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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1943
Page
11
A World War II paratrooper in Halloran General Hospital recalls jumps from Africa to Sicily and Italy, describing injuries and the wish to be home for Christmas despite healing. He explains his infected arm and reluctance to involve his girlfriend and family in his pain.
Washington four daily papers resumed publication after the Columbia Typographical Union voted 158 to 85 to end a 24 hour walkout. Union president Jesse B. Manbeck urged tangible wage talks within 48 hours, or a renewed continuous meeting would halt reporting to work. The dispute drew War Labor Board intervention and international union involvement.
A horse pulling a junk wagon collapsed on the Reading railroad northbound tracks in Philadelphia delaying commuters up to two and a half hours. The animal sprawled across southbound tracks, stopping 11 trains until workers used a belly band and a derrick to lift it clear.
Navy yards across the United States report unprecedented growth and seek workers from the Middle West. The Cedar Rapids recruiting station says transportation and housing will be provided and details on civilian service jobs and the S R U program are available this week. A traveling recruiting board visits Tuesday to Friday with an employment service rep to screen applicants for essential war work and show navy sound motion pictures in the post office basement.
Captain James Stewart, former movie star, commanded a Liberator squadron over Bremen in the U S Eighth Air Force attack. It was his second European mission, after arriving in Britain to lead his B-24 group. He said the mission revealed extensive enemy fighter activity.
Police held 38 year old Robert Burger Monday night after being found in a Springfield store basement. He offered a peculiar explanation that he wanted to be locked in the store to write a story about his escape.
Albert Fesil thirty seven died after rescuing his family from a burning Chicago apartment. He re entered a smoke filled room to save a puppy bought for his children Albert junior twelve and Mary Ann eleven. Firemen found the puppy alive in the room after Fesil leaped from a window.
The Office of Price Administration authorized a 30 cent per net ton rise in ceiling prices for by products and retort gas coke. The hike applies to midwestern and southern production in Alabama Illinois Indiana Iowa Kentucky Michigan Minnesota Missouri Tennessee Wisconsin and the western Ohio region west of Cleveland.
Washington AP says men and women discharged from military service are eligible for shoe ration stamps. Airplane stamps Nos 1-4 in ration book 3 should stay in books issued to such persons. OPA noted some confusion among local boards.
Airplane stamps Nos 1 4 are removed from ration books for military personnel living away from home. Service men and women still need food stamps but do not require shoe stamps as their footwear is government issue.
Basel newspaper quotes unnamed Swiss eyewitness that Berlin is now three-fifths destroyed and nearly two million people are homeless after RAF raids on the German capital.
Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands landed in Ottawa from England to spend Christmas with Princess Juliana and their three daughters at their Rockscliffe home.
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