Yankees Even Series On 3-2 Win
Authorities continued a lookout for Donald Fitterer a 27 year old Chicago man and former Muscatine resident named as the second suspect in the slaying of Charles Harrison 24 of Alexis Iowa on Aug 10 near Denmark Iowa Lee County Attorney Robert Johnson said Russell the other suspect now held in Fort Madison on murder charges identified Fitterer as the killer in a statement to Lee County officials Russell had accompanied Fitterer in the Aug 7 to 9 crimes including a grocery store hold up and an attempt at a Fridley grocery Russell gave a companion name Dale Johnson during the holdup and the two allegedly bought ammunition in Davenport for a gun Fitterer has a long criminal record and is sought by the FBI on unlawful flight to avoid prosecution The Fridley grocery proprietor was to be taken to Fort Madison to identify Russell as one of the two men who entered the store in the holdup attempt The investigation linked bullets recovered from the Fridley scene to the same gun that fired at Harrison and Harrison was found Aug 11 in a ravine with Russell later arrested in Chicago
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Donald Fitterer
Chicago
Muscatine
Charles K. Harrison
Alexis
Denmark
Lee County
Robert Johnson
Fitterer
Patrick Russell
Harrison
Russell
Fort Madigan
FBI Co
Atty. Johnson
Fort Madison
FBI
Jens
Eldora
Johnson
State Penitentiary
Reformatory
Dale Johnson
Iowa
Davenport
West Burlington
Gulfport, Jr
Fridley
Malenkov Lauds USSR Defense Rise at Congress Address
Georgi Malenkov told the 19th Congress of the All-Union USSR Communist Party that United States bosses seek world domination via war. Stalin watched as Malenkov outlined plans to strengthen defense, pursue peace with other powers, and boost the fifth five year plan domestically. About 2,000 delegates heard the keynote, a duty often held by Stalin in the past.
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Moscow
Georgi M. Malenkov
United States
Soviet Union
Ussr
Joseph Stalin
Malenkov
V. M. Mostov
Stalin
All-Union
Soviet Communist Party
U. S
Truman
Staelin
Sovietnion
Questions Cost Of Truman Tour On Presidential Campaign Train
Report on the cost of President Truman’s 1500 mile 24 state campaign tour aboard the 16car special train. Officials note under $25,000 covers rail, meals, lodging and staff. secret service costs remain separate. The exact tally requires Treasury salaries and full payroll records for all personnel aboard and assigned along the route.
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Truman
Adlai Stevenson
Airman Appeals Paternity Case in Iowa Supreme Court
Airman Second Class Wilmer Johnson, formerly of Sioux City and now at Offutt Air Force Base, filed a notice of appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court challenging a district court ruling that Glenn Phillips of Sioux City is the natural father of a 5-year-old boy. The habeas corpus case also sought declare Johnson as father.
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Sioux City
Wilmer Johnson
Iowa Supreme Court
Johnson
Offutt Air Force Base
Omaha
Violet Johnson Phillips
L. B. Forsling
Glenn Phillips
Phillips
Can't Legislate Campaign Funds
Sen Guy M Gillette warns that legislation cannot curb campaign money and moral influence. He says contributors may conflict with public interest and two masters make service difficult. He notes the Senate Rules elections subcommittee seeks workable controls despite limits.
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Washington
Guy M. Gillette
Iowa Democrat
Gillette
U. S. News and World Report
Senate Rules Committee
Senate
Truman Attacks GOP Over Communist Threat at BYU
President Truman, campaigning for Stevenson Sparkman, argues Republicans fail to grasp the danger of Communist aggression. In Provo he credits UN, Marshall Plan, NATO, Japanese peace treaty, and Point Four. he says GOP opposed these programs and would have left Europe under a Communist yoke. He calls Eisenhower an isolationist and mocks talk of government by cronies.
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Truman
Utah
GOP
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Brigham Young University
Provo
United Nations
France
Italy
Europe
Eisenhower
Journal to Hold An Open House
The Muscatine Journal will host an open house during National Newspaper Week with viewing hours 2 to 9 p m Tuesday and 8 a m to 5 p m Wednesday. Visitors can inspect remodeling and redecorating and the new 24 page Goss Unitube press installed this year. The Associated Press tele type machines will be shown in operation beyond usual hours.
