Lowan Urges Quick Action on Jobs and Farm Relief
Washington AP Mayor Mike Micich of Charles City Iowa urged Congress to act swiftly on unemployment citing farm equipment industry slowdowns and a 25 percent drop in farmers purchasing power. He proposed a bipartisan committee and measures including extending public works, higher unemployment benefits, tax changes, and surplus farm product distribution to ease rural job loss.
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Enduring Public Works
Hoegh Enters Race to Face Foe in Iowa Governor Contest
Atty Gen Leo A Hoegh of Chariton and State Rep Ernest Palmer Jr of Fort Madison join a Cedar Rapids candidates program Feb 19. Other speakers include Rep Thomas E Martin and John M Ropes as race dynamics loom toward a June primary.
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Chariton
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Fort Madison
Cedar Rapids
William A. Bergman
Linn County
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Hoegh
First District
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Iowa City
G.O.P
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Onawa
Commerce
A. B. Chambers
Des Moines
William S. Lynes
Waverly
Iowa unemployment panel to question governor
The Iowa fact finding committee on unemployment set up by Gov Beardsley will seek facts from the governor himself. A subcommittee was formed at a Waterloo meeting to confer with Beardsley, with continuation on page 8.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Beardsey
Weather turns colder after record highs in Iowa
Colder air moves into Iowa tonight and Thursday following state record highs set Tuesday. Des Moines reports highs 25 to 32, with possible snow flurries as temperatures fall. Cedar Rapids hit a Feb 9 record of 55, surpassing 1938’s 52, while Council Bluffs 63 Sioux City 62 and Waterloo 54 also set records. Cedar Rapids low Tuesday night was 29. 2:30 pm today, 44 with a north northwest wind at 14 mph.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Des
Sioux City
Waterloo
Linn Roadworkers Deny Wage Boost and Set Sick Leave
Linn county roadworkers accepted the board of supervisors denial of a 10 cent per hour wage boost while keeping current wages for another year. The union sought 90 days for maximum sick leave but the board kept it to 30 days. fringe benefits were added.
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Linn County
AFL
Board of Supervisors
Henry J. Hood
Bertram Township
Zenata Paul
Dempsy Jones
Raymond I. Smith
Center Point
Washington Township
Fay Clark
Hiawatha
H. H. Wage
James Jordan
Marion
Marshall McCalley
Walker
Senate Votes to Curb Coffee Trade Speculation
The Senate approved government controls on speculation and futures trading in coffee on Wednesday. The measure, driven by protests over rising prices, moves to the House and was introduced by Senator Gillette of Iowa.
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Senate
House
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Gillette
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Taunts at McCarthy Talk Spark Los Angeles Row
Four thousand attendees at First Congregational church hear Sen. McCarthy denounce Communist conspiracy. A man named Wilbur Joseph Jerger is harassed by rocks and a tire wrench wielding crowd. police escort him away after rioting on private property. Jerger seeks Democratic and Socialist nominations for Congress in California's 26th district. McCarthy retracts Madison remark about John J. McCloy but accuses him of signing orders to promote Communists in the army. He says the Communist issue transcends party lines and endangers national survival.
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Los Angeles
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
First Congregational Church
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Jerger
Congress
California
McCarthy
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Washington
White House
Iowa City Youth Bitten by Dog During Football Play
James Anderson, 17, son of Dr Eddie N Anderson, was bitten on the right leg by a dog Tuesday evening while playing near his home. He received a tetanus shot at Mercy hospital and the dog was observed. authorities believe rabies unlikely. Arthur C Thormann, 67, reports four stray dogs attacked him Monday afternoon. he beat them off with his cane after a hospital discharge.
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Iowa City
James Anderson
Eddie N. Anderson
Young Anderson
SUI
Mercy Hospital
Arthur C. Thormann
Thormann
Food Cost Index Rises to Highest Since 1951
New York AP reports wholesale food prices via the Dun and Bradstreet index reached $7.09 this week, the highest since May 29, 1951. The index moved from $7.01 a week earlier and $6.19 a year ago.
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New York
Not Appropriate Chuckle Humour Prompt
A joke fragment mocks women as deceptive and predatory while a male speaker vents frustration. The text then shifts to a crude remark about a blonde entering a room, ending with an incomplete copyright note.
Russia proposes all Europe non aggression pact during Four Power talks
Molotov presents a 50 year treaty idea to the Big Four calling for a European peace alliance including East and West Germany. It would annul NATO and seat the United States and Red China as observers at a new U.N. backed administrative body. Allies reject the plan.
