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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1947
Page
3
President Truman sharply attacked Taft's boom and bust economic theory calling it fallacious and dangerous. He defended price reductions as vital and pressed for full employment while noting foreign aid adds domestic strain. He warned Taft would worsen a recession and stressed maintaining demand without high prices.
The United States says it is not disposed to enter into official relations with the new regime in Nicaragua. The State Department issued a statement that the attitude is pending further developments. A department official said consultations with other American republics are planned.
Washington The House approved the final labor regulation bill by four to one after 320 to 79 votes on the conference report. The measure aligns with a milder Senate version, omitting broad industry bargaining bans and injunction powers against secondary boycotts. The vote signals potential override of a presidential veto.
KEOKUK AP Union Electric Company officials said lightning struck a generator at the Keokuk power house causing a fire worth about $150000. Power was off from 12:47 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. affecting 60 cycle users in southeast Iowa while 25 cycle service continued from Keokuk Electro Metals. Crews from St Louis were being rushed to aid repairs.
President Truman appointed Dwight Griswold former Nebraska governor to head the United States aid program in Greece. Richard F. Allen was named field administrator of the $350 million post-UNRRA relief fund, separate from the Greek Turkish aid program. Griswold had been director of internal affairs and communications in the American zone in Germany.
Washington report details a malaria breakthrough via the drug pentaquine. Dr Alf S Alving cites relapse rate drops from 98 percent to 16 percent in severe infections, noting pentaquine resembles plasmochin and that 13 275 chemicals were screened to reach the solution.
Three people died when a small seaplane crashed on the North Side wounding no residents. The craft struck a house then exploded, spraying gasoline that lit four nearby homes in a dense, two story row. The dead were two men and a woman aboard the plane.
The senate overwhelmingly approved Italian Romanian Hungarian and Bulgarian pacts seen as a prelude to peace in Europe. Italian treaty passed 79 10 with others by voice vote. a motion to delay until next year failed 67 22. Russia and France have not ratified.
Cedar Rapids city council approved an amendment to grant free parking to ten veterans who lost legs in war. The measure exempts disabled drivers from meter rules and unmetered area limits after a request from the Cedar Rapids DA V chapter. Veterans will receive car insignia for eligibility.
London reports that Foreign Secretary Bevin and former premier Anthony Eden were among Britons receiving powder gelignite letter bombs. Scotland Yard added Bevin and Eden to the growing list of recipients, with Bevin’s private secretary finding a bomb in the mail and Eden noting he carried one in his briefcase a day earlier.
The House approved a massive Army supply bill totaling 5.28 billion dollars and added 400 million dollars for aircraft purchases by unanimous vote. The final bill remains well below the President’s war department appropriation estimates, with the plane funding as the sole addition.
Jesse W. Starr 30 of Mt. Clare, near Clarksburg, was arrested after living in a cave hideout since September 1942. He claimed to have joined an air force medical detachment but went AWOL when his unit was sent overseas. Starr wore women’s clothes on trips to town and kept a rag and straw bed in the rough cave home.
President Truman denounced Hungary's Communist coup as an outrage and said the State Department is examining the situation. Hungarian minister Aladar Szegedy Maszak and staff refused to recognize the new regime, with four of seven diplomats staying at their posts. The embassy officials hinted at possible US withdrawal of recognition after Hungary's 1945 elections.
In Budapest Soviet Lt. Gen. V. P. Sviridov refused the U S military mission chief Col. John H. Stokes Jr s request to inspect a Hungarian division. War Minister Dinnyes said approval must come from the Allied Control Commission. Weems said the inspection would be discussed at the next control commission meeting.
In Bristow Oklahoma the city introduces a Pay-as-you-overpark plan. Drivers insert 50 cents and their ticket into a meter container attached to each parking meter. If the ticket and money are not left, the driver faces a city court appearance with a $1 fine.
In Jerusalem and surrounding areas sporadic clashes shred roads as a railroad station is wrecked and a pipeline is ruptured. Two Arabs are reported killed in the Thursday violence across several points in Palestine.
Three people died in storms that swept Eastern Iowa Wednesday night. Lee Charles Anson, 40, was electrocuted while restoring power at Nichols Cedar Rapids. Mrs Marilyn Hamilton 20, died from injuries after a car left a washed out bridge near Independence. Keith Howell 10, drowned at Town City park west of the Iowa river.
Bayne Freeland reports the city council approved a 500-foot 12 inch storm sewer to drain Ellis Terrace west side veterans housing. Public Improvements Commissioner Williams called it an emergency to provide relief. project cost about 1600 dollars. City engineer warns it won’t fully solve all drainage. Page 8 continues.
Seventy five children including thirty boys and forty five girls are listed as the initial group for Camp Good Health. Parents will be notified by the Public Health Nursing Association that camp opens June 16, with written consent required. The stay lasts at least three weeks, pending physician recommendation. Nurses will follow up at homes this week to ensure pre camp dental work and corrections are completed. The fund shows 3290.20 raised toward a 3704.80 goal, with several local groups contributing. donations can be sent to The Camp Good Health Fund care The Gazette Cedar Rapids.
Fresh rains of cloudburst proportions hit Iowa causing rivers to rise beyond flood stages. Cedar Rapids crews worked to sandbag low areas along the Cedar River as the river swelled more than an inch per hour on Thursday morning.
Doctors at St Joseph’s hospital applied heat treatments through the night to save an incubator baby after a Union Electric generator failure blacked out the hospital.
Local reports show 1.25 inches of rain Wednesday night. Vinton water stood at 12.4 feet after cresting. Cedar Rapids rivers measured 12.7 feet by 2:30 p.m. with a predicted crest near 13.6 feet by Friday evening as authorities urge riverbank avoidance and public cooperation.
The weather bureau logged heavy rainfall across multiple Iowa locations with counts including Indianola 5.66 inches, Winterset 5.25, Glenwood 5.31, Van Meter 5 inches, Creston 3.38, Des Moines 3.74, Lamont 2.60, Albia 3.05, Monroe 3.06, Tingley 3.00, Chariton 4.20, Ottumwa 2.10, Waterloo 1.25, Keokuk 1.63, and Marshalltown 1.93 inches.
City workers coordinate flood preparations as authorities warn merchants to safeguard basement stocks. Officials recall the 1924 flood and report Indian Creek cresting six to eight feet above banks in Thomas Park. Lightning strikes the Rock residence while Cedar Rapids records a near record heat of 79 degrees before cooling later.
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