Iowa Slips Into a New Cold Wave
Eastern Iowans faced a severe cold spell and widespread ice after a weekend of freezing rain. Temperatures were expected to drop from zero to 15 below. Travel was hindered as buses and trains operated poorly or halted. Telephones and air travel were disrupted by ice, while some cities reported slim road conditions and cautious driving.
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Cedar Rapids
Iown
Iowa
Highway Patrol
Manchester
Decorah
Elkader
Claston
Belle Plaine
Tipton
Iowa City
Monticello
Anamosa
City to survey Cedar Rapids police operations February 7
A long awaited survey of Cedar Rapids police will begin February 7 with Prof. Richard L. Holcomb of the University of Iowa directing a week long study. The review will cover force size, policies and records and aims to propose a centralized records system while costing the city under $100 in minor expenses.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
Richard L. Holcomb
University of Iowa
Sioner
Gordon Hughes
Holcomb
Iowa
Northwestern University
Kansas City Police Departments
Kansas City Police Academy
SUI Extension Division
Ottumwa
Hughes
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bruce Smith
Institute of Public Administration
New York
Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor
Smith
Hol¢gomb
Mien
Collins Radio To Build Giant Radar Dish for Navy Research
Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids will construct a 50 foot diameter aluminum parabolic reflector for the U S Naval Research Laboratory at Anacostia Maryland. Work starts in spring at the Kenwood plant and must finish by fall. The dish will be built in sections totaling 123 feet deep and weigh about 1 ton per section.
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John Reynolds
Collins Radio Company
Cedar Rapids
Naval Research Laboratory
Anacostia
Winfield , Salisbury
Collins
Kenwood
Navy
Salsbury
Big Collins
Salisbury
Don Harris
Earth
U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
Thira Street
Collins Research Laboratories
Menian
Collins Kenwood
Rail unions plan 25 000 engineer walkout against 15 railroads
Engineers from 15 western railroads announce a strike starting 6 am Jan 31 in a dispute over a second diesel engineer. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers cites failed arbitration and seeks federal fact finding only if the National Mediation Board asks the president. Railroads named include Great Northern Northern Pacific Chicago Burlington and Quincy Missouri Pacific Texas and Pacific Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Union Pacific central district Pacific Southern Illinois Central North Western Western Pacific Chicago Rock Island and Pacific St Louis and San Francisco International Great Northern Milwaukee east lines.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Western
Brotherhood
J. P. Shields
The
Shields
National Mediation Board
Truman
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Burlington and Quincy
Missour
Pacific
Texas and Pacific
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe
Coast Lines
Union Pacific Central District
Pacific Southern System
Tllinois Central
North Western Western Pacific
Rock Island and Pacific
St. Louis
San Francisco
International Great Northern
Milwaukee
Beardsley Names Rex Conn to Welcome French Thank You Train
Gov William S Beardsley named Rex Conn Gazette farm editor and KCRG farm director to join the state committee welcoming the French Thank You Train. The train arrives Iowa February 12 with 45 minute Cedar Rapids and Belle Plaine stops and a 49 car load of art and relics destined for distribution via local Friendship Train committees.
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Cedar Rapids
William S. Beardsley
Rex Conn
Gazette
KCRG
Iowa
Belle Plaine
H. A. Sino
Clinton Wholesale
New York
District of Columbia
Hawaii
Friendship Train
Collision injures score as Zephyr hits freight train in Iowa
In Marble Rock, Iowa, a head-on crash between the Zephyr Rocket from Minneapolis to St Louis and a broken freight train injured more than twenty people, three seriously. The derailment damaged both trains. Cedar Valley Hospital treated nineteen injured with seven remaining overnight.
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Associated Press
Marble Rock
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Burlington and
Rock Island
Zephyr Rocket
St Louis
Cedar Valley Hospital
Charles City
Here
Japan Election Fireworks Topples Center as Liberals Win
Premier Shigeru Yoshida's right wing Democratic Liberal party appears to secure a clear majority in Japan's general election. Communists win 35 seats, while other parties including Democratic Liberals and Social Democrats gain. Nosaka hails Communist win as a miracle amid mixed American reaction to a potential one party government.
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Tokyo
Shigeru Yoshida
Democratic Liberal Party
Japan
Yoshida
Diet
Democratic Liberals
Democrats
Social Democrats
People's Cooperative Party
Social Renovation Party
Labor Farmers' Party
MacArthur
Sanzo Nosaka
Truman
Dewey
Communist Party
Socialist Party
Tetsuo Katayama
China
Explosions at Nanking Armament Plant Cause Panic
A Nationalist army ammo dump and ordnance factory near Nanking's east gate exploded in a four hour series of blasts. Crowds fled as residents believed a Communist attack. two large buildings were leveled and casualties feared into the hundreds. Cause remains undetermined.
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Nanking
Margaret Truman Resumes Singing Career Returns to Stage
Margaret Truman, 24, daughter of the President, signs with James V. Davidson as manager for the 1949 50 season. Coenraad V. Bos will start coaching her February 7. Rumors say she studied with Bruno Walter in New York.
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Washington
Margaret Truman
White House
James V. Davidson
New York
Coenraad V. Bos
Margaret
Bruno Walter
Metropolitan Opera
May and Garsson Conviction Upheld
The US court of appeals affirmed the bribery and war fraud convictions of former Rep. Andrew May and Murray Garsson. The Garsson brothers led a wartime munitions group valued at $75 million and were convicted in 1947 of giving bribes while May faced receiving bribes totaling $53,634. The decision was 2 to 1 with each sentenced to eight months to two years. all have been free on $2,000 bonds.
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Washington
United States Court of Appeals
Andrew J. May
D-Ky
Murray Garsson
Garsson Brothers
May
House
Garssons
Io Pines
Beardsley Proposes 181.7 Million Budget for Two Years
Gov William Beardsley in Des Moines unveils a sound business two year budget totaling 181 5696 958 million cutting department requests to 7 351 079 a year and setting aside 40 million for a tax stabilizing reserve He calls for 36 125 000 to retire part of the veterans bonus bond issue and outlines a plan to finance capital needs and social welfare with restrained appropriations and a partial bond issue to cover the remainder.
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Des Moines
William
Beardsley
Board of Control
Board of Education
Sbeardsley
Conservation Commission
Treasury
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C.R
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James P Hill
William F. Nortimer
St Paul Park
Minn
Streeter
F. B. McClure
Allison Hotel
McClure
Agent
Cause
Bob Bullemer
Bullemer
Robert Garnett
Conservative
Asia
Courtney Whitney
Hitoshi Ashida
Kyoto
Haruo Yamashita
Kyushima Prefecture
Sanroku Izumiyama
Izumiyama
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