Big Three call on Reds to negotiate for peace
The Big Three Eisenhower Churchill and Laniel urged Russia to discuss peace in Europe and Asia. They announced plans for an early Big Four foreign ministers meeting in Berlin and continued efforts toward German unification, Austrian independence, and a Korean political conference.
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John M. Hightower
Tucker’s Town
Bermuda
Kremlin
Europe
Asia
Eisenhower
Churchill
Laniel
Russia
Berlin
Germany
Austria
Far East
Southeast Asia
indeNrce
Malenkov
Bidault
Lindquist Wins Citizenship Bid After Deportation Drop
Ernest Ole Lindquist a Sweden native who spent 42 years in an Iowa prison won a drop of deportation charges and plans to seek U S citizenship. An immigration board review may still occur but the case ends a long fight beginning after his 1905 arrival and prior pardons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Ernest “Ole” Lindquist
Iowa
Lindquist
Sweden
Immigration Department
Country
Beardsley
Carroll
Iowa Pardon Board
Idaho
Presidio
Queen Lets Go Of Fort Belvidere Windsor Dwelling
Buckingham Palace announced Queen Elizabeth II will relinquish Fort Belvidere an eighteenth century mansion near Windsor once linked to the Duke of Windsor abdication and now a derelict ruin transferred to crown lands officials. The property once famed as the duke and duchess home and after 1929 featured a refurbished interior and outdoor pool remains unoccupied since his departure in 1936.
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London
Elizabeth II
Fort Belvidere
Duke of Windsor
Crown
Buckingham Palace
Commissioners For Crown Lands
Windsor
Amish Jailed on School Charges
Six Amish farmers were sentenced to three days in jail for refusing to pay $2 fines for not sending their children over 14 to school. Two others were convicted but sentence delayed to attend Amish weddings. State law requires schooling until 17 with work permit at 16.
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Lancaster
Trains Collide in Fog on Brussels Ghent Line
Two trains collided in fog on the Brussels Ghent line killing four and injuring 29, authorities said. The crash occurred Monday night, prompting emergency responders to rush to the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brussels
Brussels-Ghent
State authorizes 35000 for Braille school superintendent home
Iowa state legislators approve up to 35000 for constructing and furnishing a new home for the Braille and Sight-Saving School superintendent at Vinton. Cedar Rapids firm Norman Hatton and Associates to draw plans. Estimates run to 37799.
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DES Moines
Iowa
Vinton
State Board of Education
Cedar Rapids
Norman Hatton and Associates
Burger Construction Company
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Hamilton Manufacturing Company
Iowa State College
Board of Education
Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Company
Oakdale Sanatorium
Deputies Adopt Blue Shirts to Distinguish Themselves
Milwaukee sheriff's deputies started wearing blue shirts and black ties to avoid being mistaken for criminals in recent cases. They cited confusion by judges and the public as the reason for the change.
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Milwaukee
Cedar Rapids approves school plans and new building bids
Cedar Rapids school board accepts preliminary designs for a north side elementary modeled on the west Cedar Rapids building. Architects Perkins and Will of Chicago will prepare working drawings with completion aimed for spring. The district also awarded eight of nine contracts for Arthur district primary school and Hayes and Cleveland additions totaling 310 124 dollars.
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Perkings
Will
Chicago
Center Point
Old
Marion Roads
Arthur
Hayes
Cleveland
Johnson Avenue NW
Mt. Vernon Road
Thirtyninth Street
William Brubaker
Perkins and
Agency Juggling of Funds To Aid Govt Illustrated
Two reports show how agencies legally shift funds to ease government bookkeeping. The Commodity Credit Corporation offers private banks 450 million dollars in cotton loans to keep the treasury within the debt limit, redeemable in August. A Northwestern Life Insurance Co study on social security finds most income funds general government expenses. future pension obligations are “IOUs” in a reserve fund, with benefits paid on schedule.
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Iby
Sam Dawson
New York
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
U.S.’ S Treasury
U.S
Family Economics Bureau
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company of
Minneapolis
Social Security Reserve Fund
U.S. Treasury
Sam
Reserve
First Lady Mamie Eisenhower Cancels Appointments
The White House said Mrs. Eisenhower has a chest cold and canceled all appointments. She returned from Augusta, Georgia, where the family spent Thanksgiving, and has remained in bed since Sunday. President Eisenhower, in Bermuda, keeps in touch with her by telephone.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Augusta
Eisenhowers
Bermuda
Iowa seeks to bar stamp merchandising in state appeal
Atty General Leo Hoegh appeals a Polk County ruling that Iowa gift enterprise laws ban Sperry and Hutchinson Stamp Co and others from stamp business in Iowa. The case targets 99 counties with five county attorneys named as defendants.
