Truman Talks of Campaign With Leaders
President Truman met Thursday night with present and former Democratic Party leaders at the White House to map campaign strategy. The session included Senator Barkley, Senator McGrath, and five former national chairmen, plus others invited but unavailable. Discussion focused on campaign approach and urging Dewey to defend his record, with expectations Truman will stay quiet until Labor Day.
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Jack Bell Washington
Truman
White House
Democratic Party
Charles G. Ross
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
McGrath
Rhode Island
Democratic National Committee
George White
Ohio
Robert E. Hannegan
Frank Walker
Homer S. Cummings
Edward J. Flynn
Ross
James M. Cox
James A. Farley
Farley
Europe
Cordell Hull
Hull
Congress
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Herbert Brownell
New York
GOF
Rurman
Apiia
House
Senate
J. Howard McGrath
Congress Invited to Nebraska Celebration
Rep Curtis plans to invite Congress to a Cambridge Nebraska event on August 10 for the Medicine Creek dam dedication. He says Nebraskans celebrate flood control work on the Republican River watershed and award the occasion as a major state celebration.
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Washington
Curts
Congress
Nebraska
Cambridge
Medicine Creek Dam
Republican River
Draves Secures Double Gold in 1948 Olympic Diving
Olympic Roundup reports Mrs Vick Manalo Draves of Fasadena California becoming the first woman to win both springboard and high platform diving titles at Wembley. Patricia Eisener and Jane Stover join a strong American showing as all four diving championships go to the U S. Fannie Blankers-Koen adds the 200 meter dash title, achieving three track and field championships in Olympic history.
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Olympic Pool
Wembley
England
Vick
Manalo Draves
Fasadena
Calif
Patricia Ann Eisener
San Francisco
Miss Eisener
Tuessoay
America
Janet Stover
Los Angeles
Bette Chrstoffersen
Denmark
A Soudinger
Australia
Fannie Blankers-Koen
West Resumes Moscow Parley in Berlin Blockade Talks
United States Britain and France replied to the Soviet Union on Berlin and other questions in a three hour interview with Foreign Minister Molotov. Ambassadors Smith Roberts and Chataigneau met Molotov then conveyed to Stalin seeking a basis to end the Berlin blockade and resolve East West differences.
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Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Berlin
Molotoy
Molotov
U.S
Walter Bedell Smith
U. S
Kremlin
Frank Roberts
Yves Chataigneau
Stalin
Expected to Ask Out of Two Million in Federal Employes
In Los Angeles the Hoover Commission personnel committee is likely to urge reducing the 2 million federal workers. Chairman James Alford Stevenson said a reduction would be surprising if not recommended, while noting top officials should be paid comparably to private industry to retain valuable staff.
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Los Angeles
Hoovers Government Reorganization Commission
James Alford Stevenson
Stevenson
Forecast of showers and warmer in August heat
The forecast says showers continue Friday night and Saturday with temperatures in the low 60s to low 80s, and highs around the upper 70s to 80s. The Iowa weather bureau notes temperatures will run two to four degrees above normal for the next five days, edging toward the 90s in August while Des Moines reports a cool 79 and Cedar Rapids 47 at dawn. Light rain touched some state locations midmorning Friday with sprinkling near 11:30 a.m.
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Weather Bureau
Augusta
Iowa Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids Corner Bluffs
Truman Refused Facts on Uranium Shipments and Spy Hearings
Washington reports that Rep. MacDowell said 1,300 pounds of uranium went to Russia in 1943 and 1,420 pounds in 1945, as part of wartime shipments. Senate hearings paused as critics demand facts from the Truman administration, while the House committee covertly pursues a witness and FBI records on Remington amid accusations of a wide communist spy ring.
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Washington
MacDowell
Russia
House
House UN American Activities Committee
Truman
Ferguson
Mich
Senate
Tom Clark
FBI
William W. Remington
House un-American Activities Committee
Munds
R.S. D
Clark
Remington
Congress
Commerce Department Olal
Elizabeth T. Bentley
Miss Bentley
New York
Dog Leads Searchers To Lost 3-Year-Old Boy
In Zanesville Ohio a three year old boy named Jerry Lee Muffman was found by a collie dog after an overnight disappearance. He was naked and almost unconscious from exposure when found near a fence entangled by a grapevine. His foot was caught in the fence but he was rescued.
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Zanesville, O
Jerry Lee Muffman
Weather Outlook for Iowa and Nebraska Five Day Period
The Weather Bureau forecast mostly cloudy with showers in Iowa Saturday with a high in the 30s or 40s and temperatures 2 to 4 degrees above normal. Nebraska eyes near normal temperatures with showers starting Saturday, then Sunday and Monday, with generally fair conditions Tuesday and Wednesday. Total precipitation expected around 1/10 inch in Iowa and up to 0.25 inches or more in western Nebraska.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
IownOs
Iowa
Nebraska
Hiroshima Peace Festival Remembers Atomic Tragedy
Hiroshima observed its third peace festival with Mayor Shinzo Hamai leading 230000 citizens in a moment of silence at 8:15 am to mark the exact time of the 1945 atom bomb. He recalled the city’s destruction and 100000 lives lost as bells rang and a dove release capped the ceremony for world peace.
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Hiroshima
Tiroshima
Shinzo Hamal
Hamal
Charge Fraud in Gift Packages
Former AMG official Earl Reinsel claims Americans are being charged excessive profits on gift parcels sent to German civilians. He cites 22,000,000 parcels totaling about 250 million dollars last year, with markups over 100 percent. He praises CARE while noting firms dispute profiteering and describe their charges as reasonable for postage and insurance.
