Byrnes Sees Progress in Big 4 Parley
Secretary of State Byrnes told President Truman after a Paris foreign ministers meeting that substantial progress was made toward a future European peace settlement. Senators Connally and Vandenberg accompanied him. the Paris talks recessed until June 15.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Byrnes
Truman
Paris
Europe
White House
Capitol Hill
Connally
D- Texas
Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg
Rmich
G.O.P
Senate
Peris
Fort Madison Lifer Trusty Vanishes From Prison
George Clifton, 53, a life prisoner with 28 years in the Iowa state penitentiary at Fort Madison, disappeared Saturday while outside the walls. A trusty for seven or eight years he was returning from a storehouse for lunch when he vanished. Clifton, 5 feet 3 inches, 130 pounds, with white hair and pale blue eyes, had worked outside the prison as a messenger.
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Fort Madison
George Clifton
Iowa State Penitentiary
Percy the Announ Clifton
Madison
Winterset
Lainson
Clifton
Engineer Pulls Train To Safe Stop and Dies
In Racine Wisconsin a Chicago and North Western freight train moved to a sidetrack to let the stream liner 400 pass on the main line. Engineer Edgar Trieber 60 of Waukegan Illinois slumped over the controls and died of a heart attack moments after pulling the locomotive to a safe stop.
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Racine, Wis
Chicago and North Western
Edgar Trieber
Waukegan,ll
Blue Olmsted To Appear Tuesday In Cedar Rapids
Gov. Robert D Blue and George Olmsted will speak at 2 p.m. Tuesday to Linn County Republican Women at the Montrose hotel Cedar Rapids. A 6:30 p.m. banquet honors Blue with tickets 1.50. Also on menu are five other state office candidates and a convention address tonight at the Roosevelt hotel.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Robert D. Blue
George Olmsted
Republican Women’s Club
Montrose Hotel
Blue
Friends
Crystal Ballroom
Montrose
Gov. Blue
The
Associated Master Barbers and Beauticians of America
Roosevelt Hotel
Women’s Club
Guy P. Linville
G.O.P. Solons Seek Amendments to OPA Extension
Republican members of the senate banking committee, led by Sen. Taft, agreed on amendments to the OPA extension bill. Proposals include subsidty subsidies through 1946, a high-commission board to end controls, a cost-plus profit formula for producers and retailers, and CPA authority to end agricultural price controls upon secretary certification.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
OPA
Secretary of Agriculture
Tom Stewart
D-Tenn
National Housing Administrator
Taft
Homer Capehart
R-Ind
Eugene Millikin
R-Coro
Robert F. Wagner
D-N.y
CPA
Democrats Plan State Central Committee Meeting in Des Moines
DES MOINES AP Democrats to set party and judicial convention as State Chairman Jake More schedules a meeting of the Democratic state central committee for next Saturday in Des Moines. The move aims to organize party actions and establish convention procedures.
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Des Moines
Jake More
Democratic State Central Committee
Suburban transit strike disrupts Washington area commuting
An employee of the suburban transit system serving the national capital walked out at midnight Saturday, halting service for about 22,000 riders and forcing Maryland commuters to seek alternative transport options.
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Washington
A Eee
National Capital
Sande
Maryland
Russia and West Split On 2 Issues
New York United Nations report shows a split between Russia and Western powers on two issues before the UN economic and social council meeting. Disagreement centers on whether governments or field experts sit on commissions and on how to treat refugees and displaced persons. Russia presses for government representation and for sending back all war criminals posing as refugees. the West favors non governmental experts and voluntary returns for non criminals.
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New York
Russia
West
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Council
London
Commission On Human Rights
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Soviet Union
United Nations
Special Commission On
Roosevelt
Occupant Hurt as Auto Is Ditched
Ivan Parkins, 42, of Macomb Illinois, suffered two deep forehead lacerations and a possible skull fracture after a car driven by Gerald Parkins left the road and overturned on E avenue NW near Eighteenth street. Gerald Parkins said an oncoming car crowded him into the ditch and fled. Ivan Parkins was taken to St. Luke's Hospital by Ambulance Service.
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Cedar Rapids
Ivan Parkins
Macomb
E Avenue NW
Eighteenth Street
Gerald Parkins
Center Street
Henry Overman
George Rubey
Parkins
St. Luke’s Hospital
Chicago area rail service hit by late strike postponement
Railroad traffic out of Chicago slowed as trains delayed near the scheduled strike hour. Milwaukee Road bore the main impact with several departures late while others soon returned to normal as crews were notified of the postponement. By 5:39 p.m. full service resumed on the Pennsylvania and Burlington routes.
