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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1952
Page
1
President Truman said he will have his name withdrawn as a candidate in the New Hampshire preferential primary but could still run for re election. He avoided confirming plans for a second term and warned that primaries are eyewash ahead of the nominating convention.
West German police raided offices of the Communist party and the Socialist Reich party at dawn on orders of the constitutional court. Officers seized propaganda, bank records, and confidential files while no arrests were reported. The move aims to outlaw both parties as hostile to the state amid concerns voiced by Chancellor Adenauer and U.S. occupation authorities.
Draft Director Lewis B Hershey predicted a sharp rise in the number of men to be drafted between now and June 30.
Cedar Rapids county attorney filed a breaking and entering charge against 36 year old Donald DeLancey of 216 Fifth Street NE for entering a south side apartment at 8 30 p m Wednesday. He was arrested in an apartment over Kosek dime store at 87 Sixteenth Avenue SW after admitting the break in.
Lt. William A. Poe of Laguna Beach crash landed his F4U corsair on Mt Sonora in the High Sierras. Marines snowshoed 24 hours to reach him and guide a rescue as he slid close to a 4000 foot cliff. Poe was reported uninjured and returned to a winter training center after the perilous descent.
President Truman suggested that the house judiciary committee investigate itself. He said the committee has the privilege to investigate anyone it wants but advised them to investigate themselves after a decision to probe the justice department.
Riccardo Del Vecchio, 24, who served with the 35th regimental combat team in Seoul, claims $1,297 in back pay the army owes. He says VA and Army delays left him unpaid after his October discharge, losing a house deal and basic support for his wife Adina and 2-year-old son Mark.
The FCC ordered an investigation into Western Union facilities possibly used for illegal gambling. It delayed new regulations on racing news transmission to May 1 and scheduled a public hearing to assess law violations and the impact of the proposed rules on wire service use.
President Truman asserted that he received all messages from Major General Frank E. Lowe during Lowe’s Korea mission as his personal representative. He declined further comment on an interview quoting Lowe about messages not reaching the President and the MacArthur split.
United Air Lines posted stronger mail and cargo figures at the municipal airport in 1951, with 99,533 pounds of mail, up 30 percent from 1950, and cargo reaching 754,416 pounds, up 14 percent. Passenger boardings fell 5 percent to 16,894. Station manager C C McIntyre cited expanded schedules and reliability as drivers and forecast further gains in 1952 with new four and twin engines.
United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie urged the Security Council to employ secret diplomacy to halt the deterioration of international relations. Speaking to the General Assembly, he stressed maintaining peace as a prerequisite for a lasting settlement and proposed privately held high level consultations to widen areas of agreement.
At the United Nations Paris, Soviet delegates attack the United States over the William N. Oatis case accusing him of espionage. Dr. Channing Tobias defends Oatis as not a spy, while Czech delegate Frantisek Vavricky accuses U.S. hypocrisy and cites alleged training and espionage links.
Chicago reports the Black Hawk restaurant on Wabash Avenue closed after health officials found horsemeat in hamburger samples. Owner Donald I. Roth confirmed the notice and shutdown following the agency's Tuesday findings.
Prime Minister Yoshida announced that the Japanese national police reserve will be dissolved in October and replaced by a new defense corps. The plan marks a restructuring of postwar security forces and aligns with broader defense revisions.
U S Fifth Air Force reports rising enemy anti-aircraft fire since October. Since Operation Strangle began in August, losses average 10 allied planes per week as Red gunners increase practice and radar controlled guns. Jet and propeller craft dive through heavy fire. enemy planes rarely approach allied lines.
President Truman took off Thursday on a nonstop flight to survey flood conditions along the Ohio river region. He planned to view areas in Pennsylvania Ohio West Virginia and Kentucky as rain fell during the flight.
Government approves factory wholesale ceiling increases for Chrysler Studebaker and Kaiser-Frazer passenger cars. Kaiser-Frazer All-State lines for Sears Roebuck gain 3.75 to 11.68 percent. OPS cannot estimate dollar impact or confirm full adoption. boosts granted under the Capehart amendment to economic controls law.
President Truman denounces Senator McCarthy as a pathological character assassin for attacking White House staffers and government employees. He questions truthfulness of claims about FBI files and loyalty reviews, stating McCarthy did not need evidence to smear officials. The remark comes on a nonimmunity basis.
A Cedar Rapids man, 34 year old F. Anderson, was seriously injured when he rear ended a stalled semi trailer west of Key West on a highway. He was taken to Mercy hospital in Dubuque with chest and knee injuries and facial lacerations. The truck driver, Ralph H. Frasher Jr., Milwaukee, said a broken axle caused the stall while the trailer carried tractors. Deputy William Ryder investigated the crash noting Anderson drove at about 40 mph. Frasher said he left the cab and set kerosene flares to mark the stalled vehicle. The car’s front was demolished. the truck suffered minor damage.
A Delaware County Roosevelt Birthday dinner straw poll shows Truman winning 46.6 percent of 161 ballots among 197 attendees with 161 responses. Other votes include Kefauver 2, Eisenhower 11, Stassen 7, Barkley 8, Stevenson 6, Taft 3, Douglas 3, Vinson 2, Gillette 2, Russell 2, Warren 1, and scattered votes for Doyle Linkletter Wilkes.
Marsha Holt, born 1942, was turned down by the air force because of her age. Her father, Garner C. Holt, was a Lt killed in 1944 over Germany. She applied to be a WAC at nine and a half but was told she must wait years. She asked not to do dishes in the service.
A planned strike by dockmen and 2,000 over the road trucking lines in 12 central states could idle about 45,000 drivers. Chicago talks between company officials and the union aim to avert the walkout scheduled for midnight Thursday. Key negotiator is James Hoffa with Cedar Rapids and Michigan Teamsters officials present.
Richard James aged 6 drowned after he and his sister Mary Lee James fell through ice on the Mississippi River while waiting for a school bus. Onlookers rescued Mary Lee as classmate Richard Tracy witnessed the accident on the thin ice.
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