Weather and court notices from the Daily Record
Iowa forecast calls for fair mild conditions through Wednesday night with some cloudiness and a chance of eastern local rain Thursday night Friday remains partly cloudy and cooler. Marriage license issued Joel Maresh and Louise Hanes Cedar Rapids. Justice Court records list intoxication sentence revocation and multiple divorce petitions. Fire and public-safety alerts report several minor incidents and fines along with several birth notices from area hospitals.
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Iowa
Joel Maresh
Louise K. Hanes
Cedar Rapids
Justice Court
Eldora runaways captured after highway culvert stakeout
Two runaway youths from the Iowa Training School for Boys at Eldora were found hiding in a culvert on highway 14 about ten miles north of Marshalltown. Patrolman Robert Darnold and Hardin County Sheriff Paul Hodgson caught them. They will be questioned in four Hardin county robberies, two of which occurred Tuesday at Whitten. The suspects are 13 year old Theodore Lovell and 14 year old William Davis, both of Des Moines.
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Theodore Lovell
William Davis
Des Moines
Belle Plaine Child Is Victim of Polio
IOWA CITY AP Twenty people on the list of active polio patients at University hospitals Tuesday with two new cases and one discharge. New cases are Lent England 26 months Belle Plaine and Willard Patterson 5 Ft Dodge both admitted Oct 24 in fair condition. Discharged Monday was Kendall White 9 Ft Dodge admitted Oct 14.
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Iowa City
University Hospitals
Lent England
Belle Plaine
Willard Patterson
Ft. Dodge
Kendall White
Ft Dodge
Slugging and Robbery Reported by Hagerman
Ernest Hagerman reported a $165 theft to police after a street mugging on First Avenue East near Tenth Street. He said a man emerged from behind a tree, slugged him and stole his wallet around 8 p.m. near his Hagerman address.
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Ernest Hagerman
E Avenue NE
Hagerman
First Avenue E
Tenth, Street
Twelve Hurt In Fogbound Interstate Bus Crash
In Zanesville Ohio twelve people were injured Tuesday when a New York St Louis bus ran off Route 40 in heavy fog. The incident occurred during travel between major urban centers as responders attended the scene. Local hospitals treated the injured and authorities investigated the cause.
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Zanesville
Ohio
INL
New York-St. Louis
Heald Seeks Resignation of University President Hancher
Allen Heald of Cedar Rapids publically urged Virgil M. Hancher to resign as president of the University of Iowa, charging inconsistent and discriminatory use of university meeting spaces for political speakers. Heald compared denial of Henry A Wallace to speak on campus with allowing Senator Cain a political speech, noting no board rule against campus political talks and urging application of policy by law, not by individuals.
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Allen Heald
Cedar Rapids
Progressive Party
Virgil M. Hancher
University of Iowa
Heald
Hancher
Henry A Wallace
Board of Education
Cain
Iowa
the Gazette
Tno
Eight Month Traffic Safety Contest Sees 688 Deaths
Figures from the traffic bureau of the police department report eight months of road incidents. Accidents caused numerous injuries with deaths totaling 180 in the period tied to a safety contest sponsored by the Young Men's Bureau.
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Traffic Bureau
Police Department
Young Men’s Bureau
Plot for Panama Revolt Reported
Panama City police said they uncovered a plot to overthrow President Domingo Diaz Arosemena and arrested ringleaders including a former president a former ambassador to Washington and a senior police official. The disclosure followed terrorist outbreaks Sunday night with two wounded one fatally and three officers abducted. Firemen reported arson attempts in at least two locations.
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Panama
Domingo Diaz Arosemena
Washington
Paul Acevedo
Secret Police
Brownell Attacks Truman Speech As Hypocritical
Herbert Brownell Jr., campaign manager for the Dewey-Warren ticket, called Harry Truman's Monday address a transparent attempt to lower the campaign to his level. He labeled the civil rights plea hypocritical and noted Truman's 1942 vote against allowing Black voters from poll tax states to cast ballots.
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Washington
INS
Herbert Brownell, Jr
Dewey-Warren
Harry Truman
Brownell
G.O.P
Truman
United States Senate
Ten Witnesses jailed for defying Reds quiz in LA
Ten witnesses including eight immediate detainees were ordered jailed for contempt after refusing to answer questions from a grand jury probing Communist activities among southern California government workers. The judge said they would remain jailed until they agreed to testify. Two women got until Wednesday noon to arrange child care before jail.
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Los Angeles
United States
Peirson M. Hall
California
Wesley Bissey
Ben Dobbs
Henry Steinberg
Phillip Bock
Frank Edward Alexander
Samuel Harry Kasinowitz
Delphine Murphy Smith
Margaret I. Noble
Miriam Brooks Sherman
Dorothy Baskin Forest
Communist Party
Ben Margolis
Big Ovation for Truman in Chicago
Truman drew a massive welcome in Chicago where 24,000 filled Chicago Stadium and 200,000 lined the outside to hear him. Police estimated about 750,000 greeted the candidate as he paraded from the Blackstone hotel amid streets filled with Truman signs and fireworks.
