Two Yanks Forced To Confess in Hungary Case
Two American oil executives expelled from Communist Hungary said they were pressured to sign statements alleging sabotage at the Standard Oil plant in Hungary. Paul Ruedemann of Hartsdale and George Balnantine of St. Louis said they signed under threat after seven days of questioning. They described a "sign or else" ultimatum and credited U.S. legation aid in securing their release from Budapest to Vienna and then New York.
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Vienna
Hungary
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Paul Ruedemann
Hartsdale
N. Y
George Balnantine
St. Louis
New York
United States
Budapest
Hungary charges U S sabotage plot over oil output
Budapest officials published a document alleging American sponsorship of sabotage to curb oil production and aid the Soviet bloc. Handwritten confessions by Paul Ruedemann and George Balman tine were shown, claiming orders from Standard Oil in New York to reduce output and block new fields. The press conference stressed unusual government action against a foreign firm with heavy interests in Hungary.
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Budapest
United States
Paul Ruedemann
George Balnantine
Hungary
Ruedemann
Standard Oil
New York
Pleasant Weather Forecast Graces Cedar Rapids Week
Cedar Rapids enjoyed temperatures around 42 degrees at 6 30 am then rose to 70 by 2 30 pm with a pleasant statewide forecast. Iowa highs were near 60s to 70s with nights around 48 and some frost in northern areas Tuesday night.
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Cedar Rapids
Newa
Cedar
Rapids
Iowa
Spencer
Elkader
G O P Unity Vows Jeered By President
BONHAM Texas President Truman ridiculed Gov Thomas E Deweys unity promises and accused Republicans of being the high tariff party of Smoot Hawley and Joe Grundy. He warned a Republican unity would favor tax relief for the rich, cut aid to schools, raise prices, and erode New Deal benefits.
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Bonham
Texas
Truman
Thomas E. Dewey
Smoot and
Hawley
Joe Grundy
Mr. Truman
Truman Oklahoma City speech carried by Gazette stations
President Truman’s Oklahoma City address will be aired on The Gazette stations KCRG KRCK from 8:30 to 9 tonight after a Dallas Rebel stadium speech. He challenged Republicans on unity and denounced surrender while noting GOPs oppose price control, federal aid to education, and low rent housing. He cited anti-Truman columnists and pressed for reciprocal trade and farm prosperity. He urged Congress to back international trade to aid farmers.
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President Truman
Oklahoma City
Gazette
KCRG
KRCK
Rebel Stadium
Dallas
Old Man Moore Aboard Truman Train In Oklahoma Attack
President Truman opened his Oklahoma swing by attacking Sen. Moore a 76 year old oil man calling him Old Man Moore and saying he never was any good. He charged the 80th Congress with keeping the GOP as a high tariff party and ridiculed figures like Joseph R Grundy as a power in the party.
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Truman Train
Truman
Oklahoma
Sen. Moore
R-Okla
Moore
Two Die in Crash Near Iowa City
A River side farmer Joseph J. Klein age 65 and his grandson Wayne Keeler age 3 were killed when Klein pulled from a schoolyard into State Highway 1 near nine miles south of Iowa City. The gravel truck was driven by Fred P. Owen 26 of near Iowa City. The truck pushed the car about 55 yards into a ditch and overturned.
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Iowa City
Here
Joseph J. Klein
Wayne Keeler
Stanley Keeler
Lone Tree
Joseph Smith
Smith
Klein
Fred P. Owen
Los Angeles Papers Announce Price Increases
The Los Angeles Times said prices for single copies rise from five to seven cents starting Oct 1, with home delivery and rates also increasing. The Los Angeles Examiner followed with a similar price boost a day later, signaling broader cost pressures on local newspapers.
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LOS Angeles
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Examiner
Electricians Walk Out Over 24 Cent Wages Dispute
Cedar Rapids electricians from six firms idle after a Monday walkout over a 24 cent hourly pay dispute. About 100 members of local 405 halted work at Cedar Rapids Electric Supply Stan Kuta Electric Great Electric Heidze Electric Paulson Electric and Hupp Electric Motors. Some firms not affected had already agreed to the increase, while contractors warned of delays on large projects.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
International ‘Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Lwere
Cedar Rapids Electric Supply
Stan Kuta Electric
Great Electric
Heidze Electric
Paulson Electric
Hupp Electric Motors Company
Cusack Electric Service
Standard Electric Company
Dc. R. Paulson
Cedar Rapids Electrical Contractors Association
Stan Kuta
Culver Motor Company
Inactive Guard to Be Revived in U.S. Plans
Maj-Gen. Kenneth F. Cramer, chief of the national guard bureau, announced that the inactive national guard will be revived soon. The reserve force will include men unable to participate in active duty due to work hours or other reasons, allowing immediate entry to active service if mobilization occurs.
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ST. Louis
Kenneth F. Cramer
National Guard Bureau
Inactive National Guard
National Guard
Real Shipwreck Replaces Broadway Role for Actress
Savannah report: actress Martha Sleeper and three men escaped a yacht wreck after 11 hours in knee deep water lashed to the mast of the Ella M which sank on rocks off Savannah. valued at 100000. Sleeper compared the ordeal to a dramatic shipwreck scene from The Rugged Path.
