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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1943
Page
9
Rationing details list meat stamps gas and food stamp validity through January to April 1944. Reports of divorce petitions and traffic penalties appear alongside fire brigade calls and alarms. Birth announcements note several new daughters and sons in Cedar Rapids area and Mercy Natchez Miss entries.
Mrs. W. J. Morris reports a State Department letter saying her sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs Robert Emmett Kelly are interned at Santa Tomas camp in Manila. The repatriate couple recently returned on the Gripsholm and are in good spirits. Mr Kelly worked with Investors Syndicate in Cedar Rapids and Mrs Kelly taught at Polk School for 11 years.
December 13 notices report Capt Farrell at Van Dorn Mississippi and Sgt H Howard Ormes Jr in Texas with newborn Harry Howard III born December 11. Also Brownwood Texas welcomes Pvt Melvin Frame’s son born December 11 and Oak Harbor Washington welcomes Michael James born December 11 to Lt William G Houghton and Mary Kay Fiebig Houghton.
Secretary of the Navy Knox told a press conference the preliminaries are out of the way and American forces will deliver hard blows in the Pacific. He noted Japanese losses from barges and transports, high Allied casualty ratios for enemy planes, and that only hit and run surface actions have occurred recently.
British Mosquito bombers struck western Germany for the fourth straight night as American Flying Fortresses and Liberators attacked northwest Germany. Thunderbolt escorts reported deep Reich penetration with 15 German fighters destroyed and heavy bomber losses limited. Berlin claimed Allied targets were unspecified while noting vague weather conditions influenced the raid pattern.
The Office of War Information plans 2,000,000 match folders for distribution in the Philippines. One side shows Gen Douglas MacArthur, the other the US and Philippines flags. Drops from high altitude bombers were speculated. The design followed Pacific theater guidance, but it was unclear if MacArthur or his staff approved the idea.
Four naval officers and fourteen enlisted men are missing after a navy patrol plane failed to return from a routine training flight at sea. The Fifth Naval District announced the loss Tuesday in Norfolk Virginia.
DES MOINES AP Gov B B Hickenlooper on Tuesday proclaimed December 15 Bill of Rights day urging citizens to renew their pledge to the rights of man and strengthen their resolve to preserve and maintain these rights.
Charles Flowers, a farmer west of Tama, wins a ruling that the Tama independent school district must arrange for an outside transport to pick up his three children Violet Veneta and Darlene from the highway to the school and back. Judge B O Tankersley states state law requires school transportation when homes are more than two and a half miles from school. The ruling notes concerns about Office of Defense Transportation policies but holds they do not override state law. Costs awarded to defendants. appeal expected.
Washington announces regulations requiring review of occupational deferments when registrants work outside their local board area. Review by the appeal board with jurisdiction over the principal place of employment will determine classifications for 2-A or 2-B cases. If both locations share the same appeal area or no local boards exist, the local board or designated appeal board will handle the review. The program is described as an administrative step within the draft system.
Des Moines AP The state supreme court ruled that lawyer F. A. Ontjes of Mason City is entitled to 20000 in attorney fees and 4750 in expenses for his role in the extended case against the estate of late C. H. McNider. The ruling concludes more than 10 years of stockholder litigation involving Northwestern States Portland Cement. Brig. Gen. Hanford MacNider, son of C. H. McNider, was then with the army in the South Pacific.
A wartime Christmas report notes scarcity of toys and luxury goods, yet shoppers remain eager. Stores use crowd control and incentives to boost purchases while New York and Detroit see sales rises. apparel up 32 percent, department stores 20 percent, with overall gains in several regions.
Civil Aeronautics administration officials say 35 to 40 good weather days are needed to finish grading drainage and paving of the new municipal airport once frost leaves next spring. Paving and grading crews have left the city, with only four CAA inspectors remaining at headquarters southwest of the city.
A U.S. Army heavy bomber with eight crew on a combat training flight is missing since early Monday, disclosed by Westover Field base commander.
Iowa City board of education asks the state executive council to approve buying two land tracts for Hillcrest dormitory expansion at the University of Iowa. The $63,500 offer covers a corner Byington estate lot of $43,500 and a Grace P. Smith tract of $20,000. Expansion would raise dorm capacity from 410 to 860.
Washington house appropriations committee sends back a 1944 farm labor funding bill to a subcommittee after testimony by Food Administrator Marvin H. Jones that 287000 additional farm workers are needed to meet 1944 production goals. The panel also debates shifting land army control from War Food Administration to state extension services and aims to pass the bill by year’s end.
City Treasurer Walter Miller announced 98 percent of the 1943 tax levy has been collected. Tuesday brings in $12,704.35 from county bodies, bringing the total to $923,868.75, or 98.856 of the $934,555.56 levy, compared with 98.842 percent a year ago.
The Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra presents its second concert of the season tonight at 8 15 in Memorial Coliseum with Otto Jelinek Iowa City violinist as soloist. Jelinek is a University of Iowa music faculty member and plays with the faculty quartet and university orchestra. The public is invited and admission is free.
In Des Moines panelists from the Iowa education community tackled postwar school needs. Lt. Gov. Blue urged against segregated education and endorsed vocational opportunities. Agnes Samuelson warned on teacher retention while W S Rupe urged fair pay. Other speakers included Deamer, Spaulding, Houghton, Keasbey and Evans.
ANAMOSA The Jones county chapter of the American Red Cross has been accepted as a member of the Camp and Hospital Council service assigned to Schick General hospital Clinton. Mrs Gaorge Waite appointed chairman of the chapter committee and assisted by Mrs C Musgrove Mrs Kenneth Fowler and Glen J McLaughlin. Donations to the hospital include 240 in cash an eight tube console radio a piano 500 bedside bags books puzzles record albums model airplanes Bibles Christmas tree lights waste baskets ash trays lamps and Christmas gifts.
A Yankton college training plane with a burning cockpit and pilot bailout covered over 70 miles before landing on a farm northeast of Odebolt Iowa, with the pilot surviving his 3000 foot bailout and the crash investigated by local law enforcement and highway patrol. The craft damaged include the propeller right landing gear wing tips and tail, and investigators noted the fire extinguisher used in the cockpit.
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