CIO Rejects Proposal of Ford Motors
Detroit reports show state police rushed to Highland Park and Detroit to quell CIO UAW violence as Ford proposed eliminating wage differentials to cut costs. The UAW rejected the plan while threatening to press for a national price rollback. The labor conflict involves Ford GM and Chrysler plants and a nationwide wage drive affecting up to half a million workers.
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Detroit
Highland Park
Chrysler Corporation
Sigler
Norman Patterson
Fatterson
CIO
United Auto Workers
America
Ford
Ford Motor Company
UAW
Tard Jocal
Chrysler
General Motors
John §. Bugas
Bugas
Ken Bannon
Ford “T
Congress
Funeral for Eugene H. Kelly in Sioux City
Funeral services for Eugene H. Kelly 61 former owner and publisher of the Sioux City Tribune will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the First Congregational Church in Sioux City following a long illness that caused his death on Saturday night.
Way Cleared for Aircraft Carrier Giant Navy plan approved
A house armed services sub committee unanimously backed a bill to authorize the navy to begin a 65,000 ton giant aircraft carrier. The ship would be the largest yet built, about 50 percent bigger than current carriers, with up to four years for construction. It could launch bombers with atomic capabilities and would require pausing work on 13 unfinished ships to free about 229 million dollars for the new carrier and missile-launch vessels.
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Washington
House
Armed Services
Navy
Artle
Key Men Sought for Iowa Mental Hospitals
Two state board of control members travel to Washington to recruit at least six potential leaders for Iowa mental institutions. Herbert H Hauge and Dr. Charles Graves will search during the American Psychiatric Association meeting. Hopkins notes vacancies in Independence and openings for pathologists and clinical directors across Mt Pleasant Cherokee Clarinda.
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Des Moines
State Board of Control
Washington
Herbert H Hauge
Charles ¢. Graves, Jr
American Psychiatric Association
P. F. Hopkins
Independence Hospital
Mt. Pleasant
Cherokee
Clarinda
Hopkins
Frontier Membership Drive Launches Five Day Push
The Frontier association started a five day membership drive with 100 workers aiming to sell 5,000 membership books at five dollars each. Ted Keller, chairman, said the drive funds a large 4 H show for southwestern Town and a larger Frontier week from August 14 to 22. Each book includes a membership card for two for the price of one at three events, plus 15 ride tickets at Playland and three arena tickets for midget auto races or other events.
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Frontier Association
Ted Keller
Keller
Clifford Johnson
Frontier
Playland Amusement Park
UN Atomic Group Closes Its Labors
The United Nations atomic energy commission decided on Monday to end its two year effort to agree on world atomic control. The vote was 3 to 2 with Russia and Soviet Ukraine voting against the suspension proposed by the United States Britain and France. Western powers called the talks deadlocked and not worth continuing.
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Lake Success
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
Soviet
Ukraine
United States
Britain
France
Commission
Lake Manawa Creek Flood Plan Faces Delay
Lake Manawa and Indian creek are at the center of a proposed 2.5 million flood control project. Iowa State Geologist Hershey has yet to finish a seepage report, and officials warn the plan hinges on proof it will not threaten the lake. Commission members seek data, possible westward channel shifts, and City Council cooperation while weighing the risk to the lake and the tunnel project.
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Lake Manawa-Indian Creek
H. G. Hershey
Iowa City
Frank Mattis
Odebolt
Iowa Conservation Commission
Commission
Indian Creek
Lake Manawa
The
Conservation Commission
Blue Sea
Mattis
Bruce Stifes
Fish and Game Division
Hershey
Army Engineers
Stiles
Ewald Trost
Fort Dodge
Tre B
Council Bluffs
Army
Array
George H. Mayne
Trost
George A. Wilson
Burke Hickenlooper
Mah Army Engineers
Paris Royal Couple Dances at Cabaret Night
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip enjoyed a night off in Paris dancing at a cabaret. Photographers reporters and detectives kept watch as Edith Piaf and her company delivered a command performance into the small hours Monday morning during their France visit.
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Paris
Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Pars
France
Edith Piaf
Weather Summary for Council Bluffs and Vicinity
Partly cloudy Tuesday with little temperature change. high near 85. In Iowa, increasing cloudiness and warmer conditions with scattered thundershowers in the northwest by afternoon or night. scattered showers and mild Tuesday night. Low around 46. High Tuesday near 72 in the northeast and lighter winds. Nebraska forecast mostly cloudy and cooler with late Tuesday activity possible. Total precipitation 6.91 inches with a 0.26 inch deficiency.
