Lewis Faces 2 Point Fight on Contracts
Washington reports John L. Lewis heads toward a two point battle with soft coal operators over a new contract. Lewis notified owners he will begin talks May 18 while Southern Coal Producers seeks a new pact to replace the June 30 agreement. Moody claims rights to sit in on pension fund talks, and a court order from April 3 tied negotiations to the pension issue amid prior contempt fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold W. Ward
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Southern Coal Producers Association
Southern Group
Lewis
Joseph E Moody
Dixie
Moody
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Robert N. Denham
Lewis-Moody
Matthew F. McGuire
Sat
UMW
Punch
Nl&b
Des Moines Student Engineer Killed in GE Lab Blast
A 24-year-old student engineer from Des Moines, Lawrence V. Eggers, died from burns and crush injuries after a chemical explosion in a General Electric laboratory on the sixth floor. An assistant, Walter Ruminski of Schenectady, was seriously burned but reported in fair condition. Both men were alone on an Army project not related to atomic research.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenectapy
Des Moines
General Electric
Lawrence V. Eggers
E. J. Senn
Eggers
Walter Ruminski
Schenectady
Assault Case Continued as Victim Remains Hospitalized
Police Judge Emil G Trott extended the assault case until May 21 involving Oscar Anderson 58 and Clifford Kelly 45 who remains hospitalized. Anderson a crippled former steeplejack pleads innocent to assault with intent to murder after Kelly was shot at a restaurant on April 22. County Attorney Jack Whlete requested the delay so Kelly a truck driver could testify.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Emil G. Trott
Oscar Anderson
Clifford Kelly
Anderson
Kelly
Jack C. Whlete
Haganah Claims Arab Invasion Of Palestine Dawn Saturday
Jerusalem dispatch reports Arab nations launched simultaneous invasions into Palestine as British mandate nears end. Haganah said Syrian and Lebanese forces attacked from the north with tanks and armored cars while fighting raged around Jerusalem’s Katamon district and Jaffa. Irgun and British positions faced sporadic clashes as air forces and regional leaders directed actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter L. Davidson
Jerusalem
Holy Land
Palestine
Tel Aviv
Haganah
Cairo
Ibn Saud
Damascus
Syria
Abdullah
Trans-Jordan
Iraq
Katamon
Daniel de Luce
Amman
Lebanon
Manshieh
Jaffa
Irgun
Ish
Beit Dejan
Irgut
Royal Air Force
Jewish Agency
RAF
St. Simon's
Kata‘mon
Sidney Griswold Win Music Events
Griswold and Sidney musicians led Class C-D state music contest prelims in Creston with multiple division 1 saxophone solos. Winners include James Humphrey Griswold Phyllis Musteldt Manning Mary England Elliott and Irene Gordon Sidney among others in tenor saxophone solo and saxophone quartet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Notiparelt
Creston
Griswold
Sidney
Western Iowa
Jim Humphrey
Phyllis Musteldt
Manning
Mary England
Elliott
Irene Gordon
Enor
Acolo
James Bullard
Grand Junction
Amy Lott Miller
Ogden
James Humphrey
Phyllis Mustelat
Maryngland
Telcott
Lake Carlson
Stanton
Beverly Ebner
Auel
HII
Ronald Phillips
Watt Meter
George Paterson
Wood
Ward
Richard Dike
Phyllis Melville Sidney
Vass
Doria Toland
Ayr
Adel
Mr. Ayre
Hantone
Jean Manford
Manilla
Thomas — Burgy Ontanalic
Don Steiibeck
Irlawald
Carol ‘Rhraltkill
Marshaw
Patrica
Judge
Napier
Duane Shurchman
Farragut
William Pierce
Woodward
Pulitzer Prize Awards to Be Known Monday
The Pulitzer prizes for journalism and arts will be announced Monday. Seven journalism awards and one each for musical work, book or history, play, biography, and fiction will be given. Winners receive $500 and newspapers receive medals. Final selections are made by an advisory board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Columbia University
Joseph Pulitzer
St .Louis Post-Dispatch
Old New York World
Jan Advisory Board
Hartley Farm Woman Kittle In Accident Iowa Deaths
Mrs Arthur Bethke a 48 year old Hartley farm resident was killed Friday when her car struck and broke a telephone pole she was alone in the vehicle in Hartley Iowa authorities reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartley
Kittle
Iowa
Associated Press
Arthur Bethke
Housing Battle Halts FHA Loans
