Cairo riot deaths mark Palestine tensions flare
Rioting students at Fuad I University medical school in Cairo killed Police Chief Selim Zaki Pasha with a grenade and wounded many others. Police reported three other officers dead and 18 injured as 259 students were arrested amid clashes during Dr. Ralph Bunche’s Palestine visit.
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Cairo
Egypt
Palestine
Selim Zaki Pasha
Fuad I University Medical School
Ralph Bunche
U.N
Rescue China plans would cover 3 years
Mme Chiang Kai-shek appeals for U S aid to China to halt communism with a three year program estimated at 3 billion dollars. Chinese officials present four points including U S backing, faster military aid deliveries, and sending a prominent military leader to China.
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Rescue
China
Washington
Mme
Chiang Kai-shek
United States
Wellington Koo
Truman
Mme. Chiang
Congress
State Department
Bricker Calls for Study on Federal System Trends
Detroit AP Senator Bricker of Ohio proposed a congressional commission to study the federal system. He warned of a rush to centralization toward state socialism and potential dictatorship and urged a determination if such changes are real. A four man panel linked state function failures to the growing national government.
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Detroit
Bricker
Ohio
Chuckle Cartoon About Spirit Seating At Charity Concert
A man offers to attend in spirit and is asked to choose a seat price. The young woman counters with a cheeky joke about seating options, prompting the man to agree to a two dollar ticket. The satirical exchange teases social manners at a charity event.
Three Injured in Marengo Crash
Mrs. John W. Chitwood of Oskaloosa was seriously injured in a two car collision near Marengo on highway 6. Her husband, driver of the Chitwood car, was slightly injured. Paul Hartman of Marengo, driver of the other car, suffered fractures of both legs. All were taken to Watts hospital in Marengo with Mrs. Chitwood described as serious but not critical. The Chitwood car was a Studebaker. Hartman drove a Ford.
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Marengo
John W. Chitwood
Oskaloosa
Oakdale
Highway 6
Chitwood
Paul Hartman
Watts Hospital
Studebaker
Hartman
Ford
Reds Menace Nationalists At Huai River Front Nanking
Communist forces press on along the Huai river front threatening Nanking and Shanghai while the Reds claim encirclement of 104,000 Nationalist troops. Nanking names a new military commander as officials flee and 400 percent railway fare increases are ordered for unofficial refugees.
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Nanking
Huai River
Shanghai
Chiang Kai-shek
National Defense Ministry
Pengpu
Suchow
Communist
Shensi
Huang Wei
Two Rear End Crashes in Cedar Rapids Lead to Charges
In Cedar Rapids last night two cars rear ended other vehicles. Emil Starita age 34 of 1003 Third Street SW was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after his car struck a taxicab in front of a tavern at 88 Sixteenth Avenue SW. Robert Holecek age 19 of 1138 Tenth Street SE was charged with failure to have his car under control after his car rammed the rear of Jesse L. Neathery’s vehicle at 4100 First Avenue E near Chanute Field Illinois resident Neathery had stopped to change drivers.
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Cedar Rapids
Emil Starita
Third Street
Wayne Jeffords
Ellis
Sixteenth Avenue
Starita
First Avenue E
Robert Holecek
Tenth Street SE
Jesse L. Neathery
Chanute Field
Ill
Neathery
Holecek
Sophoulis Again Directs Government of Greece
Themistocles Sophoulis aged 88 has resumed directing the Greek government from his hospital bed in Athens.
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Sophoulis
Government of
Greece
Athens
Themistocles Sophoulis
Wheel of Fire Reported Falling From Sky in Ohio
In Bellefontaine Ohio a flaming object resembling a wheel of fire fell from the sky and crashed in a residential area. Police say it smoked fiercely as it burned out and was mostly disintegrated in Patrolman Murray Ricker’s hands. Wright Field will receive the small remains.
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Ohio
Bellefontaine
A. D. Paden
Paden
Murray Ricker
Ricker
Wright Field
Air Forces
Ex- Lapene
Paden Sai
Airlift Plane Crashes in Germany Killing Three
The US air force reports an American C-54 airlift plane crashed at Fassberg in the British zone of Germany killing all three crew. The four engine Skymaster went down two miles from Fassberg two after takeoff at 12:13 a.m. CST. The accident raises American fatalities to sixteen in the Berlin airlift effort supplying the western sector under blockade.
