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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1944
Page
4
Veteran mail carrier George Lemon urges early Christmas mail to ease post office strain. He recalls wartime conditions and relays that sending cards before December 10 helps ensure on time delivery. Postal staff face long pre dawn starts and heavy loads with relay sorting.
The Veterans Memorial Inc board announced about $400000 will fund the site, building and furnishings of a Cedar Rapids veterans home. The project, originally an American Legion effort, will honor World War I and II service with a memorial room, include facilities for rehabilitation, and be open to women and men veterans. A 15 member board with five veterans from each war will govern, and incorporation articles have been adopted.
OPA asserted that cigarette manufacturers are not to blame for the current shortage. It dismissed rumors that stock withholding or tobacco price issues would prompt a wholesale price rise. The agency noted no ceiling request since March 1942 and blamed scarcity on rumors and abnormal buying rather than industry actions.
In Chicago the Office of Price Administration failed to obtain an injunction against Kerber Packing of Elgin and six Illinois meat wholesalers. Defense lawyers argued the firms corrected alleged violations of government slaughtering restrictions, and Federal Judge Elwyn R. Shaw allowed the status quo to continue.
Tickets on sale for a speech by Dr. John O'Brien on Winning the Peace at 3 30 p m Sunday Dec 10 in the Memorial Coliseum. A forum will follow the address and 30 cent tickets include tax. Dr. O'Brien of Notre Dame is an acclaimed author and lecturer with a focus on peace organization and devotions at Immaculate Conception Church December 8 to 19.
President Roosevelt urged that ultimate victory is inevitable and called for total national effort toward lasting peace. In a letter to Col. John Callan O Laughlin for the Army and Navy Journal, he praised 1944 as an outstanding year for U S armed forces and outlined continuing U N cooperation and mobilization to defeat the enemy.
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