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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1949
Page
1
A Communist spokesman from Shensi said the Chinese Communists would negotiate a peace settlement based on Mao Zedong’s eight points and indicated Peiping as the talks site. He cited Peiping’s peaceful settlement as proof and warned the list of 43 Nationalist war criminals led by Chiang Kai-shek would grow.
The Communist state radio said Beijing rejects Peng Chaohsien as a peace representative and hints at a leftist coalition excluding the Kuomintang party. It reports Yangtze crossings near Nanking as leftist forces close in and notes Li Tsung Jen's willingness to discuss eight conditions.
London AP reports Princess Elizabeth age 22, heir to the British throne, has measles at Sandringham in Norfolk. She is in her room with her infant son Prince Charles and other royals. Buckingham Palace says the illness is running its ordinary course and she will be separated from the baby while contagion danger exists.
Albert Potter aged 64, longtime chairman of the Elgin National Watch Company and former president for about 16 years, died Monday night. He led the company during key growth years and was a prominent figure in watchmaking circles.
Hancock county sheriff investigated a reported gold find after Mrs Clyde Shrier dug up a stash of 1880s gold coins in her yard valued at 1600 dollars Her son Merlin tried to buy a drink with the coins and even piled 595 dollars in gold on a bar counter to no avail He was arrested for disturbing the peace and later fined 1450 dollars paid with modern currency Officials said federal authorities were notified and would examine the fortune.
In Camden New Jersey Judge Bartholomew A Sheehan considers an appeal from Harry Schaffer of Gloucester who owned a tomcat named Tabby that visited Harry Isles home and ate Mary the lovebird. Isles sued for 15 dollars for Mary and 15 dollars for damages.
NEW YORK UP A total of 286 new polio cases were reported to the U S Public Health Service in the first two weeks of 1949, an all time season high. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said the 1939–1948 decade average for this period was 75, with 188 the previous high in 1947.
Air force cadets will switch from khaki to blue uniforms after April 4, returning to the pre 1942 style. The blue outfits will be worn by the fledgling airmen as they resume the traditional look.
Stockmen hailed the air force haylift as 100 percent effective and urged more planes to avert massive losses among 3,000,000 cattle and sheep. They urged extended operations from Ely Nevada and Lowry Field Denver, with storms hampering relief and fears of starvation rising.
The Senate Interior Committee raised the proposed aid to western cattle raisers from 500000 to 750000 in emergency relief funds. President Truman had allocated 100000 for victims in the stricken area with half for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and half for the Bureau of Land Management. Interior Secretary Krug named a storm emergency coordinator.
Gov Val Peterson urged Federal Works Administrator Philip Fleming and Army Secretary Kenneth Royall to mobilize all federal aid and Corps of Engineers equipment to combat a blizzard that has left 40 to 60 inches of snow, caused many deaths, and threatened livestock losses of 50 percent or more across nearly half the state. He warned the crisis is historic and a 10 day thaw is essential.
New snow swept into southern California and Nevada Tuesday heightening danger to snowbound cattle on desert and mountain ranges. It fell in the western San Fernando Valley and over Catalina Island, with Tucson reporting nearly an inch in an hour.
Dr. Peter Marshall, 48, Senate chaplain, died of a heart attack Tuesday. The Scottish born pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington was named to the post in January 1947 by Republican senators of the 80th Congress, succeeding Dr. Frederick Brown Harris amid partisan controversy.
Four American soldiers were shot and one stabbed in a riot at Camp Crawford on Hokkaido island Sunday night. Military police were forced to shoot their way out after being cornered by the enraged crowd at an enlisted men club. Three soldiers were seriously wounded. victims’ names were withheld pending relatives’ notification. A board of officers was named to investigate.
Count Nobuaki Makino once served as the closest adviser to Emperor Hirohito and died Tuesday in Tokyo at age 88 from pneumonia.
Washington AP reports Democrats push to repeal Taft Hartley in one bill while seeking a Wagner act revision. Eight Senate labor Democrats join to set Feb 10 hearings as Republicans threaten floor strategy and amendments. Pepper argues the move preserves Democratic campaign promises on reform.
Iowa faces mixed precipitation with light snow, sleet or freezing drizzle mainly in the east and southeast on Tuesday night and Wednesday. Temperatures rise Wednesday with framer conditions Friday. roads vary from icy to partly normal as crews report restored circuits and ongoing isolation in northern towns.
Radio Moscow reports a six nation economic council for iron curtain states led by Russia to pool resources and know how. Members are Russia Algeria Poland Romania Hungary and Czechoslovakia with Yugoslavia excluded. The council aims to exchange tech aid and raw materials, and may expand to other European states.
Smith College lecturer Hans Kohn told about 150 readers at Temple Judah that a third world war is unlikely in the foreseeable future. He cited strong American foreign policy, stable elections, and Western unity as reasons for optimism and urged continued bipartisan cooperation.
The Seng Fellowship News notes a Chuckle about a home with draw poker windows. A pun hinges on cards to open a window, invoking a light humor tone from a quirky humor column.
A Soviet zone crash on a C 47 transport evacuing women and children from Berlin killed seven aboard and injured many others. The plane went down in a forest near Chattin about 10 miles east of Luebeck. Aboard were 14 women five children and five men plus three British crewmen.
A White House source says President Truman will intervene to head off a strike by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers against 15 western railroads. He will appoint a fact-finding board Thursday or Friday to investigate the dispute, which would delay the strike for at least 60 days.
An air force investigating board reports a C-82 carrying 36 paratroopers and five crew members crashed after striking about 500 small birds at 360 feet. The aircraft hit trees and burst into flames after takeoff near Pope Field.
AP report from Naples says four boys and a girl were arrested Monday on a charge of beating their mother to death. Motive was not announced.
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