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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1943
Page
10
Administration leaders delay a subsidy showdown while Chester A. Davis urges direct farmer explanations to curb inflation fears. The piece notes farmers’ inflation experience, subsidy doubts, and a call for clearer farmer voices amid political pressure.
Allied Fifth Army seized Mt Camino summit and Monastery ridge while pushing Nazis from three villages southwest of Mignano. British and American forces continued hammer blows toward Cassino and Rome as Montgom ery's troops repelled counterattacks and pushed along the Moro river area.
Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo, in a Tokyo broadcast, called British American leaders at the Cairo conference presumptuous for urging Japan to become a third class nation. He spoke Wednesday.
Major Vincent F. Harrington former congressman from Iowa Ninth district died November 29 in Rutland shire England while on army duty. He resigned from Congress September 1942 after joining the Army Air Corps. Born in Sioux City he led Continental Mortgage and married Catherine O Connor in 1927.
Mrs. Charles D. Wall hears a Christmas message from her son Lt. Carl Hollis Wall, a POW at Zentsuji camp in Japan, recorded and broadcast December 5 from Tokyo. The message confirms he was not wounded at Corregidor and asks for letters and care from home.
Gen. Draja Mihailovic through Dagens Nyheter declares Chetniks will oppose Tito’s Partisans as enemies of the Yugoslav government in exile. Partisans announce a provisional government under Dr. Ivan Ribar with Tito leading national defense. Mihailovic denies collusion with Axis forces.
A Yugoslav communique on Wednesday said German forces opened a major offensive against the Yugoslav Liberation army led by Marshal Josip Brozovic h. Fresh reinforcements were moved in from Greece Albania and Austria to bolster the bulwark.
Washington reports a stalled bid to extend the statute of limitations for prosecuting Pearl Harbor negligence. Reps Short and Winter dispute timing while Navy and Army leaders Short and Kimmel may still face court martial after the war. Senate inflamed by calls to impeach War Secretary Stimson and Navy Secretary Knox if action is delayed.
Cairo dispatch notes speculation of a possible Roosevelt Churchill meeting with Generalissimo Francisco Franco. The western Mediterranean faces thorny issues as Iberian, French and Italian affairs loom large, with some sources suggesting underlings may handle negotiations rather than the principals.
United States heavy bombers struck Chatham in the Andaman Islands as part of ongoing Allied air operations over southern Burma. The four engined planes destroyed Japanese installations and shot down an enemy fighter attempting interception.
Jeffersonville resident Cabil Hoback reports theft of a money belt containing between 265 and 300 dollars from a bench at the Sunshine Mission where he was an overnight guest. He named a suspect to police.
President Roosevelt ordered the Navy to take over and run the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock yard after the firm failed to satisfactorily complete Navy contracts. The executive order, signed December 3, was carried out Wednesday as the shipyard was taken over.
President Roosevelt proclaims January 1 as a national day of prayer seeking strength and guidance for wartime challenges and the responsibilities of victory. The proclamation emphasizes prayers for welfare and national resolve.
Moscow reports a desperate German tank and infantry assault in the Kiev bulge failed to push Soviet lines back. Soviet advances southwest of Kremenchug envelop Znamenka, with Reds claiming over 1,000 German deaths and multiple railway gains while German forces press the Kiev sector.
German high command declared Romanian troops won the Kerch bridgehead area, wiped out Soviet landing troops in a three day battle, and took 2,000 prisoners. Heavy fighting still raged southwest of Kremenchug as Russians press the Dnieper bulge.
A slate of delegates pledged to vote for Harold E. Stassen for the Republican presidential nomination will be filed in the South Dakota primary next May. Rapid City attorney Joseph H. Bottum Jr. said he will manage the Stassen campaign in South Dakota.
The Navy reports heavy damage to Japanese bases in the Marshall Islands from a Saturday carrier and land-based air attack. Five ships sunk, four damaged, at least 72 Japanese planes destroyed. U S losses light. Liberators led a major strike on Mili atoll with bombers dropping patterns on barracks and defenses.
A Tokyo radio report described a true Pacific state of affairs with Japanese defeats and Allied air superiority cutting supply lines in the Solomon Islands. It cited regret over Japan's strategy in the South Pacific and noted the effective use of group attack tactics and superior Allied air power.
Denver AP reports a second attempt to annul the marriage of Tommy Harris and Edna Prost Harris both aged 14. The complaint was filed by Edna Harris through her mother Madeline Smith. initial action followed a marriage on August 29 and a prior reconciliation claim after Navy and Marine service by Harris.
ATLANTA AP E A Oster vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen said at the request of the national railway mediation board the Atlanta Birmingham and Coast railroad trainmen strike set for 11 p m was postponed indefinitely Some 360 operating trainmen were authorized to strike in connection with a wage dispute General Freight Agent H S Young of Atlanta said the call was authorized by the B of R T and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine men calling it like a bombshell out of a clear sky
Cairo dispatches report Turks propose zones three miles wide on both sides of the Dardanelles under strict military rule. The Balkans threaten upheaval as Turkey pledges aid short of war, while Germany mobilizes near the Turkish border and Allied leaders map new Mediterranean offensives. Leaders Inonu Roosevelt Churchill confer in Cairo to present a united front amid rising tensions and possible Turkish entry into the war.
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