Flood Crest Heads Down Mississippi
Floodwaters push through and breach levees along the Mississippi south of Quincy Illinois forcing evacuations of hundreds of families. Army engineers and state police mobilize to sandbag and rescue as towns like Hannibal Canton and Clarksville face rising waters and power and water crews maintain service.
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United Press
Mississippi
Quincy
Illinois
Missouri
W. E. Potter
Kansas City
Glasgow
Booneville
Red Cross
Iowa
Nebraska
Midwest
Ottumwa
Kissinger
Clarksville
Coast Guard
Old Monroe
Louisiana
Coal Cut by Strikes Over Congress Act
Pittsburgh reports wildcat miner walkouts over Taft Hartley act cut soft coal output by over 62 thousand tons. Western Pennsylvania mines closed as 11 thousand plus miners walked out. UMW leaders blame resentment over Congress labor bill. mills may face future cuts despite no current shutdowns.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
William J. Hines
District 4
AFL
United Mine Workers
Congress
UMW
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
United States Steel
Rescue of 4 In Flood Told
In Ottumwa AP reports a mother and three children survived a flood boat collapse while two other women drowned. The body of Mrs Loren Mullenax 45 was recovered Tuesday. Mrs Charles Lauder 68 was recovered Monday. The rescue included Mrs Walter Thomas and her three children who were swept away then saved after a second boat capsized. A Como man helped hold the older children above water during the ordeal.
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Ottumwa
Herschel Loveless
Loren Mullenax
Charles Lauder
Loveless
Walter Thomas
Skeleton Found In Mansion Yard In Chicago Gold Coast
A human skeleton buried 18 inches beneath a garden path was found in the yard of a 22 room Gold Coast mansion now used as a rooming house. An anthropologist from the University of Chicago could not date death without further lab work. The bones are believed to belong to a white man about 25. The mansion is owned by Mrs Stuyvesant Peabody, widow of a wealthy coal magnate.
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Chicago
Gold Coast
Wilton Goo
University of Chicago
Stuyvesantt Peabody
Price Boost Announced By Corn Products Firm
New York AP reports Corn Products Tuesday announced price increases from 10 to 30 cents per hundredweight on its products after recent cash corn price hikes.
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New York
Hope Offered to Ulcer Sufferers by New Medicine
A synthetic resin antacid similar to bakelite shows promise for stomach ulcers. In Newark at the Presbyterian hospital, 60 patients received the compound, 46 remained symptom-free for up to nine months, with no recurrences among them. FDA approved it only for investigation, and experts say it may prevent urgent surgery in some cases while requiring long-term use for others. Further research is needed.
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Atlantic City
Presbyterian Hospital
Newark
American Medical Association
Manfred Kraemer
Federal Food and Drug Administration
Kraemer
Army Orders 100 of Biggest Bomber
The Army Air Forces ordered 100 B 36 bombers built by Consolidated Vultee in Fort Worth Texas. The six engine planes will carry 10 000 pounds of bombs across 10 000 miles with first aircraft due for tests in July and delivery to conclude by mid 1949. General Ramey inspected the plant and said the 336s would join his command later.
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Fort Worth
Army Air Forces
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
A.A.F
Harry Woodhead
Rig
Ramey
Th Air
Hotel Firebug Tries Six Times To Set Fires
A Cedar Rapids man set six small fires in two downtown hotels Monday night and again after midnight. The blaze sequence began at 6 02 pm in the Allison hotel basement storeroom and continued with four more alarmed outbreaks in the Magnus hotel and nearby areas. Detective work tied a hotel guest, William Loschioth, and a maid Lazara McDonald to the investigation as officers sifted evidence from basements and elevator shafts.
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Gazette
Blake Shipton
Lazara McDonald
Magnus
Cedar Rapids
Allison
Allison Hotel
Allison Alley
The
William Loschioth Woree
Soviet Cabinet Declares Wide State Secrets List
A Soviet cabinet decree classifies information on the armed forces inventions natural resources and foreign relations as state secrets with penalties up to 20 years. It covers currency plans, import export data, mineral resources and negotiations with foreign entities among others. The law targets both civilians and officials based on the sensitivity of disclosed material.
