Cedar Rapids Gazette (Newspaper) - May 7, 1949, Cedar Rapids, Iowa VOLUME 118 CEDAR MAY 7, 1949. ASSOCIATED UNTIED INTERNATIONAL NEWf C. R. YOUTH'S DEATH Chinese Air Force Rips Nationalist Planes Aim To Blunt Offensive Against SHANGHAI Fair with low of 40 to 45. Sunday increasing cloudiness and with high of 65 to 70. Wife-Beating Count Faced By Socialite WEST PALM BEACH A criminal information Saturday accused Frederick O. 41, New York and Palm Beach social of beating his ess former Andrea severely with a alist planes launched light aboard their attacks on Communist forces on the approaches to hai Saturday in efforts to blunt what appeared to be the long expected offensive to seize the city by direct Front reports were Shanghai garrison ters admitted that the Communist 26th army fought its way into key bastion 30 miles to the Friday The Com- were driven out the government Other Communist forces were attacking another rail town 50 miles for the third straight Front reports said heavy fighting County Solicitor T. Harold liams of Palm Beach county filed the which charged aggravated Williams said he understood that Hammer first obtained medical attention for his then took her to Daytona Beach aboard the yacht close Mrs. heiress to ship from the boat while her husband was away for a and fled to her Palm Beach said The county solicitor acted on a two-page affidavit by Mrs. mer in which she accused her band of being extremely having a cold and boring the illusion that the family was trying to take her fortune away from Careful Uncle y. heavy assault against forces holding the Two cruisers and 10 ers of the U.S. Western Pacific fleet pulled out of the port and anchored in open she she told the crew she would fly on to and Friday she disembarked j while her husband was Instead of going to New she flew here and secluded The beating took place she was raging there Telephone com- aboard the yacht on April with Kashing were 128 while it was docked in West cut off Palm The couple had gone in Canton said the I aboard to jail for New Communists captured Kashing by I She was treated for her direct sailed At Daytona Would Put Them at Fall of Kunshan and Kashing would place Communist armies al the very gates of ready to launch a final battle for cap- ture of this metropolis of Shanghai garrison headquarters communiques emphasized the air An ment said heavy bombing and strafing attacks were made against Communist forces along highways 50 miles to the west and The planes smashed truck con- voys and artillery killing an estimated nist the government Another announcement said that a strong Communist fifth column in Shanghai had been crushed by arrest of 500 under- ground agents and execution of 12 U.S. Ships Pull The government also announced that a plot to seize the Nationalist cruiser in the river and hand it over to the Com- was broken up with ar- rest of five The official Central news agency said Communist forces ringing American navy baje on the Shantung peninsula of the had opened Arson Discounted In Fire at Track Calif. Saturday blamed new paint job for the speed with which a flash fire destroyed swank Hollywood Park race Inspector Ed Hatcher of the sheriff's arson squad said the blaze apparently started It was spread by a thick coat of applied a few days and by Dle linseed oil applied to seats in preparation for the summer ing scheduled to start May 17. Hatcher said his investigation satisfied him that no competent witness saw anyone loitering near the track before the despite early reports that youths had been seen He questioned and released one adult and three venile But FBI the Board of Fire Thoroughbred Racing and the Inglewood fire de- rt j Rain yv Texas Town Texas woman was dead and scores of persons were marooned as re- sult of a five-inch rain and storm which flooded planes Battle Must In for Te Mass. weeks William Dacey's herd of white-faced fords had been eluding dogs failed to round Water rose into homes and rescue operations were The flood was are no creeks or rivers in the The downpour started ly after 8 p.m. It lasted all night Boats were being used in rescue An unidentified woman was electrocuted when she pulled a ight cord after water rose into her Water rose to the windows of ome homes It was a foot deep at the house continued probing the of burned but we're not said Jack vice-president and general ager of Hollywood Turf plant was arid we'll rebuild it as fine as The summer race meeting was transferred to Santa Anita park at 35 miles across er Los The California Horse Racing Board approved setting the opening back a week until May 24, but MacKenzie said he would try to open oh the Man Arrested in Willys Robbery NEW YORK Saturday arrested a man on a charge of stealing in rash from the home of Florence widow of the wealthy pioneer The identified as 26, N. was I seized by police and a private de- as he stepped from the back door of the 14-room Willys sion in the exclusive Riverdale Police said he admitted he broke into the house and prowled Floyd Adams spent a through it after he discovered no two hours caught in a one was They said he at the bottom of a huge mitted taking the mostly tank with sharks and from a bedroom dresser j big fish playing around as well as a ring and two I Suction trapped the diver when Diver Caught in Midst of Sharks Fla. jeweled clips of undetermined was protected by a alarm Detectives said that when Strach broke open door an alarm was set off in a private detective tive at the office notified He and two city detectives reached the house just as Strach was They said they understood Mrs. Willys was in Five-Star Designation Signed for