Floods Hit Des Moines as Two Rivers Crest High
Des Moines floods evacuate 1,800 residents after a two-block levee breach floods about 60 blocks in several areas. Missing are James Armstrong and Clark McNeal. they last were seen swimming to safety after a bull cart failed in the rising waters. The crest reached 21 feet at Scott street confluence, surpassing the previous 18.7 foot mark.
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Des Moines
James Armstrong
Clark McNeal
Scott Street
Red Rock
Eddyville
Ottumwa
Keosauqua
U. S. Soil Conservation Service
Franklin
Two Rivers’ Junction
Veteran Cedar Rapids grocer Joseph Hladky dies at 83
Joseph F. Hladky of 1603 Bever Avenue SE Cedar Rapids longtime grocer with 38 years in business died Wednesday night at 10 15 following a long illness born September 5 1877 in Cedar Rapids Survived by wife two sons Donald F and Joseph F Jr two sisters and two grandchildren Funeral services 2 p m Saturday Turner chapel burial Cedar Memorial Park cemetery Friends may call at the chapel He belonged to Crescent lodge No 25 A F and A M Iowa Consistory Apollo Commandery No 26 K T Palestine council No 27 R and S M Trowel chapter No 49 RAM El Kahir Shrine Cedar Chapter No 184 OES and the Elks club
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Joseph F. Hladky
Bever Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Hladky
Donald F
Joseph F., Jr
Frances Suchomel
Theodore Simon
John M
Joseph F. III
Crescent Lodge
A. F
A. M
Iowa
Apollo Commandery
K. T. Palestine Council
S. M
Trowel
R.A. M
el Kahir Shrine
Cedar
O.E.S
The
Elks Club
Turner Chapel
Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery
A Sufficiency of Thundershowers
Cedar Rapids forecasts call for scattered thundershowers this afternoon and tonight with westward clearing by tonight and east by Friday noon. More thundershowers are anticipated late Saturday into Sunday after a day of partial cloudiness, with cooler weather expected to arrive Sunday.
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Cedar Rapids
U.S. Weather Bureau
The
Mercury
Cedar Rapids To Vote On 85 000 Memorial Stadium Bond
Cedar Rapids city council schedules a July 28 special election to approve an 85000 bond issue for a multi purpose memorial stadium. A petition with 1095 voter signatures prompted the move, citing that the 215000 authorization from 1946 no longer covers rising costs for a 7600 seat stadium on a 59 acre tract at Rockford Road SW near Eighth and Fourteenth Avenues, land bought by the memorial commission and the school board.
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Cedar Rapids Memorial Stadium
Cedar Rapids
Rockford Road
Os Eighth and
Fourteenth Avenues
The
Memorial Commission
School Board
Way Cleared by SEC for Tucker to Offer Stock
The SEC cleared Tucker Corporation to offer 20.9 million dollars in common stock to the public. A 20 day waiting period will begin after the amended registration statement becomes effective. Tucker faces a rent deadline and delays due to the War Assets Administration extension to November 1.
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SEC
Tucker
Philadelphia
Securities and Exchange Commission
Tucker Corporation
Chicago
War Assets Administration
Corn Again Sets All Time Record on CBOT
Chicago accorn hit a new all time high of 2.03 a bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade, topping the previous 2.02 record set a day earlier. Farmers and traders watched price action as supply dynamics and market speculation influenced the rally.
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Corn
Chicago
UN Balkans Panel Defies Bulgaria to Probe Frontier
The 11 nation Balkans commission ordered its 1l member subcommission to cross into Bulgaria despite two Bulgaria refusals. The move, backed by Ethridge, follows accusations against Bulgaria Yugoslavia and Albania for stirring trouble in northern Greece. Russia protested while Poland supported. The council will weigh Greece's northern neighbors for inciting guerrilla fighting inside Greece as a threat to peace.
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Sergei M. Koudriatsev
Etheridge
U.N
Balkans
Russia
Security Council
Council
Greece
Salonika
Salonom
Kondriavtsev
Commission
Balkan
Poland
Union Backed Tieup Tests Taft Hartley Law
More than 41 000 CIO shipbuilders struck across 10 east coast yards halting repairs and new builds on 79 vessels. Bethlehem yards in NY area and others in Baltimore Boston and Quincy affected delaying work as 150 000 shipyard workers prepare for a July 1 walkout over pay and holidays.
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New York
CIO
Itee de Sioet
Uoleeeeee
Ed Hartley
Aaseoa Company
Atlantic Basin Ironworks
Bethlehem
Baltimore
Boston
Quincy
Mass
Joseph M. Larkin
Salem
Des Moines
Navy
Associated Press
Mrs Cote Sentenced in Mate Death Plea Guilty
In Plymouth Massachusetts Bertha Surprise Cote pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of her husband Rene Cote 34. She was sentenced Thursday to 3 1/2 to 6 years in a reformatory.
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Plymouth
Mass
Bertha Surprise Cote
Rene
Camp Good Health Fund Needs Full Subscription
Children at Camp Good Health enjoy June sunshine as they play softball ping pong and swing. Younger children enjoy the sand pile while the camp faces a tight budget and must secure full subscriptions to finance the season.
