Wavell Dies Veteran British Field Marshal
Earl Wavell a one eyed commander famed for sweeping Italian forces in Africa and later serving as viceroy of India dies at 67 after abdominal surgery on his birthday. He led Middle East campaigns, fought Japan, and was praised by Keitel and Gandhi.
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U S Says Far East Policy Shifts Reported By Congressman
Rep Hugh D Scott Jr of Pennsylvania told a University of Iowa Republican day crowd that the State Department has made a drastic shift in Far Eastern policy in the last two weeks. He cautioned Congress has not been briefed and said public discussion would take three to six months.
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Pennsylvania
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University of Iowa
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Iowa City Grocer Robbed of 150 Dollars
An armed robber entered a local Iowa City grocer’s store Tuesday night as the owner counted cash. About $150 was taken and police had no trace of the tall man about 30 years old who fled before dawn.
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Iowa City
INS
John Alberdaske
Tydings complains over Hickens absence from hearings
Sen Millard Tydings criticizes Sen Bourke Hickenlooper for campaigning in Iowa during closed Amerasia inquiry sessions. With Lodge en route to Europe to study communism, the Tydings committee is left with only Tydings and Sen McMahon to proceed. Tydings also says reporters badger him and he has little help.
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Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Cedar Rapids
Millard Tydings
Dmd
Iowa
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McMahon
Connecticut
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Rhode Island
Mercury Surges to Season High Across Iowa
Iowa endures heat as temperatures reach seasonal highs in the 90s. Sioux City hit 94 Tuesday, Cedar Rapids tied 83, and noon readings climbed to 86 with a peak near 89 before cooling. The weather forecast predicts cooler Thursday with scattered showers and a return to warm, fair conditions Friday.
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Rent Increases OK'd for 89 Commonwealth Apartments
Cedar Rapids area rent office approved raises for 89 of 110 Commonwealth tenants. Increases range from 1 to 17.05 dollars monthly, averaging 8.4 percent, with the highest jump to 17.05 on a 69.55 dollar unit. The Boss Hotel Co applied Dec 1950. order dated May 23 adds 669.81 dollars yearly from living spaces and two commercial units.
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Cedar Rapids News
Commonwealth
Cedar Rapids
Boss Hotel Company
T. J. Wilkinson
Mother Dies in Rescue Attempt in Guilford Maine
A young mother died during a fire that swept her home in Guilford Maine on Wednesday. She sacrificed herself to save three children as a neighbor freed three others from the burning house. The blaze started by a defective chimney. The bodies of Mrs. Sprague and two children were found upstairs and in beds on the second floor. Police report smoke inhalation as the cause.
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George
Huff
Man Acquitted in Slaying of Girl
A Pikeville jury acquitted Lon Moles, 60, of murdering Muriel Baldridge, 17, whose beaten body was found June 28 beneath a bridge near her home after she was last seen June 27. The verdict came 23 minutes after deliberations began.
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Truman Picks Agency Heads
President Truman creates a Federal Maritime Board replaces the Maritime Commission and names Major General Philip B. Fleming undersecretary of commerce for transportation. He also appoints Mon C. Wallgren as head of the Federal Power Commission and James M. Mead as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.
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Presient
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Maritime Commission
John T. Koehler
Checkup Voted on Homosexuals Investigation Bill
The Senate expenditures committee approved a resolution for a thorough investigation of homosexuals in the government. The vote was unanimous.
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Washington
Senate Expenditures Committee
Truman Says He's Not in Business Of Lending Money
Elmer Van Tine an Iowa ordnance plant worker and WWII company cook sent a note and a $50 check to President Truman after a Burlington stop. The President replied he is not in the money lending business and asked to call it even by sending $25, which Van Tine did.
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Iowa
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Lie Voices Hope Of Tension End
United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie said after talks in London Paris and Moscow that constructive negotiations could reduce Cold War tensions and end the conflict. He will meet President Truman and Secretary Acheson in Washington next week and continue efforts within the UN framework.
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No Tavern in Troy Mills Again Sparks County Vote
Linn county supervisors rejected a class B beer permit for Troy Mills in a split decision after a 35 person delegation protested. The issue, hot since 1948, ends a second bid to open a tavern in the village of about 140 near the Linn county line in Spring Grove township.
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Cedar Rapids
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Walker
Bevin Urges China Seat in United Nations Debate
Foreign Secretary Bevin urged that Communist China be admitted to the United Nations, saying it is better for the new China to be inside U.N. He also accused Russia of striking against the U.N. and defended Britain’s recognition of the Mao regime during a Commons debate on Far East policy.
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Britain ready to resume U.N. atomic energy talks with Russia
London reports Britain is willing to restart U.N. atomic energy talks with Russia once the China representation deadlock is settled. Foreign Undersecretary Ernest Davies said the issue was discussed with U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie in London and that Lie’s Moscow briefing remains undisclosed. Russia refuses U.N. participation with Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists.
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Picketing at White House Demands FEPC Passage
Members of Henry A. Wallace's Progressive party picketed the White House in Washington demanding action on fair employment practices legislation. George B. Murphy Jr. said they will protest daily 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. until the Senate acts, criticizing President Truman for lip service and urging broader pressure.
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Henry A. Wallace
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White House
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District of Columbia
McCarthy to Reveal Files on Lattimore Case
Senator McCarthy announced he will publicly disclose Thursday night portions of Office of War Information loyalty files to support charges against Far Eastern expert Owen Lattimore. He says the material, to be shown in Rochester New York, irons out alleged State Department discrediting of his evidence.
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ULP
McCarthy
R-Wis
Office of War Information
State Department
Owen Lattimore
National Convention of Catholic Editors
Rochester
N. Y
FBI identifies 1,200 suspect list in Gold spy case
The FBI narrowed a nationwide suspect pool to Harry Gold of Philadelphia after tracing clues from Klaus Fuchs. Investigators used target dates, locations, and interviews to cull the list and verify Gold through cross checks before he confessed his role in espionage for the Soviet Union.
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England
Leak Role Confessed By Chemist
FBI says Swiss-born Harry Gold admitted helping pass atomic secrets from Klaus Fuchs to the Soviet Union. He faces the death penalty as the first American charged with atomic espionage, with bail set at 100000 and a June 12 hearing scheduled.
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Chance for Tax Dodgers Voted
Washington AP The house ways and means committee voted to let tax dodgers avoid fines and prison by voluntary appearance and settling their tax bills. Some members estimate millions could flow into federal coffers if prosecutions were avoided.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
New York Central Suffers $7 Million Income Loss Early 1950
President Gustav Metzman reported that labor disputes cost the New York Central railroad about 7 million dollars in net income during the first four months of 1950.
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