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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1948
Page
11
The United Nations launches Operation Halt for Haiti with a 36000 dollar program to combat malaria yaws malnutrition and poverty. Haitian envoy Ernest G Chauvet pressed for aid noting rich lands but poor people while FAO WHO and education experts join the effort.
An economist, an industrial expert, and financial specialists will advise Haiti on wages, prices, and machine mysteries. They will join Operation Haiti in October for three months of on-site investigation and then present a complete revival plan to the Haitian government, seeking a World Bank loan. This marks a turning point, Chauvet said.
Wednesday theater listings show Paramount with Romance on the High Seas and shorts, plus IOWA State Palace and town venues screening The Doctor Takes a Wife and Follow the Fleet. Local listings include Shahghat Chest and Kiss of Death with various showtimes and prices across multiple venues.
Three American airmen died when their aircraft wings touched the sea during training near Yokota air base. The Yokota base said the names would be released after kin are notified.
Hollywood reports Frank Laskier’s Unseen Harbor to star Richard Widmark and Dana Andrews with Sol Siegel producing. Gene Raymond directs. film shot in England and at sea straight from Milton Krims adaptation. Cornell Wilde faces operation after on set injury. Barbara Long pins fraternity ring.
New York UP Henry A Wallace Progressive candidate for president demanded radio and TV networks and independent stations give him time to respond to President Truman s address to Congress. He said Truman s executive orders on racial discrimination were empty gestures and urged equal time on facilities used by Truman.
Wallace condemns Truman on equality in the armed services saying the effort promises little and leaves segregation intact. He labels the FEPC move as a political gesture and urges debates with Dewey in the South before non segregated audiences.
Galena Missouri postmaster T Allen McQuarry aged about 70 shot himself after being accused by U S postal authorities of embezzlement and making employer vouchers exceed payments. Accusations cover July 1945 to July 15 1948. He is survived by his wife and a daughter.
In Columbus a Cincinnati mother found a four year old girl’s new mattress packed with cigarettes wrappers milk bottle caps nails wires nuts bolts and match boxes. Governor Herbert and W J Rogers state director of industrial relations displayed the mattress to illustrate the hazard from such stuffing after the child became ill from wire jabs.
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