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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1948
Page
4
Russian controlled German press accuses Western powers of obstruction delaying Berlin crisis talks. Berlin city government faces financial crisis after Eastern mark accounts are frozen and contemplates a local Berlin mark. Col Howley calls Russian coal offer propaganda. Western rail ban remains in place for Leipzig fair despite Soviet offers.
The Screen Actors Guild voted 3 828 to 29 to continue its union shop agreement with movie producers, NLRB announced Wednesday in Hollywood.
President Truman plans extensive travel from mid September through the November election. Chairman J Howard McGrath said the campaign will cover every region, though Truman may skip some states.
The Atomic Energy Commission warned that a strike by maintenance and construction workers at Los Alamos may cause serious damage. Acting Chairman Sumner Pike asked AFL President William Green to intervene in the walkout affecting more than 3,900 workers.
Mr and Mrs Louis Da Jr report their love bird Skipper was sociable at home until he vanished for four days. Upon return the parrot squawked a defiant line asking for affection with a sharp urban edge.
The text notes that through the 1890s some individuals with long fingernails were believed to use them as a protective barrier against labor. It reflects social attitudes toward gender and labor norms of the era.
Bucharest officials accused Marshal Tito of triggering a terror wave against Moscow loyalists in Yugoslavia. The front page statements followed a Romanian report that a Yugoslav guard killed Col. Gen. Arsono while fleeing into Romania.
A Romanian statement accuses Interior Minister Alexander Ranković of unleashing terror by arresting and torturing Yugoslav Communists. The note says Yovanovich tried to flee Yugoslavia to lead an anti-Tito exile army under Cominform.
Hollywood AP report states Greta Garbo will return to the screen after seven years. Producer Walter Wanger credits a likely Europe financed picture to be filmed next spring in Paris.
Salina Kansas AP Glenn Cunningham famed 1930s mile run great and temperance advocate said a tavern beer was brought to him during a 12 day prohibition tour of Kansas He called it the worst insult of his life and noted he never smoked or tasted Kansas legal 32 beer to preserve his record.
A historical note records the first iron vessel constructed in Europe in 1787 marking an early milestone in naval engineering and industrial progress. This event highlights the shift from timber to iron hulls influencing ship design and metallurgy.
Dwight Bowen, 18, tried to rescue a rooster from a dog and paid $1 to replace a shattered window after a stone ricocheted from the dog. The incident began when he threw the stone to save the prize fowl owned by Dr. George Myers. Bowen also spent $1.50 to fix the window at Woodrow Thomas's house.
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