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DES Moines
Leo Hoegh
Iowa Supreme Court
Polk County
C.edwin Moore
Hoegh
Sperry and Hutchinson Stamp Company
New Jersey
Sperry and Hutchinson
Iowa
District Court
Attys
Clyde E. Herring
Wallace W. Huff
Sioux City
Charles G. Rehling
Davenport
Max M.mills
Marshalltown
Vincent F. Powers
Fort Dodge
Inter Ocean declares extra dividends for stockholders
The Inter Ocean Reinsurance Company board declared a $1 per share dividend plus a 50 cent per share extra dividend, payable December 18 to holders of record December 8. This brings total 1953 dividends to $2 per share, matching last year and marking the thirty first year of consecutive payouts. Ocean Securities Corporation also met and declared $2 per share plus $1 extra per share for a $3 total, up a dollar from last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids News
Inter- Ocean Reinsurance Company
Inter- Ocean
Inter- Ocean Securities Corporation
Deer Licenses To Be Sold in Field
Iowa Conservation Commission says deer hunting licenses may be obtained from conservation officers in open counties rather than at the Des Moines headquarters. More than 2,000 license applications have been received, and the season opens in specified counties on Thursday.
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Des Moines
INL
Iowa Conservation Commission
Commission
Jury Subpoenas 11 Witnesses in Greenlease Ransom Probe
A federal grand jury in Kansas City subpoenas 11 St. Louis witnesses to testify on Monday in the Bobby Greenlease ransom case. Among those summoned are four police officers from Newstead station and a clerk linked to the night Hall and Heady were arrested.
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ST. Lous
Kansas City
St. Louis
Bobby Greenlease
Newstead
Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Heady
Louis Shoulders
Hall
Not Robbed Of 100000 in Bonds After All
Authorities investigate a 1300 dollar armed robbery at Charles Strayer’s home in Osceola County Iowa. Two armed men took 550 in cash and 600 in checks while forcing Mrs Strayer to open the safe. More than 100000 in government bonds were found scattered near a looted closet safe.
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Ocheyedan
Charles Strayer
Strayer
Iowa
Osceola County
Fred Huisman
Scots Split on Burns Revision
AP reports a heated debate in Scotland over altering Robert Burns poems to English American style. William Kean Seymour, a 66 year old former bank manager, proposes changes that alienate readers. Scots split with roughly a third backing his approach and the rest opposing it.
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S.ascot
Geomie
Bobbie Burns
William Kean Seymour
Scot
Seymour
Scotland
Newspaper Peace Plan Gets Favor
In New York publishers accepted a mediators formula to end the New York newspaper strike. Strike leaders said they would push union members to accept the plan, aiming to end the standoff.
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NEW York
Eisenhower urges UN to back peaceful atom program
President Eisenhower urged the United Nations to back an international atomic energy agency to develop peaceful uses of nuclear power. He called for worldwide investigation into peaceful fission applications, open dialogue, shared control, and U.N. leadership to move humanity from fear toward peace, with cooperation from the Soviet Union.
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United Nations
N. Y
Eisenhower
U. N
International Atomic Energy Agency
Bermuda
Soviet Union
Congress
U.N. Assembly
U. S
Russia
Escapee Czech Plight Worsens
Bedrich Cech, a 52 year old Czech father from Adel Iowa, recalls fleeing Czechoslovakia in a lumber car with his family. He says prices are higher, wages lower, and food scarcer under Soviet rule. He blames the regime for wiping out the old currency and issuing new money, eroding savings and wages.
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Qels
Austria
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U. N. Assembly
EDC
United Kingdom
Ole Freed
John E. Murphy
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Addie Jackson
Indianola
Iowa State
Jackson
McCar-Walter
Young Immigrant
Old Windsor
Amish
State
West
Skogman
Subicbance
Govt
Mamie
Gazette
Inter-Ocean
Shoulders
Raymond Bergmeyer
Alex McGee
Thomas Crowe
Carl Schottler
Lhe
Jeremiah O’connell
Police Board
Lowan
Burns
Micacenarain
Czech
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