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Chicago
Jacob Arvey
Cook County
Democratic Central Committee
Edward J Kelly
Harry Truman
Bill Horstman
Chicago Stadium
Big West Side Arena
Truman
Ray J. Crane
Minister To Continue Running Taxi Business
Milford New Hampshire article notes Kendall W. Burgess, 50, the newly appointed Methodist minister, will keep his taxi company with a special rate of 35 cents to church rides instead of 50 cents. Burgess, a former army chaplain, had retired to start the taxi business during wartime experiences in Europe.
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Milford, NH
Milford
Kendall W. Burgess
Wesley Lord
Boston
Europe
Reading Protest Prompts Siberian Steppes Plan by Housewives
More than 100 housewives in Binghamton pledge to depart for the Siberian steppes as a protest against high meat prices after signing petitions. The measure was hidden in legal jargon, and many signed without noticing the sharp commitment.
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Binghamton
Siberian
Tama Indian Held On Liquor Charge
Theodore Mitchell an 18 year old Tama Indian was jailed in Linn County after being charged with possession of liquor on an Indian reservation. He was arraigned before U S Commissioner Charles Benesh and agreed to plead in federal court at Waterloo on November 3. HB. Davis a regional Indian affairs official arranged the arrest by filing a complaint alleging nine 12 ounce beer cans on the reservation.
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Theodore Mitchell
Linn County
United States
Charles Benesh
Mitchell
Waterloo
Davis
Early Radium Treatment Advised for Birthmarks
CHICAGO AP Three Philadelphia specialists urge removing birthmarks by X rays soon after birth. Eugene P. Pendergrass James C. Katterjohn and James B. Butchart report in the American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy that such birth defects are benign tumors of new blood vessels and can be treated with radiation with complete satisfaction.
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Chicago
Philadelphia
Eugene P. Pendergrass
James C. Katterjohn
James B. Butchart
American Journal of Roentgenology
Haifa Bombing Hits Oil Refineries in Bay Area
Arab bombers raided Haifa bay area Monday night dropping about 12 bombs and causing considerable damage to major oil refineries, according to reports Tuesday. The assault underscores ongoing hostilities in the region and reached critical industrial facilities amid tense urban security conditions.
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Haifa
Israel
Haifa Bay
Watching Own Rescue Doesn't Amuse Rescuers
In Two Rivers Wisconsin coast guardsmen who dragged a stream found the “victim” watching the rescue. Donald Berger 26 was arrested for drunk and disorderly after an argument with a woman who called for help. Berger swam downstream then returned to watch the operation. He said there is no law against swimming but authorities disagreed.
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Wis
Coast
Donald Berger
Berger
Man Saves Baby Moments Before Trains Hits Wife
Baltimore AP report says John Little told police he grabbed his 11 month old son from his wife Erma seconds before she stepped in front of a speeding passenger train at Camden Station. Neighbors heard his frantic account as Erma was fatally struck. the Littles lived near the B and O mainline in Dorsey Maryland.
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Baltimore (Ap
John Little
Little
Erma
Baltimore
Baltimore News-Post
One Dead in New French Outbreak
Paris reports a new wave of violence in the nationwide coal miners strike. In southern France near Ales insurgents fired on government forces as they moved to clear four coal mines and a power plant. One striker died and five policemen were seriously wounded. About 1000 strikers were captured as clashes spread between Rochebelle and St Martin de Valgagues.
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Paris
France
Interior Ministry
Ales
Marseille
Rochebelle
St. Martin de Valgagues
Hickenlooper urges atomic control and US lead
Senator Hickenlooper argues there is no safe atomic secret and America must maintain preeminence through trial and error research. He warns other nations lack A bomb know-how and calls for gradual international control to prevent independent production and reduce fear, citing press freedom and city destruction fears.
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America
Russia
Hickenlooper
Prefers Jail to Work Ends Up with Farm Sentence
BRAZIL Ind UP Jesse Martinez 18 who said he would rather go to jail than work began a six month term on the Indiana penal farm Tuesday. Martinez an American youth of Mexican descent from Austin Texas was arrested for robbing a restaurant. Judge Robert Stewart with held sentence and promised a farm job but Martinez protested I dont like to work The judge then sentenced him to six months on the penal farm.
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Brazil
Ind
Jesse Martinez
Indiana
Martinez
Austin
Texas
Robert Stewart
Stewart
Red Plot Seen in Uprising in Korea
Washington reports indicate the rebellion in south Korea was planned by Communists for some time. An American official in Seoul described rebel forces killing up to 500 police rightists Christians and prosperous citizens. The rebels raised North Korean flags during occupation of Sunchon.
