Truman to Speak at West Liberty on Whistle Stop
President Truman plans a whistle stop in West Liberty around 11 a.m. Wednesday as part of a five state Midwest tour. Muscatine county Democrats organize a caravan and arrange a band at the station while local officials and candidates prepare to greet him and present a bouquet to Margaret Truman.
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Muscatine County
Harry S. Truman
West Liberty
Ford Hilton
Democratic Central Committee
Est Liberty
Muscatine
Democratic Party
Harold Keele
Claire Williams
Danville
Congress
Iowa
President Truman
Hilton
Steve Pulliam
Scott McMahon
Charlene Meacham
Nichols
Davenport
Municipal Stadium
Ruby Cline
Margaret Truman
White House
Manly
St. Paul
Mason City
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Moline
Rock Island
Chicago
Washington
Independence
Indiana
Minnesota
Michigan
Illinois
Ohio
Missouri
Missing Pilot Sought Off Miami After Storm Flight
Coast Guard boats and four planes hunted for Gordon Clauser a 40 year old Norman Oklahoma man who reported fuel loss while flying over water east of Miami Saturday night Authorities said Clauser may have been attempting to calm a hurricane with a secret formula as his wife described in a Miami Herald call from Norman Oklahoma Clauser aimed to scatter pellets into the turbulent Genes to steer the storm away from Florida shorelines.
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Miami
Fla
Coast Guard
Gordon Clauser
Norman
Okla
Clauser
Miami Herald
Florida
Adlai Puzzles Over GOP Stand Enroute to New England
Adlai Stevenson campaigns through grainy crowds in Massachusetts and neighboring states,说 saying Republicans’ stance on foreign policy is unclear at this late stage. He urges Democrats to stay in power and criticizes Eisenhower’s Korea move, calling for strength, better times, and avoidance of World War III.
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New England
Adlai Stevenson
Graincy
Mass
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
Quincy
Wisconsin
Sevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
Moscow
Norman Named District Judge By Beardsley
Des Moines Gov. William S. Beardsley announced the appointment of G. L. Norman, 63, of Keokuk to be a district judge there. He succeeds Judge James S. Burrows, 73, also of Keokuk, who resigned for ill health. Norman, recommended by the Lee County Bar Assn., has practiced law since 1912 and is an assistant county attorney of Lee County.
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Des Moines
William S. Beardsley
G. L. Norman
Keokuk
James S. Burrows
Norman
Lee County Bar Assn
Burrows
Noriman
Lee County
Four Arrested In Disturbance At Farmall Works Gates
Four FEUE union pickets were arrested today during a disturbance at the gates of the strikebound Farmall Works of International Harvester Co in Rock Island. They face charges of disturbing the peace for shoving employees en route to work and calling them names. The four men are John Ducey 45 president of Local 109 Wallace L Peterson 50 of Moline William L Cooner 26 of Davenport and Albert L Jones 40 of Rock Island. No injuries were reported.
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Rock Island
FEUE
Farmall Works
International Harvester Co
John Ducey
Wallace L. Peterson
Moline
William L. Cooner
Davenport
Albert L. Jones
Ike's Korea stance draws cheers in Philadelphia stop
Eisenhower told a packed 30th Street Station crowd that South Korean troops should man the major front in Korea and vowed to go there if elected. He urged cooperation for world freedom, denounced bigotry charges, and warned against political attacks while promising good government. He pledged to consult with people on their own ground if elected.
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Pennsylvania
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
30Th Street
United States
Eisenhower
Seek Killer Of Clerk And Banker In New York Forest
Police renewed the hunt for the shooter of Ramapo town clerk Robert Nugent 43 and Saddle River banker Charles Simpson 38 in a mountain forest near Teixdo Park New York. The bodies lay on a path beside an illegally killed deer as investigators consider a deer poacher motive and Nugent’s possible recognition of the killer.
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Tuexdo Park
N. Y
Robert Nugent
Ramapo
Charles E. Simpson
Saddle River
N. J
Nugent
Simpson
Beulah Actress Hattie McDaniel Dies at 57
Academy Award winning actress Hattie McDaniel known for the Beulah role on radio and TV died Sunday after battling cancer. She was 57 and had retired over a year ago due to illness.
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Hollywood
Hattie McDaniel
Beulah
Four Hurt As Train Derails Near Sioux City
Four persons were injured when the Milwaukee Arrow passenger train on the Chicago to West Coast route was side swiped by a switch engine and derailed near North Sioux City South Dakota. Six passenger cars and a diesel locomotive left the rails but stayed upright with no fire. All injuries were reported as non life threatening at a Sioux City hospital.
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Sioux City
Milwaukee Arrow
Milwaukee Railroad
North
S. C
Marines Driven From The Hook In Bitter Korean Fighting
U S Marines fell back from the crest and forward slopes of The Hook after a heavy Red artillery and infantry assault. Chinese forces of 2,000 attacked along a three mile front, with Marines later recapturing most outposts while Allied tanks and planes supported counterattacks.
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Korea
U.S
Hook
U. N
Panmunjon
Key Ridge
Bunker Hill
Bunker
John Randolph
Triangle
Sniper Ridge
Heartbreak Ridge
Pyongyang
North Korea
Yangdok
Little Hope For Early Rain Seen In Drought Area
The Associated Press reports no rain in over 15 states facing drought and active fires. Open burning banned in New England as forests close to the public. Fire crews including rangers and guardsmen battle hundreds of fires across Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut Virginia West Virginia Arkansas Kentucky Ohio Illinois Oklahoma Louisiana and Indiana.
