Iowa Anglers Would Benefit From New Federal Aid
Washington report notes a bill by Rep. Dingell to earmark federal excise taxes on most fishing gear for state use to improve fishing. Iowa would receive about $100,275 annually, with the Pittman Robertson precedent cited for hunting funds since 1938 totaling over $21 million returned to states for wildlife and land projects.
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Washington
Iowa
Congress
Rep
Dingell
D-Mich
Albert M. Day
Fish and Wild Ife Service
Pisce Dingell
Pittman-Robertson
Pittman
Robertson
Democratic Leaders Review Legislation With President
President Truman hosted a morning White House meeting with Senate and House Democratic leaders to discuss the North Atlantic pact and labor laws. Senator Lucas said details and timing remain undecided, with a Senate policy committee review planned later Tuesday. Speaker Rayburn indicated the House labor committee would push revisions to Taft Hartley and a minimum wage bill at earliest opportunity.
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Washingson
Senate
House
Trumann
White House
Lucas
D.-In
Mr. Truman
Rayburn
D.-Tex
House Labor Committee
Nation records 413 deaths over three Memorial Day days
The Associated Press reports 413 people died in accidents during the three day Memorial Day weekend marking the traditional summer opening. Traffic crashes drownings fires falls airplane mishaps and other accidents caused the toll. The survey covered Friday afternoon to last midnight across time zones. In Vatican City Pope Pius XX met Myron Taylor, Truman’s representative, in a 30 minute private audience.
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Associated Press
Vatican City
Pius XX
Myron Taylor
Truman
Vatican
Milk Price Cut From Mar Ahballiewa Dairies
Mar Ahballiewa dairies announced a one cent reduction in milk price effective Wednesday. The new price is 17 cents per quart.
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Marahballiewa Dairies
Refuse to Mediate Berlin Rail Strike
Berlin reports the Russian controlled railway management refused to mediate the 11 day long walkout. Lord Mayor Ernst Reuter offered to discuss a settlement but Willy Kretkemeyer Reichsbahn president rejected it. The Reichsbahn recognizes only the communist free German trade union as legal bargaining agent for the strikers.
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Berlin
Ernst Reuter
West Berlin
Willy Kretkemeyer
Reichsbahn J
Kretkemeyer
Reichsbahn
McClelland Lad Dies in Tractor Accident Near Mills Farm
Eugene Mills 19, son of Mr and Mrs Gus Mills of McClelland, was killed when a tractor toppled 15 feet into a creek. He was pinned under water and died of concussion. Funeral arrangements were made at Woodring in Council Bluffs. Survived by parents, a brother and three sisters. He would have entered senior year at Underwood High School.
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McClelland
Eugene Mills
Gus Mills
A. L
Mills
Ell Bluffs
Woodring Funeral Home
Council Bluffs
Young Mills
Cerl
Thomas Hough
Chris Nielsen
Mildred Johnson
Underwood High School
West Votes Down Russian Proposal
Paris reports Western powers rejected Soviet foreign minister Vishinsky’s plan to invite a delegation from the communist dominated German People’s Congress to the foreign ministers council. Vishinsky denounced the Western zones in Germany and his proposal followed a 22 member Soviet-occupied Germany delegation’s earlier motion.
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Paris
Russia
Polk County Choosy About Jail Prisoners
Polk County jail limits intake as crowd grows. Sheriff Howard C. Reppert says the jail is crowded with 141 prisoners and seven of twelve blocks full. Deputy Charles Hutchings notes record numbers, with only two women and one juvenile space remaining.
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Howard C. Reppert
Charles Hutchings
Fifth Avenue resurfacing bids expected for all cash project
City plans asphalt resurfacing from Pearl to Twenty fourth and concrete work from Twenty fourth to Thirty seventh streets with bonds to cover costs. About 18 firms took bidder forms and at least 10 may submit bids as council meets Tuesday night. Work starts June 15 and finishes Sept 15.
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Fifth Avenue
Forrest E. Grover
Albert E. Peterson
Grover
Pearl
Second Ward
H. R. Koll
Omaha
City Street
First Avenue
Main
Fourth Streets
Lewis Decries Mine Safety Failures and Seeks Federal Inspectors
United Mine Workers leader John L Lewis denounced state officials and coal operators for not ensuring mine safety. He urged Congress to pass a bill granting federal inspectors power to close mines at imminent danger and called some operators indifferent to human life as seven state agencies ignored safety provisions.
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Washington
John L. Lewie
United Mine Workers’ Chief
Congress
Driver of the Month honors go to E Brown of Allerton
E Brown of Allerton has been named driver of the month for May by the safety and courtesy campaign committee of the Iowa Motor Truck association. Brown weighs 300 pounds and is five feet eight inches tall and was nominated with endorsement from state highway patrolmen and Sheriff Nora Kelly of Wayne county.
