Iowa Corn Bulletin Reports 75 Percent Silked Statewide
Iowa corn progress remains ahead of last year with 75 percent silked by last Saturday and 8 8 percent tasseled. Southern two thirds show 75 to 90 percent silked while north central and northeast about 60 percent. Oats 89 percent bound or combined. soybeans blooming with good growth. forage increasing and fall pasture promising.
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Des Moines
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Iowa
Bulletin
Norte
Prince
Fall Pass
Unseasonably Cool Weather Dominates Iowa Week
Cedar Rapids reports cool spell as Cedar Rapids and Decorah record lows around 40 degrees. Rain sweeps the southwest, with officials predicting the dreary pattern to continue through the week. Highs reach around 75 in Des Moines yesterday while Tuesday afternoon sees about 72 degrees.
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Cedar
Iowa
Decorah
Cedar Rapids
Tenants sue landlady over damage and odd claims
Nine rooming house tenants file a $50,000 damage suit in Los Angeles alleging their landlady damaged property and even slept in the only bathtub in the house. The suit contends over-ceiling tent entanglements and other misdeeds by the landlady.
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Los Angeles
Wallet Return Request Prompts Public Recognition
A country newspaper ad reports a man who found a wallet on Walnut Street was identified. He is urged to return the wallet, with a note promising forthcoming publication of the recognized man’s name and a call to contact the home life department.
Unis Lens Plant Clash as National Guard Reinforces
In Dayton 400 protesters surged to the Univis Lens plant gate as Ohio guardsmen with a Sherman tank armored car bayonets and tear gas moved in. The plant reopened after a 90 day strike by United Electrical Workers. No injuries reported.
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Wleahote
Univisiens Company
Rayton
Ohio National Guardsmen
Dayton
National Guard
Acien
Univis Lens Company
Ohio
United Electrical Workers
Thomas J. Herbert
George Beateries
President Flies Back to Capital from Independence Trip
President returns to Washington from Independence Missouri after a campaign weekend. He lands at National Airport at 12 20 p m and heads to the capital for upcoming primaries.
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Washington
Capital
Ine Dependence
Wees
Fat National
Dallas woman leads meat price boycott movement
In Dallas a grandmother, Mrs. R. D. Vaughn, launches a one week buyers strike against high prices. The campaign spreads to Orange, Austin, Waco and Corpus, with Vaughn directing calls to 320 local directories. Store managers warn of market closures if profits decline.
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Vaughn
Dallas Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Orange
Austin
Waco
Corpus Lloyd King
One Cent Per Pack Cigarettes Suggested by Cedar Rapids Group
The Cedar Rapids Cigaret Dealers Association will likely advise a one cent per pack increase for cigarettes. Suggested prices include two for forty cents and $1.75 per carton for popular brands. Board member Bob Claxton cites a seven cent per carton wholesale rise as justification. The group, formed in the Thirties, has no dues or official membership but represents over 300 cigaret license holders.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar Saplas Retail Cigaret Dealers “Association
Bob Claxton
Cedar Rapids Tobacco
P. Lorillard 2Nd Company
Retailers’ Association
Oil Strike Clears Man. Worth Millions Restitution Paid
George Leingang, previously convicted in 1944 of grand theft over valueless oil property in the Cuyama valley, testified of a rich strike now leaving him near a million dollars. He has paid the two men $6,500 restitution each as the court ordered the record wiped from the books.
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Los Angeles
George Leingang
J. Leingang
Cuyama Valley
Leingang
Berlin clash as crowds stone Soviet police in occupied city
Berlin reports note Chinese? No. German civilians stoned Soviet police in the Russian sector after attempts to pursue black market traders crossing into the British sector. One policeman was injured as crowds confronted police. varying accounts from Telegraf and Berliner Zeitung describe passersby aiding a trader and attacking police. Tension remains between Russian and Western sectors amid currency talks in Moscow.
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Telegraf
Berliner Zeitung
The
Zeitung
Phe
Middie
Johannes,Strumm
Paul Markgraf
School Board Debates Pay and Budget in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids school board unanimously adopted a proposed 1949-50 budget totaling 2,744,583. A contentious discussion followed over teaching experience credit for war service and overtime for salaried clerks. Attorney Edgar L. King urged extending veteran service credit to more teachers, including Klumper, a Franklin football coach and Navy veteran, as Superintendent Clyde Parker warned it would be costly and open-ended. The matter, referred to the educational committee, ended with a warning from Klumper that higher pay may be needed to attract talent.
