George Wants a Strong Man for President
Senator George of Georgia urges voters to elect in November a strong one term president who will cut spending and avoid politics as the country faces potential deficits and rising taxes. He weighs Eisenhower, MacArthur, and party platforms while noting he has not decided on a candidate.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Georgia
Favorie Sun
Dixie
Truman
Policie
Icorge
Dee S
Dwight "D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Chicago
Alx
Jils
Columbia University
Robert A. Catt
Ily Bla
Republiite
Taft
Douglas MacArthur
Senate Appropriations Committee
Ohio
ISC Officials Probe Alleged Kidnaping
Ames report says Iowa State College investigated an alleged kidnapping of a student fraternity member. The college government committee, led by deans from agriculture, home economics, engineering, veterinary medicine and industrial science, will conduct a thorough inquiry. James C. Greer of Detroit was the kidnapped victim, subjected to a 300 mile auto ride and left near Warsaw Missouri. He returned to Ames and expressed regret that the prank involved the fraternity and caused trouble.
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Warsaw
Ames
Weather forecast for Council Bluffs and region
Partly cloudy Tuesday with little temperature change. High near 80. Town area: Tuesday fair and somewhat warmer with highs 72 to 78. Nebraska: Partly cloudy Tuesday, slightly warmer in the west. Total precipitation 6.92 inches, total deficiency 1.25 inches.
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U. 5. Weather Bureau
Council Bluffs
Nebraska
Lewis Facing New Charges in Taft-Hartley Case
A unfair labor practice complaint was filed against John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers by the National Labor Relations Board. Charges allege refusal to bargain with the Southern Coal Producers association and coercion of an employer in choosing a bargaining representative. A hearing in Washington is set for June 8 before a strict examiner to prove the charges.
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John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Southern Coal Producers’ Association
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Association
Lewis
UMA
Moody
Taice
Denham
Astrict
Washington
Strikers Return to Their Old Jobs in Chicago
Hundreds of packinghouse workers resumed duties at Armour Swift and Cudahy plants as the 70 day UPWA strike ended. Most workers returned with three rejections for acts during the strike sent to arbitration. Sioux City plants began full operation with hiring speeding up and livestock receipts moderating.
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Sioux City
Armour, Swift
Cudahy
United Packinghouse
John Davidehik
UPWA
Swift
Armours
Swift and Company
Armour and Company
Armour
Father of 35 Flees Newsmen After Triplets Born
In New York a 63 year old man left reporters after his 34 year old wife gave birth to triplets. He has fathered 35 children with four wives, including four sets of twins from the first and 23 children from second and third wives. The couple’s meal is described as chaotic, with the father once a circus trapeze performer now a hotel kitchen worker.
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New York
Anthony Dupre
Luther College professor dies in his sleep after heart attack
Decorah Iowa. Donald J Larson associate professor of music at Luther College was found dead in his room Sunday night from a heart attack. He had been scheduled to accompany singer Marjorie Meyer Steen at a concert in Luther Gymnasium before his death.
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Decorah
Donald J. Larson
Luther College
Larson
Marjorie Meyer Steen
Luther Gymnasium
Brannan Named to Succeed Anderson
Charles Franklin Brannan was nominated to be secretary of agriculture, succeeding Clinton P. Anderson who resigned May 10 to run for the New Mexico senate. Brannan, a Colorado native, is currently assistant secretary. The president also nominated Frieda Hennock to the Federal Communications Commission, to succeed Clifford J. Durr. she would become the first woman appointed to the commission for a seven year term starting July 1.
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Washington
Charles Franklin Brannan
Brannan
Senate
Colorado
Clinton P. Anderson
New Mexico
Frieda’. Hennock
New York City
Federal Communications Commission
Hennock
Clifford J.durr
Miss Hennock
Commission
Alan J Gould Calls Current World Events The Biggest Story
AP executive editor Alan J Gould, in a NBC centenary program, says today’s world events may be the biggest story of the century. He notes AP’s duty to cover this evolving global drama for over 3,000 member newspapers and stations.
