Plan for Four Week Palestine Armistice Unveiled by Bernadotte
Count Folke Bernadotte presented six Arab nations with a start time and terms for a four week Palestine truce. Fighting persisted with Jewish gains south of Tel Aviv and northeast around Tulkarm Nablus. Arab league and Jordanian leaders awaited responses as Bernadotte, exhausted from travel, urged swift replies within two days while Arabs and Jews debated immigration and Jerusalem access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max Boyd
Cairo
Folke Bernadotte
Palestine
Amman
trans-Tordean
Snd
Arab League
Holy Land
Tel Aviv
Tulkarm-denin- Nablus
Giryon
Bernadette
Ecdiktor
United Nations
Tyrael
Jerusalem
Bernadotte
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Trans-Jordan
Mattaires
Syria
Lebanon
Iraq
Isael
Yemen
el Aviv
Associated Prose
Clehts
Beirut
Haifa
Old City
Avab
Whenarael
Moshe Shortals
He United Nations
Lowebt
Jawad
Weather summary for Council Bluffs and region
Partly cloudy Monday with a sharp warmup Monday, showers and thunderstorms Monday afternoon and night. Highs near 90, Monday night lows 60s, Tuesday 80s to mid 80s. Central and northwest cooler Monday night, precipitation totals around two inches deficit, humid conditions and variable wind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Council Bluffs
Quicinity
Nebraska
Benes Resigns as Czech President
President Benes resigns as Czech leader after February coup and new constitution. Gottwald's government accepts at a cabinet meeting. Elections are set for next Monday. Benes will keep pension and residence at Lang. Uncertain which Communist will lead the presidency. Zapotorky seen as potential successor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prague
Benes
Klement Gottwald
Munich
London
Thomas G. Masaryk
Masaryk
Jan
Lnw
S Jottwald
Lang
Gottwald
Antonin Zapotorky
Trade Unious
Lost Thayer Boy Found in Thicket After Night Search
Jimmy Beardsley, 7 or 9 years old, wandered from Thayer Sunday evening while chasing a kitten and was found near Burlington railroad tracks north of the town after an all night search. Sheriff R Ewing said the boy was unharmed but damp from rain. over 50 neighbors searched a square mile around the Arnold farm before Cecil Clayton found him half a mile away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesron
Beardsley
Burlington Railroad
Thayer
R. Ewing
Ewing
Jimmy
Rolland Beardsley
Clifford Arnold
Arnold
Cecil Clayton
The Council Bluffs Power Franchise Vote Controversy
A council vote rejected a 20 year Western Iowa Power franchise and a 3 560 000 property sale. Critics warn the city will pay 3 550 000 for the assets through future bills, with no public vote on the new plan. Editor A M Piper voices alarm at a scheme to overprice municipal ownership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Western Iowa Power Company
Council Bluffs Committee
Council Bluffs Electric Distribution System
Free and Clear
Western
Iowa
Western Town Power Company
Federal Power Commission
Omaha
Electric Light and Power
George Sparks
A. M. Piper
Lewis Denounces Third Flood Seen Coal Operators in Far Northwest
In Washington John L. Lewis opened soft coal contract talks with a denunciation of operators calling them fat cats opulent and exploiting the national purse. He announced no wage proposals yet demanded welfare fund guarantees while noting court-ordered negotiations under the Taft Hartley act. Separately Portland faced a third Columbia flood crest as army engineers rushed in reinforcements from Fort Belvoir to avert higher damage and hundreds of deaths, with thousands homeless in Oregon Washington Idaho Montana and British Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold W. Ward
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Miners’ Welfare Fund
Lewis
Southern Coal Producers Association
T. Alan Goldsborough
Goldsborough
Republic
Harvey Cartwright
Terre Haute
Ind
Portland
Ore
Columbia
U. S. Weather Bureau
Columbia River
Canadian Rockies
Elmer Fisher
Army Engineer Corps
Great River
Fort Belvoir
Fraser
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Canada
British Columbia
Vancouver
Council Bluffs to name new superintendent Wednesday
The school board will meet in special session Wednesday at 7 p.m. to select a new superintendent for Council Bluffs schools. President Thomas Millen said nearly twenty applicants have applied or inquired for the post, which opens July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Thomas Mr Millen
Auto Builder Nash Dies in California
Beverly Hills California reports the death of Charles Warren Nash an American industrialist and founder of Nash Motor company He rose from an orphan farm boy to president of General Motors and died at his home after a long illness He was 84 years old and remained active in Nash Motor affairs until about six months ago
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
America
Charles Warren Nash
Nash
General Motors
Nash Motor Company
Policy push for cheaper public power rates in hearings
Rep. Ben Jensen argues for a base rate approach on western reclamation projects to deliver power at the lowest feasible cost. He cites TVA and Boulder Canyon as precedents, notes taxes paid by private power, and predicts a showdown to forge a national power policy with Interior, the Federal Power Commission, and private interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William E. Lowell Washington
Ben Jensen
Jensen
Subcommittee On
Interior Department Appropriations
Walton Seymour
Interior Department
