Austin Backs Vetoless Atom Control Plan
New York United States delegate Warren R. Austin defended vetoless atomic control as mandated by the UN charter. He attacked Soviet objections to dropping the veto on punishments for violators and urged urgent steps toward an international security system with armed forces under the security council and a global atomic energy control regime.
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New York
INS
Warren R. Austin
United States Security Council
America
United Nations
American Council
Washington
George C. Marshall
New York State Bar Association
Austin
United States
General Assembly
Security Council
Man Charged in Union Hall Slaying in Indianapolis
A 60 year old steamfitter admitted firing the shot that killed Longer during a meeting of Local 440 United Association of Steamfitters AFL. Johnson said he carried a gun for protection and fired at close range after an argument over admission of new members. He was held without bond and set for a preliminary hearing Wednesday.
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Indianapolis
United
Steamfitters
AFL
Johnson
Longer
Roy Kern
Is City Hospital
Joseph Howard
Voelpel to Face Desertion Indictment in Secret Case
Secretly indicted for desertion and abandonment of a minor child Vern Voelpel was brought from Chicago by Deputy Sheriff Harlan Snyder and jailed. His former wife Marga Pfeifer of 419 Eleventh Street NW, divorced from Voelpel in February 1943, says he owed $25 weekly support for their son. She had made no payments beyond a small garnishment from his wages.
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Vern Voelpel
Chicago
H&lan Snyder
Margaret Pfeifer
Eleventh Street
Voelpel
Atomic commission to study wartime security measures
TheAtomic Energy Commission will study wartime security measures in the Manhattan District to strengthen peacetime security. Senator McMahon lauds the Gutenberg and Richter disclosures as a potential tool against iron curtains and plans a Senate speech proposing a compromise to outlaw atomic weapons and control peaceful nuclear development.
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Wilson
Manhattan
Sen. McMahon
Dconn
Gutenberg and Richter
McMahon
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Truman
Civilian Atomic Commission
Senate
NAACP Youth Council to Install at Jane Boyd House
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People youth council will hold its installation dinner Monday at 6 30 p m at the Jane Boyd Community House. A bungalow cooking school is scheduled for Monday Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Youth Council
The
National Association For the Act of Colored People
Jane Boyd
Bungalow Cooking School
Adv
Local luncheon honors Equitable Insurance reps
Mr and Mrs Oscar A Andersen hosted representatives of the Equitable Insurance Company of Eastern Iowa and their wives at a Saturday luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel. An all day conference followed. A. Jane of Lancaster received a diamond pin for 25 years with the company in Davenport county.
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Oscar A. Anderson
Ridgeway Drive
Equitable Insurance Company
Iowa
Roosevelt Hotel
Ce A. Jane of
Ancester
E Company
Tavnere County
Forei Trade Bureau names 1947 program committee
S L Myers chairman of the Forei Trade Bureau announces Cliff Jordan Kilborn Photo Paper Company sales manager as chair of the 1947 program committee. Other members include George Erwin Cedar Rapids Engineering Corporation sales dept and James W Ludlow National Oats traffic manager. Myers is affiliated with La Plant Choate Manufacturing Company.
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S. L. Myers
Forei
Chain of Commerce
Cliff Jordan
Kilborn Photo Paper Company
George Erwin
Cedar Rapids Engineering Corporation
James W. Ludlow
Ational Oats
Myers
La-Plant-Choate Manufacturing Company
Dean Jagger Weds Gloria Ling in Albuquerque Ceremony
Movie star Dean Jagger and Gloria Joan Ling a New York secretary were married Saturday afternoon in the lobby of the Bernalillo county clerk office after their arrival by train from Santa Monica California They were previously denied a license on Friday.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Dean Jagger
Gloria Joan Ling
New York City
Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office
Santa Monica
Calif
Ling Family License Entry Reflects Chinese Birthplace Note
County Clerk May Cleg horn extended office hours to issue a license at the request of Screen Producer K Victor. Miss Ling supplied her birth details indicating Chinese ancestry. Jagger’s listed age remains partially shown, with the excerpt noting his age as the record continues.
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Miss Ling
China
May Cleghorn
K Victor
Nee Ame
Jagger
Ex convict sues over false arrest in kidnap case
Earl Shelton filed a 400000 lawsuit in San Francisco naming Lodi California police chief and two officers plus the Devine family alleging wrongful arrest after Miss Alice Devine identified him from an old photo as her kidnapper. Attorney J W Ehrlich said he will serve papers in Palm Springs and depose the Devines to probe the case. Shelton, also known as Sheldon and born John Wesley Lucas, had surrendered in relation to the investigation.
