McKellar Pushes Resign Call At ECA Chief
Senator McKellar blasted ECA head Paul Hoffman on the Senate floor accusing him of trying to bully the appropriations committee. Hoffman denied threats and said he would resign only if he believed he could not run the European recovery program. Hoffman urged a 3.568 billion dollar request for the first ten and a half months of the coming fiscal year. Ferguson defended Hoffman while McKellar pressed for cuts and warned Hoffman to resign for the good of the United States and Europe.
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Washington
McKellar
D.-Tenn
ECA
Paul Hoffman
United —— States
Senate Appropriations Committee
Hoffman
Ferguson
United States
Europe
Question Witnesses in Muldoon Slaying
County Attorney E W Adams said he is still questioning witnesses in the killing of William J Muldoon a 35 year old Mason City paint salesman on a Marshall county highway last Monday He will not file an information until his investigation is complete.
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Marshalllivn An
E. W. Adams
William J. Muldoon
Mason City
Marshall County
Switzer nomination surprises Senator Gillette
Senator Gillette says President Truman’s nomination of Carroll O. Switzer to the southern district of Iowa was a great and unpleasant surprise. He notes no consultation and cites a preferred Des Moines choice, while Switzer is noted as a former Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
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Switzer
Gillette
Washington
D-Ta
Truman
Carroll O. Switzer
Des Moines
Iowa
Press Russians for Strike Talks
Western powers pressed Russia in Berlin for weekend talks to resolve the Berlin rail strike tied to the Paris foreign ministers conference, which set a Monday deadline for settlement. If unresolved, the matter goes to the four-power conference. Russia is blamed for hindering rail shipments despite airlift and trucks delivering supplies.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Paris
Russia
Germany
Point Out Babich as Gun Purchaser
Milwaukee witness identifies Milton Babich as the man who bought the gun used in the murder of 16 year old Patricia Birmingham. Prosecutors say Babich killed his wife sister with premeditation then disposed of the body in the river. the defense argues the shooting was accidental.
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Milwaukee
Milton Babich
Patricia Birmingham
Babich
Clerks and Bailiffs Pay Hike Effective May 13
Des Moines reports that 1949 legislative pay raises for municipal court clerks and bailiffs took effect May 13. Attorney General Oscar Strauss notes the raises apply to clerks and bailiffs in Ames Clinton Burlington Marshalltown Council Bluffs Waterloo Sioux City Des Moines with varied increases from 200 to 500 dollars annually.
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Des Moines
Oscar Strauss
State
Ray E. Johnson
Johnson
Strauss
Ames
Clinton
Burlington
Marshalltown
Council Bluffs
Waterloo
Sioux City
Boys Earn Neat Profit Selling Stolen Worms in Des Moines
Four days saw youths ages 9 to 11 charged with grand larceny for stealing about 19,200 fish worms valued at $400 from Frank Wennerberg, sold at 10 a dozen to bait houses and fishermen. Wennerberg found three boys in act jar to bucket. the bucket had been stolen June 2.
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Des Moines
Ralph Brophy
Police Juvenile Bureau
Frank
Frank Wennerberg
Brophy
Wennerberg
Mrs Chambers on Witness Stand in Hiss Trial
New York report says Mrs Whitaker Chambers testified that she and her husband saw Alger Hiss after January 1, 1937. She corroborated her husband’s claim that papers were handed to him for a red spy ring. she described New Year Eve at the Hiss house and the Chambe rs family friendship including Priscilla Hiss.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
Hiss
State Department
Chambers
Red
Washington
Chambrs
Priscilla
Mrs. Chambers
Des Moines Council Votes Salary Boost
Des Moines city council members voted themselves pay raises under the 1849 legislature. The mayor’s salary rises from 5000 to 7500 dollars and each commissioner’s pay from 4200 to 6300 dollars annually. An appropriations ordinance received first reading to enact the increases.
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Des Moines
May appoint woman to Luxembourg minister post
Mrs Perle Mesta a Democratic party leadership figure and noted social hostess in Washington is expected to be named American minister to Luxembourg. President Truman has decided on her appointment and a nomination to the Senate is anticipated soon to replace Admiral Alan G Kirk who has become ambassador to Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Perle Mesta
Democratic Party
Capital Society
Luxembourg
Truman
Senate
Mesia
Adtg
Alan G. Kirk
Russia
Eugenie Anderson
Minnesota
Denmark
U.S
Mabelle Kennedy
Inside Use Shoe Horn to Pack Schoolrooms
A city school board was told Thursday night that some classrooms are so crowded they resemble being packed with a shoe horn. The report hints at efforts to improve seating and space.
