Ballot Propositions Stretch Across 34 States in Election
Voters face about 200 special propositions in 34 states for the November 7 election. Topics include legalized gambling in California and Arizona, poll tax repeal in South Carolina, liquor questions in Arkansas and Oregon, veterans bonuses in Montana Oregon and West Virginia, and a world federal government proposal backed by UWB but opposed by many candidates and groups.
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Oklahoma
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West Virginia
Harvester and Union Reach Five-Year Master Contract
Inter national Harvester Co and CIO United Auto Workers end a ten week strike with a five year master contract. Immediate 10 cent hourly pay hike plus 4 cent improvement and cost of living factors. Wages linked to the BLS index with no cut before June 1951. Daywork workers gain six cent extra, boosting skilled pay by 24 to 54 cents for many. Harvester employees to be paid $1.80 per hour for straight time.
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International Harvester Co
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United Auto Workers Union
UAW
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Harvester
Reds Launch New Eastward Assault Near Sinanju Front
Communist troops opened a fresh attack from the east against United Nations forces on the Sinanju front as Chinese reinforcements moved down from Manchuria. The assault neared Kunu Ri while airmen warned of a large enemy concentration at Chongju and a truck convoy crossed the Yalu north of Chongju. US commanders estimated Chinese forces in Korea at 75,000 with 300,000 along the Manchurian border and up to a million more within striking distance.
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Chongju
8Th Army
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Eighth Army
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Kunu-Ri
Won-Ni
Kum-Ri
Hamhung
North Korea
U.S
Changjin
Radio Amateurs Bomb Warning Triggers Citywide Panic
Stanley Gordon 23 was charged with disorderly conduct after broadcasting a fear message from his Bronx apartment. Hundreds fled to air raid shelters as the voice warned of enemy planes and an atomic attack, drawing police and witnesses into a chaotic scene. Gordon, a RCA Communications clerk, said he was in his kitchen and did not realize his four watt PA carried so far.
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Bronx
Gordon
New York City
Louis Sheridan
Jerry
James Loughlin
William Cotter
RCA Communications, Inc
Cedar Rapids Man Crying As Murder Charge Looms
Merl Boyles, 49, cried during police photos after his arrest on a preliminary murder charge in the strangulation death of his wife Emma, 36. He denies guilt, with neighbors noting his drinking before arrest. arraignment expected Monday morning.
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Cedar Rapids
Merl Boyles
Emma
Boyles
Roy Walker
Residential Unit Leads Cedar Rapids Community Chest Pace
Cedar Rapids campaign reports three of 18 divisions above the overall average for 1950. The residential division leads at 119.6 percent of its quota, while all divisions surpass the halfway mark with $191,852.80 raised, 88.17 percent of the $216,317.09 goal. Pledges total 19,659 givers. officials urge continued solicitation and report submission.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids’ Community Chest Campaign
Stassen Blasts Truman Policies At New Haven Rally
Harold Stassen, GOP emissary, denounces postwar inflation and wasteful fiscal policy as causes of Korea casualties. He blames Truman administration for Asia policy errors and calls for MacArthur's guidance on China Formosa and Indo-China.
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Harold FE. Stassen
North Korea
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
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MacArthur
China
Formosa
Indo-China
Truman Attacks Isolationists in Campaign Address
ST LOUIS AP Harry S Truman assailed Republican critics and warned that a vote for isolationism would mean national decline amid Communist expansion. He praised U.S. leadership in Korea as a step toward world peace and said Democrats have done more to defeat communism. The crowd numbered about 9 500 to 11 000 as Truman defended bipartisanship, called for workable health care, avoided naming the Brannan farm plan, and noted civil rights support without broad detail.
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Woman Slugged Walking on Fourth Ave During Robbery Attempt
Mrs. Vera Hanshaw, 49, of 384 Fifteenth Street SE, was struck from behind on Fourth Avenue SE near Tenth Street at about 8 20 PM Saturday. She was taken to St Luke's Hospital with a slight cut and bruised knees after the attacker fled without grabbing her purse. Police describe the suspect as a young man about five seven in leather jacket.
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Cedar Rapids
Vera Hanshaw
Fifteenth Street
Fourth Avenue
Tenth Street
Hanshaw
St. Luke’s Hospital
May's
Kyle Mills Charged With Illegal Siren Use
Kyle Mills head of the Mills Protective Agency and special city policeman was charged with illegal siren use and running a stop sign. Police say he used the siren to pass a stop sign at Sixteenth avenue and Sixth street SW around 6 45 p.m. He reportedly lacked authorization to have a siren in his car.
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Cedar Rapids
Kyle Mills
Eleventh Street
Mills Protective Agency
Mills
Sixteenth Avenue
Sixth Street
Whips Used by Sect To Beat Devil Out of Women
AP report from St Paul on an alleged self styled religious order that used whips to punish adherents to “drive out the devil” after a member, Mrs Alice Christensen 47, attempted suicide by car exhaust. About 20 members, no formal name, leader unnamed, beatings described as marks of exorcism. Christensen's husband Charles and son Ralph witnessed the abuses.
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ST. Paul
Tom Gibbons
Alice Christensen
Gibbons
Houston Bus Drivers Strike for Higher Pay
Houston bus drivers walked off the job seeking a 25 cent hourly wage increase as a contract expired. About 1,300 drivers and mechanics operate buses carrying roughly 250,000 passengers daily, with taxis as the only other public transport option.
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Houston, Texas
Houston
Goodwin Seeks Fraud Probe Into Democratic Ads
Des Moines Republican State Chairman Robert Goodwin urged the attorney general to probe possible violations of Iowa fraud advertising law in a Democratic campaign ad for Albert Loveland. He called the ad fraudulent and misleading, noting listed senate agriculture committee meetings include subcommittees not chaired by Sen. Rourke Hickenlooper.
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Robert Goodwin
Iowa
Goodwin
Atty
Robert Larson
Albert Loveland
Senate Agriculture Committee
Subcommittee
Rourke Hickenlooper
Loveland
Hickenlooper
Agriculture Committee
Pro-Red Tibet Coup Seizes Lhasa After Dalai Lama Flees
Pro Communist Tibetans led by two leftist monks seized Lhasa government after the 16 year old Dalai Lama fled the advancing Chinese Red armies. Reports say the coup faced some opposition but was quickly suppressed and conditions in Lhasa are described as normal.
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India
Lhasa
Dalai Lama
Kalimpong
India-Tibet
Indian News Chronicle
Nagchuk-Dzong
Pate
Deas
Shaw and TV Spotlight on Ber nard Shaw in Gazette Series
The Gazette begins a ten part series profiling George Bernard Shaw with unpublished anecdotes. It notes future pieces on Television as it Affects Cedar Rapids and a daily TV schedule page. Also directs readers to sections on Iowa senate races Linn county sketches and a feature on Sixteenth Avenue SW.
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Gazette Today
Cedar Rapids
IIT
Iowa
Linn County
Sixteenth Avenue SW
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