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Cedar Rapids Gazette (Newspaper) - March 31, 1950, Cedar Rapids, Iowa V eat Here Cloudy and warm tonight. Saturday partly Cloudy and Cool. Low tonight 35. High saturday 40. Map on picture Page Topi do # City final 5 cents pc r g news ism on Tock dial a 7 7 3# a 9 Tati 17 .�?3 00-6 15-7 55-� 45-10 55-11 55 volume 68�?number 81 Cedar rapids Iowa Friday March 31, 1950.associated press United press International news Bednasek testimony Complete Lattimore not policy architect Acheson says he a never met Man accused of being spy. Washington apr Secretary of state Acheson said Friday that Owen Lattimore is not the architect of u. S. Far Eastern policy. He said he did not think in fact that he had Ever met Lattimore. Acheson commented at a news conference on senator Mccarthy a fresh barrage of a soviet agent charges against Lattimore a Johns Hopkins University professor. Mccarthy blasted at Lattimore in a Senate speech thursday. He charged that Lattimore has been the real director of american policy in the far East. Lattimore himself has called Mccarthy s charges against him a pure Moonshine a and an a unmitigated never employed. Acheson pictured la tit More a contacts with the stale department As sharply limited to a few occasions. He said Lattimore never had j been employed by the state department. Among other things. Mccarthy told the Senate he can produce a witness who will swear that Lattimore was a member of the communist party. He also said he had various affidavits to Back up his charges. Mccarthy a office said Friday the senator has been in touch with the Fri and that the Agency now has All the documents. The office declined to say when or How the data was supplied to the Fri. F u con., l Truman sets moves made at Clarinda pattern for 1950 drive Clarinda up a authorities Friday stopped All new admissions and ordered influenza and Grippe patients isolated at a state mental Hospital where 17 inmates have died of influenza or pneumonia during the last two months. Charges . Senators attempting to wreck foreign policy. Key West Fla. Apr president Truman a bitter dec the nose knows Bill Jurges left manager of the Cedar rapids indians Points to the rapidly burning nose of Pat Harmon Gazette sports editor at the indians training Camp in Florida. Jurges said his nose has peeled three times and he warns Harmon to expect the same to happen to him. I the moves were ordered after a conference Between chairman Henry Burma and member Robert i Lappen of the Iowa Board of con l tool or. C. C. Graves director of the state mental institutions and or. Norman Render superintendent of the Clarinda Hospital. Burma and Lappen were ordered to Fly to Clarinda by gov. Wil la ration that Senate Republic these a Sod Tut restrictions on cans Are endangering world 1 visitors and recreation activities peace by trying to torpedo the however they said the regard bipartisan foreign policy set a the situation As under con r r j Trolas much As possible and said the pattern Friday for the no outside help was needed at democratic Campaign present. A 40 cases Friday. The president unleashed his a a ,. Fury on senator Mccarthy r Hospital records Friday morn., a ing listed 20 men and 20 women is a ubom he described As the inmates As having influenza. Kremlin a greatest asset in this Grippe or a heavy they country and on senator Bridges were being isolated in separate a no and Wherry a neb whom he named As Mccarthy swards with close medical attention. Graves said. Graves said the 51 inmates who have died of a fall causes at the institution since feb. I included 17 whose deaths were attributed to influenza or pneumonia. The latest death of associates. At a news conference in the peaceful setting of this tropical naval submarine base or. Tru Man stung by . Attacks on Secretary of state Acheson and j Mccarthy a charges of communist influences in the state department i with carefully chosen attempt to free Rutledge on Bond strikes a Snag Odar rapid new a the proposed filing of a $40,000 Appeal Bond to free or. Robert c. Rutledge ran into a definite hitch Catholic abbots and monks went Here Friday. On trial in Prague state court Fri Rutledge convicted of slaying Day charged with High treason curved thursday night he said. All but one of the 17 were eld declared Erly persons who already were in words a a a debilitated condition he said. The Lone exception was a 49-year-old patient whose condition also was Graves said he regarded the 17 deaths As due primarily to the previously weakened condition of ,. The patients and not to any Par Palm shaded Lawn of the Winter , a a titular violence of the influenza White House in the chill of the. Pragle apr ten roman and pneumonia. Ate afternoon the shirt sleeved he said none of the Hospital pm i chief a executive did not mince ploys Clarinda residents and words As he sailed into Acheson s treason trial of catholics on at Prague a associated press wire photo. Senator Mccarthy of Wisconsin wiped his forehead upon leaving the Senate floor thursday after a Long speech in which he said he had documents to show that Owen Lattimore is a soviet agent and is or has been a communist