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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1949
Page
1
The winter storm left nearly 10,000 travelers stranded across the Dakotas Nebraska Colorado and Wyoming as crews dig out drifts. Temperatures hovered near zero with some areas well below and relief efforts including supply drops and evacuations underway.
About 275 passengers on the City of San Francisco streamliner are snowbound in Kimball Nebraska as temperatures drop to zero and drifts reach eight to 11 feet. Local residents provide shelter, meals, and beds in shifts at the 42-room hotel. stores open to aid, with guides escorting travelers to and from the depot.
Chuckle notes Jim asking for a day off to help with housecleaning. Boss replies wife said she would not need him. Jim adds there are two who handle the truth loosely and he is one of them, claiming he is very married.
The North Western railroad announced new trains on the Omaha Chicago route to cover for marooned streamliners. Train No 14 will reach Cedar Rapids at 2 30 p m. A special coach train will depart Chicago at 6 p m arrive Cedar Rapids about 25 p m with a diner. At 8 30 p m Pacific Limited stops will head to Omaha arriving Cedar Rapids near midnight. Sleeper No 15 leaves Cedar Rapids at 11 01 p m. An Omaha to Chicago train departs 7 a m Thursday arriving Cedar Rapids 12 07 p m and Chicago 4 p m.
Marvin Fatka who never won a constable election in Cedar Rapids starts a second term after being appointed to replace Frank Kreici and then John Taylor amid a resignation sequence. The process involved Linn county supervisors and a last minute letter from Taylor citing disability. Fatka continues as constable for Rapids township pending the next election.
In New York Thomas Cutler, 50, cooked washed and cared for his four children for two and a half months. He confessed to turning in a false fire alarm to draw help. A city magistrate promised social service help and paroled him to take care of the children at home.
GOP leaders denounce the 8 to 5 Democrat edge in the foreign relations panel as endangering bipartisan policy. The steering committee shifted eight Democrats to the panel, five Republicans, skipping an expected seven to six balance and prompting rebukes from Senator Vandenberg and Senator Morse.
Ralph Osborne sues Leslie and Mary Anthony seeking rescission of an oral 5100 sale for 1004 Ninth Avenue SE after moving in October 29 found the home defective as the city condemned it. He seeks return of 100 down and 55 for moving and repairs, alleging misrepresentation of livability.
New York traders welcomed President Truman's message as no surprises and a relief rally followed. Wall Street experts had anticipated the recommendations, and the market had already discounted them in recent weeks.
The Harnack House American officer civilian club in Berlin voted to bar enlisted men from guest access, while civilian members argued German frauleins should be admitted. An officer majority backed the ban, with one lieutenant colonel stating 10 percent of enlisted men misbehave and threatening to resign if soldiers were allowed.
The biggest bat tle of the Palestine war was reported raging Wednesday in the soft desert sands around the Egyptian frontier town of Rafa.
Mrs Mable Pine, 40, a North English beauty parlor operator, was held in Linn county jail awaiting moves by Iowa authorities. Arrested Monday night in West Allis Wisconsin on an Iowa county warrant charging exposure of a dead body. Pine was returned to Cedar Rapids late Tuesday by Detective Captain.
Frank Bukacek and Sheriff Chris Engelbert stated the woman signed a statement admitting she placed her newborn daughter’s body in a Union bus depot trash can on December 19. The suspect, divorced in May 1947, gave birth December 14 in North English and stored the infant in her shop before leaving for Cedar Rapids. Iowa County Attorney Dave Evans planned to discuss return of the suspect to Iowa County.
A farmhouse fire in Phoenixville Pennsylvania killed six people including a child after chickens toppled a kerosene brooder stove on the porch. The blaze destroyed the home of Percy Lick three families lived there and six occupants escaped or were saved by relatives.
President Truman urged Congress to pass a four billion dollar corporation tax hike and enacted core pledges as part of a broad fair deal. He pressed for inflation control, new Wagner Act changes, housing aid, farm price supports, and possible government production to relieve bottlenecks in steel and key goods. He urged authority to set price and wage ceilings and to back plant expansion, with civil rights, health care, and Taft Hartley reform on the agenda.
President Truman left the Capitol after delivering the state of the Union message. An unidentified child cried loudly "Daddy" as he passed to the cloakrooms, with uncertainty whether the voice came from the House floor or the galleries.
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