Fire Routs Hundreds In Capital
A major fire at the $11 million post office department building on Pennsylvania Avenue NW caused heavy damage, with explosions and water flooding the eighth floor. Twelve people were treated for injuries, and firemen found debris and glass blown into the open courtyard.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Pennsylvania Avenue
12Th
13Th Streets
Robert Farrington
Associated Press
Post Office
Martin Levy
FCC
Prowler Reported In Voorhees Hall at Coe College
Detectives investigated a prowler incident at Voorhees Hall. Mary Gill of Manchester awoke at about 2 30 a m to find a man on her bed edge. He fled upstairs then jumped from a window after being confronted by another student.
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Cedar Razi¢és Newe
Voorhees Hall
Coe College
Mary Gill
Manchester
Russia Behind the Iron Curtain Revealed in Gazette Series
Joseph Newman, barred from Moscow for two years, reports from Russia with firsthand observations on life behind the Iron Curtain. The Gazette will publish his 15 installments, starting Wednesday, detailing how minorities fare, the system of forced production, and Russia's direction.
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Russia
Moscow
New York Herald Tribune
Joseph Newman
Gazette
Bethlehem Pact Spurs Peace Hope
Washington AP reports a Bethlehem Steel welfare pact ending 80,000 CIO steelworkers strike boosted government hopes for quick end to steel and coal labor disputes. The Cleveland agreement with CIO leader Philip Murray includes pension benefits, death and health insurance, and a two year wage extension, signaling potential industry-wide peace talks.
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Washington
CIO
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Bethlehem
Cleveland
Philip Murray
Murray
Cyrus S. Ching
United States Steel Corporation
United States Steel
Benjamin F. Fairless
Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corporation
Richard LeMont Awarded Parole
Richard LeMont former Cedar Rapids fireman released on parole from Fort Madison penitentiary. He was 36, sentenced to 10 years for starting two fires at Magnus hotel on Oct 16, 1947, with three years five months remaining. Linn county jury found him guilty June 9, 1947, and recommended leniency. Parole board also released Charles E. Parmenter, 55, the only public official sent to prison in Polk county fraud cases.
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Cedar Rapids
Richard LeMont
Fort Madison
LeMont
Magnus
State Parole Board
Linn County
Board of Parole
Charles E. Parmenter
Polk County
Cedar Rapids Community Chest Near Final Total
Campaign chairman Alvin G. Keyes announced the Cedar Rapids Community Chest contributions reached 185 359 80, audited by volunteers from the Cedar Rapids chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants. He noted more reports remain from divisions including industrial groups.
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Cedar Rapids
Alvin G. Keyes
National Association of Cost Accountants
Keyes
Ex union head dies in Detroit at 88
William D. Mahon, 88, former international president of the AFL Bus and Streetcar Operators union, died Monday night. He retired in 1946 due to poor health after leading the union for nearly 53 years.
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Detroit
William D. Mahon
AFL Bus and Streetcar Operators Union
Mahon
Electrical Union Acts For Ouster
The United Electrical Workers union, a CIO left wing core, said it would withhold further dues, signaling a first step toward ouster. UE claims CIO leadership pursues red-baiting and union-busting while criticizing wage negotiation sabotage and political trading for favors. The move follows CIO constitutional changes and could affect about 450,000 UE members and other left wing unions.
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Cleveland
United Electrical Workers Union
CIO
Albert J. Fitzgerald
Philip Murray
Fitzgerald
Murray
Administration Board of Inquiry
Power Failure Paralyzes Dayton Area for Hour and Half
A Dayton Power and Light outage cut service over 6,000 square miles affecting 279 communities in 24 southwestern Ohio counties. Power went off at 9:09 p.m. and returned at 10:43 p.m. No immediate cause was found as Dayton, an industrial city of about 275,000, halted production of auto parts during the shutdown.
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Dayton
Dayton Power and Light Company
Ohio
1950 All Iowa Fair Dates Set for August Run
The 1950 All Iowa fair will be held Sunday August 13 through Thursday August 17. Preparation day is Saturday August 12 with all exhibits in place before the Sunday opening. The shift from eight days to five was made to avoid conflicts with neighboring fairs.
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Cedar Rapids
Fair Board Executive Committee
McGregor Youth Killed In Mishap On Local Road
McGregor high school senior Robert Davis, 17, died from a ruptured lung after a car driven by James Koehn, 16, overturned on the McGregor Clayton road while en route to fetch ice for the Halloween carnival. Koehn sustained non life threatening injuries including a dislocated shoulder and abdominal lacerations. Sheriff Forrest W. Fischer said gravel caused loss of control. Douglas Davis, McGregor residents, mourn the loss as the accident occurred Monday afternoon.
