Funeral for Dr. Arthur W. Erskine Friday
Funeral services for Dr. Arthur W. Erskine 67 who died suddenly Wednesday afternoon will be held at 1 50 p m Friday in Turner chapel Cedar Rapids with Dr Theodore G Lilley and Rev J D Kearn officiating Burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery Friends may call at the chapel Erskine an internationally known X ray authority and Cedar Rapids physician for 40 years had been in failing health for years but was not considered seriously ill He worked Wednesday morning but did not continue past the session A photo and editorial appear on Page 2.
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Arthur W. Erskine
Turner Chapel
Theodore G. Lilley
J. D. Kearn
Cedar Memorial Cemetery
Erskine
Cedar Rapids
Four Insurance Bids Rejected in Cedar Rapids Meeting
City and school board insurance bids were unanimously rejected after a bid-specification mixup caused confusion over horsepower ratings in a sewage plant motor. Officials will revise criteria and seek a uniform plan like the school board’s, sharing commissions among 32 agencies via an advisory committee led by William Whipple.
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Spedar Rapids News
Milo Sedlacek
William Whipple
Whipple
Brownell plans sweeping staff purge at Justice Dept
An authoritative source says Attorney General designate Brownell will launch a major housecleaning at the Department of Justice after taking office January 20. He will purge policy makers and politics tied figures, review tax fraud and antitrust cases, and pursue fraud evidence, while keeping merit staff. Will appoint William Rogers as deputy and retain J Edgar Hoover as FBI chief.
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Helena
Brownell
Department of Justice
Department
Atttorneys
Washington
U.S
McGranery
Justice Department
William Rogers
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Pupils dunk heads over tack mystery at Linn Junction
In Linn Junction near Cedar Rapids a teacher Miss Violet Olson and her 24 pupils dunked their heads in water to uncover who placed a tack on a girl's chair. No confession emerged despite multiple methods and school officials planned corrective steps.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn Junction
Violet Olson
Con College
Miss Olson
Ward
Woman Dies After Last Friday Car Crash in Cedar Rapids
Laura Smith 74 of 936 Eleventh St NE died Thursday in St Luke's Hospital from injuries sustained when struck by a car at Third Ave and Fourteenth St SE last Friday. Theodore A. Parsons drove the car. Survived by six grandchildren, two sons, four daughters and siblings. Services set for 2 p.m. Sunday at Montour church. Burial at Maple Hill cemetery. Friends may call Brady mortuary after 4 p.m. Friday.
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Cedar Rapids
Laura Smith
Eleventh Street
Third Avenue
Fourteenth Street
St.Luke's Hospital
Smith
Theodore A. Parsons
Fifth Avenue SE
Mrs. Smith
Montour
Dorothy Wilkinson
Thomas J. Cavanaugh
Washington, D. C
M. Louise Smith
Detroit
Eleanor V. Smith
Cleveland
Richard
Chicago
Robert
Iva L. Waggenor
Los Angeles
Harry Waggenor
Milwaukee
B. H. Waggenor
Independence
Montour Church
Maples Hill Cemetery
Brady Mortuary
Fridar
Slayer Accuses Victim of Spell in Night Office Killing
Dr. Wiley Cozart 60 mayor of Fuquay Springs North Carolina was shot to death in his office on Thursday by Lynwood Lewis a 25 year old Black man arrested on murder charges. The man said the doctor had put a spell on him and police filed charges.
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Fuquay Springs
N. C
Wiley Cozart
Tobacco Town
Lynwood Lewis
Truman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
MacArthur
Defense Department
Army
New York
Aid Sped to U S Vessel in North Atlantic
The 7,230 ton American freighter Columbia Trader with 39 crew members drifted out of control in mid Atlantic west of Brest as a French tug Abeille 26 pressed to reach her. The ship had no propeller and had not sent an SOS though radioed for help. Wind lashed the icy North Atlantic while rescuers closed in.
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Brest
France
Breakup of Soap Companies Asked
Washington AP reports the government sued Thursday to break up the three major soap makers Procter and Gamble Colgate Palmolive and Lever Brothers. The suit filed in federal district court at Newark also named the Association of American Soap and Glycerine Producers as a defendant. It accuses the firms and trade group of maintaining restraints and monopolization. Procter Colgate and Lever reportedly control at least 75 percent of national household soap sales and about 90 percent of the household-detergent market.
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Washington
Reading
Newark
McGranery
Procter [and Gamble Company
Cincinnati
Colgate-Palmolive Peet Company
Jersey City
Lever’ ‘Brothers Company
New York
Association of American Soap and Glycerine Producers, Inc
Procter, Colgate and Lever
Watch Kept In Effort To Fail Slaying
A cor don of armed guards guarded Hugh Roy Cullen’s Austin home after two escapees from an Austin state mental hospital, Gilbert Waggoner and Howard Pierson, threatened Cullen. Waggoner, insane, claimed a bogus business deal. Cullen denied knowing him or his father. Pierson had murdered his own parents years earlier. Police sought leads amid guard redeployments and an investigation into possible help.
