Wilson Plant Still Closed By Walkout
Mass walkout at Wilson and Company Cedar Rapids plant deepens as upwa cio locals threaten sympathy strikes at Albert Lea Faribault Chicago Omaha and Kansas City. Cedar Rapids leaders meet Friday to discuss the dispute while unions nationwide pledge support and a return-to-work plan stalls over contract terms.
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Cedar Rapids
Wilson
Nemec
George Scurlock
Wilson Union
UPWA
Midwest
Los Angeles
Wilson Upwa
Albert Lea, Minn
Robert Hayes
John Walden
Scurlock
Albert Lea
Faribault
Minn
Chicago
Omaha
Kansas City
Associated Press
Joseph Millen
Millen
Steven Benjamin
Faribault Upwa-Cio
Cedar Rapids to Sell Memorial Stadium Bonds September 18
Cedar Rapids city council will sell two hundred thousand dollars in Memorial stadium bonds on September 18 to fund the west side recreation area improvement. The plan aims for a debt free stadium by September 1, 1958 with bids for construction sought by mid September.
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Cedar Rapids News
Memorial Stadium
Cedar Rapids
West Side Recreation Area
Wrong Bank Paid Couple Homeless in Cleveland Case
Psychiatrists were asked to examine elderly couple after a mortgage error left them homeless. Stephen Zivich and Pauline Zivich said they sent payments by money order to the wrong bank, which returned them. Foreclosure followed, forcing them from their home. hearing postponed to Sept 12.
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Cleveland
John Busher
Stephen Zivich
Pauline
Zivich
Presser
Hot Weather Returns to Iowa With Highs in the Nineties
The Des Moines weather bureau forecasts mid-ninety temperatures for Thursday and Friday across Iowa. Cedar Rapids hit 95 at 230 pm, Spencer reached 93 as the warmest place, with humid conditions and a passing cold front expected to moderate peaks later.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Spencer
Inwood
Chambers
Mercury
Water meter reader fined by ghost readings saga
In Phoenix a meter reader is blamed for wildly fluctuating bills as a 400 percent rise prompts protests. The saga centers on Milton M. Lemieux who stayed home May and June and guessed readings, with July undercharges corrected by a second reader.
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Phoenix
Ariz
City Water Department
Jessie Rice
Joe Thurman
Milton M. Lemieux
Lewis Journal Attacks Truman Over Mine Director Appointment
John L. Lewis and the AFL United Mine Workers Journal condemn President Truman for recess appointing James Boyd as director of the Bureau of Mines. Boyd, sworn in at $10,000 a year, awaits Senate confirmation when it reconvenes. The Journal accuses Krug and cites mine disaster concerns.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Truman
AFL United Mine Workers Journal
James Boyd
Colorado
Bureau of Mines
Boyd
Senate
Lewis
Interior Krug
Krug
United States
Girl Jumps from Bridge in Tantrum
Dorothy Leib, 20, leaped from a viaduct in Omaha after threatening to jump when refused money for a nightclub. Escort Donald E. Harris, 32, said she jumped between two railroad tracks after the offer was declined. Leib was hospitalized with a possible fractured vertebra.
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Omaha
INS
Dorothy Leib
Tojo testifies wartime decision to wage war on Dec 1 1941
In Tokyo Hideki Tojo testifies at his war crimes trial that Japan's national will for war was decided on December 1 1941 and that no orders for war were issued by him before that date. He speaks via defense read interrogation during the proceedings against Tojo and 24 other Japanese suspects.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Tojo
Hirohito
35 Perish in Norse Flying Boat Crackup
Oslo reports a British built Sandringham flying boat crashed in the Lofoten mountains killing 35 aboard. Among the dead are a Norwegian chief inspector Jarle Ebbesen and Capt. Buer the chief pilot. Weather suspected, no overload.
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Oslo
Lofoten
Sandringham
Stavanger O
Tromsoe
Buer
Jarle Ebbesen
Jess
Jan Reims
Svobodne Vovini
Tatjana Selingerova
Narona Boroda
G. Heine
British War Bride Freed in Fort Walton Death
Crestview Florida AP reports county grand jury freed Graydon Poland 21 a British war bride in the fatal shooting of her American soldier husband at Fort Walton on July 24 She said she will first try to get her baby back and had claimed she shot her husband after he took their 16 month old son and sent him to relatives in Kentucky
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Crestview
Fla
Graydon Poland
Fort Walton
Isle of Man
Kentucky
Mrs Loew Aids Man Who Looted Her Parked Car
In Boston the former army chaplain Rev Samuel Tyler aided David C Amaral a 24 year old nightclub MC who surrendered on a charge of looting Mrs David Loews parked car He stole a suitcase with 500 dollars of clothing and 42000 dollars of jewelry was overlooked The clothing and suitcase were returned and Amaral was bailed with Mrs Loews support She praised the young man and the clergy help as a path to reform.
