DiSalle presses for beef price control to shield all foods
Pace Director DiSalle told Congress that failing to curb beef prices would wreck ceilings on all foods and topple the wage stabilization program. He warned that without beef price controls, other meats eggs milk and cereals would rise, threatening production and consumer relief.
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Washington
Pace
DiSalle
Congres
House
Senate Banking Committees
Office of Price Stabilization
Department of Agriculture
Truman
DiSaile
White House
First Presbyterian to Build Addition
First Presbyterian church plans an addition costing between 75000 and 125000 dollars to be built on Seventh street and Willow avenue. The plan includes Sunday school rooms a fellowship hall a kitchen classrooms and church offices with a sanctuary renovation slated for summer use. A June 7 meeting will set further building steps.
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First Presbyterian Church
Seventh Street
Willow Avenue
Lynne Alberti
Community Hall
Alberti
John Bradsworth
Board of Trustees
Frday
Cedar Rapids
New York City
May Drug Company
Sunbeam
Remington
May
Smulekoff Furniture
New Mans
Standard Applance Company
Killian
Iowa Power and Light Company
Harry du Pay
Iowa Power and Light
Vogeler Denies Hungaro Sabotage Confession
Robert Vogeler rejected as rubbish the confession of sabotage and spying against Hungary that he says he was forced to sign during 17 months in a communist prison He spoke at the National Press Club after his release on April 28 noting captors manipulated him and that his trial testimony may have been misinterpreted and ironic.
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Washington
Robert Vogeler
Hungary
State Department
National Press Club
Vogeler
Iran Delegation Welcome In Khuzistan Amid Oil Fight
Tehran radio reports large crowds greeted the Iranian government delegation arriving in Khuzistan on Friday to seize control of the Anglo Iranian Oil Company assets. Crowds cheered the move as a triumph for national sovereignty and anti colonial action.
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Tehran
Han
Khuzistan
Anglo Iranian Oil Company
Standard Oil (N. J.) Reports High Earnings
Eugene Holman president of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey told a record audience at Linden that earnings for the first half of the year will total about 298000000 dollars, or 786 a share. He said the first half net profit will be higher than last year when it was 159000000 dollars, or 527 a share.
Sharp Slash in Engineer Funds
The House appropriations committee recommended a 20 percent cut to the army engineers flood control and rivers and harbors program for the next fiscal year. The president had asked 640,637,843 dollars. the committee proposes 514,427,400 dollars, a reduction of 126,210,443. New power projects were rejected, including The Dalles Oregon Old Hickory Tennessee Ice Harbor Washington and Gavins Point Nebraska. Planning money for flood control and river and harbor surveys was also cut.
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Army Engineers
House Appropriations Committee
House
Truman
Dalles
Oregon
Old Hickory
Tennessee
Ice Harbor
Washington State
Gav ‘Ins Point
Neb
Garrison Reservoir
Fort Randall Reservoir
Iowa
Missour River
Kansas
Missour
Nebraska
Missing Britons Fail to Find Clue in Disappearance
London reports that a Foreign Office study of messages from two missing British diplomats, Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Burgess, yielded no clues to their whereabouts. Authorities, including British secret agents and police, pursue leads across Western Europe amid fears of potential leaks of defense secrets.
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London
Foreign Office
William Ridsdale
News Department
Donald Duart Maclean
Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess
Washington
Europe
Union Pilots Threaten Nationwide Strike at United
About 900 United Airlines pilots in Chicago and major cities set strike control points and alerted LAS crews to walk out on moment’s notice as the Air Line Pilots Association announces possible action across key centers.
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Chicago
United Airlines
The
Air Line Pilots Association
LAS
Marshall Tours Korean Front Amid Artillery Duel
Gen George C Marshall toured the Korean battlefront with Gen Ridgway and Lt Gen Van Fleet as UN and Chinese guns traded long range fire near Chorwon. Marshall urged peacemoves from red China and pressed for more UN troops while defenders dug tunnels and prepared for renewed attacks.
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Tokyo
George C Marshall
Chorwon
Marshall
Red
China
United Nations
Matthew B Ridgway
Ridgway
James A van Fleet
Fnday
Korea
Frank F Everest
5Th Air Force
Acheson Denies Knowledge of Marshall Korea Trip
Secretary of State Acheson told the Senate inquiry he did not know Secretary Marshall planned to visit Korea. Senator Wiley pressed for clarity on cabinet coordination as MacArthur tensions rise. Acheson defended his continuous work, noting no reason Marshall should have telephoned about his trip. Ridgway was recalled for consultation.
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Washington
Acheson
Senate
MacArthur
Defense Marshall
Korea
Wiley
R Wis
Mac _Arthur
Marshall
Shidoos
Japan
Ridgway
Beef Price Rollback Will Break Market Kraschel Believes
Harlan Iowa former Iowa governor Nelson Kraschel warns that a beef price rollback will break the market for live fat cattle. He urges curtailing authority of the price stabilization office and reviewing the quota system for packers. He owns about 500 cattle in Iowa feed lots and says his remarks aim beyond his own interests.