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Cedar Rapids
E. W. Lundquist
Edgar L. King
King
Emil Klumper
Franklin High
Des Moines
Klumper
Navy
Parker
Wacs
Waves
Rides
Areca
Express Iy Rs
Dwight Krumholtz
Carl] Kesler
Educational Committee
Charles Penningroth
Klumpar
Stalin Talks With Stalinists? Diplomats Seek Next Move
Western diplomats led by Walter Smith Frank Roberts and Yves Chataigneau met Premier Stalin at the Kremlin for over two hours to discuss settlement of the Berlin crisis. Secretive briefing said progress was made as envoys prepared reports to Washington London and Paris. A possible September foreign ministers meeting in Paris was floated amid speculation of a high level Stalin Truman Attlee conference.
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Washington
London
Paris
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Britain
France
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Berlin
Walter B. Smith
Yves Chataigneau
Frank Roberts
Pa Tan
Molotov
Russia
United Nations Assembly
As¢To
Truman
Attlee
Marie
Dog Keeps Vigil Over Man's Cap Near Pershing Monument
A black and white mongrel dog has guarded a South Omaha department store cap since Friday near the Pershing monument by the Missouri River. James Keir, head of the nearby water plants, says the dog is friendly but refuses to release the cap. The cap’s owner remains unknown and may have met with misfortune in the river.
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Omaha
INS
Missouri River
South Omaha
James Keir
Bae
Keir
At Least He Cleared Up Another Case for Them
In Tokyo police questioned a Hiroshima neighbor about an arson case but the suspect denied starting any fire. He admitted robbing a bank messenger last week, claiming half a million yen, and provided details on the robbery weeks that had stumped investigators.
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Tokyo
Hiroshima
Hiss Endorses Marshall Plan At Cedar Rapids Confab
Whittaker Chambers named Alger Hiss as a pre war Communist underground member spoke at a Cedar Rapids luncheon of the Mid Continent World Trade Conference on February 14. Hiss urged strong European economic aid under the Marshall plan saying the five percent margin should be available to Europe and that grants may be needed to avoid heavy debt for Europe and to keep U.S. economy stable.
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Whittaker Chambers
Cedar Rapids
Hiss
Europe
United States
Prague Charges U S Plot Role In Slaying Attempt
Prague accuses a man of plotting to kill defense minister Gen Budvik Svoboda with a plan allegedly laid out in the presence of about a dozen American airmen and CI0 officers. The briefing, reported to the U S embassy, ties an assault on Svoboda and the murder of Maj Augustin Stam to American personnel involvement. Authorities say 79 people were questioned in the case as Milan Choc fled to Czechoslovakia with prior knowledge from a CIA officer.
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Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry
Budvik Svoboda
United Stats
Svoboda
Augustin Stam
Czechoslovak Nata
Milan Choc
Sram
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Counter-Intelligence ‘Corps
Regenburg
CI. O
Willy
Straubingorce
Miroslav Barak
Barak
Auto
Tax Villa
Packers in Pact with Cudahy
The CIO Packinghouse Workers union announced a new one year no wage increase contract with the Cudahy Packing Company. The agreement begins after the old contract expires August 11 and includes a reopening clause for wage talks, irrevocable dues checkoff, and double time for holidays with eight hours straight-time pay.
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Chicago
Cro United ,Packinghouse Workers Union
Cudahy Packing Company
Swift and Company
Ralph Helstein
Cudahy
Swift
CIO Bars Use of Name for Wallace
Washington report says the CIO forbids members from using its name to solicit funds for Henry Wallace’s Progressive party. Minnesota and California members campaigning for Wallace have been ordered to stop. CIO President Philip Murray frames the rule as applicable only to its own Political Action Committee.
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Washington
CIO
Henry Wallace
Progressive Party
Minnesota
Wallace
California
Philip Murray
Ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers names four prewar agents
Washington report says Chambers testified before the house unAmerican activities committee that Alger Hiss Lee Pressman Nathan Witt and others formed an underground aimed at getting Reds on the federal payroll for infiltration. Hiss denied meetings with Chambers. Whitman also raised a senate inquiry into Remington’s loyalty and possible espionage ties while noting atomic bomb secrets.
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