Guard Units Are Being Filled Fast in Iowa
Local and southwest Iowa National Guard units may be filled by Thursday night as recruiting surges. In 24 hours at least 20 new members joined the 168th Infantry in Council Bluffs and nearby companies. State officials report a large reduction in authorized strength, with total Iowa guard numbers possibly reaching about 7,000 in peacetime, though funding limits constrain expansion.
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Iowa National Guard
168Th Infantry
Pye
Iowa
Iien
Ind L
Th G. Andersen
Den
Charles J, Graht
State’ Adjutant General
Bernie Rollan
Seryvice Company
Stradkquiarters
Associated Press
State Guard
Tawa
Sats
County Bluffs
Thas
Atantle
Clarinda
Gurning
Auduedni
Glenwuel Red Oak
Denison
Southsw
Back-to-farm Movement Ends in Postwar Shift
The Department of Agriculture reports 27.44 million people on farms in January, down from 27.59 million a year earlier. The trend follows demobilized veterans and civilians returning to farm work after the war, with declines seen across the prior two years.
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Washington
War veteran predicted to lead Iowa VFW Sunday
Officers of the Iowa Veterans of Foreign Wars forecast a World War II veteran will become state commander. Toni Nelson of Dubuque, currently senior vice commander, was quoted as saying the veteran would save virtually no operation concerns as the selection approached.
Inside Street Cars Still Run Despite City Holdback
Directors of the Cornell Bluffs street railway state trams will continue to run until city controllers halt them. The piece mentions page 2. Other notes reference disaster responses, Neola merchants, and Navy Salts jokes with Lt. Com Menster, plus a Fourth of July crop note and stories across pages 10 and 19.
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Cornell Bluffs Street Railway
Tralleys
Ctlcrats
Gmail
Sehlerbrock Brothers
Neola
Navy Salts
W. J. Menster
South Role Padre
Yis
Father
Sond
Towe
Butter Promoted to Ames Position
John C. Butter, district engineer, is promoted to administrative engineer for the Town state highway commission. The change, announced by Chief Engineer Fred R. White of Ames, takes effect after Coykendall resigns. Butter will move to Ames around July 20 and will be located there.
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John C. Butter
Town
State Highway Commission
Fred R. White
Ames
Butter
Coykendall
R. Z. Merrill
Council Blufs
Merrill
Clyde Reid
Commission
Council Bluffs
Cowners Blutfs
Butters
Locust Lodge
Methodists Endorse Local Option Law at Conference
Cedar Rapids educator Dr Marvin B Kober is slated to head the Upper Town Methodists board of education following a nominating committee report. The conference also voted support for a local option beer law and endorsed temperance league efforts amid reorganizations.
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Muunt Vernon
Marvin B. Kober
Cedar Rapids
Upper Town
The
Methodist Church
Halliday
Rober
Arthur J. Kindred
Marshalltown
Ina
Jong Temperance League
Scranton Pilot Killed in Detroit Air Crash
DETROIT—A mid air collision of two naval reserve fighters Wednesday afternoon caused fires in three blocks and a factory, killing Ensign J. Nicholson 25 of Scranton and Ensign Roy E. Schultheiss 24 of Port Huron. The navy opened an inquiry as witnesses recalled the spectacular accident. Both pilots were Michigan State College students.
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Detroit
Navy
Naval Reserve
Michigan State College
C. §. Cooper
Grosse Tle Naval Air Station
Nicholson
Scranton
Roy E. Schultheiss
Port Huron
Mich
Des Moines Parade Opens Hawk Eye Holidays Celebration
An estimated 120,000 people watched the opening parade through downtown Des Moines. The long procession featured floats bands and National Guard equipment as part of the Hawk Eye holidays celebration.
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Des Moines
Westinghouse Increases Pay for Salaried Workers
Westinghouse Electric announces wage increases for salaried employees ranging from 16.47 to 40 monthly under an agreement with independent unions. The move, disclosed Thursday, signals a bargaining outcome affecting Pittsburgh operations and employee compensation.
