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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1944
Page
10
Erskine Caldwell's "Tragic Ground" was voluntarily withdrawn from most Boston bookstores after being publicly banned. The work portrays poor southern whites stranded away from home due to a wartime plant closure.
The Gazette presents a midweek schedule from Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Times Strand and Marion with titles including The Song of Bernadette Wuthering Heights Topper The Hairy Ape Crime by Night Christmas Holiday Three Men in White Three Russian Girls Blondie s Blessed Event The Navy Comes Through Triumphs This Is the Army Youth Runs Wild and Mr Skeffington across various showings.
Judy Garland’s career trajectory sharpens as Meet Me in St. Louis dominates box office and MGM plans a musical Private Lives with Fred Astaire. Broadway and Hollywood figure Redic March may return with A Bell for Adano style hits, while Noel Coward’s Private Lives signals her rising status.
Vincent leads as top contender for Adam Belinski in Cinny Brown while other stars pursue different projects. In SHERIDAN seeks suspension from When Old New York Was Young, preferring a pace change away from musical comedies with Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson after frequent teaming.
In Milwaukee 1200 workers walked out at the Globe Steel plant Wednesday over a Christmas bonus reduction. Production was disrupted as the stoppage halted key operations and alerted management to demands for restored pay.
Washington wires report the disbanded 78th Congress ending two years of wartime lawmaking amid a harsh campaign. Senate confirmations included Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew and five assistants. The House had wrapped its work. some members faced a gas shortage and holiday disruption as 79th Congress loomed. Senator Hatch urged appreciation for returning colleagues and the lone woman senator received applause.
The 78th Congress faced lower spending than the 77th but still appropriated about $182 billion, lifting the national debt ceiling to $260 billion to meet wartime demands. Much funds remained uncontracted in reserves while ~67 million was actually enacted this year versus 115 billion in the prior year.
An explosion and ensuing fire on the Chicago South Side killed one person and injured 12 others, two seriously. The blast destroyed a two story mixed use business and residence as police and fire units searched the scene.
Fire officials say a basement gas ignition caused an explosion that blew out two sides of a brick structure and shattered windows several feet away. The blast sent debris across the area as rescuers search through wreckage for a second person believed buried.
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