Religious Rites Mark Good Friday Across the World
Associated Press reports Holy Week observances as Christians marked Good Friday. In Jerusalem pilgrims traveled the Via Dolorosa amid Palestine tensions while Rome’s St Peter’s hosted thousands for presanctified ceremonies. Chiang Kai-shek led prayers in Formosa as Pope Pius XII prepared Easter mass and a 500000 crowd gathered outside St. Peter’s. Across the United States and abroad, churches held devotions and traders closed for a noon to 3 p.m. period.
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Jury Indicts Nursing Home Operator in Iowa
Ada E. King, 54, operator of the King Nursing Home in Cedar Rapids, pleads innocent to embezzling 226.50 from a patient between January 5 1948 and January 30 1950. Bond set at 1500. Grand jury also recommended license revocation amid reports of patient abuse and substandard conditions at 214 Eighth Street SE.
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Ada E. King
King Nursing Home
Eighth Street SE
Jim Smith
Meda Dennison
Ena Ford
Petitioners Seek Incorporation of Town Hiawatha
Forty six residents petition Linn county district court Thursday asking incorporation of a new town called Hiawatha located about a mile north of Cedar Rapids along highway 150. The process would appoint five commissioners who must set an election on incorporation and residents would vote. Leaders include Fay M. Clark and Midwest Oil Company operators with many local residents named on the petition.
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Wilhemina Ross
Milton Carter
Albert A. Saling
Earl L. Strachen
Dale E. Hefflefinger
Jeannette
James Fass
Velma I. Carter
Kenneth C
Hazel Fosnacht
Lillian Saling
Anna Mae
Henry Wesley Severe
Andrew
Ruth R. Smith
Leland L
Madonna Wilson
Mildred R
Leonard W. Lacy
Kansas City Slayings linked to underworld politics
Police probe the murder of Political Leader Charles Binaggio and aide Gargotta in Kansas City. Officials said no weapon was found at the First District Democratic club as authorities question over 20 people. National and state figures reacted, linking the killings to crime and politics in Missouri.
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Walter Huston Dies at 66 in Hollywood
Hollywood reports veteran actor Walter Huston died Friday at the Beverly Hills Hotel from a blood clot. He was 66. His son John Huston, who directed him in The Treasure of Sierra Madre, was at his side. Huston’s wife Nan is in New York and will return to Hollywood immediately.
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New York
Truman Pitches Expanded Jobless Insurance Plan
President Truman urged Congress to extend unemployment coverage to 6 million more workers and raise benefits with a 30 dollar weekly minimum for up to 26 weeks. Taxes on employers would rise to cover the expanded program as Republicans attacked the proposal while some Democrats supported it.
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Acheson and Dulles Set for Joint Policy Review
Secretary of State Acheson and new Republican adviser John Foster Dulles will meet soon to assign Dulles the foreign policy tasks he will handle. Ambassador-at-large Philip C. Jessup will lead an advance party to Europe for London talks with Bevin Schuman and NATO ministers to broaden Cold War alliance aims.
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Mass Walkout At LaPlant Choate Factory By 400 Workers
About 400 workers at LaPlant Choate Manufacturing walked out after a 7 am union meeting. Union says not a strike just a work stoppage while pay checks were collected. Negotiations with Local 116 of the Farm Equipment Workers continue with wage and seniority issues on the table. The local, once CIO affiliated, was ousted previously.
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Lattimore Defends China Views and Korea Policy
In congressional testimony Senator Hickenlooper presses Owen Lattimore on U.S. strategy in China and Korea. Lattimore says Chinese Communists are Moscow loyalists, argues for ending aid to Korea, supports recognizing Red China, and backs continuing U.S. relations with Japan under existing occupation policies.
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Iowa
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Douglas MacArthur
Linn Democrats pick Petro for Cedar Rapids postmaster
Des Moines reports Iowa party officials announced Elbie R. Petro as the Linn county recommendation for the Cedar Rapids postmastership at a meeting with party leaders. The advisory committee had preferred Milo J. Sedlacek but followed Civil Service rules giving veteran Petro priority among top certified candidates.
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Elbie R. Petro
Cedar Rapids
Linn County Democratic
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa Democratic
Jake More
Second District
Linn County
Petro
Milo J. Sedlacek
Sedlacek
Civil Service Commission
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Roy K. Stoddard
Fred J. Poyneer
Poyneer
Mohr Found Guilty in Mercy Killing of Brother
Harold Mohr is convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the mercy killing of his cancer-stricken brother Walter at their Coplay home. A jury recommends mercy. judge delays sentence pending appeal.
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Harold Mohr
James F. Henninger
Harry C. Creveling
Henninger
Mohr
Ralph
Coplay
Raymond
Kenneth H. Koch
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Walter
Koch
Harold
Cold Easter Sunday Forecast for Iowa With Snow Risk
The forecast calls for a cold Easter Sunday in Iowa with possible snow and a disagreeable Saturday rain or snow and lower temperatures. Friday is the warmest day so far at 65 degrees, with a previous high of 64 on April 2. Expected readings include Friday night lows of 22 to 27 in north Iowa and 28 to 35 in the south, Saturday highs 28 to 38, Saturday night lows 20 to 25, and Sunday highs 25 to 30. Normal highs are 54 to 60 and lows 32 to 37.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Submarine Sightings Reported Off California Coast
An unidentified submarine was seen off the California coast, prompting an immediate navy air search south of San Luis Obispo. Reports to the western sea frontier in San Francisco place the vessel about one mile offshore inside the three mile U.S. limit.
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