party member. Lattimore is a Johns Hopkins University professor who has been a state department consultant. A the greatest asset that the Kremlin has is the partisan at tempt in the Senate to sabotage the bipartisan foreign policy of the United seated in a Wicker chair on the commission suppresses bomb Story Quick approval Likely for both Pace Symington Washington Senate approval seemed Friday for president both state and defense rest cases jury to be segregated when final arguments Start monday. Bulletin. Introduction of evidence was completed Friday noon in Tho murder trial of Robert Bedna sek. Both the defense and the state rested when court reconvened at 2 . Judge James f. Gaffney excused the jury until monday at 9 30 . At that time the judge told the eight men and four women the jury will go into segregation until it returns its verdict. Closing arguments will begin monday morning. By Loyal Meek. Staff writer. Iowa City the state Friday counter attacked Robert Bednasek a Story that Margaret Ann Jackson fainted after he playfully placed his hands on her Throat. With expert rebuttal witnesses including a medical Legal consultant from East Lansing mich., a the state moved to Block a possible defense Contention that miss Jackson had hypersensitive nerve centers in her neck. Bednasek thursday testified he playfully placed his hands on her Throat that gee gee got a a very apr Quick surprised and strange look a that Likely she threw up her arms to break Truman a by dds be danced with her a younger inmates who have con-1 accusers. A spokesman for Mccarthy said. La. Senator had entered la. Lenc in tute Penitentiary at a Are altogether there about 230 cases of Grippe heavy m air a j a tracked flu during the current out-1 Byron c. Hattman Here in Decem spying Lor tie Vatican and anti break has died Ber 1948. Is serving a 70-year sen state activities. The official news Agency said Bethesda naval Hospital for treat fort Madison. An Appeal to the three of the defendants ment of a sinus condition. Supreme court is pending attacks Jessup. In Cornett. In the Senate thursday my courthouse with the Bond Friday notice of the trial the largest of pita chords indicated. Earthy coupled his attack on but he had not filed it at 32 40 . Roman Catholic clergymen to be deaths of the other 34 in Larimore with a new assault after co cling Vith officials Foin Acle known by the communist senates who have died since sch. Against u. S. Ambassador at More than two hours. Ai were due to heart ailments Large Philip Jessup. He described Cornett and r. S. Milner. Rut thus far. Despite state and other diseases common to Jessup As a a very willing stooges ledges attorney were closeted ments by the official news Agency old age. Graves said for Lattimore. Most of the morning with county that foreign and Domestic news a bad As moment she gasped staggered and fell hitting her face or neck on a chair Back. These were the counter measures erne court is pending. Equivalent to the rank of Bishop colds influenza or pneumonia soldiers in the Back in a hot War 7. A a professional Bondsman Rob a. A u in pneumonia at warming a to his eur sect the commission. Vernat. Amau a at there had been no Advance the institution since feb. I hos a a Varming to is Suo Jeci we Ornfelt of Omaha was a the. Prpa Ghent Ripe Carpri 1hat or Artyv the up non president declared that Mccarthy j Bridges Wherry and others endorsed by the Senate Republican policy committee Are creating a fiasco in their attempt to find a political Issue to win control Over the 1950 congressional elections. Gave it a extremely Jessup already has denied my attorney William w Cossman his and shocking Dis Vert for and midair left cries Many a office Machalka. Abbot of the famed the institution in southwestern Resi of the country and walked out of the courthouse monastery at Nova Rise Bohumil Iowa House 1.450 mental patients his speech made As spec without filing the Bond. Cornett i Majovsky Abbot of the monastery and has 312 employees. Carthy a a charge that he has an assistant David Elderkin. A unusual Affinity for communist court clerk Arthur Axmear. in doing so the ambassador called Mccarthy irresponsible and said his accusations showed the interests after his speech mane As spec. _. _ a a a a a. Taters crowded the caller of or bad flown to fort Madison thurs of Zelig Central Bohemia and others not affected. The Bond a a a a a a a a Ture a Quot Graves sad he knew of no in at foreign relations when asked when they planned value. The arrests had been a i a Tut to Auh Tjho there were a Quot a tee which is investigating his con to. Each replied i Don t ported previously by Catholic few a ,nfi�?zen7a�casses it the Chero sections that communists and their a a. Sources. K t Hospital when he visited friends have of rated the state ,. If filed approval of the Bond the Agency account said the recent a p Denart men bes with court clerk Axmear. Public prosecutor told the five-1. . Moreover he indicated to news. A so of Civ widow. Mrs a Quot cur Ltd he of Quot a Quot to Quot Quot we of Ute 51 inmates who died men that the committee might not 1-ai�?