B-29 Crash Near Aden Halts World Flight Effort
An American B-29 part of a three-ship around the world drill crashed into the Arabian Sea off Aden after takeoff from the port. One survivor Sgt. Sigger R. Gustafason of Norwood Mass is hospitalized in RAF hospital. The Air Force reports 19 of 20 aboard missing. two other planes returned to Aden. The mission aimed to train crews for long over water flights and assess wartime bases, with flight plans continuing to Ceylon before returning to Tucson.
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Davis-Monthan Army Air Base
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Cedar Rapids Bargain Day earns strong early response
Cedar Rapids merchants report a very good early turnout for citywide midsummer Bargain Day. J W Enzler, new Retail Merchants bureau chair, checked eight large stores and found enthusiastic crowds and strong morning sales. Lipsky led the planning committee.
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Cedar Rapids
J. W. Enzler
Enzler
Retail Merchants Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Abbott Lipsky
Typhoon Slams Hong Kong Killing At Least Seven
Typhoon J smashed Hongkong causing seven deaths and wrecking houses and boats. Rescue teams worked through the damage as residents faced widespread destruction and dangerous conditions.
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Hongkong
Jap Challenge To MacArthur Strike Ruling
Tokyo reports show 2000 Kyushu University faculty and staff walk out in open challenge to Gen. MacArthur’s order restricting public employee strikes. James Killen resigns over policy, citing denial of collective bargaining rights for government unions and a shift in labor policy.
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Kyushu University
Fukuoka
General MacArthur
James S. Killen
MacArthur
Japan
Federation of Professors and
Hitoshi Ashida
Central Labor Relations Board
Labor Ministry
Killen
Cedar Rapids To Be Test City In Opinion-Aire Poll
Cedar Rapids is selected as the test city for tonight's Opinion-Aire broadcast on KCRG KCRK at 9. The poll, about price control, will be the sole voting city with results to be announced after 10 p.m. and printed in tomorrow's Gazette.
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Congress
Dear Rapids
Dewey
Wholesale Food Prices Dip for Second Week
New York reports wholesale food prices declined for the second week, per Dun and Bradstreet. The index measures 31 common foodstuffs and stood at 7.18 on July 27, down from 7.30 prior, after peaking at 7.36 on July 13. A year earlier the index was 6.51.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet
Improvement Plans for Camp Good Health 1949
Camp committee maps an eight point upgrade for Camp Good Health on Mt. Vernon road. Improvements include a second shower building and 100 feet of new piping to drain waste. other repairs cover linens closets window fixes shutters inf irmary staff cabin doors and fence posts. Funds come from the Camp Good Health fund with community donations boosting the 1948 operating fund to 5886.30 and leaving 1108.70 still to raise for the nine week season which began June 21.
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A. T. Pleune
Pleune
Camp Good Health Improvement Fund
Gazette
Knights of Columbus
Camp Good Health
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Sete Eee
J.harms
Milwaukee Rise Chicago Rail Firm Reports June Income
Milwaukee rail line announced a June net operating income of 2,079,729 dollars, up 1,603,151 dollars from June of the previous year. The report highlights improved performance and month over month growth.
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Chicago
Milwaukee Railroad
Berlin Woman Mayor Opposes Soviet Edicts in City Administration
Frau Louise Schroeder resisted Kotikov orders and urged consultation with the city council before unilateral actions. She backed by the United States and allied powers against Soviet dictates and rejected a police chief dismissal, warning that accepting the decree would breach her oath under four power authority. Disturbances over new East German currency broke out as crowds clamored for the notes and police and fire crews struggled to maintain order.
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Bextin
Frau
Louise Schroeder
Alexander Kotikov
Frau Schroeder
United States
Britain
France
Kotikov
Johannes Stumm
Stumm
Paul Markgraf
Berlin Money Exchange Sparks Disorder in Russian Sector
Thousands of Germans lined streets outside banks in Berlin to exchange old marks for new Soviet sponsored currency as a Wednesday deadline neared. Western papers accused the Soviet run commission of cheating the people while the Russian press blamed the non Communist city government for limited exchange sites. American Military Government officials denied the charge, saying the Russians were shifting blame for their mistake.
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Berlin
Economic Commission
Hity
Untiedt Case Dismissed Over Missing Witness
Clarence Untiedt, 43, of Clutter, saw an assault with intent to murder charge dismissed by Judge Floyd Philbrick after the state could not produce Ortha Untiedt, his former wife, as a witness. Ortha Untiedt pled guilty to burglary and is in the Colorado penitentiary. The case collapsed due to lack of evidence with the missing complainant.
