Iowa Suffered Freezing Grip From Winter Storm
The region faced a deep cold wave with overnight lows around 20 below in Waukon and 10 below in Cedar Rapids. Snow plows cleared roads as trains and buses ran late but in service, and Cedar Rapids reached zero by mid afternoon after a frigid Saturday.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Iowa Highway Commission
Linn
Johnson and Jones
Clayton
Delaware
Dubuque
Cedar
Clinton
Jackson
Scott
Commission
Manchester
Benton
Black Hawk
Buchanan
Waterloo
Des Moines
United Air Tanks
Gazette
Anamosa
Belle Plaine
Decorah
Reading
Elkader
Fayette
West
Ohio River
Nebraska
Kansas
Great Lakes
Sand for the Birds During Snowy Weather
The note urges providing birds with sand or fine gravel to aid digestion and adding food such as suet breadcrumbs cracked grain or meal. Keep offerings out of reach of cats and dogs and beware of English sparrows that drive other birds away.
Taft Denounces Totalitarian Code In CIO Feud
Niles Ohio Senator Taft says the totalitarian creed dominates the CIO and the Democratic party. He warns it would destroy liberty at home if it prevails and urges a return to a rule of law, opposing peacetime controls and universal military training.
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Niles
Ohio
Taft
CIO
Democratic Party
Senate
McKinley
Republican Party
Cedar Rapids Men Injured In Collision
Seven people were injured, none seriously, when a work train snowplow rear-ended the Rock Island Rocket near La Porte City. Injured include Joseph Buss Flora Rhody Boyd Hoff. All taken to Allen Memorial hospital. Rhody released, others to remain 24 hours. Poor visibility blamed for the crash.
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LA Porte City
Rock Island
Here
Joseph R. Buss
Longwood Drive
Cedar Rapids
Flora
Fred Rhody
St. Paul
Boyd Hoff
Sante Fe
Allen Memorial Hospital
Waterloo
Rhody
Customer orders cold items and burns toast in quirky diner exchange
A customer requests cold fried eggs, cold potatoes, a cold cup of coffee and burned toast. The waitress returns the exact items, and the customer quips I feel homesick as he asks her to sit and nag, highlighting a humorous exchange from the North Central Squawk.
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North Central
Clear and cold tonight with bitter lows
The forecast calls for a clear night with temperatures dropping to 5 to 10 below zero. Sunday will be fair and sunny with a high near 20 above.
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Iowa
Truman Bids Services to Aid Blizzard Areas
President Truman ordered mobilization of military resources to aid blizzard affected western states. Defense Secretary Forrestal directed use of defense resources for relief. Maj. Gen. Fleming named federal relief coordinator. A supplementary $500,000 request was sent to Congress to cover relief costs. Fifth Army moves equipment into Nebraska and South Dakota.
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Washington
Ins
Truman
Defense Forrestal
Philip B Fleming
Federal
Congress
White House
Fleming
Corps of Engineers
Fifth Army
Nebraska
South Dakota
Cedar Rapids Retail Food Prices Fall 12 Percent
The U S Bureau of Labor Statistics reports Cedar Rapids retail food prices dropped 12 percent from mid November to mid December. Eggs led the decline with a 9.1 percent seasonal drop, meats eased but slower than before, and overall costs remained well above prewar levels. Pork chops fell 7.4 percent, beef and veal down one percent, fish and poultry up, and several categories showed mixed movement in the November December period.
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Cedar Rapids
United States Bureau of Labor Statistics
OPA
White House repair bill rises to six million
Washington AP says the White House renovation may cost six million dollars instead of one million as engineers found more extensive defects. Commissioner Reynolds of the Public Building Administration cited extensive scope and higher remodeling costs versus replacement. The article notes original costs from 1800 to 1814 and rebuilding estimates after the fire.
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Washington
White House
W. E. Reynolds
Public Building Administration
Reynolds
Armed forces ease stance in comic book dispute
Washington AP reports the military dropped a proposed ban on sales of comic books with high crime and sex content on bases after the Association of Comic Magazine Publishers suggested self censorship. Maj Gen E B Parker urged publishers to self regulate to resolve the dispute.
