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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1948
Page
3
A GOP source outlined possible responses to President Truman’s inflation drive. Proposals include reviving installment buying limits, freezing up to 12 billion in bank loans via higher Federal Reserve requirements, and boosting gold reserve mandates to bolster bank notes and deposits.
Iowa Democrats urged revisions to the 1947 county assessor act and backed liquor sale by the drink. Former Rep. Otha Wearin attacked the law as a tax Gestapo, while Wade Clarke won the Fifth district caucus chair on a roll call after John Judge withdrew. Switzer pressed anti graft themes and O’Connor forecast Truman’s re election.
Hogs rose to an all time high of 31 dollars per hundredweight at the Union Stock Yards Chicago on Friday. The 50 cent increase over the prior peak reflects light marketings and broad buying activity. The price compares with a 21 dollar low on May 5 and 28.50 a year ago.
The United States embassy was informed that Foreign Minister Molotov is out of town. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith, who returned from Berlin and London, seeks a meeting with Molotov. A deputy foreign minister reportedly acts in his absence. Western Powers aim to discuss the German crisis with Molotov.
In Des Moines the Second district caucus became a lively exchange as delegates debated the county assessor law liquor by the drink and pensioner spending at taverns. Independence journalist Philip Shutt urged guidance from delegates for resolutions while Pat Kehoe moved to keep matters with him. J Frank Cravens urged repeal of the assessor law proposing tax caps on real and city property.
A Daily Not Uawastern item quotes a philosophy professor reflecting on past attitudes. He notes that in his day girls were on the square, while today bias persists as he comments on evolving gender norms.
Senate Republicans watch as Dixie Democrats filibuster to prevent the anti poll tax bill. A GOP leader says Truman erred in claiming Republicans can force civil rights bills by breaking a filibuster with cloture. The plan is to seek cloture next week, but precedent may block it.
In Tulsa AP report a tiny turtle escapes from its dish after a family leaves for vacation. Detective Sgt Verne Hedgepath conducts a daily half hour search, keeping doors closed and insisting the pet must be found before the family returns to avoid neglect charges. The case notes the detective being outsmarted by a turtle.
Justice Wiley Rutledge of the U S supreme court was charged in Denver traffic court with reckless driving and taking the right of way after a collision in a residential area. Virginia Slaughenhaup, 36, an expectant mother, was slightly injured. Rutledge, vacationing in Boulder, would appear before the traffic judge as normal.
A Cascade area tornado struck during a heavy rainstorm near Cedar Rapids injuring two people and heavily damaging farms near DeWitt Williams and Ed Wherman. The worst hit farm families sheltered in a cellar as a farmhouse was damaged and a windmill blade twisted.
Eyewitnesses report a localized tornado west of Cedar Rapids damaging about a dozen farms. A Frank Schckameller barn roof blown off, a garage thrown, trees uprooted, and 350 acres of flooded cork reported amid near threshing operations.
The readable fragments suggest a chaotic note about a newspaper, a vacation related phrase, and mentions of home and tour. No clear people, places, or events are identifiable for a precise summary.
The Cedar Rapids area recorded heavy precipitation with many cities seeing a half to full inch of rain. High Thursday reached 86 after 4 to 6 pm, with a low of 61 at 6 am Friday and 2:30 pm temperature at 80 in Cedar Rapids.
Fifty Cedar Rapids teenage detasselers fled from corn fields near Peck and Wright farms onto a Kozy Korner area street for help as a tornado approached. Betty Kleiman 18 risked her safety guiding the group to a sheltered basement where they waited out the storm. The high winds caused no damage to the filling station or the Kleiman residence.
Turred winds struck the area flattening corn at two locations. Wright observed the force kept people from opening a cellar door during the storm. Residents reported funnel activity with limited damage and noted the event passed quickly through the district.
Retailers in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines report price spikes likely Monday after manufacturers announce boosts. Some stores already charge 21 cents a pack and $1.80 a carton, while wholesalers see rapid sellouts as American Tobacco Company, R J Reynolds, and Philip Morris announce increases of seven to eight tenths of a cent per package.
New York reports Liggetts and Myers Tobacco Company will raise Chesterfield prices by 40 cents per thousand. P Lorillard and Company, maker of Old Golds, remains the sole leading manufacturer not yet following the price increase trend.
Republican National Chairman Hugh Scott announces the reappointment of Mrs. Robert W. Macauley of Fort Madison as assistant chair in charge of the GOP women’s division. She has led conferences for GOP women in multiple cities including Boston Charleston St Paul Salt Lake City Boise and Washington.
Elizabeth T. Bentley testified that Communist contacts in government could place members in key roles. William Remington, a Commerce Department employee, was appointed to a secret post approving export licenses to Russia while under FBI inquiry and a New York grand jury probe. Blaisdell admitted recommending Remington and transferring him to chair an interdepartmental committee. he claimed responsibility for hiring and previous work with Harriman’s European aid group and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.
A gas explosion at the Edgewater coal mine of Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company near Birmingham killed one man and left another believed dead. Thirteen others were injured while officials said a further dozen workers were trapped underground.
In Budapest Peasant Party Leader Zoltan Tildy resigns as president after the arrest of his son in law Victor Csornoky on charges of felony and high treason. Csornoky was shot by a policeman while attempting to leave his home. The incident follows friction with Hungary's Red regime and mirrors Prague era changes.
President Truman accused critics of political speech in Congress and urged passage of broader anti inflation powers. He warned that without stronger limits on spending and banking rules, inflation would harm families and the economy. The economic council endorsed emergency controls and tighter financial regulation while stressing balance with wartime gains.
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