Hotel room ransacked in Goldfine case records theft
Bernard Goldfine's secretary Miss Paperman reported her hotel room closet containing books records lists and other confidential files was emptied. Robb said stolen records could affect Goldfine testimony before the House committee investigating his ties to Sherman Adams. FBI and police were alerted and calls for an emergency subcommittee session followed.
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Washington
UPI
Bernard Goldfine
Goldfine
Mildred Paperman
Roger Robb
Boston Millionaire
House _ influence
Sherman Adams
Robb
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Drew Pearson
Baron Shacklette
Jack Anderson
Pearson
Jack Lotto
Subcommittee
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Lotto
FBI
Oliver Gasch
U.S
Miss Paperman
Timony
Boston
Harris
Cigarette Study Spurs Government Drive Against Smoking
Washington UPI. Surgeon General Dr. Leroy Burney announced a new government campaign to curb heavy cigarette use following a Public Health Service report linking excess smoking to lung cancer. The plan focuses on educational outreach as officials meet to finalize details this week.
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Burney
Public Health Service
Agriculture Department
United States
The
Rebels Ready to Free More U S Captives in Cuba
Cuban rebels said they would release more kidnaped Americans and Canadians as talks with U S authorities continued in Oriente Province. Four Americans and one Canadian freed Sunday while seven others remain captive as negotiations amid warnings of possible insurance holds by rebels.
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Havana
UPI
U. S
Park Wollam
Raul Castro
Oriente
John Schissler
Covina
Calif
Fidel
Schissler
Castro
Earl Smith
Wollam
Eugene Pflieder
St. Paul
Minn
Edwin Cordes
Fanwood
N. J
Harold Kristianson
Winnipeg
Canada
Roman Cecilia
Corn Borer Activity Detected in County
Corn borer moths were active last week with new egg masses reported. Farmers should inspect fields closely to assess infestation and consider treatment where 75 percent of plants show feeding in the whorl leaves. Profitability of corn borer control is noted for next week across Iowa.
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Iowa
Eight Hurt In Keota Area Car Collision
An accident three miles northwest of Keota at the Bob McDowell corner around 3 p m Sunday hospitalized eight people. Cars driven by Dean Richardson 25 Keota and Franklin Dean Kerkove 16 South English collided at a partially blind intersection. Mrs Kerkove was severely injured and unconscious at Sigourney hospital. Jim Young 15 Washington was also hospitalized with cuts and bruises.
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Keota
Here
Bob McDowell
Dean Richardson
Franklin Dean Kerkove
South English
Richardson Auto
Kerkove
Washington
Jim Young
Rites Tuesday For Nelson W. Thompson
Nelson W. Thompson 76 of 420 East Washington Street died at 1 45 p m Saturday July 5 1958 at Mercy Hospital Iowa City after a period as a patient since January Funeral services are set for 2 p m Tuesday at Sherman Funeral Home with Rev Lloyd A Latta officiating Burial will follow in Elm Grove Cemetery He was born November 4 1881 on a farm four miles southeast of town and moved to Washington in 1946 He married Ida Kracaw July 16 1908 she died September 29 1951 Survivors include one daughter Verle Gallagher of Washington two grandsons Richard and Robert Gallagher and three sisters and one brother are deceased
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East Washington Street
Mercy Hospital
Iowa City
Sherman
Lloyd A. Latta
Elm Grove
Mr. Thompson
Washington
Samuel
Ella
Maxwell) Thompson
Verle Gallagher
Richard
Robert Gallagher
Stolen Paintings Recovered Near Elgin Illinois Roadside
Eight prize paintings stolen from Laura Davidson Lear Academy of Fine Arts were found bundled in newspapers along Illinois Route 25, north of Elgin. A ninth work, The Last Supper by Benjamin West, may also be recovered, with finger prints pending.
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Elgin
Ill
UPI
Laura Davidson Lear
Illinois Highway Department
Ill. 25
Here
Ida Carsten
Benjamin West
C. Dean Chipman
Miss Carsten
Tintoretto
Carlo Dolci
Academy
Elgin Academy
Wheatfield
Winslow Homer
Ostend
James McNeil Whistler
George’ Inness
Frederick J. Waugh
Mary Cassatt
Betsy Hartigan
Gilbert Stuart
George Washington
Chipman
Algona Attorney Named To Iowa Supreme Court
Gov. Loveless appoints Luke E. Linnan of Algona to fill the late Justice W. A. Smith’s term on the Iowa Supreme Court. Linnan, 63, is a Democrat with 38 years of practice, law degrees from Iowa, and leadership roles in state and county bar associations. Smith died June 10 and was 88. term expires December 1960.
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Loveless
University of Iowa
Iowa Bar Assn
Kossuth County Bar Assn
Iowa
Supreme Court
Smith
Wisconsin Guard unit returns after summer training
Washingtons National Guard unit commanded by Capt Harold Stephens came home from Camp Haven Wisconsin Sunday morning. The local guardsmen completed annual summer training activities last weekend. They described the Wisconsin weather as rainy and similar to Iowa conditions over the past two weeks.
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Washington
National Guard
Harold Stephens
Camp Haven
Wis
Wisconsin
Red Cross reports generous gifts for Iowa flood relief
Dr Paul James heads the emergency Red Cross fund drive for southwestern Iowa floods. Contributions from Council Bluffs total 20000, Clarinda 6000, and Shelby County 5000, with a Defiance Legion post wiring 150. Officials expect over 250000 in aid from the drive, not counting household losses.
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Audubon
Iowa
James Heads
Southwest Association of Red Cross
Iowa Flood Damage Seen At 14 to 15 Million
Gov Herschel Loveless announced flood losses in southwestern Iowa may reach 14 to 15 million dollars, centering on the Nishna Valley from Audubon to Red Oak. Figures include road and bridge damage, utilities, and livestock losses with county totals and farm losses still being refined.