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San Francisco
Earl Shelton
Lodi
Calif
Alice Devine
Shelton
Miss Devine
J. W
Jake” Ehrlich
Teast
Os Pa Ceu
Palm Springs
Devine
Ehrlich
Devines
Sheldon
John Wesley Lucas
Father visits son in jail ends with own confinement
James I Eddy, 45, of a local hotel, walked into Linn County jail Saturday to visit his son Patrick, who is serving a sentence for forgery. Eddy was greeted by Sheriff James Smith and locked up on a warrant charging forgery.
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James I. Eddy
Linn County
Patrick
Eddy
James Smith
Gas line explosion disrupts Montgomery. partial restoration begun
An explosion severed a 10 inch gas line in Montgomery Alabama causing a day long outage that left most of the city without heating and cooking facilities. Gas began returning Saturday night with partial service restored to St Margarets hospital and planned for four more hospitals. Power failures plagued the city as officials cited overloading from electric appliances during the outage.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Gas Company
St. Margaret's Hospital
Alabama Power Company
Chisholm
Farmer Sues Power Company Over Damages for Line
Wilbur Oberman, a Johnson County farmer, sues Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric for 5000 dollars in district court. He cites inconveniences dangers encumbrances and unsightly appearance from a partially completed power line across his property. The line is described as part of a main artery of a projected four state power pool.
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Iowa City
Johnson County
Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Wilbur Oberman
Black Dahlia case leads widen as book clues surface
Los Angeles police dismissed a blonde informant known as the Black Dahlia for seeking thrills while investigators search the black address book she guarded. A page torn from that book may hold the killer’s name alongside names and addresses of Elizabeth Short’s friends. Fingerprints from an envelope were sent to the FBI for testing as detectives pursue a possible link to the slaying.
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Associated Press
Elizabeth Short
Los Angeles
Robert Manley
R. T. Asdel
FBI
Black Dahlia
Miss Carall
Miss Marshall
Body of Black Dahlia Buried in Oakland Cemetery
The body of Elizabeth Short, Los Angeles torso murder victim, was laid to rest in Mountain View cemetery Oakland after a simple funeral. The Rev. G Raymond White of Oakland conducted chapel prayers and graveside rites.
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Oakland
Calif
Ins
Elizabeth Short
Los Angeles
Mountain View
G. Raymond White
Housing program tweaks and rent control debates headline 1947.
A government review cites rent pressures and landlord profits while outlining plans to complete up to a million homes in 1947. Housing officials warn private industry must lead to avoid a costly boom and question veterans’ access to affordable housing as construction costs rise.
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Frank Creedon
National
Raymond M. Foley
Theyid
Philip B. Fleming
Ce of
Jaying
Trumans Host Tea for Democratic National Committee Aides
President and Mrs. Truman hosted a tea in Washington for over 500 staff and party workers from the Democratic National Committee across more than 25 states. National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan was absent due to illness.
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Washington
Truman
Democratic National Committee
National Committee
Robert E. Hannegan
Deaths Terpkosh 33 in Des Moines Hospital
Terpkosh aged 33 died at United States Veterans hospital in Des Moines at 8 a m Saturday He was born Oct 6 1913 on a Cedar Rapids area farm and lived near the city before moving to a farm The Navy veteran served 18 months in the Pacific He leaves a wife Adeline six children two brothers two sisters and his mother Funeral services will be held at Bramer funeral home Brooklyn Monday at 10 30 a m.
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Cyril
Stella Terpkosh
Route 2
Cedar Rapids
Joseph C
Richard L
Cedar Ra
John M
Ben Sojka
Joe Melichar
Frank Pobuda
Bramer Funeral Home
Brooklyn
Death of August Larson at 64 in Independence hospital
August Larson 64 a longtime Northwestern Bell construction man died in Peoples hospital Independence at 11 10 am Saturday after an illness He was born in Sweden February 22 1882 He is survived by three brothers Funeral services will be held at the Grand hotel locale is noted as his residence.
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August Larson
Grand Hotel
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Peoples Hospital
Independence
Sweden
Funeral services for Mrs. George H. Geyer
Funeral services for Mrs. George H. Geyer of 2009 Park Avenue SE will be held at States Funeral Home in Traer at 3 p.m. Tuesday. Burial follows in Buckingham Cemetery. Friends may call at Turner Chapel Sunday afternoon and until 10 a.m. Tuesday.
