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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1948
Page
11
John M. Roberts Jr argues that appealing to the United Nations over Berlin is unlikely to yield action as Russia presses a blockade. He notes Russian tactics, airlift threats, and Western misreads of Moscow policy, urging realism about imperial aims and history.
Mrs. Anna Wagenlander of Newport filed two suits seeking 12000 dollars each against the Cincinnati Zoological Society and the zoo’s trainers William H. and Carolyn E. Dressman. She alleges a chimpanzee bit and mauled her on December 25, 1947, as she exited an elevator at the club where she worked.
Edward H. Foley Jr of New York was sworn in Thursday to the post of undersecretary of the Treasury, succeeding A Lee M Wiggins who retired to enter private business.
Singapore dispatch reports Britain rushing reinforcements from Hongkong to Malaya to quell Communist driven violence. The Inniskilling Fusiliers depart for Singapore while Sir Alec Newboult admits current security forces are insufficient. Police arrest over 150 suspected guerrillas after attacks on a British Malayan patrol.
Los Angeles report cites three Douglas Aircraft test pilots Gene May Robert Brush and Russell Thaw urging safer cockpit design for high speed high altitude flight. May warns current enclosures strain pilots at stratospheric speeds and Thaw promotes emergency escape through a bottom ejection seat and a detachable cockpit cell with automatic parachute deployment.
Vancouver police considered revoking a meter victim's poetic license after he submitted a verse with his fine. The limerick style note reads Hickory hickory dock The cop is up the block The hour has struck and I am stuck Enclosed please find two bucks.
Hair stylist Al Tate debuts a Woody Woodpecker style for children and girls. Boys trim hair to form a topknot starting at the ears, while girls use soft curls for the topknot and brush the back smooth. The look is pitched as summery and cool.
A Prague spokesman for the civilian anti air raid defense office announced Thursday night that air raid precautions are being taken across Czechoslovakia. Officials had denied or refused comment until now. The office, part of the interior ministry, has existed for a long time.
The Gazette lists Friday theater showings with times for Paramount Iowa State Town Palace Times Trand Marion and other cinemas. Titles include The Green Grass of Wyoming The Fuller Brush Man Thunderhoot Feudin Fussin and a Fightin Night mare Alley The Outlaw Glamour Girl Prairie Bad Man and The Fighting 69th plus Springtime in the Sierras and related shorts.
A mid winter cold wave swept Argentina with record low temperatures in multiple places. Buenos Aires recorded 30 degrees while Sarmiento in Chubut territory hit 1 below zero, marking the coldest readings of the year.
A bottle of nail polish exploded injuring 14 year old Alberta Andre in Cleveland. Alberta and her sisters were nearby when the incident occurred Thursday at home.
A cosmetic product was heated on a cook stove to thin it and exploded, sending glass fragments into Alberta's face and narrowly missing her eyes.
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