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the Gazette
McGregor
McGregor High School
Here
McGregor-Clayton Road
Robert Davis
Leslie Davis
McGregor Hospital
James R. Koehn
Albert Koehn
Clayton
Forrest W. Fischer
Koehn
Davis
Earliest Ever Corn Harvest Report in Iowa
Iowa crop bulletin shows the corn harvest about three weeks ahead, with 67 percent of acreage picked by Saturday and about 2.9 million acres harvested. Northern and western districts lead, while Armistice Day is forecast as the finish target if weather stays favorable. Fall harvest and soybean ground remains substantial for fall work.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Falloe
Escapee Dan Robertson Captured After State Prison Break
Florence Arizona police report Dan Robertson aged 19, the final of six young escapees from a state prison annex, was apprehended Monday night by a posse of about 60 men after a days long manhunt across the area.
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Florence, Ariz
Dan Robertson
Czech Catholic Church Is Taken Over by Red Regime
In Prague the Communist government assumed control of the Roman Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia. About 7,000 clergy became civil servants as state supervision of church affairs began. Vatican Radio condemned the laws as unconstitutional and violative of church autonomy. The regime requires oath of loyalty, higher salaries, state operation of seminaries, and fines or imprisonment for violations.
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Red
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Vatican
Vatican Radio
Alexe Cepicka
Klement Gottwald
Prague Radio
Albert Lemming Fatally Injured in Industrial Mishap
Albert Lemming 59 of 403 Sixth Street SW Cedar Rapids died after a two and one half ton counterweight fell at the Link Belt Speeder plant before 10 am Tuesday. He was an assembler, died at Mercy hospital, and the weight dropped while he assisted with a crane, causing fatal injury. He served 22 years at Link Belt, was a World War I veteran, and survived by his wife Mabel, a son Floyd, and a granddaughter. Funeral plans to be announced.
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Cedar Rapids News
Albert Lemming
Sixth Street
Link-Belt Speeder Corporation
Mercy Hospital
Lemming
Link- Belt
Link Belt
Cedar Rapids
Mr. Lemming
Culbertson
Neb
Farm Equipment Workers Union
American Legion
Mabel
Floyd
Richland
Turner Chapel
Lisbon Tavern Operators Fined in County Court
Two Lisbon tavern operators, Joe Tvrdik of Joe's Place and James Donahue of the South Side tavern, were fined $100 and costs after pleading guilty to possession of punch boards and lottery tickets. Judge Floyd Philbrick suspended $50 of each fine. Gambling devices were seized by Deputy Sheriff Larry Condon and Lisbon Marshal George Kohl.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Lisbon
Dist
Joe Tvyrdik
Joe’s Place
James Donahue
South Side
Floyd Philbrick
Larry Condon
George Kohl
About & P.m
Notables Listed Aboard Airliner in Crash with Bolivian Fighter Craft
A Bolivian fighter plane collided with an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 near Washington airport. Estimated 55 dead, 51 passengers and four crew aboard, with only one survivor found alive. The crash occurred at the Potomac river edge. many bodies scattered over 150 yards, with many likely in the river.
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Associated Press
National
Washington
Eric Rios
Bridoux
Eastern Air Lines
Boston
New York
New Orleans
Potomac River
EAL
Halloween Parade and Dance Highlight Cedar Rapids Teens
Linn county teenagers took over downtown Cedar Rapids for the second annual Halloween celebration co sponsored by the Moose lodge and American Legion. The Mardi Gras parade through downtown led to the Memorial Coliseum show watched by about a thousand, with prize money of 300 dollars and multiple Lincoln school groups winning various prizes. The event culminated in a Legion sponsored dance drawing around two thousand teens, with high food consumption and notable floats from Immaculate Conception St Patrick’s and Cleveland schools.
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Cedar Rapids News Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Moose Lodge
American Legion
Legion
Memorial Coliseum
WLS
Lincoln School
Lincoln
Immaculate Conception
St. Patrick’s
Cleveland
Birthday dollar leads to traderwise child’s wry remark
A father gives his son a birthday dollar and the boy, Sandy, spends the afternoon visiting tradesmen. He asks each why they take the money, replying that sooner or later someone will make a mistake and it won’t be him. The joke highlights his sly confidence.
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Sandy
New York Reports Worst Commercial Aviation Disaster Yet
The crash is described as possibly the worst in American commercial aviation. It notes a prior fatal crash on May 30, 1947, when an Eastern Air Lines plane crashed near Port Deposit, Maryland, killing 53 people.
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New York
Eastern Air Lines
Port Deposit
Plane crash victim tied to Tammany Hall figure Kennedy
New York AP reports Michael J. Kennedy, 52, former Tammany Hall leader and two term congressman, was aboard the plane that crashed Tuesday. He had worked in New York insurance since 1944, leading Tammany.
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New York
Michael J. Kennedy
Tammany Hell
Congress
Tammmany
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The
New Yorker Magazine
Gardner Taylor
First Federal Savings Association
Miss Hokinson
Taylor
Bates
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Bolivia
United States
Air Force
William Lookadoo
Bolling Air Force Base
Morris J. Faoulacker
P. M. Clifford
Potomac
Johnson
D-Corp
Senate Commerce Committee
CAA
George Ray
Charles Hazelwood
O. Oryhuela
Gilbert
Tammany Head
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