Communists Open Talks On Ending Hostilities
Chinese Communists said they are willing to negotiate a peace settlement with the Nationalist government and would use Peiping as the talks site. They cite Mao Zedong eight points and warn war criminals will be pursued while objecting to Peng Chao-Hsien as a peace representative.
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Shanghai
Peiping
Shensi
Mao Tze-Tung
Chiang Kai-Shek
Li Tsung-Jen
Peng
Peng Chao-Hsien
Kuomintang Central Committee
Nanking
Riot at Jap Army Club Injures Four U S Soldiers
Four American soldiers were shot and one stabbed in a Camp Crawford riot on Hokkaido Island. Military police were forced to shoot as they tried to quell the trouble in an enlisted men’s club amid a clash between the 11th Airborne and the Seventh Division. Three wounded seriously. one cut while escaping. another stabbed near a barracks. Victims’ names withheld pending family notification.
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Tokyo
Camp Crawford
Hokkaido Island
Allied
11Th Airborne
Seventh Divisions
Korea
Japan
United States
Weather in Des Moines Forecast Warm by Tomorrow
Des Moines weather reports cloudy skies with occasional light snow mainly in east and south. Sleet or freezing drizzle possible in extreme southeast. Temperatures rise slowly with lows 0 to 5 above in the west and 10 to 15 above in the east tonight. Highs tomorrow reach about 10 to 15 in the northwest and around 20 in the southeast.
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Des Moines
Hobby Show Plans Object of Meeting
Washington representatives from YMCA YWCA boys and girls 4H Campfire girls Boy Scouts and other groups will meet at the YMCA at eight tonight to discuss a hobby show and gauge interest in starting the event in Washington.
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Washington
YMCA
YWCA
Boys and Girls 4H
Campfire Girls
Boy Scouts
KC Meeting Agenda With Program and Game Supper
The regular K. C. meeting will be held in the K. C. hall Thursday evening, followed by a program and a game supper.
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K. C
K. C. Hall
Funeral services for Mrs Ray H Dean held at St James church
Funeral services for Mrs Ray H Dean were held at nine this morning at St James Catholic Church with Rev H J Corcoran in charge. Rosary was recited at Sherman's funeral home Monday evening. Pallbearers were Ed Squire T A Michels A E Baldridge Albert Donovan Will Dupuis Dr J A Marie.
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Ray H. Dean
St. James Catholic Church
H. J. Corcoran
Sherman
Ed Squire
T. A. Michels
A. E. Baldridge
Albert Donovan
Will Dupuis
J. A. Marie
Waltonians Plan Year's Projects
Over 100 members of the Chicagua Izaak Walton league met to review a 1949 program. The group discussed a Hayes timber tract park plan and named a committee to study the site. Membership totals reached 450 with goals to enlist another member per attendee by February. An oyster supper followed the campaign. The club also arranged game birds and noted a $700 Fairfield Walton chapter payment toward drilling a well for a farmer cut off by the Washington county lake project. Izaak Walton league members also pushed to secure land options for the lake site.
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Chicagua
Izaak Walton League
W. F. W. Hall
Reuben Scharf
Iowa City
Clarence Fulton
T. B. Bailey
Frank B. Miller
R. E. Shannon
Harold Mangold
Brannon
Fairfield Walton
Washington County
Heavy ice coats Washington streets and sidewalks
A heavy coating of ice remains on streets and sidewalks in Washington as bitterly low temperatures prevent thawing of last week’s ice and snow accumulation. The frigid conditions continue to hinder travel and daily activities in the city.
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Washington
Haylift hailed by stockmen as 100 percent effective
Stockmen praised the air force haylift as fully effective and urged more U. S. planes to save two million cattle and sheep starving in deep snow. Operations out of Ely Nevada and Lowry Field Denver tapped C-12s to drop hay and cottonseed cake, with federal support from Truman and interior agencies coordinating relief efforts.
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Air Force
Ely
Nev
Lowry Field
Denver
Nebraska
Bert Paris
Nevada
Paris
Truman
Secretary of Interior
J. A. Krug
Michael W. Strauss
Meeting of the Ma sonic Lodge in Temple on Wednesday
The third degree will be conferred as the Ma sonic lodge meets in the Temple on Wednesday evening January 26.
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Masonic Lodge
Temple
Overnight Low of Eight Above and Snow Threat
Last night’s official low stood at eight degrees above zero as overcast skies hung overhead. Snow may return as a trace that fell previously complicates the current forecast.
Keota Man Held on Bad Check Charge
Claude Thompson of Keota is held in Washington county jail after arrest by Sheriff Charles C. Snyder. He will be taken before Judge Frank Bechly Wednesday at 1 30 PM to face a bad check charge.
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Claude Thompson
Keota
Washington County
Charles C. Snyder
Frank Bechly
Republicans to Fight Labor Law Plans of Demos
Washington January 25 Republicans oppose rapid repeal of the Taft Hartley act under a plan to amend the Wagner act. Senate labor committee voted to end hearings by February 10 as Democrats press for action. Taft calls Pepper proposal a face saving move while Houshold labor leaders push for changes and hearings.
