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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1947
Page
2
Washington Secretary of the Treasury Snyder rejects immediate income tax cuts amid GOP pressure for a 20 percent reduction. He argues any surplus should reduce the national debt and favors aid mainly to low income groups. He cites budget evidence and urges waiting for 1948 surplus details before action.
Harold Ahlers of Carl Inc claims New York City police are restrained in protecting his firm during a dispute with Local 202 AFL Teamsters. He cites picketing since 1945, reports officials wary of duty, and a mayoral influence in dock access. Rep. Hartley vows tough action against what he calls strong arm labor tactics.
A F Whitney president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen told the senate labor committee on Thursday he does not foresee another nationwide rail strike like 1946. He urged government ownership of railroads to avoid a phony seizure while companies keep earning from the properties.
President Truman settled in a quiet house overlooking the Atlantic and Gulf absorbing an absolute rest per his doctor. Behind the scenes radio and landline communications conveyed reaction to his foreign policy address. Messages from about 20 individuals were mostly favorable according to Press Secretary Charles G. Ross.
All Purple Heart recipients from World War I or II are invited to meet at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Keen Teen room at the YMCA. Nick Habid announces a local chapter of the Bymanne Order of the Red, with Red Taylor of Iowa City to explain the order and lead a discussion on local organization.
City council on Thursday retired $14,000 of bonded debt leaving total indebtedness at $1,382,600 down from $1,454,600 on April 1 1946. Payments drawn from airport bond fund police station bonds exhibition hall fund sewer bond fund and memorial moulding listed with principal and interest amounts totaling $8,392.50 in interest.
Hollywood UP reports Rita Hayworth says her stormy marriage to Orson Welles is off again while Welles denies a separation beyond distance. The exchange highlights renewed strain between the famed actor and director and Hayworth.
June 16 marks the opening of Health Camp Good Health for a ten week term. The Public Health Nursing Association announced the plan at a board meeting and will operate the camp for the benefit of physically handicapped individuals funded by the Catto Good Health Fund via The Cedar Rapids Gazette. Staff interviews are underway led by A T Pleune with Mrs Frank V Orr and Miss Hermina Roskamp discussing parochial school nursing and baby clinic attendance at Community House and association offices.
A London source says Washington’s decision to include Turkey with Greece in aid and to send military personnel surprised Britain. Britain did not ask for US funds or troops to Turkey and called Truman’s note a fight statement on “im governments.”
A single large Tasmanian crab yields up to twenty pounds of meat, enough to feed ten people.
Chicago police say William Block, 36, identified by three witnesses as the man who fatally shot James Ragen Sr. after a June 24 incident. Block was traced from surveillance since January and arrested after park police recovered a package containing a shotgun from his car in Douglas Park.
The elderly racing news distributor Ragen was shot at a street intersection and died August 14 from kidney ailment and shock from wounds. A coroner's jury labeled murder. He had charged the Capone syndicate with involvement in his death in affidavits that underpinned a lengthy statement to authorities. Ragen headed Continental Press since 1942 and owned two thirds of the firm with Edward McBride owning the remaining third.
The United States authorized its first military aviation appropriation in 1907 after purchasing an aircraft from the Wright brothers.
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