Barrage Raise Guard Begins Withdrawing Units From Flood Duty
The National Guard started a gradual withdrawal of five flood duty units in Muscatine area led by Brig. Gen. Fred Tandy Iowa adjutant general. Units from Davenport Muscatine Fairfield and Keokuk to return home as weather improves and river falls.
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Muscatine
Fred Tandy
Iowa
Tandy
34Th Reconaissance Group
Iowa City
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Sabula
Old Man River
Bert P. Olsen
Ted Corry
Karl Herd
Davenport
Fairfield
Keokuk
Ed Elson
Rock Island
Army Corps of Engineers
Elson
Mississippi
Drury District
River Falls
Ralph Hunter
Drury
Illinois National Guard
Iowa National Guard
Bert
Iowa Pensioners To See May Check Changes
Thousands of Iowa old age pensioners will receive May checks reflecting a new plan by the State Board of Social Welfare. Food allowances rise 10 percent while medical costs are limited to four dollars a month, with some recipients seeing increases and about eleven thousand others facing medical-related decreases.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Board of Social Welffare
ADC
Welfare Board
West Liberty Lawyer Honored for 50 Years of Service
Atty. Robert Brooke received a 50 year career tribute from the Muscatine County Bar Association and guests at a West Liberty banquet at the American Legion hall. University of Iowa historian Harrison J. Thornton, Judge Matthew Westrate, and Atty. Robert F. Barclay attended, with Brooke keeping the milestone private until the surprise reveal.
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West Liberty
Muscatine
Thornton
Harrison J. Thornton
University of Iowa
Iowa
Matthew Westrate
Brooke
Atty
Robert F. Barclay
U S Court Lets Government Set Steel Wages In Seizure Case
The U S Court of Appeals votes 5 to 4 to allow the government to raise wages at seized steel mills while the case proceeds. Chief issues include negotiations between industry and CIO Steelworkers and a legal framework for government action. Sawyer anticipated no precipitate wage changes before the Supreme Court appeal due Friday.
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Washington
U. S. Court of Appeals
Secretary of Commerce
Sawyer
Stell Mills
CIO Steelworkers
Congress
U. S
David A. Pine
Court of Appeals
Pine
Supreme Court
Philip Perlman
May Day Riots and Plane Crash Mark Global Protests
Rioting and demonstrations marked May Day worldwide with clashes in Tokyo and Berlin and a Soviet parade led by Stalin. A Pan American World Airways Stratocruiser, carrying 50 aboard including 19 Americans, was found broken in two near Carolina, Brazil, with no signs of life.
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Pan-American World Airways
Airways
PAA
Carolina
Brazil
Barreiras
Miami
Belem
United
Tokyo
Berlin
Stalin
Lenin
Red Square
New York
Eighth Avenue
Louis Weinstock
Red
Singapore
Tax Bureau Stands By Loan Rulings
The Revenue bureau maintains rulings that uncollectible loans to political parties may be deducted as bad debts on tax returns. It rejected Senator Williams’s push to reverse four cases, while an official investigation by House tax probers proceeds. Williams cited 1940 to 1948 donations totaling $410,110 to the New York Democratic committee and the bureau’s rulings treating them as unpaid loans.
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Washington
The
Revenue Bureau
Williams
Rdel
Bureau
John B. Dunlap
House
Representative King
Calif
Senate
New York State Democratic Committee
Reds May Answer L N Plan Friday
Truce negotiators set a Friday session to hear the Communist reply to the United Nations package for a Korean armistice. The Reds demanded a full dress session after studying the secret Allied plan. Key sticking points are prisoner exchange, Soviet participation in an armistice, and rehabilitation of military airfields.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
Mysterious Virus X Revealed as 30 New Diseases
Boston doctors at a Society of American Bacteriologists symposium explain that the mysterious virus X is actually 30 distinct diseases. Antibiotics in food from cattle, pigs, chickens, and eggs increasingly expose people to these new germs and may hinder future antibiotic effectiveness.
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Boston
Society of American Bacteriologists
Iowa Schedules Auto Inspections Across May
A voluntary statewide motor vehicle inspection drive runs through May in Iowa under the slogan Check Your Car Check Accidents. Windshield safety stickers will be issued for cars inspected and deemed safe, sponsored by the Iowa Automobile Dealers Assn with the Iowa Safety Council and the State Department of Public Safety.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Automobile Dealers Assn
Iowa Safety Council
State Department of Public Safety
Missouri Basin Hearings Begin in Sioux City May 8
The Missouri Basin Survey Commission opens a series of public hearings in Sioux City on May 8 as part of its regional survey process. The event marks the first in a chain of sessions to assess water resources and basin plans.
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Sioux City
Missouri Basin Survey Commission
Gas shortages spread as nationwide oil strike continues
The two day oil workers strike triggers gasoline scarcities in Gary Hammond East Chicago and other Midwest cities. Officials warn shortages could grow if the walkout lasts longer while negotiations with Shell Oil show progress and wage differential disputes linger.
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Denver
Gary
Hammond
Chicago
Ind
Midwest
Washington
Oil Workers International Union
CIO
AFL
San Francisco
Shell Oil
Cyrus S. Ching
Federal Mediation Service
Standard Oil of
Indiana
Sugar Creek, Mo
Ching
Anti Kefauver Backers Push Stevenson Draft Bid
Democratic leaders opposed to Kefauver push a draft Stevenson for the presidential nomination. Governors aides and Washington figures hint Stevenson might accept under the right circumstances, noting his earlier refusal while leaving room for favorable steering from party strategists.
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Stevenson
Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Kefauver
Tennessee
White House
Farmer Hurt in Tractor Accident Near Columbus Junction
Louisa county farmer George Jarrard was fractured pelvis and several broken ribs after falling from a tractor that ran over him on his farm near Columbus Junction. He was treated by Dr. William Catalona and moved to Bellevue Hospital for further care.
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George Jarrard
Louisa County
Columbus Junction
Jarrard
William Catalona
Bellevue Hospital
Reverend Uses Beauties to Reel in Sailors at Middlesbrough
Reverend Cyril Kettle organizes 50 churchgoing women to greet visiting British sailors on the dockside. He says the plan fights temptation by pairing women with sailors then guiding them to a seamen's mission for meals and activities. One volunteer, Joan Tweed, says sailors smile and feel safer.
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Middlesbrough
Eng
Cyril Kettle
Kettle
Joan Tweed
Discharged Major Brett Fights Retention At Ft Sill
Tom Brett, civilian today, plans court action to keep his military status until September after being discharged from the 45th division at Ft. Sill Oklahoma. He faced a protest as he would lose about $3,000 in Army pay if released early. Brett accepted the discharge after a conference with his attorney.
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Ft. Sill
Okla
Tom Brett
Korea
Brett
45Th Division
Korean
Minks Reappear In Tax Probe
Treasury agents testifying before a House committee disclosed that James B. Olson, a former New York tax official, charged $2855 for a mink coat and $2800 for a silver blue mink store during 1947 and 1948 as part of $36000 in unexplained cash outlays while earning $8000 annually.
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Washington
James B. E. Olson
New York
Treasury
House Committee
Olson
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