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Boston
INS
David C. Amaral
David Loew
Amaral
Loew
Milton
Samuel Tyler
Trinity Church
Rare Special Freight Tricks Driver at Laverne Crossing
In Laverne Minnesota farmer Sievert Aning says a Rock Island special freight train backed into his car after he parked across the tracks believing no train was due. Aning complains he was double crossed by the unscheduled night freight that ran through town contrary to expectations.
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Laverne, Minn
Rock Island Railroad
President Urges Strength To Deter All Aggressors
President Truman, via taped message read to the American Legion, calls for universal military training and total defense to deter aggressors. He notes veterans face high prices and housing shortages hindering readjustment and urges action on housing affordability.
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Truman
Dewey Backs Universal Military Training Plan
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey told the American Legion convention that a program involving participation by all able bodied young men under universal military training is necessary for national defense and world obligations. He warned peace is farther away and urged bipartisan consultation in foreign policy.
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New York
Thomas E. Dewey
American Legion Convention
Dewey
American Legion
G.O.P
United Nations
U S
Lincoln MacVeagh
Dwight Griswold
U. S
Greece
Constantin Tsaldaris
Themistocles Sophoulis
Congress
Maximos Chosen Greek Premier Returns to Post
Demetrios Maximos was named Greek premier on Thursday night and will return to the post he vacated Saturday. Constantin Tsaldaris may become foreign minister and Generalissimo Alexander Papagos likely minister of war, with talks of a coalition to curb foreign influence. Dwight Griswold urged unity to secure Greece from external pressure as the American aid mission pushes for a united government.
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Athens
Demetrios Maximos
Constantin Tsaldaris
Alexander Papagos
Papagos
Maximos
Dwight Griswold
Greece
Hunt Started for Vicious Dog Pack
Farmers and townspeople began tracking down 13 of 40 fighting pit bulls menacing children and livestock southeast of Milan Illinois. Art Schmoll of Geneseo was named in a disorderly conduct warrant issued Wednesday as 27 dogs have been killed or captured and chickens and livestock were reported prey.
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Milan, I
Quadcity
Here
Art Schmoll
Geneseo
Ill
Schmoll
Green calls for McCann’s ouster over Padway assault
AFL President William Green urged Speaker Martin to dismiss Irving McCann from the house labor committee after McCann allegedly assaulted Federation Counsel Joseph A. Padway during a Hollywood hearing. Green linked the attack to alleged Gestapo tactics and cautioned that McCann’s continued services would imply committee approval of the conduct.
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Washington
AFL
William Green
Federation
Joseph A. Padway
House Labor Committee
Padway
Green
Martin
Irving McCann
McCann
Hollywood
Youthful Couple Are Found Slain in Omaha Mystery
The sheriff identified the slain couple near Boys Town as R. L. May and his wife of about 24 and 22 years old, linking May to a Virginia bus-line owner. Identification came from a ring inscription and the wife from a driver’s license. Police checked with Alexandria, confirming possible familial ties and residency.
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Omaha
Sheriffs Office
Boys Town
R. L. May
Alexandria
May
Crowd Tries to Storm U.N. Gate at Lake Success
More than 30 protesters led by two Egyptian extremists attempted to march through the United Nations front gate at Lake Success during an Anglo Egyptian debate. Assistant Chief John Cosgrove halted the scuffle and spoke them down, shouting You cant do this.
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Lake
United Nations
Security Council
John Cosgrove
U.N
Papal Reply To Truman Letter Publishes Moral Clash Over Peace
In public letters, President Truman urges united moral forces against tyranny, while Pope Pius XII warns that excluding God from state rights reduces man to slavery. The Vatican released the exchange via Myron Taylor, noting mutual commitment to peace and human dignity.
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Rome
Truman
Pius XII
Vatican
Myron Taylor
Taylor
Blast Hits Plant of Standard Oil in Whiting Indiana
An explosion rocked aStandard Oil Company of Indiana plant in Whiting causing a loss of 24,000 barrels per day in crude oil processing. One worker, Julius Kopaz, 52, is missing as flames were fought. three workers were slightly injured. Damage estimated at 575,000 and the blow came after a similar 24,000 barrel loss from a prior fire three weeks earlier.
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Whiting, Ind
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Julius Kopaz
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