Hap Arnold WASHINGTON dent Truman Saturday signed a designating Gen. Henry H. as a five-star eral of the air He sent a telegram to Arnold at extending con- gratulations and good Arnold retired June 30, 1946, as commanding general of the army air Why worry about who's boss in your home? You'll be pier you never find he went down Friday to remove the drain grating at Marine Struggle as he he could not free The vicious fish around him did no A steady stream of air was pumped to him through his air after the water level had been lowered to six two other divers got a rope around him and pulled him He was taken to a hospital to recover from Hailstones as big as golf balls pelted the area during the TEXAS Texas The second tornado to swirl over west Texas in 24 hours ripped through town Friday killing a ister and his daughter and his church a pile of rubble Workers beginning cleanup op- took the bodies of the Rev. S. C. Scott and the daughter from the wreckage the Church of Christ They sent Scott's wife and his 9, to a both critically Sheriff Charlie Bullock far as I no one else was injured seriously in the Kline Endorses Atlantic Treaty WASHINGTON B. president of the American Farm Bureau was among witnesses ing the Atlantic Pact Friday be- fore the senate foreign relations Dacey set it the cows didn't return he Deaths Stir Probe Ford Town's Mayor Seeks Peace Huddle DETROIT peace in the strike of Ford ers was by Dearborn Mayor Orville L. Hubbard The mayor proposed a meeting of Ford and CIO Auto Workers officials at bis office next Thursday for a civic to end the The union accepted Hubbard's There was no diate reply from the Since noon Ford's great Rouge plant in suburban Dearborn and its cury factory in Detroit have been A pinch on small Ford supplier plants was being felt as the strike entered its third A number of shutdowns and im- pending closings were Several thousand men would be Firing of 14 Shooting in Missouri Dean 19, Found Dead After Going Out On Squirrel Special The Mo. Missouri State Police Saturday were continuing their the death of 18- Dean Morgan of tion into year old Cedar Rapids found shot through the head on a farm near Fristoe last in Cedar the youth's Mr. and Mrs. resentment posted a re- strikers toward management was ward for information leading to observed on the picket lines at the arrest and conviction of the give permission shoot Friday night to hunters the herd Deaths of 29 inmates of a ated home during the last 34 days have touched off an investigation by county commissioners who said Friday that night apparently is The patients died at the county home near here where more than 300, aged persons are his dairy farm President William i J spread oats to the barn The truants walked inside and calmly submitted to being tied Pilsen Tributes To Barred Czechoslovakia authorities erected two billboards Friday night at the site of the to the American soldiers who liberated this city from the four years Some 20 laborers went to work after police were posted at the small green park all day Friday to keep pedestrians from placing flowers on the Reliable but unconfirmed E. Roussey the deaths were all reported as natural but seems very said a doctor who visits the home each day reported that a flu epidemic killed many also said that maybe some of them getting the right things to said know mare about that next We're going to look into Look for Rain By Sunday Night Cedar Saturday's fair weather will be- come partly cloudy Sunday and make its appearance by Sunday the weather bureau ports said dozens who attempted to lay wreaths on the monument Temperatures returned to Wednesday and Thursday were ar- sonal levels Friday as a mass of cool air moved in the The which not j State high Friday was 81 hide the monument completely advertise the 1949 plan for mining housing and paper Four police guarded the Authorities apparently were tempting to prevent a repetition of the scene last May on the of the Then the degrees at Low this morning was 40 at Mason Cedar Rapids high Friday was 73 Low this morning was 53. The day was 72 The weather forecast calls for rain over most of the park surrounding the into was buried under a carpet of ers and American and British Tuesday in the east. Highs day are to be in the low 70's. Jaycees Urged To Support Hoover Commission Report Costly Clothes Tip Off Robbery NEW YORK The wife took one look at the stylish suit his cashier was wearing and asked her husband about it. She had priced the same suit in a store and found it too The boss looked into and that led Friday to indictment for larceny of Miss Lillian 35, a pretty and Joseph 36, assistant sales for the Nixon liquor dis- They were charged with theft of in whisky over the last years through a unique tem of juggling powerful group of nations agrees to such a commitment will have great influence in restraining would-be aggressors and creating among the peoples oi those to the Iowa Junior Chamber of Commerce convention Saturday were urged to endorse the Hoover recommendations on the e x e c u t i branch of the federal This urging came from Bob of Sioux chairman of the national Jaycee resolutions at the convention's first business meeting in the Roosevelt hotel at 9 a.m. NEHRU TO U.S. BOMBAY Prime Minster Nehru announced Saturday hat he has accepted an invitation from President Truman and will visit Washington in Picture Today's said his committee was now on record as strongly in favor of the former President's recommendations which would streamline the executive objection to the present administration is the agencies and work la them should endorse all the Hoover recommendations with