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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1948
Page
1
Defense officials announce January draft call trimmed to 10 000 and February to 5 000 due to fiscal 1950 budget limits. President Truman holds total budget at 15 billion for the year beginning July 1. Army strength and recruiting trends described amid seasonal dips and transfers.
Edward J. Byrne a licensed embalmer known as his own best customer faced six months in county jail for vagrancy due to habitual drunkenness. The sentence was suspended with orders to leave Linn County or serve six months. He was escorted toward Marion and then Dubuque after pled guilty.
John Factor of Chicago, serving a 10 year term in Milan Michigan, asks the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals for release on a writ of habeas corpus. His Detroit district court appeal was denied. Factor known as Jake the Barber pled guilty to mail fraud in Cedar Rapids in February 1943 to avoid public trial due to Touhy gang fugitives.
Wartime premier Hideki Tojo and six top Japanese leaders win an eleventh hour reprieve as appeals move through the U S Supreme Court. MacArthur says they will not be executed until court action. If rejected, executions could occur on December 7 Pearl Harbor anniversary.
In Ottumwa a two story frame home fire killed four children ages five months to five years. Firemen said the victims may have suffocated while sleeping in a second floor bedroom. Six other children were away from home as neighbors fought thick smoke before firefighters arrived. Carl White, a laborer at John Morrell and Company, was at work when the blaze started.
Secretary of State Marshall has entered Walter Reed hospital for a physical checkup and examination. A State Department spokesman said Marshall will be in the army hospital for the next few days. He will be 68 December 31.
Mme. Chiang Kai-shek landed at Mossfett field on Tuesday en route to Washington. She aims to plead for full American aid to China as she travels from San Francisco.
Frisk the bull terrier joined the Ulster food office staff to sniff out black market bird shipments. Authorities suspect birds are illegally sent to England labeled as auto accessories. Frisk will work an eight hour day at the docks to sniff and open parcels in threshold checks.
Anne Cannon Reynolds, 18, the former richest baby due to the Reynolds tobacco and textile fortune, married Lloyd Patrick Tate, 22, in Bennettsville North Carolina. The couple then left for a honeymoon at Mrs Joseph Cannon’s winter home in Passe-a-Grille Florida.
At the Illinois Livestock Show in Chicago a frightened crowd watched an 800 pound Hereford steer jump a five foot fence. Lloyd Jinkens of Fort Worth rode Sugar, leaped the fence, and subdued the steer with a bull dogged move. A 15 year old boy was bruised and a woman’s glasses were broken.
The American Meat Institute reported a 16 percent drop in wholesale meat prices from mid September to mid November. The institute cited new figures compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Reports say the Suchow garrison begins pulling out to aid 140,000 comrades trapped by Communist forces to the south. Nationalist troops recapture Paotow and strike at convoys in Jehol while U.S. Marines arrive at Tsingtao aboard the Bayfield.
Des Moines reports Regional CIO Director Ben Henry called district president Charles W. Hobbie’s move to convene FEW local chairmen to discuss CIO UAW affiliation orders premature. Henry noted no FEW UAW meeting has been held to review the national CIO board’s Portland action. Hobbie says rank and file will decide and won't accept ultimatums.
Hobbie states Henry's proposed method bypasses rank and file rights. He says FEW officers cannot bind locals without member discussion and that any meeting would be only for discussion to let members vote on the matter. The CIO directives would not override local union processes.
The Royal Improvement Company of Minneapolis paid a 50 dollar fine in Cedar Rapids Police Court after beginning siding work on Cedar Rapids homes without city permits. Attorney Abe W. Bass represented Royal’s M. H. Ostrow, who pled innocent but was found guilty.
Berlin witnesses a Communist dominated move to unify the city under a handpicked government led by Fried rich Ebert as mayor of all Berlin. Western sectors reject the move, elections declared void, and a provisional democratic administration promised to secure unified rule and elections amid street demonstrations.
President Truman said a full congressional investigation of lobbying would have a salutary effect and would be glad to see such an inquiry. In a letter to Eric Peterson of the International Association of Machinists he commended the union for its public service in urging scrutiny.
Western officials said Soviet moves to form a separate Berlin government eliminated any chance for a U N settlement. They informally backed Bramuglia's plan to create a technical expert committee to study the Berlin currency issue, with no mediation powers and no authority beyond study.
Waterloo Iowa Wilbert Warren 27 was sentenced to not more than three years in the Anamosa reformatory for conspiracy to incite a riot during the Rath packing plant strike last spring. District Judge Shannon B Charlton overruled the motion for a new trial and dismissed parole. Appeal bond set at 3000 dollars.
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer told reporters there is no reason for any legitimate business to fear administration plans aimed at curbing inflation. He spoke amid concerns over new policy measures and economic outlook.
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