Iowa Court Reverses Ruling on Eddy Foster Children
The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously reversed an earlier decision and ruled the American Home Funding Association of Ottumwa could keep the five Eddy children adopted by foster parents from Omaha. The court said adoption proceedings were proper after a year had passed, despite prior welfare actions.
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Eddy
Des Moines
Donald Eddy
Omaha
Neb
Iowa Supreme Court
High Court
Toledo
Foldy
Ottumwa
Kathleen Hastings
Welfare Society
John &. Mulroney
Armistice talks urged as UN casualties rise in Korea
British and allied reports show a spike in casualties from the latest Chinese offensive in Korea. British dead exceed 700 with 1,100 wounded and missing. U.S. totals reach 67,427 casualties with 10,127 dead and 45,889 wounded. South Korean losses climb as April and May fighting intensifies.
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U. S
Korea
U. N
Gloucestershire Regiment
Ethiopia
Africa
New Zealand
Philippines
United States
Republic of Korea
Artillery Close to Key City in Korea Battle
Allied troops moved within artillery range of Chorwon, a target in the Red iron triangle. About 6,000 Chinese troops blocked main U.N. advances from the east while others pressed toward Chorwon Kumbhwa and Pyongyang. U.N. forces pushed through rain slick mud, shrinking the Yondon to Chorwon corridor as fighting continued.
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Chorwon
Iron Triangle
Korea
United Nations
Triangle
U. N
Central
Kumbhwa
Pyongyang
Yonchon-Chorwon
U.N
Yondon
Hwachon
Kumhwa
Hwachon Reservoir
Yanggu
Inje
East Central
China
Red Radio
U S Jets Strike Reds North Korea Front Action Feared
U S Fifth Air Force jets attacked retreating Chinese and North Korean forces south of Kumhwa and near Hwachon. Observers reported about 100 killed or wounded, while the front remained hot with 3 000 enemy troops engaging Allied forces at multiple points.
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U. S
James W. Welcher
Kalona
Iowa
Harold JF. Fisher
Burt
Town
Wallet incident ends with whisky charge for sergeant
Newport News Virginia army Sergeant Mark Sapp found a wallet in the road then tossed it from his car window after noting no owner. Police investigated and found half a gallon of whisky, no registration card, and a court fined Sapp fifty dollars for the whisky. The car was later fixed and registration papers obtained.
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Newport News
Army
Mark Sapp
Atorist
Walle
Sapp
Call on Iowa Legislators For IHSAA Investigation
Des Moines radio station KRNT asks the legislative budget and financial control committee to investigate the Iowa High School Athletic Association over the Couppee ban and related broadcast restrictions. The letter questions news suppression, press freedom, interstate commerce impact, and public policy violations.
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Des Moines
Iowa High School Athletic Association
IHSAA
KRNT
Robert Dillon
A! Couppee
KANT
Wot-Tv
Ames
Radi
Couppee
THSAA
Iowa
U.S
Explosion at Tokyo junk yard kills four
A bomb exploded in a junk dealer's yard near Kyoto today killing four people and injuring three. The device had been found on a beach. A woman waiting to sell three more salvaged bombs was present when the blast occurred.
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Tokyo
Kyodo
Highway 92 May Open In Two Weeks
Illinois highway 92 between the Mississippi bluff and the river bridge may open to transient traffic in about two weeks. P J Malay of Dixon and Vern Kennedy of Pana report steady progress filling three damaged pavement gaps with dirt from borrow pits. A dragline and timber cribbing stabilize the undercut concrete slab. crushed rock surfacing will finish the road for one way traffic over the fills with permanent repairs due this fall.
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Mississippi River
P. J. Malay
Dixon
Vern Kennedy
Pana
Ilinois Division of Highways
Illinois
Dam No. 16
Drury Drainage District
Jobless total drops to postwar low in May
The census bureau reported unemployment fell to 1,609,000 in May, the smallest total since World War II ended in 1945, down 137,000 from April. Employed civilians rose by 1,148,000 to 61,193,000, the highest in six months.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Birth of Siamese Twins Reported in Torrington
A Siamese twin girl birth was announced by Torrington hospital authorities. The twins share a heart and likely a liver, are joined from sternum to umbilicus, and weighed nine pounds twelve ounces at birth. The mother is 20 and the father 26. birth was by sacsarian section and both babies are in incubators.
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Torrington
Conn
Robert Litchfield
Sacsarian
DAV meet set in Davenport Iowa for state convention
The Disabled American Veterans Iowa department holds its state convention in Davenport from Thursday through Sunday. Department Commander Ned S. Richards of Waterloo says focus will be on legislative needs of disabled veterans and their families.
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Davenport
Disabled American Veterans
Department of Iowa
Ned S. Richards
Waterloo
Price War Draws Shoppers Across New York Stores
Price-cutting spreads to new retail sectors as shoppers flood six day old bargains in New York department stores. Crowds circle sales clerks while bargain hungry customers seek deeper discounts in a nationwide price war.
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NEW York
San Francisco
Federal Reserve Bank
Beef Slaughtering Slumps in Iowa's 16 Major Plants
OPS price controls take effect reducing cattle purchases and causing layoffs at John Morrell & Co Ottumwa as Iowa plants report 50 to 75 percent normal slaughter. Producers may hold cattle amid looming renewal of price controls ending June. Other sectors show nationwide price cutting and brisk but shifting sales in consumer goods.
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Iowa
Office of Price Stabilizaton
Congress
John Morrell & Co
Ottumwa
Newark
N.J
Baltimore
New York
Macy’s
Gimbel's
Herald Square
Macy's
Elgin
Gillette challenges Acheson over Korea armistice process
At the MacArthur inquiry Senator Gillette pressed Secretary Acheson on whether the United States must consult the United Nations before any Korea armistice. Acheson asserted U N involvement would occur, while Gillette urged action under U S command subject only to a Security Council report.
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Acheson
United States
United Nations
Korea
Gillette
Senate
MacArthur
Truman
U. S
U. N
Security Council
International Organization
U. N. Security Council
World Court
Russia
North Korea
Manchuria
Formosa
China
Flanders
R-Vt
Acheson to Remain in Cabinet Through Fall Says Senator
A Democratic senator said Secretary of State Acheson will stay in the Truman cabinet until sometime this fall amid GOP pressure tied to the MacArthur inquiry. The lawmaker warned Acheson could become a political liability and urged replacement before the next presidential election.
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Acheson
Washington
MacArthur
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Senate Armed Services
Korea
Alger Hiss
Knowland
Hiss
Yalta Conference
China
Manchuria
McMahon
D-Conn
Chiang
State Department
Hickeniooper
Iowa
Des Moines Soldier Finds Foxhole Deeper Than Usual
Tokyo dispatch reports Cpl. John T. Reese of the 31st regiment received his Korea rotation notice and discovered his foxhole two feet deeper than normal, signaling his homeward rotation.
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Tokyo
Des Moines
Korea
John T. Reese
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