-W.v
Eastland
Dem.Mies
Wiley
R-Wis
Langer
R-N.d
Switser
Des Moines
Ofrggwa
le Fe
Mme
Feders” Bench
FDR
Roosevelt
Senate
Roosevelt Supreme Court
Senator Hickenlooper
Iewa
Switzer
Missouri
Virginia
Viginia
Cerokee
Cherokee State Hospital
William E. Youland
New York
New York Medical College
SCS
s@urces
Buck Creek Methodist Church
Weather Outlook Partly Cloudy with Evening Thunder Showers
Partly cloudy skies with occasional thunder showers tonight and in the eastern portion Tuesday. Cooler temperatures expected as a cold front passes.
Egg Laying by Borers Passes Peak
Cass county extension director Harry Codlin notes the peak of egg laying by corn borers has passed and spraying nearly over. Rains aided some in destroying eggs on late corn, but early planted corn remains at risk. a second brood is due in August on late crops.
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Harry Codlin
Cass County Extension
Codlin
Effie Davidson Dies at 67 in Des Moines
Mrs. Effie Davidson 67 of 708 Hickory street died at 11 p.m. Saturday at Avenue nursing home in Des Moines after several years of ill health. She was born in Des Moines on February 7 1882 and leaves her mother Mrs. C W Pawley and brothers Merle Pawley George Pawley and Arthur Pawley. The body rests at Roland Peacock Baxter funeral home with rites pending.
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Effie Davidson
Hickory Street
The
Avenue Nursing Home
Des Moines
Roland, Peacock & Baxter
C. W. Pawley
Merle Pawley
George Pawley
South Pasadena
Floods Displace 25000 in Chile as Rivers Overflow
Torrential rains flood southern Chile driving about 25 000 from homes. Cuorno and Llanquihu suffer city floods and rail service is paralyzed as two rivers burst their banks.
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Santiago
Chile
Cuorno
Llanquihu
Final stages in Hess and Coplon trials at federal court
In Washington and New York the trials of Alger Hiss and Judith Coplon moved toward completion as defense witnesses ended their cases The government pressed rebuttal in Coplon with two witnesses while Hiss faced cross examination His wife Priscilla is to testify The unrelated Communist leaders case continued with jurors hearing a Karl Marx article read aloud and a note linking Coplon to AMTORG and geophones for bomb tests
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Associated Press
Judith Coplon
Alger Hiss
Washington
Mies Coplon
Justice Department
New York
Hiss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Mice
Liope Paul Striker
Priscilla
Gilbert Green
Illinois
Communist Party
Karl Marx
Green
U. S
Coplon
Arthur Shimkin
East Orange
N. J
Simon &Gehuster
John L. Chambliss
Arlington
Geophysical Research Corporation
Shimkin
Miss Coplon
Chambliss
Amtorg
Beattie Confesses Slaying of Four Year Old Walter Eaton
Lansing police Inspector Paul Taylor says Dudley Beatty 29 unemployed factory worker confessed to killing four year old Walter Eaton with a beer bottle. Cass county Red Cross annual meeting set for Tuesday at 8 in the courthouse assembly room with reports due and officers to be elected.
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Lansing
Mich
Paul Taylor
Dudley Beatty
Walter Eaton
Cass County Red Cross
Court House
Amelia Kirchoff Dies at 85 on Farm Near Fletcher Chapel
Amelia Kirchoff 85 died 11:30 p.m. Saturday at her son George Kirchoff’s farm home near Fletcher chapel after years of ill health. Born January 11 1864 in Germany she came to the U S at age nine with parents Wilhelm and Augustina Knaak. She married Ernest Zinders in 1891 then William Kirchoff in 1899. he died in 1899. Survived by sons George Walter Kirchoff Atlantic and Albert Zinders Lewis daughter Etta Wheatly Lewis seven grandsons two granddaughters two brothers August Knaake Fred Wills two sisters Caroline Gaulke Ricka Kessell preceded her in death. Member Lewis Methodist church. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p m at Roland Peacock Baxter funeral home Rev Peter Trucano Henderson Methodist Church officiating with interment Oakwood cemetery Lewis. From Denver Miss Marie Hopke arrived to visit relatives.
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Amelia Kirchoff
George Kirchoff
Fletcher Chapel
Kirchoff
Germany
Wilhelm and
Augustina Knaak
Peoria
Ill
Ernest Zinders
William Kirchoff
George
Walter Kirchoff
Atlantic
Albert Zinders
Lewis
Etta Wheatly
August Knaake
Fred Wills
Caroline Gaulke
Ricka Kessell
Audubonite Chairs Sixth Annual Texas Town Picnic
More than 350 Iowans from 60 towns gathered in Marshalltown for the sixth annual picnic of the Texas Town tourists. Fran Mereed Audubon presided as chairman assisted by Ottumwa’s Mrs. Roy Johnson as secretary. Mantz noted about 3,000 Iowans winter in the Rio Grande valley and attend the McAllen, Texas picnic each year.
