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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1949
Page
1
The Senate, by 63 to 23, adopts a compromise gag rule led by Republicans and Dixie Republicans to curb filibusters. Democratic protests warn the move blocks civil rights action. The chamber then postpones voting on President Truman's civil rights program as it eyes administration legislation ahead.
The Senate narrowly adopts a new two thirds gag rule after a 16 day party line battle. Senators Hickenlooper Gillette Lucas Wherry Russell and others weigh civil rights policy and debate limits while Republicans and Southern Democrats push for the measure.
The Senate labor and public welfare committee endorsed a $300 million federal aid to education bill and a companion $35 million annual program for state health services to children in public and private schools. States must contribute 25 to 50 percent of federal grants, shifting more aid to poorer states. With minimum state input, the health program could total $60 million yearly. The measures move to the Senate for quick action.
Rome AP says the Chamber of Deputies rejected a leftist filibuster by 342 to 170 to authorize government negotiations on Italy joining the North Atlantic pact. Pro Communist leader Pietro Nenni warned of invasion risk as clashes and a 24 hour strike hit steel town Terni.
Economy Cooperation Administrator Paul G Hoffman set the full Marshall plan cost at 17 billion dollars in four and a quarter years. He warned that failure would invite Kremlin efforts to European communism and higher U S taxes if the Cold War worsens. The estimate tops prior guesses of 12 to 17 billion.
Senator Millikin blocked unanimous consent to consider James Boyd for director of the federal bureau of mines. The move halted action on the Truman nominee as the Senate moved to other nominations, with no date set for resuming consideration.
Fourteen students received warnings for drinking and three placed on probation. Two seniors are expelled or suspended through June 7 after a Cedar River beer party near Ivanhoe. One student is expelled for abduction and head shearing of a Coe student. other party members face discipline. Delta Phi Rho loses social privileges for 18 months. Coe reports efforts to discourage pranks and maintain peace since 1946.
General Lucius D. Clay reported ongoing nationalism in German press despite prior reprimands. Publications Wochenpost and Christ und Welt were singled out for nationalist tone while Volk und Zeit and Neue Fleischier Zeitung faced criticism for attacks on the American Military Government. Western Berlin unemployment rose, health improved across all ages, Western marks and raw materials shortages push skilled workers to the Soviet sector as the Anglo American airlift delivered 152 362 tons in January up from December 125 931.
About 70 of 130 Aledo high school girls wore blue jeans on Friday to protest dress rules. Superintendent James C. Graham sent the uncompliant students home to change. Five girls refused and went on strike, with plans to seek board approval to wear jeans through the principal’s office clearance system.
In New Orleans Louis Hoover a 25 year old resident of Louisville was indicted Thursday night in the murder of wealthy hotel owner James A Mahoney in his French quarter room.
Winston Churchill sailed on the Queen Elizabeth with his wife and son in law to lecture in the United States. Also aboard in cabin class was Prof Harold Laski former Labour Party chairman and Churchill foe who will lecture in America.
President Truman said he still hopes to pass a major part of his program through Congress despite opposition from southern Democrats and others. He described a three party system including Dixiecrats, urged patience, and signaled no immediate nationwide campaign. He has reviewed the North Atlantic pact text and plans no rush to stump the country.
The Neu Zeitung reported that Marshal Vassily D. Sokolovsky, the Soviet commander in Germany, reportedly left Berlin to join a Moscow military conference. The paper gave no source and speculated the talks could relate to the Atlantic pact announced in Washington.
Dorothy Lamour hosted a 2 000 to 3 000 person opening night at Glenn McCarthy’s Shamrock hotel in Houston. NBC Chicago blamed line failures and crowd noise for the first 14 minutes of the Sealtest sponsored broadcast. Lamour said no profanity occurred amid the chaos and seating confusion in the Emerald room.
Secretary of State Acheson stated that a Western European NATO member under major attack would obligate the United States to consider war, with Congress holding final say. He contrasted large scale attacks with border incidents and explained Article Five requires collective action to restore security in the North Atlantic area.
Bleriot Lamarre 37, who aided the Meyers corruption case, received a suspended one to three year sentence for lying to a congressional investigating committee. Judge Alexander Holtzoff placed him on two years probation. Lamarre is employed in Dayton by Standard Oil of Ohio.
In Spring Valley New York Robert Palloy wintering at a closed winter season hotel was charged with burglary after police removed him from the Bader hotel. He claimed to have lived off the cellar wine and food, heating with candles and washing with seltzer water while isolated for months.
Peane AP reports Craig R. Sheaffer of Fort Madison Indiana was elected to the Bell Telephone board. Naples, president of the firm, announced the appointment on Friday. Sheaffer is president of the W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company and has long been associated with the firm founded by his father.
Washington AP reports the North Atlantic Treaty would bind the United States and allied nations to resist automatically an armed attack against any member. Each nation may decide if military force is necessary, with Congress retaining war-declaration power. The treaty marks a landmark shift to peacetime alliance with Europe, set for signing around April.
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