Suit Aimed At Loyalty Stipulation
A federal suit filed in Washington seeks to strike down President Truman's loyalty order as unconstitutional and to halt further loyalty proceedings against 26 post office employees. The action names Attorney General Clark and other loyalty board officials, with plaintiffs from Cleveland Philadelphia Detroit and several New Jersey communities. The filing, led by Rogge Fabricant, argues the order targets federal workers and notes most affected are Black or Jewish and active against discrimination.
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Washington
INS
Truman
Federal District Court
Post Office
Clark Seth _W Richardson
Loyalty Review Board
Donaldson
Post Office Loyalty Board
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Detroit
Plainfield
New York
Manville
Dunellen
Chester
Rogge
Fabricant
Gordon
Goldman
United States
John Rogge
Federal Employes Defense Committee
Post Office Department
Bequests of 105 000 In Adler Will
Davenport AP Emanuel P Adler publisher of The Daily Times and Lee Syndicate president died after two months illness. Bequests total about 105000, led by 25000 to B nai Israel temple fund for a new temple and social center. Remainder to son Philip D Adler. executors Davenport Bank and Trust Company and Philip Adler. Relatives receive 27000, others share 5000 among Lee Syndicate executives and 8250 among Times department heads.
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Davenport
Emanuel P. Adler
The
Daily Times
Lee Syndicate
Scott County
Adler
B'nai Israel Congregation
Temple Emanuel
Ottumwa Hospital
Ottumwa
Philip D Adler
Kewanee Star- Courier
Davenport Bank and Trust Company
Lee
Times Department
Times
Democrat
Teens Invite Stalin to Visit Dayton for Peace Effort
A group of 24 Grace Methodist church teens in Dayton Ohio plan to send Premier Stalin a letter inviting him to spend a week in the city. They propose factory tours stores farms churches schools and social events to show the real America and seek peaceful understanding beyond atomic weapons. A copy will go to President Truman.
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Dayton
America
Ohio
USA
Stalin
Russia
Boyd Column Begins Week from Today
Harry Boyd's My America column starts in The Gazette a week from now on the editorial page. It previously ran on Sundays under Strictly Informal and now moves to five weekly appearances five days a week across newspapers via King Features Syndicate.
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Harry Boyd
America
The
Gazette
Sunday Gazette
King Features Syndicate
Girl 14 Rescues Four From Cottage Blaze
Chicago residents praise Margaret Garcia a 14 year old who led four siblings Robert 5 Tony 3 Annie 18 months and two month old Helen to safety from a cottage fire. She entered smoke and flames to save the children while parents were away at a movie. Neighbors alerted firemen who estimated 1500 damage from a fire blamed on defective wiring in the dining room.
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Chicago
INS
Garcia
Margaret
Southerners See Rent Lid Death
Two southern senators warned that rent controls may end if the administration presses its anti filibuster rule fight. Sen Sparkman said controls will die and not be revived except in war. Sen Maybank echoed concerns as hearings examined extending rent controls beyond March 31. The House Banking Committee has approved a 15 month extension, with action due Thursday, and both chambers must pass a bill.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Sparkman
D-Ala
Maybank
D-S.c
Congress
House Banking Cottee
House
High Court expands power to ban closed shop union rules
The Supreme Court ruled 7 to 2 that the Wagner act and Taft Hartley authorize states to ban or regulate closed shop and other union security clauses. Justice Frankfurter delivered the decision, with Justices Black and Douglas dissenting. The ruling holds states may regulate union shop provisions if federal policy does not force a contrary outcome.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice Frankfurter
Justice Black
Justice Douglas
Frankfurter
States
Spy Legalization Measure Passed
The House approved a bill to legalize American spies and shield aliens aiding them by a 348 to 4 roll call vote. It would grant formal legal backing to CIA operations and allow up to 100 Communists or others from Iron Curtain countries to enter the United States to cooperate with intelligence agents.
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Washington
LLP
House
Senate
Central Intelligence Agency
United States
Fishermen Rescued After Ice Floe Drifts to Shore
About 50 to 60 fishermen stranded for hours on a large Green Bay ice floe found safety when the floe shifted and touched land in Menominee Michigan.
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Menominee, Mich
Ins
Green Bay
Sailor Rescued After Offshores Test Jump Near San Francisco
James M. Coates 26 of Fremont Nebraska parachuted into the Pacific 15 miles off Alameda while planning a 1 mile offshore jump. A fishing boat Venice rescued him after about 30 minutes in icy water. He was treated for exposure at Alameda Naval Air Station.