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Demos
Washington
Robert A. Taft
Senate Labor Committee
Elbert D. Thomas
Utah
Truman
Thomas
Claude Pepper
Fla
Pepper
Taft
Iowa University to host public opinion conference
University of Iowa President Virgil Hancher announced a February conference on public opinion research to examine the disparity between poll findings and election returns. The program will feature poll experts George Gallup Archibald Crossley and Elmo Roper along with 20 professors, poll conductors, and newsmen.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Virgil Hancher
George Gallup
Archibald Crossley
Elmo Roper
Francis
Mrs. Hattie McGrew Taken at Junction
Mrs. Hattie McGrew 73 long-time Columbus Junction resident died at her Main street home Monday night after a brief illness. Funeral at the Methodist church with Rev. J. B. Pooley. burial in Oak Cemetery. Survived by two sons Dr Edwin McGrew and Carleton, daughter Mrs Fay Greiner, two sisters, one brother, two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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Columbus Junction
Hattie McGrew
Main Street
Methodist Church
J. B. Pooley
Oak Cemetery
Thompson J
Annie Stamp Klotz
O. W. McGrew
Keokuk
Grandview
Whatsoever and
Priscilla Club
Edwin McGrew
Oklahoma
Carleton
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Washington County Tops Iowa CROP Fund Drive
Washington County led Iowa in 1948 Thanksgiv ing week CROP donations with 18 301 credited to the county. Jasper County followed with 18 271 and Buena Vista near 18 000. County auditor Fred Bourgeois chaired the CROP effort, with Rev Carl F Stiefel directing sixteen southeastern Iowa counties.
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Washington County
Iowa
Kirk Fox
Successful Farming
Jasper County
Buena Vista
Fred Bourgeois
Washington
Carl F. Stiefel
Ainsworth
Conference Panelists Include H Russell on Public Affairs Program
H Russell, director of the state department office of public affairs, is listed on the conference program. The aim of the event is to explore how to know what the people think.
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H. Russell
State Department Office of Public Affairs
Wednesday Program Clarifies Carol Brewer Appearance
The Journal notes a Monday item misstated details of Carol Brewer's radio appearance. Miss Brewer is scheduled to appear on the program this Wednesday as announced.
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Carol Brewer
Miss Brewer
Iowa Senate Approves Lappen and Primary Bill Introduced
Iowa Senate confirmed Gov Beardsley appointee Robert Lappen to the state board of control. House passed bills on free postage for legislators tax exemptions for public use and hotel records, plus a Mississippi river bottomland sale to Aluminum Co of America for 5200 dollars. A presidential primary bill creating ranked choice ballots was introduced in the Senate.
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Senate
Lappen
House
Des Moines
Iowa Senate
William S. Beardsley
Robert Lappen
State Board of Control
Herbert Hauge
Hauge
Missisippi River
Davenport
Aluminum Company of America
State Office Building Committee
Stanley Hart
Keokuk
H. A. Moore
New Hartford
John A. Walker
Williams
Highway Commission
Republican Committee
Fatality Free Year in Many Iowa Counties and Cities
Twenty nine of sixty one Iowa counties over four thousand population in the 1948 state traffic safety contest had fatality free records. Among cities over twenty five thousand none escaped a traffic death. several mid sized towns also posted zero fatalities. Cities Ames Keokuk Muscatine Oska loosa and others achieved zero deaths in the year.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Public Safety Department
Ames
Keokuk
Muscatine
Oskaloosa
Charles City
Cherokee
Fairfield
Knoxville
Shenandoah
Spencer
Webster City
Albia
Atlantic
Chariton
Decorah
Grinnell
Perry
Red Oak
Martha Duncan Program Time Change on WOI
The notice states the Martha Duncan program will appear on WOI Wednesday at 8 45 instead of the previously stated time yesterday.
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Martha Duncan
WOI
Eastern European Nations Form Slavic Alliance Against Marshall Plan
Russia announced a six nation east bloc including Russia Bulgaria Hungary Poland Romania and Czechoslovakia to counter the Marshall plan and Atlantic defense. Yugoslavia was excluded amid Cominform tensions. The pact aims at economic cooperation and a Soviet style Molotov Plan parallel.
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London
Russia
Europe
Bulgaria
Hungary
Poland
Romania
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
East
Eastern Union
Prague
Western
Germany
Austria
Moscow
Communist Party
Klement Gottwald
Crimea
Joseph Stalin
Missionary's Hip Fracture Cancels Washington Talk
Ann Elizabeth Taylor, a Presbyterian missionary, fractured her hip in a Sunday Iowa City fall and the Washington church event was canceled. Dr. William J. Grossheim, with John Hughes and Harry Ramseyer, visited an Iowa City hospital and attended a Presbytery meeting there.
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Ann Elizabeth Taylor
Washington Presbyterian Church
Iowa City
William J. Grossheim
Grossheim
John Hughes
Harry Ramseyer
Chamber Meeting Date Changed to January 31
Washington Chamber of Commerce board announces the annual meeting moved from Thursday January 27 to Monday January 31 to avoid the Golden Gloves event at the YMCA. Secretary John C. Lee says notices were mailed and refunds offered for those with dinner reservations unable to attend. Members urged to confirm attendance and return mailed reservation blanks.
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Washington Chamber of Commerce Board
John C. Lee
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce
Nine votes approve Pleasant Valley school bond in Davenport
In Pleasant Valley township nine votes, all for, carried a $20,000 school bond issue. Assistant Scott County Attorney Martin Leir ruled the ballots sufficient. About 250 votes are normally cast in the township.
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Davenport
Pleasant Valley
Scott County
Martin Leir
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