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Marshalltown
Lews Towns
Texas
Pth Main
Fran Mereed Audubon
Roy Johnson
Ottumwa
Mantz
Rio Grande Valley
McAllen
Four Die in Iowa Traffic Mishaps
Four people died in Iowa over the weekend in separate traffic incidents. A head on collision on Highway 30 near LeGrand killed Mrs. Alma Kilmer 76 of Lauderdale Fla and her husband Adett Kilmer 76 who was hospitalized in Marshalltown with critical injuries. Mrs. John E Gustason 27 of Tatra died of a broken neck in a Marshalltown hospital. Andrew Hogg 64 of Clinton died in a Davenport hospital from injuries after his car hit a bridge near Wilton. Luis Wooten 75 of near Clarion died at home from injuries after falling from a haystack ten days earlier.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Highway
LeGrand
John E. Gustason
Tatra
Marshalltown
Alma Kilmer
Lauderdale
Fla
Adett Leslie Kilmer
Andrew Hogg
Clinton
Davenport
Wilton
Hogg
Iowa Bureau of Labor
Luis Wooten
Clarion
Await Decision on Strategy for Arms Program
Washington officials awaited a White House decision on timing for the Western Europe arms program tied to the Atlantic pact. The plan envisions a $100 million revolving credit to help Latin American nations buy U.S. military equipment, used for advance financing and repaid in cash upon delivery. President Truman was expected to signal timing during today’s talks with House and Senate leaders.
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Washington
White House
Congress
Truman
House
Senate
United States
United Staes National Defense Establishment
Secretary of Defense
Girl 14 Drowns at Crystal Pool in Council Bluffs
Theresa Stazzoni of Council Bluffs, aged 14, drowned late yesterday at Crystal Pool while learning to swim. Lifeguards and emergency crews worked for two hours. coroner Stanley Woodring noted the pool was crowded and questioned how the tragedy occurred.
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Council Bluffs
Theresa Stazsoni
Crystal Pool
Ray Stazzoni
Stanley Woodring
Still No Convictions After 51 Grim Stories Of Recent Violence
A 51 story survey across Alabama Tennessee and Georgia describes lynchings flogging cross burnings and bombings with no convictions recorded. The violence centers in Blue Hills Chattanooga Birmingham and nearby towns with victims mainly Black, officials heed calls for action and federal probes are opened.
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Dixie
Atlanta
Alabama
Tennessee
Georgia
Gange
Blue Hills
Chattanooga
Tenn
Alabama Senate
House For
James E. Folsom
Night Riders
Birmingham
counterfeiters operate near white house in washington
secret service seized nearly 100000 dollars in counterfeit bills from an office suite at 1807 H street northwest near the white house and treasury headquarters. four men and a woman were arrested for manufacturing and passing the notes, with limited success as notes circulated briefly in multiple cities before returning to Washington.
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Washington
Secret Service
White House
Treasury
H Street
Northwest
World Bank
Eugene Hammon Creighton
Walter Wilbur Kidwell
William P
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Memphis
Dallas
Fort Worth
Atlanta
Richmond
Baltimore
Roosevelt Leads New York Mayoral Preference Poll
New York Daily News straw poll shows Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr winning with 3,011 votes of 7,500 cast or 40.1 percent. Brooklyn's John Cashmore places second with 11.5 percent.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
New York Daily News
Roosevelt
Brooklyn
John Cashmore
Hickenlooper backs Iowa probe of atomic energy panel
U S Senator B B Hickenlooper said his investigation into the atomic energy commission shows signs of success and 10 to 1 Iowa support. He warned of two areas with different views and urged non political farm policy while backing Hoover commission reforms. He labeled critics of the inquiry as red herrings and warned of potential disaster if laxities remain.
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Des Moines
U. S
B. B. Hickenlooper
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Hickenlooper
Lewa
Iowa
Switser Hickenlooper
Gillette
D-la
Truman
Darrell O. Switser
Hoover Commission
Senate
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
L. E. Gaines Dies Longtime Dexter Firm Leader
Fairfield obituary notes L. E. Gaines aged 82, longtime president of the Dexter Washing Machine Co. from 1911 move, resigning in 1948 for health. Born in Fairfield, he died after a long illness. Survived by widow and two sons.
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Fairfield
L. J. Gaines
Dexter Washing Machine Co
W. H. George
Dexter, Ia
Gaines
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