De Gasperi Refuses New Italian Government
In Rome Premier Alcide de Gasperi, age 72, declines to form a cabinet citing coalition partners unwilling to join. President Einaudi asks him to consult again Tuesday as center parties resist sharing power with monarchists or leftists.
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Michael Chinigo
Rome
INS
Alcide de Gasperi
de Gasperi
Luigi Einaudi
Middle Road
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Einaudi
Christian Democrats
Woman Robs So She Can Go to Prison
Virginia June Carter, 23, of Stephenville, robbed the Westbrook hotel in Fort Worth Thursday night to go to prison. She told reporters she hoped prison would offer an escape from marital troubles and left $175 with a gun, a note, and her 3-year-old daughter Patsy as detectives arrived.
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Fort Worth
Virginia
June Carter
Stephenville
Westbrook
Patsy
Leo Woods
Woods
Dual Killer 14 Won't Be Tried
A 14 year old who admitted fatally stabbing Sumner Harris and Grace Harris with a hunting knife is to be placed with juvenile authorities. The district attorney said the boy, James Duranty, will be ruled delinquent and confined to the state school for boys at Waukesha until age 21 unless found unbalanced. State law bans prosecuting under 16.
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Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Herbert Johnson
James Duranty
Sumner Harris
Grace
James
Waukesha
Harry Holubar Suffers Burns in Gasoline Accident
Cedar Rapids man Harry Holubar 44 of route 2 was seriously burned Friday morning when gasoline spilled on his clothing and ignited. Fellow worker Herbert Fabert 35 of Marion was burned less seriously as he aided Holubar. The Cedar Rapids Block Company employees were hospitalized at Mercy hospital.
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Cedar Rapids
Harry Holubar
Route 2
Herbert Fabert
Marion
Holubar
Fabert
Mercy Hospital
New Pedestrian Pushbutton Signal for First Avenue
A pedestrian controlled signal with pushbuttons installed at First Avenue and Twelfth Street goes into operation Friday afternoon. It offers 18 seconds for pedestrians to cross once traffic stops and uses a two light crosswalk indicator. The system cycles every 37 seconds and operates 6 am to 11 pm daily, with flashing amber after 11 pm. Patrols will explain the system to pedestrians and drivers for the next few days.
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Cedar Rapids News
First Avenue
Twelfth Street
E. A. Prochaska
Prochaska
Oleo imprint ruling awaited as Iowa sale starts
District Judge Dring Needham will decide Monday on the imprint challenge to Iowa oleo laws. Meanwhile yellow margarine without the word oleo may be sold in the state starting Saturday. Evidence showed many stores received margarine lacking the imprint, while some brands still displayed faint or erased markings due to heat and handling.
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Des Moines
Dring Needham
Iowa
Fend
Needham
Overseas Books Ordered From U S Information Libraries
The State Department directs 189 U S overseas information libraries to submit by August 1 a full list of books including authors and titles. The move aims to provide the International Information Administration with an up to date inventory as a new directive to govern removal of books by Communist or controversial writers is prepared. To date over 300 titles by about 18 authors have been removed under IIA directives since the inquiry began five months ago.
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Washington
State Department
U. S
International Information Administration
IIA
Senate
Navy reports PBM Mariner crash 12 crew missing in Alaska
The navy said a twin engined PBM Mariner patrol plane crashed Thursday in the Aleutian Islands near 30 miles northeast of air base. All 12 crew are presumed dead after an engine failure forced an attempted open sea landing. Search planes found debris and an oil slick but bad weather hindered recovery. Names of the crew were withheld.
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Kodiak, Alaska
Ins
Navy
Aleutian Islands
Briton Suggests Scholarship For Americans In Britain
London MPs back a 41 000 pound annual British scholarship plan to help American students as gratitude for Marshall plan aid. Emrys Hughes, a witty Laborite, jokes inviting Sen McCarthy for a refresher course and notes possible entry issues for Charlie Chaplin and Paul Robeson. A commission would select recipients.
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London
House of Commons
Emrys Hughes
Sen. McCarthy
Hughes
U. S
Charlie Chaplin
Paul Robeson
Herbert Morrison
Commons
Foreign Office
Anthony Nutting
Amusement Park Ride Fatal Crash At Palisades Park
Police seek identity of a husky young man pitched from the Cyclone roller coaster. He plunged 58 feet onto the midway where 61 year old Rachel Frawley was injured after being struck. Park operator Irving Rosenthal calls the incident implausible and notes the victim wore army surplus gear and flirted with two teens before the crash.