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Washington
State Department
South Korea
Department
Michael J. McDermott
Sunchon
McDermott
Six Thousand Four Hundred Ten Saved by Relief Recipient
David Feldman a 34 year old New Yorker disclosed he saved 6410 while on city relief checks He testified in a court fight with Morris Unger 65 over a deal in which he gave Unger's son 6410 to buy a house Feldman said he had been on relief for 13 years and earned money as a porter and shoe shiner The magistrate jailed him for disorderly conduct and ordered welfare department inquiry
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NEW York (Ap
David Feldman
Morris Unger
Feldman
Unger
Welfare Department
Time Expired Cut Off Truman's Talk Time
Truman's campaign speech was cut off at 9:30 pm by Mutual and Columbia as air time paid by the Democratic party ran out. A Mutual Broadcasting System spokesman cited audience cheering as the cause for the brief delay before the early termination.
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Chicago
Harry Truman
Democratic Party
Mutual Broadcasting System
Mutual
Columbia
MBS
Truman
United States
Enlistments by Cedar Rapids Army and Air Force
The Cedar Rapids recruiting station announced enlistments from eastern Iowa men Kenneth W. Tomkins Colesburg and Curtis G. Barrett Osterdock both joining the air force and Charles W. Moser Jr Osterdock entering the regular army Major Allen O Brophy announced M S Sgt Rudolph C Nitsch a Cedar Rapids and Manchester recruiter recalled to duty as a reserve officer with orders to report as a second lieutenant at Fort Stone man Camp Stateman California for transfer to the Ryukyus Command Okinawa
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Cedar Rapids
Camp Stoneman
Calif
Ryukyus Command
Okinawa
City Briefs Announce Open Clinic and Sunshine Mission Observance
Parenthood Clinic planned at Memorial building Hear Gillette tonight with opening at 1 p.m. in room 403. The Edgewood Community Church leads a Sunshine Mission service at 7 30 p.m. Tuesday with Rev Chester Ainsworth preaching and church youth providing music for the 53rd anniversary observance.
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Sunshine Mission
Edgewood Community Church
Chester Ainsworth
Woman Cast From Train In Mystery
Sheriff reports Ruth Cooney of Chicago thrown from a Louisville and Nashville train near Hopkinsville Kentucky. She gave partial details of her 3 year old son and personal belongings on board while doctors treat her for severe injuries and shock. Police traced the boy to Atlanta as the search continues.
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Hopkinsville
Lanice Futrell
Ruth Cooney
Chicago
Louisville and Nashville
Here
Futrell
J. W. Judd
Chattanooga
Roy Morphew
Cooney
Atlanta
Judd
Schick Hospital Reopens Monday Veterans Center
CLINTON AP The Schick General hospital set to reopen next Monday as a veterans domiciliary center seeks its first patient with officials scanning Iowa and Illinois. Acting chief medical officer is Dr Lloyd L Cramer formerly of Hot Springs SD. Dr Harold A Wilson becomes dental chief. Other posts: Phillip Pollard finance officer, Phillip Haines chief of special services, Miss Rose Dunn chief nurse, Alice Budgel chief dietitian, Robert F Holland assisting engineer, and Charles Krieger continuing as chief engineer.
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Clinton
Schick General Hospital
Iowa
Illinois
Lloyd L. Cramer
Veterans Administration Hospital
Hot Springs
S. D
Harold A. Wilson
Walla Walla
Wash
Phillip Pollard
Knoxville
Phillip Haines
Rose Dunn
Fort Snelling
Minn
Alice Budgel
Wichita
Kan
Robert F. Holland
St. Paul
Charles Krieger
Army
Truman warns of economic power and prejudice in campaign
President Truman denounces concentrated economic power and rising prejudice, labeling three groups influencing policy. He accuses Republicans of aiding big business, contrasts Democratic gains since 1933, and calls out demagogues targeting Catholics Jews and minorities. He urges independent voters to back the Democratic stance as the nation faces a defining choice.
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Republican Congress
Congress
America
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Truman
Navy Day Observance Marks World Ceremonies
Navy Day will be observed Wednesday in ceremonies around the globe at ships and stations, reflecting the Navy's reach and traditions through coordinated events.
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Washington
Trial Ends In Settlement In $30,000 Lynch Estate Suit
Blossom Kirk sought $30,000 from the estate of Mrs. Thomas T. Lynch in Linn county. The trial opened after jury selection and featured handwriting expert William C. Henning who testified the notes were authentic. Attorneys halted proceedings Tuesday to discuss a settlement.