~ra or re,s115 put ins up prop faithful son ants of the Vatican since feb were Between 40 and Ere get a look at his material. Fri it a a he palmed of us hav worked in a espionage m a Bette a 50 and Mccarthy had asked Fri chief last 80 000 10 cover he Bond s of a Quot carried on subversive a 60 Beu Veen 60 and 70 2n be. A i Edgar Hoover to have an agent Sec or. To. I irs again the Republic for the tween 70 and 80. 16 Between 80 on hand so he could turn Over Axmear Haf said a wanted the Vatican a Power which is hostile and 9q and one Over 90 new York apr scientific american said Friday it stopped appointments to two key defense its presses burned 3,000 copies posts their Effort to torpedo the by already in print and melted Down Secretary of air w. Stuart 230 cases. Partisan foreign policy he de the Type of a new article on the Symington to become chairman of Faken by the state Atter the de have nof3the cold War s hooting or hydr0gcn bomb Al it at the instil the National Security resources ,3,mess at 10 16 s the cold War As shooting oui gation of the atomic Energy Board. I budget director Frank Pace jr., i. Called or. Lemoyne become Secretary of the army Der the East Lansing medical the Century old Magazine said a the republicans and demo Legal consultant who termed the the incident a raises the question crafts on the Senate armed serv-1 account of gee Geek death As whether the commission is thus aces committee were loud in their suppressing information which the ise of the nominees. American people need in older to j this was particularly significant form intelligent judgments on this in Case of Symington since major problem. The committee previously had a to Mesic news penicillin and other drugs were he said he will carry the Issue the article was by or. Hans Bioc de Truman a Effort to ref a Nijiu Firuz not the per attending the trial being used to combat the out to the people in the months ahead. 3bethe. Cornell physicist and for appoint his old Friend Mon c. In measured language he said Mer theoretical physics chief at he thinks the greatest asset the of Alamos. Their Kremlin has is Mccarthy. I All but a Small part of the orig a a u1, a a the Kremlin the president Inal article ultimately was pub bus Ness executive will get a pay went on its policy dedicated to shed in the current Issue the cd 5500 a year in his new Job control the world has broken Magazine said adding it is Clear from the $18, now paid Secre virtually every agreement it has that the dec did not object to Maries of the air Force army and made Writh this country. Facts in the article but to or. Navy the russian government he the commission has directed All be president declined said is not really communist persons now or formerly pm t0 b3je,tl0n As a x of. Hut totalitarian like hitlers loved by it to refrain from pubs k. Finletter former dec a chief Germany and Francos Spain. Inc discussion of a Bodib matters. M London will succeed so mag asserting he had driven com the atomic Energy att gives the toll a a Force Secre Hamilton Monist sympathizers out of gov commission wide Powers to de Riordon Grav in who will Hamilton asked Snyder what i eminent by institution of the 1947 Clare Cornic information secret. Become president a of the univer i fee would be. First he said he had loyalty program he said Republic a a a paper men were some Western reporters were in j break Graves said. He said the Able to gain admittance. Inmates did not appear alarmed leave without filing. The Agency reported that among and were a taking it in at the end of the session Cornett the defendants were Augustin a str de the material to the Fri for study woman to come to Cedar rapids to us and tried to overthrow the Hoover promised to do so. But examination before approving government no agent was around when me Alie Bond. Abbot Michalka was said to the death rate at the Hospital ordinarily runs a somewhat higher t a i. Than la per month Burma said. Earthy left the chamber thursday late it was Learned the propel have pled guilty in All the charges in def Moj Beardsley said night. To being put up for Bond has an against him and to have testified be was a Giad to learn that the Mccarthy said that nevertheless as5ssed valuation of s9242. A that shortly alter the communist Board of control was doing every the Fri a is Tom to get every of Quot re or ,0 an of div to from he 5f�?~?Urc of Plern ent Power a thing possible Quot in the situation. Scrap of evidence i have Woodbury county clerk. A february 1948. A the started an _ mortgages against the property anti state Campaign involving the total $71,800. The property in gathering of firearms the Distri clues seven buildings one of Button of illegal appoint Wallgren to the resources Board chairmanship. Symington a former St. Louis Bednasek 2. Recalled Bednasek to Tho stand for further Cross examination. Ile was asked if he and hands on each others throats Many times before the last time on dec. La. Bednasek said they had. 3. Called or. H. M. Corns Iowa City who testified that less than one percent of a of persons is Likely to have hypersensitive nerve centers in the neck. Or. Snyder the expert from Michigan was vigorously Cross examined by defense attorney sity of North Carolina in sep-1 a a. Tember. Questions and answers