Leopold Not Yet Sure of Restoration in Belgium
Exiled King Leopold faces uncertainty after Belgium's election. Social Christian party wins 108 seats to 104 for anti Leopold forces, with Leopold hoped back by July 1 but observers cautious. Senate likely remains with Social Christians. premier to be Jean Devieusart. Socialists gain ground, threaten general strike if restoration proceeds.
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Brussels
Leopold
Belgium
Social Christian
House of Representatives
Jean Devieusart
Hitler
Switzerland
Charles
Paul-Henri Spaak
Senate
Spaak
Interior Ministry
Communis S
Cedar Rapids Council Moves to Limit Trailers City ordinance targets private camps and single units
Cedar Rapids city council gave preliminary approval to a sweeping trailer housing ordinance. It would ban permanent trailer living and set strict standards for water sewer connections and city codes, with licenses required for each unit and penalties up to 100 dollars or 30 days in jail per day of violation. The measure excludes government camps Ellis and Kenridge as they liquidate but affects private camps and scattered units citywide. Final passage is expected next Monday.
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Cedar Rapids
C. W. Garberson
Ellis Or Kenridge
Garberson
Montgomery nephew quits army for acting career
Lt Garry Gardner Montgomery, nephew of Field Marshal Montgomery, will complete 18 months of service on June 14 and departs to join a Little Theater company in Great Yarmouth at five pounds a week. He says his uncle believes all men should be soldiers, but he must lump it.
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Great Yarmouth
England
Montgomery
Garry Gardner Montgomery
Newsmen
Uncle
Dvorak Waives To Grand Jury On Embezzlement
Frank J. Dvorak 62 former cashier at First Trust and Savings faces a grand jury on embezzlement by a bank officer. He waived to the grand jury in Iowa County Court and posted a 5000 dollar bond. Charges cover 1946 to 1950 with potential 20 year penitentiary term.
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Frank J. Dvorak
First Trust and Savings Bank
William W. Crissman
Dvorak
Grand Jury
Charles Benesh
Crissman
Frank S. Mitralsky
Clarence Wegman
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Cedar Rapids
Hands, Head, Heart and Feet in Crafty Work
A humorous saying traces a worker from laborer to craftsman to artist and finally to a salesman who uses hands head heart and feet. The quip highlights skill and effort across professions in a playful progression.
Census count tops seventy two thousand in Cedar Rapids
Director Rodney Birkicht announced Cedar Rapids census figures have surpassed 72 000 though final numbers await portfolio checks and individual reports. He noted the city is closing the gap with Davenport and urged residents to report missed persons to the census office for accuracy. May 26 preliminary figure was 71 000.
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Cedar Rapids
Rodney Birkicht
Davenport
Birkicht
Census Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Census
Woman Politician Defies Skirt Shortening Trend
London AP reports Dr. Edith Summerskill, minister of national insurance, opposing the push to shorten skirts. She praises the New Look for women politicians and asserts hems should stay down. Summerskill, described as handsome and statuesque at age 49, speaks at a fashion show crowd.
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London
Labor
Edith Summerskill
National Insurance
House of Commons
Britain
Edith
Too Many Fires So Teens Barred From Movie Theater
In Teaneck New Jersey the town’s sole cinema barred teenagers after they staged near riots and set fires in the theater three times in three weeks. Theater manager Al Harris blamed their overprotective home life for the disturbances. The city had been touted as a model community for army propaganda overseas.
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Teaneck
N.J
al Harris
Weather Fair Voting Light As Brannan Plan Gets Test
Early voting in Iowa's primary showed light turnout as the Brannan farm plan faced a popularity test. Weather was mild and polls uncrowded in many areas, with some counties reporting brisk activity in contested local races. Six candidates sought the Democratic senatorial nomination tied to the Brannan plan, while Hickenlooper led the Republican field.
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Brannan
Des Moines
Brannan Farm
Iowa
Waterloo
Davenport
Muscatine
Sioux City
Ottumwa
Estherville
Iin
Council Bluffs
Creston
Fort Dodge
B. B. Hickenlooper
G.O.P
Earl F. Wisdom
Air Election Preview From Gazette News Room
Primary returns will be broadcast tonight by KCRG live from The Gazette newsroom. The Gazette and Associated Press provide complete coverage with updates from five Cedar Rapids counties and state bulletins reaching a final trend by midnight. Frank Nye will join KCRG after 10 with commentary on the results.
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KCRG
Gazette News Room
Gazette
Associated Press
A.P
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Frank Nye
Voting in Cedar Rapids Light Turnout in City Elections
By 2 30 p.m. Monday 3 224 votes were cast across 24 precincts in Cedar Rapids. Heaviest totals were in precincts Eighth 230 Seventh 225 and Fourth 200. Comparisons show 1946 and 1950 primaries with 3 699 and 5 628 by the same hour in March. In Marion 202 votes and Marion township 42 votes were recorded by Monday afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion
Marion Township
Bob Hope Explains Golf Rules After Spectator Pocket Incident
Washington dispatch reports Senate Democratic Leader Lucas sliced a ball into a spectator's pocket during the National Celebrities golf tourney. Bob Hope checked the rule book and declared the next shot would be played by the commissioner of internal revenue, per official guidance.
