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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1947
Page
1
Rep. Knutson argues portal to portal wage suits threaten billions and risk tax revenue, urging a two year statute of limitations and swift legislation. Senator Wiley backs curb to halt recession risk, warning time is short and action is needed.
Danish authorities capped Dakota takeoff loads at 25168 pounds after a crash that killed Grace Moore Prince Gustaf Adolf and 20 others. The aircraft, carrying 26620 pounds, burned on the airstrip after lifting off for Stockholm. The communique cited normal takeoff but possible steering mechanism failure.
The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reverse Judge La Buy's ruling that struck down the Sea act, arguing the anti Petrillo law limits coercive strikes by unions. Petrillo faced a Chicago radio station dispute over hiring musicians, with the act aiming to prevent overstaffing.
Gordon Donnan 34 and a Wilson and Company cattle buyer from 2529 Wilson Avenue SW has disappeared since Friday after last contact at Center Junction. His car was found Sunday near Hunter airport, a rifle he might have carried was not in the vehicle, and searches by Linn County deputies and Cedar Rapids police have yielded no trace. Donnan is described as 5'7", 150 pounds, blond hair, blue eyes.
Washington reports the post office department will issue an air letter similar to V mail for overseas use at 10 cents. Gael Sullivan, Second Assistant Post General in charge of foreign service, said the service likely starts next month.
At a Senate hearing on Lilienthal’s nomination to head the Atomic Energy Commission Sen McKellar assailed him declaring you know nothing about splitting the atom Lilienthal defended the security emphasis of the post noting the Manhattan Project transfer and warning atomic energy is a weapon of war He said the United States must strengthen protections and that delays in declassifying information have been unfortunate.
United States Steel Corporation submitted counter-proposals to the CIO United Steelworkers in contract talks on Monday asserting the employee’s right to decide union membership. The firm opposes both closed and union shop systems and seeks full management control over hiring while limiting arbitrator scope to disputes over employment actions.
The Georgia house rejected Lt. Gov Thompson's bid to adjourn until courts decide the governor. The recess measure failed 115 to 82, marking a second Talmadge triumph after earlier senate confirmation of 18 Tal.
Arthur school PTA president Mrs Harvey Rockwell and principal Miss Annie Smithey petition Cedar Rapids city council for a traffic stop signal at First Avenue and Twenty seventh Street E. about 150 children cross the area daily and the street width creates six lanes at times. Public Safety Commissioner Gordon Hughes said officials will investigate.
Merchants National Bank of Cedar Rapids won a bid for 60 000 dollars in city park bonds at 1 percent interest with a 200 dollar premium to fund adding nine holes to Ellish municipal golf course under Parks Director Dick Jones. Unsuccessful bidder was Mercantile Commerce Bank and Trust Co of St. Louis. Bonds dated Jan 1 1947 pay interest July 1 and every Jan 1 and July 1 thereafter totaling 5900 dollars each year 1949 through 1960.
Kansas City area readers without daily newspapers due to a contract carrier strike switch to other papers. J W Newberry of Independence asks for one month delivery as strike continues.
Senator McMahon warned Russia may be building a secret atomic plant behind the Ural mountains and urged prompt international inspection. He said U N safeguards are perilous and that the United States risks atomic bomb attack if others hide bomb-making. He urged the International Court of Justice to judge violations and for U N Security Council action.
In Jerusalem the British judge Ralph Windham, 41, was seized in his courtroom by fourteen gunmen as a massive search for British banker H. J. Collins intensified. A curfew and house to house sweep were ordered amid threats over Dov Gruner’s planned execution and an Irgun warning.
The weather bureau reports Winter is building forces for another invasion of Iowa. Temperatures are expected to stay mild through Monday, then fall tonight and tomorrow as a new cold wave moves in from the north and west. Readings were mainly in the 40s at noon with lows forecast from 10 to 22, while south readings may dip to 5 above.
A man believed to be the Black Dahlia killer sent a taunting letter to the Los Angeles Examiner offering to surrender at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Police evi dence showed no fingerprints, and the note warned that the killer had “had my fun” with police.
Mrs. E. M. Rase, mother of Rooney's wife, says the actor and her daughter will live apart while their 16 month old Mickey Rooney Jr. and newborn Timothy stay with the wife in Birmingham. No further arrangements or legal actions have been made. Rooney met his wife at a local theater during his Camp Sibert assignment and married September 30, 1944.
Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxe fined the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association and imposed $1,000 penalties on four officers after they pled guilty to a criminal information charging manipulation of the New York butter market to fix the January 1947 milk price.
LaPlant Choate Manufacturing to restate common stock with an additional 0.4 share for each share outstanding effective for stockholders of record Jan 30, 1947. A 15 cent quarterly dividend will be paid March 31, 1947 to stockholders of record March 10, 1947.
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