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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1943
Page
1
Union leaders declare no railroad strike will occur, arguing government seizure would not spur better effort and noting past operating shortfalls in 1918 19 while traffic remains heavy toward both coasts. The piece critiques morale propaganda and previews Iowa campaign finance debates with calls for a joint financial report.
British warships and coastal aircraft report sinking three German destroyers in the Bay of Biscay and damaging others while also sinking a homeward-bound Axis blockade runner. The action follows the Scharnhorst’s destruction and reflects renewed German surface activity near France and Spain as Allied convoys head to the invasion of western Europe.
A reader recalls a Winterset Madisonian item proposing to repatriate around one million former Axis country residents who have not taken citizenship papers. The idea suggests shipping them back to their origins to create jobs for others and ease postwar unemployment.
The Gen MacArthur for President club began formal efforts to place General MacArthur on the April 11 Illinois presidential primary ballot. Petitions were mailed to county chairmen precinct committeemen and Republican officials statewide for signatures before filing with the secretary of state. The group says drafting a citizen for service is an inalienable right in a time of peril.
Cedar Rapids resident George S Bushnell last survivor of Linn County Civil War veterans died at home at 327 Thirty third street NE at 6 am He would have turned 95 on February 11 and was among eastern Iowa’s last Civil War veterans He served in Company E 46th Iowa Infantry then worked as a carpenter copper tradesman and federal building employee for 21 years He is survived by daughter Jennie Bushnell two granddaughters and several great grandchildren with a son Arthur having died earlier Services will be at Barta chapel with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery He was a member of the First Christian church and the Grand Army of the Republic and dies mark the dwindling Iowa G A R rolls
Fifteen people drowned when a launch sank on Lake Chapala near Guadalajara Tuesday night. All aboard were believed to be Mexican tourists at the popular resort area.
President Roosevelt brushed aside a reporter's query on a possible fourth term linking his Win-the-War slogan to a bid for extended power. He used a parable of a wartime doctor to argue that postwar plans must fit new conditions and avoid returning to 1932 conditions.
Soviet forces under Gen. Nikolai Vatutin storm outer defenses of Zhitomir and Korosten on the Leningrad Odessa line 80 miles from Kiev. A spearhead nears Zhitomir within 10 miles after advancing through Korostishev and Smolovka. Nearby heavy guns soften fortifications as other units seize Zlobichi and Bekhi, marking partial recovery of territory from Mannstein’s Kiev drive. In the north, Gen. Ivan Bagramian’s troops repelled 16 German counterattacks near Vitebsk, killing over 1,200 attackers and freeing several villages.
Allied forces report 37 of 50 Japanese planes shot down at Arawe New Britain with 150 tons of bombs dropped in support. Marines advance five miles toward Cape Gloucester airstrips as Australians seize a 5,600 foot ridge in Ramu valley and Papua-New Guinea operations continue against Kieta and Bogadjim. Casualties described as extremely light with substantial enemy losses.
In Danbury Connecticut a man in a staff sergeant uniform staged a hoax claiming to lead a 100 paratroopers convoy from overseas. He slept at the USO and later false reports of a deadly White Plains crash prompted questions. FBI denied the tale and a $20 check bounced.
President Franklin D Roosevelt is down with a head cold and remains in the White House. His doctor Rear Admiral Ross T McIntyre advised staying in quarters and no public appointments were planned for the day.
Allied forces report the fall of Ortona after a brutal house to house battle. American medium bombers strike airfields near Rome while Castel di Sangro falls on the Adriatic front and Italian campaigns push toward Vicenza Rimini and PescarA amid snow and rain.
London report: Capt. Wilhelm Lamke a 23 year old luftwaffe fighter ace credited with 125 Allied planes destroyed has been killed in action against Great Britain according to a Radio Oslo broadcast recorded in London.
A non-Spanish diplomatic source says Mussolini died in a German clinic ten days ago from old stomach ulcers and mental derangement. The report is treated cautiously in London after prior false death reports.
A thief broke a window at an apparel shop in Philadelphia and stole a mink coat valued at 3,500 after considering sable neckpieces worth 1,000 and 600. Police investigation follows.
Allied high command nears formal structure for Northwestern Europe assault with Admiral Ramsay as naval commander and Air Marshal Leigh-Mallory to lead air forces. Roosevelt names Doolittle to command Eighth Air Force in Britain and Devers to lead American forces in the Mediterranean. Spaatz named commander of U S strategic air forces for the invasion front.
Washington reports three holdout unions pledge no action imperiling the war effort and to cancel the strike order. Leaders Robertson Fraser and Cashen meet Lt. Gen. Somervell after President Roosevelt seized railways, raising questions on how long federal control will last and whether arbitration will resolve wage issues.
A Bern dispatch says German State Secretary Herbert Backe who led the food ministry was ousted amid a poor potato crop and mounting food shortages.
Axis radios claim major Gibraltar traffic with a British cruiser and nine torpedo boats dispatching from the harbor. Sixty eight merchant vessels were said to remain in Gibraltar as a convoy of 77 ships, mainly 10,000 tonners, arrived from an Atlantic crossing.
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