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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1949
Page
1
President Truman asked Congress for flexible authority to fight inflationary pressures. He urged standfast wage and price controls, flexible taxes, and broad social welfare funding to balance mixed economic elements. He proposed about 4 billion dollars in new tax revenue and hinted at excise tax expansions.
Linn County prosecutors plan to indict Dr Robert C Rutledge for murder next week after serving subpoenas for grand jury testimony. They seek new extradition to Missouri to bring Rutledge back to Cedar Rapids for trial over the Dec 14 hotel room slaying of Byron Hartman.
President Truman endorses a sliding scale for agricultural price supports and hints at extending the program. He emphasizes bipartisan cooperation as Congress negotiates terms that could take effect next year, aligning with broader farm relief aims.
The President urged a new excess profits tax and a power to halt price increases until a review, arguing corporate profits after taxes in 1948 reached about 21 billion, with 1947 at 18 billion, while profits-to-sales stayed near five percent. He pressed for broader revenue tools and continued rent control for two more years to bolster enforcement.
Preliminary armistice talks opened Friday in Tel Aviv between Israeli officials and the United Nations aimed at laying groundwork for direct negotiations between Jews and Arabs over Palestine. The move followed a cease fire and Egypt negotiations, with UN representatives urged to proceed with initial contacts to clear the way for face to face discussions.
Cedar Rapids NI reports the postmaster race grows with Ralph Podzimek a disabled World War II veteran entering the bid He joins other veterans John Greenlee Sam Stohl Milo Sedlacek and William McLauchlin as candidates for the $450 year job becoming vacant Feb 1 Podzimek 28 of 1231 Sixth Street NW is recovering from a broken leg and serves in several veterans and fraternal organizations He says his disability motivates his civil service goal and he believes he can handle the job.
FRANKFURT AP Gen Lucius D Clay announced that 13 Germans convicted in the Malmedy massacre were freed April 10 after a U S war crimes tribunal vacated their sentences. The reversal followed an army investigation and commissions urging commutations in related cases.
Postal authorities report hundreds of thousands of American gift parcels addressed to Berlin and East Germany are piling up in Sweden because the Russians will not accept them. The gifts go to civilians in the Soviet zone of Germany and in the Eastern and Western sectors of Berlin.
Honolulu reports Mauna Loa erupts with a lava river racing west toward the island's coast. A five mile crack splits the cone while three lava flows merge and approach coffee villages within ten miles of the shore. An eastern flow toward Hilo is minor and poses no danger.
In Fukashima Japan Mrs Yoshie Mishina aged 58 faced charges for selling illicit cigarettes and worrying about a fine. She later won 2 000 000 yen as first prize in a nationwide lottery and said she could use the windfall to cover the potential 20 000 to 30 000 yen fine.
Two Shooting Star jet pilots Lt. Col. Bill Haviland and Lt. Harry Howell sped from Chicago to New York in 1 hour 21 minutes 8 seconds, fastest city pair flight on record to date. Officials cited no jet record for the route, though the commercial mark stands at 1 hour 51 minutes 43 seconds.
Former congressman Will Rogers Jr and his wife adopt a 10 year old Navajo Indian boy in Los Angeles. The move highlights a high profile family taking in a child from a Native American community.
A fresh storm moves into Wyoming Montana and Colorado as the blizzard death count climbs to 17. Snowbound families face renewed hardships while crews recover bodies in Ault Hillsdale and Burns as weather officials warn of plummeting temperatures and light new snowfall. The City of San Francisco liner arrives late in Chicago after a major railroad traffic jam, with Yale students recalling the layover as a chaotic but memorable episode.
Washington senator War ren Magnuson age 43 and model June Millarde age 25 vanished from Seattle. They were seen together in December at private clubs. Magnuson listed his forwarding address as the senate office building in Washington. Rumors of marriage and a California resort escape circulated, but no comment from either party. Millarde, daughter of June Caprice and Harry Millarde, reportedly faces a large inheritance.
President Truman rejected a Life magazine story by Jay Franklin alleging a cabinet clash over softening policy toward Russia. He insisted there is no change in foreign policy and called the article baseless in nearly every paragraph. He said Franklin never saw a top secret document and only visited about a job.
Washington reports Secretary of State George C Marshall resigns due to health concerns. Dean Acheson becomes secretary, with Budget Director James Webb to replace Lovett as undersecretary. Lovett leaves for personal reasons. Public notes detail Marshall's illness and Truman's tribute to his World War II leadership.
Deon ald Johnson, 12, slept through a mile long barefoot trek in 18 degree weather through icy streets near Willmar Minnesota. He woke after 1:40 a.m. and returned home to warm entryways before police arrival. Authorities consider sleepwalking from a hospital to home.
Hollywood band leader Horace Heidt sues to stop accordionist Dick Contino from performing with other orchestras. Heidt claims Contino breached a 52 week contract worth $500 weekly with options to seven years and a $1,000 weekly raise. Contino’s parents are charged with conspiring to place him with another sponsor. Heidt says he has paid Contino $29,000 plus training and publicity costs.
Quote from Chuckle features a daughter announcing graduation and her mother proposing a broad domestic curriculum with humorous wordplay on roastology boilology stitchology and more, attributed to P. BR. Kivanian.
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