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Blossom Kirk
Thomas T. Lynch
Linn County
Kirk
William C. Henning
Cedar Rapids Business College
Thomas
Henning
Linn county jury commissioners named for 1949 50
Linn county jury commissioners for 1949 and 1950 will be R N Fitzgerald of Marion and W J Scherrebeck and J C Blodgett, both of Cedar Rapids. An order signed Monday by the Eighteenth judicial district's four judges appointed the commissioners to terms beginning Jan 1, 1949. Commissioners are charged with selecting lists of citizens from which grand and petit juries are drawn for state courts.
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Linn County
R. N. Fitzgerald
Marion
W. J. Scherrebeck
J. C. Blodgett
Cedar Rapids
Eighteenth Judicial District
Damage suit filed against Keeshin and Lennie C. Fanning
In Linn county district court G. E. and De Sachwitz of St. Paul truckers and Niagara Tire Insurance sue Keeshin Motor Freight and driver Lennie C. Fanning for 5639.78 after a two-truck crash on highway 30 near Indian Creek bridge on Nov 15, 1947 two miles east of Cedar Rapids. The filing also lists related actions including an account suit by The Alexander Film Company against Leo French and French Hardware and a default judgment awarded to The Klinger Paint Company against Janda Manufacturing, plus a temporary injunction involving Ivan O. Northkamp and a divorce petition later dismissed.
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Linn County
G. E. and
de Sachwitz
St. Paul
Niagara Tire Insurance Company
Keeshin Motor Freight
Lennie C. Fanning
Cedar Rapids
Indian Creek Bridge
Suspected Auto Thief Held for Linn County
The Linn county sheriff's office was notified Tuesday that authorities at Denison are holding Howard Stevens, 41, formerly of Jewell, wanted since September 1947 on auto theft charges. Stevens was accused in a county attorney's true information of taking a car belonging to Joe McCraith of Lisbon and selling it later at Mapleton.
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Linn County
Denison
Howard Stevens
Jewell
Stevens
Joe McCraith
Lisbon
Mapleton
Two Missing C R Girls Found in Pennsylvania
Laura Teigen and Evelyn Easter day, both missing from Cedar Rapids since Oct 11, were located by police in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Juvenile Captain Stanley Davis relayed the news by telegram Tuesday. Teigen's parents left Tuesday to retrieve the runaways. Americans use about 582 gallons of oil products per person annually.
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Laura Teigen
First Avenue
Evelyn Easterday
Fourth Street
New Kensington
Stanley Davis
Scolaro Talks Uninflated 1949 Valuations at Iowa Assoc
City Assessor Jim Scolaro will address uninflated 1949 property valuations at a Des Moines conference of the Iowa State Association of Assessors. He plans a Thursday round table discussion and Wednesday panel on assessors not using appraisal firms. Scolaro also serves as association secretary treasurer.
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Jim Scolaro
Iowa State Association of Assessors
Des Moines
Iowa
Scolaro
Bert Zuver
Cedar Rapids
Association
Milwaukee
M. G. Linkletter
Linn
Roy Welterlen
Delaware County
S. T. Randall
J. F. Edwards
Fayette County
George Gill
State Tax Commission
John W. Barnes
Commission
Woman 79 suffers possible ankle fracture in pedestrian collision
Robina Wilson, 79, of 1532 D avenue NE, struck by a car at Seton avenue and Tenth street Monday evening. She was taken to St Luke's hospital in fair condition Tuesday. Driver Doris Hart, 2325 Ridgeway drive SE, was fined $5 and costs after pleading guilty to failing to yield to a pedestrian.
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Robina Wilson
D Avenue NE
Seton Avenue
Tenth Street
St. Luke’s Hospital
Doris Hart
Ridgeway Drive
Burglary Case Leads to Arrest Near Lisbon Station
Charles R. Woods discovered the break in at Mt Vernon station just before 11:10 p.m. A sledge from a nearby tool house was used to knock a knob off the safe as the burglar tried to open it. George Kahl arrested Jackson Woods west of Lisbon along the North Western right of way. Woods, a Chicago man, claimed he was traveling from Boone to Chicago and was seeking a place to sleep. A suitcase in the basement had been opened and women’s clothing scattered. no trace of Woods’ buddy was found. Ed Gill and Donald Cassidy aided in the investigation.
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Larry Condon
Condon
Charles R. Woods
George Kahl
Lisbon
Jackson Woods
Chicago
Boone
Mt. Vernon
Woods
Buddy
Jake Klimo
Ed Gill
Donald Cassidy
North Western Special
Polio Epidemic Reported in San Francisco
San Francisco police outbreak was classified as epidemic by City Health Director J. C. Geiger. During the week ending Saturday 16 new cases were reported, raising the annual total to 158 with 12 deaths, 10 since September 1.
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San Francisco
J. C. Geiger
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