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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1952
Page
1
Weather note shows low temperatures around 42 to 45 tonight with increasing cloudiness. Sunday expected partly cloudy with a chance of a few showers and a high near 62 to 65. Co. RB. 2 pm. See 62 SW 61 SE 63 NW 62 NE.
A former army intelligence chief testified that a 1945 Katyn massacre report blaming Russia was suppressed and labeled top secret due to fear the Soviets would not declare war on Japan if exposed. He cited pressure from the Yalta framework and potential Polish backlash, while officials said Voice of America limited broadcasts to avoid an untimely revolt.
A federal grand jury in Jacksonville cleared Sheriff Willis McCall of Lake County of any wrongdoing in the deaths of Samuel Sheppard and the wounding of Walter Irvin during a 1950 transport from Raiford. The jury accepted the sheriff's self defense claim and found no criminal liability.
Kansas City police report an elderly man dying from burns in a low rent shop, once president of the Eggleston Company of Grinnell. He reportedly bought Spaulding Manufacturing for 836,500, built highway buses, and later collapsed after the 1929 crash. He also served on the Iowa Highway Commission and authored texts on transportation. He left two daughters from a prior marriage and the Des Moines ex-wife seeks them.
EPATVILLE AP reports a tale of childhood sweethearts who wed years apart and later remarried. Albert Shaw 72 and Minnie Seymour 71 celebrated a golden wedding anniversary with new spouses after both had lost former partners. Shaw’s first wife died last February and Seymour’s husband died in 1951.
Des Moines says Iowa's rain chances fade as a weakening cold front mostly loses moisture before reaching the state. Light showers may fall in western Iowa Saturday night and eastern Iowa Sunday, with a new storm center expected to bring moisture Monday. Temperatures stay mild tonight then cool Sunday, Cedar Rapids noting a Friday high of 63 and overnight low of 30.
Taft signaled in Washington on Friday that if Bridges of New Hampshire seeks the post its his. If Bridges stays with his count me out stance a different rate may be set for the job. Ohioan appears likely to be the favored choice.
University of Illinois President George D Stoddard announced the school will disassociate from the experimental cancer treatment krebiozen finding no value in its use. The measure directs Chicago College of the University staff to withdraw support and resources from any clinical utilization of krebiozen and to remove it from research or service programs. Dr Andrew C Ivy faces a required position as he and his staff must respond to the prohibitions.
Second Lt. Jonas W. Glassgow 24 nephew of Mr and Mrs Willis A Glassgow of 1960 Oakland Road NE Cedar Rapids was killed in action in Korea October 28 He attended Franklin high school and was a graduate of Moline high school He lived with his aunt and uncle in Cedar Rapids prior to deployment in August after graduating from officer training school earlier this year He served as an army artillery officer.
Adlai Stevenson said he hopes the Democratic party can be a positive and intelligent opposition and a useful instrument to the nation. He spoke during a press conference from a ranch south of Tucson, noting many counties were without candidates for local offices and that party organizing would proceed in Iowa and across districts. More said the aim is to render service and regain power, with three announced candidates for Congress in various districts and plans for district organization and county meetings.
Des Moines AP reports National Committeeman M. Hogan told a Democratic state central committee meeting that Iowa’s party is politically bankrupt. He urged immediate revitalization, new faces and ideas, and aggressive organization in every precinct, noting Herschel Loveless’s defeat and GOP gains. Hogan praised Gov. Stevenson but said the party must analyze causes and field better candidates for 1954.
Forty four servicemen died when a C-119 flying boxcar crashed into Mt Yebong near Ramaraa airport while returning from leave in Japan. Thirty seven were American army personnel bound for Korea, seven were air force crew. Ground parties reached the wreckage east of Seoul as search operations continued.
Special to one Gazette Mrs Minnie Schmitz of Otterville, 67, died after her car collided with a westbound Illinois Central freight train at a crossing in Independence. Her daughter Isabel Schmitz was critically injured. signals at the depot crossing were said to be working. The car was demolished and the train crew unaware of the collision. Mrs Schmitz was the fourth person killed in Illinois Central crossings in Iowa in less than two weeks.
In Bonn a German official disclosed that more than 200000 marks were spent to publish a world history textbook by a Communist author loaded with propaganda. Copies distributed to U.S. reading rooms and the West German commission condemned the bias while impounding existing stock. Peters and his wife contracted to publish the book under a 1951 U.S. program. Peters received 70000 marks cash and paper worth 35700 marks.
In misty darkness one mile west of Loudonville Ohio a collision between the Pennsylvania Railroad Manhattan Limited and a freight train left two passengers and three crew members seriously injured. Eleven of twelve passenger cars derailed with over half a mile of track torn up and one car end ripped open as two diesel freight engines and five cars wrecked. A railroad official cited a possible rail failure.
A New Haven railroad brakeman, George C. Burns, 47, of Westport Conn., used an air brake hose to summon help after being injured and unable to shout on a freight train. He suffered a dislocated shoulder and cuts as he lay between two cars and was found by other crew members. In Washington, the justice department plans a new trial for Denis Delaney, former Massachusetts internal revenue collector, after an appeals court set aside his bribery conviction, leaving a retrial possible.
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