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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1945
Page
2
City council moves to ask voters later this summer whether the new municipal airport should be run by a dedicated airport commission. Aimed at guiding policy as wartime limits ease, the move shifts focus from council to a commission with deep air transport ties. The decision hinges on who should set future airport policies and priorities.
The editorial argues the airport commission must be chosen for specialized expertise to avoid hamstringing urban growth and urges careful, visioned planning. It condemns compulsory arbitration in labor disputes but supports third party judgment to interpret contracts, while noting a Princeton astronomer’s claim that life may exist on thousands of planets beyond our solar system and that such ideas deserve measured cautious discussion.
President Truman travels from Portland to San Francisco for the nine weeks long United Nations conference climax. Delegates from fifty nations prepare for the closing plenary and a world charter expected to be ratified by the Big Five and most other nations. The ceremony will include signatures and the creation of a preparatory commission seated in London to act until a secretary-general is elected.
Washington AP says the house appropriations committee approved a 125000 dollar fund to liquidate the Fair Employment Practices committee and limit FEPC operations to liquidation after July 1. The panel also proposed a 174.5 million dollar OPA budget for the next fiscal year, amid ongoing legislative battles.
Manila AP reports Radio Tokyo admitted six months of sustained American air raids have wrecked most Formosa cities and driven residents into hills. The disclosure follows Allied bombing campaigns over the guardian island off the east China coast.
Cedar Rapids city council ordered a special election on whether the airport should be controlled and managed by an airport commission. The resolution, passed unanimously, directs the legal department to prepare proceedings to place the question before voters, noting the airport’s roughly two million dollar investment and limited further development under current conditions. Finance Commissioner Burgus supported the plan despite his absence earlier, with Hahn delaying action until Burgus could vote.
Forecast shows fair and warmer conditions in Cedar Rapids tonight and Tuesday. Sunday afternoon showers interrupted a Sunday peak of 87 degrees, with 0.39 inch total rainfall and a high of 82 recorded at 2:30 pm. Overnight low 64, heaviest rain 0.93 inch at Keokuk, Burlington Notes 90 degrees, Sioux City 52.
SAN FRANCISCO AP Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts lauds the United Nations conference for blending realism with idealism. He highlights four improvements over the League covenant, including binding to supply forces, the Big Five veto, and support for smaller defense groups under the world organization. He credits the charter with addressing past failures and emphasizes human welfare, the economic and social council, and trusteeship. He praises Secretary Stettinius and the U.S. delegation as pivotal to the conference's success.
Washington AP says industrial fuel oil rations will be trimmed one third in the Midwest effective Friday. The OPA announced the change, including 13 states such as Iowa, to align with other rationed areas due to sharply reduced residual oil supplies for heating factories and large buildings. Total allocations will be restricted to two thirds of normal requirements.
Washington AP WPB chairman J. A. Krug urged war workers to stay on the job July 4. He called for unstinting work especially in battle damage repair and in the textile lumber steel and lead industries.
Gary Brechner, a familiar Redlands sports announcer and master of ceremonies for the Frank Morgan radio show, died Monday after being seriously injured in a Sunday night automobile accident.
Linn county enters final week of the seventh war loan drive with a $3,490,000 quota and $2,647,425 sold. Daily sales average needed is $1107,096 to hit the target, with a mammoth Friday auction at the Coliseum and live man-on-the-street interviews in front of Third avenue and Second street SE. George Hearn reports a $650,000 purchase by Western Bohemian Fraternal association. Hedges company employer group at 145 percent of its quota.
AP reports ten soldiers among twelve killed when a Camp Crowder bus struck a cow on US highway four miles south of Joplin. The bus swerved, overturned and plunged down an embankment injuring several others. Dead soldiers were among Camp Crowder personnel.
STCKHOLM AP The Tidningen stated Monday Emmy Sonnemann has asked for a divorce from Hermann Goering claiming no genuine marriage existed. The report adds their union was an act ordered by Adolf Hitler.
Detroit observers report CIO Maintenance Construction and Powerhouse Workers plan a strike poll attended by about 1,000 delegates representing 38,000 skilled workers in the Detroit area. Reports say many delegates told to vote for a general strike as AFL CIO dispute over jobs continues. UAW CIO maintenance men demand wage parity with AFL men working for outside contractors, a 50 cent hourly gap cited. Pickets line main gate at Packard, where 2,000 idle workers and a company lockout persist amid broader labor unrest affecting windmill and war production plants.
Rep. Gavin accuses Lincoln Army Air Base of Gestapo type training under Maj. Gen. Duncan. He cites a cadet beaten for minor infractions, harsh punishments, and a 16 day hospital stay. Gavin says the war department was alerted four months ago and urges an inquiry across camps.
Eleventh Airborne Division paratroopers push toward Tuguegarao sealing off some 20 000 Japanese in a 60 mile corridor. MacArthur reports Japanese losses at 9 238 killed and 1 485 captured last week with American casualties of 223 dead and 589 wounded amid glider drops and Aparri offensives by Swing and Beightler units.
Clark W. Fisher, 36, pleads innocent to a first degree murder charge in Linn County. He is accused of shooting his wife Mildred, 29, after a May 19 meeting with a lawyer about divorce. He slashed his own throat and was hospitalized a week. A jury trial is set for September.
Marion eighteen year old Virgil Gardner pled innocent before Judge Floyd Philbrick to breaking and entering charges arising from two Marion service stations break-ins on May 19 and 20. Bond set at 2500 dollars. Co-defendant LeWayne Howe, seventeen, also pled innocent. Both jailed in Linn county on 2500 bond. Prosecutors cite Gardner’s own statement naming accomplices and admitting to three gas station break-ins, stolen cash and ration stamps, and other items.
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