Broad Program of Veterans Pensions Approved by House
The House passed a veterans' pension bill amending it to raise benefits about sevenfold. It authorizes $72 monthly pensions for 65 year old World War I veterans and excludes an unemployability test. The measure moves to the Senate with fate uncertain and faced cost objections from opponents.
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Veterans
House
Washington
Senate
Veterans Committee
Veterans Administration
John E Rankin
Rankin
White House
Oil Blaze in Omaha Struck Searle Petroleum Company
Firemen battled a major oil blaze at Searle Petroleum Co in East Omaha lasting over 16 hours. The explosion set off three storage tanks and many more, with 12 of 33 tanks exploded and 506000 gallons consumed. No workers were injured.
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Omaha, Neb
Omaha
Searle Petroleum Co
Fr. A Searle
Rainfall totals and forecast for Washington county crops
Rainfall on Tuesday night reached .60 of an inch per official observer. Cloudy noon conditions suggested more needed rain for Washington county crops.
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Washington
Official
Washington County
Weather Outlook for Des Moines and State Thick with Showers
Partly cloudy with local showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. Thunderstorms tonight and in the east. Cooler in the west tonight and in the west and central portions tomorrow. Highs in the mid 80s today, 70 to 75 northwest to 75 to 80 southeast tomorrow. Winds 20 mph shifting. Rainfall Tuesday night 60 inches.
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Des Moines
State
Rufus C Choate 68 Dies in Iowa City
Rufus C Choate 68 of Iowa City died Tuesday at Mercy Hospital after a stroke. Funeral services set for Thursday at 10 am in the Catholic chapel with burial in Oakland cemetery. He was born January 24 1881 and earned an Iowa University civil engineering degree in 1903. survived by son Robert in Washington daughter mother wife and four grandchildren.
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Rufus C. Choate
Iowa City
Choate
Mercy Hospital
Catholt
Oakland Cemetery
Mr. Choate
University of Iowa
Works Progress Administration
Robert
Washington
Acheson Proposes Four Power Berlin Administration
Secretary of State Dean Acheson urged the big four to revive the four power kommandatura in Berlin and form a single city government. He said the proposal could guide talks as Moscow’s Vishinsky earlier urged it during the foreign ministers council. The old four power authority collapsed after a Soviet walkout and the eastern rump government was set up. Vishinsky again rejected uniting east Germany with the western state.
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Dean Acheson
Big Four
Berlin
Acheson
Council of Foreign Ministers
Andrei Vishinsky
Russia
Kommandatura
Vishinsky
East Germany
Jr Chamber Picnic At Sunset Park Attendance Over 100
The Sunset junior chamber held a potluck picnic for more than 100 members and families Tuesday evening at Sunset Park. Drinks and desserts were shared and the event replaced the Memorial Day meeting. Election of officers will highlight the next regular session.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Sunset Park
Junior Chamber
Deadline for YMCA YWCA Learn to Swim Signups
Tomorrow is the deadline to enroll in the learn to swim week sponsored by the YMCA and YWCA during the week of June through June 10. Children over seven years should fill and return the entry blank printed in today’s Journal. Boys attend morning classes and girls attend afternoon sessions.
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YMCA
YWCA
Damage Suit Seeks 331.97 in Truck Collision Case
James Vaneil of DuQuoin Illinois sues James C. Pike of Des Moines Iowa in district court seeking 331.97 to cover damage to his truck and loss of earnings from a collision at Ainsworth Dee. Attorney John C. Owen represents the plaintiff.
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James Vaneil
James C. Pike
Ainsworth Dee
Vaneil
DuQuoin
Pike
Des Moines
John C. Owen
Senator Watkins Warns Atlantic Pact Endangers Congress
In Washington Senator Arthur V. Watkins charges the Atlantic treaty would rob Congress of its war making power and urges reservations to require congressional authorization before using American armed forces. He calls for a renegotiation if reservations are adopted and notes the pact currently awaits ratification.
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Washington
Arthur V. Watkins
Utah
Senate
Watkins
U.S
North Atlantic
U. S
Son
Dean Abe
Europe
Farmers Offered Resealing Bonus for Corn Loans
The Agriculture Department outlines a resealing plan to extend price support loans for the 1948 corn crop through July 31, 1950. Farmers who act by Oct 31 may also gain a 1 cent per bushel storage fee, with up to 500 million bushels on loan or under purchase agreements by June 30.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Corp
Agriculture Department
Odd Fellows Lodge Nominates Officers for Term
The LOOF lodge nominated officers at a regular meeting. Noble Grand Howell Owens announced elections for local officers and the Grand Lodge of town will be held next Tuesday. Miles Stout received the first degree of Odd Fellowship. the second degree is planned for Tuesday. Plans for a June family social and the anniversary office on Thursday, June 23, were discussed.
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Loof Lodge
Noble
Howell Owens
Grand Lodge of Town
Miles Stout
Iowa corn prospects resemble 1948 record year
Des Moines Iowa a weekly weather and crop bulletin reports corn stands are excellent except for cut worm damage in south central Iowa requiring replanting about four percent of the stand. Farmers had 45 percent of intended corn planted by week’s end versus 97 percent last year. Soybeans 63 percent planted vs 77 percent last year. Rains improved sub soil moisture but cool weather reduced color in the north. Erosion noted where rains were heaviest. Feed grain prospects are potentially excellent with meadows and pastures in average condition needing more rain and warmth.
