Anti trust suit targets top farm machinery firms
The United States files anti trust charges in federal court in Minneapolis against International Harvester Co. Deere & Co. and nine subsidiaries for collusive practices with dealers to restrain competition. The government seeks an injunction to open markets for farmers and dealers. Major defendants include Deere subsidiaries in Kansas City St. Louis Indianapolis and Minneapolis with operations nationwide.
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Minnie
Clifford S. Hanson
U.S
Minota
Bf Farmers
Ike
Herbert
AL -Bergson
Sistant Attorney
In. Tze
Justice Department
Titcast Division
Washington, D
Reson
Orrell Workers to Return Friday in Meat Plant Dispute
In Ottumwa and Des Moines headlines, John Morrell and company plan said workers suspended at the Des Moines plant would return Friday. The state employment security commission reviewed claims of about 900 laid off workers for unemployment compensation tied to wartime meat strike activity last spring.
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Ottumwa
1Mnion
Ed Filliman
E John Morrell
Dking
Mpany
Des Moines
Fayet te High School Elects Student Council Members
Six Fayette high school students won positions on the student council at a Wednesday election meeting. Richard Pattison and Ina Lat were named senior representatives, Jean Kennedy junior representative, John Corkery sophomore representative, Patsy Patterson and Harry Lamphier as freshmen. Waldo Walker was elected student council president in a spring election last year. Class elections followed Tuesday with Vera Stepping named senior class president, Dick Pederson junior vice president, sophomore officer, and Stewart Sheeley freshman president.
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Fayette
Richard Pattison
Ina Lat
Jean Kennedy
Ember
John Corkery
Patsy. Patter
Harry Lamphier
Waldo Walker
Sta |Ent Council
Vera Stepping
Senjr
Dick Pederson
Viscerant
Striking Truckers Start Milk Delivery in New York
Striking truck drivers delivered cardboard milk containers in New York today after an agreement between city officials and Local 807 of the Teamsters Union. Some 1,000 members had been on strike for several days, halting production at the American Can Co Brooklyn plant due to storage space issues.
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New York
Uck
Foley Wins NE Iowa Contour Plowing Meet
Local news note Leo Foley of Harpers Ferry won the northeast Iowa contour plowing contest held yesterday. Abe Huaberger of Dexter finished second with George Kerr of Decorah third. about fifteen hundred spectators attended at the Corlett brothers farm near McGregor. The event compared contour and up and down plowing with identical gear and fuel, showing contour used almost one third more land in less time per Adrian Gamble. The program included machinery displays and a terracing demonstration.
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Prom
Leo Foley
Harpers Ferry
Towa
Dexter
Abe Huaberger
Elgin
George Kerr
Decorah
Corlett
Brothers
McGregor
Adrian Gamble
Clayton County
Haberger
Jayne Morey
Buchanan
Robert A. Foeig
Clayton
Trucks Collide Near Aurora in Two-Vehicle Crash
Special dispatch from Aurora reports Howard Mosher of Aurora and Clair Ervin Bray of Winthrop escaped with minor injuries after their pickup trucks a 1948 Chevrolet and a 1941 International collided on a sharp turn two miles south of Aurora Wednesday morning. Mosher was hospitalized at Mercy in Oelwein with a wrist cut requiring seven stitches. chest injuries were noted but he was described as uninjured overall.
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Frontocal News Desk
Aurora
Howard Mosher
Clair Ervin Bray
Winthrop
Mosher
Independence
Bray
Mercy Hospital
Oelwein
Injur Jr
Fire Garage Nears Completion Under Volunteer Help
In Oran a new fire garage for a recently purchased fire truck is nearing completion under the direction of Leonard Lorber. Volunteers are handling the work at the slate covered building on East Main Street between the telephone office and John's Case. Funds were raised from the fireman's ball at the Oelwein Coliseum on July 13.
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Oran
Leonard Lorber
Main Street
John
Oelwein Coliseum
Grandson of BismarckHeld on Espionage Charge
Authorities report the great grandson of Prince Otto von Bismarck, Heinrich Einsiedel, a correspondent for Taeglicher Rundschau, is detained in the United States on espionage suspicions. He faces potential trial as a suspected spy linked to the Soviet army press.
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GWE Wes
Frankfurt
United States Army
Otto von Mismarck
Bate
Heinrich Einsiedel
Taeglicher Rundschau
Classified Ad Prompt Promotes Sale in The Register
An older classified notice shows Mrs. Walter Block ran an inexpensive two day ad in The Register to sell items, stressing that advertising payoffs come with low cost and strong results. The ad copy invites readers to call a phone number for inquiries.