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New York
Earl Reinsel
Reinsel
Hamburg
AMG
Germany
Joost
CARE
Cooperative
Europe
Bloomingdale Brothers, Inc
New York City
Frazer-Morris
Jensen to Attend Medicine Creek Dam Dedication
Cambridge Neb reports Rep Ben Jensen Republican Iowa added to dignitaries attending the Medicine Creek dam dedication next Tuesday. Jensen chairs the subcommittee overseeing appropriation bills for the department of interior.
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Cambridge
Neb
L Ben Jensen
R-Ia
Medicine Creek
Jensen
Department of Anterior
Smoke Bomb Hit Guardsmen at Lens Plant
A smoke bomb was hurled at National Guard troops patrolling the Anvis Lens company plant on a Friday. Ten guardsmen hit the ground as the missile exploded about 100 feet from the grounds, while occupants in a car fled the scene. Col George Schiele said the device was government made and used to create smoke and confusion, wrapped in paper bags and placed in a corrugated box. City police and guardsmen chased the car’s occupants after the blast.
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Nation ‘al’ Guard
Anvis Lens Company
Col
George Schiele
Ohio Guard
Artie Shaw to file for annulment in New York
Bandleader Artie Shaw will sue Friday to annul his marriage to Kathleen Winsor author of For Ever Amber. Attorney Stanley J. Dorman confirms the action in New York.
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New York
Artie Shaw
Kathleen Winsor
Amber
Stanley J. Dorman
Senate Group Amends Anti Inflation Bill
The Senate Banking Committee approved two changes to the Republican anti inflation bill. It struck the gold reserves provision and raised reserve requirements for member banks from 1 and 2 percent to 2.5 percent and 5 percent. Installment buying restrictions were reimposed with a later effective date of June 30. A price freeze proposal failed 5 to 5. The panel did not endorse stand by price and wage controls.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
House
Federal Reserve Bank
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve System
Senate
Truman
Capehart
R-Ind
Tost
Tobey
Mr.Truman
Committee Turn-Down of Dewey Plea in DP Reform Talk
Senator Revercomb reported a 2-2 vote by a senate judiciary sub committee on Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s plea to liberalize the displaced persons act. The proposed amendment would shift the eligibility cutoff from December 27, 1945 to April 21, 1947 to admit more Jews and Catholics. Senator Smith said thousands were blocked by the current date, noting many persecuted Jews and Catholics could not enter DP camps after 1945.
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Washington
Sen
Revercomb
R.W. Va
Senate
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Truman
Judiciary
McCarran
D-Nev
Reng
Earl Warren
California
West Virginia
United States
Smith
R-T. J
Senate Passes Compromise Housing Bill In Voice Vote
The Senate sent to the House a compromise housing bill to speed small home building with no low rent or slum clearance subsidies. It replaced the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill after a 48 to 36 vote to substitute the measure, reversing the banking committee’s T E W approval.
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Washington
Senate
House
Chamber
Budget Practices Claimed Violated by Ewing Dining Room
Washington senator s claimed Federal Security Administrator Oscar R Ewing violated budget practices by using a federal hospital cook in his private dining room at FSA headquarters The charge followed earlier calls for Ewing to resign over hindering exposure of communism in schools by senator Styles Bridges or R N H
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Washington
Senate
Oscar R. Ewing
FSA
Styles Bridges
RN. H
Ewing
No Date Set Yet For Bus Change In Council Bluffs
Public transit talks quiet as 60 day commencement issue scrolls. Council Bluffs Transit Co awaits action on start date while Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Co plans 30 day notice to halt streetcars. Officials weigh whether 60 days begin at franchise acceptance or voter approval.
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Council Bluffs
Omaha
George B. Sparks
Joseph B. Katelman
Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Company
Howard F. Shortley
Addison G. Kistle
Omaha and
James R. Kiger
Iowa Lamb Crop Hits 20 Year Low in 1998
Iowa's lamb crop fell to 680000 head in 1998, the lowest since 1927, a near nine percent drop from 1947 and well below the 1942 peak of 1327000. The 1948 lamb crop saved per 100 ewes stood at 105, matching the 10 year average but below the 109 average of 1947.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Crump Defeated in Tennessee Primary Clashes
Nationwide election violence reported in Polk county as Sheriff warned of disorder after Thursday voting. E H Crump suffers major defeat while Kefauver Browning and McCord lead in key races. Benton Copperhill and Ducktown amid ambushes as deputies withhold details.
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Nashville
Tenn
Jim McCord
National Guard
Tennessee
Polk County
E. H. Crump
Copperhill
Ducktown
Benton
Earnest Louderbilt
Congress
John A. Mitchell
Senate
Tom Stewart
Mitchell
Gordon Browning
McMinn County
Athens
Crump
Hill McAlister
Henry Hoxton
Kefauver
Stewart
Browning
McCord
Carroll Reece
Republican National Committee
Roy Acuff
Feed Grains in Iowa Fall to 1937 Low
DES MOINES The lowest stocks of feed grain since 1937 were listed Friday by the Iowa crop and livestock reporting service as of July 1. Carryover stocks of corn totaled 83,711,000 bushels, 46 percent of the July 4, 1947 level, while oats stocks reached 25,157,000 bushels, down from 44,144,000 a year ago. About 93 percent of corn supplies are in farm storage, with oats largely in farm storage and other positions.
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Des Moines
Lowa Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
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