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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1948
Page
2
President Truman charged Republicans with undercover sabotage of the West during a Denver speech on his coast to coast campaign. He attacked the 80th Congress for undermining Western development, cutting water and power projects, and courting big business lobbies.
Rain totals rose to 1.21 inches by mid afternoon as showers lingered into Monday night. Forecasters predicted continued showers through Tuesday with cooler temperatures after Sundays heat peaked at 92 in the Cedar Rapids area. Nearby highs reached 99 at Indianola 98 at Sioux City and 96 at Iowa City.
DES MOINES AP reports five Iowans died in a car train collision at Avon Lake, southeast of Des Moines. Victims include Lorene Kauzlarich and her son David, Milton Iserman and his wife Dorothy, and their daughter Sandra. Doris Iserman was in critical condition. The two families were en route to Avon Lake for a fishing trip.
Public Safety Commissioner Gordon Hughes stated that Fred Carstens remains chief of police in Cedar Rapids and will stay in that role. He said he will run the police department as commissioner, with Carstens serving as chief, and the council placed Walsh’s demand letter on file.
Washington announced that American troops will stay in Korea while the United Nations addresses the entire Korean issue. Moscow claimed Soviet troops would withdraw from Northern Korea by January 1, sparking a broader dispute over the future of the divided nation and the fate of the U.S. force.
U S army urges soldiers in Grafenwoer, Germany to extend enlistments amid the tense international situation. Lt Gen Clarence R Huebner tells about 15,000 First Division and constabulary troops that extensions can be in six month periods. Maj Gen Frank W Milburn cites U S prices and housing shortages to persuade stayees.
Federal Judge Luther M Swygert overruled the AFL Typographical Union and opened a hearing on a government contempt petition. The NLRB charges the union ignored Swygert's March 27 Taft Hartley order. Swygert weighed the union's dismissal motion, while NLRB and ITU lawyers argued the timing. The judge viewed both sides as ready for the hearing.
Paris AP The Queuille government won parliamentary backing for its economic program after an all night session, 291 to 251. The plan calls for about 260 million dollars in new taxes annually and 65 million dollars in annual state expense cuts. Former premiers Schuman and Andre Marie failed to secure endorsement for similar programs.
Paris AP Secretary General Tryggve Lie plans to press for an urgent UN constabulary of 1000 to 5000 troops with full UN authority to deter acts like the Berndadotte assassination and keep order in disturbed areas. He notes the force would aid the security council and save lives, citing Indonesia and Palestine.
Rose Marie Jones twenty from Newton died after a motorcycle crash six miles east of Marion on highway 151 early Sunday. She died at St Luke's hospital from a basal skull fracture. The rider Paul McClelland Jr also Newton failed to stop at a signal and struck a car driven by William Jenkins and wife. Jones was thrown from the bike and others suffered minor injuries. Body sent to Morgan and Son funeral home Newton.
Dr. Werner Best, Hitler’s ambassador to Denmark during 1942 to 1945, was sentenced to death by a Danish court on Monday.
A preacher noted for a congregation that shuns front seats was surprised by a stranger sitting in the very first row. After the sermon the man explained he sat front to observe how the preacher moved people to the back, since he is a bus driver.
The US army plans full scale shipment of thousands of tons across the Pacific starting Tuesday at San Francisco Los Angeles and Stockton ports. The Mutual Stevedoring Company of San Francisco will operate cargo handling using army gear and will employ CIO Longshoremen through the union hiring hall after a walkout idle phase of 19 days.
AP reports 18 year old college student John David Heidenreich admitted fatally shooting his father, president of Carrie-Goudie Manufacturing, during a domestic quarrel at their Kansas City home. Heidenreich, a KU sophomore, was detained with no charges filed yet. he says an uncle supplied the pistol at his mother's request. His mother Mary Heidenreich Gibson has been hospitalized with a heart ailment.
Omaha cab driver Donald Eddy placed a newspaper notice offering to sell his left eye for 15000 to raise funds within 15 days. He says the money will help care for his 13 children after years of job loss and housing troubles, with seven children placed in Ottumwa and four in Decorah. The Eddys seek to reunite the family and prove capable of care. His two oldest sons are in the military. Eddie hopes to buy a 12 100m house.
The Arab League announced the formation of an Arab government for Palestine with Ahmed Hilmy Pasha named prime minister despite Trans-Jordan and Iraq protests. King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan opposed the move, warning it would imply partition and oppose creation without Palestinian consent. Renewed shelling in Jerusalem heightened tensions as the truce neared.
By Frank Nye Republicans anxious about weather awaited a break for Gov Thomas E Dewey's campaign kickoff aboard a 16 car Dewey train. He crossed the Mississippi around 1:55 p.m. and headed toward Des Moines for an 8 p.m. address at Drake Stadium. The train used the same tracks as President Truman's two days earlier.
Radio KCRG and KCRK FM will carry Dewey’s speech from 9 to 9:30 p m. Dignitaries gathered at Drake Stadium hoped for clear skies while rain fell in eastern Iowa as the campaign train moved into the state.
Frank Nye associate editor of The Gazette rode the Dewey campaign train through eastern Iowa on Monday. Harry Boyd editor will join in Des Moines Monday night to provide Gazette readers with complete coverage of the campaign’s opening.
In Des Moines the opening could shift from the stadium to Drake fieldhouse if rain comes. The forecast calls for intermittent showers or thunderstorms. About 30,000 can be accommodated in the stadium with extra seating, while the fieldhouse seats 6,500 for basketball.
AFL United Auto Workers called a strike at the Tucker Corporation plant in Chicago, with 26 of 120 workers walking out. Union official Albert DeVito cited union authorization and fired committee member Edward Salowski as a key issue, while Preston Tucker claimed the action was unauthorized and noted the plant operates as an open shop amid an pending NLRB election for representation.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey pushes a peace and freedom message as a severe Des Moines rainstorm threatens his Drake Stadium rally at 8 p.m. Republican leaders said the event could move to the Drake Field House. The trip, dubbed the Dewey Victory Special, includes a Chicago stop with Latin American delegates and a pledge to oppose widening Russian influence. Dewey’s team frames the plan as a bold blueprint for new welfare measures to fight poverty at home. He will continue to Nebraska and Colorado stops ahead of a Denver address.
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