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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1950
Page
2
Nations pool coal and steel plan without Britain
Six Western European nations France Belgium Netherlands West Germany Luxembourg and Italy announced agreement on an immediate objective to pool coal and steel production and form a binding high authority. A Paris conference to draft a treaty is planned for June 15, while Britain urged a limited discussion instead of full confederation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Britain
France
Europe
Belgium
Netherlands
Germany
Luxembourg
Italy
Schuman
London
Govt Admits Hick Right On Amerasia Secrets
The justice department reversed itself and said four of the five documents named by Senator Hick en looper were among papers seized in Amerasia raids. McInerney denied a top secret Roosevelt to Chiang Kai-shek message but noted a personal memorandum may exist. McCarthy renewed his anti-communist attack, challenging Truman to open loyalty files on several named officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
Justice Department
Senate
Amerasia
James P. McInerney
Sen. Hickenlooper
Iowa
McCarthy
R-Wis
Truman
McInerney
U.S
Japan
Joseph Grew
State Department
Far East
Tsushima Strait
Roosevelt
Chiang Kai-shek
Hull
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
G.O.P
John S. Service
Jessup
Owen Lattimore
Chicago Storm Feeds Fatality In Convent Flood
A severe thunderstorm drenched Chicago with 2.5 inches of rain causing power failures and basement floods. Mother Superior Lucilla Pellizi, 50, of St. Philip Benizi church, died from an electric shock when a refrigerator short circuited in a flooded convent basement as water rose. Firefighters struggled for nearly an hour to revive her. The 24 hour total reached 3.90 inches, a Chicago single day record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
INS
Lucilla Pellizi
St. Philip Benizi
Pellizi
Wetumka crowd sees 1929 stunt repeated 21 years late
About 450 Wetumka residents gathered Friday night to watch a man perform a wall scale in a hotel, only to learn the stunt dated from 1929 due to a makeup error. Managing Editor Howard Nicks explained the piece was misfiled from a feature column into a news column with the original headline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wetumka
Okla
Howard Nicks
Nicks
Payroll Guardian Thwarts Gunman on Broadway
Simon Framberg 59 saved a $20,000 payroll from a daring daylight Broadway thief at Broadway and 58th street. The gunman clubbed him and fled in a car, but Framberg recovered and carried the money to his trading company office before collapsing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Simon Framberg
Noble estate to give Carlisle hospital $250000
Carlisle hospital in Carlisle, Pennsylvania will receive $250000 from the $8000000 estate of Dr. Joseph W. Noble under an agreement announced by the surrogate's court. Noble died at his White Plains home last July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Plains
N. Y
Carlisle Hospital
Carlisle
Joseph W. Noble
Noble
Basing Point Bill Seen Benefiting Cedar Rapids Firms
Cedar Rapids area hailed Senate passage of the basing point bill allowing firms to absorb freight costs by cutting profits. The measure, awaiting presidential signature, enables pricing to compete with East and Midwest rivals, aiding firms like Penick and Ford and others in gaining access to eastern markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Senate
New York
Chicago
Grant Maples
The
Chamber of Commerce
Penick and Ford
Rita Hayworth sells Brentwood mansion in California
Hollywood reports Princess Rita Hayworth has sold her three bedroom Brentwood mansion for about 55000 dollars. Real estate agent Charles T. Spencer says buyer is Margaret Gray Storm a Bel air divorcee. Hayworth plans no Hollywood return, busy decorating a Paris home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Princess
Rita Hayworth
Aly Khan
Brentwood
Charles T. Spencer
Margaret Gray Storm
Bel-air
Paris
Galveston Flood Drenches City After Night Rain
Galveston Texas drenched by a foot of rain in under nine hours causing widespread flooding. About 80 000 residents faced inundation with storm sewers overwhelmed and business and transit stalled. The heaviest rain fell between 6 and 8 a.m. with 7.35 inches. No loss of life reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galveston
Texas
Snake interrupts Wisconsin radio station for ten minutes
LADYSMITH Wisconsin AP A partly baked snake caused station WLDY to go off air for ten minutes Friday. Engineer Darrell Holbrook found a five foot pine snake coiled around high voltage transmitter wires after the outage. He removed the reptile and the station returned to air. The snake appeared unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladysmith
Wis
WLDY
Darrell Holbrook
Holbrook
Justice Smith Honored by Iowa Bar Association
Waterloo AP Justice W A Smith of Dubuque received the Iowa State Bar Association's annual award of merit at the banquet. Smith, who served as association president in 1941 42, was cited for leadership. Attorney Harold J Gallagher urged creation of nationwide legal aid societies to help moderate income citizens. Wiley E Mayne of Sioux City was elected president of the Iowa junior bar section with Peter Narey Spirit Lake as VP and John Nagle Davenport as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallagher
Wiley E. Mayne
Sioux City
Iowa
Peter Narey
Spirit Lake
Andohn Nagle
Davenport
Bell Attacks State Colleges as Independent Schools Favorable
Canon Bernard Iddings Bell told Coe graduates that state-supported colleges produce contented slaves while independent schools foster the happy human life. He warned that government aid and political pressure threaten academic freedom and urged independent colleges to maintain courageous leaders, strong faculty and close faculty student ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Bernard Iddings Bell
Coe
Episcopal Church
University of Chicago
Bell
Oman
Parker's Record Denounced by Iowa Education Chief
Harvey Hill of Des Moines, president of the Iowa State Education Association, says Parker’s record as state superintendent is unsatisfactory and that a committee found Norris and Hartnett satisfactory. Parker defends her bids for re nomination, while Hartnett runs unopposed for the Democratic side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Harvey Hill
Iowa State Educational Association
Jessie Parker
Parker
Paul Norris
Department of Public Instruction
Ellen Hartnett
Drake University
State Education Association
Association
ISEA
Hill
Miss Parker
Judge blocks ALCOA breakup but allows revamp review
Federal Judge John C. Knox ruled that ALCOA's physical properties should not be disturbed for now and gave the government five more years to renew anti Trust actions. He noted ALCOA’s lead has slipped and ordered moves to sharpen competition while leaving the 1940 monopoly ruling intact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Aluminum Company of America
John C. Knox
ALCOA
Justice Department
Knox
Bus Crashes Into House In Chicago. Six Hurt
A Chicago Transit Authority city bus struck a taxicab and plowed through a filling station before slamming into the home of Dominick Quinn. Six people were injured as the house shifted eight feet from its footing and the porch collapsed near Loomis street. A nearby tank truck with 8,000 gallons of gasoline stood half a block away, avoiding a second disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
74Th Street
Chicago Transit Authority
Loomis Street
Dominick Quinn
Communists Fail to Stir Tokyo as Eight Japanese Are Convicted
News dispatch from Tokyo reports a Communist march and a general strike failing to materialize amid police bans. Eight Japanese convicted for assaulting American soldiers on Memorial Day receive prison terms up to ten years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Berlin
Imperial Plaza
Hibiya Park
Gen. MacArtthur
FBI Reaches Far To Nab Deserter
John E. Gavenas, 28, Shenandoah Pennsylvania, deserted the Army in Japan on January 3. About six months and 10,000 miles later he was arrested by an FBI agent while attending a veterans school. He had reenlisted and served in Japan after hitchhiking to Seattle and then driving across the country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shenandoah
John E. Gavenas
A.w.oil
Army
Japan
FBI
Gavenas
Seattle
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Justice Smith
Iowa Bar Association
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Reds
Osaka
Communist Party
Kawasaki
Here
Yokohama
Union
Russia
China
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