State Board Gives Friley Clean Bill
The Iowa State Board of Education endorsed President Charles E. Friley of Iowa State College with utmost confidence in his administration. The statement followed alumni and student concerns about faculty losses and staff tension.
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Friley
Iowa State College
AMES
Stat Board of Education
Charles E. Friley
Finley
David Dancer
Fpriley
State Board of Education
Iowa State College Alumni Association
United States
Governor appoints Sterling Alexander Insurance Commissioner
Des Moines AP Gov Rob ert D Blue names Webster City attorney Sterling Alexander to succeed Charles R Fischer as state insurance commissioner and upgrades Fred B Gilbert to highway commission. Arthur C Gingerich named to conservation panel. four other part time appointments announced. Senate confirmation sought. Emerson highway post left open. Fischer era ends after two terms.
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Des Moines
Robert D. Blue Thursday
Sterling Alexander
Webster City
Insurance
Charles R. Fischer
Onawa
Fred B. Gilbert
State Center
State Highway Commission
Arthur C. Gingerich
Wellman
R. E. Stewart
Ottumwa
State Conservation Commission
Senate
Percy E. Morris
Centerville
Aeronautics Commission
Harry E. Lisk
Independence
William Darbyshire
Rockwell City
Earl Elijah
Clarence
State Soil Conservation Commission
Hal H. Lang
Sioux City
Albert Dement
Anita
Real Estate Commission
Fischer
Alexander
Highway Commission
Blue
Emerson
Alfred Kahl
State Department of Public Safety
Kahl
Woman Smashes Store Windows in Sioux City
In Sioux City a 43-year-old woman identified as Marjorie admitted breaking windows in several stores Thursday morning. Police logged fifteen damage complaints with estimated losses of 1200 dollars. a bracelet, linoleum paste, and two bottles of cod liver oil were the only reported thefts. The woman was held without charge as officials planned charges with the county attorney.
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Sioux City
Marjorie
Russell White
Thompson Tells Georgia of Plan of Housecleaning
Gov. M. E. Thompson told a joint session of the Georgia legislature that he would purge the party of Herman Talmadge and his followers and would veto the recent white primary bill. He favored a robust white primary system but criticized the Talmadge version as unconstitutional and open to fraud, promising two alternative measures to ensure a fair, functional white primary.
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Atlanta
M.E. Thompson
Herman Talmadge
Democratic Party
Talmadge
Thompson
Georgia House
Senate
State Supreme Court
Assembly
Georgia
House GOP approves 30 percent tax cut for low income bracket
The Republican Steering Committee approved a 30 percent tax cut for 20 million people in the low income bracket and a 20 percent cut for virtually all the remaining 46 million taxpayers. The change modifies the flat 20 percent reduction plan to provide relief to those with lower taxable income.
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Washington
House Republican Steering Committee
No Free Relief Funds for Slavs
The State Department said Yugoslavia has been informed that President Truman’s request for 350 million dollars to aid needy European nations contains no free relief funds for Yugoslavia.
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Washington
State Department
Yugoslavia
Truman
Couple Held After Fatal Boat Blast
Beulah Overell and George Gollum were jailed on suspicion of murdering her wealthy parents by planting a dynamite time bomb on the Mary E. in Newport harbor. Police uncovered 30 sticks of dynamite and unexploded caps among debris, with the blast set by a clock mechanism.
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Santa Ana
Calif
Beulah Louise Overell
George Rector Gollum
Newport Beach
R. R. Hodgkinson
Walter E. Overell
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Loan Company
Beulah
Mary E
Newport Harbor
Hodgkinson
James Musick
Miss Overell
University of Southern California
Gollum
Navy
Los Angeles City College
Wrong Committee Delays Quaker Oats Strike Talks
At the Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats plant 950 CIO cereal workers extended an eighth day of strike action as a meeting with management began. The start was delayed about thirty minutes when the wrong union committee appeared at the Federal building, and no progress was reported before the conference resumed after lunch.
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CIO
Quaker Oats
Federal
Iaten
U. S
M. E. Sherman
Louis’ Jedlicka
Cereal Workers
Iowa Senate Backs Board of Control for State Institutions
The Iowa Senate approved keeping the full time three member board of control under a reorganization plan adding four divisional directors to oversee 15 state institutions. A substitute to abolish the board and create a seven member part time policy board was defeated 31 to 15 with four absent. The final bill passed 46 to 0 and moves to the House as debate centers on improving management of mental hospitals and state facilities. Governor Bluet had suggested elimination, but supporters say the bill has executive appointment powers. Continued discussion noted on page 8.
