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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1952
Page
1
Partly cloudy and warmer tonight with a fresh southerly breeze. Low tonight 26 to 30. Sunday cloudy with a chance of few showers and high 44 to 48. At 2:30 p.m. temperatures: 37 SW, 36 SE, 38 NW, 36 NE.
U S and United Nations forces repelled a night intrusion by eleven Communist fighters near Seoul. Radar tracked 11 hostile aircraft during a three hour period. five spotted on radar between 7 and 8 p m. Eisenhower's transport plane departed Seoul without incident. UN warships and South Korean troops defended the area. no confirmed casualties announced.
The State Board of Education set an annual salary of 18500 for Dr James Harold Hilton who will become president of Iowa State College Ames upon Dr Charles Finley’s retirement next July 1. Hilton will also receive a house and maintenance. Dancer noted the board did not set Hancher’s salary yet and expects parity with Hilton. ARRIVES TO COLLECT. Dr Selman A Waksman arrives in Stockholm to collect the 1952 Nobel Prize in medicine.
John J. McCloy, former president of the World Bank and U S high commissioner for Germany, will succeed Winthrop W Aldrich as chairman of Chase National Bank. Aldrich becomes ambassador to Great Britain.
A congressional committee labeled John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus and MacKinlay Kantor's Don't Touch Me as obscene pocket-size books among seven Bantam titles added to a preexisting list of 68. The report notes broader censorship efforts while Cedar Rapids reports 37 degrees at 2:30 p.m. with rain forecast and warmer weather ahead.
A four engine Cuban airliner Star of the Orient plunged into the sea off Bermuda on a return leg from Madrid via the Azores. Forty one aboard, four rescued, 37 feared dead. Survivors reported flames and debris as rescuers from the Yakutat and harbor boats searched amid rough seas. A steward, Orlando Lopez Suarez, saved a woman named Alice Busbanks before they were rescued.
Senator Hunt of Wyoming announced on Friday night he will back President-elect Eisenhower's proposed legislation unless it conflicts with his conscience. He argued Eisenhower has a strong popular mandate from his constituents.
President Rhee told AP that Eisenhower made no commitments during his Korean tour yet he expects the President elect to break the stalemate. Rhee said he urged a sufficient increase in ROK forces and possible relief of foreign troops if Korea can defend itself. Eisenhower pledged careful study of the proposal.
Poland withdrew from Unesco on Saturday in protest against Spain joining the educational, scientific and cultural organization. The move follows Poland's objection to Spain's admission and reflects tension within the organization.
In Pittsburgh a gas pipeline explosion leveled a three story home, killing six Montis children while parents Rose and Moulis Montis survived. The blast followed a car crash that ruptured a retaining wall and released gas. Driver John Liput, 17, was held on manslaughter charges. he escaped injury.
Five young Koreans at First Corps headquarters watch President-elect Eisenhower as he is greeted on parade grounds. A Republic of Korea officer says he looks generous, with the boys mistaking him for a Santa Claus bringing Christmas gifts to Koreans.
Washington lawmakers scrutinize a new Margaret Culkin Banning feature in Personal Romances as they wrap a week of hearings on magazine sales. Banning said 1 231 magazines on newsstands, only 99 were worthy, sparking debate over what counts as acceptable reading.
President elect Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles will confer aboard the cruiser Helena in the mid Pacific on future policy toward Korea and the Far East. Secretarial-designate Dukes may join, with Wake Island hops and helicopter transport aboard the ship.
Four Grant Wood schoolboys earned 90 cents each for appearing as city witnesses in a school stop violation case. The defendant, W F Burkhard, pleaded guilty and paid five dollars plus costs, saying he preferred a fine to trouble for the boys. The pupils Steve Severn 16 Jeffery Thompson Clayton Ink and Jon Mick all 11 belong to the Schoolboy Patrol and were escorted by Sgt Harold Prasil to Judge William J Matias and Captain Howard Walsh. They received witness fee vouchers and payments were later approved at city hall.
The West German parliament approved the German peace treaty and the European army pact after an 118 hour session. It adjourned to await a court ruling on whether rearmament is constitutional. Adenauer called Saturday’s vote the real showdown, with the final reading postponed to late January.
Communist Czechoslovakia on Saturday demanded the immediate recall of Israeli Minister A L Rubovy accusing him of espionage contacts with Jewish Communists. The Prague radio said this amid the recent purge trial coverage.
Industry members of the Wage Stabilization Board resign in protest after President Truman approves a 1.90 dollar daily wage for 375000 soft coal miners. They charge the move undermines wage controls and equality before law, urging that wage policy become a sham.
The FBI said Andrew White, the final of eight convicts who escaped Western penitentiary, was captured in Virginia at his uncle's home near Fredericksburg. He was unarmed and offered no resistance.
Miami AP reports striking flight engineers returned to work at Eastern Air Lines with both sides agreeing to mediation over a wage dispute.
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