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Chicago
Milwaukee Road
Milwaukee
Rapid City
S. C
Pennsylvania Railroad
Burlington
Rock Island
Washington
Photographer H. L. Van Cleave Dies in California
H. L. Van Cleave a Cedar Rapids photographer died in Salinas California while visiting his son Paul at 202 Harvest street. Funeral services are set for Monday in Salinas with Masonic and K P lodge officiating. Interment will be in Salinas I O C F cemetery. He was born September 18 1866 in Prestonville Kentucky and moved to Iowa in 1915.
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Cedar Rapids
H. L. van Cleave
Paul
Harvest Street
Salinas
Calif
Masonic Lodge
K.P. Lodge
van Cl
Mt. Hermon Lodge
Mt. Hermon
Lodge
van Cleave
Prestonville
van Cleaver
Iowa
Century Engineering Company
Juvenile Depredations and Vandalism Harass Police
Cedar Rapids police report juvenile trouble Saturday night including a stolen car assault on a boy and vandals. Four youths attacked a man near Greene Square while two restrained him. Another group attacked two teens near Washington High. Four young suspects age 8 to 12 were taken after throwing rocks from a railroad bridge injuring two people.
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Cedar Rapids
Harry Erickson
Springville
First Avenue E
First
Washington High On
Leonard Bruce
Ray Murdock
Chicago and North Western
M. A. Baker
Fifth Street
Geraldine Waterbury
Camp Good Health Outing Aids Frail Cedar Rapids Children
A Cedar Rapids drive raises funds for Camp Good Health to aid malnourished and ill children aged 6 to 12. The effort, led by local clubs and the Friendship Circle, lists donations from the Embassy Club and multiple civic groups totaling over 1700 dollars with continuing page four coverage. Public Health nurses plan the season to host NHS children at the camp, echoing Herbert Hoover on self denial to feed starving areas.
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Camp Good Health Fund
Embassy Club, Inc
Cedar Rapids
AMS Ooixseet
Circle of the King’s Daughters
Cedar Rapids Navy Mothers Club
Benevolence Fund of Olivet Presbyterian Church
Klinger Paint Company
Syndicate Clothing Com
Mary Bates Secarea
Congregational
St. Paul
Sunshine Club of
Malioy
Forre
F. P
King’s
M. M. Club
Wint
Bill
Ann
Pateee
Sally Ann Vavra
Naomi Doebel
Herbert Hoover
Cedar. Rapids
Public Health ‘Nursing Association
Camp Good Health
Added and Faster Train Service on C N W June 2
Postwar service upgrade announced for Chicago and North Western trains effective June 2. Two extra coast trains added with daytime through Cedar Rapids, faster Omaha Chicago train with major stops then local, Cedar Rapids sleeper departs 1 a.m. New west coast train The Transcontinental and Denver train The Columbine added. City of San Francisco and Overland Limited times adjusted by Southern Pacific influence.
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Cedar Rapids
Chicago and North Western
W. F. Winkrantz
Division General Freight
Winkrantz
Chicago
North Western
F. G. Fitzpatrick
Associated Press
West Coast
Denver
San Francisco
Southern Pacific
City of San Francisco
June Candidates Sketched for You
The Gazette presents biographical sketches of candidates for state office. See pages 9 and 10 for the profiles and background on the May elections.
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the Gazette Today
Rev Charles F Edwards and Wife Hurt in Crash
Decorah police questioned an Austin man after a collision at Main and River streets. Rev Charles F Edwards pastor of Grace Episcopal Church in Decorah and his wife were injured. Edwards sustained minor injuries and Mrs Edwards suffered broken ribs.
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The
Gazette
Decorah
Austin
Youth Injured in Fall From Shaver Park Bluff
Donald Snook aged 18 from 1339 Third Avenue suffered a severe fracture of the right leg after a 100 foot fall from the north bluff at Shaver Park. He was assisted by companions and taken to the hospital by private car. His condition was reported as fairly good.
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Cedar Rapids
Donald Snook
Third Avenue
Shaver Park
Snook
Unions Call Off Walkout To Thursday
The nationwide rail walkout was postponed for at least five days after President Truman urged leaders to delay. Despite the request, late notices and confusion disrupted service for hours as crews awaited official word, with about 90 trains affected at New York Central’s Grand Central station.
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Associated Press
Truman
New York Central
New York
Grand Central Station
Railroad union chiefs head to Washington for talks
A F Whitney and Alvanley Johnston leaders of the two railroad Brotherhoods flew to Washington after leaving Cleveland to resume negotiations with railroad management this morning.
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Cleveland
A. F. Whitney
Alvanley Johnston
Washington
Rail strike slows nation as unions delay work stoppage
Federal seizure of the rail system and a call for delay by President Truman sparked widespread disruption and scattered resumption in cities like Boston Houston Louisville and Omaha. Union leaders and officials ordered workers back or delayed action after phone talks with Truman and railroad heads.
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Boston
Houston
Texas
Louisville
Omaha
Office of Defense Transportation
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