Top Military Men Iron Out Differences
Washington officials announced that a general agreement was reached at Newport Rhode Island on duties of the army navy and air force in peace and war. The plan, echoing a prior Key West accord, aims to settle diverging interpretations over air power roles and long range bombing responsibilities between the services.
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Washington
Newport
R. 1
Army
Navy
Air Force
Secretary of Defense
Forrestal
Joint Chiefs of Staffs
Key West
Fla
Diplomats Meet Stalin In Kremlin Appointment
MOSCOW diplomats from the United States Britain and France went to the Kremlin Monday night for an appointment with Prime Minister Stalin and Foreign Minister Molotov. In New York a test pilot bailed out of his F-34 Thunderjet into the Atlantic off Queque, N Y, and was rescued by a dishing boat. Helena police reported an undetermined number of men trapped in a Marysville gold mine cavern about 26 miles northwest of Helena.
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Moscow
U.S
Britain
Framce
Kremlin
Stalin
Molotov
New York
Queque
N. Y
Helena
Mont
Marysville
Here
Iowa Farm Bureau Selects Committee on Resolutions
Des Moines announces the Iowa Farm Bureau resolutions committee for 1949. Richard Stephens becomes chairman as VP, with Mrs. Vernon Heefner representing Farm Bureau Women. Members include H Sersland, Donavan Kruse, Mac Logan, Robert Center, Howard Mitchum, Thomas Anderson Traey, Harry Foresman, Ed Wildin, and James Winston. Miss Mac Zarr serves in advisory capacity. The panel covers dairy reef hogs crops and other farm interests.
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Des Moines
Iowa Farm Bureau Federation Resolutions Committee
Richard Stephens
Crawfordsville
Farm Bureau
Vernon Heefner
Toddville
Howard Hill
HH. Sersland
Decorah
Donovan Kruse
Charles City
Mac Logan
Estherville
Robert Center
Glidden
Howard Mitchum
Marshalltown
Thomas Anderson
Traey
Harry Foresman
Fort Madison
Ed Wildin
St. Charles
James Winston
Atlantic
Republicans Plan Fall Campaign at Southwes tern Iowa Meet
Republican leaders met at the country club in Red Oak on Sunday to discuss the fall campaign. Whitney Gilliland of Glenwood, state chairman, outlined the plan as delegates gathered for the district meeting.
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Sky van
Iowa
Country Club
Whitney Gilliland
Glenwood
Earth Tremor Strikes Southeast Italy Causing Homelessness
An earth tremor hit southeast Italy causing extensive damage and displacing hundreds. Reports indicate many homes collapsed around Monte Sant Angelo near Bari, leaving about 300 people homeless. The disaster prompted press dispatches and relief efforts in the region.
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Italy
Montesantangelo
Bari
Trial Date Set for 12 American Communists by Medina
Federal Judge Harold R. Medina fixed October 15 as the trial date for 12 top American communists charged with conspiring to overthrow the government. The defendants face counts of conspiracy and related charges in the case heard in New York.
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New York
Harold R. Medina
Ioe
World Council opens with absence of key church reps
Richard Tompkins reports from Amsterdam as the World Council of Churches begins its first business session with regret over the absence of official representatives from Roman Catholic, Russian Orthodox, South United States Baptists and Missouri Synod Lutherans. Dr. Visser t Hooft notes Moscow conference negative stance. The Moscow Patriarchate signals interest, door kept open for Russia. Archbishop of Canterbury chairs as about 450 delegates from 40 countries meet for the first official session.
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Richard Tompkins
Amsterdam
The
Netherlands
World Council of Churches
South
United States
Missouri Synod
Lutheran Church
W. W. Visser T Hooft
World Council
Moscow
T Hooft
Soviet Union
Patriarchate of
Hooft
Christ
Church of Russia
Archbishop of Canterbury
No Politics Involved in Dental Chair Sale
Des Moines says there was absolutely no politics in disposing war surplus dental chairs. The state disposed of excess chairs after meeting internal needs. One chair was bought by Dr. Bernhardt Hermann, who is Hoffman’s son-in-law.
