Mississippi Till Murder Trial Heads To Final Arguments
Attorneys for Roy Bryant and John Milam rested six defense witnesses as jury deliberations approach in the Emmett Till case. The defense contends misidentification while prosecutors prepare final summations. testimony covers kidnapping charges and timelines of Till’s abduction and death.
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Sumner
Miss
Chicago
Roy Bryant
John W. Milam
Mississippi
Bryant
Milam
Till
Carolyn Bryant
Swango
Sewer Survey Approved by City Council
Cedar Rapids approves a multi million dollar storm sewer survey and five to ten year program. Seven areas with drainage trouble are targeted for runoff sewers in the long range plan. The city engineer will study needs, design a system, and set up financing for construction.
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Cedar Rapids
Blake Boulevard
W. W. Stolba
Red Soldier Left Behind in Austria Says He Was Too Old
A 68 year old man claimed he served as an orderly to a Soviet officer and was told by the departing troops he was too old to return to Russia. He said he was left in Austria to stay behind.
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Vienna
Austria
Russia
Six More Weeks Before East Side Schools Can Open
Cedar Rapids reports six more weeks may pass before Wright and Erskine schools open to end the double shift at Grant Wood and Kenwood elementaries. Officials warned the timeline could slip and pledged pressure for early completion. Builders cited three weeks of work left at Wright and Erskine with gym, driveways pending. Electrical work is current, and heating could arrive in two to three weeks after gas and electricity. Oil and bottle gas options may be used pending utilities.
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Wright and Erskine
Grant Wood
Kenwood
Wright, Erskine
Clyde Parker
Roy Bey
Wright
Erskine
Bey
Acme ‘Electric Company
Galbraith Heating Company
Foutset
Elbow Room on Iowa Highways Measured by Study
Iowa Daily Press reports to the Iowa Highway Commission that widening highway slabs more affects safe driving than shoulder width. Carl Schach of the state highway department presents preliminary statistics from tests on 6,276 free moving cars and 2,845 vehicles meeting oncoming traffic.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Highway Commission
Carl Schach
State Highway Department
Schach
Commission
Cost of Living Dips Slightly
Washington reports August consumer prices slipped two tenths of a percent from mid July to mid August as food and household goods fell while steel and metals price rises this summer had not yet affected overall inflation. The index stood at 114.5 percent of 1947-49 averages, still above the year's first half but four tenths below August last year.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Baby Diaper Theft Sparks San Francisco Kidnapping Hunt
In San Francisco a diaper theft and a report of a heavy-set blonde with a baby bundle prompted a search for Robert Marcus, the kidnapped infant. Mrs. Louis Freeman saw the suspect at daybreak and alerted police. a diaper set missing from the Freeman yard confirms new leads as FBI checks footprints from two babies and a hoax ransom note appears.
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San Francisco
Robert Marcus
San Jose
Louis Freeman
Sanford Marcus
Atlantic City
Marcus
Associated Press
FBI
Washington
Roe
Japanese ceramics to aid Connie victims sent to U S
A shipment valued at 3000 dollars of Japanese ceramic products will be sent to the United States next month to be sold for the aid of Hurricane Connie victims along the Atlantic coast.
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Tokyo
U. S
Atlantic
Soviets Create a Six-Block Paper City in East Berlin
CHICAGO INS reports Army official Chester Davis says Russians built a six-block paper city in the East Berlin sector for display to Germans. He notes shells from rebuilt streets like Stalin Alle and stores with no people, while West Berlin under Allied sponsorship shows real recovery.
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E. Berlin
Chicago
INS
East Berlin
Chester Davis
Army Asamu
Berlin
Stalin Alle
Davis
West Berlin
Allied
Decision on Turnpike To Come Soon
Davenport AP Illinois and Iowa officials meet on toll road plans with Governor Stratton saying a decision on Aurora to Quad Cities toll road and start dates likely in 1956. Illinois bonds of 400 million dollars to fund most of the project go on sale October 17.
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Davenport
Illinois
Iowa
Aurora
Quad Cities
William Stratton
Chicago
Rockford
Ilinois
Stratton
Aurora- Quad Cities
Aurora-Quad Cities
Leo Hoegh
Nebraska
Illinois Toll Road Commission
le Claire
Council Bluffs
MacLean Dodges Flight After Secrets Case Emerges
London AP dispatch reports that diplomat Donald MacLean fled the day Britain ordered him questioned over passing secrets to Russia. A white paper traced leaks to 1949, with a 1951 probe narrowing suspects to two or three, then MacLean as chief suspect before he fled with Guy Burgess on May 25 1951.
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London
Britain
Donald
MacLean
Russia
Foreign Office
Morrison
Burgess
Bill Dykhuizen Files To Run In Cedar Rapids Mayoral Race
Cedar Rapids candidate Bill Dykhuizen, 45, filed nomination papers for the October 25 primary. He is a salesman for an automotive supply firm and has lived in Cedar Rapids since 1924. Other seekers include Robert Tow Earl McCready Louis Holets and Paul Stockberger. He has job history in carpentry roadbuilding and sewing machine sales. Deadline for petitions is October 10.
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Cedar Rapids News
P. W
Bill” Dykhuizen
Ykhuizen
D Avenue
Milo Sediacek
Robert L. Tow
Earl B. McCready
Louis L. Holets
Paul Stockberger
Dykhuizen
Miska Supply Company
Cedar Rapids
Wilson High School
Iowa
Fulton
Molotov Pushes Open Sky and Disarmament at U N
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov urged Western powers to cut armed forces and close foreign bases without waiting for a world disarmament accord. He supported the Eisenhower open sky proposal, urged analysis of its impact on arms reduction, and praised the Geneva Four summit as influential.
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United Nations, N. Y
Molotov
U.N. Assembly
Russia
Eisenhower
Assembly
Britain
France
Porkkala
Finland
Dulles
General Assembly
Bulganin
U.N
Geneva
Picket Line Blocks Plant at Pullman-Standard Car Works
In Bessemer Alabama a stubborn family picket line blocked the Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company plant for the third day on Friday. The protest affected multi million dollar operations as workers and family members demonstrated outside the facility seeking attention to their grievances.
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Bessemer
Ala
Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company
Scattered light frost forecast across Iowa
The weatherman issued a light frost warning for scattered spots in Iowa as cool nights approach the weekend. Overnight lows fear 35 to 40 degrees with highs in the 70s on Saturday and Cedar Rapids area forecast 40 to 45 Friday night.
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Iowa News
Iowa
Iowa Hawkeye
Cedar Rapids
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Sam Johnson
Curtis Swango
Emmett Louis Till
Tallahatchie River
H. C. Strider
Tallahatchie County
H. D. Malone
L. B. Otken
Greenwood
Otken
Strider
Stolba
Maplewood
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Seventeenth Street
F Avenue
Twentieth Street
Milwaukee Tracks
Maplewood Addition
Mound Farm Drive
Thirty Third Street
Eastern Avenue
Collins Radio
Kenwood School
Parcrest
Slough
Franklin School
Twenty-fourth Street
East Side
J. W. Brown
Brown and Healey
Robert Hogan
Iowa Daily Press
Dition
Construction Digest
Northern Illinois
Quad City
Quiz
MacLean’s
Labor Party
Herbert Morrison
Bill Dykhuizen
Dvyrkhuizen
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