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Cliffside Park
N. J
Palisades Amusement Park
Rachel Frawley
Irving Rosenthal
Purse Snatcher Steals $24600 From Los Angeles Woman
A retired telephone operator, Mary Handler, 54, reported that a purse snatcher grabbed her handbag containing $24,600 saved since childhood, including an inheritance, on a street corner in Los Angeles. The thief fled in a car with three other youths.
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Los Angeles
Mary Handler
Heselton pushes federal control of oil and gas
Rep. Heselton of Massachusetts introduced a bill to create a national petroleum commission with power to regulate production refining distribution and sale of petroleum and natural gas to protect national security and economy. He cites high production reserves and rising costs amid a Commerce Committee inquiry into suspected price collusion by major oil companies including Phillips Socony Vacuum Standard Oil NJ and Standard Oil California. Testimony from industry spokesmen and company executives is expected.
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Washington
Heselton
R-Mass
House Commerce Committee
National Petroleum Commission
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Paul E Hadlick
National Marketers Association
Phillips Petroleum
Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
California
Chinese Troops Tie Themselves to Defiant Ridge Fight
South Korean Third Division officers report that on Lookout Mountain in central Korea Chinese troops were found lashed together with wire on the crest after a frontal assault by bayonet wielding ROK infantrymen. Some bodies appeared wired in groups and others reportedly died by their own actions or were tied to prevent retreat.
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Seoul
Lookout Mountain
Korea
ROK
Associated Press
John Randolph
Slow-Driving Suspect Cites Patrol Car Fear
Armagene Mitchell, arrested for driving too slowly in Oakland, Calif, said he would have sped up but slowed when he spotted a highway patrol car in his rear view mirror.
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Oakland
Calif
Armagene Mitchell
Main Break Strands Yuma in 115-Degree Heat Water Freeze
Yuma Arizona with 20000 residents faced a water outage after a Thursday main break amid 115 degree heat. Officials pledged restoration soon but warned of rationing and fire risk. Residents sought water in Winterhaven California as utilities worked to replenish the reservoir.
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Yuma
Ariz
Arizona Public Service Company
Winterhaven
Calif
Lee Poe
Southwestern
Poe
Pen Escape Plot Foiled In Baltimore Prison
In Baltimore the mass escape plot of 43 inmates in the maximum security block was foiled during a pre holiday shakedown. Mastermind Joseph Holmes known as Tunnel Joe led the plan with lieutenant Ben Gillum and a cache of weapons found in Holmes cell. A makeshift rope and notes linking 43 inmates were uncovered, timing thought to exploit Independence Day laxity. Holmes and a guard were injured, both hospitalized, as guards patrolled the segregation block and officials prepared punishment for all involved.
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Baltimore
INS
Vernon L. Peppersack
Joseph
Joe” Holmes
Freedom
Holmes
Peppersack
Ben Gillum
Washington
Outbreak in Seized Germany Sparks Polish-Russian Clashes
Polish troops join civilians to battle Soviet forces in the Polish-occupied area east of the Oder Niesse. Reports say clashes across at least six cities as Poles riot, loot state stores, and rail lines are damaged. Neue Zeitung notes a “zone of death” along the border and several Nazi-style camps housing German detainees with prisoners shot by firing squads.
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Berlin
Germany
Oder- Niesse
Oder-Niesse Line
Poland
Russia
U.S
Neue Zeitung
Berlin- Warsaw
History Shows Fourth of July Rainy Pattern in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids weather history notes that 23 of the last 53 Fourths have seen rain. Forecasters predict occasional thundershowers and a humid day with 92 to 95 degree highs. A squall line will enter Eastern Iowa, moving eastward, with storms likely through Friday night into Sunday morning, then clearing to partly cloudy skies.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar
Iowa
Federal Seizure Hits Sportsmen in Wilderness
In Ely Minnesota federal agents seized three seaplanes used to fly sportsmen into the Superior National Forest resorts. Pilots Elwyn West and Keith Harrington were arrested for contempt of court after the 1949 presidential order banned flights below 4000 feet, potentially stranding anglers and hunters who used the wilderness airway.
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Ely
Minn
Superior National Forest
Crarnet
Gunner Nordbye
U. S
St. Louis
Robert Allie
Henry Sorby
Elwyn West
Keith Harrington
Duluth
Sam Cooper to Donate Fifth Pint of Blood
Sam Cooper, machinist mate third class, plans his fifth pint of blood next week. The Red Cross Bloodmobile will visit Cedar Rapids on July 8 9 and 10 with donors urged to pledge by calling 3 2673 for pre arranged appointments. Cooper cites duty and privilege as he notes many Linn County residents have donated multiple times.
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Red Cross
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Cooper
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