Dewey Urges Bipartisan Peace Efforts in Election Year
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey told Louisville audiences to keep politics out of peace and urged a bipartisan foreign policy to speak with a united voice in the crisis. He attacked the Truman administration, warned of Soviet actions, and outlined labor policy aims including higher minimum wage and housing relief.
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Louisville
Thomas Ek
Dewey
Lincoln Park
Kentucky
Illinois
Pittsburgh
Iowa corn crop forecast sets new all time record
Des Moines Iowa October 12 UP a new all time record corn harvest of 625,871000 bushels for Iowa predicted by the department of agriculture. The prior record was 624,638000 bushels harvested in 1946. Yield per acre forecast at 86 bushels down from August but above last year. Soybean production seen at 31,262000 bushels with 22 bushels per acre.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Department of Agriculture
Department
Masons to Meet at Temple Wednesday Evening
Members of the Masonic lodge will meet at the temple Wednesday evening at eight o'clock for work in the third degree.
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Masonic Lodge
Temple
Rotary Film Warns Against Hate and Bigotry
Rotarians viewed a short film at the Washington Rotary Club urging tolerance to prevent national disaster from radicals. It contrasted enmity toward aliens Jews Catholics and Masons with Germany’s fate under similar hate campaigns. Rev Thomas C Polk arranged the showing and opened with remarks as members left early to catch the World Series game.
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Washington Rotary Club
Germany
Hitler
Thomas C. Polk
Senator Taylor Plans Iowa Campaign Tour
Senator Glen Taylor, a progressive candidate, arrives in Sioux City on a four-stop Iowa swing. He will speak in Fort Dodge, Iowa City, and Davenport, with arrivals from Kansas City and a luncheon featuring local progressive leaders and candidates. He will remain in Des Moines after Fort Dodge.
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Iowa
Sioux
City
Las
Glen Taylor
Fort Dodge
Towa City
Davienport
Des Moine
Kansas City
Towa
W H Swailes Taken At Bloomfield Home
Funeral services for W H Swailes, a former Washington and Louisa county resident, will be held Wednesday at 11 am in Bloomfield Wagner funeral home. Graveside services follow at Columbus City cemetery at 3 pm for those unable to attend. He died Sunday after months of illness. survivors include wife, son Maynard, daughter Mrs Howard Owens, two brothers, three sisters, and one granddaughter.
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W. H. Swailes
Bloomfield
Washington
Louisa Counties
Wagner
Columbus City
Mr. Swailes
Washington County
Jone Tree
Maynard
Howard Owens
Hy Oy, Swailes
Conesville
James Swailes
Ainsworth
C. E. Nicholson
Ralph Nicholson
Lida Swailes
Soviet Air Lane Interference Warned In Berlin
Soviet authorities warned that Russian planes will practice blind flying over the Berlin control zone. American and British officials protested the move amid incidents where Soviet fighters harassed a British transport on the Berlin run. Taegliche Rundschau claimed the blockade would continue until the so called western mark is invalidated.
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Berlin
Russia
Taegliche Rundschau 9
Taegliche Rundschau
Wallace Consults With Party Head On Campaign Strategy
Wallace the Progressive nominee plans changes in his aerial campaign tour to spend time in Chicago consulting with campaign manager C B Baldwin and party officials from New York. He predicts Truman’s defeat and notes ballot access in 46 states except Illinois and Oklahoma. Astoria, Oregon is mentioned as a Pacific Northwest history note.
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Chicago
Henry A. Wallace
Truman
Wallace
Progressive Party
C. B. Baldwin
New York
Iinois
Oklahoma
Hard Times party planned by YWCA YMCA
The next Young Adult party by the YWCA and YMCA is a Hard Times Halloween event set for Friday night October 22 at eight. Prizes will go to the best dressed man and two women, each winning four chickens. A scavenger hunt led by Charlotte Earls, plus refreshments and a pumpkin pie for the winning group, will follow.
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YWCA
YMCA
Dick Longer
Butt
Charlotte Earls
Keith Vetter
Mary E Waggoner
Jane Mullin
Immunization drive planned in Washington County schools
The county board of health backs a county wide program to vaccinate all children against whooping cough diphtheria and smallpox. Clinics will start near November with vaccines supplied by the state and charged fifty cents per shot for those who can pay the rest subsidized.