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V. A. Weather Bureau
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Nebraska
Union Station Study Committee Named
A five man committee was named by Henry K Peterson to study a union railroad station here. The members are George Peters W P Hughes C W Emarine Carleton H Woodward Jr and Harold Currie all commission members. A joint meeting with the Chamber of Commerce group will be arranged within a week or 10 days. A report is expected at the planning commission's June meeting with Hare and Hare engineers suggesting Ninth avenue and Seventeenth street as the site.
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Henry K. Peterson
Planning Commission
Commission
George Peters
W. P. Hughes
C. W. Emarine
Carleton H. Woodward, Jr
Harold Currie
Hare and Hare
Kansas City
Ninth Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Le Mars Millionaire Rich Schultz Robbed of Safe
Le Mars businessman Herman Schultz 75 a noted Le Mars magnate who started gifting his fortune reported a safe with 124341 in cash missing from his home Saturday night. Sheriff Frank Schuler noted the vault contained 1000 bills and that 86000 in a second safe remained untouched. Schultz found the scene orderly with doors locked and room crowded with furniture, suggesting the thief raised the safe to remove it through a narrow passage. Schultz, planning to distribute much of his fortune to relatives to avoid heavy taxes, owns 42 farms across Iowa Nebraska Minnesota and South Dakota earned from a long life as a farmhand.
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LE Mars
Herman Schultz
le Mars Mllonaire
Frank Schuler
Schultz
Schuler
Scholer
Morse Hoorneman
Plymouth County
Iowa
Nebraska
Minnesota
South Dakota
Israel strikes Lebanon and reports Acre surrender expected
Israel's army said it struck seven miles into Lebanon and destroyed a strategic bridge near Acre. Planes bombed Tel Aviv for third day as Arab forces press in the Negeb and Jordan valley. Haganah reported Egyptian and Arab losses across Nazim Malikya and other fronts. Arab forces flee Acre as Haifa falls, while a Haifa dispatch notes a seven mile raid into Lebanon and bridge destruction.
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James M. Long
Tel Aviv
Israel
Lebanon
Acré
Haganah
Moshe Shertok
Negeb
Jordan
Nazim
Malikya
Damascus
Acre
Palestine
United Nations
Haifa
Ragen Nagure
Hagaiiah
Upper Galilee
Litany River
Merj Uyun
Arab Forces Reach Near Tel Aviv in Palestine Advance
Cairo reports the Arab higher executive committee says Egyptian troops moved within 30 miles of Tel Aviv after advancing at least 34 miles into Palestine. Syrian and Iraqi units joint the Samakh area near the Sea of Galilee as Arabs seize Rotenburg power station and Lydda airport near Tel Aviv.
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Cairo
Arab Higher Executive Committee
Tel Aviv
Palestine
Jewish Agency
Old City
Jerusalem
Arab Volunteer Command
International Red Cross
Middle East
Samakh
Sea of Galilee
Syria
Trans-Jordan
Rotenburg
Yarmuk
Jordan
Abdullah
Lydda
Israel
Qajanjiya
Knox College President Resigns After Short Tenure
Dr Lynnon Brown has resigned the presidency of Knox College in Galesburg Illinois. He held the post since January 1 1947 and announced his resignation at the college.
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Galesburg
Lyndon
Brown
Knox College
Des Moines Woman Kills Invalid Husband With an Ax
Des Moines authorities say Rolla Maxwell, 52, killed her husband with an ax in their home as he sat awake in a chair on Monday morning. She told police she and her husband planned a mercy death pact due to illnesses. Maxwell had previously talked of entering Clarinda state hospital but nothing came of it. The case hinges on whether she planned to die after the killing.
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Des Moines
Floyd Hartzer
Rolla Maxwell
Hartzer
Max
Maxwell
Clarinda State Mental Hospital
Report Filed on Eniewetok Tests
The White House said tests of three atomic weapons at Eniewetok atoll in the Marshall Islands were successful in all respects. A briefing to President Truman reported very substantial progress and called the tests a milestone in atomic development. About 10,000 personnel participated, and results will remain nonpublic.
