Chamber of Commerce plans Wash ington fall celebration on Sept 21
John Ganon announces a one day event featuring the Jay Gould free circus on the square at 2 and 4 p m. A kiddie parade will grant free tickets to rides. The program includes corn show awards with Howard Hill presiding and a potential tall corn contest. Committee members include Ralph Martin Clarence Logan Ken Peters Bill Boshart Howard Benn Harold Jarvis and Bob Wiley.
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Chamber of Commerce
Washington
John Ganon
Jay Gould
Mr. Ganon
Ralph Martin
Clarence Logan
Ken Peters
Bill Boshart
Howard Benn
Harold Jarvis
Bob Wiley
Aiken Criticizes Dairy Price Support Increase
Senator George D. Aiken attacked the Senate Agriculture Committee for approving an 8.5 percent parity boost for dairy price supports. He warned butter prices could rise about 8 cents per pound and said the move would remove butter from tables. The change, set for Sept. 1 for one year, goes to the Senate floor as part of farm legislation.
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Washington
George D. Aiken
Senate Agriculture Committee
Vermont
Republican
Aiken
Agriculture Committee
Senate
Four Puerto Rican Fanatics Receive Maximum Sentences
Four Puerto Rican Nationalist Party members convicted of five counts of assault with intent to kill for the March 1 shooting at the House gallery were given maximum prison terms. Lolita Lebron received 16 years eight months to 50 years, while Rafael Cancel Miranda Andres Figueroa Cordero and Irving Flores Rodriguez were sentenced to 25 to 75 years each.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Lolita Lebron
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Andres Figueroa Cordero
Irving Flores Rodriguez
Alvin M. Bentley
R-Mich
Clifford Davis
D-Tenn
A-Iowa
George H. Fallon
D-Md
Kenneth A. Roberts
Ala
Bentley
Roberts
Revolutionary Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Lebron
Italian Officials Break Up Spy Ring
Rome authorities arrested five suspects in a spy ring accused of stealing top secret NATO documents for Russia. Federal police counter intelligence said they searched for more agents and noted ongoing investigations.
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Rome
NATO
Russia
Federal Police Counterintelligence
French Premier Seeks Private Talks in Geneva Before Indochina Talks
In Geneva Pierre Mendes France plans a private huddle with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov ahead of a key Indochina conference phase. Paris dispatches say Mendes France may also meet Chou En Lai and Molotov arrived in Geneva with ministers en route for the talks.
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Pierre Mendes France
V. M. Molotov
Paris
Chou En-Lai
Mendes-France
Molotov
Harold Jarvis Named Legion Commander
Harold Jarvis was named commander of the Leon Beatty American Legion post for the coming year, succeeding retiring commander Tommie Tucker. Officers named include Earl Galloway, Max Donaldson, Don Hazen, Everett Burham, Rev. Basil McBee, George Baker, Cloyce Stewart, and executive board members Tommie Tucker, E. B. Ward, and M. L. Brown. Installation set for July 20 during the annual chicken supper. Reports note a successful Fourth of July celebration and announce the county Legion meeting to be held in Wellman on July 13.
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Leon Beatty American Legion
Mr. Jarvis
Tommie Tucker
Earl Galloway
Max Donaldson
Don Hazen
Everett Burham
Basil McBee
George Baker
Cloyce Stewart
E. BE. Ward
M. L. Brown
Kalona Legion Post
Washington Post
YWCA Sponsors Farm Trip for Local Girls and Brothers
The Washington YWCA plans a July 15 trip to the James Birney farm for girls from first to fifth grade and their brothers. Departure is 10 a.m. from the YMCA. bring a sack lunch and a nickel for drinks. Transportation provided, register by telephone. activities include a pony ride, supervised play, meadow lunch, and farm animal viewing. Mothers invited to accompany.
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Washington Ywca
YMCA
James Birney
Washington
Ywca Committee
Birney Farm
Hickenlooper to Be Keynote Speaker At GOP Convention
Sen Bourke B. Hickenlooper will be keynote speaker at the Iowa Republican State Convention in Des Moines on July 23. George Strayer of Hudson named temporary convention chairman. Straver, Black Hawk County farmer, heads Iowa Republican farm council. Warren Rees of Anamosa chosen as temporary chairman and keynote for the Republican judicial convention in Fort Dodge on July 30.
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Des Moines
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
R-la
Iowa
Don Pierson
GOP
George Strayer
Hudson
Pierson
Straver
Black Hawk County
Iowa Republican Farm Council
Hickenlooper
Senate
Warren Rees
Fort Dodge
Rees
Iowa Central Committee
Family charged with stalling in Sheppard case in Ohio
BAY VILLAGE Ohio authorities accuse the family of Dr Samuel Sheppard of flagrant stalling and press for immediate questioning of the doctor about his wife’s death early Sunday. The coroner says cooperation was expected but lacking. Police say an 18 inch iron pipe was not the murder weapon.
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Bay Village
Ohio
Samuel Sheppard
Cuyahoga County
Samuel Rerber
Eisenhower urges prompt action on anti-Red bills
President Eisenhower pressed congressional leaders to move quickly on stalled anti-subversive legislation. GOP Senators said much of the weekly briefing centered on the anti-Communist measures and plans to advance them despite Senate Judiciary Committee delays. The bills would liquidate Communist dominated groups bar subversives from defense plants strip citizenship from Communists permit wiretap evidence in security prosecutions and impose the death penalty for espionage in peacetime.