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Westinghouse
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Soviets Halt Power and Rail Freight in West Berlin
Berlin tensions rise as Soviet actions halt power from the Soviet zone and block rail shipments from western Germany. Gen Lucius D. Clay warns no action short of war will remove Americans from Berlin. British suspend Ruhr coal and steel shipments in response. US halts intermoral trade. Soldiers in helmets patrol the American sector as the city takes on a warlike atmosphere.
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Berlin
Lucius D. Clay
Clay
Heidelberg
Germany
Bavaria
Ruhr
United States
Cabinet Ministers Resign in Israel
Tel Aviv reports two cabinet ministers resigned amid the Altalena arms ship crisis connected to the Irgun actions. Jewish sources say Peter H Bergson of New York and Monroe Fein of Chicago were arrested as government forces made arrests in a string of actions.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Irgun Zvai Leumi
Ingiin
Altalena
Peter H. Bergson
New York
Hebrew Committee of National Liberation
Monroe Fein
Chicago
Truman Signs Bill to Expand Navy
President Truman signed a law carrying 3,749,059,250 dollars to maintain and expand the navy and marine corps for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The measure funds the start of construction for a 5,000-ton aircraft carrier estimated at 127,000,000 dollars, to be the largest of its kind afloat. Wartime reserves and prior appropriations give the navy over 5,000,000,000 dollars to spend in the next 12 months.
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Washington
Truman
Navy
Marine Corps
Bright Sun Sparks Hope For Fight Night In New York
A sunny morning raised hopes that the Jos Louis versus Jersey Joe Walcott bout would proceed as planned at 8 p.m. CST at Yankee Stadium after a Wednesday rain delay. Weather brightens anticipation for the boxing card set in New York.
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New York
Jos Louis-Jersey
Joe Walcott
Yankee Stadium
PROBE raps school board over superintendent interviews
The PROBE group accuses the school board of failing to hold public interviews with the top six superintendent candidates. Don Filbert says a public session is needed. board president McMillen says no interviews will be held, though some candidates have spoken with members individually. Russell Maurer from Missouri Valley is seen as a strong contender. PROBE says letters were sent to the six candidates inviting interviews, but some replied they were not invited.
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Peoples Representatives of Ballet Education
PROBE
Don Filbert
Filbert
Thomas McMilien
McMillen
Russell J. Maurer
Whssouri Valley
Ciitizens
U S Requests Return of Greek Children in Refugee Case
The United States urged communist controlled nations of eastern Europe to return 10 000 to 14 000 Greek children allegedly kidnaped by Greek guerrillas. Albania Yugoslavia Romania Hungary Czechoslovakia Poland were named as destinations. Gen Markos Vafia des said on May 26 that 10 000 had been sent abroad as refugees.
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Wasiltington
United States
Eastern Europe
Greece
State Department
Albania
Bukavia
Yugoslavia
Romania
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Markos Vafiades
Welle Wins Hawkeye Girls State Governorship
Joan Welle of Newton was elected governor of Hawkeye Girls State representing the federalistic party on Thursday. Joan Connolly of Council Bluffs was named superintendent of public instruction.
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Urinnell
Joan Welle
Newton
Hawkeye Girls State
Federalistic Party
Joan Connolly
Council Bluffs
Plan Hearing on Recount Request Involving County Attorney
Two hearings are planned on the recount request by County Attorney Don Jackson, who was defeated in the June Republican primary by Andarew J. Nielsen. The board hired Raymond A. Smyth as special counsel. Jackson recused himself. Nielsen seeks an injunction to block the recount, with district court action set for Monday.