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Des Moines
Pw. E. Brown
Allerton
Iowa Motor Truck Association
Brown
Nora Kelly
Wayne County
Interstate Power Co Elects Dubuque Man
Directors of Interstate Power Company announce Milton L. Kapp elected executive vice president. Kapp previously vice president and assistant secretary, succeeds F. D. Danielson who resigns but remains a director. C. A. Hummel of Dubuque Iowa is elected vice president. company supplies power to areas in Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin and Illinois.
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New York
Interstate Power Company
Dei
Milton L. Kapp
Kapp
F. D. Danielson
Danielson
C. A. Hummel
Dubuque
Iowa
Electioa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Extension of Farm Goods Controls Proposed by Brannan
Secretary Brannan sent a draft bill to congress to extend government control to most farm products. The plan would allow acreage allotments production goals and marketing quotas to prevent surpluses and depressed prices. It lists many commodities including livestock dairy eggs oats and citrus with possible penalties for over quota production.
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Washington
Brannan
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
State of Siege Declared in Bolivia Amid Mine Strikes
The government in Bolivia declared a state of siege as striking mine workers seized hostages and a blackout spread through the producing region. In Catavia high in the Andes, at least 27 people including two American engineers were killed in a violent weekend. The communique cited revolutionary outbreaks among tin mine strikers and blamed a right wing nationalist movement.
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Va Kaz
Bolivia
Toad
Catavia
Andes
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
Bryn Mawr Grants First Male Bachelor’s Degree
Bryn Mawr college in Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania awarded a bachelor’s degree to a male student Richard Logan, a World War II veteran and married man, during a class that included 147 women. Logan was admitted under the GI bill after government asked women’s colleges to enroll men.
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Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr College
Richard Logan
Logan
Des Moines Man Killed by Accidental Gunshot in New Orleans
Parents of 26 year old Donald W. Swartz of Des Moines received word in New Orleans that he died from a gunshot wound. Preliminary investigation indicated the wound appeared accidental.
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Sowon
Des Moines
Donald W. Swartz
New Orleans
Bells of Pinball Machines Back in Council Bluffs
Pinball bells to ring again as licenses are sought in Council Bluffs. Distributors face $100 licenses. operators pay $10 for juke boxes and $50 for amusement devices. Applications from five distributors and several operators are under review, pending approval by the police chief and city electrician before the clerk issues licenses.
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Council Bluffa
Cense
J. E. Plank
Fuller Avenue
Jerome W. Witt
Omaha
D. L. Clem
Ogden Hotel
R. L. Stivers
Pleasant Street
Ray Mortensen
Avoca
Paul Murphy
West Broadway
Mary G. Strange
Seventh Street
Broadway
Arnold L., Kern
South Main Street
W. D. Osborne
Ozzie
Ford UAW Lay Arbitration Plan Moves Forward
Operations resumed at Ford after a 24 day strike involving 106000 workers. Ford and CIO UAW outline arbitration to resolve speed up charges with a three day deadline and a two week ramp up to full production at the Rouge plant and 49 others. Pension wage and health benefits remain goals as talks continue.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Auto Workers
Key Rouge
Ford
Ford-Uaw
MURS
Upron
Cloak of Mystery Around Timetable for East Germany
Berlin reports a secretive posture by East German leaders as they discuss unification amid foreign ministers talks in Paris. Prof Hermann Kastner, head of the new people’s council, says an East German state is not necessary and would not be discussed now. The party congress installed a soviet style constitution and 400 members to govern, with Gerhart Elster among a council co presidents.
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Berlin
Germany
Hermann Kastner
People’s Council
Paris
People's Congress
People's Council
Gerhart Elster
America
Kastner
Coun
Fire Hits Searle Petroleum Firm
The Omaha fire department answered an extra alarm at the Searle Petroleum company in east Omaha Tuesday afternoon. After the initial response more units arrived, with three engines and a hook and ladder company at the refinery by 3 p.m. Heavy black smoke rolled southward over Council Bluffs as calls flooded in. some thought the smoke was a fast moving storm.
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Omaha
Searle Petroleum Company
Council Bluffs
Investigation Planned Into Waverly Train Collision
An official inquiry into the Waverly train collision last week, which killed one trainman, will open Wednesday at 9 a.m. The joint probe will involve H. A. Franklin of the Iowa Commerce Commission, an Interstate Commerce Commission representative, and officials from Chicago and Great Western and Illinois Central railroads. May 31, 1949.
