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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1952
Page
5
President Truman said at his year end news conference that the global peace outlook is brighter than a year ago. He noted no new plan on hasting the end of the Korean War had been submitted to him yet.
President Truman announced plans for a January 15 radio television address on the nation’s state, with additional material beyond the State of the Union. He avoided comment on Gen. MacArthur, John Vincent, and related disputes, and offered brief notes on Churchill, Taft, and Senate filibusters.
Cedar Rapids city officials on Wednesday decided to commission a full survey of the bus system before acting on the Cedar Rapids City Lines request to raise fares from 10 cents to two for a quarter. The council will not set a public hearing date until a time frame for the investigation is known, amid talks of wage negotiations with drivers and a potential nationwide decline in public transportation profitability.
The murder case against George C. Duffy of Waukon, 21, could see a plea Monday as Judge Charles Penningroth moved the jury panel to January 12 after dismissing it. Duffy is jailed in Linn County on a murder charge after the October 9 shotgun death of James Hackman, 18, tied to a love triangle with Shirley Arnold, 18.
Allied air power and artillery opened the final day of 1952 on Korea’s front. Twenty one B-29s from Japan and Okinawa delivered over 200 tons of high explosives on an ore processing plant near the Yalu river and a supply center near Sinanju while Fifth Air Force fighters struck Red rail lines and front line positions amid night fighting.
Philip L. Hegstrom, 48, a Sioux City real estate man, received a term not to exceed 20 years in Fort Madison prison for the second degree murder of his wife Ruth, 53. He pleaded guilty open indictment after a two day hearing as the court noted the tragedy surrounding the case and his testimony cited frequent quarrels over money and the future of their son, William, 21.
Republican Patrick J. Hurley filed a petition with the U S Senate demanding declaration as winner over Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez in New Mexico. Hurley says Chavez should be denied a seat and that he would have won if illegal votes had not been counted.
A witty quip notes that money rarely speaks as a traveler leaves, contrasting common saying with a humorous twist about cash saying goodbye. The line plays on the familiar phrase money talks and imagines it declaring it will return.
Burlington report says Airman 3c Harry V. Cum mings of the 35th installations squadron in Japan won the 1952 Liars Club crown with a tall tale about six foot mosquitoes debating whether to eat him at night in his barracks. Honorable mentions went to Frank G. Horak Chicago Art Eisenegger Dubuque and Carl S. Harwood Baldwinsville Mass for competing lies.
Chicago reporters say 15 month old Rodney Dee Brodie is resting after a two hour and 15 minute operation to place a scalp flap across his brain to reduce cerebral infection risk following his separation from his weaker Siamese twin Roger Lee who remains in a deep coma.
Escanaba Michigan reports Mrs. John Swanson, 90, who had been blind for five years, contracted a head cold before Christmas. As the cold cleared, she gradually regained her sight. She called it a Christmas present and said she would never again view a cold as anything but a blessing.
Rep. Celler and Rep. Walter sharply rebuke the special house committee for acting as literary critics. They fault the majority for effectively labeling a wide range of books and magazines as obscene and risk book burning while urging Congress to tighten laws and empower mail impoundment.
Des Moines reports a 1952 record for Iowa special taxes and liquor profits totaling $179,380,820, up from $174,514,703 in 1951. Five taxes hit new highs, led by the four cent per gallon gasoline tax, inheritance tax, insurance premium tax, motor vehicle registrations, and the two percent sales tax.
A Polk county grand jury indicted Arthur Coons, 29, in the Des Moines traffic death of a 2 year old boy on Sept. 5. The panel ignored charges against O. W. Harger of Des Moines, named by Coons as the truck driver. Both men underwent truth serum testing after manslaughter charges.
The National Safety Council warned on Wednesday that traffic fatalities in 1952 will top 38,000, one of the nation’s heaviest losses on record.
Catherine Larson 18 will wed Glen Andrews 24 at Trinity Augustana Lutheran church. She will wear two engagement rings one from her fiancé and another from Robert Heath, her childhood sweetheart killed on Heartbreak Ridge in Korea. Heath's ring remains unrepaired as she keeps it per his memory.
A 300-pound safe containing about $1,776.39 in cash and checks was rolled from Farmers Supply Company in Cedar Rapids. Detectives traced footprints to a parked vehicle after the theft occurred before 8 a.m. Wednesday, as workers reported missing safe contents and authorities conducted a statewide search.
U.S. Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath says the draft rejection rate of 37.4 percent stems from poor schooling and literacy. He urges schools and colleges to improve education for slow learners to correct the situation.
U S court of appeals upheld a lower court ruling denying a retrial for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. The Rosenbergs face execution in the week of Jan 11. Sobell serves 30 years to life.
Secretary of State Acheson told a House subcommittee there is no real threat to U S national security from U N workers with suspected loyalties. He said subversive Americans should be removed and pressed that U N employment harms U S interests and reputation.
Secretary of State Acheson maintained his sense of humor during a House subcommittee hearing. When pressed on what he would do differently in 1946 with today’s knowledge, he quipped that hindsight is sore at this point.
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