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George H. Geyer
Park Avenue SE
States
Traer
Buckingham Cemetery
Turner Chapel
Gust Sampson 87 former Cedar Rapids resident dies in Columbus
Gust Sampson aged 87, long time Williams and Hunting employee and former Cedar Rapids resident, died Saturday at 6 30 am in his Columbus Ohio home after a brief illness. Surviving son Garfield R. Sampson of Columbus. Body to Turner chapel with committal at Linwood cemetery Monday at 10 am.
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Gust Sampson
Cedar Rapids
Williams
Columbus
Ohio
Garfield R. Sampson
Turner Chapel
Linwood Cemetery
Funeral Services for Mrs Martin W Coehn
Funeral services for Mrs Martin W Coehn who died Friday will be conducted at the Polansky funeral chapel at 2 p.m. Monday and at Trinity Lutheran church at 2 30 p.m. by the Rev Leo E Schmiege. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial Park. Friends may call at the chapel.
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Martin W. Coehn
Sixteenth Street
Polansky
Trinity Lutheran Church
Leo E. Schmiege
Cedar Memorial Park
Funeral services announced for Mrs Clyde Lick
Funeral services for Mrs. Clyde Lick of 360 Twentieth Street SE will be conducted in the Turner chapel following a long illness. Friends may call at the funeral home prior to the service.
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Clyde Lick
Twentieth Street
Turner Chapel
Mated
Capone Convicted in 1931 Tax Case Amid Chicago Racketeering Lore
The former bootleg king Capone faced an 11 year sentence and a $50 fine after pleading guilty to failure to file income returns linked to 1924 to 1929. Reports claimed his family still controlled Chicago rackets, despite ridicule from associates.
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James M. Ragen
Racing News
Capone
Chicago
James H. Wilkerson
Stion- Capone
Capone rises to power and falls to federal taxes
The article traces Al Capone from his Naples birth on January 17, 1899 to his rise in Chicago under Torrio after 1919, including the Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929, and notes his downfall by federal income tax prosecutions. It mentions his aliases, Massacre notoriety, and notorious lifestyle in the 1920s Chicago underworld.
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Hederal
Capone
Naples
Italy
New York
Chicago
Johnny Torrio
Big Jim” Colosimo
South Side
Viceczor
Torrio
George “Bugs” Moran
Casto
Soviet Propaganda Efforts Draw U S Counteraction
State department officials charged that Russian propaganda agencies are aiming to turn eastern Europeans against the United States and that similar campaigns target China. William T. Stone said nations misrepresent the U S while others tell both sides, as Washington promotes international broadcasting and libraries to counter misinformation. The remarks were made on a department radio program to Bucharest and to the eastern European branch chief.
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Washington
State Department
Europe
United States
China
William T. Stone
Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs
Stone
Frank R. Shea
Information Service
Bucharest
Romania
Maurice S. Rice
The
Hick Elected Head of Iowa State Society
Sen. Rourke B. Hickenlooper of Cedar Rapids was elected president of the Iowa State Society at its annual dinner. He succeeds Rep. Thomas E. Martin of Iowa City.
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Hick
Iowa State Society
Washington
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Thomas E. Martin
Iowa City
Senators To Seek Hoover Report On German Food
Senate Appropriations Chairman Styles Bridges said Herbert Hoover will be asked to report on food and economic conditions in Germany and the way stations. Hoover may testify after completing his Europe survey urged by President Truman to find ways to ease relief costs for American taxpayers.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Senate Appropriations Committee On Food and Economic Conditions
Ger- Committee
Styles Bridges
Europe
Hoover
Truman
War Department
Germany
Austria
Far
Labor outlook after steel CIO deal stirs Congress talk
The piece notes President Truman supporters praised the unity of steel CIO accord shaping labor policy. It argues prosperity hinges on Congress, with 80th Congress poised to pass a general labor bill but faces risk of nationwide strikes. House committees lean stricter than Senate counterparts. Senate and House hearings will sway many undecided lawmakers.
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Congress
House Labor Committee
Senate Labor Committee
Senate
House
Communists Near Victory in Rio City Council Race
Returns from Rio de Janeiro show three Communists assured seats on the 59 member city council with a Communist plurality likely as counts favor them. Communist total 28,792 led National Social Democrats 23,983 Laborites 22,357 and the administration 15,735 for the district’s council race.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Federal District
National Social Democrats
Laborites
Administration
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Maxwell Field
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Miss Short
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