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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1944
Page
10
NADINE SUBOTNIK reports OX POP will travel to Palm Beach Florida for interviews with convalescing fighters at the army general hospital at 7 p.m. Monday on CBS and WMT. Parks Johnson and Warren Hull will host. They will answer Vox Pop questions and receive gifts.
A detailed morning and evening radio program list for February 22 1944 across stations WMT NBC WGN WHO KXEL EXEL and others. It catalogs show host names program blocks and notable features on the air from 6:30 a.m. through 10:45 p.m. including news talks dramas and music blocks.
Allied forces rained 123 tons of bombs on Rabaul New Britain destroying 15 planes in the 16th straight day of air strikes. Liberators and Mitchell bombers hit Vunakanau and Tobera air strips. Ground losses included two Japanese planes.
Chairman May of the House Military Affairs Committee rejected moves to lower the draft age to 17. He urged maintaining 38 as the induction ceiling and argued the armed services have not requested changes. May noted press and congressional talk proposing 17 year olds be drafted but not sent to combat until 18.
In Los Angeles and surrounds scattered showers and mountain snow linger after a major storm. Forecasters expect continued unsettled weather as Southern California cleans up from the worst system in 13 years with about 3.68 inches of precipitation reported in the area.
A 24 hour siege of snow and blocked mountain highways left over 75,000 Los Angeles homes without power and 5,000 street lights dark. Some 2,300 power workers refused repairs amid an eight day strike demanding higher wages. Wartime facilities received continuous power while homes waited for lines to be fixed.
Washington AP reports the War Food Administration names winter grown cabbage the victory food for February 24 to March 4. Consumers are urged to eat more cabbage to use up the largest winter crop in history, an estimated 74 percent larger than the 1943 winter crop.
Rear Admiral Allan G. Kirk, renowned amphibious warfare expert, named commander of the United States naval forces for the Western Europe invasion. He will head American task forces within the Allied naval command under Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Stark remains in overall UK naval command.
The article urges individuals to follow a seven point program to avoid runaway prices during war. It notes higher wages and limited peacetime production raise costs, and credits 68 million Americans with life insurance support for stabilizing prices. It also lists contact details for Life Insurance Companies of America in New York.
Officials indicated the suspect will probably receive prison doctors’ services for evaluation after the vandalism incident. Medical assessment aims to determine fitness and sentencing considerations.
The report notes a soldier on the beaches near Scoglitti who earned a bottle of whisky from Lt. Gen. George S. Patton for getting all troops ashore in far less than Patton had expected, with a reference to Philadelphia native Kirk, age 55.
Allied dispatch reports Lt Gen Joseph W. Stillwell narrowly escaped harm as ten shells from a Japanese 75 landed within about twelve yards during an inspection trek in Burma. He led a party including his bodyguard and three newsmen when shells exploded, causing mud and debris while no one was hurt.
Chicago report on Eugene Bullard who arranged his own arrest after breaking post office windows. He claimed a seven year itch and sought federal help to obtain medical treatment, hoping doctors in Atlanta would shorten his sentence. Bullard told agents he would wait at a restaurant to be arrested.
New York AP Fifteen American clergymen backed Lord Lang and Bishop Chichester against Allied bombing of German cities. The message praised their House of Lords appeal condemning obliteration of non military areas and civilian victims as inconsistent with war aims and Christian ethics.
The Soviet radio announced that Gen. Ivan S. Konev was made a marshal of the Soviet Union by President Mikhail Kalinin. Konev has commanded in the Orel region and the Ukraine.
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