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New York
Alan J. Gould
Associated Press
NBC
America
Marcon
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gould
Sioux City Woman Seeks Legal Death Declaration for Missing Husband
In Sioux City, Ola Boyd petitions court to declare her long missing husband Charles Johnson legally dead and to recover $520 in insurance premiums paid to Metropolitan Life and $492 in anticipated death benefits. She contends Johnson disappeared in 1927, with only a rumor of death in Denver. she remarried seven years after the disappearance and her second husband died three years ago.
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Sioux City
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Charles Johnson
Arrests Made in Gambling Raid at South Sixth Street
Eleven persons were arrested in a Sunday gambling raid led by Sheriff Jack Tyler at 23 South Sixth Street. Mrs Mary Tate and Mary Smith faced disorderly house charges with bonds set at 100 dollars. nine others were freed on 10 dollar bonds. The raid yielded a poker table, eight decks of cards, chips and liquor, with a cash box found empty. Suspects listed include Argher, Hall, Andrews, Jones, Griffin, Mildred Brown, Brown, Maude Brown, and Margaret Ross.
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South Sixth Street
Mary Tate
Mary Smith
Goodrich Hotel
Liberty
Jack Tyler
Tyler
Tate
Charles Mertiam
E. H. Rath
L. C
Nelson
J. L. Schweer
G. A. Jarsgensen
A. W. Hooker
Tom Argher
Eighth Avenue
J. S. Hall
Onawa
Irwin Andrews
Thirty Ninth Street
Omaha
Frank Jones
Avenue B
Joyce Griffin
Fifth Avenue
Mildred Brown
Third Avenue
Brown
Twenty-second Street
Maude Brown
Margaret Ross
Parks Avenue
Fort Madison Mother Faces Murder Charge
Fort Madison in 4A: Kathryn Kisling is charged with murder for smothering her two year old daughter Karen while under the influence of sleeping pill overdose. County Attorney Robert Johnson said Kisling despondent over ill health apparently took the pills Saturday. Karen would have turned two July 10.
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Fort Madison
Robert Johnson
Johnson
Kathryn Kisling
Karen
Floyd County Sheriff Seizes Nine Punchboards
Floyd County Sheriff B F Atherton seized nine punchboards and a cigarette machine from three cafes at Floyd six miles north of Charles City Saturday night. The action followed inspections by authorities addressing illegal gambling devices.
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Charles City
B. F. Atherton
Floyd
Here
Two War Surplus Chapels to Be Sold by WA
In Kansas City and Sioux City two World War II surplus chapels at municipal airports are being offered for disposal by the War Assets Administration. The parcels are listed for sale as government surplus through WA channels.
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Kansas City
Tywo- Sur
Sioux City
Tayares
War Assets Administration
President Truman to Speak Five Times on Cross Country Train Trip
The White House said on Monday that President Truman will deliver five major speeches during a June cross country train trip. Speeches are planned in Chicago Omaha Seattle Berkeley Calif and Los Angeles with extemporaneous remarks from the train platform. The trip departs Washington June 3 with a 9 p.m. Chicago time address at Chicago Stadium on June 4 from prepared scripts lasting 15 to 20 minutes.
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White House
Truman
Chicago
Omaha
Seattle
Berkeley
Calif
Los Angeles
Chicago Stadium
Ajl
New Efforts to End Auto Strike Face GM and Chrysler
Detroit reports Gov. Kim Sigler moved quickly to restart talks between CIO UAW and Chrysler after 13 days on picket lines. An accord on wage demands emerged as meetings are planned for Wednesday at the governor’s Detroit HQ. Meanwhile GM labor leaders threaten a possible strike as the UAW-CIO contract nears expiration.
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Detroit
Kim Sigler
Chrysler Corporation
CIO
United Auto Workers
Chrysler
Sigler
Uaw-Cio
Taters
Emil. Mazey
Cadillac
Norman Matthews
Robert Conder
John Leary
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
Thirteenth Applicant for Superintendent Post Named
Des Moines teacher Narold W Martin is the thirteenth applicant for the school superintendent post. School Board President Thomas McMillen said Monday that Rochester Minnesota drew 90 applications when its opening occurred. A decision here is expected before June 9.
