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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1941
Page
10
Dr. Mary MacFadyen extols laughter as essential for mental and physical health during Christmas. She notes laughter relieves tension, improves digestion, boosts oxygen and circulation, and reduces nerves while boosting appearance and overall wellbeing for women. Regular humor counters stress and promotes rest and balanced meals.
Mary Manners offers guidance on Grandma and Millie Blank stories, advising that families remain united rather than cancel gatherings. She suggests splitting Christmas duties, hosting with help, and sharing costs while keeping traditions. The tone reflects a columnist addressing common domestic concerns with practical steps.
Pattern 205 offers a dark striped crocheted vest in sizes 16 18 and 38 40 with sleeves optional. Send 10 cents for the pattern to The Cedar Rapids Gazette needlecraft department 82 Eighth Avenue New York NY. include pattern number name and address.
Grace Episcopal to present a Christmas eve midnight mass starting 11 15 p m with a mixed program featuring solos and choirs. Guest artists include Harold Reeves Harold Kofron Robert Taylor Benny Miska David Bird and others with the Grace Church boys choir and guest director Mrs Eleanor Taylor Wendland at the organ.
T V Soong a former finance minister and Chiang Kai-shek’s brother in law was appointed foreign minister by the Kuomintang central executive committee. He succeeds Quo Tuai-chi, the former ambassador to London. The committee endorsed Roosevelt and Churchill’s Atlantic charter and pledged China’s fight to the bitter end in the war.
In Olympia region authorities disclosed an attempt to dynamite a railroad train near Tenino in central Thurston County about 30 miles from Olympia. State patrolmen reported 71 sticks of dynamite found along the tracks as federal and state agencies joined the probe.
Connie Dawson, a reporter, seeks a Christmas miracle for Skippy as a snowbound bus trip leads to a heart warming reunion. She confronts Pat’s warning note, buys gifts, and finally discovers Skippy on a Connecticut doorstep, rekindling a family moment amid postwar chaos.
Ruth Millett opines on the too married couple who bore others with constant correction and broadcasting of private life. She notes their fixed opinions on topics from meals to the war and their habit of interrupting each other, leading to social fatigue.
Pattern 4949 available in women sizes 34 to 48. Size 36 requires 314 yards of 39 inch fabric. Send fifteen cents to Pattern Department The Cedar Rapids Gazette Bas West 17th Street New York NY for the pattern. Add ten cents for Spring Pattern Book. Smarteasy to make styles for the whole family.
From Bern AP reports a Cologne paper asserts Red Army reserves overwhelmed exhausted German troops in frozen forests. Russians reportedly unleashed tanks and artillery, shifted to offense, while German units faced winter hardships and supply shortages. October rains worsened conditions as Siberian reserves reinforced Soviet defenses.
Lt Grant M. Mahoney of Vallejo California relayed a flight over Legaspi Luzon at 13000 feet in which two Japanese pursuit planes strafed their own ground troops while pursuing him. His jammed guns forced a dive but he outmaneuvered the fighters and observed the friendly fire. He then drew the planes away and returned safely after circling Mount Mayon.
Chungking official General Lieu Wei Chang says Japan can field about 100 divisions amounting to around two million men. He counts 36 divisions in China, 33 in Manchuria, four in Indo China and Thailand, five in Malaya, three in the Philippines with at least ten needed there, and totals of 1500 planes in the south Pacific plus 600 in Japan.
Harold L J Sturtevaint's reenlistment is accepted by the Navy after dismissal for pulling down a Nazi flag at the German consulate in San Francisco last January. He has been assigned to a ship and applied at a Boston area recruiting office. A line about Hickory and white oak fuel value follows, unrelated to the main story.
Henry McLemore argues a Christmas tree ordeal tests male grit and resolve. He riffs on decision making, tree transport, fitting the tree in the car, erecting it, trimming, and decorating, praising American men for their endurance and nerve.
A reader recounts being denied employment across four states due to a physical defect on a medical exam. He cites insurers refusing coverage and Cedar Rapids factory managers deeming him unable to work, urging discussion on how many draft-age men face similar barriers and hardships for families relying on them.
In San Francisco the army pulled soldiers from four shipyards after a strike threat to shipbuilding appeared to fizzle. Soldiers were posted to keep welders and other workers from being intimidated by independent Welders Brotherhood pickets during the stoppage.
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