The government insuring home loans paused after the Senate failed to extend FHA authority. Field offices were told to stop accepting new applications until further notice. The fight centered on a stopgap through this month versus the TEW long-range plan to extend through March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
FHA
House
Cain
R-Wash
Taft
Ohio
Meat Strikers Sue to Limit Police Activities
A U S union petitions in U S district court seeking to curb Kansas City Kansas police actions during the Cudahy plant strike and requests 200000 in damages from a April 23 melee that injured several strikers. The suit names Mayor Clark E Tucker and Police Captain E H Dahlin. A five man, mayor named fact finding board was dismissed after failed evidence talks, with a Monday hearing set by Judge Arthur J Millett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas . City
Kan
Kansas City
Cudahy
U.S. District Court
United Packing ‘Mouse Workers Union
CIO
Ina
Clark E. Tucker
EH "Dahlin
Tucker
Arthur J. Mellett
Calhoun Declares Senate Bid and Trains Platform
Burlington Republican John N. Calhoun announced his candidacy for the United States Senate at a Town Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon. He backed universal military training and criticized Sen. George A. Wilson for opposing European aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burlington
John N. Calhoun
United States Senate
Calhoun
UPW Spokesmen Cite Union Win Inning Strike Letters
UPW spokesmen report workers across Iowa packing plants may lose reinstatement rights if they do not return by May 10. Union leaders say employees will ignore letters from Iowa Packing Co and Swift and Armony, with Cedar Rapids Wilson & Co also sending notices. In Des Moines 125 workers say they will return. union says no one will. Cedar Rapids picket lines report four truckloads of cattle passing Friday, first since the March 16 strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Des Moines
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Packing Company
Swift and Armony
Wilson and Company
E. F. Kaderavek
Worl
Zeke Geofreddi
United Packinghouse Workers of America
CIO
John Davidchik
UPWA
Wilson
Sioux City Hearing Hears Ruling By Monday
A district court hearing on a Swift and Company injunction against striking United Packinghouse Workers CIO adjourned at 10 p m with Judge Ralph Richard promising a ruling by Monday. Union witnesses testified and both sides praised the testimony. The suit seeks to restrain UPW officers and members of Local 71 from interfering with peaceful picketing at the Swift plant here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
Swift and Company
United Packinghouse Workers
CIO
District
Ralph [Pe ‘Ichard
David F. Loepp
Jesse Hy
Marshall
Respec
Tively
Union
Tocal 71
UPW
Switt
Luck Eludes Students as System Fails Them
In Las Vegas Nevada, Luck finally deserts two university students as a system outage or error disrupts their plans and outcomes. Authorities or campus officials noted the incident affected academic or logistical arrangements, with no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EAS
Vegas
Hope Growing for Averting Railroad Strike
Chicago reports a possible path to avert the nationwide rail walkout set for May 12. Federal mediation chief Frank P. Douglass noted negotiators show genuine intent to settle and may propose recommendations beyond the emergency board report. Direct talks between carriers and three operating unions continue after Friday session with mixed positions, with neither side favoring further arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Federal
National (Railway) Mediation Board
Frank P. Douglass
Emergency Board
Douglass
Apartment Owners Offer Big Bonuses for a Place to Live
Chicago rent ads promise free dentistry refrigerators TVs and other perks as tenants sign 15 percent higher leases. Moving trends show May Day shifts fading as 97 percent of tenants with a large management company renew for longer terms into next January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Weather Summary for Council Bluffs and Nebraska
The U S Weather Bureau notes mostly cloudy skies Saturday afternoon through Sunday with scattered showers Sunday. Highs reach the mid 60s to 70s, lows in the 40s to low 50s. Cooler conditions on Saturday night especially in the northwest and central areas, with warmer trends Sunday in western and central zones. Hourly readings show varied humidity and temperatures from early morning to afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Weather Bureau