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Des Moines
UPI
Herschel C. Loveless
Iowa
Nishna Valley
Audubon
Red Oak
Racoon
Here
Iowa Asc Disaster Committee
ASC
Iowa Highway Commission
The
Red Cross
McCarty
Murray Praises Iowa School Reorganization Moves
Dr. William Murray a Republican gubernatorial candidate praised 67 Iowa communities for enacting school reorganization in the first half of this year. He urged comprehensive study before any reorganization and endorsed a three percent sales tax to ease education costs alongside property taxes.
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Northwood
Iowa
UPI
William Murray
Murray
Johnson predicts Senate to restore aid and act on defense plans
Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson told newsmen that the Senate will restore part of the House cut in the foreign aid program and take action on Eisenhower requests for a five year extension of the reciprocal trade program and Defense Department reorganization. He spoke as lawmakers returned from a long holiday weekend aiming to finish by mid August.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Senate
House
Eisenhower
Texan
Defense Department
Johnson
Robert A Wright 92 Native of Brighton Dies in Liberty NY
Robert A Wright age 92 a native of Brighton Iowa and former news editor of the Des Moines Register died in Liberty New York Sunday He also worked for the New York American St Louis Globe Democrat Emporia Republican and Sioux City Journal
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Robert A. Wright
Brighton
Liberty, N. Y
Liberty
N.Y
UPI
The
Des Moines Register
Wright
Brighton, Iowa
New York American
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Emporia Republican
Sioux City Journal
Toll climbs as seven Iowa deaths mark holiday weekend
United Press International reports seven people died in Iowa during the four day Fourth of July weekend starting Thursday. Fatalities include five traffic deaths a drowning a plane crash and a train strike. Oregon and Delaware show mixed records across the nation.
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United Press International
Iowa
Leonard L. Schmidt
Davenport
U.S. 6
St. Luke's Hospital
Merrill Miller
Diagonal
Victor
Lowa
South Omaha
Missouri River
Jon Michael Weaver
Columbus
Neb
Darrell Jones
Council Bluffs
Allen Gerdes
Cedar Rapids
Chain Lake
Palo
Marvin Renshaw
Clear Lake
Renshaw
N.L. Jackson
McCllelland
Rock Island Lines
McClleland
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
California
Texas
New York
Missouri
Ohio
Louisiana
Georgia
Michigan
Delaware
North Dakota
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Mexico
Oregon
Vermont
Wyoming
Marilyn Schweitzer Starts Four Month Visit to Formosa
News service from Tapei reports Marilyn Joyce Schweitzer Washington county extension home economist arrived Sunday for a four month stay as an American grass roots ambassador to Nationalist China. On leave of absence from her extension duties she will visit 12 Chinese farm families under a 4 H club program to foster better understanding between Americans and Chinese.
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Tapei
Formosa
Marilyn Joyce Schweitzer
Washington County
China
Miss Schwietzer
Whales retracts confession over atom bomb letter hoax
Ipswich England William Stanley Whales 34 a former RAF pilot and unemployed farmhand retracts his prior signed confession claiming he wrote a letter to the Soviet embassy describing plans to drop an atomic bomb off England. He now says the confession was faked and that its aims were to call attention to RAF ills.
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Ipswich
England
UPI
William Stanley Whales
Whales
Royal Air Force
Eric Oxborrow
Criminal Investigation Department
RAF
Russia
U.S
Air Force
Fighting Flares Around Beirut Amid Civil Unrest
Rebel and government forces clashed for about half an hour around Beirut's main square near offices of U.S. firms as the political crisis deepened. A bomb hit the Beirut post office area with no casualties reported. Northern Tripoli saw ongoing, desultory fighting overnight, with no confirmed deaths. Pro government papers attacked U.N. officials over accusations of Syrian intervention.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPI
U.S
Tripoli
Mild, Fair Weather Ahead for Iowa Forecast
Iowa will see mild and fair weather for several days. A dry cool high pressure system moves in from the northwest Tuesday and Wednesday with below normal temperatures, then a gradual warmup and possible showers Friday and Saturday. Highs reach 70s in the north to lower 80s in the south. lows mainly 40s to 50s. The five day outlook shows 2 to 4 degrees below normal then increasing. Sunday highs include 84 at Cedar Rapids and 74 at Mason City.
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Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Mason City
Spencer
Ottumwa
Soviet Free Nine American Airmen From Armenia Incident
The Soviet Union released nine U.S. airmen captured when a CilS transport was forced down by Soviet fighters near Erevan Armenia on June 27. Radio Moscow said the crew was handed to U.S. authorities at Astara on the Iran border and reported the aircraft burned on landing but the crew were safe.
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London
Soviet Union
U.S
Armenia
Radio Moscow
Astara
Iran
Erevan
Pakistan
West Germany
Cyprus
County 4-H Members Start Trip to Carolina
A bus with Washington County 4-H Club members and adult advisors left early to visit Haywood County North Carolina. The trip marks the final phase of a two year exchange program with the Carolina 4-H group that visited their county last summer.
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Washington County
4-H Club
Haywood County
North Carolina
Luis
Weather IOWA Five Day Forecast Mostly Fair And Mild
Five day outlook for Iowa shows mostly fair and mild conditions through Tuesday with cooler southeast tonight. Highs reach 70s in the north and lower 80s in the far south, with nights in the 40s to 50s. A touch warmer Wednesday keeps the fair pattern, temperatures about 2 to 4 degrees below normal through Saturday. normal highs near 88 and lows around 60.
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United Press International
Iowa
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