Police Dept Controversy Outlined By The Gazette
The Gazette summarizes weeks of investigation into Cedar Rapids police department turmoil led by Chiefs Conan and Carstens, Commissioner Hughes, and Captain Walsh. It notes leadership flaws, resignations, and rumored graft while urging a careful, non sensational review and calls for formal evidence to resolve the dispute.
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Harry Boyd
the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Police Department
The
Gazette
Tom Conan
Fred Carstens
Gordon Hughes
Howard Walsh
Verne Marshall
Dewey Campaigns On West Coast With Atomic Energy Focus
Governor Thomas E. Dewey toured California en route to Los Angeles for a public rally at the Hollywood Bowl. He argued for private enterprise development of atomic energy for peacetime use while urging continued government control of secrecy until a world agreement enables peaceful military use. Dewey blamed Russia for blocking UN agreements and urged the United States to safeguard atomic secrets until others act in good faith.
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Dewey
Los Angeles
Thomas E. Dewey
Truman
Pacific Coast
Hollywood Bowl
Hollywood
Paul Lockwood
Montgomery
Phoenix
Russia
United Nations
Axis Sally Pleads Innocent In Treason Case
Mildred E Gillars known as Axis Sally pleaded not guilty to a 10 count treason indictment in Washington federal court. The 47 year old Maine native denied charges of aiding enemies by wartime broadcasts to U S troops in Italy and North Africa. Trial set for Nov 15 with bail denied due to treason being non bailable.
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Washington
Mildred E. Gillars
Miss Gillars
Maine
Federal Court of Justice
Matthew F McGuire
United States
U. S. Marshalsook
Mildred E. Fisk
Italy
French North Africa
US accuses Bulgaria of crushing democratic freedoms
Washington reports the United States accuses the Bulgarian government of ruthlessly suppressing democracy. The note delivered by American Minister Donald Heath to Bulgarian Foreign Minister Vasil Petkov Kolarov asserts abuses such as involuntary servitude banishment concentration camps imprisonment torture and execution. Heath disputes Bulgaria meeting peace treaty obligations and its claim to UN membership.
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Washington
United States
Bularia
U. S
State Department
Donald R. Heath
Sofia
Vasil Petkov Kolarov
Kolarov
Bulgaria
United Nations
U.N
Heath
U. N
Reds Threaten More Trouble For Air Lift
BERLIN AP Russian anti aircraft gunners plan to fire dangerous high in the American British air lift corridor to Berlin. The Russians also announced bombing and fighter firing practice in the corridor. Capt W H Gookin said the Russians posted a notice they would conduct anti air craft firing for seven hours in the Buc keburg corridor near Dolle airport. The Americans protested a Soviet Yak fighter plane that flew dangerously close to an American transport.
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Berlin
W. H Gookin
Quincy, _Mass
U. S
Bueckeburg
Dolle Airport
Gookin
Here
Paris
United Nations
Dolle
I Prrean
Frankurt
Smith Returns From Moscow
Washington Reuters Lt Gen Walter Bedell Smith United States ambassador to Russia arrived in Washington by plane Friday for Berlin crisis discussions with State Department officials. He went direct to Lovett and will meet experts on Russian affairs. this is his first Washington conference in a year. He flew from Paris on President Truman's plane and may stay a week to ten days before returning to Moscow.
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Washington
Walter Bedell Smith
United States
Russia
State Department
Berlin
Smith
Robert A. Lovett
National
Truman
Paris
George C. Marshall
Department
Moscow
Stassen Sees Bright Path for World Peace at Penn
Harold E. Stassen, newly elected University of Pennsylvania president, told Penn students that the world has an unequaled chance for sound and lasting peace despite war risks. He cited science and communications advances that could enable orderly global relations on freedom and justice, urged a basic accord among peoples, and said students begin a era of higher knowledge and renewed moral study.
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Philadelphia
Harold E. Stassen
University of Pennsylvania
Minnesota
Penn
Stassen
GOP
Truman Warns Against Party Used by Reds
President Truman denounces the Wallace Progressive third party as guided by Communists during a California swing. He argues liberals should not support a party with no power to influence government or achieve peace, warning it would be folly to back such a movement.
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Los Angeles
Truman
Gilmore Stadium
California
Central Valley
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
Wallace
Pleasant Weather Forecast for Cedar Rapids Weekend
The Cedar Rapids area forecast calls for a pleasant weekend with crisp temperatures. Rain is possible in western Iowa Friday night and Saturday as readings stay in the low seventies, with a low around 45 in Cedar Rapids early Friday and 34 in Elkader overnight. Highs Thursday and 2 PM Friday reached about 65 in Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
the Mercury
Elkader
Chambers
Red Newspapers Barred from U.S. Zone in Berlin
BERLIN AP The U S military government banned all Soviet sponsored newspapers from the American zone of Germany in reprisal for Soviet discrimination against western licensed publications in the Russian zone and Berlin. The action nullified the 1947 Moscow exchange agreement among the four occupying powers. Maj Gen George P Hays signed the counter embargo after protests to the Russians.