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Des Moines
C. &.Hoffman
State ‘Health Department Division of Dental Hygiene
Bernhardt Hermann
Hoffman
Seventh Polio Case Recorded in Utica County
The county reports its seventh poliomyelitis case of 1948 on Monday. The latest patient is Orvin Weller, 25, manager of a grain elevator at Huntington, north of here.
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PO Umervile. Co
Emmel County
Orvin Weller
Huntington
Here
Bentley Seeks Public Hearings On Wartime Espionage
Washington report says Elizabeth Bentley will testify on a Soviet spy ring seeking wartime industrial secrets. Hearing plans include public sessions after secret briefings, with Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss to be questioned. final confrontation set for Wednesday.
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Miss Bentley
Courier
Moscow
Whittaker Chambers
Time Magazine
Washington
Alger Hiss
Hiss
State Department
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Chambers
Mundt urges four point plan to curb communists
Representative Karl E. Mundt says the House with the American committee will propose a four point program to congress to curb communist activity. The plan includes penalties for federal employees who hire communists, denying passports to prevent exit and return, tightening espionage laws, and restricting concealment of loyalty facts when national safety is involved.
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United States
America
Quick Witted Motorist Defies Police Offer
Kansas City report shows Patrolman Robert McGarvey stopping a motorist for a cracked rear window. The driver offers to earn a ticket if allowed two minutes to clean it. The motorist uses a crank to smash the window and drives off, avoiding the fine.
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Kansas Clix
Robert McGarvey
Kansas City
McGarvey
Iowa Finance Director Picked by Democrats
WASHINGTON appoint ment of Arthur Sanford of Sioux City a real estate dealer as Iowa's finance director for the democratic national committee was announced Monday. Sanford has been active in the party for 20 years and was a delegate to the 1944 and 1948 conventions. Sanford has never held public office.
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Washington
Arthur Sanford
Sioux City
Iowa
Democratic National Committee
Joe L. Blythe
Fanterna Committee
Sanford
Drowns at Gravel Pit Near Kinross Scotland
A 31 year old man Walter Wil am Philpott of Muscatine drowned Monday after falling into a gravel pit at the Automatic Gravel company five miles south of Kinross Morayshire Scotland. A Royal Air Force Lancaster crash on landing at the RAF station Saturday killed eight airmen.
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Madga Line
Walter Wilam Philpott
Muscatine
Automatic Gravel Company
Here
Kinross
Morayshire
Scotland
Royal Air Force
Study Aids to Dependent Children in Iowa Urged
A Des Moines report says a special state salary survey committee will likely urge the Iowa legislative interim committee to thoroughly study aid to dependent children and old age assistance payments. Chair Rep. Harry E. Weichman notes hearings completed and recommendations possible at the August 31 meeting.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Harry E. Weichman
R-Newhall
Weichman
Robert D. Blue
State Board of Social Welfare
Ren
Vice-Consul Plans Return to Russia
NEW YORK. Soviet vice consul Zot 1 Chepurnykh said he plans to return to Russia but will not accompany Consul General Jacob M. Lomakin, who is to sail Saturday after being expelled by the state department over alleged improper conduct in the case of Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina. Lomakin and his family reportedly booked a $1,400 suite on the Stockholm. The consul general, who returned to the consulate after a weekend with family, said he fished swam and played tennis.
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New York
Chepurnykh
Russia
Jacob M. Lomakin
Lomakin
State Department
Oksana Kasenkina
Ine
Stockholm
Long Island
Three Persons Hurt in Harlan Auto Crash
Special to The Nonpareil Harlan Iowa Sunday collision on highway 59 near Harlan Airport injured three people. Howard Johnson of Council Bluffs drove into the rear of Woodman Johnson of Harlan damaging both cars. Woodman Johnson and his wife suffered facial lacerations, bruises, and shock. William Johnson father of Howard had facial cuts and shock. Six other passengers in the Johnson vehicle were unhurt.
