Gendarmes Charge Mobs in Belgium
In Brussels and across Belgium on Saturday night mounted gendarmes charged rioters in the bloodiest clash since King Leopold III’s exile. The Leopold cabinet declared a state of emergency in Liege and banned public meetings while troops moved to protect key sites. Casualties were reported among women and rioters as anti Leopoldists planned further demonstrations ahead of a Tuesday march.
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Belgium
Brus
Leopold III
Ace
Germany
Leopold
Liege
Verviers
Mountlice
Evard Anspach
Eopold
Split
Westat of Nations
West Plans Adjournment Over U.N. Council surprises
Western Powers met secretly at the Norwegian U N delegation in Lake Success to plot an immediate adjournment if Soviet delegate Malik presents any bombshells at the security council. The group aims to postpone the session two or three days to confer with governments and press Lie to secure an agenda and limit any political gains by the Soviet Union.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations Security Council
Jacob A. Malik
Council
United States
Britain
France
Norway
United Nations
Malik
Security Council
U.N
Trygve Lie
Gazettees Flown to Camp for Guardsmen
Complimentary copies of The Gazette and Sunday editions are flown to Fort Leonard Wood for training guardsmen. The Gazette's Bonanza section will feature the departure story and pictures. John Rey will oversee the dispatch from the Iowa news section.
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E Gazette
Elown National Guard
Fort Leonard Wood
Gazette
Old Wood
John Rey
Iowa
Top Duroc Sells For $1 100 In Congress Sale
In the National Duroc Congress sale at Hawkeye Downs Cedar Rapids the two top spring boars sold for 1100 and 1000 dollars. The top pig came from Fenmar Farms Orion Illinois and went to Dunlap and Nickle Batesville Mississippi. The second high boar came from Fred Ottinger Elgin Illinois and was bought by Schultz and Baumgarten Durbin North Dakota. A total of 236 head sold with averages reported for various classes and winners across the judging contest.
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National Duroc Congress
Hawkeye Downs
Fenmar Farms
Orion
Ill
Dunlap and Nickle
Batesville
Miss
Fred Ottinger
Elgin
Schultz and Baumgarten
Durbin
N. D
Congress
Gregor Vaske
Riverside
Oklahoma
Martin Katter
Charles J. Cottrell
van Horne
Earl W. Gibson
Aurora
Commercial Pork Producers
Kermit Neubauer
Iowa Falls
G.I
Ralph Knotek
Bill Stokes
Dallas
Texas
Irish Brigade for Korean War Urged
Brigadier E Dorman O Gowan urged Ireland form an Irish brigade to fight in Korea in a letter to the Irish Independent. He argued Korea is a crusade not a private war and proposed volunteers could serve under both the tri color and the Stars and Stripes, possibly joining U S forces.
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Dublin
Ireland
Korea
E. Dorman O’gowan
Irish Independent
United Nations
Health Camp Fund Assured by Gazette Readers
The Camp Good Health fund for 1950 reached its $7,375.50 goal on Saturday as The Gazette readers contributed generously. The drive opened May 7 with a slim outlook but local clubs businesses and individuals boosted the total to a final surplus of $236.01, to be used for emergencies before August 12 and a nest egg for next year. The campaign was sponsored by The Gazette with thanks from Manager Pleune and the families of 75 campers, with future items noted on pages 4 and 8.
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Cedar Rapids
the Gazette
Camp Good Health
The
Public Health Nursing Association
Pleune
Don DeFore Visits His Old Home Town With Family
Don DeFore film star and his wife with two children tour his childhood town while on a Chicago film assignment. He plans to spend a day with his mother Mrs. J. E. De Fore and remaining kin, visiting for the weekend. This is his first return in five years and marks the first time Penny and David have met their grandmother. The DeFore family remains based in Los Angeles.
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Don DeFore
Old Home
Chicago
Edar Rapids
Don
J. E. DeFore
Penny
David
Dawn
DeFore
Mandeville Canyon
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Hal Wallis
Chuckle WAC Pun Spoof From Army Banter
A light wartime joke features a W AC and a soldier. The W AC quips that she would not have prepared as she did if she had known he was coming, humorously blaming her appearance. The exchange underlines military humor in casual banter.
