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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1949
Page
1
Rep J Parnell Thomas who led the House Un American Activities Committee withdrew his not guilty plea and entered a no contest plea. Judge Holtzoff set December 9 for sentencing and dismissed charges against Helen Campbell as her role appeared merely as Thomas's employee.
A Cedar Rapids power outage affecting 21 Iowa counties is traced to a worker using a vacuum cleaner on a high voltage panel. Electric Light and Power Company official Harold Rowe says electrician Clarence Whisler accidentally shorted the panel, causing 69,000 users to lose power and affecting over 140 communities. Whisler, with second degree burns, is reported in serious condition but improving. the company plans further questioning.
Leo Griswold, 48, without address, was arraigned in district court on robbery with aggravation for slugging and robbing railroad employee Dan Murillo in Rock Island yards Tuesday about 2 50 p.m. Police captured Griswold after a chase through the yard toward the North Western bridge. Bond set at 10000. he was jailed pending further proceedings.
Akron AP General Tire and Rubber announces a 3.5 percent price increase at a sales conference. L. A. McQueen says this is the start of a pricing trend with expected further raises through 1950 and predicts motorists may pay as much as 15 percent more for tires soon.
Rep Hebert of Louisiana charges that Admiral Louis Denfeld was removed as chief of naval operations in direct violation of the armed forces unification act.
Two NYSE floor traders in the Exchange cafeteria debate the unpredictable market. One quips that it rises when it should fall and falls when it should rise. The other confirms the old adage that only death and taxes are certain, noting Congress makes death not get worse.
Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan ordered all FBI agents who investigated the Coplon Gubitchev case to appear at a hearing to decide if illegal wire tapping occurred. The government must show cause why wire tapped evidence should not be suppressed and why indictments against Judith Coplon should not be dismissed. FBI agents testified taps were placed on Miss Coplon’s Washington home line and a Brooklyn parental line.
Mt. Vernon Illinois Mrs John Audt aged 70 was hospitalized Wednesday for treatment of a dislocated hip suffered while dancing at her son's wedding.
Ten blind Amvets from Des Moines Boone and Green Mountain sit with Harold Russell national commander at the Roosevelt hotel. The audience includes Des Moines area leaders and the Amvets auxiliary president as Russell discusses daily handicapped challenges and his Oscar winning acting career.
Secretary of State Acheson said U S ships enter the Shanghai blockade area at their own risk and rebuked Isbrandtsen for sending ships there. He rejected convoying and noted a strong note to the Nationalists over shelling. He denounced Ward’s trial and said many nations would protest Ward’s arrest. He defended U S stance on face as a non issue.
Sheriff Howard Reppert said Attorney General Robert Larson ordered raids on about 100 locations in Des Moines and Polk County starting near noon. Some 55 officers, led by state agents, swept taverns and other sites to seize pinball machines amid a statewide operation.
The United States announced a new series of atomic weapons tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands. The tests will be secret in timing and attended only by American military and scientists. Joint Task Force Three will conduct the program under Lt Gen Elwood R Quesada with deputies Brig Gen Herbert Loper Rear Admiral Tom B Hill and Dr Alvin C Graves.
Neale Butterfield, 16, of Heyburn was held for trial in Burley Idaho on a first degree murder charge in the killing of a seven year old girl on Tuesday.
New York UP John L. Lewis again called off a meeting of his top officers to decide on a coal strike. The decision delays a wage dispute vote and threatens a midnight strike by about 400,000 soft coal miners if talks fail.
Experts advise parents to teach children to always ask mother first and to refuse contact from strangers. Children should not get into cars with unfamiliar people or take candy and must avoid talking to people they do not know. Psychologists note risk from trusting older men as paternal figures.
Tokyo police will intensify patrols starting Thursday to reduce the annual wave of December robberies. Officials say the sharp rise in crime precedes the customary year's end debt settlements, seen as a matter of honor.
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