Court refuses review of interstate gas rate case
The Supreme Court declined to review the Federal Power Commission’s power to fix rates for interstate natural gas sales. Phillips Petroleum and the states of Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico appealed the DC Circuit ruling that Phillips is a natural gas company under the act and thus subject to federal rate regulation.
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Supreme Court
Federal Power Commission
U. S. Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
High Tribunal
Phillips Petroleum Co
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Court of Appeals
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Power Commission
Phillips
Commission
Wisconsin
Michigan
Wayne County
Mich
Detroit
Milwaukee
Kansas City
U.S. Court of Appeals
Ruman
Congress
Truman
Co!rided Iit
Rattral Ea
Midwest
Cold Shoulder To Compromise Plan In Korea Talks
Panmunjom reports show the Communists offering a broad peace conference proposal with some new ideas and many rebuffed by U S delegate Arthur H. Dean. Dean proposed a compromise allowing Russia to participate as a third party with full voting rights while remaining a neighbor of Korea. An Allied spokesman doubted Russia would attend as a belligerent side and predicted gravity would force Russia to join as chief spokesman for the Communists.
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Panmunjom
U. S
Arthur H. Dean
Bean
Reds
Russia
Korea
Dean
Ca Lex U.N
Cam
Business As Usual For Churchill 79
London Sir Winston Churchill marked his 79th birthday with a routine day. He chaired a Cabinet session and planned to finish government business before flying to Bermuda for the Big Three summit. A family dinner and small reception were arranged at 10 Downing Street.
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London
Winston
Churchill
Russia
Vic
Bermuda
No. 10
Downing Su
Hidzl
Acknowledgement of Political Mail Sent to POWs
Lt Gen K. Thimayya, chairman of the UN Repatriation Commission, says Allied prisoners of war received mail judged largely political in nature aimed at influencing them. He responded to a lengthy complaint from the camp housing 354 POWs, including 22 Americans and a Briton among South Koreans.
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Panmusjom
Todian
Thimayya
Ince
Re Dhurch
Neustral Nations Repatriation Commission
City considers boosting Police Captains to four
An ordinance to raise the number of police captains from three to four was filed to allow Capt. Ben E. Montgomery to return to duty without reducing others. Montgomery, 44, joined the force in 1933 and recently cleared a medical board for duty after disability retirement. The council may act December 7, with promotions to be from civil service lists subject to the city manager's approval.
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Ben E. Montgomery
Montgomery
Reinance
Earl Miller
L. M. McConnell
McConnell
Aidon E. Winger
Tom Schweer
Capt
Winger
Sgt. Schweer
Logan Residents to Vote on Pool Bond Issue
Logan residents head to the polls to decide a $50,000 bond issue for a swimming pool after a 200 name petition prompted the vote. Previous bids for a pool in 1948 showed costs near $48,900 and the project was dropped.
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Sperial
Logan
Iszuarece
Christmas Season Opens Monday Night
The Christmas season opens at 7pm Monday with holiday windows by Council Bluffs Merchants. The Bayliss Park Christmas lights will be turned on and awards given to card holders with lucky numbers. Free gifts awarded to those who match their card with the show window card.
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Council Bluffs Ierail
Bayliss Park
Bar Junior Steer Champion At Show
In Chicago an Aberdeen Angus calf weighing 1350 pounds was named junior champion steer at the International Livestock Exposition on Saturday but barred from further competition Monday. Rich ard E. Cavey of Mireval Point Wisconsin was informed the junior yearling Blackie’s age had been misrepresented. The reserve junior champion steer Littles Stuff shown by Carlylet Greathouse of Hindsho, Indiana, was advanced to the junior champion title.
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Chicago
Wiliam Ogilvie
Richard E. Cavey
Mireval Point
Wis
Ogilvie
Blackie
Jess C. Andrew
Angus
Carlylet
Greathouse
Hindshoro
Woman In Carlsbad Jail Over $1000 Fine Refusal
Frances Supina, jailed in Carlsbad New Mexico, refuses to pay a $1000 contempt fine after disobeying a court order to stop renting a garage apartment. She claims no rent is charged and plans to appeal, saying she will stay in jail until justice is served. She has been hospitalized with a stomach ailment and weighs 114 pounds.
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Carlsbad
Willy
Frances Supina
Supina
Swank Riverside Drive
District Court
Nixon in India talks in New Delhi with Nehru
Vice President Richard Nixon arrived in New Delhi for talks with Prime Minister Nehru on forming a U S policy toward Pakistan. Parliament questioners pressed whether Nehru would accept American military aid to Pakistan.
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New Delhi
India
Richard Nixon
Nehru
Nixon
Pakistan
Arbitration Reached in New York Photo Engravers Strike
An agreement to submit certain issues to arbitration was reached in the photo engravers strike that has closed six major New York City newspapers, a New York Times spokesman said. He added there was no agreement on the basic issues.
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New York
Childhood Sweethearts Massie and Donna Tie The Knot
Donna Leytham 20 and Robert Massie 22 wed in private ceremony at First Christian Church in Council Bluffs. Massie, a former POW held nearly three years in North Korea and China, returns home weighing 120 pounds and planning GI Bill aided study. The couple, who knew each other for years, will start life in a new apartment with Massie seeking engineering or repair work amid uncertain postwar plans.