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
Callahan Heads Ninth District PTA at Greenfield Conference
Mrs. Edward M. Callahan of Council Bluffs was elected president of the ninth district of the Town and Country PTA at the spring conference in Greenfield. She succeeds Mrs. James Shuman. Officers include Mrs. Wayne Cambrin, Mrs. Weimer Pearson, Mrs. Wayne Burgeson, and Mrs. L. L. Weaver. Delegates to the national convention in Cleveland were Callahan Burgeson Farrell and Caremichael. About 143 women from Greenfield Atlantic Prescott Orient Anita Winterset and Council Bluffs attended. Dr. F. G. Macomber spoke on education. Music featured morning and afternoon performances. Reverend L. L. Bond gave the invocations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenfield
Edward M. Callahan
Fifth Avenue
Council Bluffs
Wayne Burgeson
L. L. Weaver
Atlantic
Lloyd Mumford
Cleveland
Mesdames Callahan
Burgeson
L. D. Farrell
A. J. Caremichael
Adair County
Floyd Osher
Wesley Mitchell
Orient
Barbara Slezak
James Wilmeth
Shirley Graham
L. L. Bond
Presbyterian Church At
May Day Skies Cloud Over Iowa Weather Review
Cloudy skies greet May with forecasts of clearing later. The Iowa weather service reports overcast conditions on Saturday morning and showers possible in the north and east portions. Temperatures expected 46 to 70 degrees with highs near Friday’s 71 and Saturday low around 44 at Atlantic and Decorah. Council Bluffs shows 69/48.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
Atlantic and Decorah
Council Bluffs
Mayne and Peterson to Decorah Meet for Flood Control
City Solicitor George H Mayne and John LeRoy Peterson will meet with the Iowa conservation commission at Decorah on Monday to discuss the local flood control program. They plan to leave Sunday afternoon by automobile. Nine and three quarters acres of state owned lands are needed as right of way for the proposed new Indian Creek channel extending south from Twenty ninth avenue to the river, with the conservation commission holding control of the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Mayne
John LeRoy Peterson
Right Of-Way Commission
Iowa
Conservation Commission
Decorah
Indian Creek
Ninth Avenue
River
May Day Splits Across Global Communist West
Athens martial law declared after an assassination attempt on Minister Christos Ladas as May Day protests ripple worldwide. Demonstrations in Berlin, Moscow, Warsaw, Vienna, and elsewhere reflect a widening split between communist movements and Western powers, with clashes, rallies, and political condemnations shaping a tense global scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Christos Ladas
Trieste
Rome
Berlin
Henry Rutz
American Federation of Labor
Moscow
Stalin
Red Square
Nikolai Bulganin
UU. 3
Walter B. Smith
Russia
Attlee
Plymouth
Eng
Europe
United States
Warsaw
Poland
Piazza del Popolo
Milan
Italy
Vienna
Sofia
Georgi Dimitrov
Democratic
New York
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Fifth Avenue
Autonomous
Union of Motormen
Frencht/General Confederation of Labor
Russians Parade Before Stalin
Eddy Gilmore reports from Moscow on a May Day parade in Red Square honoring socialism and Stalin. Foreign diplomats watched as Marshal Bulganin praised the armed forces and the Soviet Union's postwar gains while Pravda and Izvestia touted economic progress and self‑reliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Red Square
Stalin
Lenin
U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
Nikolai Bulganin
Russia
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Poland
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Finland
Smith
Maurice Peterson
Robert Macon
Leslie Stevens
Warren Carter
Carter
Eileen
Andrei Vishinsky
Zoom Law
Sréy
Pravda
Communist News
Izvestia
Politburo
Communist Party
Pittsburgh Man Fulfills Wish of Dying Wife
An 85-year-old Pittsburgh man married his late wife’s best friend, 63 year old widow Gladys Havarding, five weeks after his wife asked him to wed her friend to keep her happy. He said the promise fulfilled her dying wish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Martin Goff
Gladys . Havarding
Golf
Gladys
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Bey Bakry
Josephine Roche
Rocky Mountain Fuel Company
Sidney, Griswold
Housing Battle
Sen. Wilson
M.callahan
E. M. Callahan
Mayne
Peterson
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