Vanderbilt predicts postwar U S upheavals for next year
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr told 1 500 northeast Iowa teachers at Memorial Coliseum that universal military training national registration acts new secretary of state by Christmas heavy taxes large U S army in Europe and Asia wage and rent controls rationing dollar devaluation and price controls will shape the coming year He criticized the Marshall plan and warned the next war may be fought on this continent. He cited Europe observations and noted surplus Dutch vegetables and discarded Marshall plan goods in Belgium and France.
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Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Iowa
Memorial Coliseum
United States
Europe
Asia
Vanderbilt
Iowa State Education Association
Push North Along Coast Near Port in Korea Campaign
Allied naval bombardment and air attacks target Red Korea supply lines from Siberia as South Korean Rok troops push north from Wonsan toward Hamhung and Hungnam. U S forces advance on Pyongyang amid tougher resistance while naval units shell Chongjin and coastal rail targets.
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Tokyo
Siberia
Wonsan
Sea of Japan
Red Capital
Pyongyang
Missouri
U.S
Rochester
William Jorden
Jorden
Hamhung
Hungnam
Hamehung
Wonsan Bay
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Air Force
U. N
North Korea
Chongjin
Iron and Steel
Truman Arrives In Honolulu For Korean War Conference
President Truman landed at Hickam Field aboard the Independence en route from California for a U N Korea ceasefire briefing with Gen. MacArthur. He plans a Saturday night return to Honolulu and Monday departure, escorted by pace Bradley Harriman Jessup and Rusk. Governor Stainback offered a lei which the President declined for the photo.
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Honolulu
Truman
Gen
MacArthur
Independence
Hickam Field
Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base
California
U.N. Supreme Commander
Far East
Here
Wake Island
Army
Pace
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
W. Averell Harriman
Philip C. Jessup
Dean Rusk
Ingram M. Stainback
Zenith Cracks Gambler Ring at Chicago Plant
Zenith Radio Corp reports a private investigation uncovered a $350000 yearly gambling ring at its Chicago plant involving employees who took bets on horse racing from inside the facility. Five thousand workers were present. all involved were discharged as police pursued the case and arrested a newsstand operator linked to the activity.
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Chicago
Zenith Radio Corporation
Daniel de Leonardis
J. E. F. McDonald, Jr
Zenith
McDonald
Ee McDonald
Zenith T
Shots Wound 17 On Way to Work
Seven teen workers for Reynolds and Manley Lumber were shot while riding to the Savannah plant in a dispute tied to labor tensions. Police reported gunmen hidden in brush fired on the truck carrying about 35 workers. Ten were released after treatment. seven remained hospitalized and one could lose an eye. The incident involved a dispute with the United Mine Mill and Smelter Workers and a police arrest was made with the identity not disclosed.
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Savannah, Ga
Reynolds and Manley Lumber Company
Aney
William F. Marlowe
United Mine, Mill and Smelter
CIO
Sailor Held For British Palace Theft
London police identify Douglas Monro a 26 year old London sailor as the man behind a Buckingham Palace break in. He allegedly entered twice threw a box of diplomatic papers into a bin and tried to rent a room while the king and queen vacationed.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Scotland Yard
Douglas Monro
Monro
Palace
Lice
Maijesty
A. C. Salisbury-Jones
Diplomatic Corps
George VI
Dying Man’s Invention Aids Cancer Tissue Sampling
Charles M. Flagg of Meriden died of cancer after creating a painless instrument to obtain tissue samples for biopsy. He built three models, first in his shop, then sent to Memorial Hospital in New York, where he had been a patient. The device uses a fine needle and a pump to extract tissue without cutting.
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Meriden, Conn
Charles M. Flagg
Memorial Hospital
New York
Peter Flagg
Flagg
I’s
New York Hospital
Restrictions on Using New Paving in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids First Avenue opens Saturday with detours still in effect. West side allows driving except two blocked blocks from Tenth to Twelfth streets, which reopen Monday. East side traffic can use the avenue from river to Fifteenth, but cross streets there stay barricaded for a week or more. From Fifteenth to Twentieth, driving only on the avenue. entry, exit, and crossing not allowed. West side blocks reopen Monday in the two-block area.
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Cedar Rapids
First Avenue
Park Court
Twentieth Street
Fifteenth Street
Fifteenth
Twentieth Streets
Iowa Mutual Lives Up to Cedar Rapids Merger News
Iowa Mutual Fire Insurance Co acquires Mutual Fire Underwriters of Cedar Rapids effective Jan 1. Orrie S. Imes will head the new fire and inland marine department. Armentrout and rest of Mutual Fire staff join Iowa Mutual. Policies total over 450000 dollars in premium value.
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Cedar Rapids
Mutual Fire Underwriters
Iowa Mutual Liability Insurance Company
Ray J. Mills
Iowa Mutual
Orrie S. Imes
Mutual Fire
Co. R. Armentrout
Iowa Mutual Organization
Mills
Iowa
Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Association
Alton
Millers
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Wilkes-Barre
Western Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Kansas City
Third Street SE
Cedar
Rapids
Five Die as Northwest Plane Crashes Near Almeland
A Northwest Airlines Martin twin engine plane on a routine evaluation mission struck rooftops in Almeland Minnesota and crashed into a farmer's field. Five men were killed and a sixth injured seriously. The occupants included the pilot examiner a check pilot and four Aeronautics Administration officials.
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Almeland, Minn
Northwest Airlines
Martin
Aeronautics Administration
Court Deliberates Hiss Perjury Appeal in New York
The U S court of appeals reserved decision on Alger Hiss appealing his perjury conviction after three hours of arguments by both sides. The defense called the conviction a figment of Whittaker Chambers psychopathic imagination.
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New York
U. S. Court of Appeals
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Portland Writer Ernest Haycox Dies After Long Illness
Ernest Haycox age 51 renowned western story writer died Friday after a prolonged illness. He was among the nation's leading authors in the western fiction field and had a prolific output across newspapers and magazines.
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Portland
Ernest Haycox
Officer Tells Davelis Last Minutes In Quiet Standoff
Iowa City police describe the final moments of 40 year old Davelis as he collapsed after a scuffle in the Dan Dutcher front yard. James Lons and George Baculis were charged with murder as Davelis died en route to the station.
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James Lons
Iowa City
Johnson County
Albert J. Murphy
Lons
Andy Davelis
Patrick McCarney
Princess Cafe
Dan Dutcher
Davelis
McCarney
George Baculis
Herman Parrott
Gazette
Parrott
Blood
Jack C. White
Associated Press
San MA
Stella
George
Kim Il Sung Warns of Serious Danger to Korea
The Chinese Communist radio cites Premier Kim Il Sung saying serious danger hangs over Korea and that the Soviet-backed regime faces defeat. He reportedly spoke from Pyongyang and warned that the army must retreat while the United States presses an offensive to turn Korea into a colony and its people into slaves.
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San Francisco
Communist Radio
Red
Kim Il Sung
Peiping
Kim
Pyongyang
U. S
Korea
U.S. Population Reaches 152 Million at Sept 1
Census Bureau estimates the U S population at 152 271 000 as of September 1 with 576 000 in the armed forces overseas.
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U.S
Washington
Census Bureau
First Liberated G I s Head Home
The first group of 32 liberated American prisoners left Tokyo by plane for the U S after a week of care and meals. They were freed at Nanwon Korea on Sept 28 by the 25th Infantry Division. Some had been held by Korean Communists more than two months and were reported missing.
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Tokyo
U. S
Nanwon
South Korea
25Th
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