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Wac
President Truman Heads Weekend Potomac Cruise
President Truman departed Washington for a weekend cruise aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg on the Potomac. White House secretary said he will return Sunday evening and plans to rest, though he carries a thick stack of official papers.
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Washington
Truman
Capital
Potomac
Williamsburg
White House
Charles G. Ross
Twin Girls Born Ten Days Apart At Lincoln Hospital
Twin girls born ten days apart are reported thriving at Lincoln Deaconess hospital. Their mother Mrs. Robert Voelker, 20, of Kenney, NL, died shortly after the birth of the second girl on Friday night following pneumonia after the first twin’s birth on July 19. Both babies are in excellent condition. The mother had celebrated her 20th birthday on July 21.
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Lincoln, I
Lincoln’s Deaconess Hospital
Robert Voelker
Kenney
Indictments in Time Race Tied to Soviet Spy Case
Abrah am Brothman and Miriam Moskowitz, owners of Ulster Chemical Co. in Cliffwood New Jersey, were arrested by the FBI for arranging with Harry Gold to lie to a 1947 New York grand jury probing espionage. The indictments, issued as the statute of limitations neared, accuse them of fabricating a meeting story linking Gold to Semen H Semenov instead of Golos, with Moskowitz called the brains behind the scheme.
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Cliffwood
N.J
Gold
New York City
Brothman
Miss Moskowitz
Jacob Golos
Semen H. Semenov
Amtorg Trading Corp
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington
South Koreans Rescue 140 American Soldiers
Tokyo AP reports South Korean naval units rescued 140 American soldiers who escaped a North Korean trap and trudged to the south coast Friday night. A General Mac Arthur spokesman said the Americans had been isolated somewhere in the south and later reached Noryangjin, ten miles southeast of Red-held Hadong.
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Tokyo
MacArthur
Noryangjin
Red-held
Hadong
Flyer's eye view of Korean front air action over South Korea
Captain John Flynn of the 49th fighter-bomber group describes a Saturday air strike near a Communist-held town in South Korea. He and his unit, flying F-30s with rockets, encountered a 2,500-foot ceiling and dense traffic of friendly aircraft as they strafed a building believed to shelter Red troops and joined Mustangs dropping fire bombs.
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U. S. Air Force
John Flynn
Cleveland
Flynn
49Th
Japan
Italy
United Press
South Korea
Move Traps Group of 1st Cavalry
Lt Gen Walker reported two divisions released for a southward attack near Kumchon and Taegu. MacArthur noted wide attacks across Korea with a roadblock south of Kumchon trapping a 1st Cavalry recon unit. Engineers north of Kumchon faced supply shortages while air support aided both groups. A second report cites patrols attempting infiltration in Negro 24th area before reinforcements arrival.
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Douglas MacArthur
Yongdok
Kumchon
1St Cavalry
25Th Infantry
Hwanggan
Hamchang
Walker
8Th Army
Hwanggan-Kumchon
Three Injured in Headon Car Crash
A headon collision on Mt. Vernon road SE near Thirty-sixth street SE at about 8:20 p.m. Saturday injured two women and a two-year-old boy. Mercy hospital treated Mrs. Alvin L. Northrup 29 and her son Gene 2, and Mrs. Ashby B. Livesay 31, with the latter’s husband 32 driving. Livesay was charged with reckless driving.
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Cedar Rapids
Mt. Vernon Road
Mercy Hospital
Alvin L. Northrup
Gene
Fifth Avenue SE
Ashby B. Livesay
Eighteenth Street SE
Robert Buresh
Harold Cerveny
Thirty-sixth Street
Livesay
Northrup
Connecticut Democrats Renominate Gov Bowles
Governor Chester Bowles renominated by acclamation at the Democratic state convention in Hartford. Bowles, who served as federal CPA chief during World War II, secured renomination without opposition.
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Democrats
Gov
Bowles
Hartford
Conn
Chester Bowles
CPA
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