House Votes to Trim Foreign Aid Bill Signaling Senate Push
The House approved a $6.16 billion foreign aid package, cutting $1.74 billion from Truman's request and slicing $726.5 million in European and Far East economic aid. Taft backers led the reductions amid campaign season rhetoric, while Eisenhower supporters pushed for a more moderate approach. The measure heads to a Senate debate with differences to be resolved in conference.
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Truman
Senate
Taft
Rohio
Europe
Far East
Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Rayburn
Russia
United States
W. Averell “Arsiman
Acheson
West Germany
Bonn
Germany
Funeral services set for Henry J. Welch of Muscatine
Henry J. Welch 64 longtime Muscatine Levee Improvement commissioner dies Friday at 618 Cedar Street after illness since 1950. Funeral 10:30 a.m. Monday at St Mathias Church with Rev J J Welsh. Rosary Sunday 7:30 p.m. at Riley funeral home. Burial in St Mary's. Survived by widow Dorothy Wilkens and brother T M Welch. predeceased by parents and two sisters.
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Muscatine Levee
Julia May Welch
Cedar Street
Welch
Dorothy Wilkens
St. Mathias Church
F. J. Leonard
McKee Button
Muscatine Power Boat Club
Edward H. Bitter
American Legion
Ed Elliott
T. M. Welch
Muscatine
Iowa Democrats Favor Kefauver By Slight Margin
Iowa Democrats prefer Kefauver for president by a small edge among 63 delegate candidates. Kefauver leads 6 to 5 or more for Barkley while Stevenson and Gillette receive at least one vote. Delegates chosen in eight districts will meet Wednesday to pick two national delegates each, with the convention delegation expected to Chicago uninstructed.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Sen
Kefauver
Tennessee
Alben W. Barkley
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Ilowa
Gillette
Chicago
Case Fire Loss Set at 500000 in Bettendorf Plant
A fire at the J I Case Co foundry in Bettendorf caused estimated damages of 500000 dollars. About 20 people including firemen and workers suffered minor burns while fighting the blaze. Explosions from gasoline in tractor tanks accompanied the fire which spread through the 600 feet of the multi shop foundry and destroyed about three tractors. Plant Manager T E Stahl cited a cutting torch ignition of a paint vat as the start of the blaze during safety improvements.
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Bettendorf
J. I. Case Co
T. E. Stahl
Stahl
Heavy air blows hike UN losses in Korea
Allied air offensive over Pyongyang crippled Red industry as UN pilots claimed 460 buildings destroyed and 1432 damaged over two days. Communist MIGs led in aerial combats five to four, with seven UN losses to anti aircraft fire and two rescue planes bringing total losses to at least 14.
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Seoul
Korea
Fifth Air Force
Air Force
Pyongyang
U. S
Zopf Named Dean of College of Pharmacy at Iowa
Louis C. Zopf, professor in the Iowa State University College of Pharmacy, has been named dean succeeding R. A. Kuever who retired July 1.
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Iowa City
Louis C. Zopf
College of Pharmacy
State University of Iowa
R. A. Kuever
Fairfield Man Dies While Mowing Lawn
Tom Staves 50, co owner of a confectionery store, died Friday night while mowing his lawn in Fairfield.
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Fairfield
Tom Staves
Fulton Oursler author of Greatest Story dies at 59
Fulton Oursler, 59, author of The Greatest Story Ever Told, former Liberty editor and Reader's Digest executive, died of a heart attack in his Hotel Navarro apartment. Born Charles Fulton Oursler in Baltimore in 1893, he wrote mystery thrillers, modern parables, and a radio series, and contributed to major magazines.
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Fulton Oursler
Hotel
Navarro
Oursler
MacFadden Publications
Liberty Magazine
Reader's Digest
West Falmouth
Cape Cod
Charles Fulton Oursler
Baltimore
Baltimore American
New York Music Trades
Metropolitan Magazine
Liberty
Father Flanagan
Will Oursler
American Mercury
Atlantic Monthly
Cosmopolitan
Reader’s Digest
Good Housekeeping
Presbyterians Relax Rules on Remarrying Divorced
The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. approved lifting a rule that barred ministers from remarrying a divorced person for less than a year and removed the clause favoring the innocent party. The policy now requires penance and commitment to a lasting marriage with church guidance. The decision follows years of debate and includes plans for cooperation with allied Presbyterian bodies.
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New York
Presbyterian Church
U. S
United Presbyterian Church
Baptist Demand Views On Envoy to Vatican
The American Baptist convention urged presidential nominees from both major parties to state early in campaigns their views on appointing a U S envoy to the Vatican. Delegates at the convention reaffirmed opposition to formal diplomatic relations with the Roman Catholic Church.
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Chicago
American Baptist Convention
U. S
Vatican
Dionne Quintuplets to Graduate Next Wednesday
Dionne quintuplets graduate next Wednesday at a ceremony in their Callander home playroom. The nine other girls their age join them as Villa Notre Dame closes. Papa Oliva says the sisters will attend a girls' college next year and have no boyfriends yet.