on Ben the 37-Vear-old Pace had never 1 a Sefca a testimony May be found committee stymied. That left members of the com Mittee wondering what to do next Pierce Uptown hotel in about the Lattimore Materia. They Boux cloy said they Are willing to examine the Mccarthy documents carefully reluctant. Pressroom fire. Los Angeles apr a fire. A the difficulty Friday was re thursday it ni8ht in the Plant of a and Hea his mystery witness if Portelly due to the reluctance of the los Angeles evening Herald the evidence warrants it. But they Cornett and Milner to have the and express caused damage to said their Rands Are tied unless woman do so. They asked that a two presses that May run As High Mccain thy comes across. Linn county representative go Tobias $500,000. Lattimore is returning to Wash Sioux City to do the checking be Egton from a l United nations mis cause mrs. Rogers health would Sion in Afghanistan. He is director not allow her to travel. Of the Walter Hines Page school during the course of Friday of International relations at Johns mornings conference a. O. Har Hopkins University. Stad of the Iowa title and a Lattimore is due at new York Stract company was called in pre item atonal Airport saturday us Mable in connection with prop morning. His w As scheduled Erv being offered for the Bond. To Leav Shannon Ireland at la mrs masked bandits. Chicago apr six masked bandits held up two West Side parcel delivery companies thursday and drove away with to o trucks loaded with women a clothing valued at $100,000. Eight officials and employees of the two firms were forced to lie on the floor for 30 minutes while the gunmen loaded the trucks. Cans such As Mccarthy for Pohtio Aufu accidents kill Cal purposes have been trying to Ato Sti up a communist Issue to seize 4350 in to a of paint is a government Job when he 0ft j Glt a 15. Control of Congress in 1950. Chicago apr there were was discharged from the air Force tit pm so w0mare 4,350 persons killed in automobile d a major in 1946. He served no idea what it would be but later state and statism issues in new Tho fire Menthe briefly As Sdee Ial assistant to the told the jury a i will charge at a Nair loot u accidents in the first two months briefly As special assistant to the Ira Niu. Ortr lev a 0i1�?T a jul of 1950> an increase of six percent u. S. Attorney general then As Hor j no is a i f to 3. Over the same period last year. Executive assistant to the Post ? is be us the toll included 2,190 in feb master general before becoming perfectly willing to sabotage the Rumary a jump of nine percent Over budget director. Jury least $150 and when asked who employed him or. Snyder replied a the county attorney Jack c. Bipartisan foreign policy in the february 1949 the National Frederick j. Lawnton 49, who White nope or winning an election. Safety Council said mild weather succeeds Pace As director of the on direct examination or. Permitted More travel this year budget has been in government i Snyder was asked but special praises Acheson. Three Republican senators strike Back at president Quot Washington apr three senator Wherry the . Floor i Cost i Erih a Rose s a posted the Republican senators struck Back Reader who has critici2ed Secre . To Friday. Property with the clerk of the angrily Friday at president tru. In 4u the inquiry committee has a Woodbury county court. He has Many a assertion that their attacks y. Acheson challenged the Public hearing scheduled for next appraised the property and ruled Are sabotaging american foreign president to open the Fri and tuesday to permit Lattimore to it w Orth $80,000. Policy and aiding the Kremlin. Other loyalty files to a Senate Matse a formal reply to Mccarthy. But court clerk Axmear has senator Mccarthy said he foreign relations subcommittee into irks a reaction. Said Herc that it am Lomg to be would be glad to plead guilty to vesting Mccarthy a charges u satisfied that this is the first and sabotaging the administrations that communists have influenced Aerator sicken Looper a a t Only Hen against her property and far Eastern policies adding that state department foreign policies. Men per of the subcommittee that the property is Worth $80,000.�?� a they could t be any worse our a the Best Wray to show who a continued on Page 8, col 6. I batting average is los of $2,000,000 a a a a someone can disrupt the remember l this is the last Day to pay your state income tax without penalty. 2 boy scout paper drive in Cedar rapids tomorrow. Have paper securely wrapped and on parking before 8 . 