Seek Showdown In Battle for Berlin Control
Western powers and Russia faced off in a Berlin crisis as notes were handed to Moscow demanding the immediate lifting of the Berlin blockade. The messages, kept secret, urged end to surface traffic restrictions and warned that four power talks cannot resume until Berlin returns to normal, signaling a firm stance by the United States Britain and France.
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France
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Soviet Union
Farmers Warn Of Grasshopper Threat To Crops This Summer
Washington county Farm Bureau officials urge farmers to watch for rising grasshopper infestations and prepare to use sprays or poison bait. State entomologist recommends chlordane and toxaphone with restrictions on hay and pasture for three weeks. Benzene hexachloride also cited as an option where vegetation is sparse.
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Iowa State College
Harm Bureau
Griswold Sees U S Aid Shaping Greece and Europe
Athens July 843 Dwight Griswold head of the American aid mission to Greece says U S military and economic aid helped change European history. He argues that without aid Greece would not only face a communist Italy but a worse outcome in Turkey. Griswold notes Greek army advances on the Albanian border as a sign of progress and urges Greeks to avoid long term dependence on U S aid. Meanwhile Greek divisions push guerrilla positions along the Albanian border with a two week offensive nearing final stages.
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Dwight Griswold
Greece
United States
Europe
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Graveside Rites Held For Olive Easterday
Graveside services for Olive Easterday 68 of Long Beach Calif were held this morning at 11 in the Keota cemetery. Rev Walter Smith led the rites with Jones funeral home arranging. Born 1880 she was daughter of Otha Bush and lived in Long Beach for twenty years. Survived by son Floyd Easterday Kansas City Missouri and daughter Ruth Bush Long Beach California.
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Long Beach
Calif
Keota Cem
Etery
Walter Smith
Jones
Mrs. Easterday
Otha Bush
Ong Beach
Floyd LB. Easterday
Kansas City
Missouri
Ruth Bush
California
St James Church Plans Ice Cream and Strawberry Social
Members of St James church plan an ice cream and strawberry social at the St James school Wednesday evening. Event will start at five.
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St. James Church
St. James
Second Refusal of Candidacy By Eisenhower Fails to Dampen Enthusiasm
DES MOINES July UP Mrs. Gerald Newton, 14, a bride of four days, could not join her husband today. Hennie Faler's parents said they like their new son-in-law but feel Bonnie is too young. The girl and her 14 year old navy veteran husband kept the marriage from records by paying a courthouse clerk. District Judge C Edwin Moore said the girl claimed to be 18 and the husband 21. He said he was fooled by her appearance and now has the original license. Bonnie 5 feet 54 weighs 120 pounds. She said they are sure they want to stay married.
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Gerald Newton
Hennie Faler
Bonnie
C. Edwin Moore
Moore
Inquest Planned After Ottumwa Woman's Death
Ottumwa Iowa July 6 an inquest likely today will examine the death of Mrs Maxine Harsch whose body was recovered from the Des Moines River near Center Street dam Des Moines Officials identified the body as that of the Ottumwa Country Club secretary Her husband LeRoy a navy member stationed on Guam was en route to San Francisco at the time.
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Wapello County
Everett Orman
Maxine Harseh
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Country Club
LeRoy
Navy
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San Francisco
Harold Pickering
Tom McCarty
Fort Dodge
Pickering
McCarty
Holiday Deaths Pass 600 Mark
The Iowa Fourth of July death toll topped six hundred as heat related heart attacks and several accidents claimed lives. Victims include Harriet Currie 18 of Schaller and Eugene Fischer 18 Calumet both from holiday incidents near Storm Lake and Sutherland.
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United Press
Iowa
Eugene Fischer
Calumet
Little Sioux
Sutherland
Nation's Fourth of July toll tops carelessness in heat
United Press reports the July Fourth weekend death toll reached 655, with 296 highway fatalities and 204 drownings. Heat and weather damaged roads in Iowa, buckling pavement on highways near Wiota Anita Audubon Tabor Glenwood and Freemont Mills. California led in violent deaths with 54 others in Michigan Pennsylvania New York and Texas also high.
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Community Singing Home On The Range Playmates
A local singing event titled Home On The Range drew Playmates to a community program. Performers led residents in a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner as part of an afternoon gathering.
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Star Spangled Banner
Heavy rains flood parts of the Iowa region
Heavy rains caused widespread flooding with more than 5 inches at a dam northeast of Burlington and over 4 inches at several towns including Wapello Morning Sun Muscatine and Keokuk Lightning hit homes and a transformer at Keokuk Steel Casting cutting power The storm also disrupted morning Sun service and caused a power failure in Muscatine
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Lowden
Cedar County
Burlington
Wapello
Morning Sun
Muscatine
Keokuk
Hebner Services Held For Rev F P Ward Hebner
Funeral services for Rev. FPo ward S. Hebner were conducted Sunday at 3 PM in the Methodist church. Dr. Fred F. Miller led the service with assistance from Rev. W. A. Longnecker Rev. Walter Scheuerman and Rev. Walter Smith. Walter Smith and Mrs. Lyle Groves performed a line duet. Pallbearers included Earl Nicola James Philips A L Griffith R E Brown Homer Birney and P C Woods. Elm Grove cemetery burial arranged by Jones funeral home.
