Dean Delivers Final Offer in Korean Peace Talks
United Nations envoy Arthur H. Dean presented a take-it-or-leave-it plan for a Korean peace conference. South Korea objected to seating India as pro neutral, and the Communists rejected inviting the Soviet Union, threatening to end negotiations as hopes for a settlement sagged since talks began October 26.
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Panmunjom
Korea
South Korea
United Nations
Arthur H. Dean
Pyong Yung Tae
Dean
India
Russia
North Korea
Red China
Ki Sok Bok
Soviet Union
Subpena Witnesses For Ransom Hearing
Federal grand jury in Kansas City subpoenas 11 St. Louis witnesses for Monday in the Bobby Greenlease ransom inquiry. Four police officers and a clerk from Newstead Police Station testified about the night Hall and Heady were arrested and the missing ransom.
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ST. Louis
Federal Grand Jury
Kansas City
Bobby Greenlease
Newstead
Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Heady
Louis Shoulders
Hall
Heady
Shoulders
Raymond Bergmeyer
Alex McGee
Thomas Crowe
Carl Schottier
Philco to Acquire Dexter Company Assets
Philco Corporation to acquire the net assets of the Dexter company of Fairfield Ohio, in exchange for 70,000 Philco shares. Dexter stockholders must approve. special meeting set for later this month. Dexter has produced home laundry equipment for 59 years with plants at Fairfield and Alliance.
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Philadelphia
Philco Corporation
Dexter Company
Fairfield
Dexter
Mr. Balderston
Philco
Tom B. Hunt
Alliance
Ohio
Newcomer Clifford Wheaton Joins Brown's Shoe Fit Force
Clifford Wheaton is a new member of the Brown's Shoe Fit force. He hails from Fairfield and recently worked in Tipton. His listed hobby is hunting. He will commute daily from Fairfield until he finds a sleeping room locally.
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Clifford Wheaton
The
Force
Brown
Fairfield
Tipton
Seek Trade Stamp Ruling in Appeal
Iowa Supreme Court was asked to rule again on the constitutionality of the gift enterprise law barring trade gift stamps. District Judge Moore previously held the 44 year old statute unconstitutional and injunctions blocked prosecutions, with Sperry and Hutchinson Co. seeking to lift the probe. Five Iowa firms joined the appeal seeking to overturn the ruling and allow enforcement.
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DES Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
Towa
C. Edwin Moore
Iowa
Atty
Leo Hoegh
Sperry and Hutchinson Co
New York
Moore
Mrs Eisenhower III Cancels Appointments
The White House said First Lady Mamie Eisenhower is confined to bed with a bronchial condition and canceled all appointments for the rest of the week. The illness appears to have grown from a cold contracted in Augusta during Thanksgiving. Secretary Mary Jane McCaffree noted the President stayed in contact by phone from Bermuda during the Big Three conference.
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Washington
White House
Mamie Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Augusta
Mary Jane McCaffree
Bermuda
Des Moines Police Crack Down on Speed to Enforce Limits
Des Moines police launched a speed enforcement drive after a survey found 72 percent of motorists exceed the limit. Police Chief Howard Eide said the crackdown corrects the belief that minor excesses evade arrest.
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Des Moines
Howard Eide
Eide
Two Gunmen Rob Clinton Tavern for About 190 Dollars
Two gunmen robbed The Jug tavern in Clinton's North End Monday night, taking about 190 dollars. They, both in their 40s, fled after the heist as police described. One man sat drinking for 30 minutes before leaving and returning with a second man wearing glasses and a false nose. They ordered the operators Bob Benis and Floyd McGee and four patrons to lie on the floor, one patron hurling a beer at Benis.
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Clinton
North End
Jug Tavern
Bob Benis
Floyd McGee
Benis
Report Sought on Beating of Patient at State Hospital
Iowa Legislative Interim Committee plans to obtain a State Bureau of Criminal Investigation report on a beating of an epileptic 8 year old at Woodward State Hospital. Sen. X. T. Prentis said the child bore two inch wide strap marks after punishment by a hospital attendant. Parents withdrew him after learning of the incident. the bureau has investigated.
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Des Moines
Iowa Legislative Interim Committee
State Bureau of Criminal Investigation
Woodward State Hospital
X. T. Prentis
Rmount Ayr
Prentis
State Bureau
Attorneys Argue For Segregation In Schools
Southern state attorneys urged the Supreme Court that practical conditions require separate schools for colored and white children in 17 states. Negro attorneys said state segregation laws violate the Constitution and contradict past high court rulings as the Eisnhower era dispute over race and schooling drew deep into the second day of oral arguments. The case drew attention to the administration's stance with Assistant Attorney General Rankin arguing for a neutral objective position and Attorney General Brownell asserting the 14th Amendment aimed to end state race-based laws.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Supreme Court
Eisenhower
South
J. Lee Rankin
Herbert Brownell Jr
McCarthy Telegram Outpouring Reaches 24000 Wires
White House records show 24 400 telegrams received since Thursday after Senator Joseph McCarthy urged citizens to press the President on U S aid to nations trading with Red China. Assistant Press Secretary Murray Snyder gave the 10 30 a m update with no breakdown of pro and anti telegrams. The earlier report noted a 2 to 1 tilt in favor of McCarthy's stance.
