Acheson Divides on Armistice Role in Korea Debate
Secretary of State Acheson reserved United Nations consultation before any Korea armistice, clashing with Senator Gillette over U.S. autonomy. He defended Truman’s authority to deploy troops without Congress, while acknowledging field commanders’ tactical leeway to seek talks.
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Senate
Truman
U. S
Korea
Gillette
U. N
United States
Security Council
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations
Douglas MacArthur
United Nations
WA. N
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Red China
International Organization
U. N. Security Council
World Court
Russia
North Korea
Manchuria
Formosa
China
Flanders
R.vt
MacArthur
Wilcred
Occasional Showers Predicted For Council Bluffs Area
The weather forecast calls for occasional showers Tuesday night and Wednesday in the Council Bluffs region with a rise to near 75 on Wednesday. Tuesday morning started near 35 and the day climbed to the upper 60s. The record shows an excess rainfall of 11.35 inches, totaling 21.25 inches for the year.
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Council Bluffs
Weather Bureau
River Sioux Man Car Train Victim
Little Sioux resident Lon Nelson a 71 year old farmer was instantly killed Tuesday at 10 15 am when his car collided with a northbound Chicago North Western train two miles north of here Harrison County coroner Har old M Hennessey quoted train engineer W H Thompson saying Nelson traveled onto tracks after warning whistle was blown Nelson a lifelong Harrison County resident is survived by his widow Ella son Edward of Sutherland Ia and daughter Mrs Fred Smith of Denver Col
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Little Sioux
Lon Nelson
Chicago North Western
Here
Harrison County
Harold M. Hennessey
Missouri Valley
W. H. Thompson
Nelson
Thompson
Hennessey
Ella
Edward
Sutherland
Fred Smith
Denver
Col
Reynolds Slams Cleveland to End Indians Streak
Allie Reynolds struck out the Indians in a 8 2 victory for the New York Yankees, who snapped Cleveland's nine game win streak and halted their own three game skid. Berra and Brown homered for New York while Wynn and Zuverink were charged with defeats.
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Cleveland
Allie Reynolds
New York Yankees
Indians
Yanks
Sind Hegan
Brooklyn
St Louis Y
Moos
Ull Ag Munger
Poltet
Rice Garasiola
Hatten
King
Erskine
Campanelia
Chicago
Toston Oor
Parnett
Evans
Gumpert
Sinbhs
Beef Slaughtering Slumps Under OPS Price Order
The Office of Price Stabilization new beef rules began Monday causing slumps in beef slaughter and cattle buying at Iowa plants. Ten major Iowa plants: three had no kill, seven ran at 50 to 75 percent of normal slaughter as plants must buy cattle at prices enabling sale at legal ceilings.
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Ane Associated Press
Office of Price Stabilization
Iowa
Armour and Co Lays Off Half Workforce in Chicago Plant
Armour and Company announced layoffs of half its workers at the Chicago beef dressing plant due to a shortage of slaughter cattle. The firm also noted similar reductions at most other plants it runs. In Boston, Serge Koussevitzky, 77, famed conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, died Monday night.
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Chicago
Armour and Company
Boston
Serge A. Koussevitzky
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Criticism of Dismissal of Lee County Supt
The Iowa State Education Association released a report condemning the Lee county board of education for a hasty action in dismissing W. W. Mossberry as county superintendent of education last April. The report says Mossberry was the victim of a local controversy that will harm the rural school system. It notes no valid criticism of Mossberry’s work and cites his April 2 dismissal and April 18 replacement by Charles L. Rupert of Monroe.
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Lee County
Des Moinesf
Iowa State Education Association
Monroe
Molsberry
Probe of IHSAA Sought by Des Moines Radio
Radio station KRNT asks the Iowa legislature interim budget and financial control committee to investigate the Iowa High School Athletic Association over nine questions. The inquiry follows the banning of sportscaster Al Couppee from telecasting the state track meet and questions free speech and private control. Emphasis is on whether a private body can restrict speech and conduct.
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Des Moines
Iowa High School Athletic Association
IHSAA
KRNT
Robert Dillon
al Couppee
KANT
Iowa
University of Tawa
Dillon
Budget and Financial Control Committee
J. C. Colburn
R-Harlan
Athletic Association
Unemployment Drops to Postwar Low in May
The Census Bureau reports May unemployment at 1,609,000, the lowest since World War II ended in 1945, after a 137,000 decline from April. Employed civilians increased by 1,148,000 to 61,193,000, the highest in six months, as job openings rose and 1,014,000 more people joined the labor force.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Jobs as Different as Day and Night
SouTlH DEERFIELD Mass Pfc. John Gorey home on furlough from Camp Perron Tex was telling friends Thursday this is what he does in the army. By day he is a chaplain's assistant. By night he tends bar at the Officers club.
