Marshall Urges UN Action On Global Issues
Secretary of State Marshall pressed for United Nations led action on international problems including Korea and Austrian German issues. He ruled out a direct US Russia settlement and warned Molotov over private discussions. Bevin accused Stalin of blocking world peace demanding Russia reveal positions before new talks.
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Marshall
Russia
United Nations
United States
Walter Bedell Smith
Molotov
Smith
London
Bevin
House of Commons
Soviet Union
Suitor's Ardor Angers 100-Year-Old Widow in Manila
A 100-year-old Filipino widow complained to police about unwanted advances from a 70-year-old suitor, Mariano Gabriel. She struck him on the head with a board and called the cops. no charges were filed and Gabriel was not detained. He called her “an angel in disguise.”
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Manila
Augustine Ace
Mariano Gabriel
Gabriel
Augustine
Union Leader Charged With Blocking Bus In Strike
George Scurlock union chief pled innocent in Cedar Rapids traffic court to obstructing traffic after pulling in front of a chartered bus carrying Wilson packinghouse workers. He posted 105 dollar bond and claimed he waited at a stop sign for cross traffic to clear.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Wilson Packinghouse
George Scurlock
United Packinghouse Workers
Harry S. Johnson
Scurlock
Harold Cerveny
Don Ankney
Third Street
Fourteenth Avenue
Steven L. Stolba
Wilson Gate
Dutch Queen Will Abdicate in Favor of Princess Juliana
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands announced on radio she will abdicate toward the end of September in favor of her daughter Princess Juliana who would serve as regent. Wilhelmina, 67, has been in poor health and had a seven week vacation last fall. A government note said she plans to yield powers again next Friday with Juliana as regent. No health details were provided but sources said no alarm.
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Amsterdam
Wilhelmina
Netherlands
Juliana
Wallace Calls for Open U S S R Peace Talks at Madison Square Garden
Henry A Wallace urged immediate actions by the United States and the Soviet Union to end the cold war and pursue a century of peace. He proposed general arms reduction, outlawing mass destruction methods, and an open, fully reported meeting of U S and Soviet representatives. He pressed for rapid peace settlements with Germany and Japan, troop withdrawals from Korea and China, and a government for all Korea with no designs on others' territories.
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Henry A. Wallace
Stalin
Russia
United States
Madison Square Garden
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Wallace
U. S
Bedell Smith
Molotov
Soviet Union
U.S.A
U.S.S.R
Germany
Japan
U.S
China
Korea
America
Camp Good Health To Have Softball Diamond This Year
Camp Good Health will build a new softball diamond on level ground by Big Creek at the base of the hill with permanent camp buildings nearby. A. T. Pleune says the project proceeds despite rain delays, salvaged logs used as bench seating for picnics. The health camp serves physically handicapped children aged 6 to 12, eight miles east of Cedar Rapids on highway 30, funded entirely by donations to the Camp Good Health Fund through The Gazette.
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A. T. Pleune
Big Creek
Cedar Rapids
Highway
The
Public Health Nursing Association
Camp Good Health Fund
Gazette
Towa
Chambers
Iowa
Classified Engine Ad Promotes Quick Local Sales
An item listing from the Gazette advertises a Briggs Stratton engine model 515. It mentions contact option by phone 2537 and promotes selling at a low price with waterproof pad included. The ad emphasizes the convenience of placing Want ads via Dial 2-121 to reach an Ad-Taker.
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Briggs
Stratton
Gazette
Britain warns UN on Palestine time limit
Britain told the United Nations Palestine subcommittee that any emergency regime for Palestine must be created by action by 5 p.m. Friday. John Fletcher-Cooke said the mandate would end at Friday midnight in Palestine and the British high commissioner would sail immediately.
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Lake Success
Britain
United Nations
Palestine
John Fletcher-Cooke
UN. Assembly
Wholesale Food Prices Rise on Rail Strike Threat
The Dun and Bradstreet index shows wholesale food prices climbed to 6.93 on Tuesday from 6.88 the week before, marking the highest level since February 3 7.14. The year-ago index was 6.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet, Inc
Draft Plan Plagued by Race Issue
The senate manpower bill faced a fierce debate over racial segregation in the military. Southern senators threatened a filibuster to demand a race-based unit choice, while the Armed Services Committee rejected an amendment to allow service only in units of the recruit’s race. The panel then approved the draft training measure 7-2, with Wilson and Russell dissenting.
