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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1943
Page
16
A radio segment titled Report to Nation highlights a bond auction set for tonight. The program discusses the auction process and invites listeners to participate, noting the potential impact on national finance and market sentiment.
NADINE SUBOTNIK reports Tuesday’s programs include Benny Goodman auctioning a WW II soldier’s clarinet on CBS and WMT at 8 30 p.m. with proceeds to war bonds, and Archbishop Spellman guesting on Salute to Youth at 6 30 p.m. NBC. Various other broadcasts feature Byrnes on subsidy talks, Burns and Allen with Ida Lupino, and Navy–related programming through multiple networks.
A dense listing of radio programs across stations WGN KXEL WHO WMT WMT and more for Wednesday December 7 and Thursday December 8 1943. Contains expected broadcasts from morning to late night including news music dramas and soap operas with numerous show titles and host names.
Keokuk broke open a storage vault Saturday night and stole gasoline coupons worth over 1 000 000 gallons and many other ration items. OPA official E P Edwards called it the biggest haul of its kind in the Midwest. The theft included gasoline purchase permits, ration books, currency, stamps, canning sugar, food and tire certificates, and cash. Authorities suspect a professional break in and a black market connection.
The Navy reports in its two year war total that U S submarines sunk 11 more Japanese vessels including a large tanker and several cargo ships. The count brings unofficial Japan losses to 903 ships since Pearl Harbor with 366 confirmed by submarines and 36 additional sunk plus 114 damaged.
EMMETSBURG AP Tommy Flaherty five year old son of Mr and Mrs John Flaherty died in a hospital here Monday after he had been struck at an intersection by a car driven by W. W. Whittmer band instructor in the public schools here Sheriff Bert Montgomery said the child ran into the car and the driver didn't see him no inquest planned
Louis M. Hileman 45 of Davenport was fined 1000 dollars and costs by Judge C R Stafford for driving while intoxicated The offender had two prior one year terms for drunken driving and five arrests for reckless driving He was also arrested after his car struck a fire hydrant weeks earlier.
United Press reports U.S. government monitors heard a German home radio broadcast Monday reviewing the film Dangerous Spring. The broadcast aired amid wartime tension and offered prophecies likely intended for morale and propaganda purposes.
Three American air force sergeants survived 70 hours in bitter cold after their Fortress Paty Ann II ditched five miles off Dunkerque during a Ruhr raid. Only three of ten crew lived. survivors recall the final hours and the moment Spitfires spotted them.
The Omaha livestock committee asked farmers to keep hogs under 210 pounds on the farm and delay shipments to the Omaha market for two to three days. A three day supply existed after a weekend run of 26 500 hogs and a carryover of about 7 000 hogs from last week, while packers can handle 90 000 to 95 000 hogs weekly and expect only 59 000 remain for the rest of the week.
Chicago AP Donald Kirkpatrick general counsel of the American Farm Bureau Federation charged old line producers with steering Congress to tax farm cooperatives. He warned that if co-ops face income tax they will cut prices triggering a price war and reduce member savings by diverting profits to dividends or lowering serum prices.
The committee inserted an amendment to require nearly all corporations to file annual income tax returns each year, with exemptions only for charitable religious and educational bodies. If enacted, this would expand compliance across most corporate sectors.
Allied air forces dropped 155 tons of bombs on Cape Gloucester New Britain on Sunday the third straight day of heavy attacks against Japanese airfields and installations. MacArthur reported Australian advances on the Huon peninsula with tank support and US destroyers conducted bombardments in the northern Solomons. Ground patrols near Bougainville’s Empress Augusta Bay remained active and American jungle artillery shelled enemy positions south of the beachhead.
Fire destroyed Ed Sandvold farm's 36 by 60 foot basement barn sixteen miles east of Waukon early Sunday. The family woke to an explosion likely from combusted cornstalks. Cows were saved but two calves and several pigs perished. the barn built in 1915 replaced a cyclone destroyed structure.
An old home remedy touts a cough syrup made in the kitchen using sugar or corn syrup with water then tinex as a druggist additive. It claims four times value, no cooking, long-lasting relief and child friendly soothing effects. Money-back guarantee if not satisfactory.
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