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DES Moines
Iowa Senate
Board of Control
Senate Board of Control Committee
Senate
General Assembly
Robert D. Bluet
J. G. Lucas
Madrid
House
Gazette Faces Daily Ad Refusals Amid Newsprint Shortage
The Gazette reports a severe national newsprint shortage forcing daily advertisement refusals. It laments disappointing advertisers while maintaining commitment to high quality news coverage and asks for reader and advertiser cooperation during the crisis.
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Gazette
United States
England Floods Ravage Towns as Rescue Efforts Continue
In a nationwide flood emergency thousands of troops police and civilians battle rising waters across 34 of 40 counties. Bentley near Doncaster requests power boats for food and evacuations while Doncaster police and Thames valley towns arrange rowboat relief.
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London
Bentley
Doncaster
England
E. Whitley
Evelyn Walkden
Hitley
Don River
Walkden
Thames Valley
Caversham
Air Ministry
Britain
Predict Rain or Snow Thursday in Eastern Iowa
Light rain or snow was expected for eastern Iowa Thursday and Friday with little temperature change. Friday’s high 35 to 45 degrees, overnight lows 25 to 30. Davenport 44, 22 in Cedar Rapids at 2:30 pm. Thursday 39. Wednesday high 36, 33 at seven, 30 at midnight, 17 at 7 am.
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Cedar Rapids
Union Withdraws Suit Against Westinghouse
The CIO United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers withdrew claims for back pay and damages based on portal to portal pay from a $1,000,000 suit. Westinghouse and the union offered no reason for dropping the case amid ongoing 1947 contract negotiations in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
CIO
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Half Billion Korea Aid Plan Reported In U S Proposals
Administration may propose to Congress a Korean aid program larger than 400 million dollars for Greece and Turkey. The plan calls for 500 to 600 million dollars over three years, with 200 million in Korea’s zone in year one and the rest over years two and three. Economic support targets railways mills and industries. military aid would include surplus arms. Public submission timing unclear.
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Washington
Congress
Greece
Turkey
Marshall
Moscow
Acheson
Patterson
Navy
Forrestal
Korea
Truman
Davenport Triumphs Over Alton 42-22 in State Playoff Opener
Davenport's high powered quintet defeated Alton 42 to 22 in the opening game of the second round of the state high school basketball tournament.
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Iowa City
Davenport
Alton
Cabbie Hears Woman’s Cry for Help Averts Family Tragedy
Springfield taxi driver Francis Correll recalled a passenger’s plea near Lake Springfield as a woman stepped toward a bridge. Police halted her attempt, rescuing a baby girl and a 4-year-old boy while authorities organized housing help for the family. The children’s parents were at work and the boy spoke of changing his grandmother’s mind about jumping.
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Springfield
Ill
Francis Correll
Lake Springfield
Correll
John Kapp
Wholesale Price Index Falls After Record Run
The Labor Department reports a slight drop in average wholesale prices for all commodities after a five week stretch of record highs. The decline ends a period of rising prices that reached new 27 year records.
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Washington
Labor Department
Solons Open Hearings on US Policy
Washington AP Un dersecretary of State Acheson says aid to Greece and Turkey to block communism would not lead to war. He warns a collapse there could trigger wider unrest, and notes UN action may follow the present emergency after it ends.
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Washington
Aches
Greece
Turkey
Rep
Mansfield
D-Mont
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Truman
Acheson
Tur
Rep. Smith
R-Wis
Congress
United States
United Nations
U.N
Russia
Rep. Jonkman
R-Mich
U. N
Dardanelles
China Sea
Hannegan Discharged From Boston Hospital
Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan was discharged from Massachusetts Memorial hospital after a monthlong confinement following removal of a sympathetic nerve. He planned a brief rest in Florida before returning to duties in Washington.
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Boston
Robert E. Hannegan
Massachusetts Memorial Hospital
Flore Ida
Washington
Red Cross Announces Hungary Relief Program
The American Red Cross announced a $1,750,000 emergency relief program for Hungary. Supplies to be sent include shoes clothing medical equipment and bed clothes.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Hungary
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