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Russia
Europe
Germany
Bonn Republic
North Atlantic
Molotov
East
West Germany
U.N. ‘Security Council
Picketer of Mate Sues for Divorce
Marie Harrison, 37, who picketed her husband's Venetian blind factory in a family labor dispute, filed for divorce in St. Louis. She charged husband Harrison with failing to support her and their six children, while her son George Jr. aided the protest seeking wage increases for himself and his mother.
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ST. Louis
Marie Harrison
Ousters in State Dept. on Loyalty Grounds Reported
State Department told a House subcommittee it dismissed 11 employees for loyalty reasons in the last year while listing 534 departures as security cases. Scotty McLeod and Under secretary W Bedell Smith supplied the figures. seven firings began under Truman but finished later. No active Communists were found. many so called security cases reflect resignations or transfers. Most cases involved insobriety incompetence or other undesirable traits or past associations.
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Washington
State Department
Congressional
House Appropriations
Scotty McLeod
Department
W. Bedell Smith
Truman
McLeod
Smith
Committee
Chaplin and Wife Say They Became British Subjects
Charlie Chaplin and his wife Oona announced that she surrendered American citizenship and became a British subject. Chaplin is already a British citizen.
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Mrs. Chaplin
London
INS
Charlie Chaplin
Oona
Chaplin
After Three Years Bag Recovered From Shrunk Mississippi
Quincy reports a physician’s bag stolen from a front porch three years ago has been found in the drought-shrunk Mississippi riverbed, making a surprising recovery.
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Quincy
Mississippi
Fugitive Held Admits Killing Bodenheim Double Murder
Harold Weinberg, 25, held by New York police after confessing to the murders of author Maxwell Bodenheim and his wife. He was captured in an alley near the crime scene after a tip from Allan Seigel and a Chinese lodger sighting. Weinberg offered no resistance.
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New York
INS
Harold Weinberg
Maxwell Bodenheim
Weinberg
Manhattan
Bodenheim
Allan Seigel
Seigel
Reformatory Alum Arrested for Waterloo Break-Ins
Harold Weinberg also known as John Greenberg broke into three Waterloo offices and stole a billfold from an Oelwein man. He served a term at Anamosa and was moved to Independence mental health institute after a 1947 reformatory entry and a 1952 transfer. He described his crime with a New York remark to Waterloo police.
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Waterloo
Harold Weinberg
Iowa Men’s Reformatory
Anamosa
Weinberg
John Greenberg
Estole
Oelwein
State Mentalhealth Institute
Independence
Blair C. Wood
Blacks County
Wein
Einberg
York
March of Dimes Drive Surpasses County Goal
Cedar Rapids and Linn county reporters reported a total of over 38000 dollars raised in the March of Dimes drive, beating the 30000 dollar quota by 8009. The campaign bank balance reached 36038.68 dollars as of Wednesday, with about 2000 more in Marion not yet turned in. Some containers remain to be collected and a final total was expected this weekend.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Howard Chalmers
Marion
Chalmers
Government blocks sale of surplus farm goods to Russia
Secretary of Commerce Weeks announced that government stocks of surplus farm products will not be sold to Russia or its allies. He signaled that private non strategic farm product exports to the Soviet bloc could still be considered favorably. The veto specifically blocks Dwayne Andreas and his Minnesota soybean mill to export 3000 tons of government owned flour plus cottonseed oil to Czechoslovakia.
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Washington
Weeks
Russia
Soviet Bloc
Dwayne Andreas
Minnesota
Czechoslovakia
All-Iowa Amateur Art Show Opens March Six
The All Iowa Amateur Art Show will run March 6 to April 12 at Cedar Rapids Public Library Gallery with grants totaling 500 dollars. Grants honor Grant Wood, awarding 100 dollars first, 70 second, 40 third in oil and watercolor. four honorable mentions per medium plus 80 dollars by popular vote. Entries due March 1. open to Iowa residents for six months with amateur status defined.
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Art
Iowa
Association
Grant Wood
Cedar Rapids
Paul Revere
The
Art Association
Art Gallery
Eisenhower urges bipartisanship amid partisan attacks
President Eisenhower called for handling politics with seriousness and urged Republicans to avoid extreme partisan attacks on Democrats. He said he seeks bipartisan support for his program and that officials should not engage in taunts or treason accusations, declining to comment on specific GOP remarks.
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Micich
Eisenhower
Washington
Capitol Hill
Mr. Eisenhower
Democratic Party
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
G.O.P
Eisenhower outlines cautious Indo China policy and other briefings
President Eisenhower said US aid actions in Indo China are deliberate to avoid war and that American technicians there will not be in combat and will depart by June 15. He also announced highway aid funding, his stance on elections, Bricker amendment, and troop redeployments with mid April and mid June timelines.
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Senate Armed Services Committee
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Bricker
45Th Infantry
Ares
Steeghoese
Gocemia
Treasury
Humphrey
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