Tariff-Cutting Curbs Close In on Truman
Washington AP reports Republican restrictions on Truman's tariff-cutting power tighten as the GOP Congress presses to keep peril points in place. Senator Millikin grills State Dept witnesses while tariff commissioners prepare a confidential peril-point list on 400 to 500 commodities. The present extension runs to June 30 with three-year dates set from last June 12. Seen One out of six excessive drinkers is a woman.
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Washington
Truman
Federal Tariff Commission
80Th Congress
White House
Industf
Congress
Millikin
R-Colo
Finance Committee
State Department
U.S
Tariff Commission
Senate
Elgin 100 Years Old This Year Celebration Planned
Elgin marks a centennial in August linking a tri yearly homecoming with the town’s 100 year seal. Pioneers Samuel Connor and Simeon Forbes led land clearing in 1849 and a mill on Otter Creek site. The Winnebago once called Shinbone Valley, Indians who moved to Minnesota in 1848, left graves unearthed by erosion. Fayette County organized in 1850, Elgin platted and renamed by surveyor. Church Board of Home Missions observes the Puerto Rico mission anniversary.
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Elgin
Samuel Connor
Shinbone Valley
Fayette County
Edson
Clark
Otter Creek
Turkey River
Edson and Clark
Minnesota
Grinnell Woman Goes to Puerto Rico for Congregational Work
Mrs Jud son E. Fiebiger of Grinnell has flown to San Juan Puerto Rico to represent the Congregational church in the conference and related duties.
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Grinnell (Ap
Judson E. Fiebiger
Grinnell
San Juan
Puerto Rico
the Congregational
Forensic Festival Winners Qualify For State Finals
Twenty five northeastern Iowa high school students earned state finals berths at Roosevelt high school Cedar Rapids in the divisional festival. Debating teams from Dubuque high school and Loras academy qualified for the April two University of Iowa finals.
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Northeastern Iowa
Roosevelt High School
Cedar Rapids
Dubuque High School
Loras Academy of Dubuque
University of Iowa
Iowa Forensic League
Roosevelt
Ronald Wolfe
Mason City
James Theobald
Oelwein
Robert Hansel
Dubuque
Joan Arthur
Cedar Falls
Margaret Kimball
West Waterloo
Phyllis Channer
Mary Handyshell
Tama
Evelyn Heefner
John Schles
Dorothy Stevenson
Traer
Dic
Surface
Gresdna Doty
Donna Johnston
Thompson
Marianne Santee
John Buckton
Zane Estes
Ann Peters
Charles Wolfe
Rosevelt
Pat Trigg
Wesley Peppert
Onna Lee Axton
Oratory
William Sharfe
Ben Jones
Bolinder
Attlee Tours Berlin Airlift Route with Allied Leaders
British Prime Minister Clement Attlee visited Berlin’s Tempelhof airfield during an airlift inspection. He met Gen. Lucius D. Clay, commander in chief in Germany, and U.S. Ambassador Robert Murphy, as allies coordinate relief efforts.
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Berlin
Britain
Clement Attlee
Tempelhof
Lucius D. Clay
Germany
U. S
Robert Murphy
Slayer of Family in Asylum for Observation
Fairfax Virginia AP report: Charles Francis Holober, 40, charged with killing his wife and infant daughter February 24. Grand jury returned two murder indictments before he was ordered to Marion State Institution for criminal insanity. Police say he confessed and buried the bodies in a shallow grave near a nudist camp.
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Fairfax, Va
Charles Francis Holober
State Institution
Marion
Fairfax County
Holober
Circuit Court
Paul E. Brown
E Brown
One Dead Two Injured In Fishing Boat Blast
In Fort Myers Florida a fishing boat explosion killed Mrs Ray Applegate of Muncie Indiana. Ray Applegate was injured and Mr and Mrs Ball of the same city also sustained injuries. The blast happened during a kingfish run in the Gulf of Mexico as a fleet fished nearby.
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FT Myers
Fla
Ray Applegate
Muncie
Ind
Explosion sinks cruiser Osprey after gas line blast
The cruiser Osprey exploded and sank after a gas line rupture shortly after noon. The Applegates Ball and Captain Elmio Santini were rescued by nearby fishing craft and later treated for burns. all four were reported in good condition at a local hospital.
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Osprey
Applegates
Ball
Elmio Santini
Turkey Survives 62 Days In Drift By Cannibalism
RAPID CITY SD AP reports a turkey survived 62 days entombed in a snowdrift after being trapped in January. Farmer William Allan said the turkey emerged hale and strong from a pocket containing bones of two other birds.
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Turkey
Rapid City
William Allan
Colfax Collision Leaves Des Moines Driver Burned
Richard R. Bogle aged 34 of Des Moines was burned and cut when his semi trailer crashed into a tree in Colfax Saturday and caught fire.
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Colfax
Richard R. Bogle
Des Moines
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Hull
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Weston D. Ralston
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