Marshall Labels Greek Crisis a Soviet Veto Challenge
Secretary of State Marshall denounces Russia and pushes the United Nations to act to rescue Greece from Balkan assaults. He accuses Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria of hostile moves and notes three Soviet vetoes blocking Security Council action. He warns the UN must intervene or risk failing a member in danger.
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New York
Russia
Marshall
United Nations
Greece
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
Security Council
U.N. Assembly
Marshall outlines seven point program at U N as Soviet withdraws
The United States proposes a seven point plan to the General Assembly to counter veto use in the Security Council. It calls for a full time assembly security committee, possible veto liberalization, a Greek border commission, a Palestine solution, atomic energy controls, and robust arms planning. Marshall warns against privilege undermining collective will as Russia stalls at the U N. He also signals Greece border blame on Yugoslavia Albania and Bulgaria and notes limited chances for a Palestine settlement. Korea talks face an end to federal negotiations as the U S shifts strategy.
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Marshall
Assembly
Security Council
United States
Russia
Korea
Palestine
U.N
General Assembly
United Nations
Greece
Yugoslavia
Albania
Bulgaria
Balkan
Holy Land
Chapel Firer Gets 10-Year Prison Term
Walter P Hanson Jr, 34, was sentenced to 10 years in the Iowa State penitentiary after pleading guilty to setting fire to Sinclair Memorial chapel at Coe College. Judge M C Hamiel imposed the term less than a day after Hanson confessed to starting the $275000 blaze.
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Walter P. Hanson, Jr
Iowa State Penitentiary
M. C Hamiel
Hanson
Sinclair Memorial Chapel
Coe College
R J Shaw
B Avenue NE
Three year old Martha Burkett rides Cedar Rapids to Iowa City
A Cedar Rapids mother searches for her daughter Bernice Burkett after Martha, age three, boards a trolley alone and travels to Iowa City. Officials locate Martha and reunite her with her mother before they continue their trip. Conductor R. Ross accompanies the child on all three trips and says he will miss her.
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Cedar Rapids
Martha Burkett
Iowa City
Bernice Burkett
Thirty-second Street
Martha
Crandie
Cedar Rapids- Towa City
R. Ross
Twentieth Avenue SW
Army River Expert Will Study Levee in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids officials will have army river experts study a Stumptown levee feared undermined by sand pumping. Rock Island arsenal engineers and city staff will decide if the levee is weakening, while Concrete Materials owner S. P. Moore on Tuesday denied imminent collapse and pledged no further pumping until the issue is settled.
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Cedar Rapids
Rock Island Arsenal
Frank Young
Concrete Materials and Construction Company
Cedar River
S. P. Moore
Livestock Output Drives Scottish Farm Economy
Editor Rex Conn reports from Scotland where livestock and livestock products account for about 90 percent of agricultural income. He notes Scotland’s 19 million acres with 7 percent pasture, describes Aberdeen Angus stock at Dalmeny, Aldie Shorthorns, Ayrshire dairy operations at Fenton Barns, and major vegetable farming by David Lowe. The observation comes amid a tour of the British Isles by an Iowa Farm Bureau group.
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Rex Conn
The
Gazette
British Isles
France
Germany
Scotland
Conn
Iowa Farm Bureau Party
England
the Gazette
Edinburgh
Iowa
Sir Patrick Laird
Patrick
David Lowe
National Scottish Farmers Union
R. D. Marshall
Fran
Ait Greenhead
East Lothian
Finlay McGillivary
Petrodie Regalia
Aldie Keystone
Petrodhe Upright
Perth
Ralph Smith
Grain Valley
Ohio
McGillivary
Fenton Barns
Berma
Ayrshire
Rupert Chalmers Watson
Irvine Chalmers Wattson
United States
Yugoslavs Press US Troops At Trieste Border
Yugoslav detachment orders an American lieutenant and six men to surrender a patch of Italian territory near Trieste but Lt. Harry Konishi refuses and holds ground behind sandbags. Allied officials report no immediate advance as British fighter bombers demonstrate strength and diplomacy strains surface between London Washington and Belgrade.