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Martin
Des Moines
Thomas McMillen
Lawrence . Siersbeck
City of
Rochester
Minn
McMillen
Must Bills Pose Problem for Congress
A thick stack of must bills looms as GOP leaders plan to adjourn June 18. Senators may take extra hours and night sessions to push through controversies. A top Republican senator reportedly carries an anti-poll tax amendment, risking a southern Democratic filibuster. The Senate resumes debate on the farm appropriation while other measures include oleo tax repeal, draft, displaced persons, reciprocal trade, atomic tenure, Mundt-Nixon, long-range farm, government pay raises, tidelands, and housing.
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Hackineon
Washington
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Fnances Corporation
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House Rules Committee
David E
Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
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House Agriculture Committees
House Civil Service Committees
Tidelands
Judiciary Committee
Quake Hits Wellington Aftershocks Rattle City
Wellington New Zealand recorded twenty earthquake shocks in a 24 hour period ending Monday morning, announced Ri C Hayes acting director of the Dominion Observatory. Wellington sits at the southern tip of North Island.
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New Zealand
Ri C. Hayes
The
Dominion Observantsry
New ‘Zealand
iNorth Island
Carroll Farmer Kills Wife and Hangs Self
In Carroll In P A a wealthy retired farm couple was found dead in their home Sunday. Coroner J Lawrence Cochran ruled murder suicide after Henry N Heaton 76 slashed his wife's throat in bed then hanged himself in the basement. No motive or note found. Heaton in good health. Mrs Heaton 70 had recent surgery. Son Roy, the couple's only survivor, found the bodies.
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P.A
J. Lawrence Cochran
Tom J. Finegan
Henry N. Heaton
Heaton
Broadening Labor Law Aims At Non Communist Oath
Rep Landis proposes a non communist oath for management and labor negotiators to broaden Taft-Hartley. The plan would require affidavits from union leaders beyond top officials and would allow firing of subversive workers if listed by the attorney general. He backs expanding the NLRB or boosting its legal staff to speed hearings and supports abolishing the union shop vote.
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Morvis L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Lanitis
R-Ind
Landis
National Labor Relations Board
Senate-House
Attorney General's Office
Ives
Paul M. Herzog
Robert N. Denham
NLRB
Herzog
Denham
Union Shop
S-man
Noted Scientist Wong Wen-hao Confirmed Premier
Nanking reports 59 year old Wong Wen-hao, China's leading scientist, was confirmed Monday as premier amid Chiang Kai shek's surprise choice. The vote was 489 to 94, with lawmakers denying a demand for policy explanations. The move signals power struggles within the government and a reluctant but obedient confirmation.
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Nanking
Wong Wen-hao
China
Chiang Kaishek
Chiang
Chang Chun
Wong
Gypsy Swindlers Fined by Waukon Justice
Three Gypsies were fined in Waukon justice court after attempting to ensnare a 75-year-old man and his wife with hocus pocus to convert $2,500 into $10,000 through a faith healing ruse. Sheriff P. C. Hendrickson said the trio coerced the couple on the street and again the next morning, and were fined $267 for doing business without a license.
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Waukon
P. C. Hendrickson
Waukon Mar
Justice of Peace Court
Arabs Reject UN Cease Fire Demand in Palestine
Arab League officials said they would seek a 36 hour extension and negotiate a truce terms with the United Nations while consultations began in Amman. The Security Council had ordered a noon Monday gun pause as Britain and the United States moved to bridge differences on Palestine. Three Americans died of wounds in Jerusalem and Baalbek, as Lebanon held 69 Jewish detainees amid a shipboard arrest.
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Ahmed Kashabi Pasha
Harold Evans
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Britain
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State Department
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Herbert M. Walker
U. S. Navy
Thomas Gannon
Ba’Albek
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Marine Carp
Haifa
U. S
Omaha Man Drowns In Lagoon While Swimming
Aldaanuna Vase Coddoral Norris L Larson 19 of Omaha Neb drowned Sunday in a wildlife sanctuary lagoon while swimming with another soldier. Larson had been attached to the military air transport service at National Airport.
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Norris L. Larson
Omaha
Neb
Wild Life Sanctuary
Larson
Military Air Transport Service
National Airport
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