Senators Blast Truman Secrecy Over Remington Records
Senator Ferguson charged an iron curtain blocks Congress from government records. He accused the administration of secrecy and urged impeachment if President Truman withholds loyalty program files linked to Remington and Bentley espionage claims.
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Washington
Senator Rerguson
Truman
Congress
Senate
Ferguson
William W. Remington
Remington
Dept of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Inside New Taxpayers Group Gathers in Talk Stage
A new citizens group named TAXPAYERS forms to monitor tax dollars and discuss fiscal issues. Other notes report on Our City page 19, the Community Chest kick off campaign October 5 with a goal of 51035, and police data for July listing 1 144 detentions. Former President Herbert C Hoover to be honored at West Branch born to Quaker parents.
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Community Chest
Iowa
Camp Wakonda
Griswold
Herbert C. Hoover
West Branch
British Mother Still Does Not Know Daughter Is Dead
An English mother, Laura Emily Hewitt, 60, arrived at Chicago Municipal Airport unaware her daughter Joyce, 22, had died in a Sioux City sanatorium shortly after Hewitt's plane departed. Joyce and Hewitt had been soon reunited in 194? but death was kept from Hewitt en route. Airline officials sheltered Hewitt and awaited her son in law, Staff Sgt. Leo Frank Jeske, to arrive from Sioux City. Joyce had come to the United States two years ago after meeting Jeske in England.
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Chicago
Municipal Airport
Atlantic
Laura Emily “Hewitt
Leo Frank Jeske
Sioux City
Hewitt
Jeske
Joyce
England
St Laurent New Canadian Head Named Liberal Leader
Louis Stephen St Laurent was named Saturday as successor to Prime Minister Mackenzie King after winning the Liberal leadership on the first ballot. The 65 year old Quebec lawyer will likely become prime minister when King retires, becoming Canada’s first French Canadian premier since Laurier in 1919. Gardiner and Power split the remaining votes as St Laurent secured a simple majority.
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Ottawa
Louis Stephen St. Laurent
Canada
W. L. Mackenzie King
National Liberal Party
King
Janes Garfield Gardiner
C. C. Power
St. Laurent
Quebec
Wilfrid J. Laurier
Liberal Party
Gardiner
Power
National Guard Airforce Test in Midwest Exercise
National Guard airpower exercise aims to test rapid deployment from Illinois Michigan Missouri and Wisconsin. Brig Gen Frank Allen leads 65th fighter wing with F 51s and A 26s as 100 planes simulate a northward attack on Milwaukee Madison and other Wisconsin targets. The 528 mile mission lasts 2 hours 17 minutes.
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Chicago
National Guard
Midwest
Suatch
Joliet
Til
Milwaukee
Madison
Wisconsin
Frank Allen
65Th
Air National Guard
Illinois
Michigan
Missouri
Maitland Air Stip
Truax Air Field
Onalaska
LaCrosse
Camp McCoy
Sparta
Polio Total Reaches Century Mark in Iowa
Mercy hospital reported Southwest Iowa’s 100th infantile paralysis case on Saturday. The patient was 19 year old Mrs Marvel Smith of Wondbine. Several children were discharged including Judith Wheeler 10 Neola and Gertrude Adams 13 Judit Porde 342 Logan. Twenty four patients remained in the polio wards and were listed as good by hospital authorities.
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Iowa
Mercy Hospital
Marvel Smith
Wondbine
Judith Wheeler
Neola
Gertrude Adams
Judit Porde
Logan
Henry Molgard
Council Bluffs
Pulio
French Monetary Reform Bill Wins First Assembly Backing
Paris reports the finance committee rejected a communist motion to study the reform plan. The seven point program aims to cut spending, boost taxes, raise production and exports, and balance trade by 1952 under interim aid and European recovery dollars.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Paul Reynaud
Finance Committee
France
Weather Summary for Council Bluffs and Nearby Areas
The Weather Bureau reports partly cloudy conditions for Sunday with warmer temperatures. Iowa areas show high in the 80s in the west and 75 to 80 in the east, while Nebraska expects considerable cloudiness with highs in the 80s. Hourly readings list temperatures in the upper 70s to mid 60s, humidity around 67 percent, and a light wind of about 7 mph. The past 24 hours recorded a maximum of 79 degrees and a minimum of 60 degrees, with total precipitation at 1.88 inches and a deficit of 1.81 inches.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Council Bluffs and
Iowa
Nebraska
National Guard Units To Camp Riley For Summer Training
Three National Guard units leave Saturday to join about 5 000 officers and men of the 34th Red Bull division at Camp Riley Kansas for two weeks of training. The full division trains together for the first time since 1939 with new equipment and airlift capabilities.