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Washington
Senate Democratic
Lucas
Bob Hope
Hope
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Desperado Trio Sought in Two-State Manhunt Captured
A 16 mile chase near Spartanburg ends with the capture of Clyde McCallister 34 Huntsville Alabama one of three desperadoes sought after they fired on Tennessee troopers and stole a patrol car. The others Parker and Martha Hensley believed to be armed with a machine gun and shotgun remain at large in surrounding areas.
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Spartanburg
S. C
Ins
Georgia
Tennessee
North Georgia
Clyde McCallister
Huntsville
Ala
McCallister
Atlanta
Parker
Carl
Martha Hensley
Hensley
Shelby
N. C
Kaiser
Ranger
Ooltewah
Tenn
Director sought for Health Camp vacancy at Bever Park
The Health Camp seeks a female director with executive ability and child care knowledge to manage staff and oversee programs after Bernice Carver’s heart attack prevents her return. Staff reports due June 15. contact A T Pleune at 23393 or The Gazette. Budget details show 1950 figures with $7,375.50 total. $5,586.99 remaining to raise.
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Cedar Rapids
Tony Pleune
Bever Park
Bernice Carver
A. T. Pleune
Gazette
Camp Good Health Fund
Women of
Moose
C. R
Olin
Woo
Two Ice Follies Cast Die in Car Crash
Two members of Shipstad's and Johnson's Ice Follies were killed when their car left the highway and crashed into rocks in Bend Oregon. Charles Davidson of Brantford Ontario and Jeanne Crystall of Brooklyn were dead. Nancy McKenzie of London Ontario survived with multiple fractures. Davidson appeared as a main act and Crystall was a specialty skater and vocalist.
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Davidson
U S Rights To Gulf Oil Land Upheld
The Supreme Court ruled federal government ownership of tidelands off Texas and Louisiana. Justice Douglas cited the California tidelands decision as controlling the Louisiana suit, affirming national interest in the three mile belt across the Gulf Coast. Justices Jackson and Clark did not participate.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Texas
Louisiana
Douglas
Reed
Minton
Justice Frankfurter
Jackson and
Clark
California
Louisana
Vet Hospital Study Planned
President Truman appointed a three man committee to review the veterans hospitalization program. The panel will focus on problems of paraplegics and amputees and comes after protests by veterans and Congress over abandonment of some hospitals.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Tampa Oil Executive Killed in Gambling Turmoil
In Tampa, Jimmy Lumia, president of Bay Oil Company, was shot dead while driving alone. Police say Lumia appears tied to the local gambling world in the background though he had no direct arrest record. Prosecutors note Lumia was an enemy of slain gambler-politician Jimmy Velasco, per his widow's testimony.
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Tampa
Jimmy Lumia
Lumia
Bay Oil Company
Tam
J. L. Eddings
Jimmy Velasco
Joblessness Drops to 13 Month Low in May
The AP reports May saw 1,063,000 more job openings in farm and factory work but total employment fell to 3,016,000 unemployed, a 13 month low. Census data show employed persons rising to 59,731,000, the highest since August 1949, with gains mainly from seasonal farming, construction and outdoor work.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Prichard Ballot Conviction Upheld
The Supreme Court on a 5 0 vote upheld Edward F Prichard Jr s 1948 ballot stuffing conviction The justices disqualified themselves from the appeal citing lack of quorum and the court affirmed the Kentucky verdict using a little used federal law provision for non quorum situations
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Washington
Supreme Court
Edward F. Prichard, Jr
Prichard
Boy Wonder
Vinson
Reed, Frankfurter and Clark
Kentucky
Sergeant given life in slaying case in San Francisco
Air Force Sergeant Lyle H. Buswell, 33, convicted of murdering Women's Air Force sergeant Fatty E. Decker, 44, was sentenced to life imprisonment. He will be eligible for parole in 15 years.
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San Francisco
INS
Air Force
Lyle H. Buswell
Fatty E. Decker
Buswell
Supreme Court strikes down segregated education and dining car segregation
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously to bar segregation of Negro students at the University of Oklahoma and ordered Texas to admit a Negro student to its white law school. A prior 8-0 decision outlawed segregation in railroad dining cars, with Justice Vinson delivering the opinions on Oklahoma and Texas cases.
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Washington
Supreme Court
University of Oklahoma
Texas
Vinson
Oklahoma
G. W. McLaurin
Graduate School
McLaurin
Heman Marineatt
Houston
Austin
Elmer W. Henderson
President
Committee On Fair Employment Practices
Birmingham
Southern Railway Company
Southern Railroads
Henderson
American Council of Human Rights
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Justice Department
Department
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Siebert
Ers
Monty Kin Shans Army
Cedar Rapids News
Harry B. Thompson
Albert J. Loveland
Secretary of Agriculture
Loveland
Nelson G. Kraschel
Otha D. Wearin
Dixie
Hunt
U.S
Burton
Black
Frankfurter
Jackson
Henderson Appeal
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