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Soutlh Deerfield
Mass
John Gorey
Camp Perron Tex
U N Within Gun Range of Key Chorwon
Allied troops pressed within artillery range of Chorwon, a key node in the iron triangle, while 6,000 Chinese forces blocked advances from the east. West and central fronts closed in toward the communist assembly area around Chorwon Kumhwa and Pyongyang as mud slowed units and tanks bogged on secondary roads. The fifth air force deployed 430 planes to strike by daylight with two fighters lost.
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Tokyo
Chorwon
Korea
United Nations
Triangle
U. N. West
Central Front
Kumhwa
Pyongyang
Yonchon-Chorwen
U. N
Yonchon
Hwachon
Hwachon Reservoir
Yanggu
Inje
Fifth Air Force
Acheson Expected to Remain in Cabinet Through Fall
A Democratic senator, speaking on background, said Secretary of State Acheson will stay in the Truman cabinet until fall. He supports current foreign policies but warns Acheson could be a political liability and should be replaced before the next presidential election amid Republicans’ pressure over MacArthur.
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Washington
Acheson
MacArthur
Treman
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Driver escapes when semi overturns in Fort Dodge area
Don McGaugh, 27, of 2222 Avenue D Omaha escaped injury Tuesday afternoon when his refrigerated semi trailer overturned while turning at Pierce and Canning streets. He drives for Union Freightways in Omaha and was en route to Fort Dodge with a load of beef after a shift in the truck.
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Don McGaugh
Avenue D
Pierce
Canning Streets
McGaugh
Union Freightways
Omaha
Fort Dodge
Iowa Supreme Court Reverses Adoptions Case
Des Moines reports the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously reversed earlier rulings, allowing the American Home Federation of Ottumwa to continue adopting five Eddy children. Mr and Mrs Eddy of Omaha had appealed, but the court found no action to halt proceedings pending appeal and upheld the adoptions after a year.
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Des Moines
Donald Eddy
Omaha
Iowa Supreme Cout
American Home Funding Association of Ottumwa
High
Toledo
Eddy
John E. Mulroney
Ottumwa
Iowa Supreme Court Reverses Probate Ruling in Quiet Title Case
The Iowa Supreme Court reversed an earlier District Court decision by Judge Charles Roe of Council Bluffs, ruling that the estate and title dispute between Nancy Williams and Mrs. C. C. Morrison should not be settled in probate court. The case concerns quieting title to 160 acres of land.
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Atlantic
Iowa
Bishop Brashares Cabinet Opens Session in Des Moines
In Ottumwa the Bishop Charles Wesley Brashares of Des Moines led a cabinet of six district superintendents in an opening administrative session of the Town-Des Moines Methodist conference. The group will handle pastor assignments for about 350 churches across the conference’s southern half of the state. Members include Ernest M. Buehler Boone district Lauren D. Thomas Burlington district O E Cooley Council Bluffs district Walter A Lamp Creston district R C Calkins Des Moines district and A P Keast Ottumwa district.
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Ottumwa
Charles Wesley Brashares
Des Moines
Town-Des Moines
Ernest M. Buehler
Booneistrict
Lauren D. Thomas
Burlington
O. E. Cooley
Council Bluffs
Walter A. Lamp
Creston
R. C. Calkins
Des Moinés
A. P. Keast
Open Doors for Roundup of Reds
WASHINGTON widespread prosecutions of individual members of the U S communist party for plotting violent overthrow of the government appeared certain Tuesday. The Supreme Court upheld the convictions of 11 top officials in a 6 2 decision, affirming the 1940 Smith act as constitutional and ruling their actions posed a clear and present danger. U S Attorney Irving Saypol said more evidence of subversive activity by other party members was already with a grand jury.
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Washington
U. S. Communist Party
Supreme Court
U. S
Vinson
United States
New York
Irving Saypol
Marshall Addresses West Point Seniors
Defense Secretary George C. Marshall told West Point’s 475 graduates to be patient with democratic processes after testifying to Congress. He warned many difficulties lie ahead, and urged graduates to balance military training with democratic duties as officers in a democracy.