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Board of Education
JuCees
Hal Boyle
Gay Paree
Tucker and associates indicted over marketed rear engine car
Preston T. Tucker and seven associates, including an ex convict, were indicted on 31 counts of mail fraud securities violations and conspiracy. The grand jury spent 12 weeks investigating Tucker and his corporation, which has been under bankruptcy reorganization since March. Penalties could total 155 years in prison and 60 thousand dollars in fines per defendant. The case centers on Tucker’s rear engine automobile project and related promotional claims.
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Chicago
Preston T. Tucker
John P. Barnes
Tucker
Securities and Exchange Commission
Tucker Corporation
Espionage Agent Had Top Contacts in Washington
A secret FBI report intro in the Judith Coplon espionage trial cites a woman who may be a Russian agent with contracts in high places in Washington. It centers on Irina Etimovna Aleksander and notes meetings at a friend’s home with groups of army officers carrying briefcases, tied to a data slip found in Coplon’s purse during arrest with Valentine Gubitchev.
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Washington
FBI
Judith Coplon
Irina
Kaida
Twelve Ousted Doctors Restore Jobs at Milledgeville Hospital
In Milledgeville Georgia twelve doctors who had been ousted regained their posts at the state's large hospital for the insane. Welfare Director Jack Forrester and Deputy Director T A Dechman resigned. The doctors said they would accept reinstatement and return to payroll on Saturday.
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Milledgeville. Ga
Georgia
Jack Forrester
T. A. Dechman
Forresters
Dechman
President Truman to attend 35th division reunion in Little Rock
President Truman flies Friday to Little Rock to rejoin Battery D 129th field artillery veterans for a reunion. He will have breakfast with mates Saturday and deliver a 2:30 p.m. Saturday address highlighting wartime bonds. Flight aboard Independence DC-6 departs 11:30 a.m. CST. he returns to Washington after the talk.
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Washington
Taman
Little Rock
129Th Field Artilery
France
Acheson
Paris
Senate
Truman
White House
Arkansas
Alcohol Plants Pose a Problem in the Midwest
Agriculture official John I. Thompson said Congress may decide the fate of three government owned grain alcohol plants in Omaha Nebraska Muscatine Iowa and Kansas City Missouri as leasing firms exhaust all options to keep them operating. The plants are closed and spokesmen urged government to maintain operation while the Senate Agriculture subcommittee reviews surplus crop use.
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Washington
Congress
Midwest
Agriculture Department
John I. Thompson
Omaha Neb
Muscatine
Kansas City
Omaha
Senate Agriculture
Ella Raines Heads to London for Barbecue Plans
Actress Ella Raines leaves Friday for London to join her husband Maj. Robin Olds in England. She travels with 20 frozen steaks a case of avocados and three cases of beer to host a barbecue for British friends.
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Hollywood
Ella Raines
London
Maj
Robin Olds
England
Ella
Film Capital Buzzes Over Engagement In Hollywood
Hollywood buzzed Friday over an engagement between Mrs. Nancy Hawks and theatrical producer Leland Hayward. Nancy Hawks is regarded as one of the world's best dressed women.
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Hollywood
Film Capital
Nancy Hawks
Leland Hayward
Small Girl Loses Blonde Curls to Theater Snipper
Seven year old Mary Witthauer and siblings were at the Strand theater when a man about 30 seated near them snipped off Mary’s curls. He lured her away for snacks, then seized and sliced all but one lock before vanishing. Police seek a tan trousers wearing man with dark hair and eyes.
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Mary Witthauer
Owen Witthauer
South Seventh Street
Strand Theater
Polie
Mary
Sally
Roy
USDA Boosts Wheat Crop Prediction
The agriculture department forecasts this year’s wheat crop at 1.336 billion bushels, the second largest on record, up 25 million from last month. Winter wheat is 1.037 billion bushels and spring wheat 300.235 million, with year ago figures and 10 year averages noted for context.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Check Shipments Vandenberg Calls for Stricter Safeguards
Senator Vandenberg urges a close military check before sending atomic materials abroad including to Norway. He asks the Maison committee, with Army Navy and Air Force officers, to preapprove Atomic Energy Commission decisions affecting isotope shipments to a Norwegian research division.
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Washington
Vandenberg
R-Mich
Michigan
Maison Committee
Atomic Energy Commission
Maison
Army
Navy
Air Force
David E. Lillenthal
Atomic Energy Agency
Norway
Will Ask Council to Study Zoning Plan
The city Council will be asked to study a long range zoning plan now in the hands of the city planning commission. In a Friday resolution the Chamber of Commerce recommends the plan be presented to the council immediately. Ted Keller, a Council Bluffs industrialist, announced plans to move his firm to Kansas City, Missouri, prompted by recent council action permitting a class B spot classification in a class A zone. The plan will be in ordinance form as recommended by Hare and Hare, Kansas City planning engineers, who have worked with the planning commission for two years.