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Associated Press
National
New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Virginia
West Virginia
Arkansas
Kentucky
Ohio
Ed Waters
Boonville
Ind
Illinois
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Dissouw
Winds Worsen Grass Fire Risk Across Iowa
Strong northwesterly winds pushed grass fire risk higher as fires burned across Fayette County and along the Rock Island railroad in central Iowa. A 50 acre corn field fire near Westgate raised alerts while Sunday blazes along tracks from Seymour to Centerville disrupted schedules.��
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Iowa
Marvin Johnson
Westgate
Fayette County
Weather Bureau
Rock Island Railroad
Seymour
Centerville
Des Moines
Vinal Field
Earlham
Walnut State Park
Slaying of Sioux City Station Operator Under Probe
Police questioned 20 persons in the slaying of Reuben M. Baker a 49 year old Sioux City service station operator. He died at a hospital eight hours after being beaten at his station. Investigators found a blood stained brick at the scene and sought an Indian suspect about 5 feet 7 inches tall weighing 145 pounds. Baker survived by a wife and a son Eugene Lee Baker of Omaha with another relative in Yankton South Dakota.
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Sioux City
Reuben M. Baker
Baker
Harry J. Gibbons
Gibbons
Eugene Lee Baker
Omaha
Janie Ryken
Yankton
S. D
Youth 15 Blames Companion in Highway Kidnaping Case
Virgil LeMay age 15 faces a federal hearing on kidnaping and car theft in Nashville. He claims he was forced into a three state spree that abducted 20 people in three days. Co defendants James F. Hill and Charles E. Hopkins are also charged.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Nashville
Virgil LeMay
U. S
J. W. Moore
LeMay
James F. Hill
Framingham
Mass
Charles E. Hopkins
Jacksonville
Fla
Hill
Hopkins
Florida
State Reformatory
Union Head’s White House Visit Sparks Back-To-Work Call
Union leader John L. Lewis ordered striking soft coal miners to resume work while awaiting government review of a proposed $1.90 daily pay rise. The Wage Stabilization Board cut the raise to $1.50, and President Truman urged Lewis to cooperate during a White House meeting.
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White House
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Truman
Roger Putnam
Adlai Stevenson
John Busarello
Pittsburgh
Busarello
U S Planes May Return Red Attacks
Washington reports the Air Force will let crews decide self defense when Soviet fighters attack American planes. Spokesman says escorts may be assigned as needed to protect peacekeeping missions, tying to a State Department note of October 17.
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USAF
Russia
State Department
United States
Baltic Sea
Hint Retirement For Amos and Andy
Hollywood rumors suggest Amos and Andy may retire from radio after this season. Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll have been broadcasting mainstays for 25 years. CBS VP Guy Della-Cioppa cited Gosden saying a final decision has not been made but leaving radio is possible after the season.
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Hollywood
Amos
Andy
Freeman F. Gosden
Charles J. Correll
Guy Della-Cioppa
Columbia Broadcasting System
Gosden
Della-Cioppa
Storm Breaks Up Out Over Ocean
A powerful hurricane has broken up into squalls drifting northwestward over the Atlantic. The squally remains lie about 200 miles northeast of Nassau as the system weakens in the open sea.
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Miami
Fla
Atlantic
Nassau
Sailor on leave shot in hunting accident
Ottumwa Iowa. Orland Tutor a 20 year old sailor home on leave was wounded in the foot when his shotgun discharged accidentally while he was hunting Sunday.
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Ottumwa
Orland
College fund grows with $1.5 million gift drive
In Mt. Vernon Iowa about 41 000 people contributed to the Cornell College centennial fund raising more than 1 1/2 million dollars. The drive reflects broad community support as the college marks its centennial year.
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Mt. Vernon
Cornell College Centennial Fund
Two Killed When Elevator Strikes Electrical Line
Two youths die and a farmhand is injured after a farm elevator being towed across a field contacts a high voltage line near Gilmore City. Robert Stoulil, 15, a local football player, and Clarence Greenland, 44, are electrocuted. Herley Nielson, 44, survives with burns and serious injuries. Services for the victims are planned in Gilmore City on Tuesday.
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Gilmore City
Robert Stoulil
Clarence Greenland
Herley Nielson
Ft. Dodge
Edward Stoulil
Robert
Nielson
Iowa Moose Elects Russell Frederick Waterloo President
The Iowa Moose Assn. elected Russell Frederick of Waterloo as president at the annual convention. New vice presidents named include Lee Wayland Fr Madison Fore rest Barker Iowa City Everett Koehler Cedar Rapids Lewis Nelson Boone J E Black Webster City and Harold Nielson Council Bluffs. Waterloo named site for 1953 convention. Sioux City lodge won a third place national civic affairs award for flood polio and blood drives.
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Davenport
Iowa Moose Assn
Russell Frederick
Waterloo
Lee Wayland
Madison
Forerest Barker
Iowa City
Everett Koehler
Cedar Rapids
Lewis Nelson
Boone
J. E. Black
Webster City
Harold Nielson
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
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