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Austin
Texas
Hugh Roy Cullen
Gilbert Waggoner
Cullen
Austin State Mental Hospital
Howard Pierson
Waggoner
Houster Grand Jury
Cullen Imade
Pierson
State Supreme Court
Minister Held in Bad Check Case
Los Angeles pastor Joseph Bivens, 28, was arrested by the FBI in Columbus as he prepared to cash a bad check. He is accused of leaving rubber checks from California to Ohio, typically for 96 dollars, used against church donations before fleeing when funds were not raised.
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Columbus
INS
Los Angeles
California
Ohio
FBI
Joseph Bivens
Red Attack Heaviest In Two Months On Korean Front
Chinese forces mount their largest assault in two months, attacking six western front positions near Yonchon and capturing Little Nori Hill after heavy fighting. South Koreans retake crest later, with U N artillery and air strikes widening the front.
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Seoul
Little Nori Hill
Yonchon
Little Novi
Roks
Big Nori
Little Nori
U.N
White Horse Mountain
Arrowhead Ridge
U. N
Korea
Manchuria
Little Gibraltar Hill
Truman Hopeful On Wage Board
Washington AP Truman says he will replace the departed industry members of the Wage Stabilization Board this week and extend economic controls beyond April 30. He may name a replacement for Roger Putnam and is weighing Michael DiSalle for that post amid labor and business opposition to restoring wage controls.
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Washington
Truman
Wage Stabilization Board
Roger Putnam
Putnam
Michael V. DiSalle
Draining of Quarry Sped In Hunt for Two Children
Naperville Illinois volunteers and machines worked to drain a 3800-foot square quarry ninety feet deep in a bid to find missing children Jean Peterson, six, and Edward Rosensiel, three. Police search wells ditches and abandoned buildings within a 4400-square mile area while a diver reported water too dark for a search. Parents remain hopeful for Jennie Peterson and Edward, with the mother insisting her daughter may still be alive.
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Naperville
Jean Peterson
Edward Rosenstiel
John Magill
Chicago
Floyd Rosenstiel
Mary Peterson
Eisenhower Arrives in Honolulu for Far East Talks
President-elect Eisenhower lands aboard the cruiser Helena in Honolulu for conferences to shape U S policy in the Far East. He will stay to the weekend then head to New York, with secretary of state nominee John Foster Dulles saying the talks will gradually pay dividends and form the framework of the new administration’s policy. Dulles expects a world tour later but may remain to reorganize the State Department.
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Honolulu
Eisenhower
Helena
America
Far East
New York
Gen
MacArthur
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Dulless
State Department
Officer denies Jap leftist torture tale as impossible
CAMP GORDON Ga UP Lt Col J Canon a Far Eastern intel officer denies that a Japanese leftist Wa tora Kaji could have been tortured to become a spy for Americans. Canon says the torture claim is utterly ridiculous and a technical impossibility under directives and legal arrest procedures. He disputes Kaji may have meant him, calling the story typical Russian propaganda.
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Camp Gordon
Far Eastern Intelligence Service
J. ¥. Canon
Japan
Watara Kaji
Kaji
Tokyo
Mainichi
Cannon
U S Embassy says Wataru Kaji spied for a foreign power
The U S embassy disclosed on Thursday that Wataru Kaji acted as a spy for a foreign power in Japan, implicating his intelligence activities during his stay.
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Tokyo
U. S
Wataru Kaji
Japan
Navy rents storage space at Wilmington shipyard profit split
In 1951 the naval shipyard in Wilmington Delaware leased 35 000 square feet to Hub Terminal Inc for 91960 annually while the General Services Administration paid Hub 41775 The difference is cited by House investigators as a cost of inadequate and incompetent administration at the shipyard by the Navy.
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Washington
Navy
Naval Industrial Re Erve
Wilmington
Del
Hub Terminal, Inc
General Services Administration
Hub Terminal
Hub
GSA
House
Truman blasts idea of meeting with Eisenhower and MacArthur
President Truman rejects a White House conference with Generals Eisenhower and MacArthur and assails both men. He calls Eisenhower's Korea trip a demagoguery and says MacArthur should have reported to him after leaving Japan. He recalls past assurances to U.S. troops and questions MacArthur's stated plans for peace.
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Truman
White House
Eisenhower
MacArthur
Korea
Japan
Wake Island
U.S
Germany
Sen. Watkins
Utah
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Eidder J. J. Shepard
Louis Burgos
Siam
Greece
Cancer Society Officer
Iowa
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Linn County Medical Society
Radiological Society of North America
Iowa State Medical Society
American Medical Association
American College of Radiology
Iowa X-ray Club
North American Society
Towa State Medical Society
Committee On Cancer Control
Women's Field Army
American Roengen Ray Society
Board of Censors
Paris
Curie Society of
Iowa’ Medical Society
Ama JP
Dept. of Justice
Associated Press
Pfc
al Murphy
Everett
Mass
Pvt
Clyde Brown
Ogden
Mary
Uncle Sam
Teetesenene
Dea
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Aaa
Inez
Marion Thee
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Hisenhower
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