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Muscatine Journal
Journal
Goss Unitube
Rotation System Helps Explain Personal Safety Related Wounds
Washington report notes only seven self inflicted wounds in Korea from July 1951 to June 1952 as probed by the provost marshal general. Experts say rotation gives soldiers a definite exit time, reducing incentives to injure themselves.
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Washington
Far East
Korea
Group 2 to 1 for Jobless Pay to Wives Joining Gls
Iowa Employment Security commission sides 2 to 1 in favor of unemployment benefits for wives who quit work to join husbands in the armed forces. Rulings affect Mrs Eunice M Ruggles of Fairfield and Mrs Shirley Weinreich of Sioux City as cases head to court.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Texas
California
Commission
Carl B. Stiger
J. C. Blodgett
Veterans’ Wives
Claude M. Stanley
Stiger
Blodgett
Stanley
Faces Quiz for Mail Theft Here
Lloyd Jack Rucker of Memphis Tennessee was questioned at the county jail by a Rock Island railroad agent and local authorities over the theft of a parcel post pouch containing five packages at the railroad station early Sunday. He was arrested at 3 32 am after police responded to a drunk in a rest room with a sack of mail and pleaded guilty to intoxication before Justice Robert Wilson receiving a five day jail sentence. Postal authorities have been notified.
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Lloyd Jack Rucker
Memphis
Rucker
Iowa Poetry Day Declared by Gov Beardsley
Gov William S Beardsley designates October 18 as Iowa Poetry Day marking the tenth anniversary of the Iowa Poetry Day association in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
William S. Beardsley
Iowa Poetry Day Association
Eisenhower Goes On Attack In Fargo Speech
Eisenhower abandons no personalities line and targets Truman as the campaign heats. He calls the Democratic campaign sound without substance and drums up a combative appeal as he tours toward Washington's nine electoral votes.
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Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Washington State
Truman
Fargo
N.C
Washington
Church Juke Box Plays Hymns in St. John’s Lutheran
In Harrison New Jersey a jukebox inside St. John’s Lutheran church plays hymns when selections are made, blending modern gadgetry with sacred music amid church life.
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Harrison, N. J
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Adlai Shifts Emphasis to Communism
Adlai E Stevenson shifts campaign focus from prosperity to anti communism. He targets Eisenhower and the GOP as false prosperity and names figures like McCarthy Taft in a rising attack during a Midwest swing through Ohio Iowa Minnesota and Minnesota stops culminating in a Detroit address on the danger of communism. He plans further stops in Wisconsin Missouri Oklahoma Louisiana Florida and Tennessee.
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Springfield
Adlai E. Stevenson
Ohio
Iowa
Minnesota
Detroit
Midwest
Deep South
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stevenson
Eisenhower
Minneapolis
Ft. Dodge
St. Paul
GOP
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin
McCarthy
Taft
Senate
Michigan
Missouri
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Florida
Tennessee
Fire destroys Parker Farm Implement Co and adjacent barn
Damage estimated over 12000 dollars occurred when fire swept Parker Farm Implement Co in Rockford and spread to a barn on the neighboring Clarence Bruce property.
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Rockford
Parker Farm Implement Co
Clarence Bruce
Mantle Berra Homer Pair Helps Yankees Win World Series Game
In a 3-2 six inning game, Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle hit homers for the Yankees to match Duke Snider’s drive for the Dodgers. Raschi earned the win over Loes as New York tied the series at three games apiece. Snider hit his second homer. Berra and Mantle added solo shots.
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Brooklyn
Yogi Berra
Mickey Mantle
Duke Snider
Yankees
Dodgers
McDougald
Cox
Rizzuto
Reese
Mantle
Mike
Snider
Berra
Robinson
Shuba
Martin
Woodling
Noren
Campanella
Hodges
Furillo
Loes
Raschi
McDouglad
Robison
Mize
Yanks
Collins
Wooderling
Reynolds
Pafko
Roe
Shooting injures teen hunter in Fertile area
Authorities investigate after Rollin Tree 17 of Clear Lake is struck by a stray bullet while hunting with two companions in the Fertile area. He is in fair condition at Mason City hospital.
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Mason City
Rollin Tree
Clear Lake
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Gloria Suice
Paducah
Blytheville
Ark
Gloria
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