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Harlan
Nelson
Kraschel
Iowa
Office of Price Stabilization
Taft Calls Acheson Korea Policy a Perfect Fraud
Senator Taft labeled Secretary Acheson’s Korea policy a perfect fraud and demanded his resignation. He criticized a 1949 Formosa document as misrepresenting its importance, warned that a 38th parallel ceasefire would hand Korea and Formosa to communists, and said such steps would allow renewed red aggression and a return to the pre June position.
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Washington
Taft
Ohio
Acheson
Korea
Formosa
Paft
State Department
Senate
GOP
38Th Parallel
Methodists Pick Bluffs for 1952 Conference Site
Delegates to the Iowa Des Moines Methodist conference chose Broadway Methodist church in Council Bluffs as the site for the 1952 conference. About 20 ballots elected five ministerial and five lay delegates, including Rev Lauren D Thomas of Burlington and lay members Paul G Williams of Villisca and Mrs. 3 Woods of Woodbine.
California universities accused of communist infiltration
California legislative investigators charged that the communist party has infiltrated universities, colleges and high schools to recruit and obtain secrets. The 291 page report targets UC Berkeley and UCLA, notes loyalty oath support, cites a UCLA student death as alleged evidence, and warns of communist front groups operating through campus faculty and youth organizations.
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Sacramento
Calif
Communist Party
California
Senate Committee On un-American Activities
University of California
Edward Tolman
UCLA
R E. Combs
Visalia
Los Angeles
Everitt Hudson
Hudson
Berkeley
Stanford
University of Southern California
Young Swimmer Leukemia Victoraat Remains Hopeful
In Reseda California four year old Dennis McShane, once a child swimming prodigy and social security earner, now battles leukemia with doctors giving six months to two years to live. His early life included public swims, Rose Parade appearances, and a movie part, while his cocker spaniel Mugsy stays by his side.
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Reseda
Calif
Dennis McShane
Pasadena
Dennis
Mugsy
Picnic Weather This Weekend
Weekend forecast says picnic weather with Friday night thundershowers. Saturday will be partly cloudy and near 72, Sunday clear and mild. Des Moines Weather Bureau notes cooler than normal temperatures, with half to one inch rainfall expected this week and pockets reporting over an inch.
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Weather Man
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Ames
Oskaloosa
Tracy
Jefferson
Two Southwest Jowans Named at DAV Meet
Two Southwest Jowans were named committee chairmen at the Disabled American Veterans department of Iowa convention Friday at Davenport. Mrs May Swift of 105 South Twenty third street is history chairman for the auxiliary, and Vic Hansen of Atlantic is chairman of the rehabilitation, claims, hospitalization and civil service committee.
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Disabled American Veterans Department of Iowa
Davenport
May Swift
South T Twenty-third Street
Auxiliary
Vic Hansen
Atlantic
Rehabilitation
Sheaffer Holds Line Against Dealers Violating Prices
Fort Madison Iowa dealers receive notice from W A Sheaffer Pen that no merchandise will be shipped to any dealer in a fair trade state who does not adhere to the company price policies.
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Fort Madison
W A Sheaffer Pen Company
Burglars Enter 3 More Places
Burglars struck during the night and Friday morning prompting police to investigate three break ins of local businesses. Wallys tavern on Highway 275 had its front door glass broken at 4am and $2395 in change taken from a cigar box. Amerco Feed and Milling on Seventh Avenue saw a badly battered yet unopened office safe moved after attackers used chisels and an axe. only minor items appeared missing. Standard 611 company bulk Plant at Fourth Street and Sixteenth Avenue reported a rear window breach with drawers ransacked and a gum machine emptied of pennies.
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Larry Brugenhemke
Russell Leonhardt
Wally
Highway 275
Wallace Forbis
Glen Vavenue
Amerco Feed and Milling Company
Seventh Avenue
611 Company l
Fourth Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Revival Charge Against Muccio Surfaces in Senate Inquiry
In Washington a charge resurfaced that Ambassador John Muccio once said the United Nations were not fighting communism if Korea was revived. Secretary Acheson testified Muccio called the report entirely incorrect, while Senator Bridges pressed that Rep Hugh Scott forwarded letters repeating accusations Muccio tried to persuade that the U.S. was not fighting communism. Acheson praised Muccio as a fine department officer but warned dismissal if proved he expressed thoughts disloyal to policy.
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Washington
John Muccio
United Nations
Korea
Senate
MacArthur
Acheson
Muccio
Bridges
Hugh D Scott
Mucelo
Scott
Iowa Traffic Deaths Reported by Associated Press
Report from June 8, 1950 notes Iowa traffic fatalities with brief details. Police and local officials reported trends and leading causes, urging caution on roads during peak travel periods.
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Iowa
Irving Indicted in Labor Fund Probe
Kansas City reports that Leonard Irving congressman from Truman’s home district was named in two federal grand jury indictments. He faces charges over use of labor union funds in the 1948 election campaign.
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Kansas City
Leonard Irving
Congress
President Truman
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