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Savannah
Martha Sleeper
Spencer Tracy
Miss Sleeper
Harry Deutschbein
New York
St. Mary’s
Christopher Blake
Homesick Boys Escape Hospital Window
In Portland Maine two boys ages eight and nine climbed out of a hospital window on a bedsheet early Tuesday, one with a broken arm and the other with a fractured jaw, reportedly lonesome for their mothers. They returned to the first floor children's ward within a half hour as their mothers hurried to their bedsides. Police Capt. Harold K Maguire found them hiding in a hallway a block away.
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Portland
Maine
Robert Fogarty
William Stanton
Harold K. Maguire
Phillips Boosts Crude Oil Price
Phillips Petroleum on Tuesday raised its crude oil price by 35 cents per barrel. President K S Adams cited unprecedented civilian demand and military needs driving higher capital outlays, with the move to affect all crude grades across Texas Oklahoma Kansas and Arkansas. If other majors match the rise, prices for gasoline fuel oil and related products could advance as well.
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New York
Phillips Petroleum Company
K. S. Adams
Phillips
Adams
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
Roosevelt Urges UN Stand Against Soviet Liberty Suppression
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, speaking at the Sorbonne, denounced Soviet suppression of human rights and interference in other nations. She urged the United Nations not to compromise with the Soviet bloc, calling human liberty the decisive issue facing world democracies. She noted Russia's history of suspicion and urged reciprocal international respect.
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Paris
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Russia
United Nations
Sorbonne
Roosevelt
U.N. Human Rights Commission
Frost Needed For Iowa Crops In Slow Harvest
Des Moines reports state that a heavy frost would aid corn and soybean harvests as moisture and drying conditions affect storage. Corn picking for feeding is widespread but moisture remains high. soybeans have begun to be harvested with about 3 percent complete. Soil moisture is short, alfalfa fall seedings suffer, pastures are fair, and winter wheat seeding is 25 percent done.
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Des Moines
INS
Iowa
Weekly
Dewey Warns Russia If Elected No Retreat Policy Speech
Governor Dewey traveled toward a Missoula speech urging a united America with stronger foreign policy and no retreat on Berlin. He told Seattle crowds the nation must stay strong and that victory in 1944 would unite the world toward peace and greater West resource power.
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Dewey
Russia
Berlin
Go.p
Montana State University
Missoula
Paul Lockwood
West
America
Seattle
Civic
Lumir Severa Dies at 62 in Cedar Rapids
Lumir Severa 62, president of the W. F. Severa Company and Cedar Rapids resident, died at 8 am Tuesday at his home. A World War I veteran and holding multiple local posts, he led the family firm since 1938 after serving as treasurer earlier. Survived by wife Margaret and three children Jean Eleanor William D. Severa, plus mother, sister, and a niece. Funeral plans pending arrival of Jean Severa. body at Turner chapel.
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Lumir Severa
W. F
University of Iowa
University of Michigan
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy
Severn
126Th Field Artillery
Cedar Rapids
Margaret Deacon
Jean
Not on Verge of War Smith Says
Bonham Texas AP Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith met with President Truman and stated that relations with Russia are very critical but not on the verge of war. He said conditions have not been more critical since the war and that a war prediction is unclear. Smith urged firm ness patience and determination as a policy while in Texas to brief Truman on Berlin.
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Smith
Texas
Washington
Warren says unity is more important than victory
Governor Earl Warren told about 1000 Republican delegates in Concord that national unity matters more than winning the election. He spoke Tuesday at the state convention saying the country should emerge from the campaign united, regardless of the November outcome. He did not mention Truman or the Democrats.
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Concord
N. H
Earl Warren
President Truman
Democratic Party
Spaak Flays Soviet Fifth Column Plot
Belgium Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak denounces Soviet fifth column efforts in Western nations and warns the West will resist communism as it counters Nazi totalitarian aims. He urges Russia to cooperate, notes fear of Soviet policy, and appeals for renewed unity at the United Nations.
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Paris
Paul Henri Spaak
Belgium
Russia
Hitler
Spaak
Andrei Vishinsky
Moscow
United States
Berlin
Security Council
Schuman
General Assembly
Foksigood
Iontrol
Germany
United Nations
Mackenzie
U.N
Col
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Eos
Dea Daily Record
Wees
Eaee Farm
Marton Ae
Ewan Dey Ateey
Peewee
G.O.P. Unity
KCRK
Sherman
Old Taber
Old Man Moore
Smoot and Hawley
Joseph R. Grundy
Pennsylvania
G.O.P
Patiene
Vecenetay
The
Contractors Association
Lnion
J. G. Hupp
Kuta
Twenty-second Avenue
Paulson
New
Florida
Puerto Rico
Savannah Beach
Nicholas A. Schlanger
Springfield
Lil
Homesick Boys Free Hospital
Eleanor
U.S
Columbia
Willamette
Missouri
Lumir’ Severa
Warren
Spaaks
San Francisco
Vishinsky
U. N
Marshall
Robert Schuman
Canada
W. L. Mackenzie King
Mackenzie King
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