Meat Prices Fall in Cedar Rapids As Production Rises
Cedar Rapids meat buyers report a sustained price drop across beef and pork, with medium grades down about 10 to 20 percent from peak levels. Retail pork and good-grade beef have fallen, while choice cuts decline gradually. Eggs and oysters also show lower prices amid bumper supply and projections of a 1952 peak.
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Cedar Rapids
America
Chicago
Wall Street Journal
the Gazette
U. S
Soviet U.N. Aide Fired Over Spy Charge
Secretary-general Trygve Lie dismissed Nicolai Skvortsov a political affairs officer after the United States charged him with attempted espionage. U.N. and State Department officials cited termination for best interests of the U.N. and visa issues. Skvortsov and Konstantin Zinchenko were reported in Moscow amid the U.N. personnel shakeup.
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Trygve Lie
United Nations
United States
U. S
U. N
Nicolai Skvortsov
Moscow
Skvortsov
State Department
Washington
Lie
Department
Konstantin Zinchenko
U.N
Department of Security Council
Lincoln White
Zinchenko
White
Semi-Truck and Train Collide Kills Two Men
A semi-trailer loaded with hogs struck a Milwaukee passenger freight train in Austin Minnesota on Friday night. Two men Erwin R. Schroder of Janesville Wisconsin and Clifford McMasters of Franklin Minnesota died in the wreck. Crews labored over an hour to remove them and to clear nine derailed train cars overnight.
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Austin
Minn
Milwaukee
Erwin R. Schroder
Janesville
Wis
Clifford McMasters
Franklin
Jim McNalley Dies at Amana Home
Jim McNalley aged 51 who was a construction superintendent at the Amana refrigeration plant died suddenly at his Amana home on Saturday night. The body was taken to Hoover funeral home in Marengo for services.
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Jim McNalley
Amana
Hoover’ Funeral
Marengo
Trainmen Want Larry To Stay Off Their Tracks
Eight year old Larry Meredith promised his mother he would not play Jesse James on the Great Northern tracks after he halted a switch engine by brandishing toy guns. Police lectured him and returned him home. railroad foreman said crews were not angry but want him off the tracks.
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ST. Paul
Larry Meredith
Jesse James
Larry
Great Northern Railroad
Arvid Pokela
Dean Meredith
Duffy Murder Trial Delayed Indefinitely in Cedar Rapids
George C. Duffy 21 faces a first degree murder charge in the Oct 9 slaying of James Hackman. Trial postponed after conferences with County Attorney Willis A. Glassgow and Judge Charles Penningroth. Duffy held without bond. Miss Shirley Arnold's decision to marry Hackman set off the fatal sequence.
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Cedar Rapids
Willis A. Glassgow
George C. Duffy
Duffy
James Hackman
Glassgow
Charles Penningroth
James and
Sherman Hart
Waukon
Linn County
Hackman
Shirley Arnold
Miss Arnold
Injured Woman Recovers Purse Stolen by Train Incident
Mrs. Addie Abernathy was struck by a train near the North Western bridge and her purse with about 84 dollars dropped to the ice but was recovered by Policemen T. C. McDermott and Robert Burke and her son William Abernathy. She remained in fair condition at St Luke's hospital Saturday night.
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Cedar Rapids
Addie Abernathy
Avenue NW
T. C. McDermott
Robert Burke
William Abernathy
Marion
Cedar Rapids Post Office Opens 2 to 5 P.M for Christmas Mailers
Stamp and parcel post windows at the Cedar Rapids post office will open from 2 to 5 p.m. this afternoon for Christmas mailers. Postmaster E. R. Petro notes the rest of the facility remains closed.
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Cedar Rapids
E. R. Petro
Former U S Intelligence Agent Nabbed in Berlin Case
Former MID civilian agent Michael R. Rothkrug 44 is jailed in Berlin after U S authorities found thousands of top secret MID documents in a textile office. The material names Germans in the anti Communist underground and could endanger informants in both West and Soviet zones. A trial is planned soon with U S involvement and Rothkrug’s Westport Connecticut home listed for family contact.
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U. S. Army
East Ger
Michael R. Rothkrug
Military Intelligence Detachment
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Rothkrug
U. S
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U.S. High Commission
Army
Westport
Conn
Mark Rothkrug
Oskaloosa Man Killed In Two Car Collision
Oskaloosa man K L Lister aged 70 died in a two car crash on the Pella road near Oskaloosa. Kenneth B. Elswick of Ames was injured and taken to a local hospital. initial reports suggested his injuries were not serious.
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K. L. Lister
Pella Road
Kenneth B. Elswick
Ames
Elswick
Father Son Suspects in Slaying Near Chester
In Chester California police arrested Travis Hall 27 and his father Wendell Hall 49 after an informant led to questioning about the October iron pipe killings of Gard Young 43 and his three children Jean 7 Judy 6 and neighbor Michael Saile 4. Travis passed a lie detector test showing more information than public reports, while his father claimed innocence. The elder Hall told reporters he was in Fresno during October.
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Richard
Mickey
Buddy
San Francisco
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Calif
Travis Hall
Wendell Hall
Gard Young
Jean
Judy
Michael Saile
Edward O’haire
Hall
San _ Francisco
Bay City
Fresno
Richmond
Bay
Plumas County
Travis
O’haire
Young
Eisenhower Heads to California After Hawaii Stop
President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower departed Honolulu en route to California on the final leg of his Korean journey. He planned a news conference during refueling before continuing to New York, with Edwards or Travis Air Force Base as possible destinations.
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Eisenhower
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T. H
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Arthur W. Radford
Pacific Fleet
Franklin Hart
Pacific
Air Force
Roger Ramey
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Kaneohe Marine
Pacific Coast
Travis Air Force Base
Fairfield
Muroc
Rent Control Effective Monday in Cedar Rapids Area
Cedar Rapids and Linn county face renewed rent controls after a Saturday night ruling by the Office of Rent Stabilization. The measure, affecting older housing and new construction, hotels, motels, and rooms, sets ceilings based on rates as of August 1, 1952. T. J. Wilkinson could not be reached for comment.
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Cedar Rapids
Office of
Rent Stabilization
Office of Price Stabilization
Linn County
Washington
Rent Board
T. J. Wilkinson
Price Stabilization Office
Price Agency
Chariton Farmer Killed After Dispute. Son 15 Held
Clarence Kelley a 41 year old farmer near Chariton was shot four times in the body and once in the head with a .22 caliber rifle during an argument with his 15 year old son Ronald while picking corn in a field. The boy was held in Lucas County jail after telling his stepmother he had killed his father and an inquest was ordered for Monday.
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Chariton
Clarence Kelley
Ronald
Paul S. Shaw
Kelley
John Milnes
Milnes
Shaw
Lucas County
Truman taps Putnam to run Wage Stabilization Board
President Truman authorizes Economic Stabilizer Roger Putnam to take over wage board duties and redelegate authority to the four public members as industry groups boycott participation after a coal mine wage decision. The board faces 12 000 cases and delays in inflation rules.
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Truman
Wage Stabilization Board
Roger Putnam
Putnam
John L. Lewis
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National Association of Manufacturers
U. S. Chamber
NAM
Chamber of Commerce and
Economic Stabilization Agency
WSB
Charles Killings
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