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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1946
Page
3
The government announced it will buy 50 million bushels of corn from farmers at a 30 cent per bushel bonus over ceiling prices. The plan aims to push corn to feeders and processors in need and reduce surplus production while supporting a broader six point relief effort to avert mass starvation.
A manslaughter indictment against Lawrence Wesley Williams was dismissed by Judge Floyd Philbrick for faulty wording. The case will return to the grand jury next Tuesday. Williams remains free on a $5,000 bond after a March 15 accident killed June LaVelle Davy, 19, of Mazon Illinois. The court noted the indictment did not state essential elements per common law or Iowa statute.
United States army court martial convict Sgt. James M. Jones of Muskogee Oklahoma on three specifications of simple assault on American army prisoners at the Lichfield detention camp and sentence him to six months hard labor. He also forfeit eighteen dollars a month of army pay during confinement. He was acquitted on five other charges of simple assault and assault with intent to do bodily harm.
The weather report predicts a mild Easter with cloudy afternoon and night showers. Easter morning should be pleasant with warmer conditions than Saturday. Saturday peaked at 84 degrees late afternoon, with 70 at 2:30 p.m. and cooler temperatures into the night.
In Wessington South Dakota Clarence Richardson left over thirty thousand dollars to the person who could craft the best definition of joke not resembling Webster's. The will names executor Postmaster Fitch and provokes contest from Richardson’s son Clarence C Richardson of Los Angeles who argues unsound mind and no definite beneficiary.
Special to The Gazette. Wayne C. Olson, 21, of Marshalltown, died when his car struck the Raven Creek bridge on highway 30 west of Tama. Two Marshalltown men, Robert Banzhaf and Jack Edgton, both 22, were seriously injured. Coroner Harvey Jones and Sheriff Harry Sharp conducted a routine investigation with no inquest planned at this time.
John L. Lewis and Labor Secretary Schwellenbach met with President Truman for about 15 minutes to discuss the soft coal strike. The White House said the talk produced no conclusive result and offered no immediate settlement.
The CIO United Automobile Workers executive board voted 3 to 1 against president Walter P. Reuther and adopted a policy statement on profits and wages. A separate resolution denounced House members who voted to end price control and pledged mobilization of UAW members at the polls. The session also indicated minor changes to the policy statement, framed as a worldwide labor unity effort.
Walter Reuther warned of abrogating all UAW contracts if OPA rules and prices rise, a stance drawn Thursday by three opponents led by former President R. J. Thomas and vice presidents Richard Leonard and George Addes amid a 10 day meeting. The group’s draft opposed profits as the primary wage determinant, while Reuther argued wages should align with company profits and ability to pay.
Donna Duncan, 10, blue-eyed blonde, disappeared after 1:15 p.m. Friday in Omaha. Parents Donald and Donna Duncan say she would not leave by choice and note extensive area searches by family and Boy Scouts around Carter Lake.
Indianapolis AP report states Sheriff Otto W. Petit announced that Howard Pollard, 24, confessed to killing Leland Miller whose burned and dismembered body was found April 1. The case details indicate a completed confession and identified motive.
Washington’s atomic energy committee urged vigorous, sustained U S research to counter the inevitability of other nations producing atomic bombs. It warned no real military defense exists yet and called for federal powers to oversee atomic development while hearings on world research control proceed.
Union members at LaPlant Choate Manufacturing halted work for a second time in six months amid a dispute over suspensions of three elected union reps for alleged union activity. Management cited violation of contract and disputed the count of suspensions while the union planned a joint labor management meeting with U S Conciliation Service scheduled for April 24 in Cedar Rapids.
A wartime subcommittee report cites 142 soldiers sent to death between 1941 and 1946 by court martial. It criticizes limited expertise, bias, and arbitrariness, urging an autonomous judicial department, broader enlisted representation, a fixed punishment table, and rape punished to civil law maximum.
An army basic training plane stolen in Columbia Missouri by escaped prisoner Vernon B Simpson has been located in a rice field near Walnut Ridge Arkansas. Simpson remains at large. The plane was not damaged.
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