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Senate
Russell
D-Ga
Armed Services Committee
Wilson
R- la
Dewey and Stassen Clash Over Debate Details
In Oregon Gov Dewey and candidate Stassen argued over a time and venue for a debate on outlawing communism. Stassen flew toward Portland to speak amid conflicting reports of an arena booking while Dewey planned a Pendleton address. The Oregon primary looms May 21 as both camps push their hard lines.
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BAKER
Ore
Thomas E. Dewey
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Portland
Washington
Reed College
Peter Odegard
Dewey
New York
Pendleton
Oregon
Girl Given 20 Years In Slaying of Father
Eminence Missouri AP Betty Jane Kroeger 17 was sentenced to 20 years in the state penitentiary for the fatal shooting of her father. She testified she watched her father fatally shoot her mother and then shot him in self defense.
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Eminence
Betty Jane Kroeger
State Penitentiary
Coe College Names Gossett Craemer To Board And Heads New Plan
A Detroit attorney William T. Gossett and Cedar Rapids businessman Nicholas Craemer were named to the Coe College board of trustees at a mid week meeting. Byron Hollinshead was named to a five year term as college president effective January 1, 1948. The board approved staff reorganizations including new dean roles with John A. Fisher as administrative dean and Dr. John Shank as dean of students, among others, to improve student guidance and development efforts.
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Cedar Rapids
Coe College Board of Trustees
William T. Gossett
Ford Motor Company
Nicholas Craemer
Hollins
John A. Fisher
John Shank
Lake Forest
Ill
C. Ward
Macy
Clarence Keel
Fulton, Mo
John Hafer
Hollinshead
Fisher
Busi
Shank
Lake Forest Academy
Keel
Westminster College
Fulton
Board Delays Ban Change On Campus Speakers Till June 29
Vinton Iowa school board will decide June 29 at Cedar Falls whether to ease its policy banning appearances by political candidates on state supported campuses. The delay follows an executive session after four University of Iowa student groups urged modification. The board heard from Iowa Students for Wallace the campus Young Democrats Young Republicans and the Johnson County American Veterans Committee along with a campus professors group urging changes. A telegram from Elden Kelly president of Students for Democratic Action Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls and a resolution from the University of Iowa AAUP were read into record. The board pledged to defer policy matters for one month in keeping with its usual practice.
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Iowa
Edu
Cation
Cedar Falls
University of Iowa
Iowa Students For Wallace
Campus
Young Democrats Club
Young Republican League
Johnson County
The
American Veterans Committee
Henry Shull
Sioux City
Elden Kelly
Students For Democratic Action, Inc
Iowa State Teachers College
American Association of University Professors
John C. Geiger
AVC
Mildred Armstrong Kalish
Spar
Iowa City
First Big Auto Tieup Since 1946
Detroit workers at Chrysler strike in a nationwide test of labor’s demand for a third round of raises. UAW faced a legal ban on strikes without a formal vote as plants in Detroit Indiana California shut down. Leaders warned of a long, bitter fight while Briggs Manufacturing announced 11,000 layoffs.
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Chrysler Corporation
United Auto Workers
Michigan
Auto Industry
UAW
General Motors
Norman Matthews
Chrysler
Kim Sigler
James N. McNally
Matthews
CST
Indiana
California
Emil Mazey
Mazey
Mike Novak
Dodge
Marysville
Mich
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Kokomo
Newcastle
Ind
Los Angeles
Break in Weather Allegedly Coming to Iowa
The weather bureau forecasts a break in cloud cover in Iowa tonight or Thursday with slight warming on Thursday and Friday. Showers may return Friday night or Saturday. eastern Iowa saw most rainfall with Davensport at .31 inch in 24 hours and Cedar Rapids recording .08 Tuesday and .03 overnight.
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Weather Bureau
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Cedar Rapids
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