Chiang Kai-Shek Relinquishes North China Military Control
Reliable sources report Chiang Kai-Shek has ceded full command in north China to Gen. Fu Tso-Yi, deeming him a virtual dictator during a six hour meeting. Fu gains power over troop deployment and northern defense as communists threaten Peiping Tientsin rail links and Nanking faces possible attacks. Strong fighting continues northwest of Nanking with nationalist advances at Mengcheng along the Nanking Hsuchow corridor.
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Nanking
Issimo Chiang Kai-Shek
Iroin
Fu Tso-Yi
North
China
Chiang
North China
Nanking-Shanghai
Mengcheng
Nanking- Hsuchow
Opening of Interstate Plant Dedication at Lansing
The Lansing Interstate Power plant dedication occurs Sunday at 2 30 PM with many locals attending. The $3 000 000 steam electric generating plant features a 25 250 hp turbine in service and a 16 750 hp unit planned for next fall 1949, bringing total investment to $4 000 000. Congressman Talle is among the speakers.
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Lansing
Interstate Power Company
Towa
Talle
School Bus and Car Collision Near Here
A 1949 Chevrolet school bus carrying Oran basketball players and a 1936 Oldsmobile coupe collided last night about 10:45 one mile north of Oelwein at the Highway 150 3 intersection. Bus driver Laverne Staack. coupe driven by Robert Sexton. Sexton attempted a U turn into the bus path. bus left front hit rear of coupe, car into a ditch and a telephone pole. Bus damage $150. coupe $200. No injuries. John Lockwood owns the bus. car owned by John Sexton.
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Oelwein
Highway Patrol
Oran
Laverne Staack
Robert Sexton
Sexton
John Sexton
John Lockwood
U S Bases in Spain Charged by UN Delegate
Paris dispatch reports Julius Katz-Suchy at the United Nations political committee accusing the United States of establishing military bases in Spain. He denounces Dulles and Truman, claims dollar diplomacy, and cites bases in Spain, the United Kingdom, North Africa and the Pacific, plus Green land evacuation refusals.
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Paris
Poland
Julius Katz-Suchy
United Nations
United States
Spain
Katz-Suchy
Truman
John Foster Dulles
Thomas E. Deweyr
Katz-Luchy
America
Dulles
Russia
United Kingdom
North Africa
Pacific
Greenland
Heart Attack Fatal To Will Gumm 72
Will Gumm 72 dies suddenly Friday afternoon of a heart attack. Funeral services set for Monday at 1 30 at his Westgate home and 2 00 at St Peter's Lutheran Church in Westgate. Survivors include wife one daughter Mrs Henry Reinking three grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Lorat News
Fremont-Oran
Will Gumm
Westgate
St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Gumm
Henry Reinking
Court Order Closes Monica’s Style Shoppe In Oelwein
A district court forecloses Monica’s Style Shoppe an Oelwein women’s apparel store. The order follows a foreclosure action filed Thursday by Oelwein State Bank. A hearing is expected in 20 days, per bank president W Palmer Wilson.
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Oelwein Women’s Apparel
Oelwein State Bank
W. Palmer Wilson
Duffle Bags Now Carry Coal to Keep Berlin Alive
United Press reports that Allied airlifts are delivering about 2400 tons of coal daily to Berlin to power waterworks, sewage plants, factories, and heating. With railways blocked, air freight falls short of needs, leaving homes cold and industries strained as Berliners rely on 50 pounds of coal per family for December and uncertain winter prospects.
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Berlin
United Press
G. I
West Fern
Brandenburg Plain
Allied Air Command
Ruhr
Forrestal Signals Possible Resignation From Cabinet
Defense Secretary James Forrestal hinted he may quit the Truman administration as cabinet reshuffle speculation swirled. He told reporters the president has had his resignation on file since he took office but did not say when he would leave.
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Washington
Defense
James Forrestal
Truman
Forrestal
Seek Link in Four Miami Drownings
Miami investigators probe whether four men found off Miami Beach share a common killer or motive. County Detective Claude C High declares murders possible as two deaths appear non natural, with David Marmerstein 43 and Jack Novick 43 of New York among the victims.
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Miami
Fla
Claude C. High
Miami Beach
High
David Marmerstein
Jack Novick
New York
Marmerstein
Frank R. Lockwood
Final Rites Sunday For Mrs. Corrine Jones 74
Funeral services for Corrine Jones aged 74 will be held Sunday at 2 p m at Bel-sing funeral home with burial at Long Grove cemetery. Survivors include several nephews and nieces. She died Tuesday at Gl erinds hospital. She was the former Corrine Dawson of Maynard and last of five children.
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Maynard
Corrine Jones
Belsing
Long Grove
Weekly Oelwein Weather Report
Rain fog and cold weather marked the past week in Oelwein. High reached 70 on Sunday, low 40, clear days on Sunday and Monday, Tuesday partly cloudy. Rain fell 11:09 am Thursday to 5:00 pm Thursday with .06 inch. fog began 8:00 pm Friday night. other readings list highs and lows from Saturday through Friday with scattered values.