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Waterloo
Waverly
H. A. Franklin
Iowa Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago and Great Western
Illinois Central
Hiss Trial Opens After Six Delays
Alger Hiss went on trial in federal court on perjury charges Tuesday after six postponements. The former State Department official is accused of denying to a grand jury that he gave secret papers to Whittaker Chambers, a confessed Soviet spy. Judge Samuel H. Kaufman presided as jurors were seated for the jury selection. Hiss smiled at his wife Priscilla as they sat together in front of the courtroom.
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New York
Alger Ilss
State Department
Whittaker Chambers
Samuel H. Kaufman
Talesmen
Hiss
Priscilla
U S Closes Its Mukden Consulate
The United States orders the closing and recall of Consul General Angus Ward his wife and nine staff from the Mukden consulate in Manchuria. Ward has been isolated since communists captured the city last November and cut radio contact.
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Washington
United States
Mukden
Manchuria
State Department
Angus Ward
Chassell
Mich
Ward
Soviet Russia
Bureau of Standards Builds Electric Brain to Translate Languages
The U S bureau of standards builds an electric brain at UCLA under Dr Harry Huskey with 20 mathematicians. It will translate foreign languages and perform 16000 additions and 4000 multiplications per second. It stores 60000 dictionary words and offers three foreign equivalents per English word. It may later translate foreign books.
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Los Angeles
U.S. Bureau of Standards
University of California At
Mathematiclang
Harry Huskey
Huskey
Hankey
Supreme Court rules union must be notified before wage boosts
The Supreme Court held that a union must be notified prior to granting a wage increase during contract talks unless the raise is rejected by the union. Crompton-Highland Mills of Griffin Georgia raised wages 12 days after talks with the CIO, an unfair labor practice. Justice Burton delivered a unanimous opinion on the main issue, with Justices Douglas Murphy and Rutledge dissenting on procedure.
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Washington, JP
Supreme Court
Georgia
CIO
Textile Workers
Crompton-Highland Mills, Inc
Griffin
Burton
Douglas
Murphy
Rutledge
Vinson
Black
Reed Frankfurter
Jackson
Hot Weather Expected in Southwestern Iowa This Week
A weather forecast shows not to Wednesday the region will face hot conditions with temperatures from the mid 60s to 90. Scattered showers are possible Wednesday with cooler weather Thursday and rising temps again by the weekend. Five day outlook predicts about half an inch of rainfall statewide.
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Iowa
Mercury
Iowa Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Forest City
Towa
Burlington
Little Rock Trip Overnight Affair
President Truman will travel to Little Rock Arkansas for the annual reunion of the 35th division on June 10 for a speech and return to Washington the next day. Officials said no plans exist for a stop in Des Moines for a farm conference on June 12 and 13.
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Washington
Truman
Little Rock
Ark
White House
Des Moines
Farm Bureau Delegates Gather for Midsummer Session
About 300 voting delegates attended Iowa Farm Bureau federation’s annual midsummer conference in Des Moines. Howard Hill of Minburn, president, will discuss the long range farm program as the two-day session opens while the American Farm Bureau already opposes the Brannan farm program.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Farm Bureau Federation
Raat Nqoerall
Sesson
Howard_Hill
Minburn
American Farm Bureau
Alreay
Brannan
Lilienthal to Face AEC Hearing on Mismanagement Charges
Washington AP reports David E. Lilienthal will testify before a joint congressional committee on atomic energy Wednesday amid charges of incredible mismanagement by Senator Hickenlooper. McMahon announced the session begins at 7 am CST with Hickenlooper leading initial questions.
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Washington
David E. Lilienthal
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
Atomic Energy Commission
Senator Hickenlooper
Iowa
Caghman McMahon
Joint Committee
Lilienthal
Hickenlooper
McMahon
Lienthal
AEC
Lowan
Lillenthan’s
Federation
Lilenthal
threeMonday
Western
Europe
Argentina and Britain seal five year trade pact talks
Argentina and Britain agreed to a five year commercial treaty covering meat fuel and other goods with annual trade expected above 320.9 million dollars. After 99 days of negotiations a debt statement said principle agreement reached and drafting would follow.
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Argentina
Britain
Buenos Aires
Honorary Degree Presented at Hockaday College Commencement
Hobart F. Mossman president of Hockaday Junior College for Women in Dallas received an honorary Doctor of Laws at morning commencement exercises for Morning aide college graduates.
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Sioux
City
Hobart F. Mossman
Hockaday Junior College For Women
Dallas
Tex
Morning
Aide College
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Polk County
Lewis
Interstate Power Co
UAW
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Searle Petroleum Firm
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U.S
Bureau of Standards
High Court
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AEC Hearing
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