no change as they now The convention cot under Comics Courthouse Crossword Daily Record Deaths Editorial Features Marion Movies Radio Sports State Want Ads late Friday afternoon with a fet supper stag at the The first business session was held after four Young Men's reau teams roused the delegates at a.m. The W. Argow spoke to the convention at a luncheon Saturday business session was to get under way at 2 p.m. with Phil Stump of. executive secretary in charge of This followed Ford's ment of firing of 14 men in con- with wildcat strikes the formal Union sound blared ou word of the and calls came from There was no One of the penalized men was vlike chairman of the JAW unit in the Rouge plan 3 assembly line of the speedup One of the world's lit le is the homi of the huge Ford Motor Company Ford taxes carry much of the financial load in the city of for a veteran in office las engaged in controversy with rord on several occasions in matters touching on- public affairs He extended his invitation in a etter to Henry young of the Walter UAW ant Thomas o UAW Ford A was sent to Gov. G. Williams Hubbard remarked in the letter that from his city's recent purchase of 18 new Fore cars that at least there is a speedup in the final way for young Henry to actually learn whether there is a production he to slip on a pair of his working pants and get out on the production line for a few days once in a On other auto industry strikes and layoffs because of strikes idled Briggs and Chrysler plants were Alleged speedups were the cause of most of the Chevrolet workers voted to strike at the Flint assembly plant because of an alleged A said a strike by the UAW members of the crew would idle more than workers in other di- Year Boy Hit by Critically Injured Cidar N slayer of their Morgan said the family's at- Dwight had written a letter to the sheriff of Benton notifying him that the reward had been wife and I are convinced that Dean did not commit Morgan said Saturday A Benton county jury late Wednesday turned a verdict that the youth to his death 8t the hands of a person or persons No Conclusive Benton County Attorney Edwin Brady said the verdict did not rule out the possibility the ing was a suicide or an just isn't any sive evidence that points one way or Brady Morgan's body was found day afternoon on the Bailey three and a half miles which is on the south side of the lake of the He had been shot in the left but the bullet had passed through his head and was not re- A caliber rifle was lying by his left the stock in the crook of his Calls It officials the apparently had gone hunting day morning and did riot The body was found by Mrs. Bailey and her Mrs. Cora testimony at the Mrs. Morris gave her opinion that it was M. N. editor of the Benton County told The Gazette late Friday that the state police were continuing their investigation because of conflict in the evidence presented at the in- He said the state police had assigned a special investigator to he According to testimony to the jury included the act that Dean had entered a ware store in Fristoe the day be- ore he went hunting and ed to buy a single woman in the store told him they were sold only by the Robert Lee 3, son box so he purchased a Mrs. Leona route 3, box ot White internal affairs for the U. S. as Feature of Saturday evening's convention program be an awards banquet at when Iowa's Young will be with the chapter awards for ice will also George Olmsted of Des past president of both Iowa and S. will be banquet A at 9 will climax Saturday's The convention will close day after an installation banquet for new They are to be elected at the final business ing at a.m. critically injured 8 a.m. Saturday when was struck by a car in the 500 block of Seventh avenue Officials at St. Luke's hospital where the child was taken for his condition as Driver of the Harold Reilly 708 M avenue told police he never saw the but stopped as soon as he felt the Investigating officers said the youngster had apparently out of his mother's car and picked a lying .in the He threw the ball to a group of children playing nearby and then suddenly darted out into the street n the path of Reilly's and Mrs. took the injured to the Aerialist Hurt in Fall of 40 Feet on Picture NEW YORK trapeze seriously injured Friday night he fell 40 feet to the ground before a stunned crowd of at Madison Square He was reported in fair tion Friedrich 34, was doing a by his when a- trapeze bar gave He clutched desperately at the but his grasp accident occurred during a performance Ringling Barhum and Bailey before the circus leaves on its annual road The billed as the Great suffered injuries to the shoulder and wrist and possible internal in the afternoon he re- turned the box to the store and got his money The keeper counted the but none was that incident would in- the youth was alive day White said several officials felt that the badly de- composed state of the body when found was an indication that had died earlier in the The jury's returned at 7 p.m. was announced by Dr. A. W. Benton county following an in- which extended over several Dr. Morland said that as far as the Benton authorities were concerned the was Evidence at The circumstances surrounding the young man's by testimony at the was outlined the coroner as Dean Morgan had started out alone to go squirrel hunting about 7 on April 29, but failed to return The dore Bailey on whose land ic had gone became and on Saturday on Page 2, Col. 3.) Burns to Jail 111. Garland 35, was in jail Saturday contemplating his hot Ha was sentenced to a year a charge of Rogers burned his home when iie was handed an eviction
