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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1943
Page
5
1943 ends with optimism about Europe and Pacific theatre while Cedar Rapids aims to map postwar public works. editor notes price control echoes ancient attempts and urges OPA planners to study history. prayer service planned at Coe College chapel. domestic unrest rises as strikes threaten stability. politics trap Congress and administration.
London dispatch reports Allied daylight bombing of the Paris suburbs on Friday after dawn formations. The attack targeted northern France with heavy bombers and fighters. casualties were tallied at about 200 dead and 2,000 injured in Paris.
London dispatch cites Berlin report that Hitler canceled leaves of all German officers and soldiers and ordered every division to be at peak defensive strength by January 15.
Gift of the Brown apartments at Fourth avenue SE to the Sisters of Mercy of Cedar Rapids was announced Friday after the warranty deed filing. The Sisters take possession Jan 1 and will operate the property with Mrs Brown as rental agent. The four story brick building, erected in 1914 at $55,000, includes 16 apartments and improvements since 1940 41. The endowment supports Mt Mercy Junior College and Mercy Hospital with the order owning hospitals in several cities.
Washington AP reports shoe dealers may sell 15 percent of their women’s shoe stocks ration-free at $3 or less per pair from Jan 17 to 29. The move aims to clear slow moving novelty styles. excess charges over $3 require ration stamps. Mail order houses wholesalers and manufacturers may also sell 15 percent of September inventories ration-free, with $3 cap.
Cedar Rapids banks posted a 1943 gain with total clearings at 127,352,867.45 dollars for the year, up from 85,697,946.68. Weekly figures show 2,465,070.45 for the week ended December 31, compared with 1,694,292.94 a year earlier, and December 24 city clearings reached 2,635,181.72.
Washington official orders Esquire dropped from second class mailing effective Feb 28 1944 reversing a trial board ruling 2 1 and prompting the publishers to seek court review. Walker cites content as not meeting the public character information or literature standard while noting possible shift to fourth class mail would raise costs.
Chicago report says David A. Smart publisher of Esquire announced that prompt action would be taken to enjoin Postmaster General Frank Walker from revoking the magazine's second class mailing privileges. The statement came Thursday night outlining immediate legal steps.
Cedar Rapids Police Chief Tom Condon urged a sensible New Year's Eve with less liquor spending on bonds or war stamps. He noted whisky rationing reduced drunkenness and warned against drunk driving. Officers will give breaks but will arrest repeat offenders if needed.
President Roosevelt's cold worsened into the grippe with a fever of about half a degree causing bed rest. Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire ordered him to stay in bed and cancel Friday cabinet and news conferences. The illness prevents formal New Year observances he has proclaimed as a day of prayer.
Advanced Allied Headquarters reports U.S. Marines seized the Cape Gloucester airdrome in northwestern New Britain, killing more than 500 Japanese and repelling counterattacks. The operation completes control of western approaches to Rabaul, with air operations to follow.
Allied forces seized the initiative on Italy’s west coast north of the Garigliano in a large scale raid. The operation aimed at controlling the coastal road to Rome and involved a frogman amphibious leapfrog approach near Minturno. German forces countered with a two day offensive near Ponte Fiume as U S and Canadian units pushed toward Cassino and Pescara while air power supported ground troops.
Soviet reports say Russian forces pierced the Bug river defenses and cut supply lines, advancing toward Zhitomir Berdichev and Kazatin while tagging Mannstein’s host as routed. Vatutin’s troops moved within 90 miles of the Dniester as Stalin hailed a major winter offensive.
Naval Lt. Robert M. Morgenthau son of the secretary of the treasury wed Martha Pattridge of Minneapolis in a late Thursday New York ceremony. The event linked two prominent families as Pittsburgh-born Morgenthau and his bride began their life together in civilian circles.
Americans ring in the new year across the nation with heavy post Christmas spending. Night clubs and amusement centers sold out from Hollywood to New York as $15 to $17.50 cover charges drew crowds, furs and jewelry sales climb, and department stores report brisk post holiday trade amid war time restraints and conservation.
Leo T. Krausnick administrator of James Leo Krausnick estate sues Haegg Roofing and driver William Seilhamer for 6000 actual and 1500 exemplary damages after the boy, five, was fatally struck when a truck backed over him at Eleventh street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth avenues SW. Seilhamer pled guilty to manslaughter, receiving a 300 fine and a suspended sentence up to eight years.
London dispatch reports Hermann Goering in a New Year message to the German air force saying the way lies clear ahead for the Nazis with the stakes in the war being victory or collapse. He asserts the effort must be victory and warns of severe consequences if defeat occurs.
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