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Harlan
Harlan Airport
Orrell Gearhart
Howard Johnson
Council Bluffs
Woodman Johnson
William Johnson
Howard
Weather Outlook for Council Bluffs and Nebraska
Bureau forecast shows sunny hot conditions with highs near 100 in Council Bluffs and Nebraska, plus fair nights with mid 70s lows. Tuesday remains hot with similar highs. hourly readings and winds noted, total precipitation 0.44 inches recorded, trends indicate no major temperature changes ahead.
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Une
Weather Bureau
Council Bluffs
Towa
Nebraska
Mercury Moving No Years Record
The article notes extreme heat with a 98 degree reading by 2 pm on Monday and forecasts of continuing heat. Sunday’s 99 tied a record, no rain expected, and highs may reach 100s, with statewide warnings of hot, dry conditions and mid 70s to low 70s overnight lows in several towns.
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Mercury
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
Oskalonsa
Longtime Creston Businessman Dies
AB Derrenigen 77 a Creston businessman for over 50 years died at his home after a 10 week illness He operated a commercial printing plant since 1895 Funeral services are set for Tuesday Morrison a charter member and secretary of the Creston Elks Lodge for 32 years held perfect attendance in Elks and Rotary for 26 years He lived in Creston since 1874.
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MOTT
Creston
Morrison
Creston Elks Lodge
Elks
Rotary
Radio Executive Robbed of $23000 in Chicago Home Invasion
Five gunmen raided the Chicago home of radio executive Gene T. Dyer, abducting him his wife Evelyn and friend E. J. Bullwinkel for 45 minutes. They fled with jewelry valued over $23000, including a $10000 diamond ring worn by Mrs. Dyer.
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Chicago
Gene T. Dyer
Dyer
WAIT
Evelyn
Pineapple Scion Is Saved From the Sea
Richard A. Dole of Hawaii and three yacht companions were rescued after their 22 foot sailboat was swamped off Diamond Head Sunday. A fourth person, Kathleen Burkhalter of Tuscaloosa Alabama, drowned near shore while Samuel Gilbert Jr USC student pulled her through heavy seas. Dole and Marie Akers of Medina Washington were rescued exhausted and Barbara Stetfee swam to shore.
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Honolulu
Richard A. Dole
Hawaii
Diamond Head
Kathleen Burkhalter
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Samuel Gilbert, Jr
University
Marie Akers
Medina
Wash
Barbara, Stetfee
Roosevelt Women to Join ABC Radio Network
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and her daughter Mrs. John Boettiger will begin a series of 15 minute radio discussions on ABC. The program titled Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt will air five afternoons a week with the time to be announced. They will discuss national and world events of interest to women.
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New York
Eleanor ‘Roosevelt
John Boettiger
ABC
Det. 4
Eleanor and
Anna Roosevelt
Wwomell
Ask City Build 200000 Sewer Now
City Engineer Forest E. Grover urged the council to accept preliminary plans for the Fifteenth street sewer and advertise bids. Estimated cost about 200000 funded by a bond issue. The project would stop waste dumping into Indian creek by routing sewage to a pumping station at Twenty-eighth avenue and to the Missouri River via the Twenty-ninth avenue sewer.
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Forest E. Grover
Fifteenth Street
Indian Creek
Eighteenth Avenue
Plang
Henningson Engineering Company
Omaha
Twenty-eighth Avenue
Army Engineers
Twenty-ninth Avenue
Red Dean Barred From America
London’s Dr Hewlett Johnson known as The Red Dean says he has been refused a visa to lecture in the United States. He notes U S embassy disapproved of the American Soviet Friendship Society sponsoring his tour and an address at Madison Square Garden on Nov 3. Johnson plans to fly to Poland for a peace congress in Wroclaw. He is 74, Canterbury dean since 1931, and author of The Socialist Sixth of the World and Soviet Strength.
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London
Hewlett Johnson
Canterbury
United States
Johnson
Daily Worker
U. S
Europe
Poland
Congress of Intellectuals In Defense
Wroclaw
Russia
Pistol Effective as Scare Weapon in Hold Up
LEAVENWORTH Kansas. P Charles Vanney a grower locked his store Saturday night as two men approached demanding money. He returned inside and grabbed an automatic pistol from a drawer instead of cash. The assailants fled. Vanney said to police Monday I’m going to try to get some bullets for that gun.