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Callander
Ont
Dionne
Villa Notre Dame
Papa Oliva Dionne
Ben F. Luetje Former Scott Treasurer Dies at 73
Davenport. Ben F. Luetje aged 73 longtime Scott county treasurer died early today at the Masonic sanitarium Betten dorf. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Ben F. Luetje
Scott
Davenport
Scott County
Masonic
Bettendorf
Campaign Heads Estimate Primary Vote Outline Platforms
Campaign managers for five gubernatorial candidates in Des Moines offered varied predictions for the June 2 primary. They forecast Republican totals from 280000 to 325000 and Democratic outcomes around 70000 for Loveless, with overall totals near 300000 to 400000.
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Des Moines
William S. Beardsly
Kenneth A. Evans
William H. Nicholas
Otha D. Wearin
Herschel C. Loveless
Allen Whitfield
Beardsley
Clark McNeal
Belmond
Evans
Leslie Hull
Waukon
Nicholas
Dale L. Spencer
Wearin
Germans Press for Firmer Pledge Before Western Alliance
Bonn reports last minute French objections delaying three power talks on the Allied West German peace contract. Schuman and Paris debate the British American guarantee to keep West Germany from leaving the EDC. Signing may be pushed to Monday as experts review the pact amid Soviet pressure and Berlin tension.
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Germany
France
Robert Schuman
Paris
Thete Ee SA
West Germany
European Defense Community
EDC
Schuman
Britain
Anthony Eden
Dean Acheson
Konrad Adenauer
Europe
Rhine
Russia
West Berlin
British High Commission
Berlin
Third Koje Riot Revealed After Censorship Delay
Reports from Koje Island Korea detail a gruesome riot by Red prisoners of war on April 10. Four Korean guards and three North Korean inmates died while 57 Reds were wounded. The Associated Press dispatch by William Jorden was delayed by Army censorship in Tokyo before release. Senator Monroney signals possible Senate inquiry into the censorship delay.
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Koje Island
Korea
Associated Press
William Jorden
Tokyo
U.S. Eighth Army
Eighth Army
Monroney
D-Okla
Washington
Senate
Jorden
Cedar Rapids Man Killed in Auto Crash
A car truck collision four miles north of Iowa City on Highway 218 killed Virgil Bell, 49, of Cedar Rapids Friday. Two other Cedar Rapids men Paul Hamer, 60, driver of the truck, and Charles Crago, 40, a car passenger, suffered minor injuries and were treated at University Hospitals and released.
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Iowa City
Virgil Bell
Cedar Rapids
Paul Hamer
Charles Crago
Flood Control Meeting in Davenport Discusses Riverfront Plan
Davenport schedules Monday night meeting on a flood control project. City council and levee commission invited to discuss a sea wall along the riverfront to guard against a 22 foot Mississippi River crest.
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Davenport
Truman at Annapolis
President Truman visits the Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland to observe ceremonies and engage with midshipmen. Officers plan receptions and tours during the visit.
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Truman
Annapolis
Naval Academy
Lifelong Muscatine County resident W Nachbaur dies at 87
William Nachbaur aged 87 of Muscatine county died at Mercy hospital Davenport after months of illness. He lived at 315 Burnside avenue and was a farmer and farm manager from Atalissa. Survived by cousins nieces and in laws, services set for St Mathias church with burial in Overman cemetery. Rosary at Wittich Funeral home Sunday evening.
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William Nachbaur
Muscatine County
Mercy Hospital
Davenport
Burnside Avenue
Louis
Amelia Wohlgenant Nachbaur
Atalissa
Sarah Marie Overman
Muscatine
Nachbaur
St. Mathias Church
E. L. Bachmann
Elizabeth
N. J
Frank Bachmann
St. Augustine
Fla
R. M. Tigner
Roswell
N. M
Mary Margaret Nail
E. E. Bloom
R. C. Flannery
St. Charles, Ill
Thomas F. Beveridge
G. A. Moore
Clara O. Beveridge
Geo. M. Wittich
St. Mathggs Church
J. J. Welch
Overman Cemetery
Debate Ends on Agriculture Probe and Brannan
The Senate Agriculture Committee closed a three day interrogation of Agriculture Secretary Brannan and will decide next week whether to extend its two month old probe. A split committee faces a clash over halting the inquiry as Kem calls for a broader look into irregularities in the government grain storage program and Brannan argues shortages and misconduct are small relative to program size.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriculture
Brannan
Ellender
D-La
Kem
R-Mo
Scientist to Testify in Court June 2
Joseph W Weinberg a 35 year old physicist known as scientist X faces a three count perjury indictment in Washington for lying about Communist party membership He was arrested in Minneapolis after a federal grand jury charged him and released on 10000 bond with return set for June 2 in U S District Court Washington, D C.
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Washington
Joseph W Weinberg
Communist Party
Minneapolis
Weinberg
U. S
C. O. Lundquist
Lundquist
U. S. District Court
Thousands Mourn At Garfield Funeral
Funeral services for actor John Garfield were held in New York with more than 10,000 people outside. The 39 year old star died Wednesday and a Jewish service inside the chapel lasted about 25 minutes while police kept back the crowd of mourners including show business figures.
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New York
John Garfield
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