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Berlin
United States Air Force
Fassberg
Germany
Driver Hurt as Car Hits Interurban Freight in Cedar Rapids
Jack Heiss, 23, suffered severe facial injuries when his car collided with a northbound interurban freight at Cold Stream avenue and Madison street NE. Heiss, in fair condition at St Luke's hospital, told officers another passenger rode with him but was let out before impact. Police and sheriff pursued the freight but later stopped the search.
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Oedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Jack Heiss
St. Luke’s Hospital
M Avenue NE
Heiss
Cold Stream Avenue
Madison Street
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Linn County Sheriff's Office
Harlan Snyder
Snyder
Interur
Cash mystery of $21 746 solved by city and county officials
Linn County Attorney William Crissman and City Detective Capt. Frank Bukacek and Dell Corzally reported the $21 746.86 cash found in a gunny sack was Connallys uncles money. They said no charges will be filed and the funds will be returned to Corrallys possession and placed in a safety deposit.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn
William Crissman
Frank Bukacek
Dell Corzally
Second Avenue
Cornally
Harrington
Ireland
Joe
Peoples Bank and Trust Company
Bukacek
Robbery on Dark Street Nabs Man in Greenville
Two assailants grabbed San Parker on a dark side street Friday night. They demanded money and fled after taking one dollar and two dimes. Police search for suspects.
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Greenville, S
San Parker
Bavees
Quake Hits Southern California From Ventura to San Diego
A strong but less damaging quake centered near the Coachella desert rattled Southern California from Ventura to San Diego. It disrupted Palm Springs bottling shops and bars, toppled glass, forced theater evacuations, and halted the Long Beach clock as moviegoers fled. The elephant Sasa at Griffith Park Zoo miscarried, and Pasadena area observatories reported no damage. The quake began at 5 44 p m CST and lasted over a minute with heavy activity in Hollywood and Arcadia.
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Los Angeles
California
Ventura
San Diego
Long Beach
Palm Springs
Griffith Park Zoo
Coachella Desert
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Beaumont
India
Desert
Hollywood
Union Pacific
Sasa
Robert Allen
Palomar Observatory
Daily Report
Ontario
Calif
Arcadia
Inglewood
Charge Secret Red Army in U S Drilling
The House Committee on American Activities says about 800 Moscow trained American Communists are high officers of a hidden army drilled to overthrow the government. It cites Lenin School in Moscow as a training source and warns of Communist control of schools from nursery to college.
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Washington
The
House
American Activities Committee
United States
Lenin School
Moscow
Lenin
Chambers reveals microfilm in pumpkin spurs reopen probes
Washington reports two Communist espionage inquiries ordered resumed after Whittaker Chambers turned over microfilmed copies of top secret State Department documents stolen a decade ago. The evidence, hidden in a Maryland farm pumpkin, prompts hearings Tuesday and grand jury action in New York Monday.
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Washington
Maryland
State Department
Moscow
House un-American Activities Committee
Whittaker Chambers
Laura Thompson Retired Principal Dies in Cedar Rapids
Laura Thompson 72, former principal of Johnson school, died at 8 15 p m Friday in St Luke s hospital Cedar Rapids. Born Sept 4 1876 in Cedar Rapids she taught at Harrison Fillmore and Taylor schools and retired in 1946. Survived by brother Robert preceded in death. services pending Turner funeral home.
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Laura Thompson
Johnson School
St. Luke’s Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Miss Thompson
Madison School
Washington High School
Coe College
University of Iowa
Chicago University
Harrison School
Fillmore
Taylor
Cedar
Eastern Star
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Principals and Supervisors Club
First Avenue
Robert Thompson
Turner Funeral Home
Five White Men Held in Slaying of Negro in Georgia
Five Lyons, Georgia men were arrested on murder suspicion in the ambush slaying of Black man Robert Mallard on November 20 near Lyons. Capt. Delmar Jones announced the arrests naming Clifton, Howell, James Spivey, Herschel Sikes, and Barney Sikes all of Lyons. Mallard was shot twice and the widow Amy James Mallard reported robed attackers.
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Lyons
Robert Mallard
Mellard
Amy James Mallard
Delmar Jones
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Robert Heene
Toombs Grand
Jones
J. Roderick Clifton
William Lamar Howell
James Spivey
Herschel Sikes
Barney Sikes
T. Ross Sharp
Grand Jury
Mallard
Ku Klux Klan
Samuel Green
Atlanta
Cleveland
Ohio
Georgia
Caian
Joseph M. Goldwasser
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Goldwasser
Savannah
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