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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1948
Page
2
In Tel Aviv, Israeli forces and Irgun units clash amid protests over the landing of arms. The confrontation marks intensified strife as authorities attempt to control access to arms shipments and quell rioting in the coastal city.
Israeli and Irgun forces fought on Tel Aviv central beach killing about forty. Irgun attempted to land a LST with 600 tons of arms, supposedly for Jerusalem defense, violating a UN armistice. The battle, with civilians and soldiers clashing, left a soldier dead and a girl private wounded as authorities moved to prevent escalation.
Lenora Coatsworth a night telephone operator at the Kansas City Club fell thirty feet from a third floor sleeping porch when a guard railing gave way at her home 3927 Kenwood avenue. She died before an ambulance arrived. Coatsworth born July 2 1899 in New Orleans had worked at the club since August 3 1944 and previously at several apartment hotels.
The event opened with Gloria Levin singing Begin the Beguine as eighty voices joined an address by Frances Bolton. Dwight Green, Illinois governor, led as temporary chairman and praised order while God Bless America was sung by Mary Emma Hirsch. Attendance lagged with many delegates reading papers as Senator Kenneth S. Wherry spoke vigorously. Harry W. MacMillan, 37, who plays the pipe organ for the convention, recalled Wendell Willkie thanking him in 1940. MacMillan cannot hear his own music from his position twenty two feet from the floor.
A Missouri Osage forecast warns crest near bankfull at Osceola by tomorrow night and river levels seven to eight feet above flood stage below Lake of the Ozarks by Thursday morning. Heavy rain endangers farm land as Lamine River rises twelve feet east of Sedalia and may add another foot. Lamine feeds the Missouri near Boonville. Other 24 hour rainfall reports follow.
Wet grounds forced the Municipal Band concert at Troost Park to be canceled tonight. The group will perform next on Thursday night in Central Park with the same program and conductor.
Wayne Wehmeir, 4, was struck by a motor car in front of 2519 East Forty-fifth Street and taken to General hospital with a head injury. Driver Carl Airheart Jr., 32, of 4343 Benton Boulevard, said he slowed to five miles an hour when children moved into the path. he was arrested for careless driving.
Secretary Forrestal told National War College graduates that the United States could spend too much on defense while balancing Europe recovery and domestic economy. He cautioned against spending beyond means, insisting collision between military power and economy must be avoided. He denied opposing military buildup, noting danger of spending the nation into defeat.
Henry Huddleston Rogers Jr., 42, son of Standard Oil executive, died in a hospital Sunday night. An interest in scientific research labeled him a contributor to submarine detection developments in World War II. His widow Diana survives. body to be sent to Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
Wherry labeled the Truman administration a fuel for inflation while calling the Democratic party a fractured left wing opposition. Nebraskan delegates staged a floor demonstration as Frances Bolton urged women to vote Republican. Senator Baldwin urged an end to privilege and a strong stand for open doors and rebuilding government. Magistrate Hobson Reynolds spoke on civil rights, asserting pride in American freedom.
Philadelphia June 22 AP Senator Arthur Vandenberg said he approves the Republican platform plank demanding continued support of peace loving nations and a world police force. He called the plank magnificent and pledged satisfaction with peace with justice through collective security and progressive international cooperation.
A forceful Reynolds proclaims democracy must be universal as a gro up gathers for civil rights. Harold Lloyd, a long recess, pickets outside demand race equality while Stassen seeks first place amid Taft-Stassen talk and Hoover looming for a major convention address.
In Philadelphia on June 22 AP reports Taft forces failed to secure reconsideration by the credentials committee of its prior ruling seating a Dewey delegation from Georgia over Roy Foster led Taft supporters. The 26 to 24 vote stood and only a convention floor challenge could continue the contest.
Portsmouth naval base marks end of the Sailfish, formerly the Aqualus, now to be scrapped in Wilmington, Del. The conning tower and superstructure will form part of a Squalus memorial after the sub sank off the Isles of Shoals in 1939 with 26 lives lost. The ship had earned a presidential unit citation for Pacific war patrols.
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