Flood ravaged lowans brace for new crests
Des Moines reports flood fears rise as Ottumwa and lower Des Moines River valley prepare for new crests. Volunteers, National Guards, Navy and Coast Guard rush to build sandbag dikes while Red Cross shelters 460 housed residents and served 3,550 meals. Weather bureau forecasts Ottumwa crest near 195 feet Sunday noon, below last week’s peak but above flood stage. More families displaced as eastern tributaries brace for rising waters.
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Editorial on time running out for Europe marshal plan fate
Marquis Childs argues time is nearly exhausted to rehabilitate Europe as Moscow-trained Communists threaten the Eastern Hemisphere. Even with congressional action on Marshall Plan funds, France and Italy may not remain free nations. Page 21 features and other regulars follow.
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Vandenborr
Marshall
France
Italy
Tax Decision Set Monday
President Truman, returning from Canada, faces a Monday decision on Republican tax relief bills. He did not reveal his stance on personal income tax cuts or the Taft-Hartley labor measure, noting a Friday deadline for the union-control bill while Monday looms for the tax bill.
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Alaska Called Key To U.S. Strength Rally Speech
William Branaman senior vice commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars told about 6,000 delegates at the 28th annual state encampment that Americas future strength hinges on Alaska. He said veterans settling in the territory will provide able aid in any critical situation.
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National Organization
Communists plan end of year Berlin campaign drive
Berlin and Romania are cited as flashpoints in a Soviet backed push by the Socialist Unity Party to regain Berlin city government, spread influence in western zones, and push rapid enactment of policies. An early election in Berlin before 1948 is suggested as likely by American officials.
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Crash believed airliner exploded over Blue Ridge Mountain
Wreckage of a Capital Airlines plane carrying 50 people was found atop Blue Ridge Mountain about 15 miles northwest of Leesburg Virginia. James Franklin director of maintenance said the crash showed no sign of survivors and the plane appeared torn to pieces after the explosion.
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Capital Airlines
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Wet Night Drives Driver Into Belle Isle Lagoon
Detroit vice president Kenneth Blue, 28, drove into a Belle Isle lagoon after flooding during a Friday night downpour. He exited his car to inspect the scene as water rose around the vehicle and the windshield wiper failed. The car ended up 16 feet into the lagoon.
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Kenneth Blue
Belle Iste
Island Recreational Park
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Belle Isle
UN and Palestine Boycott Threaten Atomic Arms Talks
UN stalled on arms control and world disarmament amid trouble spots in the Palestine campaign and the Balkans. The Arab Higher Committee formally notified Secretary General Lie of a boycott of the Holy Land inquiry. Yugoslav envoy Kosanovic charged American member Ethridge with imperiling Balkan commission work and UN authority.
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Balkan Investigating Commission
Outlook Camp Weather Brief Reports Rain and Wind
A morning shower brought slightly more than half an inch of rain, raising monthly totals to 193.49 inches compared with a normal June total of 387 inches. The Weather Bureau forecasts showers and thunderstorms today into tonight, with Sunday partly cloudy and cooler. Temperatures stay warm and winds remain gusty.
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Schacht moved to U.S. interrogation facility in Germany
Hjalmar Schacht, former German finance minister, was removed temporarily from a German internment center to undergo special interrogation. The U.S. Army headquarters said the move was for security reasons and offered no further details.
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UPI
Hialmar Schacht
United States Army
Vatican Sees Room For 2 Ways Of Life
The Vatican newspaper says there is room in the world for two ways of life. Acosta, a Havana cab driver, plans a one month US trip with 5,000 sugar sacks and Cuban flags to promote goodwill and show that ideologies can coexist. He intends to travel by bus up the East Coast to Washington and New York City.
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Davies Denounces Anti Red Hysteria In U S
Former U S ambassador to Russia Joseph F Davies warns that violent anti Communist hysteria sweeps the country He cites Hollywood efforts to film his book Mission to Moscow and defends F D R against critics He sends a letter to Representative Thomas on HUAC testimony by Jack L Warner amid Hollywood politics and tensions
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Nagy Labels Hungarians Coup as U S Aid Reprisal
Ex Premier Ferenc Nagy arrived at Shannon en route to the United States accusing the Communist coup in Hungary of being artificially stimulated by American aid programs to Greece and Turkey. He claimed the crisis has spread to Romania and Bulgaria and said the Mogarian situation should not go to the United Nations. Nagy, accompanied by his wife Juliet and son Ladisla, was headed for New York and then Washington to reveal the full story.
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Washington
Klan to Continue Georgia Program Despite Charter Surrender
Sumbler Green of Atlanta said the Association of Georgia Klans would continue as before to carry out Americanism programs after the Ku Klux Klan surrendered its national charter in Superior Court. Attorney General Eugene Cool noted revocation of the parent charter does not bar local groups from operating unchartered.
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Sumbler Green
Atlanta
Ku Klux Klans
Association of Georgia Klans
Ku Klux Klan
Eugene Cool
Cautious Those Swiss Send First Installment Cash
San Francisco attorney Joseph J. Isage opened a plain air mail envelope from Switzerland containing $7,078 in small bills. The note outside read Contents Stegart. It reported the first installment of a $60,000 cash estate being sent for Morse Bollack, recently deceased in Switzerland, by Isaacs client.
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Joseph J. Isage
Switzerland
Stegart
Isaacs
Morse Bollack
Fire destroys Holy Rosary gym. losses reach 430000
Early today an alarm fire wrecked Holy Rosary School gymnasium at Bellevue. Loss estimated at 430000. Earlier fires in the West and nine lives lost, with Hungarian politics heating up as Freedom Party leader Deze Sulyok challenged the government and scheduled a rally near Szeged next Monday. Monsignor Howard McDowell confirmed details to reporters.
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Freedom' Party
Deze Sulyok
Hungary
Szeged
Sulyok
O Dwyer orders meat price probe
New York Mayor William O Dwyer ordered an investigation into meat price rises, noting costs rising from 6 to 16 cents per pound in a week. He asked Secretary of Agriculture Anderson to use his influence to ease the situation, calling the spike a shocking development amid signals of ample supply.
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Willam Odwyer
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Anderson
James Curley Faces Dangerous Cerebral Hemorrhage
Boston op position veteran James Curley, a political figure with nearly fifty years in public life, is reported by his physician to be in danger of cerebral hemorrhage.
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Boston
James Curley
Chuckle Preview: Foreman and Worker Banter in Odd Exchange
A quirky exchange features a foreman and a worker bantering about a job. Abbott chimes in as a playfully disjointed line reads “Maybe not,” highlighting a humorous, unfinished workplace moment with casual misstatements and garbled dialogue.
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Abbott-PhoninAn
390 Year's Toll New Airliner Crash Kills Hundreds
A Virginia crash of a Capital airliner raises total deaths to about 350 in major year crashes this year. Most fatalities were in the front of three DC-1 planes along the eastern U.S. in the last 14 days. Rescue parties push through rugged brush as crews search the mountain wreckage. The plane disappeared during a rain storm after radio contact with Martinsburg station. It was flying from Chicago to Washington, D C. Franklin reports locating wreckage and follows pilot’s path.
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