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Washington
McCarthy
White House
Murray Snyder
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
U. S
China
Snyder
Striking Engravers Called Into Meeting
New York photo engravers from Local No. 1 were summoned to a 1 pm general meeting as federal mediators presented a settlement plan to union and management negotiators. The 400 members must ratify any agreement, while a three man panel proposed a potential year long labor peace.
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New York
New York City
Denis M. Burke
AFL International Photo-Engravers Union
Walter A. Maggiolo
Noon Luncheon for Washington Women at YWCA
Employed women and girls in Washington are reminded of a noon luncheon in the YWCA rooms on Wednesday at 12. The combined November December turkey dinner will be served and the meal ends by 12 50.
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Washington
YWCA
Iowa State Adopts Purity or Germination Seed Tests
ISU changes seed testing plan to allow tests by purity only or by germination only. This adjustment gives growers option to focus on seed quality aspects most relevant to their needs and market requirements.
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Iowa State College
Concert Band to Play At School Tonight
Washington high school concert band directed by Melvin A Hill will present its first concert of the season at an evening time. Tickets will be available at the high school prior to the program in the auditorium.
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Washington
Melvin A. Hill
P.m
U S Prisoners In Korea Request Christmas Tree
At Panmunjom the 22 pro-Communist Americans held by North Korea asked for a Christmas tree with decorations candy and cakes for a Christmas morning celebration. Allied efforts to win them back continue as interviews with remaining prisoners proceed.
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Panmunjom
North Camp
Jaycees Decorate Square with Trees
The city square fills with 44 Christmas trees erected by 28 Junior Chamber of Commerce members. Local merchants supplied trees and lighting gear while Gordon Cooper Dick Ross and Jake Batterson chair the tree committee to oversee decoration and lighting planned by Wednesday.
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Chamber of Commerce
Gordon Cooper
Dick Ross
Jake Batterson
Woman refuses aid as nephew starves in cabin
In Staley North Carolina authorities refused to force medical help on 78 year old widow Mary Mines and her tethered 36 year old nephew George Fox. Mayor John Staley said neighbors fear she is too ill to eat for a week or more. Police and welfare officials reported Fox is emaciated and the woman says a deathbed vow requires she care for him alone.
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Staley
Fox
W. L. Ledman
James E. Burgess
Mrs. Mines
Marriage Licenses Issued in Davenport and Iowa City Couples
Marriage licenses issued by the county clerk on Monday to Melvin W. Forhardt and Esther Ellen Bauer of Davenport and to Patrick Arthur Brophy and Shirley Lou Young of Iowa City.
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Melvin W. Forhardt
Esther Ellen Bauer
Davenport
Patrick Arthur Brophy
Shirley Lou Young
Iowa City
Pamela Martin Sets New Flight Record
Pamela Martin, a 23 year old artist and copywriter, set a globe circling record for commercial airlines with an elapsed time of 90 hours 68 minutes, landing at Midway Airport at 7 11 a.m. CST after leaving Chicago eastbound Friday. The unofficial times may be corrected. She surpassed the previous record of 99 hours 16 minutes by 8 hours 18 minutes aboard a United Airlines aircraft from Denver under overcast conditions.
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Chicago
Pamela Martin
Midway Airport
Miss Martin
Nellie Bly
Martin
United Airlines
Denver
Colo
Chet Akers Seeks Re-election as Iowa State Auditor
Des Moines Iowa C B Chet Akers 65 a longtime state auditor announced he will run for the Republican nomination for re election next year Akers notes three decades in private business and fifteen years in public life and cites WW II service with the American Legion role as state vice commander in 1954 and his entry into office alongside Governor George A Wilson in 1938.
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Des Moines
C. B
Chet) Akers
Iowa
Akers
Ottumwa Commercial College
Omaha
France
American Legion
George A. Wilson
Lindquist Victor Wins Fight to Stay in U S
Ernest Ole Lindquist a 63 year old Sweden native who spent years in a prison faced deportation before an Immigration Department inquiry officer dropped efforts to remove him. The decision, pending Washington board review, ends a long battle dating to his 1905 arrival and was aided by prior pardons for a 1909 police slaying in Iowa and a 1908 burglary pardon in Idaho.