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Alameda
Calif
INS
Pacific
James M Coates
Fremont
Neb
Coates
Alameda Naval Air Station
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco
Venice
Hal Purser
Daly City
Two Caught After Break in Muskegon Jail Escape
Sheriff Pederson announced two of four prisoners who escaped the Muskegon County jail were captured. Joseph Sheldon, 34, held for armed robbery, and Orville Harp, 18, held on a Mann Act charge, were found in Forest Homes housing project and returned to custody. Ralph McDonald, 46, paroled killer, and Eddie Robinson, 19, burglar, remained at large. The escape came when inmates breached a wall of the condemned jail.
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Muskegon
Mich
Axel Pederson
Ralph McDonald
Eddie Clay Robinson
Pederson
McDonald
Joseph Sheldon
Orville Harp
Forest Homes
Old Chief Eagle Feather Seeks Revenge in Legal Warpath
WAVERLY Tenn AP Old Chief Eagle Feather 97 says he tried to scalp his wife now seeks revenge by legal means Sheriff Westbrook says he believed Princess Silverheels 69 should be jailed after he was restrained for warpath and knife attack Her charge dropped yet she faced concealment of stolen corn property charge and was released until preliminary hearing
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Waverly
Tenn
Eagle Feather
Trent
Westbrook
Princess Silverheels
Silverheels
Quadruplets Born to German Railway Worker Family
In Gedern Germany hospital officials announced that Edith Polzger 34 wife of Johann Polzger a German railway worker gave birth Monday to quadruplets three girls and a boy all reported in good health at this time.
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Gedern
Germany
Edith Poliger
Johann Polzer
Hearing Set Again In Rutledge Murder Case
Dr Robert C. Rutledge, a 27 year old pediatrician, faces another habeas corpus hearing in Cedar Rapids to determine his return to Iowa for murder charges. Proceedings moved through St Louis courts with multiple continuances before Rutledge surrendered on the fugitive bond.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
William Crissman
Tom Condon
St Louis
Robert C. Rutledge
Rutledge
Byron C. Hartman
St. Louis
Iowa
David W. Fitzgibbons
Ces
Fitzgibbons
Leo F. Laughen
Fire Devastates Frederick's Hilltop Los Angeles Mansion
The interior of Charles Frederick’s $200,000 hilltop home in Los Angeles was ruined Monday after a blaze swept through the 18 room, three story mansion. Fire crews battled the flames as the luxury residence suffered extensive damage.
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Los Angeles
Ins
Charles Fredericks
Ice Breaks Up I CLR. Boathouses Cedar River Loss
Eleven boathouses were lost as Cedar River ice broke up near Ellis park on Monday. One houseboat floated downstream to break up over the North Western bridge and slide over the avenue dam. another is believed to have gone over the dam. Boathouses jammed the old Ellis park pavilion end, with owners moving gear as floodwaters rose to 10.9 feet.
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Cedar Rapids
Cedar River
Ellis Park
North Western Bridge
Theavenué Dam
Waterloo
McGregor
Missisesippi
Gazette
Lynxville
Wis
Guttenberg Lynxville
Marquette
Iowa
Hamburg
Missouri
Des Moines
Ottumwa
Weather Bureau
Chillicothe
Howe
Cedar Rapids considers two new city parks
Cedar Rapids judges a park bond of about 73000 to acquire 150 acres of the Skvor Haches estate and 10 or 12 acres near Kenwood school. The plan moves to City Attorney Don Hines for review with public hearings to follow and a possible special election if approved by voters.
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Cedar Rapids
City Counci
Richard C. Jones
City Plan Commission
Ely Avenue
North Western Railroad
Bowling Street
Prairie Creek
Kenwood School
Thirty-seventh Street
F Avenue
Elmcrest Country Club
Don Hines
Jones
Hines
Floods lash Iowa Nebraska as Creighton students vanish
Flood conditions across western Iowa and Nebraska kill two residents and leave two Creighton University students missing after a hunting trip near Lincoln Beach. Missouri Valley endures gas and water shortages as relocations and typhoid inoculations proceed amid receding floodwaters.
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Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri Valley
Missouri
Big Blue
George W Johnson
Earler
Gerald Perrin
Denison
Thomas M. Nolan
Charles Wermuth
Creighton Univeresity
Omaha
Lienoma Beach
Leibsohn Fires, Slashes Self Then Falls From Window
Nate Leibsohn 59 of 820 Third Street NW was in critical condition at Mercy Hospital after an unsuccessful suicide attempt. He slashed his wrists and throat then leapt from a second story window, found by Ambulance Service outside his home. He had recently returned from University Hospital and was despondent over health. detectives were still investigating.
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Cedar Rapids
Nate Leibsohn
Third Street
Mercy, Hospital
Leibsohn
Eisohn
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