House Refuses Repeal of Taft Hartley Law Recommitment
The House votes 212 to 209 to recommit the Wood bill delaying repeal of the Taft Hartley act. The chamber instead preserves the law while a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats backs the measure. The outcome signals no immediate new labor legislation this session and a setback for President Truman’s campaign pledge.
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Washington
Congress
House Labor Committee
Truman
IOOF Lodge Holds Past Grand Night Observed
Forty members attended the IOOF lodge past grand night with Ray Box as noble grand. A special Columbus Junction meeting May 4 will mark the mortgage burning with Grand Master Hussman of Mason City as guest to present 51 year jewels. Shoppers in Washington included Eleanor Miller, Addie Leichty, and Mrs. Raymond Rich.
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Ray Box
Columbus Junction
IOOF
Hussman
Mason City
Washington
Eleanor Miller
Keota
Addie Leichty
Wayland
Raymond Rich
Crawfordsville
Des Moines Weather Forecast Tonight Through Tomorrow
Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Cooler in the northwest tonight and in the north and west tomorrow. Highs today 38 to 85, near 83 in southeast. Lows tonight 65 northwest to 70 southeast. Tomorrow highs 70 northwest to 80 southeast. Very humid with southwest winds 20 to 29 mph today shifting to northeast in north and west portions tomorrow.
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4-H Boys to Study Livestock Judging in Otumwa
Washington county 4-H clubs will be represented Saturday May 7 at the market grading judging training school to be held at Morrell stockyards in Ot tumwa. Each county is limited to a team of five members. The school will train in judging three classes of live stock and arrangements for the county team are being made by Gus Alsip county youth assistant.
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Morrell Stockyards
Gus Alsip
Fetters Seeks Freedom From Anamosa Reformatory
District Judge G K Thompson set May 11 for a habeas corpus hearing on Oscar Fetters request to be freed from the Anamosa reformatory for the criminally insane. Attorney George Lawrence will call Dr Charles Graves and other psychiatrists who declared Fetters sane months ago. Fetters has been an inmate since 1914 after being accused in the fatal shooting of Hugh Dougal Jr in a dispute over Dougal's daughter.
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G. K. Thompson
Oscar Fetters
Washington
Anamosa Reformatory
George Lawrence
Fetters
Charles Graves
Board of Psychiatrists
Hugh Dougal, Jr
Dougal
Iowa Bonus Applications Delayed by Supreme Court Ruling
Iowa's Bonus Board reports 800 of 20 000 applications received and 49 processed, with 300 veterans’ payments awaiting court ruling on the bonus financing. Expansion planned, IBM card system installed, and checks will be issued after the state Supreme Court decides the legality of the act.
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Iowa
State Supreme Court
Chet B. Akers
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Missouri
Illinois
Kansas
Lowa
Postecard
IBM
Comptroller’s Offices
Bonus
Heat wave sweeps central states with record highs
Weather reports show an intense spring heat belt from the Great Plains to the Great Lakes with temperatures reaching the upper 90s in several cities. Chicago recorded 91 degrees, while Minnesota and Nebraska locales logged 92 to 97 degrees in a historic May 3 heat surge. Storms and thundershowers were forecast to cool the region later today.
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UAW Organizers Seek Police Escort After Farm Equipment Vote
UAW organizers sought police protection at St Charles hotel amid reports of cars patrolling the area and tire slashing as workers feared for safety after a farm equipment plant election. FEW wins 1,632 to 145 at Oliver plant, part of NLRB four plant series.
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National Labor Relations Board
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Funeral services for Orval Meeks held at Jones Funeral Home
Funeral services for Orval Meeks were held Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock in the Jones funeral home with Dr. Fred E. Miller in charge. Pallbearers were his sons Everette, Leon, Robert, Buel, Cecil and Mark. Burial followed in Elm Grove cemetery.
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Jones Funeral Home
Fred E. Miller
Everette
Leon
Robert Buel
Cecil
Mark
Elm Grove Cemetery
Sheriff Snyder Returns Woman After Vagrancy Arraignment
Sheriff Charles C. Snyder conducted the return of Mrs. Alice Estes to her home after her arraignment before Justice of the Peace H. M. Putnam on a vagrancy charge in Missouri today.
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Missouri
Alice Estes
Justice of the Peace
H. M. Putnam
Wisconsin group to visit farms in Washington county
A Wisconsin delegation from the Wisconsin College of Agriculture visits Washington county farms on Friday May 6 to study hog raising methods. E L Quaife of Ames will lead the tour with Floyd Goodell and Gus Alsip coordinating. They will visit Mayard Marner farm near Wellman and farms of Horn Buck Stephens in Washington county and a Henry county farm.
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Ames
Wisconsin College of Agriculture At
Madison
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Town State College
Floyd Goodell
Gus Alsip
Mayard Marner Farm
Wellman
George Horn
Robert Buck
Richard Stephens
Henry County
Quaife
Bank suit heard in district court against Statesmans
Defense attorneys presented evidence in the Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis versus Don and Nina Statesman case. Court observers reported the case could go to jurors tomorrow. Also noted: there are nearly 39 diseases affecting soybeans in the U.S.
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Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis
Don and
Nina
U.S
Reds and Western Powers Agree on Berlin Blockade Lifting
London reports that the Soviet Union and Western powers have agreed to lift the Berlin blockade on May 12 and to hold a Big Four Foreign Ministers meeting on May 28. Officials caution on concrete results but express optimism. discussions on land and water links and method of lifting to start in New York, with Britain and France joining talks in the afternoon.
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Fortnightly Club to hear Jacques Jolas in concert
Washington Fortnightly Club members will observe National Music Week with pianist Jacques Jolas from Cornell College performing at Lincoln School. The event, open to members only after a 7 pm dessert, will feature a Bach Sato prelude, Mozart Schumann Chopin Debussy and Ravel pieces with Helen Elizabeth Jolas assisting on one number.
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Columbia Broadcasting System
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Scarletti
Chopin
Debussy
First Night of Chicaqua Sports Show Opens with Style Show
The Chicaqua Chapter Sport Show opened at the armory with a style show, organ music, a magician, and Dave Livingston as MC drawing a full audience of about 800. Mrs Louise Pratt Miller provided background music while Livingston described models from Washington merchants.
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Armory
Washington
Izaak Walton
Arturo the Magician
Louise Pratt Miller
Chicaqua
Chiccaqua Chapter
Dave Livingston
Livingston
J. A. Morrett
Marion Thompson
Don Custer
Armory Building
Preston Wolf
High School Students Stage Skit for Y's Men Meeting
Washington high school pupils presented a musical satire A Day in W H 8 directed by Wendell Rider at the Y's Men meeting. The program, praised locally, may be shown at the state teachers meeting in Des Moines next year.
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Washington Y's
Washington High School
Wendell Rider
Oskaloosa
Fairfield
Rider
Des Moines
Mr Rider
Marguerite Utterback
Mary Rita McLaughlin
Betty Tait
Barbara Dare
Marilyn Cook
Donna Crone
Harold Gamon
Dave Chilcote
William Wessler
Dan Holland
Ted Stewart
Frances Miller
Arlene Knupp
Bones Unearthed In Indiana Mystery Formation
In Decatur Indiana workers unearthed a large skeleton like bone formation with a steam shovel. Officials ponder whether the remains are ancient dinosaur bones or a burial site.
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Decatur
Ind
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Indias
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