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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1952
Page
1
American Sabrejets destroyed or damaged 17 Communist MiG-15s in high altitude battles over North Korea. Fifth Air Force said 79 Sabres tangled with about 100 fighters near Yalu river around Sinuiju. The day marked the best strafing of August with 82 MIGs destroyed or damaged for the month.
The Cedar Rapids city council reluctantly blesses National City Lines plan to cut bus service starting Tuesday. About 300 to 400 miles will be cut daily, with Saturday Sunday and evening routes hardest hit as the company argues low revenue and rider drop make reductions necessary.
Cedar Rapids school board voted at a special meeting to transfer full classes rather than individual students to ease crowding at Cleveland. The 6 A class goes to Roosevelt, two 6 B classes to Taylor, with some Cleveland students allowed to transfer to Fillmore if closer. Roosevelt will receive the special education class from Cleveland, moving to McKinley. Additional 6 B placements may be found at Fillmore.
Considerable cloudiness continues tonight and Sunday with showers or thunderstorms by Sunday night. Tonight’s low around 65, Sunday high near 75. Temperatures at 2:30 p.m. were 87 southwest, 88 southeast, 89 northwest, 87 northeast.
Two men, Jim Darwood Kennedy and Johnny Edward Watson, were captured after a Reno chase. Police found about $250,000 in loot from a Tehachapi California post office burglary in their car, including $100,000 in postal money orders. Kennedy and Watson, both with criminal histories, fled from a gambling club. Kennedy leapt into the Truckee river, while Watson sought cover inside Harold's club.
Hurricane warnings stretched along 250 miles of the Atlantic coast from Fernandina Florida to Georgetown South Carolina as a tropical cyclone moves toward land with 80 to 90 mph winds. The center lay about 130 miles southeast of Brunswick Georgia with tides rising, prompting evacuations by Tybee Island and Savannah Beach residents and visitors amid fears of repeat damage.
Former Attorney General McGrath will testify to a House Judiciary subcommittee investigating the Justice Department and an alleged grand jury obstruction in the St Louis tax scandals. Chairman Chelf said the appearance is set for mid September.
Retired Captain Eugene R. Guild of Glenwood Springs Colorado accuses brass hat bungling of causing GIs drownings in Korea by failing to teach swimming. He cites 18 drownings in flash floods and argues Pentagon errors extend to World War II. The army says recruits are not guaranteed swimming training within eight to fourteen weeks. Guild wrote to General Bradley outlining his critique.
Los Angeles AP report details 27 year old Fredna Pavlich facing charges for hindering work on a Southern Pacific railway spur. Attorney accused her of pulling survey stakes, blocking a grader, filling holes with a hose, confronting workers, and throwing a rock when photographed, leading Judge Frank Swain to issue an injunction barring further interference.
Law officers and four search planes combed a hilly area two miles south of Fairview for escapees Roy E. Warren and Frank Blacksher after Claude Engle was captured nearby. The trio fled from the reformatory Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. Engle was found in an alley. Warren and Blacksher remained at large as planes from Cedar Rapids aided the search.
A climber shrouded the 12 foot figure of Justice atop London's Old Bailey with a black cloth early Saturday. Police suggested the act showed a quirky joke or motive against the British judicial system as the climber used scaffolding and dark conditions to reach the statue hundreds of feet above street level.
Alex A. Miller and Charles R. Ferguson were sworn in Friday as members of the new federal coal mine safety board of review.
Two of the nations top fugitives were captured in separate incidents. William Merle Martin known as the pillowcase burglar surrendered meekly in St Louis after police forced his car to a curb. Joseph Franklin Bent Jr was wounded but escaped capture in Texas City after a pursuit by FBI agents and local police. Bent had been charged with armed robbery and indicted for assault in earlier cases.
William Merle Martin, 42, captured after a countywide flight from authorities. He stole auto license plates in West Liberty and may have stayed in Muscatine. FBI agents questioned Earl McIntire family on August 22 about stolen plates from their car. Martin reportedly signed an Iowa registration slip with a Muscatine county address to match the plates.
Des Moines AP reports Joseph Franklin Bent Jr. is wanted for a two thousand dollar hold up at a Thriftway supermarket on August 17 1951. The store was entered about 4 p.m. with about 50 customers watching as Bent fled with cash from six registers in a paper bag. Four employees identified him from photos.
Organized labor scored a key win in the union shop battle as eastern railroads agreed to compulsory union membership after long negotiations with 17 non operating unions. Officials noted important qualifications allowing some groups to be exempt while many carriers already enforce the union shop.
Tehran Premier Mossadegh rejected the Truman Churchill plan on Anglo Iranian oil, calling for parliament to draft a formal refusal. Officials said Iran would not accept court-based compensation and bristled at a $10 million U.S. grant while oil talks stalled. The move followed envoy talks in Tehran and aimed to secure an equitable solution amid fears of a Communist shift.
The triple decked Hamiltonian, a Great Lakes passenger vessel at Hamilton Ontario harbor, was destroyed by fire with no casualties. Harbor police report no passengers aboard. estimated up to 400 may have been carried on trips. The fire’s cause is unknown. A skeleton crew walked to shore.
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