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Bulletin
Jersey Breeders to Hold Show in West Branch June 16
Parish four of the Iowa Jersey Cattle Breeders association plans a show in West Branch on June 16 for eligible purebred Jersey cattle. Entries must be filed with Ivan Gates of West Abherty by June 6. A noon picnic at Hoover Park precedes the street-based show, with counties listed as Iowa Keokuk Johnson Muscatine Cedar Louisa Clinton Scott and Washington.
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Iowa Jersey Cattle Breeders Association
West Branch
Ivan Gates
West Abherty
Hoover Park
Iowa
Keokuk
Johnson
Muscatine
Cedar
Louisa
Clinton Scott
Washington
Atkinson Elected President of UI Institute of Radio Engineers
Iowa City John Atkinson a Crawfordsville engineering junior has been elected president of the State University of Iowa chapter of the Institute of Radio Engineers for the 1949 50 academic year.
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Iowa City
John Atkinson
Crawfordsville
State University of
Marion Maids 4-H Win Health Merit Certificate
The Marion Maids 4-H club earned a certificate of merit in the National 4-H Health Improvement program. County home economist Ruth Foster announced the award noting the group’s prior top county score and state competition health record. Club members conducted health talks, dental exams, first aid kit projects, and a community health program with support from Extension Service and Kellogg Company.
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Ruth Foster
Extension Service
U. S. Department of Agriculture
National Committee On Boys and Girls Club
Kellogg Company
Battle Creek
Michigan
M. L. Wilson
U.S.C.A
H. H. Kildee
Iowa Extension Service
Paul Taff State
Charles Lavisson
Clark Wagner
Perjury trial of Alger Hiss opens in New York
The Hiss perjury case opens with defense claiming possession of the typewriter allegedly used to copy secret State Department documents. Prosecutors assert FBI efforts to locate the machine failed as Whittaker Chambers is labeled a moral leper. The defense questions Chambers’ credibility and ties to communist conspiracies while seeking to cast doubt on the missing typewriter’s link to the documents.
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Hiss
State Department
U.S
Thomas I. Murphy
FBI
Washington
Whittaker Chambers
Stryker
Chambers
Hickenlooper vows proof of Lilienthal atomic mismanagement
In a crowded senate chamber Hickenlooper challenged Atomic Energy Commission Chair David Lilienthal to expect proof of alleged mismanagement of the $3.5 billion atomic program. The inquiry led by Brien McMahon aims to uncover truth with no persecution or whitewash as hearings span weeks.
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Rourke B. Hickenlooper
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Lilienthal
Senate
Hickenlooper
Lilientha
House
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Brien McMahon
McMahon
Commission
Black Bass Season Opens in Iowa Today
The black bass season begins in Iowa today and runs to November 30 in inland waters and to March 1 in the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and inland waters of Lee county. Fishermen will be this season’s early participants as limits and rules apply.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Mississippi
Missouri
Lee County
Boundary
Two Price Policy Choices For Farmers In Iowa
President Howard Hill of the Iowa Farm Bureau told county leaders at a mid summer conference that farmers face a dangerous opportunity to choose between two basic price policies. One option is minimum price guarantees under the Agricultural Act of 1948 with parity aimed at prosperity. the other is the Brannan Plan which would guarantee farm income through high price supports. Hill criticized the Brannan Plan as abandoning parity and warned against making farmers wards of the state.
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Des Moines
Howard Hill
Iowa Farm Bureau
Hill
County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Brannan
Earl E. Harper to address 1949 graduates Thursday
Earl E. Harper director of the Iowa Memorial Union will speak at the Washington high school and junior college commencement Thursday at eight in the Methodist church. He will present his talk titled The Open Road to Freedom with a program including processional, cornet solo, scholarships, diplomas, and benediction.
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Earl E. Harper
School of Fine Arts
Iowa Memorial Union
Univerity of
Iowa
Washington High School
Junior College
Harper
Coffey
Missouri
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Boston University
Maynard Goff, Jr
Hansel and Gretel
Humperdinck Girls
M. M. Schell
Attorney General Clark Refuses Senate Subpoena Files
General Clark defied a Senate judiciary subcommittee by refusing to produce 168 security files on alleged enemy agents. He filed a 10 page explanation and offered informal documents consistent with public welfare. Chairman Pat McCarran said the panel would not press for the files.
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Washington
Tom C. Clark
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Clark
John E. Peurifoy
Pat McCarran
Nev
State and Justice Department Security
McCarran
Pi lumber houses endure in New England after two centuries
Dozens of New England homes built with pi lumber more than 200 years ago remain in use, showcasing durable colonial construction. The article notes regional abundance of these early structures and their continued habitation.
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New England
Two Aref Fined By City Police Court
Two motorists faced fines in a city police court session Tuesday evening. John H. Whittaker paid $15 plus costs for speeding while Mrs. W. J. Shannon was assessed $1 and costs for failing to stop at a stop sign.
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John H. Whittaker
W. J. Shannon
Gromyko Crowned Catalyst of Russian Policy Shift
Lake Success New York UP reports Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko convinced Stalin that the United States seeks peace. The sochi talks and three months with Stalin led to the Gromyko Plan elevating him and Vishinsky. The UN World notes lifting the Berlin blockade and pursuing a cold peace with US aid possible once tensions ease.
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Crimea
Poliburo
Gromyko
Andrei Vishinsky
Foreign Department
Russia
Berlin
Stalin
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