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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1943
Page
1
An Associated Press roundup notes Cedar Rapids youths benefit from a promising recreation center while adults debate control and supervision. The piece also surveys Willkie exploring a third party and rising pressure from interest groups threatening democracy. It warns of gasoline rationing and prolonged wartime hardship.
Soviet forces regain momentum in the Kiev bulge pushing south and southeast of Malin while capturing Chigirin and advancing toward Kirovograd. Russian communique claims 1,000 German deaths, 28 tanks and four self propelled guns destroyed. Engineers credited with blunting the German drive aided by strong artillery.
The Cedar Rapids area records 2 degrees above zero at 10 am as Iowa and the Great Lakes region endure a bitter cold snap. Shippers issue zero readings in the northeast and five above elsewhere. Forecast calls for continued cold tonight and modest warming by Tuesday.
A United Press summary notes a German communique admitting loss of the initiative west of Kiev. It reports Russian counterattacks with fresh reinforcements in the northeast of Zhitomir and claims German forces smashed a Russian bridgehead on the west bank of the Teterev River, in an unidentified sector.
The Japanese fell back in central China under land and air pressure. China claimed another stronghold at Panlungkiao twenty miles northwest of Changteh, as Nipponese counterattacked in the Ansiang sector. American bombers targeted Hanoi and Japanese installations in Indo China and along the Salween front to support Chinese ground forces.
The Ga zette will publish four articles starting Tuesday based on government sources. They will reveal new racketeering forms aimed at undermining efforts to distribute commodities at fair prices.
United Press reports a sweeping cold snap from the Great Lakes to Tennessee with subzero readings. A 65 mph gale sank and grounded ships on the Great Lakes, with five crewmen missing in one incident and more vessels believed wrecked. Overnight lows hit 16 below at International Falls and 12 below in Duluth and Bemidji as New England endures its coldest season death toll.
Russia and the Czechoslovak emigre government pledged Monday to a twenty year mutual assistance pact barring a separate peace with Germany. Article one calls for jointly aiding against Germany. Molotov and Fierlinger signed for Russia and Czechoslovakia. Stalin and Benes witnessed in Moscow with Kalinin present. Benes received ovations at the Bolshoi.
The House approved immediate consideration of the Disney oil bill by 247 to 71. The measure seeks a parity formula for petroleum and followed a petition signed by 218 members to force floor action.
Allied forces in Italy report the Eighth and Fifth armies advancing despite heavy rain and German counterattacks. Montggomery’s line pushes a mile forward and takes high ground near Ortona, while the Ortona to Guardiagrele road remains blocked by a new German defense. Total Nazi prisoners since invasion reach 6,000 as Allied air forces hit targets near Rome.
The influenza situation in Cedar Rapids is improving though authorities urge continued precautions. Doctors report lighter caseloads, especially severe cases, as Coe College Aircrew operations return to normal after days of restrictions eased by Lt. D. F. Sudduth.
The Iowa health department logged 2337 influenza cases in the week ending Saturday. Dr. Carl F. Jordan noted a widespread outbreak with the northeast quarter especially affected and Deorah schools reporting many student absences.
Washington AP reports the War Production board clarifies that the garment worn by some women is a slack, not slacks, while leaving the possessive "'s" in the term. The change aims to define the popular pants clearly during wartime production.
London AP reports Bulgaria teeters between Allies and Germany as the Balkans brace for a major Allied push. Berlin dispatches Balkan specialists amid Hungarian peace pamphlets, while Tito calls Partisans to rise against a German drive.
Senate southerners voice discontent with the Democratic Party amid flirtations of an independent Southern party. Bailey proposes a regional bloc, while Eastland and Andrews flirt with a Constitutional Southern Democrats option. Others dismiss the revolt as political noise. McKellar and Caraway reject splitting.
Marvin H. McIntyre, 65, longtime Roosevelt assistant and White House secretary, died Monday after a recurrence of an old illness. A Kentucky native, he began with Roosevelt in 1920 and rose from assistant secretary to full secretary in 1937, shaping White House communications through much of Roosevelt’s tenure.
President Roosevelt toured Sicily with Gen. Patton as Eisenhower and Clark stood nearby. Roosevelt awarded the Distinguished Service Crosses to Clark and five Fifth Army officers for heroism at Salerno, praising Clark for leadership amid heavy fire and tank threats.
Federal Judge Shackelford Miller sentenced Thomas R. Robinson Jr. to die March 10 in Kentucky's electric chair for the 1934 $50,000 ransom kidnapping of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll. A federal jury convicted him and recommended death after he had pled guilty in 1936 and served time at Alcatraz.
London reports a daylight assault by American heavy bombers on northwest Germany as Eighth Air Force planes strike cities like Hamburg Wilhelmshaven Bremen and Emden. Protecting fighters P 47s and P 38s accompanied the mission with RAF Dominion and Allied escorts. Marauders with Allied fighters hit Schippl airfield at Amsterdam.
Stockholm Tidningen reports Roosevelt met Generalissimo Franco and Premier Salazar at Gibraltar on Sunday, in a roundabout notice from Monday.
A fire at the Ordnance Steel Foundry in Bettendorf caused destruction of the roofs on two buildings including the cooling bay. Lt. M. J. Bruedigan reported no damage estimate yet. Fire units from Davenport Rock Island Moline and Bettendorf battled the blaze.
Washington dispatch reports Lyle F. Watts chief of the federal forest service said 1943 US lumber production fell 10 billion feet below 1942 consumption. Inventories at retail yards shrank more than one third in the first half of 1943, about 60 percent below Pearl Harbor levels.
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