29 Nov 1951
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1951
Page
1
Washington hearings reveal T Lamar Caudle explaining a lawyer friend helped obtain bargain mink coats for Mrs Caudle and wives of Senator John L McClellan and ex Army Secretary Kenneth C Royall. Caudle said Landau firm billed as business expenses and he received sale commissions from Texas holdings.
Washington AP Kenneth S Wherry Nebraska 59 Republican floor leader dies after pneumonia complications following recent surgery for intestinal growth. Longtime lawyer and rising GOP power, he served as party whip and later floor leader. Governor Peterson expected to name successor pending election maintaining 50 Democrats 46 Republicans.
Former Assistant Attorney General T. Lamar Caudle testified he took five thousand dollars in 1950 as a commission for arranging the sale of an airplane to an investigator hired by two New York taxpayers later convicted of tax fraud. The exchange was allegedly approved by Attorney General McGrath.
A Cedar Rapids council hearing features Mrs. Wingle charging a city owned truck was used for personal fill projects and drainage disruption. Official promise of investigation comes as four witnesses corroborate dumping practice by street crews to near private properties. Carringer defends municipal convenience.
John Randolph reports on the unclear source of cease-fire orders in Korea, noting White House denials, top secret classification, and possible involvement across Eighth Army Ridgway HQ and the Pentagon. The piece documents by-passed censors, witness accounts, and the implications for ongoing ground action as of June 1950.
Cedar Rapids officials debated whether to study reactivating the 1938 incinerator. Parks Commissioner Richard C. Jones urged a report on usable equipment, backed by E A. Prochaska and W. Stolba. Burgus abstained. City Engineer Frank Young to lead the study amid cost-remodeling talks with Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel.
West front artillery fire ends informal cease fire while the Eighth Army maintains a no aggression policy. On the east, full scale ground fighting returns as UN forces recapture ground after Communist attacks northwest of Yanggu.
In Waterloo Nebraska worried residents and children stayed near home as gun toting farmers hunted an alleged African lion sighted in eastern Nebraska. Deputies and a rural mail carrier described a lion like animal with red coat and glowing eyes. a night search from cars planes and hunters yielded no trace. The story traces earlier reports near Ceresco and a wider 50 mile area amid missing livestock and confusion with a missing St Bernard theory.
Bangkok broadcasts report Thailand’s prime minister Pibul Songgram’s government was toppled in a bloodless coup by Army Commander General Phin Chun Ahanwan who seized control. Songgram, allied with the U S, had been kidnapped June 30 during a navy coup but escaped, returned, and retained power before the seizure.
The initial late closing in a season series will extend store hours to 9 tonight and on December 6 13 20 21 and 22 following Retail Merchants bureau guidance from the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Jennings Crawford a Cedar Rapids urology specialist for 40 years dies at 7 05 a m at his home 527 Vernon Drive SE from a coronary attack He was active in county state and national medical groups born May 22 1883 in Cedar Rapids He came from a long line of physicians and studied at Coe College Johns Hopkins Interned at Hartford Hospital and Johns Hopkins He served as medical director for Coe College during the 1918 influenza epidemic and later led the Linn County Medical Society He is survived by two daughters a grandson and a sister Funeral services are set for Turner Chapel with cremation and flowers requested to be omitted.
Kenneth Averill 16, a McKinley High wrestler, died after a steam bath incident in a school shower off the coach’s office. He reportedly turned hot water on while on a chair. a bruise and burns were found, autopsy pending. The Traer meet was postponed.
Miles P. Suteras said Dr. H A Lockhart of Cedar Rapids would temporarily fill the Linn County medical positions left vacant by the death of Dr Jennings Crawford. Crawford was medical adviser to the county board of health and director of the county medical clinic.
The Cedar Rapids area saw a 55 degree afternoon as high pressure over West Virginia and Colorado Utah keeps conditions mild through Saturday. Forecasters warn a weak cold front from Minnesota to South Dakota may bring a few clouds but little temperature change. Low temps Thursday night range 29 to 35, with highs Friday from 45 to 65 across the state.
General Eisenhower told the North Atlantic Treaty Council that if Russia attacks the Atlantic army now it will fight. He said the force can only avoid stalemate in Western Europe with German troops, and warned that if they intend to fight they must act. The statement was released Thursday after his Monday address.
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