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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1944
Page
4
World premiere numbers from Oscar Strauss new operetta Do-So-Do head Thursday's Treasure Hour of Song. Met Opera stars Albanese and Valentino will sing in the program. Other programs feature Cass Daley Marilyn Maxwell Bing Crosby NBC WHO and more.
A dense hourly radio grid from February 1944 shows stations WHO WMT WGN KXEL and others airing a mix of news, dramas, musical variety, and serials. Programs include World News, Road of Life, Vic and Sade, Burns, Dinah Shore, Father things, and several local shows with hosts and times across the day and evening.
The regional War Labor Board denied a wage increase request for 600 J I Case employees at Burlington Iowa. The CIO United Automobile workers argued Burlington wages should match Racine Wisconsin and Rockford Illinois levels. Case contested the Burlington pay was already higher than Little Steel formula and above similar Burlington wages.
Republican farm experts began talks to craft an agriculture plank for the national convention in Chicago. The draft calls for increased production decentralization of federal control and viewing agriculture as a non-partisan economic issue. Governor Bourke B. Hickenlooper of Iowa leads the Mackinac Island group with Rep. Andresen and Rep. Hope, aiming for a non-partisan, early full committee meeting.
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones urged farmers to reduce beef cattle by 3 million head this year to balance livestock with reduced feed supplies. He said this slaughter goal would supply beef for military forces and civilians and support a per capita 63 pound yearly allotment.
Donald D Holdoegel enforcement attorney for the Des Moines district of the Office of Price Administration announces the appointment of R R R Dvorak of Toledo Iowa as his first assistant. Dvorak, a former state representative, had been acting first assistant since the resignation of George O Malley weeks earlier.
AFL President William Green told the senate military committee that a civilian labor draft would ruin morale of war workers and possibly break up millions of American families. R J Gray of the AFL Building and Construction Trades Dept echoed charges of bungling and delays in labor relations with government agencies.
A labor official told a committee that efforts to avoid contacting workers on fighting fronts threaten creating a separate division and undermine future labor actions. He accused agencies of using the no strike pledge to hire non unions and cut wages and urged the department of labor gain sole jurisdiction over labor relations. Earlier Green clashed with Senator Austin over a bill he said would compel work.
Cadet Robert F O'Brien 22 of Grand Rapids Michigan had his right leg amputated by surgeons at the Ottumwa naval air base after a collision of two training planes. The accident Tuesday left no others injured. O'Brien arrived from the Iowa City Preflight school in late January.
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