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Robert Massie
Massie
Donna Leytham
Philip Durham
Jack Levi
Tham
Polta
Wattamie County
Donna
Lows Ia Country School
Abraham Lincoln High School
Route 4
G. A
Council Bluffs
Massix
Freedom Gate
Big Buich
Annie Massie
Camp No. 3
Council Bluffs Savings Bank
Warm Readings Forecast Across Southwest Iowa
Mild November weather continues in Southwest Iowa with a Monday high near 53 and a morning low of 27. A statewide warming trend is expected over the next 36 hours bringing highs to about 58 and lows near 33 with clear skies and no precipitation reported.
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Iowa
Waterloo
Special Court For Hearing Carroll Cases
Iowa Supreme Court appoints three judge special courts for disbarment hearings on Carroll County officials Ralph M Crane and R M Tancreti. Hearings set for Dec 14 in Carroll for Tancreti and Dec 17 for Crane, with panels from Mason City Perry Centerville and Spirit Lake Sigourney Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Carroll County
Ralph M. Crane
Carroll City
R. M. Tancreli
FR. J. Comes
Joe Zilli Isperger
Pilgrim Fathers, Inc
Comes
High Court
Tyear
Pilgrim Fathers
Supreme Court
Crane
Carroll
Jtan Creti
Dudges
William P. Butler
Mason City
George Sackett
Perry
Edward L. Simmons
Centerville
Tan Creti
Harry ©. Narey
Spirit Lake
R. G. Yoder
Sigourney
C. Edwin Moore
Zitzlsperger
Tan’ Cret
Waterloo
Joe Wernimant
Atlantic Man Dies After Crash
Edward Woolsey 76 dies at a local hospital after being struck by a car on Highway 6 at the west edge of Atlantic. Witnesses said driver Fred Dorey of Lewis honked. Woolsey may not have seen him. No inquest planned. Services Wednesday at 2 pm. Survivors include widow Ann and four children plus a sister.
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Atlantic
Edward Woolsey
L. L. Long
Cass Caurty
Fred Dorey
Lewis
Woolsey
Dr. Long
Taylor and Sanders Funeral Home
Ann
Max
Vernace Tillet
Ellensburg
Wash
E. S Patridge
Omaha
Arthur Wright
Hubby Has Run Off With Another Hussy
Mrs Flo Upton secretary of Draft Board No 30 reports a letter claiming a husband ran off with another woman and a baby was born The letter notes a single 18 year old used dependency status and claimed no support contributions while not working.
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ST. Petersburg
Ha. P
Flo Upton
Hussy
Jin
U S Charges NKorea Prison Camps Atrocities At UN
Henry Cabot Lodge told the U N General Assembly that Soviet and North Korean forces ran prison camps with mass executions and torture. He cited 38 000 deaths, Chinese and Soviet officers at the top, and a conscious policy of brutality across camps and war detainees.
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United Nations, N
Henry Cabot Lodge Tk
U. S
United Nations
U. N. General Assembly
Lodge
Assembly
Red China
North Korea
Kremlin
Korea
U. S. Defense
Geneva
Seoul
Louge
Fires Rise as Ho Chi Minh Offers Armistice Hint
In Paris Ho Chi Minh allegedly told a Stockholm paper Vietminh would meet an armistice proposal if France seeks peace through negotiations. The report triggered panics and nationalist tensions in Saigon and drew reactions ahead of the Bermuda conference. Fire damage followed by a theater blaze in Saigon area caused extensive loss with preliminary estimates around seventy five thousand dollars.
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Paris
Ho Chi Minh
Joseph Laniel
Stockholm
Saigon
France
Liberal Party
Peiping
Bermuda
Eisenhower
Churchill
Indochina
Charles Slade
Des Moines Grand Theater Fire Causes $80,000 Damage
A blaze at the Grand Theater on East Sixth and Grand in Des Moines caused damage estimated at more than $80,000. Ten fire companies battled the fire, which apparently started in the basement Monday.
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Des Moines
East Sixth
Grand
Hearings Open For 33 Ft Monmouth Workers In Loyalty Probe
Ft Monmouth N J five member Army security board will open hearings Dec 7 for 33 civilian workers suspended in a loyalty probe. Some have been reinstated as suspensions end without charges. 18 more face charges, three cases undecided. Attorney Harry Green disputes Fifth Amendment immunity while defending clients who deny Communist links.
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Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Army Security Board
Public Information Office
Army Signal Corps Center
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Army
Stevens
Harry Green
President Backs Watershed Program Aide to Farms
President Eisenhower approved a Agriculture Department watershed effort shown to him in Washington. The plan aims to slow runoff, protect moisture for nearby farms, curb erosion and reduce downstream floods through technical aid to 21 small watersheds in Wisconsin and other states. Congress has funded five million dollars for the current year.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Agriculture Department
Benson
Morse
Coke
Corgress
United States
Department
Gouzenko Refuses Interview Amid Security Censorship
In Toronto Gouzenko the former Russian code clerk who sparked 1946 spy trials says he will not be interviewed by the U S Senate subcommittee. He is now a Canadian citizen living in an Ontario village under an assumed name and subject to Canadian censorship.
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Toronto
Iger Gouzenko
Toronto Telegram
U. S. Senate
Gouzenko
Senate
Sen
Jenner
Canada
Ontario
Federal payroll cuts reach 176000 since January
The Civil Service Commission reports a further 28100 federal workers dropped in the period ending October 1, bringing total cuts since January to about 176600 and reducing federal employes to 2372100. This item notes traffic death counts from Iowa with Associated Press byline.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Assembly Rejects Peace Package
The United Nations General Assembly rejected Russia's peace package demanding a ban on atom and hydrogen weapons and large power arms reductions. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. derided the proposal as a weary, stale, flat and unprofitable business in a speech at the U.N.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N. Assembly
Manjay
Russia
UW. 5
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
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