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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 15, 1944

Page

6

Stage Door Canteen stars grace Friday radio lineup

Nadine Subotnik reports a busy prime time slate with Grace Moore and George Givot on Stage Door Canteen at 9:30 p.m. over CBS and WMT. Lytell hosts, Ward Wilson is Wirewrath, and Raymond Paige conducts. Also repeated is The Candie and the Gun at 6:15 p.m. on CBS. Other programs feature Dorothy Kirsten on Highways in Melody and Stars of the Future with Ossy Renardy.

Oprano Grace Moore George Givot CBS WMT American Theater Wing Lytell Ward Wilson Raymond Paige Mari Yanofsky Garry Moore Jimmy Durante Cleveland Dorothy Kirsten Paul Lavalie NBC WHO Pfc Ossy Renardy Paul Lavalle Opportunity WGN Sewer Amos Andy Ed Wynn Kent Cooper

Radio Schedule Fringes Through Dec Fifteen

Hour by hour listing of radio programs and guests across stations WMT WGN KXEL KXEL etc. Includes news shows sports talk morning menus and afternoon features with times from early morning to late evening and mentions of guest stars and regular programs.

New Abbot Installed At Iowa Monastery

In Dubuque Iowa Rev Albert J Beston O C S O was privately installed as abbot of New Melleray abbey by the lord abbot Dom Celsus O Connell O C S O from Mount Melleray Ireland. A formal installation will be held later in the monastery church. The election was confirmed locally by apostolic visitor Rt Rev O Connell due to wartime measures.

O'Connell Dubuque Europe

Iowa War Bond Drive Seeks Last Minute Push

Des Moines AP reports the Iowa war finance committee urged residents to make Saturday the record sales day for Series E bonds. Sales lag behind the $61 million quota as the drive nears closure and thousands with pledges have not yet paid.

Des Moines Iowa War Finance Committee

De Gaulle Arrives in Cairo on Moscow Return

Gen Charles de Gaulle lands in Cairo on his return trip from Moscow amid wartime broadcasts heard by the Blue network.

New York Charles de Gaulle Cairo Moscow Europe Blue

Christmas Wish From Burma Greeting S- Sgt Colby

From along the Ledo road in Burma S/Sgt J H Colby sent a V mail Christmas greeting to his draft board reading Wish you were here. The message reflects a soldier’s personal note during wartime.

Philadelphia (Ap Ledo Road Burma J. H. Colby

Ratio of Jap Losses 31-1 In Philippines

Allied dispatch reports Japanese casualties in the first 55 days of the Philippines campaign total about 82,554 with 31 enemy dead for every American killed. American losses stand at roughly 10,400 with 2,176 killed and 7,967 wounded. MacArthur notes thousands more dead not yet collected and ships losses including 30,000 drowned in convoy attacks.

Q. Philippines Philippines U. S. 77Th Ormoc Leyte Douglas MacArthur Samar Samar Island

Welles Criticizes Postwar Plans as Inadequate

Former undersecretary Sumner Welles says current postwar planning machinery is ludicrously insufficient to yield practical results. He cites London European advisory council and Rome Mediterranean council as lacking authority and urges convocation of a United Nations council to guide field policy and form the nucleus of a future world organization.

New York INS Sumner Welles European Advisory Council London Mediterranean Council Rome United Nations United Nations Council Chiefs United States United Ie Great Britain Russia Italy Greece Welles Conference of All United Nations Dumbarton

House Approves Waterways Report After Conference

The House on Thursday approved a joint senate house conference report authorizing a 500 million postwar rivers and harbors improvement program and sent it to the Senate.

Washington House Senate-House Senate

Luzon raids claim 91 Japanese planes destroyed

UPI reports American carrier planes destroyed 91 Japanese aircraft around Luzon in three days of raids stretching from Nauru to Iwo Jima. Seventy seven ground and 14 shot down, with strikes hitting harbor and airfield facilities as Iwo Island and Saipan operations continue. All American planes returned.

Pearl Harbor Luzon Nauru Marcus Islands Iwo Jima Manila Bay Iwo Saipan-to-Tokyo Strategic Air Force Pacific Bonins Saipan Haywood S. Hansell, Jr 21St Superfortress Bomber Command Nimitz

Marines Hit Haha Jima and Marcus Island in Three Day Operation

Mitchell medium bombers of the marine air force struck Haha Jima in the Bonins just north of the volcanos on Sunday. Strategic air force bombers hit Marcus Island east of the Bonin Volcano group on Monday.

Mitchell Marine Air Force Haha Jima Bonins Strategic Air Force Marcus Island Mid-Ocean

Former Wac member Ja Belle Penn slain in Houston

The 26 year old Ja Belle Penn, a former member of the WAC, was found dead Thursday on a vacant lot in Houston. Justice of the Peace W C Ragan said she was attack and choked to death. Penn had worked at a Houston cafeteria since moving here after leaving the WAC in Ft. Des Moines, Iowa last August. Her mother, Mrs Clara J Penn of Kansas City, Mo., was due to arrive in Houston.

Houston Texas Ja Belle Penn WAC Justice of the Peace W. C. Ragan Miss Penn Ft. Des Moines A. V. Fitzgerald

Ready Installed as Columbus Diocese Presiding Bishop

Most Rev. Michael J Ready became presiding bishop Thursday over the more than 100000 Catholics in the Columbus Ohio diocese.

Washington Michael J. Ready Columbus Ohio

Soviets Increase Pressure on Budapest as Siege Intensifies

Soviet tanks artillery and infantry press inner defenses north and northeast of Budapest while a decisive battle to seal the capital’s fate unfolds six miles southwest Moscow reports. In Misolkc area Soviet troops seize Szerencs and Bodrog. 870 enemy prisoners taken. City bombardment continues as nonessential residents evacuate.

London Budapest Berlin Moscow Paul Wace Stalingrad Miskolc Szerencs Bodrog Hersztur Satoraljaujhely Nazi Transe Ocean Agency Karl Klaus

Diphtheria Cases On Rise in Iowa This Year

DES MOINES AP reports diphtheria has reached Iowa at a rate of about one case every two days. The state health department notes 182 cases so far this year and six deaths in November in Sioux City and Clarinda. Cases jumped from nine in October to 39 in November with at least seven more in early December.

Des Moines Iowa State Department Sioux City Clarinda Health Department

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