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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1945
Page
4
The Senate Finance Committee advanced a plan slashing both corporate and individual taxes by about 5.629 billion, edging past House reductions. It adds 2.84 billion in corporate relief, expands veteran benefits, and keeps some excise taxes.
Governor Kelly announced union leaders showed willingness to accept a mediation board wage boost for CIO utility workers amid a walkout that risked cutting gas and electric service to about two million residents. Ratification by locals would likely return 2,400 strikers to work. the panel proposed a 13 cent hourly rise, two cent raise for night shift, and 2 percent zone pay cut.
Pearl Harbor report states a typhoon hit Okinawa on Oct 9 causing 483 naval casualties with 36 dead 47 missing and 400 injured. Ninety of the seriously injured were flown to Guam for treatment while about 300 injured received care at rebuilt Okinawa hospitals. The Navy aims to replace storm-destroyed buildings and tents.
In Muncie Indiana 21 year old war widow Jean Harvey tends her 17 month old daughter Gayle Eleanor in a hospital room as streptomycin trials offer hope against tubercular meningitis. doctors race to secure 20 million units with supplies from Commercial Solvents and Walter Reed while Truman aids a rapid delivery.
Soekarno, head of the Indonesian government in exile, appealed to President Truman to halt American gear used by Dutch forces. He charged Dutch prisoners of war and Eurasians wearing U.S. uniforms recruited to terrorize Indonesians with American arms. He urged immediate discontinuance of American disguises and protests lodged with Allied HQ without result.
Louis V. Thompson, a Detroit automobile dealer, was released Friday night after being held since Monday in connection with the slaying of his estranged wife Lydia Thompson.
President Truman was awarded Masonry's 33rd degree at the Washington temple, the first chief executive to receive it. The honor was given to 349 delegates nationwide, with figures such as Gen H H Arnold, Lt Gen Ben Lear, Lt Gen James Doolittle, Agriculture Secretary Anderson, and Gen MacArthur noted for the degree to be conferred upon his return to the United States.
Annie Trene Mansfeldt pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity at arraignment in San Francisco on a first degree murder charge. Superior Judge Edward Murphy set the trial for November 26. She confessed fatally shooting nurse Vada Martin, whom she suspected of an affair with her physician husband Dr. John Mansfeldt, who died by suicide hours later.
Chicago hotel workers at the Palmer House, a 23 story Loop property, walked out in a service strike led by elevator operators and hotel staff from the AFL union. Negotiations failed overnight, leaving nine of twenty elevators in use, dining rooms closed, and guests carrying luggage as service collapsed.
The C-45 transport plane crashed six miles east of Spokane killing five aboard. Victims include Brig. Gen. Stuart C. Godfrey commander of Geiger field, Col. James W. Park deputy commander, Capt. George E. Matthews pilot, R. C. Hendee of Denver, Sgt. James Sheets of York Pennsylvania, and Deputy Sheriff Lewis Johnson noted the crash tore trees and struck a hill.
Local 116 of the United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers CIO authorized a strike with a 509 to 27 vote after wage negotiations with LaPlant Choate Manufacturing. The union seeks a 30 percent raise, arguing the nickel offer is inadequate against a 50 cent per hour gap.
Kansas City offered Emmett Burrows of New York a $250 a month sales position with Rival Manufacturing after a two week job search. Burrows, one of the first to cross the Rhine at Remagen, will train in Kansas City and then join the East coast sales force upon completion.
Francis G. Pendergast, nephew of Kansas City political boss Tom Pendergast, was named a commercial analyst in the Office of Inter-American Affairs in Washington. The post pays $6,200 annually. Pendergast had worked in Kansas City insurance and helped organize the Truman for Senator club in 1934.
A compact index page listing sections such as Deaths Editorial Features Marion and Sports with headings like Courthouse Daily Record and Movies Radio teenage notes. Contains terse references to service and ration calendar items, alongside a state section and various feature descriptors.
Cedar Raunds News reports Mrs Hattie Watterson of 610 Twelfth avenue SE has learned her husband Second Lt Dale Watterson was killed in action over Germany on March 31 1945 after being missing that day He was a bombardier wing recipient trained in San Angelo Texas August 1944 and had served overseas since December He was awarded the Air Medal with oak leaf cluster and the presidential citation He worked for Wilson and Company and attended Coe College His wife and seven month old daughter Janice Kay live with his mother in law Mrs Frank Capek.
Washington AP The House approved a $52.65 billion cut in war and postwar appropriations, voting 162 to 101 to return the United States Employment Service to state control. President Truman faced a rebuff as Rankin attempt to demobilize forces failed. The measure preserves a $7.8 million fund for veterans' placement under the selective service system.
London dispatch reports that United States and British intelligence officers informed London and Washington that as far as it is humanly possible to obtain proof Adolf Hitler must be considered dead. The case of Hitler is marked closed by intelligence authorities.
Washington AP report says Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, former Flying Tigers and 14th Air Force commander, will retire October 31. He, age 55, has been recovering from illness in a Miami hospital and remains under medical care.
Provisional junta led by Romulo Betancourt seized Caracas and vowed to rule until free elections. Medina fled or was captured. rebels, mostly under 35, said they ousted the 50-year military clique and would restore democracy in the United States manner. Casulties and hostages reported amid rapid revolt.
Cedar Rapids forecast calls for increasing cloudiness and warmer tonight then clearing Sunday with morning showers. The weekend in eastern Iowa looks slightly marred by spotty showers Sunday morning, followed by warmer readings and gradual clearing, with 68 degrees at 2:30 p.m. reported by Chambers-Inskeep.
Tokyo AP report says Col Roger E. Eberge, MacArthur’s personal physician, flies home to Cleveland for discharge while headquarters state MacArthur remains in perfect physical condition. Spokesman dismisses gossip of retirement due to heart trouble as unfounded.
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