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Washington
Eisenhower
GOP
Senate
Homer Ferguson
R-Mich
GOP Policy Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
Ferguson
William Langer
R-N. D
Judiciary Committee
Board Opens Study of Oak Ridge Strike
A presidential fact finding board was appointed by President Eisenhower to study the Oak Ridge and Paducah strike by CIO production workers. The board will pursue legal steps under Taft Hartley to end the strike while officials say full and maximum uranium production will be maintained at the plants.
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Oak Ridge, Tenn
Tennessee
Kentucky
Eisenhower
CIO
Oak Ridge
Paducah
White House
Utility Workers Accept Final Offer From Iowa Power and Light
AFL electrical workers accepted a final offer from Iowa Power and Light, averting a walkout that would affect about 100 Iowa communities. About 600 Local 499 members approved the contract 60 to 40, granting 5 percent across the board plus 1 percent in fringe benefits after three company and two union proposals.
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Des Moines
AFL Electrical Workers
Iowa Power and Light Co
Iowa
C. E E. Nordstrom
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Council Bluffs
Reuther Disagrees With Weeks About Employment Report
Secretary Sinclair Weeks said unemployment trend reversed and mixed gains in June. CIO President Walter Reuther criticized the report as showing stagnation and continued weakness with widespread unemployment despite needs of American families.
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Reuther
Washington
Sinclair Weeks
Commerce-Labor Department
CIO
Walter B. Reuther
High Winds Injure Eighteen in Midwest
Severe weather swept the Midwest injuring at least 18 as a funnel cloud tore a pavilion roof at the Jersey County Fair in Jerseyville Illinois. About 1,500 people waited to enter when the wind struck and four were hospitalized.
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California
Jersey County
Jerseyville
Irvington
Ill
Los Angeles
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French Ambush Near Hanoi Reports Rebel Losses
The French High Command says French Viet Nam forces ambushed a large Communist force nine miles southeast of Hanoi, with 180 rebels killed or captured. Rebels blew up two trains loaded with American supplies along the Hanoi Haiphong route as planes bombed saboteur bases and French lines faced infiltrators from the delta.
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Indochina
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Tonkin
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High Command
June in Iowa Among Hottest on Record
Iowa posted one of its hottest Junes with an average 74 degrees, above normal by over 4 degrees. Rainfall varied, northern areas saw heavy totals causing floods on rivers like Floyd and Des Moines. south and southeast had little rain while north central rivers rose, but precautions limited damage.
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Iowa
Lowa
Northcentral
Floyd
Little Sioux
Maple
Racoon
Des Moines
Cedar Rivers
Bulletin
Labor Department Sees Early Union Employer Report
Unions and employers at the Labor Department in Washington await an early report. Officials indicated initial findings may be released soon.
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Labor Department
Washington
Kerr Faces Runoff After Tight Oklahoma Primary
United Press tally shows Sen. Robert Kerr narrowly missing renomination in the Democratic primary and drawing a runoff with Roy Turner on July 27. With under 75 of 3,154 precincts reported Kerr led Turner by about 35,000, while seven minor candidates totaled over 40,000 votes to push a second primary.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Robert S. Kerr
Roy J. Turner
United Press
Kerr
Turner
YWCA Kicks Off Lake Darling Trips Earlier This Week
Washington YWCA announced a time change for weekly Lake Darling trips for girls this summer. Departures move to 9 am each Wednesday from the YWCA, with swimming, lunch, and a 2 pm return. Registration is due Fridays or Tuesday mornings at the YWCA. lifeguards and transportation are provided.
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YWCA
Lake
Washington
Lake Darling
Boys Reminded to Register for YMCA Camp at Lake Darling
Washington Community YMCA invites boys seven and a half years old and up to register for the annual Lake Darling camp session during the week of August 8. Reservations are limited to 100 with 34 signed up. open to boys from surrounding communities. Artemas Brown seeks adult leaders for the week and urges contact with the YMCA. A full program of camping activities is planned.
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Washington Community Ymca
Lake Darling
Artemas Brown
YMCA
Washington
Brown
Murder Charge Against Ousted Red Leader in Guatemala
Guatemalan police filed murder charges against former president Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán Delayed indefinitely workers speculate asylum at the Mexican Embassy may rival Peru’s exiled five year stay. Student Jose María Palacios linked the 1949 killing of Col. Francisco Javier Arana to Arbenz’s rise and the communist era.
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Guatemala
Jacobo Arbeng Guzman
Victor Raul Haya de la Torre
Peru
Jose Maria Palacios
Col
Franisco Javier Arana
Arana
Arbenz
Palacios
Maj
Alfonso Martinez Estevez
Threat to Strike A Person Constitutes Simple Assault
If you threaten to strike a person you are guilty of simple assault under the applicable law. The statement defines the act as creating an unlawful threat of immediate bodily harm which, if proven, meets the elements of simple assault.
Weather: Partly cloudy with chances of Friday showers
United Press Iowa notes a partly cloudy night into Friday with possible showers north on Friday. Lows range 58 to 65 east and 64 to 71 west. Friday highs 85 to 90 east and 90 to 98 west. Saturday remains fair and warm.
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United Press
Iowa
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