3. The time of the All City musical festival at the memorial coliseum tonight is 7 30, not 8 of clock As printed on your ticket. In fire at Camp Hood East Over to Russia it would be a t f tvs am Good think a a he told reporters. A i Caes Ille. Texas apr a Job bad sabotaged that millions of dollars of War Materiel nol Irv earlier Quot burned thursday As billowing As flames consumed two Gigantic warehouses at North Camp Hood. Guns bedding and crate on crate of other quartermaster goods were lost As fire levelled the two buildings each about to o City blocks in length Are the agents of the Kremlin is to open these files to the duly con plans for turning the rest of the statute a Senate committee and let the people decide who is harbouring subversives and moral perverts in High places in government Wherry told reporters. A president Truman is mighty bold in accusing others. After he has put the loyalty files under lock and key he cries the president in one of his rare vacation press conferences came sharply to the defense of Dean Acheson w Hom he described As one of the country a greatest Sec i retries of state. Just As sharply he defended Philip c. Jessup. Newly appointed special assistant and adviser to Acheson Anci Owen by a it a on Graham. Lattimore former state depart ment associate. And resulted in More accidents. Service for 30 years. Truman Quot special privilege Quot practices assailed by Tai in and he had words of Praise tor republicans such As senators Vandenberg of Michigan and Saltonstall of Massachusetts and former Secretary of War Henry l. Stimson. Day Box supper held by the republicans Here. Washington apr rep. Henry o. Taller Iowa told the a both of these functions were Bouse Friday that president tru political in nature both included Man is a the All time Arch-prac-1 professional entertainment re Titiner of special freshment and political speeches. The iowan second District rep the democrats enriched their resent Tive from Decorah said a Ai. ,. A special privilege has any and he promised also that he is ministration in our political his considering naming an outstand tor been so ing Republican to succeed Jessup clothed with it As ambassador at Large and Trou prosecutor Edward f. Rate if he thought the Finger Nail puncture Marks underneath miss Jackson a jaw could have been caused by the hands of the deceased. A i think it is extremely unlikely that they could have been caused by the hands of the victim a or. Snyder said. He said he had never observed puncture wounds caused by the hands of the victim. The luxury Loving Gen to consult with Vandenberg Andl jj0 to has other . Leaders on a Choice Missouri h a s ble shooter on a world policy scale. He said he asked Acheson senator Bridges bristled that the Only thing he is trying to do is a to sabotage some of the subversives and Security risks so that they will be thrown out of key posts in the the new Hampshire senator officials said the loss might run told the Senate earlier in the week $2.000,0d0 or As High As that a a master spy must have $3.500.000. There were no injuries. Crammed the state department with bad Security risks. Tie president has walked at letting the subcommittee see the files but has directed the civil service loyalty Appeal Board headed by Republican Seth Richardson to review Mccart Hyp a j cases. Or. Truman also declared he did not have the slightest belief that United states defences have fallen below the safety Point As general Wight d. Eisenhower has contended. Fundamentally he said he and Eisenhower Are in agreement on defense and he does not blame Eisenhower As a military Man in striving for military perfection. Put new meaning into the very words a special Talle made his statement in a prepared speech attack Talle today a chuckle a politician said to Horace Greeley one Day a i am a self made a that sir a replied Greeley a relieves the almighty of a terrible ing democrats for not paying Federal admission taxes on their Jackson Jefferson Day $100-a-plate dinner Here some weeks ago. He said a the Bureau of internal Revenue must have Tongue in Cheek after exempting from taxation the $100-a-plate festival held in Honor of Jefferson and Jackson. This is the same Bureau that assessed a 20 percent tax on each $1 admission to Ute Lincoln asked by rate whether miss Jackson a injuries were probably caused by a fall across the Back of a chair or. Snyder replied a i party coffers by More than half a think that it is extremely unlikely million dollars without paying that these injuries were caused by one cent of taxes. The Republic falling and striking the Back of cans on the other hand paid a 20 a percent tax on their admission or. Snyder author of a Book tickets and contributed All of the titled a homicide investigation profit to Charity. Talle said he doubted that a in the history of our Republic there is a like example of political favouritism in he continued a but this is Only one aspect. Or. Truman and his have resisted All attempts made by the republicans in Congress to lighten the tax Burden upon our people. They the so called fair dealers do not object to taxes on baby lotions wedding rings suitcases telegrams Railroad tickets and a thousand other items of every Day use but they refuse to pay an admission tax on their lavish feasts. Is this Equality under the Law is it simple Justice or is it a display of corrupt Power a Talle said the tax on the democrats dinner would have amounted to $100,000. Said that when people faint their continued on Page 8, col. 3. Today s Index comic. 23 courthouse. 8 crossword. 13 daily record. 8 deaths. 8 editorial features. 6 farm 24 Foto facts. 7 Inez Robb. To Marion. 14 movies. 22 radio. 14 Small talk. 28 society. 20, 21 sports. 17 �19 state. A a a. 16 want ads. 25-27 wishing Well. 26 women a features. 20. 21

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