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Leavenworth, Kan
Charles Vanney
Vanney
Valliney
11 Year Old Girls Lead Robbery Attempt in Cincinnati
In Cincinnati two 11-year-old girls and an eight-year-old boy were caught by police Sunday night trying to crack a car company office safe. Patrolman Albert Thiele reported the trio pounding the safe with a hammer and axe after breaking a window to enter. They were turned over to Juvenile court.
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Cincinnati
Albert Thiele
Thiele
Jevenile Court
Japanese birth rate hits historic low amid high marriage rate
Tokyo Allied headquarters reported Japan's birth rate as the lowest ever, while marriage rates reached a record high. The country recorded 1,562,587 more births than deaths last year, and the population as of October 1, 1947, stood at 78,090,991.
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Tokyo
P—Allied Headquarters
Vital Statistics
Japan
Soviets Free Bluffs Officer and Two Other Americans
Lt. Sherman Turner of Council Bluffs was released by Soviet forces after 18 days in the Russian zone. Also freed were Thomas P. Headen of Long Island and Royland Myers of Brooklyn, all prisoners taken Aug. 5 near Gotha. Turner’s in-laws, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Smith, 315 Elder St., welcomed the news as their son-in-law and daughter Virginia rejoiced.
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Sherman
Turner
Council Bluffs
J. P. Smith
Elder Street
Virginia
U. S
Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Thomas P. Headen
Long Island
N. Y
Royland Myers
Brooklyn
Franz Erdmann
Myers
Hersfeld
Mrs. Smith
Smith
Gotha
Tuner
Weimar
University of Texas At Austin
Incomes Reach Record in 1947 Across States
The commerce department reports 1947 individual incomes averaged 1323 per person, totaling 190 billion nationwide. Nevada led with 1794, Mississippi was lowest at 659, while New York and North Dakota also ranked high. State totals show Nebraska 1589 million and Iowa 2963 million in 1947, with 1944–46 figures cited for context.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Northwest
Nevada
Mississippi
New York
North Dakota
Connecticut
Delaware
California
Montana
Nebraska
Iowa
Editors to Attend Clay County Fair Event
Spencer Iowa editors publishers and radio managers will join the Clay county fair board for an exhibition on Friday September 17. A noon dinner program at the Country Club and a big afternoon at the grandstand are planned with reserved seating for guests in the main spectral section.
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Spencer
Iowa
Clay County Fair Board
Iowa Deaf Close Annual Convention
Ames note reports the twenty third biennial convention of the Town Association of the Deaf concluding with Carren services and a Sunday picnic. Charles Loughran of Davenport was elected president and Sioux City selected as the 1950 convention site.
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Ames
Carren
Town Association of the Deaf
Charles Loughran
Davenport
Sioux City
Seedless Watermelon Boom Flaunts Truck Garden Science
Seedless watermelon and other seedless produce are being grown in this area. Commercial gardeners report achieving seedless varieties by spraying plants with a new hormone, marking a notable advance in local farming methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Union Shop Election Set for 25 000 Cartage Drivers
Acting director David C. Finlay of the regional National Labor Relations Board announced a union shop election for cartage drivers in 11 states including Illinois Indiana Michigan Ohio Wisconsin Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota Minnesota and Missouri. The measure covers about 25 000 workers under the board’s supervision.
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Cleveland
David C. Finlay
Regional
National Labor Relations Board
Ilinois
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Noth Snd
South Dakota
Minnnesota
Missouri
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Red Oak
Shirley Nelson
Phoenix, Ariz
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Calif
Robert Stewart Nelson
Phoenix
Nelson
Douglas B. Cornell
Congressional
Elizabeth T. Bentley
House
American Activities Committee
Roosevelt
ABC Radio Network
Red Dean
Leningrad
U. S. Military Goverment
Sherman S. Turner
Clay County Fair
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