Interior
Krug
Seymour
TVA
Arizona
Nevada
Boulder Canyon
Imaney
Federal Power Commission
Heavy Rains Hit Some Iowa Areas
The weather bureau reported scattered showers Monday with higher rainfall in northeast Iowa over the weekend. Delaware led with 3.84 inches, Cedar Rapids 3.21, and Waterloo 2.53 as most of the state stayed dry, while forecasts called for clearing skies and mild temperatures later today and Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Delaware
Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Charles City
Dubuque
Mason City
Towa City
Atlantic
Council Bluffs
Iowa City
Fort Dodge
Three Die as 3 Car Wreck Near Bald Bluff Illinois
In Oquawka Illinois three persons were burned to death after a head on collision on a sharp curve near a Bald Bluff filling station Saturday night. Charles Shike and Jerry T Johnson died, Harris Kolstud driver of one car was critically injured and taken to Monmouth Hospital. Bodies burned beyond recognition. Sheriff Vincent Carlson reports another car struck the wreck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oquawka
Ill
Bald Bluff
Charles Shike
Seaton
Jerry ‘T. Johnson
Greenview
Harris Kolstud
Monmouth
Shike
Kolstud
Vincent Carlson
Henderson County
Refuses to Forbid Race Segregation in Draft Bill
In a 67 to 7 vote, Senators rejected Senator Lang er s amendment to ban race discrimination or segregation in inductions and assignments into the armed forces. The action was the first of seven Lang er civil rights amendments tied to the draft measure. Gurney argued the two year draft bill is paramount and civil rights should stand on their own.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Iowa
Langer
R.-N.d
Armed Services
Senate
Department of Defense
Army
Navy
Air Force
R-Nd
Gurney
R-Sd
Armed Services Committee
Truman
Balloting in Council Bluffs Follows Normal Pattern
Monday morning in Council Bluffs matched two years ago as poll workers from all six wards reported. In 1946 the primary vote for governor totaled 3,761 within the city and 1,759 elsewhere, making 5,520 ballots cast in the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
Primary returns captivate Iowa and state races
KFMX will broadcast election returns from The Nonpareil as county and state primary results shape the 1950 ballot. Voters choose county attorney and auditor, two supervisors, and Republican nominees for governor secretary of state and 3rd district congress, with heavy interest in Blue versus Beardsley and a lone Democratic senator race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KFMX
Iowa
Robert D. Blue
William 8. Beardsley
Helen Mitchell
Russell L. Voelz
Minden
John W. Gwynne
Waterloo
Congress
H. R. Gross
U. S
Drops Dead Shortly After His Graduation
Edward J. Sessar of Waterloo died at Iowa City shortly after receiving a bachelor of science degree at the University of Iowa commencement. He fainted while riding with his parents to visit a friend to give a graduation present, collapsed at the curb and died before hospital care. His mother noted he had a long standing minor heart ailment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Edward J. Sessar
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Sessar
Henry Sessar
Long Session on Creek-Lake Problem Drafts Flood Control Plan
A lengthy meeting in Maj. Gen. Lewis A. Pick's Omaha office continued past 2:10 p.m. Monday after starting at 11 a.m. City officials army engineers and local conservationists sought a solution to the final hurdle in a 2 500 000 flood control project. The plan would extend the creek south to the Missouri river along Lake Manawa but conservationists warn it would drain the lake, and the Iowa conservation commission has not granted permission to use state land for the creek right of way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis A. Pick
Omaha
Army
Missouri River
Lake Manawa
Iowa Conservation Commission
West Reveals Five Point Plan for Western Germany
Western powers proposed a five point plan to create a separate federal government in western Germany and to curb future German aggression. The accord, from a six power London conference, calls for Allied military chiefs to authorize a constituent assembly, draft a constitution, and ratify it with German participation. It also outlines Ruhr area international control linked to a European reconstruction program and sets conditions for postwar occupation and demilitarization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
Washington
Germany
London
Europe
United States
Britain
France
Low Countries
Paris
State Department
Truman
Marshall
Fraunch
Ruhr
United Kingdom
Benelux
Say Horse Stimulated Jockey Is Suspended
Stewards at Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha suspended Frankie Burns a veteran horseman from Alamosa Colorado pending a state racing commission investigation into alleged horse stimulation. A chemist report cited saliva tests on Conlan winner of the June 2 sixth race. Burns denied knowledge. The purse for Dianne's Pride in the June 4 second race was held, a $44.20 win payoff aiding the second largest daily double in Ak-Sar-Ben history at $3,216.60.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ak-Sar-Ben
Omaha
Frankie Burns
Alamosa
Col
State Racing Commission
Conlan
Bins
Dianne
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Count Bernadotte
Washington.p
Czechoslovakia
Eduard Bones
Caschoslovak Republic
California
Atksor
Woodring
Matt Walsh
Clayton Baum
West
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