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County Board of Health
County Medical Society
State Department of Health
N Unit
Farm Bureau
Soft Ball Association
Board of Education
Softball Association
Vishinsky accuses Allies of nudging Nazi Soviet warfare
In Paris on October 12 Andrei Vishinsky charged Western powers tried to prompt Nazi Germany to attack Russia in 1939. He warned he would lay all cards on the table as the UN debate on Soviet disarmament and Western atomic control continued. American delegate Warren Austin rejected the charges, accusing Russia of blocking peace and pressed for armament reductions only after Japan and Germany settle their peace issues.
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Andrei Vishinsky
Russia
Vishinsky
United Nations
United States
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Hitler
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Austin
George C. Marshall
Washington
Josef Stalin
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Orly Airfield
Auto Show Plans for Washington Youth Center Benefit
Washington dealers complete booth setups for the Youth Center benefit at the Washington armory tonight at 7 30. First night features Brighton youths entertainment and an merchandise auction with prizes including a turkey and an oil change. Auction items tomorrow night include hybrid seed corn a wool blanket an electric iron and toaster and more. Local contributors include Tait's Radio and Appliance Washington Cafe Hunsaker Shoe Repair Freshwaters Coal Dr Etter Gamble's Freshwaters Breed Store Washington Lumber Company and Elipse Lumber Company. The Youth Center show runs through Thursday evening.
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Youth Center
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Tait
Washington Cafe
Hunsaker Shoe Repair
Freshwaters Coal
Dr. P. L. Etter
Gamble’s
Freshwaters Breed Store
Washington Lumber Compay
Eelipse Lumber Company
Alexander Buchanan Finds Lost Masonic Pin by Milk Door
In Hanover N W, Alexander Buchanan recovered a Masonic pin seven years after losing it when he stepped out in slippers to fetch the milk and felt a sharp pain in his foot. The report notes a rising share of Americans over five years old.
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Hanover
N.W
Alexander Buchanan
Veterans of Foreign Wars to Host Evening Meeting
Members of the Veterans of Foreign War are reminded of the regular meeting tonight at eight o'clock in the V F W hall. Veterans interested in joining or current members are urged to attend.
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Veterans of Foreign War
V. F. W. Hall
Transfer Company Sold by Crawford
Rolla Crawford announced a change of ownership for the Washington Transfer Company. New owners W. D. Federlein and Robert L. Reisacker, both Davenport residents, will relocate to Washington once housing is secured. Both men are experienced transfer men who have worked in Davenport.
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Davenport
Washington
Washington Transfer Company
Rolla Crawford
Mr. Federlein
Mr. Reisacker
Recreational Council Plans New Lake Youth Center Projects
The Recreational Council, funded by the Community Chest, outlines two new efforts. A double surface tennis and roller skating facility will serve youths and adults. A lakefront Youth Center west of Brighton will include a beach bath house mess hall and lodging for Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Camp Fire and 4 H groups with regional support sought.
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New Lake
Brighton
The
Conservation Commission
Washington
Lakeside
Truman and aides discuss Berlin blockade stalemate
President Truman in Washington with Walter Bedell Smith and Paul Hoffman, key figures from U S Moscow diplomacy and European recovery, after consulting on the Berlin crisis. All efforts toward a compromise with Russia were abandoned as Marshall withdrew.
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Truman
Washington
Walter Bedell Smith
U. S
Moscow
Paul G. Hoffman
Russia
Berlin
Marshall
Young Adult Rally Draws Leaders Across Four Iowa Districts
Over 190 leaders from Burlington Ottumwa Cedar Rapids and Davenport Methodist districts attended a four district Young Adult rally at Washington Methodist church. Speakers included Dr Leo Ripley of Nashville and Dr C O Strohl of Des Moines. Burns fire statistics follow the event noting frequent fires in the United States.
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Burlington
Ottumwa
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Washington
Leo Ripley
Nashville, Tenn
Des Moines
Weather in Des Moines Tomorrow Skies Clear to Partly Cloudy
Des Moines forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy skies tonight and tomorrow with little temperature change. Light frost likely tonight in western Iowa. Highs near 60 today, 65 to 66 tomorrow, lows 35 to 40 tonight. Des Moines high 59, low 38 Monday.
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Des Moines
Iowa
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