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Methodist
Fred F. Miller
W. A. Longnecker
Walter Scheuerman
Walter Smith
Lyle Groves
Earl Nicola
James Philips
A. L. Griffith
R. E. Brown
Homer Birney
P. C. Woods
Elm Grove Cemetery
Jones Funeral Home
Misplaced Jewelry Worth 150000 Stolen In Swindle
Southampton July 6 Mrs Rosemary War burton Gaynor wife of Dr William Gaynor told police she merely misplaced jewelry valued at 150000 dollars reported missing after a party. She said she wrapped the pieces in a towel and left them to be found in a laundry hamper on the estate.
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Southampton
N. Y
Rosemary Warburton Gaynor
William Gaynor
Gaynor
William K. Vanderbilt II
Election Tonight by Leon Beatty
Charles Hotle of the Leon Beatty American Legion post urged Legionaries to attend the annual officers election at the regular meeting in the Legion rooms at City Hall tonight. The session will be the last under the current officers.
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Leon Beatty American Legion
Legion
Legion Rooms
Cliss Kern Fined in Police Court for Illegal Signaling Device
In city police court Cliss Kern paid a $1 fine for operating an automobile with an illegal signaling device. His car was equipped with a whistle contrary to motor vehicle laws.
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Students Make Ends Meet at WVU as Loans Hold Steady
Morgantown West Virginia Officials say rising living costs have not boosted student loan demand at West Virginia University The loan program remains on par with previous years The emergency loan is popular among veterans when checks arrive late according to Loan Director Harry E Stone
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Morgantown
W. Va
West Virginia University
Harry E. Stone
Berlin Communists Demand Merger of City with Soviet Zone
Berlin leaders push to join all of Berlin to the Soviet occupation zone and drive Western powers from their sectors. The move follows a Soviet style plan for eastern Germany and comes as London circles reportedly weigh pulling out despite strong airlift into the city.
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London
Future Homemakers Meet in Kansas City
Forty-two delegates and advisers from 34 Iowa high schools will participate in the parade of states at the national convention of Future Homemakers of America in Kansas City Missouri. Betty Jean Witt of Le Mars a national officer will report on project accomplishments. Nancy Bowers Iowa state PHA president for 1948 49 will present how Iowa chapters are advancing home and family living efforts.
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Iowa
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le Mars
Nancy Bowers
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Hyde
Battery
Seek to Prolong Palestine Truce
LAKE SUCCESS New York July 6 The United States and Great Britain press Arab and Jewish leaders to extend the UN cease fire in Palestine. Count Bernadotte plans further talks as Security Council meets to discuss an extension while Russia and Ukraine critics may attack Western powers and the UN mediator.
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Security Council
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Rooster Hoax Revealed as Kookaburra Laugh
Linden residents complained of a morning wake up call from a rooster but police found the sound came from Frederick R. Hewitt’s short wave radio broadcasting a kookaburra call. The bird’s nickname is the laughing jackass.
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Berry cleaning method on Turkish towel noted
A brief tip from Sports Afield describes gently rolling blueberries downhill on a Turkish towel to remove debris. Sticks and unripe berries cling to the towel while ripe fruit separates and falls away.
Draft movement lingers as Ike portrait splits Democrats
Amid Ike's refusal to accept the Democratic nomination, delegates in New Jersey Texas Alabama and Georgia pledge to vote for Eisenhower if named at Philadelphia. Georgia and Alabama leaders push for a draft, while Texas hopefuls press to sway Ike to accept.
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James S. Peters
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L. Handy Filis
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Frank Hague
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Freedom House to honor Vandenberg in 1948 award
Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan has been chosen as the 1948 Freedom House Award recipient. The award will be presented at the organization’s seventh anniversary dinner at the Waldorf Astoria on October 19 with a bronze plaque inscription praising his leadership for a united American effort toward a free world.
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Freedom House
Harry D. Gideonse
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Miners to Practice at Lincoln School Grounds
The Washington YWCA mixers will hold a Wednesday evening practice at Lincoln school grounds starting at six o'clock. Coaches Don McClure and Wayne Chamberlin will help prepare the girls for their Thursday game.
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Washington Ywca
Lincoln School
Don McClure
Wayne Chamberlin
Aircraft Owners Group Set to Meet at Local Airport
Members of the Washington Chapter of the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association will meet Wednesday evening at eight o'clock at the local airport. Lester Woods chairs the group and announced the gathering today.
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Temple
Washington
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Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association
Lester Woods
Des Moines Weather Hot and Warm With Rainfall Noted
Fair and quite warm tonight and tomorrow with a high of 95 to 102 and a low around 75. Washington reported an official high of 89 degrees Monday. Rainfall Sunday evening in Des Moines measured two and one half inches.
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