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Leity Planning Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Ted Keller
Council Bluffs
Kansas City
Hare and Hare
Planning Commission
Recruited as Red by Atom Scientist
Robert Davis, wartime employee at a West Coast atomic laboratory, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that he was recruited into the Communist Party by atomic scientist Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz. Davis, now in New York, attended two or three Communist meetings while at UC Berkeley’s Radiation Laboratory, where Lomanitz also attended.
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Washington
Robert Davis
Atomic Laboratory
Communist Party
Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz Davis
New York
House UN- American Activities Committee
University of California At Berkeley
Lomanitz
Special Council Meeting Called by Mayor Sparks
Mayor George B. Sparks issued a call for a special council meeting at 9 a m Monday to clear the city's backlog of business. City Clerk Albert E. Peterson said councilmen also have items set for a 7 30 p m meeting that day, with an all day possibility.
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George B. Sparks
Albert E. Peterson
Norwegian Nobel Author Sigrid Undset Dies in Lillehammer
Oslo reports the death of Nobel Prize winning author Sigrid Undset on a Friday in Lillehammer Norway. The notable writer known for her acclaimed novels died at age and was celebrated for her contributions to literature.
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Oslo
Norway
Senator Eastland Shouts at Baldwin in Bitter Senate Session
Washington confrontations erupted as Senator Eastland dismissed C. B. Baldwin from the witness chair. Baldwin, Wallace campaign manager, refused to confirm party membership and accused Eastland of fighting Negro rights while denouncing the cotton council. Both men, about in their forties, remained nonphysical.
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Senator Eastland
Wallace
Washington
Eastland
D.-Miss
C. B. Baldwin
Henry Wallace
Senate
Baldwin
Communist Party
Estland
Farm Security Administration
Cotton Council
Brannan Plan Faces Sharp GOP Attacks in Congress
The Brannan farm plan drew heavy Republican fire in both houses as the administration prepared to promote it in the Midwest. GOP lawmakers accused Agriculture Secretary Brannan of political maneuvering around a grain loan program under a new commodity credit corporation bill while Senator Williams and Rep. Andresen charged him with affecting grain price support. Brannan told reporters supporters would not be swayed by the attacks.
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Washington
Brannan
Midwest
House
Senate
Nebraska
Capitol
Commodity Credit Corporation
August Andresen
Rminn
Des Moines
Andregen
Wilams
R-Del
Frankie Frisch Named Cubs Manager for Next Three Years
Boston reports Philip K. Wrigley announced Frankie Frisch former New York Giants coach will manage the Chicago Cubs for three years. Frisch to take over the club Monday as Grimm is reassigned to a front office post within the Cubs.
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Boston
Philip K. Wrigley
Frankie Frisch
New York Giants
Chicago Cubs
Frisch
Grimm
Cubs
Methodist group rejects Atlantic Pact in Iowa report
The Iowa-Des Moines conference of Methodists adopted a report opposing the Atlantic Pact, labeling it not a peaceful and curative plan for world order. The session was held in Muscatine on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Iowa-Des Moines
Senate fights over Taft-Hartley repeal and coal strike
The Senate prepares for a heated debate on repealing Taft-Hartley provisions as senators Humphrey Murray and Neely outline amendments. John L. Lewis plans a coal strike amid tense talks on national emergency powers, while Truman labels Lewis a headline hunter and pushes to end court-ordered strikes under the law.
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Washington
Senate
Humphrey
D-Minn
Murray
D-Mont
Neely
Truman
John L. Lewis Han
Congress
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Ims
T H
90 Degree Readings Forecast for Weekend Weather
The forecast predicts a rise to near 90 degrees by Saturday with mostly sunny skies and mild conditions Friday night. Friday’s high reached 80, cool June weather gave way to climbing temperatures, and several Iowa cities reported readings near 80 on Saturday morning.
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Mercury
Council Bluffs
Weather Bureau
Burlington
Dubuque
Mason City
Iowa City
Davenport
Fort and Spencer
Onawa
Atlantic
Newsmen Wing Over City in Navy's Constitution
Aboard the Constitution, reporter C W McKonamy describes the Navy’s Lockheed airship on a cross country flight from Minneapolis to Kansas City. The 92 ton monarch features a 189 foot wingspan and two decks with 92 upper deck seats and space for up to 76 on the tow deck. The crew notes lounges, galleys and advanced engineering as eight newspaper and radio staff accompany the trip.
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C. W. McKonamy
The
Constitution
Council Bluffs
Kansas City
Navy
Minneapolis
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