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West Point
N. Y
George C. Marshall
United States Military Academy
Greenfield Slayer Appeals to Court
Max B. Martin 28 confessed slaver of Mrs Kathryn Ann Schrader 25. He pleaded guilty to first degree murder at Greenfield on March 29 and was sentenced to die by hanging on April 2 1952 at Fort Madison state penitentiary in an appeal to the Iowa supreme court.
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Oss Malnes
Max B. Martin
Kathryn Ann Schrader
Iowa Supreme Court
Martin
Greenfield
Fort Madison State Penitentiary
New York Merchants Launch Price War Across Sectors
New York merchants push replacement stock as price cutting spreads beyond home electronics into watches pens and larger appliances. Macy's and Gimbels lead with aggressive cuts on Elgin and other watches while nationwide sales prompt rivals to meet or beat advertised bargains.
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New York
Ing
Land
Oklahoma City
Katz Drug
Sunbeam
Ronson
Motorola
San Francisco
Omaha
Smith Drug
Sol Lewis
Omaha Transit Eyes Griswold Bus Firm Purchase
Council Bluffs Transit seeks to buy Thornton Bus Lines of Griswold to gain permanent ICC authority for Omaha Council Bluffs routes. TS aims to merge under Transit name after sale, while appealing ICC rulings on intercity access and the Administrative Procedure Act applicability.
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Council Bluffs Transit Company
Thornton Bus Lines, Inc
Griswold
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Council Bluffs
Omaha
Transit
Omaha and Council
Omaha-Council Bluffs
James R Kiger
Council Bluffs City
Treynor
U.S 375
Voiffell Bluffs
Kiger
KCC
Thornton
Council Bluffs Transit
Water Board Reappoints H. C. Holder To Six-Year Term
H. C. Bert Holder of 217 McGee Avenue was unanimously reap pointed by the city council Monday night to a six year term on the water works board of trustees. The post, a top city appointment, was made by the mayor under the old form of government. Holder said he appreciated the action and wished to stay to oversee completion of the new plant.
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H.C
Bert” Holder
McGee ‘Avenue
Water Works’ Board of Trustees
Water Works Post
Cjty
Mayor Council
Helder
Re-elected Harrison Leads Water Works Board
Harry C. Harrison was reelected chairman of the water works board of trustees. the board dissolved and reorganized after the reappointment of H C Holder. The water works now has a 1 725 000 improvement program under way with Harrison and Walter Jenkins as other members. Jenkins has four years left, Harrison two. The council held a hearing on a supplemental tax estimate for Avenue A paving and a bond issuance for street construction. Other actions included approving contracts for improvements on Oakland avenue and related streets, studying a sanitary sewer addition for Avenue K, granting a beer permit to Harold Schultz, withholding action on vacating part of Twenty-ninth avenue, and approving Weaver's First addition plat with conditions.
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Harry C. Harrison
Water Works Board of Trustees
H. C. Holder
Lave
Harry Harrison
Walter Jenkins
Harrison
Jenkins
Avenue A
Peter Hiewl
Sonn Company
Omaha
Oakland Avenue
Fourth Street
Bryant, Vine
Main Street
Altorm | Banilaryy
Avenue K
Thirteenth
Seventeenth Stree's
Paul J. Blageman
West Oak Street
Harmony
Logap Strevia Co
Harold Schultz
Rocket
South Main Street
Rock Island Railroad Company
Twenty-ninth Avenue
Planning Commission
Weaver
Avenue 6
Two Pilots Killed In Dayton Collision Near Airfield
Two air force pilots died when plane formations collided at 1800 feet near Dayton on Tuesday. A third pilot was injured and a 111 mission Korean veteran escaped unharmed.
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Dayton
Here
Air Force
Transit seeks new hearing after Sims failed ICC certification
Beverly Simms an ICC examiner named for hearings in Omaha and here was not certified by the civil service commission as required by the administrative procedure act. Transit argues Simms was unqualified to act as an examiner for interstate matters between Council Bluffs and Omaha pending ICC review.
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Beverly Simms
ICC
Omaha
Civil Service Commission
Kiger
Transit Company
Simms
Transit
Council Bluffs
Fred P. Hampton, Jr
Omaha and
Thornton
Commission
Wich
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Marshall
Newark
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Gimbel's
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Macy's
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