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Oelwein
Upper Iowa to Get Well Over $1000 from Game
Upper Iowa University will receive over $1000 from net receipts of the Wartburg U. S. game played Thursday. final figures await bills from the Oelwein Chamber of Commerce. The C of C had guaranteed $1000 with all net receipts to the school. Demand grows for this annual event and Wartburg officials praised the arrangement.
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Geek? Traws
Upper Iowa University
Wartburg U. S
Oelwein Chamber of Commerce
C of C
Oelwein C of C
Upper Iowa
Wartburg
Boy Dies Imitating Western Hero in Wis. Woodshed
In Niagara Wisconsin a 12 year old boy named Robert Dale Forcey hanged himself from a rafters in a woodshed. His mother found the body beside a stack of comic books and dime western novels. The sheriff said the boy was inspired by the wild west stories and dressed in old clothes.
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Niagara
Wis
Robert Dale Forcey
Donald W. John
John
Robert
Highway 3 Paved Open At Colesburg
Colesburg reports Highway 3 paving completed a seven mile gravel strip near Colesburg sealing a route on the Chicago Black Hills Highway. Dr J C Davis state representative aided the effort with Oelwein and Marshalltown chambers of commerce backing the project. AAA Chicago started routing traffic on Highway 3 in Iowa and a Marshalltown meeting of highway committees from across the state is set for next Wednesday.
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Highway Three
Colesburg
Chicago
Oeiwein
J. C. Davis
Highway Commission
Dyersville
Chamber of Commerce
Oel~wein
Chicago Black Hills
AAA
Highway 3
Iowa
Marshalltown
Iowa Highway Commission
Wedneway
A. C. Brown
Oelwein
Black Hills
Oil-stained Ducks to Get Cleaning in Montreal
Officials from the federal Mines and Resources Department will dry clean a flock of ducks grounded on Lake St. Peter after an oil slick from a tanker coated their feathers. They will spray the birds with a special oil removing solution to restore their condition.
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Montreal
Lake St. Peter
Federal Mines and Resources Department
Fayetteville freshman claims phantom killer note
A 17 year old TexarkanaArkansas Texan student at the University of Arkansas died by suicide and left notes claiming he was the phantom killer linked to five Texarkana murders in 1946. Police doubt the confession and investigate connections to Betty Jo Booker Paul Martin and Virgil Starks. Investigators note the youth had an inferiority complex and lived with his mother after parental divorce.
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Ark
Moody College
H. B. Tennyson
Texakana
Ark-Tex
University of Arkansas
Texarkana
Tennison
Betty Jo Booker
Paul Martin
Virgil Starks
Miss Brooker
Martin
Starks
Brooker-Martin
U S Pact With Tito Reported By L Europeo
The weekly L Europeo alleged a secret military agreement placing Yugoslavia's 36 army divisions with the Western powers in any potential war with Russia. The unsigned article cites sources arriving in Rome from Istria and claims meetings with Premier Alcide de Gasperi and visits to the Italian foreign office.
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Rome
L'Europeo
Marshal Tito
United States
Russia
Istria
Alcide de Gasperi
Republican Bigwigs Urge Stassen to Rebuild GOP
Washington reports say influential Republicans urge Harold E. Stassen to reshape the GOP toward liberal lines with an eye on the 1952 presidential race. Stassen, defeated for the nomination in June by Gov. Dewey, is at the University of Pennsylvania and has received letters and calls offering support if he leads party reconstruction. A liberal senator and a former governor advocate Stassen’s role, while Dewey will not seek the 1952 nomination. Major boosters include Sens. McCarthy and Thye.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
GOP
Stassen
Twico
Thomas E. Dewey
Tere
Univerisity
Pennsylvania
Ibigwigs
TE Stassen
United Press
Congress
Dewey
Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
Sens
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wis
Edward J. Thye
Minn
Chester Sniper Kills Eight Before Dying in Standoff
A Chester public safety incident ends with a Black suspect Melvin Collins, 38, dead after a mass shooting in a Bell Court area building. One Chester detective Ellery Purnsley was fatally shot. State troopers deployed tear gas and hazardous devices as officers closed in.
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Chester
Melvin Collins
Virginia
Poli
Bell Court
Ellery
Purnsley
Mareket Street
Fred Cwildling
Andrew Jmond, Jr
Fi 5
High Court to Hear Closed Shop Appeal
In Washington, organized labor expands its challenge to state closed shop bans as the Supreme Court prepares to hear cases from Arizona, Nebraska, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The outcome could affect Taft Hartley act restrictions on union shops while AFL affiliates press for constitutional overturns amid recent state victories and defeats.
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High Court
Washington
Massachusetts
New Mexico
Organized Labor
Supreme Court
Arizona
Nebraska
Tennessee
North Carolina
AFL
Labui
Alpha Child Taken Hospital Polio Admission Iowa City
Alpha, a three year old child of Mir and Mrs Haruki Pierce, has been admitted to the University Hospital in Iowa City with polio. The boy Jackie was reported stricken while visiting his grandparents. His parents were in the east and have not yet located him.
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Fawal News
Daesr
Alpha
Jadhia
Mir
Haruki Pierce
University Hospital
Iowa City
Jackie
Mig
Sam Roy Pierce
Nadbeb Alisha
Vhis
Parents Magazines
Pha
Wie
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