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Trieste
Harry Konishi
Free State of Trieste
Marshal Tito
Free State
Washington
London
No. 6
Vladimir Lekic
Duino
Their Aim Was Good But It Was Wrong Car
Three teenage boys threw tomatoes at a passing car and scored three hits. The driver, Patrolman Harry Mullins, stopped the chase and summoned assistance. Police rounded up the trio for juvenile authorities the next day.
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Cedar Rapids News
Harry Mullins
Board Vote Opposes Skirt Length Increase at WSU
The Associated Students of Washington State College board adopts a resolution opposing longer women’s skirts. The eight men and six women board members split eight to six in the vote.
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Pullman
Wash
Board of Control
The
Associated Students of Washington State College
Drunk Pilot Charged After Bowery Bay Crash
District Attorney Charles P Sullivan charged a drunk pilot was at the controls of an American Airlines experimental DC-3 that plunged into Bowery bay near LaGuardia on Aug 8 killing three of five aboard. He summoned American Airlines officials Civil Aeronautics Board and LaGuardia duty dispatcher. Survivors Chester Ball and James Till testified.
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New York
American Airlines
Bowery Bay
LaGuardia Field
Charles P Sullivan
Civil Aeronautics Board
LaGuardia
Chester Ball
James Till
Sullivan
Alexander O. Gettler
City Toxicologist
Walter A. Davidson
Wantagh NY
Walter Rundel
Howard Hickey
Cab cites locked controls in United crash at New York
The Civil Aeronautics Board reported the May 29 United Air Lines crash at New York killed 43. It says the gust lock may have been engaged, preventing the pilot from moving the controls and leaving the aircraft with its control surfaces in neutral.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
United Air Lines
New York
CAB
LaGuardia Reported Critically Ill At Home
Former New York mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia was reported in critical condition at his Riverdale home after a sudden collapse. Dr George Baehr said La Guardia remained in a deep stupor and too ill to move to a hospital after a week of declining health following pancreatic surgery on June 18.
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Riverdale
N. Y
INS
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York
George Baehr
Baehr
LaGuardia
Fines Levied in Duck Club Case
The Ruptured Duck club in Linn County was fined 600 dollars for maintaining a liquor nuisance. Galen Jacque, its president, and Rodney H. Kenyon, its secretary treasurer, each received 100 dollar fines for possession of gambling devices after a July 18 raid. The judge ordered confiscation and destruction of gambling devices and liquor, with appeal bonds set at 2000 dollars for the club and 500 dollars for each defendant.
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Cedar Rapids
Galen Jacque
Rodney
H. Kenyon
M. C Hamiel i District Court
William Crissman
Hamiel
First Street
Linn County School Fund
Illinois
Iowa
Jacque
Kenyon
Crissman
Duck Club
Miami Is Cut Off by Hurricane Roaring ashore
A hurricane of great size struck Florida's east coast forcing Miami to shutter and isolating the area as winds exceed 100 mph. Flights were toppled at Miami airport and trains stalled while coastal roads and causeways were closed. Red Cross messages urged evacuation and officials warned the Lake Okeechobee lowlands face potential disaster with dikes under strain.
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Miami
Florida
Fort Lauderdale
Miami Herald
Lake Okeechobee
Palm Beach
Miami Beach
Biscayne Bay
Florida Peninsula
Fort Myers
Coast Guard
West Palm Beach
Gulf of Mexico
MacDillfield
Chanute
Scott Fields
Midwest
Pensacola Mobile
Sebring
Fla
John Kirk
Red Cross Sound
Okeechobee
Boy’s RAF request ends in tragedy over Bournemouth
A boy selected from spectators at an RAF exhibition in Bournemouth, England, radioed a request to a Spitfire pilot to perform a victory roll. Flight Lt. B E Green attempted the maneuver but dived the plane toward the sea and drowned.
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Bournemouth
England
RAF
B. E. Green
Sonny
Green
Forrestal Speeds Swearing In Ahead of Schedule
President Truman said he personally ordered Secretary of Defense James Forrestal sworn into his new post early due to the tense international situation. Forrestal was sworn in Wednesday in Washington aboard the battleship Missouri.
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Missouri
Truman
Defense Forrestal
Forrestal
Washington
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Army River
Stumptown
Moore
Hahn
State Conservation Commission
Cis McFarland
Scottish Department of Agriculture
Farmers Union
Ian Campbell
Lord Roseberry
Dalmeny
Lowe
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