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Washington
White House
Eniewetok Atoll
Pacific
Atomic Energy Commission
Truman
David E. Lilienthal
Lilienthal
United States Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Marshall Islands
Secretary of National Defense
Atomic Eney Commission
Honolulu
John E. Hull
James S. Russell
Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee
Uilfenthal
State Official Probes Fire at Ottumwa Plant
A deputy from the Iowa fire marshal's office and local Fire Chief Harley McClure investigated a storage building fire at the John Morrell and Company meat packing plant in Ottumwa. The structure, idle since the nine week strike began, held tin cans and barrel linings. Authorities planned to wait for the inspection before stating a cause.
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Ottumwa
Iowa Fire Marshal’s Office
Harley McClure
John Morrell and Company
Soldier Refuses to Leave Russia
United States disclosed that Sgt. James M. McMillin 21 Boulder Colo defied orders to leave Russia. Officials said infatuation with a Russian married woman, an experienced soviet agent, drove the act and no political motive is involved. McMillin served two years with the military attache staff and was due to depart Saturday. The embassy detailed Sunday’s reports and Washington said no steps would be taken to compel his return.
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Washington
United States
Moscow
Russia
State Department
James M. McMijiin
Boulder
Col
McMillin
Galina Dunseva Biconish
John Biconish
Refuses to Believe Her Brother Deserted
Cambridge Mass. Patricia McMillin 19 Radcliffe college sophomore refused Monday to believe her brother an American army sergeant had deserted in Moscow with a Soviet I doubt that this is true Patricia said The state department had given official word but she remained unconvinced Her home is Huntsville arsenal Alabama where she said her father was stationed as a regular army colonel.
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Cambridge
Mass
Patricia McMillin
Radcliffe College
Moscow
Patricia
State Department
Miss McMillin
Huntsville Arsenal
Alabama
Rail Wage Talks to Resume Tuesday in Washington
The White House said labor and management will renew negotiations Tuesday in the railroad wage dispute. Leaders of the three Brotherhoods who organized the strike and government seizure will meet railroad representatives at 10 a.m. CST in the Hotel Statler to seek an agreement to return the railroads to private management.
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Washington
White House
Statler
John R. Steelman
Mayor Bans Guests at City Clubs Amid Slot Machine Crackdown
Mayor George B. Sparks ordered a no guest rule for private and veterans clubs selling liquor or operating slot machines. Police raided the Disabled American Veterans club at 138% West Broadway, seizing seven slot machines and booking 19 people as disorderly. The policy applies seven days a week and excludes wives or sweethearts, but not bar rooms, with clubs warned they must close gaming spaces to guests or face closure for misbehavior.
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George B. Sparks
Disabled American Veterans Club
West Broadway
Sparks
The
Elks, Eagles
Moose
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Ward
Elks Clab
Mayor Sparks
Signs Point to Break in Meat Walkout
Chicago reports a possible shift in the nation wide CIO meat strike as union pickets remain at struck plants while wage talks resume. The union contends the strike stays 100 percent effective, while companies say operations are near normal. A new wage proposal is not confirmed though, and conciliation efforts by Frank Walsh aim to produce progress this week.
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Chicago
CIO
United Packinghouse
U. S
Frank E. Walsh
Youngdahl Cancels Monday Conference in Minnesota
Governor Luther Youngdahl canceled a 3 p.m. Monday meeting with packers and union leaders amid the CIO United Packinghouse Workers strike. He said he would not negotiate with local officials and sought talks with the national negotiator to settle the national dispute in the public interest. Production workers returned to Swift and Armour plants amid guards and ongoing picketing with some passage into Cudahy in Newport across the Mississippi River.
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ST. Paul
Minn
Luther Youngdahl
CIO United Packing+ house
Chicago
Youngdahl
Swift, Armour and Cudahy
National Mediation and Counciliation Service
Governon
Minnesota
Swift and Armour Meat Packing
CIO United Packinghouse
Minnesota National
Cudahy Packing Company
Newport
Mississippi River
Iowans Commissioned in Foreign Service
DES MOTNES, Des Moines three Iowans have been commissioned as foreign service officers by the state department in Washington. The trio are John W Henderson, 38, Des Moines, former news director of the Iowa Daily Press association. Joseph W Belehrad, 30, Cedar Rapids. and Wayne Fisher, 33, Glidden. All are University of Town graduates and veterans of World War II.
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Des Moines
State Department
Washington
John W.henderson
Iowa Daily Press Association
Joseph WA Belehrad
Cedar Rapids
Wayne Fisher
Glidden
University of Town
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George H. Moyner
George Sparks
House Group
Navy Giant
UN Atomic Group
Lake Creek
State
Union Station
Rich LeMars
Knox
Eniewetok
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