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Washington
United States
Association of
Comic Magazine Publishers
E. B Parker
Murphy Invites Woods to Talks and Seeks Probe
Tulsa AP. Rev. Walter Murphy, landlord campaign leader, asks Congress to probe Rent Director Tighe Woods while inviting Woods to Tulsa to discuss housing solutions. Murphy, after a heart attack, vows to press ahead as evictions prompt protests by Chicago landlords and warnings of possible court action for future evictions.
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Tulsa
Wallace J. Murphy
Tighe Woods
Woods
Murphy
Tulsa Property Owners Association
Chicago
The
Property Owners League
William Schmidt
League
Landlords’ National
Congress
Schmidt
Norman B. Shogren
Chicago Area
Sen
Thomas
D-Okla
Judge Suspends Sentence for George Washington in Policy Case
New York report says George Washington pleaded he was a player not an operator in a policy racket case. The magistrate suspended sentence and told him to go and play no more, expressing belief in the defendant.
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New York
George Washington
Russia accuses North Atlantic Pact of British American war plan
Moscow issued a white paper denouncing the North Atlantic Pact as a British American plot to dominate the world and isolate the Soviet Union. It claims the pact aims to wreck the UN, impose economic boycotts, and block peace treaties for Germany and Japan, and argues the Western European Union serves Western aims.
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Moscow
Russia
United Nations
Estern
European Union
Foreign Ministry
Ministry of Force
U.S.S.R
Britain
United States
U.N
Germany
Japan
Security Council
Mother Wins Trying Race With Stork
A 23-year-old expectant mother from Lamont beat the stork by 50 minutes in a grueling 9 1 2 hour race from Lamont to Oelwein amid blizzard conditions. Obstacles included drifting roads and stalled vehicles as rescue efforts ferried the mother to an Oelwein hospital where she delivered a 9 pound 10 ounce son. Both mother and baby were reported doing nicely.
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the Gazette
Manchester
Lamont
Oelwein
Donald Slick
Shick
Ford
Jones
Slick
Oelwein Hospital
Judge to Pen In Tax Case
Emory E. Smith formerly of Monett Missouri was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for income tax evasion. The trial in Joplin led to a conviction on one count while five other counts were dismissed. Judge Albert A. Ride imposed a $2000 fine and noted the offense was aggravated. Smith tearfully stated he had no intent to defraud the government.
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Kansas City
Emory E. Smith
Monett
24Th Judicial District
Albert A. Ride
Joplin
Smith
Ridge
Guessing Aptitude Sends Draftee to Fort Riley
A Bottineau North Dakota draftee who cannot read or write passed the army mental test by guessing about 60 percent of the answers. He was inducted after recruiters learned he could not read, and he was sent to Fort Riley Kansas with the draft contingent.
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Minot
N. D
Bottineau
Fort Riley
Kan
Army
Honeymoon of Tyrone Power Marred by Car Crash
Mr and Mrs Tyrone Power escaped injury Friddy when a small Italian car and Power s American convertible collided between Rome and Florence The Italian car overturned and its passengers suffered minor injuries The Powers Linda Christian were married Thursday in Rome and left Florence Saturday for Turin
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Florence
Tyrone Power
Power
Rome
Powers
Linda Christian
Turin
Truman Labor Plan Seeks to Trim Court Orders in Disputes
The Truman administration asks Congress to repeal Taft-Hartley and restore Wagner Act provisions with improvements. The bill would empower the NLRB to seek injunctions against unfair labor practices, exempt national emergencies, end political restrictions, and reestablish the closed shop in states allowing it. The draft, prepared by Tobin and others, shifts authority and eliminates the independent NLRB general counsel post.
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Washington
Truman Administration
Congress
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
Tobin
Norris-LaGuardia
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Labor Department
National
International
Robert N. Denham
Cyrus Ching
Paul M. Herzog
Abe Murdock
Mr. Truman
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Lund
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Waukon
Decorah and
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Earl Warren
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Nevada
Nevada Guard
Kirtland Field
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Demos
Truman Bids Services
Fleming In Charge
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Arion
Euse
Duck Comics Dispute
Probe
George
Him
Stork
Gayle Rhines
Clarence
Donald Clark
Mrs. Slick
William Jones
Steven Ivory
Mrs Slick
Mmes
Robert and
George Senst
L. A. Ford
Marysville
Tyrone
Linda
Labor Plan of
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