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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1954
Page
4
While strolling in Fiji Mary and I were invited to a local kava party with the Turaga and village officials. Guests drink the nonalcoholic kava from a three legged bowl, clap hands, and exchange greetings as the evening kitchen aromas rise and a shell gift ends the visit.
In New Jersey ex governor Harold Hoffman faces a forgery charge tied to an embezzlement scheme. A bank official, George A. Kress, alleges his signature was forged to certify 300000 in state funds deposited by Hoffman. The document dated June 30, 1953, implicates Hoffman in a 1927 to 1938 embezzlement. The attorney general will order handwriting tests after receipt of Kress statement.
The German question reemerges as Britain and the United States push for Western Germany's role in NATO and for Bonn Convention reforms while France stalls EDC plans amid Indo China policy fights and cabinet instability.
Rep Frances Bolton says censorship reveals anti-Communists jailed tortured and killed in Guatemala. She cites Jose Miranda jailed. Gabriel Martinez del Rosas tortured and driven insane. Alfredo Arbulach tortured and killed. President Eisenhower notes cooperative study on Guatemala situation.
A Sausalito led expedition plans a 2800 mile raft voyage to test a theory that American Indian ancestors came from Palestine. Jon Lindbergh may join the crew as they build a pentagonal 16 by 32 foot raft and sail July 4 from California toward Hawaii with stops across Bombay Ceylon the Philippines and Japan.
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