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Register
Walter Block
Unity Plea in Paris Crisis Seeks Broad Truce Government
Premier Li Nit Queuille urged France’s political parties to halt warfare and form a crisis cabinet broad enough to include all factions except the communists. The Radical-Socialist premier, aged 64, was supported by President Auriol as France’s last hope for a centrist regime after repeated government overthrows.
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Paris
de Li
Queuille
de Gaulle
Auriol
France
Dewey Gets Support From AFL Union
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey receives backing from the Building Service Employees International union with a claimed 175,006 members. The AFL endorsement contrasts with William Green’s leadership of the American Federation of Labor. President Truman gears up for a western campaign swing touching Iowa Missouri Colorado Utah and California as Dewey plans opening events in Des Moines.
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Thomas E. Dewey
Building Service Employes International Union
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William Green
American Federation of
Roosevelt
Dewey
Truman
White House
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Missouri
Colorado
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New York
Des Moines
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Michigan
Ohio
Dexter
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Colo
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Cologe
Salt Lake City
Earl Warren
Smakes
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Washington
Texas
Oklahoma
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
Maryland
Ilinois
Massachusetts
New York State
Grain Strike Spreads to Great Lakes Ports
United Press reports 110,000 workers on strike nationwide threaten to halt movement of the bumper wheat crop via the Great Lakes to the east coast. Fuel experts warn of cold homes if the west coast oil strike lasts, while gasoline shortages grow in the west. Transport blockades disrupt rail freight. ARR imposes an embargo on freight to Atlantic and Gulf ports for westward water shipments. Weekly reach of the strike hits New York and New Jersey with diversions to Boston and Philadelphia. In Duluth Superior over 500 AFL grain workers press for a $1.00 raise, as processors warn of tight grain supplies. Federal conciliator Carlgren travels to Duluth Superior to meet with grain group leaders after talks in Minneapolis with Luther Youngdahl and mill officials.
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Great Lakes
West
Association of American Railroads
Atlantic
Gulf Ports
West Coast
Carl Carlgren
Duluth-Superior
Raleigh’ Meyer
American Federation of Grain Processors
Wholesale Food Prices Dip Across Ten Cities
Butter and meat led a retail price drop across ten cities with declines averaging over five cents per pound. Sugar coffee and flour showed no change in the August 10 to September 9 period, while Dun and Bradstreet index fell to 6.86 for the week ended September 7, lowest since April. International Harvester announced a nine percent price rise on farm tractors in just over a year.
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Dun &. Bradstreet
Dun and Bradstrest
International Harvester At Chicago
Train Collision Kills Four In Rocky Canyon
Four men died and 25 were injured when a Great Northern freight train struck a motor powered flat car carrying a railroad section gang. The crash occurred about 6 pm in a narrow canyon 20 miles north of Helena, with 24 of 53 men on the flat car escaping.
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Helena
Mont
Great Northern
Rocky Mountain
Bible Helps Save Iowa Girl's Life From Attacker
Des Moines reports a 17 year old, Mavis Gustafson, survived after a youth near Des Moines shot her. A Bible allegedly deflected a second bullet, aiding deputies in fatal pursuit of James Reisman, who killed himself as officers closed in. Reisman was armed with a 38 caliber pistol. Gustafson remains alive with injuries.
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Des Moines
Itiés
Mavis Gustafson
James Reisman
Desi
Kille
D Reppert
Reisman
Miss. Gustafson
Reppert
Czech Consul Quits To Avoid Call Home
Czech Slovak consul Ladislav J. Krno resigned in Chicago to avoid recall to Czechoslovakia. He said he expected to be recalled and might face accusations of non compliance with the present government. Krno had been displeased with communist supervision of his office.
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Chicago
Ladislav J. Krno
Krno
Czechoslovakia
Winters on Guam With Air Force Are Local News
A recent arrival in the Marianas serving with the Far East Air Force in Guam is Pfc. Theo dore Winter, son of John Winter of 536th Ave. N. E. He graduated from Maynard Consolidated High School and worked for Mc Vean and Roberts Pipelining Construction of Odessa, Texas. Winter is a welder with the 19th Air Repair Squadron in the Marianas Air Material Area.
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Marianas
Far East Air Force
Guam
Pfc
Theodore Winter
John Winter
536Th Ave. N. E
Winter
Maynard Consolidated High School
McVean and Roberts Piplining Construction Company
Odessa
Tex
19Th
Forgotten Man Free After Week in Jail Incident
Davenport reports Harry Stevens, 27, was released from the local jail after a brief period. He had been jailed on a charge of violating the drivers license law, but authorities said an oversight led to the mistaken life imprisonment implication.