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34Th “Red Bull” Division
Camp Riley
Kaw
Department of the Army
168Th Infantry
National Guard
Regular Army
Ebraska Guardsmen
34Th Infantry
34Th
Iowa Guardsmen
Dodge
Ray
Fountain
Des Moines
Robert L. Taylor
Iowa Guard
Walter L. Anderson
Boone
Chauncey Carr
Atlantic
168Th
Carlton K. Smith
Cedar, Rapids
Kansas
Fort Riley
Junction City
Kan
Southwest Iowa
Riley
Council Bluffs
Clatinda
Corning
Comany E
Shenandoah
Villisca
Glen, Wood
Red Oak
Paper Raises Sunday Price and Delivery Rates
The Omaha World-Herald announced Saturday price hikes for its Sunday paper from 12 to 15 cents and carrier delivery from 22 to 25 cents weekly. It cited higher production costs, notably newsprint, as the reason for the increase.
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The
Omaha World-Herald
Congress Rejects Truman Anti Inflation and Housing Bill Talks
Congress adjourned after rewriting Truman’s anti inflation plan to two curbs on installment buying and higher reserve requirements. The Senate rejected rationing powers but approved a $65 million UN loan. A Democratic filibuster on anti-poll tax and red scare hearings also marked the session.
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Francis J. Kelly
Washington
Congress
Truman
House
Senate
Federal Reserve System
U. N. Loan
United Nations
New York
White House
Ferguson
R.mich
Barkley
D.-Ky
America
Taft
Ohio
Council Bluffs Residents Split Over Cottage-type Schools
The Nonpareil Public Opinion Panel finds residents unsure about cottage-type versus larger schools. Two high schools receive broad support while opinions on smaller grade schools vary. property owners favor current buildings, while younger residents tilt toward change with a split on school size preferences.
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Council Bluffs
Wade
Berlin fears new Munich in Moscow talks on Germany
Western Berliners fear a repeat of Munich as four power talks in Moscow press for further concessions. Telegraf warns democracies risk trust in totalitarian promises while Berlin officials push against a poor compromise. British and American air fleets deliver record Berlin supplies amid Soviet objections to air corridor violations.
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Berlin
Munich
Germany
Moscow
Telegraf
Nds
Otto Suhr
Suki
Dispatch
Washington
Truman
Marshall
YA. 8
Wene Nominated Again for Assistant Agriculture Secretary
President Truman nominated Elmer H. Wene of New Jersey for the assistant secretary of agriculture on Saturday the 16th. This marks a second nomination after he previously indicated he did not want the job.
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Wene
Agriculture Post
Washington
Truman
Elmer H. Wene
New Jersey
Korea Forms New Republic With U S Backing
Seoul reports an American sponsored republic of Korea to be born next Sunday in the south. President Syngman Rhee seeks continued U S troops until the state stabilizes amid threats from the North and plans to represent all Korea despite Soviet division.
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William R. Moore
Seoul
Korea
Republic of Korea
North
South Korea
Republic
Uncle Sam
Japan
United States
Russia
North Korea
Syngman Rhee
U. S
Rhee
United Nations General Assembly
John R. Hodge
South
Buyer Strike Plan Spreads Across Nation
Budget conscious housewives push a meatless plan sweeping Dallas origin to cities including Chicago Louisville Boise Kansas City San Francisco Indianapolis and many in Texas and Wisconsin. Officials offer mixed views on price trends while activists urge price controls and continued boycott efforts through August 9 and beyond.
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Chicago
Dallas
Louisville
Boise
Kansas City
San Francisco
Indianapolis
Ciites
Texas
Wisconsin
Agriculture Department
Kingan & Co
R. D. Vaughn
Otis Bryant
Dallas Independent Grocers
Velma Perk
Congress
Edward
Munneke
Idaho
Women's Club
Louis
Ville
Oregon
Denver
National Association of Retail Meat Dealers
Slapping Wife on Hips No Ground For a Divorce
Cedar Rapids judge dismisses Mary Miner against Paul Miner divorce petition. Judge Floyd Philbrick says alleged slapping on the hips is playful between spouses and not evidence of cruel or inhuman treatment to endanger health or life.
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Cedar Rapids
Floyd Philbrick
Mary
Miner
Paul R. Miner
Philbrick
Philtrick
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New Taxpayers Group
Robert Klepfer
Avenue C
Everett L. Stephens
Cannon Company
William Lane
Avenue K
National Guard Airforce Test
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Pei
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