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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1943
Page
12
Daily Record reports wartime ration details for December 24 1943 including Meats L through Q gas coupons D E F sugar coupon 29 fuel oil coupons and shoe and airplane stamps. It lists fines for disturbances speeding parking and yielding rights and notes fire incidents births and several divorce petitions and decrees.
Pittsburgh report says CIO United Steel Workers President Philip Murray warns the War Labor Board’s decision not to extend contracts reopening the wage demand creates a grave situation in the steel industry.
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce public welfare bureau reports 206 families assisted this Christmas through the council of social agencies. Salvation Army housed 100 families while 31 individuals and 36 organizations funded shopping tours baskets and food and clothing for others. 272.50 in cash covered all shopping tours and baskets. 197 toys were distributed for 72 toy letter families at Sunshine Mission. Merchants Delivery earned praise for free basket delivery and toy repair support across the city.
Allied reports say the Eighth Army advanced to Vezzani near Ortona and Canadians were clearing the remaining Germans from Ortona while weather slowed operations. American Fifth Army gained high ground near Acquafondala and lost a hill near Vicuso as Marauder bombers struck rail yards and bridges along the Riviera and at Antheor near Cannes.
Des Moines AP report: OPA director R E Walters urged night clubs restaurants and hotels to keep holiday prices in check. No price freeze yet, but suggested actions may be taken if venues overcharge New Year celebrations. Cover and food charges should not exceed 1942 holiday levels.
London reports quote Nazi broadcasts promising trials of Allied air crews for raids on Nuremberg and Hamburg. Oslo and Paris outlets warn pilots and their families face punishment for bombing civilians, while Berlin asserts Hamburg witnesses will testify.
Christmas Eve notes show banks selling one third of over the counter sales as gifts and bonds bought for servicemen. Church programs and services fill the season with mass and carols across many local congregations. Over 22 500 workers died in traffic accidents between Pearl Harbor and June 1943.
General Douglas MacArthur awarded Capt. Francis E. Dubishar of Williamsburg Iowa and First Lt. Jay T. Robbins of Coolidge Texas DSCs for heroism protecting an Allied convoy near Tsili Tsili New Guinea on August 15. Dubishar led fighters that shot down 11 bombers in a two minute fight while Robbins, patrolling Huon Gulf on September 4, destroyed four Japanese fighters.
Captain Dubishar, 26, a veteran fighter pilot, earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for 50 missions, then the Air Medal, Silver Star, and Oak Leaf Cluster. A Cedar Rapids trainee under Ted Saxon and Dan Hunter, he taught in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1940 before joining the U S Army Air Force in 1942 and entering combat duty. Parents listed as Mr and Mrs Joe Dubishar of Williamsburg.
Carl Strucken of Marion employed by Cedar Rapids Milk Distributing Company was taken to St Luke's hospital Thursday morning after a fall from a truck while entering Cedar Rapids. Hospital attendants reported his condition as fairly good Thursday night. Strucken also hauls newspapers to Marion for The Gazette.
Allied medium bombers struck Wewak in New Guinea, bombing airfields and harbor shipping, with three large ships damaged. Liberators hit Cape Gloucester, New Britain, for the ninth straight day, totaling more than 153 tons in one raid and over 2,500 tons this month for the Cape Gloucester area.
Forecasters predict a snowless Christmas for Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas with cloudy skies and warmer tonight. Minimums around 25 degrees are expected, and milder, partly cloudy weather is forecast for Saturday, with Iowa warming but no snow in the next 24 hours.
An eight year old boy who opened a service station safe by turning the dial until the tumblers clicked was turned over to his parents. Police said he carried $160 of the $300 loot when found, with the rest spent on candy and ice cream.
The Zaghouan reservoir in Tunisia has provided drinking water for more than 1800 years, marking a remarkable long-term public water supply.
In Watseka Illinois AP report soils expert John Bell, 30, discusses progress in making corn stalks distasteful to corn borers. He spreads a compound with fertilizer on 134 acres in a 42 acre infested field, gaining 22 extra bushels per acre over untreated sections. Bell, who began two years ago, notes results are excellent but require a year to substantiate. The mixture grows in the soil and into stalks without harming livestock, and its exact formula remains secret.
The president’s Christmas Eve radio speech urged unity with Britain, Russia, and China to secure peace, while praising Marshall and King. He warned of German threats and outlined postwar aims to strip Nazi power, ensure Germany’s normal development, and build a peaceful European order. He promised more details in Congress and emphasized home front support for veterans and education.
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