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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1944
Page
3
Nan Wynn and Bill Frawley are set to appear at the Music Hall tonight in a radio stage show. The performance features songs and comedy routines expected to draw local fans and theatergoers.
NADINE SUBOTNIK and Bill Frawley guest on Bing Crosby's Music Hall at 8 p.m. NBC. Nan Wynn appears replacing Trudy Erwin. Frawley a longtime pal of Crosby. Also America's Town Meeting with Gov. J. M. Broughton and Rep. Jerry Voorhis at 7:30 p.m. ICXEL. Dinah Shore at 8:30 p.m. WMT. Dick Haymes at 9:30 p.m. WBBM. Abbott and Costello host Judy Canova 9 p.m. NBC WHO. Anna Sten reads a letter on March of Time at 9:30 p.m. WHO. Sergeant Buzrus from Pickwick Papers on World's Greatest Stories Friday 9:15 a.m. NBC WHO. Martha Tilton on Broadway Matinee Friday 3 p.m. CBS WMT. William Hain visits To Your Good Health 5:15 p.m. CBS WBBM.
Uneven program notes show a 4:15 pm time and multiple stations WGN WHO WMT KXEL WNO for varied segments. Mentions Portis Life Sea Hound and Dick Tracy with Little clear context.
Allied reports say German engineers rush to complete an Italian Siegfried line near Cassino and inland from Pescara to deter Rome defense. Todt death leaves a still-functioning organization as Allied training in French North Africa grows for Mediterranean landings.
House Republican Leader Joe Martin urged federal legislation to aid soldier voting as Congress begins its 78th session. He said states should handle the issue but federal help is needed and listed aims including muster-out pay, tax simplification, and postwar aviation laws.
The War Food Administration moved to offset a price break in eggs by contracting for 7,000,000 pounds of dried whole eggs for February delivery. This action aims to remove excess supply from markets and sustain producer viability as prices fall to about 20 cents a dozen in country points.
A Russian communique says Spanish soldiers remain with German forces on the Volkhov front in northern Russia despite Franco regime claims that Spaniards were recalled. The report adds that Spanish troops are fighting alongside Germans in the ongoing campaign.
Allied forces including Marines at Cape Gloucester New Britain and Tauali press a seaward offensive against Japanese defenses. Liberator bombers hit a Japanese cruiser near Kavieng Kavieng while air forces claim 22 enemy planes down and two freighters sunk. An escort vessel damaged, and Soviet-like reports note Bismarck archipelago air strikes with fighter losses on both sides.
East St. Louis and Cincinnati markets imposed hog embargoes amid a week of heavy arrivals totaling 476,500 hogs across 12 major markets. Chicago, South St. Paul, and Indianapolis faced unsold hogs with Indianapolis hampered by a 400-employee walkout at Armour and Company. War Food Administration urged farmers to contact agents before shipping more hogs.
A Chicago coroner inquest found police officer Joseph Niewinski justified in fatally shooting William Auburn Thompson 28 after Thompson and two others robbed two hotels and held up Sunny Ainsworth. the jury commended the officer and two colleagues for courage.
The state board of control finished its investigation into the Anamosa men's reformatory New Year break by 4 p.m. Sunday. Gov. Hickenlooper had ordered a full inquiry, while Warden Foss Davis continues his separate probe. The escapees Ralph Cassidy Steve Ratcliff Frank Brown and John Bryl were captured in Davenport and face charges including auto theft attempted murder escape kidnapping and robbery with aggravation.
Abe Fortas was granted a recess appointment by President Roosevelt as undersecretary of the interior. He had left the post last fall to join the navy and has since received a medical discharge.
The US Navy reports the submarine Pompano sunk after patrolling Japanese home waters where she sank two warships and damaged merchant ships. Commander Willis M. Thomas of Vallejo California, holder of the Navy Cross and Silver Star, is listed as missing.
The submarine Pompano conducted an aggressive and successful war patrol near the Japanese coastline. It sank a Japanese destroyer, two 900 ton patrol vessels, and 6 9000 tons of merchant shipping, and inflicted severe damage on an aircraft carrier.
In 1937 a submarine built at Mare Island California, carrying about 75 crew, is reported lost. It marks the seventeenth submarine lost since the war began and the 138th American war craft listed as lost.
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