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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1944
Page
17
Erskine Caldwell's Tragic Ground was withdrawn from most Boston bookstores after being labeled banned. The book portrays poor southern whites displaced by wartime plant closings and was pulled voluntarily on Tuesday.
The Gazette lists Wednesday showings across theaters with titles such as The Song of Bernadette Wuthering Heights Topper The Hairy Ape Crime by Night Christmas Holiday Three Men in White Three Russian Girls Blondies Blessed Event Navy Comes Through Triumphs This Is the Army Youth Runs Wild Mr Skeffington and Buy War Bonds.
Louella Parsons reports Judy Garland leaving kid roles behind after Meet Me in St. Louis and heading for a musical Private Lives with Fred Astaire as co star. Redric March praised for A Bell for Adano while interest remains in Hollywood moves and Broadway success. Curtis Webb notes Laura impact and Vincent Price rise as Clifton remains.
Vincent leads as top contender for the dilettante role in Razor's Edge. In Cluny Brown he is the Polish poet Adam Belinski. In SHERIDAN studio requests a suspension and a pace change from musical com edy pair Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, whom she feels are teamed too often.
A reduction in the Christmas bonus sparked a walkout of about 1,200 Globe Steel employees at the Milwaukee plant, halting production on Wednesday.
The 78th Congress ends after two wartime years of lawmaking and a tough reelection climate. Senate confirms Joseph C. Grew and five assistant secretaries. House finished its work. Veto threats over social security tax once delayed adjournment. gasoline shortages in D C affected lawmakers’ holiday plans. The body approved about $182 billion in spending and raised the debt limit to $260 billion, with much of the funds uncommitted.
A Tuesday night explosion and fire on Chicago's South Side destroyed a two story business and residential building. One person died and 12 were injured, two seriously, as police and firemen investigated the scene.
Fire officials said a gas ignition in a basement caused a Wednesday blast that demolished part of a brick structure and shattered windows within a two block radius. One person remained believed buried under the debris as responders searched the wreckage.
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