Whittier Couple Wed at 84 and 80 in Simple Ceremony
Whittier residents Barton Coppock aged 84 and Elizabeth Henderson aged 80 were married Monday afternoon and settled into their shared apartment with Coppock’s daughter. Neighbors and relatives from Marion and Cedar Rapids attended, signing a guest book and receiving candy as part of an old custom. Coppock has two other children. Henderson’s son William Briggs lives in Minneapolis.
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Gazette
Whittier
Barton Coppock
Elizabeth Henderson
Haan
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Coppo
Clay Peel
Alfred
Dean Haworth
Fortieth Street
Mt. Vernon Avenue
Henderson
William Briggs
Minneapolis
Government Housing Waste Flayed By House Committee
Congressman Taber charges the Federal Housing Administration wastes and inefficiency in subsidized housing. He cites fraud payroll padding and CIO influence in the San Francisco office. Investigators found a CIO official with Communist ties offering $5 for 500 homes costing $5,000 each and evidence of travel pay and contract kickbacks.
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Washington
Taber
En See
Cee Sa
House Votes Oil Control Authority
The House passed a measure granting government power to regulate petroleum exports after reports of large shipments to Russia and threats of renewed domestic rationing. The authority is extended through January 31, 1948, and covers export and import controls on oils and related products.
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Washington
House
Russia
Truman vetoes wool price support bill amid isolationism fears
President Truman vetoed the wool price support bill calling tariff boosting provisions a blow to world leadership. He warned passage would be seen as economic isolationism, opposing higher wool tariffs even as the Commodity Credit Corporation could sell wool at market prices. Congress’s veto override seemed unlikely.
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Truman
Congress
Marshall
Cone
Commodity Credit Corporation
Ees
Eleanor Roosevelt Not In New Social Register
New York AP report notes Eleanor Roosevelt is not listed in the summer Social Register. Last year's edition showed her as residing at the Roosevelt estate in Hyde Park.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
New Social Register
New York
Social Register
Roosevelt Estate
Hyde Park
Waldorf Astoria Director Dies in Norway
Oslo AP reports Lucius Boomer director of New York Waldorf Astoria died of heart failure at Hamar on Thursday. He left behind his Norwegian born wife and their daughter.
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Oslo
Lucius Boomer
New York
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Hamar
Boomer
Truman Urges Patience in Handling Coal Strikes
President Truman urged all factions to exercise patience and moderation amid coal strikes. He said Attorney General Clark is reviewing the situation and action will be taken if needed. He ruled out new action against John Lewis’s United Mine Workers for now, warning that industrial strife could disrupt the economy and threaten world peace.
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Clark
Joh
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Congress
UMW Tise
Labor split over Taft-Hartley. Hartley slams Lewis
Congress faces a split between Hartley and isolationist critics over enforcing the Taft-Hartley act as miners threaten a July 8 return to work under United Mine Workers. Hartley calls John L. Lewis rebellious and mutinous while UMW pressure and contract talks loom amid a looming court challenge to the law. AFL President Green rejects a general strike, plans court action and a July 9 AFL presidents meeting to defend union rights.
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Washington
House
John L. Lewis
Hartley
R-N.j
Lewis
Lendis
R-Ind
See
United Mine Workers
AFL
Wiliam Green
Green
Executive Council
CIO
Joseph A. Padway
Iew
Padway
Steel mills and railroads begin mass layoffs amid wildcat strike
In Pittsburgh AP reports 222000 miners idle as wildcat coal strike grows. Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Carnegie Illinois Steel halt furnaces, with 1 189119 tons more lost than normal daily output. The Cost Mines Administration cites broader shutdowns and uncertain idle numbers.
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Pittsburgh
Wildcat Coalee
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
Mines Administration
Harstad and Deizell Elected by Iowa Knights Templar
Arthur O. Harstad at 361 Twentieth Street SE was elected grand commander of Iowa Knights Templar at a Spirit Lake conclave. Ear! B Deizell of 410 Twenty-second Street NE was chosen deputy grand commander. Also named were James Mitchell Des Moines grand generalissimo J J Pelmulder Sac City grand captain general Norman Young Burlington senior warder Russell Boodin Ida Grove junior warder and other officers.
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Cedar Rapids
Arthur O. Harstad
Twentieth Street
Knights Templar
Iowa
Ear
B. de
Twenty-second Street
Templar Park
Spiritlake
James Mitchell
Des Moines
J. J. Pelmulder
Sacean
Norman Young
Burlington
Russell Boodin
Soin
Ida Grove
Columbian Commandery
Sioux City
Zarstad
Council of
Royal
Pullman Sale to Rails Approved
A three judge expediting court in Philadelphia on Wednesday approved the sale of all Pullman Company assets to a rail interests group. The ruling clears the way for the transfer, ending a lengthy bankruptcy led by executives and creditors seeking to reorganize the Pullman operations.
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Pullman
Rails
Philadelphia
INS
All Pullman Company
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