Eisenhower Grants Cabinet Posts and Korea Plans
President elect Eisenhower appointed George M. Humphrey as secretary of the treasury and Herbert Brownell Jr. as attorney general, with Harold E. Stassen named director of the Mutual Security Agency. Humphrey, a Taft backer from Cleveland, and Brownell, a New York strategist, bolster the GOP leadership. Stassen, former Minnesota governor, leads Penn University. Eisenhower heads to Washington for a West Point reunion while planning a Korea visit and considering firm action on China.
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Death Week Set for Rosenbergs by U S Judge
New York AP Julius and Ethel Rosenberg face execution. Judge Irving R. Kaufman set the week of January 12 for their final act after conviction as atomic spies.
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Casualty Update in Korea War Report
The Defense Department identified 59 additional casualties in the Korean War. The list covers 68 dead 243 wounded 37 missing and 11 injured.
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Defense Department
Cost of Living Edges Up While Auto Wages Fall
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the cost of living index rose 0.1 point for Sept 15 to Oct 15 to 190.9, while the old index used for auto workers slips 0.1 due to prior declines. Detroit shows the largest quarterly rent rise at 2.1 percent as decontrol took effect.
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Cedar Rapids Food Price Index Dips From Sept to Oct
Cedar Rapids retail food price index fell three tenths of a percent from mid September to mid October per the labor department. Declines came in meats poultry fish sugar sweets oils and cereals bakery products. By Oct 15 the index was six tenths of a percent lower than the same date in the prior year.
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Cedar Rauids
Cedar Rapids Chamber Sees Schools as Top City Problem
Cedar Rapids business leaders at a chamber town hall rated schools as the No. 1 issue and traffic as No. 2. They discussed bond issue defeat, suggested separating grade and high school funding, district realignments, and coordinated planning with housing.
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Wilson of GM to be named witness in du Pont suit
Chicago dispatch says Charles E. Wilson, secretary of defense under Eisenhower, will be a major defense witness in the government anti trust suit against E I du Pont de Nemours and Co. and family. Justice officials note Wilson may testify next spring though no firm plan exists. Wilson, GM president since 1946, is not a defendant.
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Polish boy bluffs through curtain to find his father
A 13 year old Polish boy Myczyslaw Tomkiewicz arrived in London after a risky journey from southwestern Poland. He evaded borders with careful bluffs and traveled on trains and on foot to Berlin before being taken to a British consulate. His father Ludwig, once an anti-Soviet Polish officer, now works at a textile mill in northern England. The boy had been separated from family since infancy and endured years in Soviet Siberia with his mother and grandmother as punishment for his father’s wartime career.
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Czech Trial Indictment Cites Dulles
Prague police court records reveal 14 top Red Czech defendants accused of espionage and treason. The indictment names John Foster Dulles as a notorious spy and cites links to Western officials including Laurence Steinhardt and Herbert Morrison. Slansky pled guilty to treason and espionage amid a wide network of spies and alleged murders.
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Mystery Lamp Sways in Downtown Minneapolis Cafe
A hanging glass light in a deserted downtown Minneapolis cafe has been mysteriously swinging since Monday. The lone fixture sways about 18 inches in an 18 inch arc while seven identical lamps in the building remain still. Building owners stopped the lamp Thursday to let photographers in, but moments later it began to oscillate again.
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Yule Parade Set To Start At 10 A.M. Saturday
Cedar Rapids welcomes 35 units for the annual Christmas parade starting promptly at 10 a.m. Saturday. Santa Claus will ride his sleigh pulled by eight reindeer with Rudolph leading. Local bands include Roosevelt Wilson McKinley Franklin high schools Cedar Rapids Cadets drum and bugle corps and Coe AROTC band. Sixteen local float entries compete for twelve prizes totaling 600 dollars. Rudolph and six floats join Santa in Cedar Rapids. three additional units also appear. Entry blanks are available at the Chamber of Commerce. Parking will be restricted on parade route until it passes. Parking restrictions apply on First and Third streets near the route.
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William Green Dies at 79 Former AFL Chief
AFL President William Green, 79, died of a heart attack at his Coshocton home after a long tenure as AFL leader since 1924. He led the federation through growth amid the CIO split and labor tensions, resisting partisan pulls while guiding the once influential organization. The AFL executive council planned a quick vote for a successor.
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Bird in Hand Not Always Sure Thing
Tipton Mayor E R Moore and George Lemaku hunted pheasant. They each paused as a bird dropped. Moore had two birds while Lemaku had one, and Lemaku claimed the later bird and bagged another pheasant as it flew away.
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Dulles Asks FBI to Investigate His Life
New York AP report says John Foster Dulles, named as secretary of state, asked J Edgar Hoover to probe his life and record. He told reporters there will be no taint of suspicion about the State Department, promising a clean start.
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Indicted Union Officials Face Federal Charges in DC Case
Attorney General McGranery announced indictments against two officers of the United Electrical Workers for falsely swearing they were not communists. The defendants are Walter Cornelius Lohman of Dayton Ohio and Everst Melvin Hupman of Clarksville Ohio. No union positions disclosed.
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Wilson Expected To Go to Korea
Detroit report states General Motors President C E Wilson said the newly named defense secretary would travel to Korea with General Matthew Ridgway. The remark adds to expectations for U S policy decisions amid ongoing Korean War operations.
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