Republican Quit Over Manion Ouster Sparks Senate Outcry
Rep Mason resigns from Eisenhower commission in protest of Clarence Manion's dismissal as chair. Senators condemn White House action. Bricker amendment debate hinges on power limits. Manion had urged TVA sale to private industry, drawing Democratic criticism.
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Washington
Mason
R-Ill
Eisenhower
Commission On Intergovernmental Relations
Clarence Manion
White House
Manion
Notre Dame Law School
Sen. Bricker
Ohio
Bricker
Senate
Tennessee Valley Authority
Witness Tells Forced Heed Of Red Union
Washington INS report on a Precision and Scientific Co executive testifying to a senate subcommittee about a government directive to recognize a Communist dominated union. He said the firm would not bargain with Red controlled bodies and would pursue the Supreme Court if needed. The hearing covered NLRB certification, a strike, and implications for atomic energy contracts.
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Washington
INS
Eiga
Senate
George E. Bader
Precision and Scientific Company
Supreme Court
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Sen. Butler
R-Md
Butler
National Labor Relations Board
Bader
Salt Lake City
CIO
Barnabas F. Sears
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
Chicago
Batler
Atomic Energy Commission
Savannah River Project
AEC
Conference on Korea Big 4 Plan in Geneva Meeting
Four power foreign ministers proposed a peace conference on Korea to be held in Geneva on April 26 with China North Korea and South Korea invited. Indo China peace will also be discussed with U S UK USSR and others invited. Dulles emphasized that invitation does not imply recognition. He warned about Soviet fear of freedom and its stance on German unity and Austrian independence.
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Geneva
Berlin
Switzerland
China
North
South Korea
Peiping
Indo-China
U. S
United Kingdom
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Chinese People’s Republic
Viet Nam
Laos
Cambodia
Dulles
U.N
Columbine
Washington
Russia
Austria
Soviet Union
Europe
More Temperature Records Foreseen In Iowa Weather Advance
Iowa officials forecast more temperature records as a cool front and rainstorms move through the state. Readings were to range from 60 in the east to 70 in the west, with mild weather driving ice to move out of the Mississippi at McGregor. The cool front could bring light showers to eastern Iowa, while tonight's lows were expected in the 40s and Fridays highs in the 50s or low 60s. Council Bluffs posted a 67 degree high, Sioux City a 29 overnight low, Cedar Rapids 44 and 35 respectively.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Mississippi
McGregor
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Bulky Officers To Face Crackdown
Washington AP Secretary of Army Stevens announced a policy that reserve officers who refuse to answer loyalty questions when properly asked will forfeit their commission and be discharged under conditions other than honorable. The move follows Sen. McCarthy’s questions over Major Irving Peress who refused to answer about Communist affiliation. Peress received an honorable discharge February 3. Stevens told McCarthy corrective changes would prevent future similar cases.
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Washington
Secretary of Army
Stevens
Peress
Disloyalty firings count climbs in 1953 security purge
Washington AP report notes 29 publicly disclosed government firings for disloyalty across five big departments as test imony to the House Appropriations Committee covers 971 security cases. Commerce adds 23 disloyalty cases among 132 forced resignations and 437 security dismissals in the period.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Commerce Department
James C. Worthy
Justice Department
Treasury Department
Agriculture Department
Post Office Depute
Securiy . Sciences
State Department
Ernest Kosek Seeks Fifth Term in Iowa House
State Rep. Ernest Kosek announces candidacy for re election on the Republican ticket seeking a fifth term. He touts a record of tax reduction bills including permanent income tax cuts and a $5000 exemption, and cites co authorship of the Stevens reapportionment measure.
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Cedar Rapids
Ernest Kosek
Twenty-seventh Street Drive
Iowa
House
Stevens
Eisenhower Plays Golf With Hogan in Palm Springs
President Eisenhower began a Palm Springs holiday by golfing with Ben Hogan at 9 am. The outing also included Paul G. Hoffman and Paul Helms with Dr. Howard Snyder and staff nearby as respite from Washington winter.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Eisenhower
Ben Hogan
Hogan
Studebaker
Paul G. Hoffman
Los Angeles
Paul Helms
Howard Snyder
White House
Washington
Hoffman
Citizens For Eisenhower
John S. Doud
Denver
Skoketree Ranch
Town
Marilyn Monroe Trampled Crowd Stamps Stage in Korea
An American soldier was knocked down and trampled by a stampede of about 6,000 45th division troops toward a stage where Marilyn Monroe performed in Korea. The unruly crowd booed acts, threw rocks, and surged as Monroe finished an eight minute set and exited in an army sedan.
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Eastern Front
Korea
Marilyn Monroe
45Th Division
Marilyn
Mari
Lyn
Miss Monroe
Two Cedar Rapids Women Die in Separate Crashes
The latest toll reports two Cedar Rapids women killed in separate accidents within 24 hours. Ruth Winfrey, 56, died south of town when her car left Highway 149 and rolled into a ditch. Florence Marshall, about 50, was killed at Polo Illinois crossing after her car was struck by an IC freight train.
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Cedar Rapids
Polo, Ill
Ruth Winfrey
Staub Court NE
Florence Marshall
Sixteenth Avenue
Illinois Central
Polo Crossing
Council Revises Award Procedure on Hennessey Bid
The council changed its contract awarding for a $17,677.08 sanitary sewer project, initially to Crown Construction and then assigned to Hennessey Brothers Inc. The move preserves the low bid while addressing legal concerns raised by AFL builders. Sewers will be laid along Twenty sixth to Twenty eighth avenues and M street SW. Other bids were Quad City Construction, Hennessey, and Kutchera Sodding and Fuel.
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Ceda
Rapids News
Thursiday
Crown Construction Company
Crown
Hennessey Brothers, Inc
Hennessey Concern
C. W. Garberson
Garberson
Twenty
Twenty-eighth
M Street
Council
QuadriCity
Hennessey
Kutchera ‘Sodding and Fuel Company
Trial Ordered On Dickenson Case At Fort McNair
The army ordered Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson to stand trial by court martial for allegedly giving information to Communist captors in Korea. The public trial will be held at Fort McNair in Washington. date not set.
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Washington
INS
Edward
Dickenson
Korea
U. S
Iron Curtain
Fort McNair
Tragic two car crash kills school principal near Iowa City
Mrs. Lloyd Mills, 41, principal of North Liberty grade school, died in a frost slick crash on highway 218 three miles north of Iowa City. Six others were injured including three fellow teachers and two Cedar Rapids residents. The Mills car collided head on with a southbound vehicle traveling at high speed. Mercy Hospital treated the injured. Cooper and Kanellis were taken to University Hospitals. The North Liberty school closed pending Monday. a substitute teacher was affected by connections.
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North Liberty
Lloyd Mills
Iowa City
Mills
Kay Elizabeth
Frank Whitley
Otto Krall
Iola Miller
Robert S. Cooper
Cooper
Bertramsen
Mercy Hospital
University Hospitals
Kay Mills
Thomas Doling
Miller
Whitley
University of Iowa
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