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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1944
Page
1
The piece discusses Senate Majority Leader Barkley’s resignation and President Roosevelt’s strategy to counter backlash. It suggests a need for cooperation between the executive and legislative branches to address national issues and notes efforts in Linn County to boost war bond sales before the fourth drive closes.
Admiral Nimitz announced that hundreds of carrier planes bombed Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas while the Eniwetok atoll conquest was completed with Parry Island captured. The raids, 700 airline miles nearer to Tokyo than Truk, targeted shipping and air bases with Mitscher directing carrier forces.
New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey will file as a draft nominee for the presidency but keep his no active campaign stance through the June Republican convention. Dewey’s backers in Wisconsin filed petitions. he urges withdrawal, while aides say a formal candidacy remains their choice. Willkie looms as a rival if the Dewey slate enters.
The Cedar Rapids News reports the 800 Club backing Linn to surpass the required threshold for E bond support. Organizers emphasize community involvement and fundraising drives to secure victory in the political campaign.
Linn county war finance committee launches an 800 Club to raise funds for Series E bonds. Each $750 pledge buys a $1,000 bond with certificate proof of county aid. Campaign runs until Monday with bank deposits up 43 percent since 1941 and one sixth of Iowa’s deficit in Linn county.
About 175 Cedar Rapids retail grocers and meat dealers attend a Linn County Retail Food Dealers association meeting to protest OPA price ceiling hearings. A committee is formed to consult attorneys and the rationing board, with financial backing raised to support legal action.
Washington lawmakers override Roosevelt veto on a 2.315 billion tax bill in a 299 to 95 vote. Democrats and one minor party join 199 Republicans to push the measure toward passage in the Senate. Barkley blasts the veto as an attack on Congress, while Knutson calls for a treasury overhaul to separate revenue from political influence.
Senate majority leader Sen. Barkley of Kentucky accepted re election after a unanimous Democratic conference vote. He resigned in a family speech amid a party rift with President Roosevelt over the tax bill veto and left reporters with a grave but hopeful mood about his political future.
Dealers argue the wholesale OPA crackdown on price ceiling violations relies on loose estimates. They note only 64 retailers were charged with about $4 in overcharges, suggesting most actions were not driven by deliberate profit.
The writer argues that OPA regulations leave dealers at the mercy of unseen officials and that injustices come from a system ruled by individuals rather than laws. Restoring rule by law, not men, will require broad merchant action beyond a few.
The writer mentions a Baltimore campaign urging people to clear desk drawers to recycle or recycle paper and other war materials. He notes a clipping on the movement lies somewhere on his desk and warns against reacting to unfamiliar gloves found, suggesting to wait for his guidance next winter may be cold.
A Red Star dispatch from Krivoi Rog states Germans destroyed the mining center and executed 17,000 Russian civilians buried in a mine at Valiavka. The bodies were found by Red Army forces at the mine bottom.
Republican senators re elected Sen. McNary of Oregon as minority floor leader without opposition. Sen. White of Maine was formally elected to that post, filling in during McNary’s illness. The conference named Sen. Vandenberg as vice chairman Sen. Wherry as whip and Burton as conference secretary with a nine member steering committee.
Finland will withdraw from the war immediately if peace terms offered by Russia are acceptable, said Finance Minister Vaino Tanner in a home radio reading monitored by U.S. government observers.
More than 600 people visited the new Young Men’s Bureau sponsored youth center located on the second and third floors of 119 Third Avenue SE. The center will be open for public inspection until 10 tonight with an official opening planned for Saturday evening.
Vice President Wallace commended Senator Alben W. Barkley for courage after Barkley announced his resignation as Democratic leader of the Senate. Wallace, when leaving Barkley’s office, called him a dear friend and said the President is also a dear friend.
London reports Germany's 26 000 ton battleship Gneisenau lies with bows and gun turrets dismantled in the Polish port of Gdynia. Air reconnaissance shows bows removed, suggesting after Scharnhorst's sinking Germany's pocket battleships will have no further role in the war.
Allied headquarters announced that American forces have wiped out all resistance in western New Britain. MacArthur reported Marines from Cape Gloucester joined soldiers from Arawe to secure the island and open a 200 mile corridor toward Rabaul, with significant losses to Japanese forces and disrupted supply lines.
Dianne Hutto, the last of the quadruplets born to Army paratrooper Pvt. Spencer Edmund Hutto and his wife, died Thursday in Decatur Alabama. Hospital staff cited weakness and prematurity as the cause, with the mother in good condition and the father arriving from Fort Benning, Georgia.
President Roosevelt sent a message to Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley urging him not to resign. The White House note expressed hope Barkley would stay on and mentioned an immediate unanimous re election if he left.
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