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Board of Supervisors
Don Jackson
Jackson
Andarew J. Nielsen
Council Bluffs
Raymond A. Smyth
Smith
Nielsen
Nielsens
Clarence Churchman
John Seat
Underwood
Smith Yeplied
Polley
Coal Operators Ready New Pact With John L. Lewis
Soft coal operators signaling agreement to a new contract with John L. Lewis propose a day wage boost and doubling of the welfare pension fund levy. The plan adds about 12% to wages, raising eight hour day pay from 13.08 to 14.05 dollars and hourly from 1.43 to 1.756 dollars. The welfare fund uses a 10 cent per ton royalty paid by consumers, having raised 45 million dollars last year.
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Washington
Steel Company
John L. Lewis
Pension
Welfare Fund
Nine Drowned as Oklahoma Floods Ravage State
Oklahoma flood disaster leaves nine dead and about 3000 homeless across eastern Oklahoma towns. Highways blocked as Deer Creek floods peak near Hydra and Okmulgee, with guards patrolling for looters and roads cut off. A Greyhound bus and many vehicles swept into the torrent, and rescue crews pressed walkie talkies to locate survivors.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Whitefield
Deer Creek
Okmulgee
Okmulgee Creek
Hydra
Greyhound
Convention Hall Nomination Hurricane After 7 Hours
Philadelphia dispatch describes a seven hour nomination session at the Republican convention where furious shouting wore the crowd down to a whisper. Delegates cheered MacArthur in a hall littered with confetti and debris as voices named Dewey Taft Warren Stassen Baldwin Vandenberg and MacArthur faded into fatigue.
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Convention Hall
Hal Boyle
Philadelphia
Thomas E. Dewey
Douglas MacArthur
Dewey
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Bay State
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Walter
Hallanan
West Virginia
Saltonstan
Harold E. Stassen
Kentucky
Washington
Utah
Stassen
Lodge
Arthur van
Dewey Narrowly Trails Nomination on Second Ballot
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey surged to 515 delegate votes on the Republican convention's second ballot, 38 shy of the 548 needed. Taft 274, Stassen 149. Connecticut switching to Dewey, anti-Dewey forces considering recess, and talks of Dewey’s possible vice presidential pick swirl asering shifts occur amid last-minute maneuvering.
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Gov
Dewey
Taft
Stassen
Convention
Philadelphia
Thomas E. Dewey
James Duff
Pennsylvania
Robert A. Taft
New York
Charles Halleck
Indiana
Robert E. McCormick
Chicago
Robert Taft
Ohio
Halleck
McCormick
Massachusetts
West Virginia
Leverett Saltonstall
Iowa Delegates Split As Dewey Leads On Ballots
Wells and Walters of Iowa back Governor Dewey from the first ballot, with Gillilland likely joining on the second. Iowa Republicans vote against a public poll, and 23 Iowa votes split on the first ballot: Dewey three, MacArthur two, Stassen thirteen, Taft five. On the second ballot Dewey gains ten more votes to lead with thirteen. MacArthur one, Taft two, Stassen seven.
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Philadelphia
Warren Wells
Council Bluffs
Roland Walters
Lenox
Iowa
Gov
Dewey
New York
Whitney Gillilland
Glenwood
Stassen
Gillilland
Wels
Walter
Walters
MacArthur
Taft
Wage Agreement Reached With Harvester Plants
The United Auto Workers tentatively accepted an 11 cent per hour wage rise for 25,000 members in six International Harvester plants. The agreement, subject to member approval, freezes wages at the new level for two years and bars further bargaining during the contract term.
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Chicago
United Auto Workers’ Union
International Harvester Company
Study Death Sentence Case Attracts Attention
North Dakota district attorney said Thursday the Timothy Iron Bear murder case is receiving attention from the justice department as the South Dakota Indian faces a death sentence after conviction.
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Washington
Timothy Iron Bear
South Dakota
Weather outlook for Council Bluffs and vicinity
Partly cloudy Friday with considerable sunshine and no important temperature changes. Highs Friday in the middle 80s. Showers expected in most sections Friday with little temperature change. Highs Friday 78 to 85 depending on location. total precipitation 9.05 inches and total deficiency 2.77 inches.
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L. S. Weather Bureau
Council Bluffs and Viewmily
S. Tawa
Nebraska
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