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Davenport
Harry Stevens
Stevens
Four Killed in Plane Crash After Flares Discharge
Four men perished when an Aeronca with five emergency magnesium flares crashed and burned near the Decorah airfield. Investigators said flare discharge likely caused the accident, marking Iowa aviation’s first such fatal event. Victims were Robert Sattre, 19. Tom Knowlton, 19. Doyle Wagner, 24. and Harold Hoffman, 26. Sattre believed to be pilot. Wagner from Osian, decorah residents others. CAA to probe today.
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Decorah
Aeronca
Dewey Tatro
Norbert Locke
Iowa Aeronautics Commission
Iowa
Robert Sattre
Tom Knowlton
Doyle Wagner
Harold Hoffman
Sattre
Wagner
Ossian
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Berlin Coup Sparks Western Protest Against Soviet Rule
Western protests over Soviet seizure of Berlin city hall and the forced move of the city assembly into western sectors intensified as Soviet forces stormed American offices and beat reporters. American and British correspondents faced criticism from Maj. Gen. Kotikov for allegedly misreporting events while Moscow promised intensified air maneuvers along Berlin corridors.
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Berlin
Alexander Kotikov
Frank ‘Howley
Howley
Ofice
Kai
West Sector
United States
Kotikov
Tern
Littleport Farmer Killed Instantly In Tractor Overturn
Dagk Elkader special report says Johnson a 30 year old farmer from Littleport was killed Wednesday evening when his tractor overturned near the Jonn Dinan farm one mile north of Littleport. He was taking the tractor to town for repairs when the rear wheel ran over the shoulder causing it to overturn into a ditch. He died crushed under the machine. Survived by wife two children and two brothers Eldo and Orville farmers near Littleport. Funeral arrangements not yet set.
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Eldo
Orville
Littleport
Plan Addition to Butler's Building
Plans to expand the Butler Coal Co building by moving the drives and scales to the side have been disclosed. The current structure is split by two drives to reach the scales. once moved, the space will be enclosed with plate glass for a display room, increasing the building by 50 by 70 feet.
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Dysk
Butler Coal Co
Banks Ordered to Increase Reserves
The Federal Reserve Board, acting under new congressional powers, ordered a general rise in reserve requirements for all member banks to curb inflation. Big central banks in New York and Chicago will raise reserves from 24 to 26 percent of demand deposits, effective Sept. 24, with total national needs around 1.9 billion dollars.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve
New York
Chicago
American fighter planes reported missing in Pacific storm
Manila report states four American fighter planes from Clerk Field in the Philippines disappeared after encountering a heavy storm off the northern Luzon coast during a routine training flight.
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Manila
Clerk Field
Philippines
Luzon
Russians Fire on Berlin Protest Crowd at Brandenburg Gate
Ten Soviet soldiers opened fire on anti-communist protesters at the Brandenburg Gate after a mass meeting in Berlin's British sector. Russians fired across the sector boundary wounding several. British military police contained the crowd while the incident drew in local political figures and a nearby memorial.
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Berlin
OUP
Brandenburg Gate
Linden
Kermes
United Prus
Steone
Brandenburg
Franz Neumann
Socialist Party
Neumann
Grandenburg Gate
Boundry
Truman vows to stay in Berlin despite pressure
President Truman declared the United States will not be pushed out of Berlin and will stand up for its rights in Germany. He spoke through reporter David Dubinsky and emphasized seeking a peaceful solution while resisting pressures from the Soviet blockade.
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Berlin
Washington
Truman
United States
Germany
U.S
Mr. Truman
Industry Labor Told They Must Cut Costs First
Osceola Iowa thousands gathered at the Ben Cole farm for an all Town soil conservation day. Rep Clifford Hope urged lower prices to bring farm prices down and criticized farm price supports as not solely to blame for high food costs. Secretary Brannan warned land productivity declines as conservation programs continue.
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Osceola
House Agriculture Committee
Labor and Industry Today
Clifford Hope
Kansas
Ben Cole
Here
Hope
Secretary of Agriculture
Charles Brannon
Brannan
Lutheran Laymen Meeting In Sumner
Delegate from eastern Iowa Luth eran Laymen's League of the Lutheran church Missouri Synod will hold its annual convention in Sumner on Sunday Sept 19 with a 3:00 business meeting at St Pauls Lutheran church and a 6:00 fellowship banquet at the legion hall. Friends and delegates are welcome. The events are sponsored by St Peters West des Moines groups.
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Sumner
Iowa
Lutheran Laymen’s League
Lutheran church-Missouri Synod
E. A. Heiden
Osage
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Legion Hall
St. Peter's Church
Westyoute
On-Farm Training Program Organized at Maynard
Maynard veterans institute an on-farm training program to start at the earliest possible date. Superintendent L. Ee Sent indicates the school may begin in October, otherwise November 1 if October is not feasible. Veterans asked to contact Mr. Smith at the earliest date for enrollment through the Army Committee.
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Maynard
Amory Committee
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