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Cedar Rapids News
Clarence Untiedt
Floyd Philbrick
William Crissman
Ortha Untiiedt
Colorado
Crissman
Ortha Untiedt
Jerrold Orland Conaway
Grand Junction
State Penitentiary
Untiedt
Linn County
Thundershowers Predicted Tonight Across Iowa
Temperatures rose into the 90s in Iowa with a forecast of scattered showers later. Cedar Rapids could see morning rain Thursday while a wide area over the state faces thunderstorms at night. Local highs reached 82 Tuesday and 86 at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday after a 6:30 a.m. low of 69.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Council Bluffs
San Antonio
Texas
Chambers
Race Issue Filibuster Shapes Up
Washington AP Republicans running Congress steer Truman civil rights program toward a filibuster and adjournment soon. Democrats cry sabotage as GOP lawmakers plan to let voters decide in November. Taft Dewey consultation hints stay in Washington a week then go home. House banking panel to review anti inflation bills amid expected opposition.
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Congressional Republicans
Congress
Truman
G.O.P
Robertson
Wyo
Dewey
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Taft
Ohio
Ohioan
Senate
House
House Banking Committee
Chuckle Wife Accuses Him of Filthy Excuses
A humorous exchange unfolds as a wife questions her husband about his return from the office. He insists he came straight home, while she notes he stopped for corn on the way, implying layers of comic misunderstanding.
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Commerce
West Seeking Showdown over Berlin Crisis
Western powers prepared to press Molotov for direct talks on German issues in Moscow this weekend. United States Ambassador Walther Bedell Smith traveled from London via Berlin to join the British and French envoys. Officials say the move could mark a turning point toward peace or renewed conflict if negotiations begin after the Berlin blockade ends.
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Washington
Russia
Moscow
Molotov
Berlin
United States
Walter Bedell Smith
London
Kremlin
Britain
France
Western Powers proceed with Western Germany plan
Secretary Marshall said the United States agrees with Britain and France on next steps in Germany while noting reports abroad misstate details. He confirmed Western Powers will push ahead with setting up a separate government in Western Germany as part of ongoing Big Four discussions.
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Marshall
United States
Frenchson
Bert Seviera
Hssezen
Germany
A_ London dispatch
Army Race Policy To Be Unchanged Declared By Bradley
Gen Omar Bradley chief of staff told a news conference at Fort Knox that the army will not change its racial segregation policies. He cited the Gillam report and said 13 percent of troops are Negroes with one company or battalion assigned to each unit. Bradley said American troops would remain in Berlin though undersized and unable to hold the line without delay.
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Fort Knox, Ky
INS
Omar Bradley
Bradley
Gillam
Belegro
Berlin
Rocket sighting reported near Cedar Rapids by Willard McDonald
Willard McDonald a 27 year old brick mason and war veteran said he saw an oblong shaped craft rise from the clouds at 11 am Wednesday 40 miles east of Cedar Rapids. He described it changing direction and vanishing eastward with his wife also seeing the object.
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Cedar Rapids
Eastern Airlines
Montgomery
Ala
Pacific Northwest
Olin
Willard McDonald
McDonald
Massive blast devastates Ludwigshafen ACF plant in Europe’s postwar crisis
A large explosion and fire at the Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik plant in Ludwigshafen, across the Rhine from Mannheim, killed thousands or more and left up to 800 police estimates of casualties. The 22 000 worker facility produced industrial chemicals and dyes and was largely ruined with five hours of flames. French authorities controlled the scene in the French zone, with patients from Ludwigshafen Mannheim Heidelberg and Speyer hospitals.
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Farben Chemical Works
Europe
United States Army
Heidelberg
Enrachee
Penedverey
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Pele
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Prepea
Communist Gets Signals Crossed
A South Korea labor party official walked into a police station near Seoul and reported Communist activities to officers. He was arrested on spying charges after apparently thinking he had crossed into North Korea.
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Seoul
Korea
South Korea Labor Party
North Korea
Yugoslavs Probe Western Trieste Move at U N
Yugoslavia charged that the United States and Britain plotted to fold Western Trieste into Italy and urged the U N Security Council to deem the action a world peace threat. It said London and Washington struck economic and fiscal deals ceding control to Rome and planned to bring Western Trieste under the Marshall Plan.
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Yugoslavia
United States
Britain
Trieste
Italy
United Nations Seurity Council
U.N
Marshall Forms Panel to Probe U N Immigration Risk
Secretary of State Marshall announced a three citizen committee to examine if the United Nations is admitting individuals who threaten American security. The probe aims to assess potential risks and safeguard national safety.
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Marshall
The
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U N Official Denies U S Right to Probe Property
Arkady Sobolev, acting UN secretary general, declared that neither the United States nor any other nation has a legal right to investigate UN officials or conduct an inquiry on UN property.
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