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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1952
Page
1
The Air Force is studying flying saucer reports but remains certain they do not threaten the United States. Most sightings have been explained as natural phenomena with radar detections in the Washington area over the past ten days traced to ordinary causes.
Six witnesses in Cherokee county near Larrabee report disc shaped silvers moving above a farm for over an hour before vanishing northward. Air Force leaders Maj. Gen. Samford and Maj. Gen. Ramey describe the one fifth of sightings deemed unexplained and plan new cameras to study the phenomenon while noting many reports arise from weather, radar anomalies, or misidentifications.
Gen James A Van Fleet said there is less chance for an armistice in Korea than ever before At a news conference the Eighth Army commander tied the prospect to military pressure on the Communists He noted Reds can strike unexpectedly yet have thinned their front line strength over weeks Armistice talks at Panmunjom are in recess until Sunday.
Mrs. Katherine G. Reed 44 of Mount Clemens Michigan wife of an American air force colonel was convicted on five charges of selling coffee and gasoline coupons and making illegal currency exchanges on the German black market. She was found innocent of two charges of importing coffee for resale and buying military scrip for American dollars. Judge Dewitt White of Morgantown West Virginia fined her 3982 dollars. Mrs. Reed is the wife of Col. Allen W. Reed formerly of Fairfield Iowa.
Frederick Charles Will and Sidney Dubowy were captured within hours of a $20,000 bank holdup. Will confessed to bluffing a manager and taking the money. $17,000 was found in a taxi trunk after a Reno trip. Police traced the pair with taxi driver Anthony Gelini.
An 18 year old Dixon Indiana youth was killed in a car overturn between Dixon and Big Rock. Two companions from Dixon and Davenport were seriously injured. Coroner Reed Phillips said skull fracture likely caused death. Graveside services were held for Ike M Block 66 Atlantic businessman.
Residents plead for law intervention as a four-family shootout spills into Lamar Hollow. Children and a peg legged man are grazed by shotgun pellets while feuding factions claim land where an access road is to be built. State police report tightened patrols but cite manpower shortages in the isolated hills. The dispute echoes the Hatfield McCoy era nearby.
Everett Johnston and wife Lillian Johnston, operators of a Nichols meat market and locker plant, are named defendants in two district court suits totaling $42,500. Robert Pike, nine, injured Aug 8 in the plant, lost part of a hand, with his mother Loretta Hollenbeck seeking $35,000 and $7,500 for medical and future care. The petitions allege dangerous machinery and insufficient safeguards, ask for a hearing on testimony, appointment of a receiver, and separate equitable and jury trials.
Merle Brown, 27, of Sioux City died at a hospital early today from polio. It marks the 19th polio death in Sioux City during the current epidemic. Iowa totals reach 27 polio deaths in 1952, with 316 area cases so far this year. At University hospitals in Iowa City eleven new polio cases were admitted, bringing active cases to 22 and noting one death, eight year old Richard Calhourn of New Hampton.
Muscatine's iron lung was taken to University Hospitals in Iowa City this afternoon to aid in polio patient care. Donated by the Elks years ago, the device was requested by university officials as statewide polio cases rose. The lung was used there last year. Muscatine polio patients are sent to University hospitals for treatment. none have been reported this year.
Eisenhower and Nixon will hold a series of high level strategy conferences at Eisenhower headquarters in Denver starting Friday. Attendees include Arthur Summerfield, Gov. Adams, Senators Carlson and Seaton, Murray Chotiner and other GOP leaders to coordinate campaign efforts for a November victory both nationally and in Congress.
The United States plans to tell Franco Spain its terms for base use and aid must be drastically reduced to reach a deal. Madrid seeks immediate 125 million dollars in aid with no strings and large US military backing, framing an implied alliance. United States favors simultaneous base and aid talks but warns of prohibitive commitments.
A coroner's jury investigating 15 year old Donald Rudnik's death deferred its report until August 18 to study evidence and seek new facts. Dr. E E Gingles said the boy was struck by a car with no evidence locating the driver. Witnesses placed the drowning near Blue Lake after midnight while fishing along a narrow road.
Lawrence H. Bender, 43, died Tuesday in Creston as a car in reverse gear moved while his daughter Roberta, 14, started it. He opened the door to stop the vehicle and was crushed between the door and a tree.
At Springfield Ohio the reserve champion Hampshire hog entered by W Robert Lewis and Sons of Wilmington Ohio sold for 610 to P L Benschoff of Webster City Iowa. Robert Meeker of Oakville Iowa won the veterans training division judging contest.
In 1948 Adlai E Stevenson won the Illinois governorship by a landslide outpacing Truman and Douglas. He had eyed a U S Senate seat but chose the governor’s office amid Chicago machine politics. His term featured merit policing, highway rebuilding plans, and crackdowns on contraband tobacco and illegal gambling.
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