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Berlin
U. S
Germany
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Russia
George P. Hays
Hays
United States and Britain test fleets embark on distant cruises
Washington reports powerful U S and British fleets set for separate testing operations. Britain's home fleet sails for the West Indies on the sea trial described as the greatest postwar naval exercise. The U S task force 38 at San Diego will cruise to Japan and China with carriers Princeton and Tarawa, likely escorted, aiming to remain in Asiatic waters for three to four months.
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United States
Britain
Atlantic
First Lord of the
Admiralty
Viscount Hall
West Indies
United States Navy
San Diego
Japan
China
Princeton
Tarawa
Yokotuka
Tsingtao
Asiatic
Russia denounces U N little assembly as illegal body
Paris AP Russia denounced the U N little assembly as an illegal body seeking to undermine the Security Council. Soviet Delegate Jacob Malik demanded elimination of all items referring to the little assembly from the General Assembly agenda and urged continued boycott. He attacked discussions on Korea independence veto limits and permanent status for the little assembly while criticizing related Balkan and Chilean proposals and noting past Security Council vetoes. South Africa warned great powers risked alienating small nations if UN reform continued as Southeast Asia issues were urged for freedom and independence. Continued coverage noted Berlin blockade and Western powers watching possible new members as tensions rose.
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Paris
Russia
U.N. Little Assembly
Security Council
Jacob Malik
United Nations Assembly
Malik
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
General Assembly
Little Assembly
Korea
Assembly
Balkans Commission
Greece
Italy
Austria
Finland
Eire
Portugal
Trans-Jordan
Soviet Union
South Africa
U.N
E. H. Louw
Organization of the United Nations
U Ohn
Indonesia
Southeast Asia
Louw
IUN
Berlin
Maytag Faults Management For Labor Unrest
Maytag president Fred Maytag told 8000 industry leaders that management and misguided labor leaders share blame for labor unrest. He said management often handles labor relations in spare time or delegates to understaffed departments, and that fighting organized labor obscures underlying reasons for workers’ actions.
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Philadelphia
Fred Maytag
Maytag Company
Newton
National Association of Foremen
Maytag
Association
Nee
Alien Held in Chicago for aiding overthrow of U.S. government
George Pirinsky executive secretary of the American Slav Congress was arrested in Chicago on information charging him as an alien with belonging to an organization advocating forceful overthrow of the U S government He was released under $1000 bond.
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Chicago
George Pirinsky
American Slav Congress
U. S
Yank Accused Of Conspiring To Kill Peron
In Buenos Aires the government said 12 people including three priests were arrested in an alleged plot led by American John Griffith to assassinate President Juan Peron and Eva Peron. Police said the group planned to strike during a theater outing on Oct 12 and extradition efforts to Griffith from Uruguay began.
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Buenos Aires
Juan Peron
Eva
John Griffith
U.S
Arturo Beritollo
Federal Police
Griffith
Uruguay
Argentina
Montevideo
el Pais
Cypriano Reyes
Peron
Colon Theater
National Penitentiary
Oscar Palma Beltran
University of Southern California
Court Reverses Cotton Decision in Iowa Supreme Court
DES MOINES AP The Iowa supreme court on a 7 to 1 vote reversed the conviction and seven year sentence of William H Cotton former chairman of the Polk county board of supervisors. He had been found guilty in Polk county of obtaining county funds by false pretenses and was fined 500 dollars and sentenced to Fort Madison state prison. He has been free on bond during appeal.
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DES Moines
Iowa Supreme Court
William H. Cotton
Polk County Board of Supervisors
Cotton
Polk County
C. F
Fort Madison
Liberty
Allies take on ALCOA monopoly in new antitrust suit
The Justice Department filed in New York federal court to force ALCOA to divest portions of its operations and reduce its size and power to end what it terms an illegal monopoly in the aluminum industry. Attorney General Clark emphasized neutralizing monopoly power to restore competition.
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New York
Justice Department
Aluminum Company of America
Tom C. Clark
ALCOA
Roy A Hunt
Hunt
Surplus Property Board
War Assets Administration
Federal grand jury subpoenas big firms in suspected monopolies
A federal grand jury issued subpoenas Friday for records of General Motors U S Rubber North American Aviation Ethyl Corp and Kinetic Chemicals retracting 1915 to present. The probes seek stock transaction records with DuPont Bendix Remington and others. Officials say the move tests interlock among major corporations.
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Chicago
General Motors Corp
U. S. Rubber
North American Aviation
Ethyl Corp
Kinetic Chemicals, Inc
EJ. DuPont de Nemours
Bendix Aviation
Remington’ Arms, Inc
Grand Jury
General Motors
Chinese Executive Executed in Shanghai Black Market Probe
Wang Chung-tseh a leading Chinese businessman with trade links in New York London and the Orient was executed Friday in Shanghai for involvement in black market activities.
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Wang Chung-tseh
New York
London
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