U N Votes To Partition Palestine Partition plan sparks Arab walkout
The United Nations General Assembly approved a plan to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. Arab delegates angrily walked out, calling the move a violation of the U N charter. Leaders urged cautious but hopeful global reactions as observers noted long seeking a Jewish home after two millennia.
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Flushing
N. Y
United Nations General Assembly
Palestine
Assembly
World Parliament
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
Faisal Saud
Saudi Arabia
U.N
Steer Grand Champion Shown by Oklahoma FFA at Chicago
At the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago 1100 pound Shorthorn steer Big Boy shown by Claude Millwee Fort Cobb Oklahoma won junior show grand champion. Reserve grand champion Bennie a 925 pound Angus shown by Verne Carlson Camargo Indiana placed second. Miriam Meyer Crescent City Illinois and Arlo Janssen Garber Oklahoma captured junior grand champion honors in hog and lamb classes respectively with Pal Pee Wee Captain and Shorty.
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Chicago
Claude Millwee
Future Farmers of America
Fort Cobb
Okla
Bennie
Verne H. Carlson
Camanche
INS
International Amphitheater
Miriam E. Meyer
Crescent City
Ill
Arlo Janssen
Garber
Oklo
Miriam
Arlo
Chester White
Pal
Pee Wee
Shorty
Edwin Meyer
Herbert Janssen
Captain
Ivan
Pensacola
Fla
Three Marion Buildings Swept by Blaze
An explosion in the basement of the Kendall Hardware Company sparked a fire that damaged three downtown Marion buildings on Seventh Avenue. The Kopecky grocery, Edison drug store, D. A. Stamy insurance agency, Eagles club, and three apartments above the drug store were affected. Estimated damage was $75,000, with no injuries. Firefighters contained the blaze by 4:30 p.m. The cause remains undetermined.
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Marion
Seventh Avenue
Eagles Club
Kendall Hardware
Marion Business District
Kendall Hardware Company
Kopecky Grocery and Market
Edison Drug Store
D. A. Stamy Insurance Agency
L. E. Cooper
Stamy Insurance Agency
Italian Army Ready To Nip Red Uprising
Rome authorities boosted guards across the city after reports of a planned Communist uprising following Milan's Friday insurrection. Milan remained tense as 5,000 Partisans ceded control to the military with police, while Italian leaders called for calm and prepared nationwide precautions.
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Rome
INS
Milan
Italy
Francesco Nitti
National Democratic Union
Scelba
Troilo
Manlio Capizzi
Milan Area
Giancarlo Pajetta
Interior Ministry
Achille Marazza
Marazza
Strike End Deadline Set By Schuman
Paris faces a tense crisis as Premier Robert Schuman’s government gives Communists a 24 hour deadline to end walkouts or be treated as rebels. Paris subway workers pledge to join paralysing strikes that have halted about 2,000,000 people.
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Schuman
Robert Schuman
Paris
Airport Road Is Topped with Stone
Cedar Rapids report notes State primary road 381 has been leveled and surfaced with crushed stone. The road alongside the airport and the main entrance is in excellent condition per Airport Manager Francis Hiddenger. Grading was finished but weather delayed surfacing. Sixth Street SW remains closed due to grading.
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Cedar Rapids
Francis Hidinger
Notable Cedar Rapids Figures Highlighted in Gazette Feature Lineup
The Sunday Gazette runs a series of biographical and feature pieces. Mahala Dutton Douglas, a Cedar Rapids native, is profiled as Minneapolis remembers her era. Bayne Freeland chronicles Cedar Rapids residents who moved to Alaska then Arizona. Mary Stevenson explores autographed letters of famous Americans at Cedar Rapids Masonic library. A Grant Wood room preview opens at McKinley school to honor the Iowa artist. Other stories cover Marguerite Vernimont, doll play in child psychology by Joan Liffring from Iowa City, and Polish refugees’ journey to the United States.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Marguerite Vernimont
Ili
Gazette
Joan Liffring
Iowa City
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
Don Padilla
Poland
The
U. S
Mercury Retreats Nearer Zero Mark
The Cedar Rapids area plunged to a season low of 9 above with a late Friday drop and 11 p.m. readings near 8 above. Forecasters warned sub zero readings Sunday across six states while indicating a gradual warmup for Sunday and Monday except in northern regions. An insulating snow cover contributed to the cold giant cold snap across the midwest.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Illinois
Indiana
Hunt for Missing American Plane in Europe
A U S air force C-47 with 21 aboard vanished Saturday over foggy Europe. American, Russian, Italian, and British patrols searched Germany Italy and Ligurian sea while other nations stayed alert for possible wreckage or survivors. The flight departed Pisa Italy bound for Frankfurt before noon Friday with seventeen passengers and four crew aboard.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Italy
U. S
Rome
Ligurian Sea
France
Britain
Czechoslovakia
Belgium
Pisa
Rhein Main
Air Force
Food-Laden Ship To Sail Today For Hungry Europe
The 10 000 ton freighter Friendship will sail Sunday from Philadelphia with 200 carloads of grain and flour for hungry peoples of Europe. It marks the first shipment abroad under the Friendship Train program.
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Europe
Philadelphia
Friendship
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Mario Scelba
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