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Omaha
Neb
Ernest
Ole) Lindquist
United States
Sweden
Immigration Department
Immigration Department Board
Washington
Lindquist
William Beardsley
Carroll
Iowa
Idaho
Adult Farm Class Discusses Soil Conservation
A panel will present Soil Conservation on Your Farm at 8 p.m. Thursday December 10 in the agriculture room at Washington High School. The Adult Farmer Evening Class hosts renters owners and operators with Paul Boettcher Tom Robb Jim Birney and Herbert Campbell on the panel moderated by Verne Knecht.
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Washington High School
Paul Boettcher
Soil Conservation Service
Tom Robb
County Extension Office
Jim Birney
Herbert Campbell
Verne Knecht
Trapped All Night Beneath Tractor Near Burr Oak
Leonard Wicks, 35, of Burr Oak area, spent about 16% hours trapped between a tractor and a log in rain and snow. The accident occurred around 4:30 p.m. Saturday. neighbor George Emery found him at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. He suffered exposure with part of his face frozen to the tractor.
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Decorah
Leonard Wicks
Wicks
Burr Oak
George Emery
Stenographer Receives Large Inheritance on Birthday
Mrs. Della M. McKeon, a retired stenographer, received an inheritance of 479730 dollars in a lawyer's office on her 68th birthday. She plans to keep the money in trust, continue making her own clothes, and lead a quiet life without travel, staying with her daughter in St. Louis County.
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ST. Louis
Della M. McKeon
Funeral services for Everitte Shearer
Funeral services held at 2 p.m. Monday at Jones Funeral Home with Rev. Carl Stiefel officiating. Soloist Mrs. Larry Trotter. Pallbearers Lee Norris Fred Hawkins William Smylie Blair Wood Harold Nichols Charles Nash. Burial in Ainsworth Cemetery.
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Everitte Shearer
Jones Funeral Home
Carl Stiefel
Larry Trotter
Lee Norris
Fred Hawkins
William Smylie
Blair Wood
Harold Nichols
Charles Nash
Ainsworth Cemetery
Convict Wellman Man On Bad Check Charge
Delmar Butterbaugh of Wellman pleaded guilty in district court to false making and uttering a bank check. This was his fifth offense on bad check charges. Judge J. G. Patterson sentenced him to one year in the state penitentiary at Fort Madison.
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Delmar Butterbaugh
Wellman
Butterbaugh
J. G. Patterson
Fort Madison
Mother Hopes to See Prisoner Son in Korea Visit
A Minnesota mother, Portia N. Howe of Alden, sails toward Tokyo hoping to reach Korea to see her son Pfc. Richard F. Tenneson and 21 other American POWs who refused repatriation. Defense officials say visits require Neutral Nations Commission approval, while Howe awaits possible access to a Christmas tree plan among the prisoners.
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Washington
Minnesota
Portia N. Howe
Alden
Minn
Defense Department
Mrs. Howe
Korea
August H. Andresen
Rminn
Neutral Nations Commission
Funeral Wednesday For Sam Davis 83 Crawfordsville
Funeral services for Sam Davis of Crawfordsville will be held at 1 30 p m Wednesday at the Salem Presbyterian church. Davis died Sunday in Crawfordsville with Jones funeral home in charge of arrangements.
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Sam Davis
Crawfordsville
Salem Presbyterian Church
Mr. Davis
Evening Journal
Jones Funeral Home
Redlinger Admitted to Mercy Hospital Iowa City
M J Redlinger was admitted to Mercy hospital in Iowa City for observation on Sunday. He is listed in room 325 and he would like to hear from his friends.
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M. J. Redlinger
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Bermuda meeting signals step toward peace and unity
The Western Big Three Eisenhower Churchill and Lantel pledged not to pursue aggression and urged German reunification with Eastern Europe freed. They backed a four power approach and proposed a January 4 Berlin foreign ministers meeting after delivering joint Moscow notes, noting no final decisions yet.
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Tucker
Bermuda
Germany
Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Joseph Lantel
Russia
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
Berlin
Perry PTA pushes curfew study after teen stabbing
Perry representatives urged the City Council to study a new teenager curfew law following a stabbing of a 14 year old boy after a basketball game. A second teen is being held in Adel in the incident. The PTA asks to set a 9 p m curfew with flexible later hours on weekends and holidays. The council will receive a report from the Perry High Spehee student council on teen views.
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PERRY
LLP
Perry Pta
Adel
PTA
Perry High Spehee
Iowa Weather Summary From United Press
Snow and rain expected in the north and west with snow or rain in the southeast and colder air. Wednesday cloudy and colder across the southeast with snow flurries ending there. Low temperatures range 18 to 35, highs 32 to 38. Thursday mainly cloudy with some sun and cooler air. Overall five day outlook shows temperatures 2 to 6 degrees above normal midweek.
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United Press
Iowa
Pere
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