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Moscow
U.S.S.R
Mnin
House Unit Backs Sugar Ration End
Washington AP The House Banking Committee endorsed a plan to end sugar rationing for home consumption. Chairman Walcott R Michigan said the vote was by overstock though not a Gamble RUNY introduced measure.
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Washington
House Banking Committee
Walcott
R-Mich
Gamble
Runy
Red Backed Invasion of North China
The Central News Agency reports Outer Mongolian forces under Russian protection have invaded Sinkiang, penetrating 200 miles into the eastern province under air cover from four Soviet emblem planes. Fierce fighting continues as civilians are bombed and towns strafed along the border.
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North
China
Nanking
Central News Agency
Outer Mongolian
Sinkiang
Tihwa
Mongolian
Truman Reaches Canadian Capital on goodwill visit
President Truman arrived by train in Ottawa for a three day goodwill visit to Canada the first such presidential visit in history between the two nations. This marks the first official trip by a U S president to Canada since the Roosevelts era.
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Ottawa
Truman
United States
Frauen
Canada
Roose
May employment hits new crest across agricultural and non agricultural sectors
U S employment rose to 58 million 300 thousand in May with agricultural workers adding one million and non agricultural workers up by 500 thousand from April. Unemployment fell by about half a million from the previous month as the Census Bureau reported the figures on Tuesday.
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Washington
INS
United States
Census Bureau
Acheson Pledge To Nagy Reported
Premier Ferenc Nagy faces Communist accusations of plotting to overthrow Hungary. Jozsef Revai cites a January letter from Nagy to Acheson seeking Truman Doctrine aid, with Acheson reportedly replying with support.
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Acheson
Nagy
Ferenc Nagy
Republic
Jozsef Revai
America
Revai
Hungary
French Rail Heads Spurn Peace Move
In Paris the Federation of Railroad Men rejected Premier Paul Ramadier’s call to end the 500000 strong rail strike. Ramadier urged workers to return to duties for essential service. union leaders met on union initiative. The nationwide disruption left food and other essential trains only.
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Paris
Federation of Railroad Men
Paul Ramadier
Ramadier
Plane Crash Is Called Death by Own Action
A former navy pilot Gordon Schultz twenty two deliberately dove a light training plane into his father’s roadside cafe in La Crosse Wisconsin killing himself and his uncle Harry Schultz fifty three who was inside the cafe Coroner George Reay said the act was intentional and the will Schultz had written before the crash was mailed to a friend supported by the power dive and wire clearance before crashing through the cafe front door.
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Schultz
Cooler Weather Expected Tonight in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids experienced a volatile day with highs near 92 degrees and a noon peak of 85. A shower dropped rain to .09 inches as winds reached 35 mph at the airport. Forecasters call for cloudy cooler conditions tonight with occasional rain in the northern portion.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercury
Eagrese
U S Ambassadors Plan on Greek Army Training
In Athens Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh stated Washington would rely on the British to train and run the Greek army, with military supplies supplied from a $300 fund.
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Athens
United States
Lincoln MacVeagh
Eisler Convicted In Contempt Case
Federal court jury in Washington found Gerhart Eisler guilty of contempt of Congress after a five minute deliberation. He faces up to one year in prison and a $1 060 fine.
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Washington
Gerhart Eisler
Congress
Senators Seek Full Probe of Occupation Money Redeemed
Three Republican senators urged a full investigation into reports that the United States redeemed millions of German occupation marks printed by Russian authorities. They allege American officials provided the plates to the Russians and that as much as 900 million dollars in occupied currency was redeemed, with billions in back pay and black market trades fueling conversions to dollars.
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Washington
United States
Knowland
Calif
G.i.’S
G.I
War Department
Treasury
Poment
Congress
Capitol Hill
War Investigating Committee
Ferguson
Senate
Bridges
Roosevelt
Europe
Germany
Soldier Missing After Drowning In German River
In Frankfurt Germany the U S army disclosed that Sgt Cloyce Correctionville Iowa drowned in the Main River near Selena on June 4.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U. S. Army
Sgt
Cloyce
Correctionville
Selena
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