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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1944
Page
1
Commentary covers a proposed January 26 special legislative session to debate military voting mechanics and a potential cancellation of 1944 state income tax, arguing caution against haste. Also notes a jet propulsion warplane story and calls for clear foreign policy from leaders.
Reports circulated from Stockholm and Zagreb alleging Allied specialists had landed on Yugoslav coast but officials in Algiers called the account completely erroneous. Reuters cited Stockholm Tidningen with Zagreb sources. London officials suspected German disinformation. No force sizes or nationalities confirmed. long-standing liaison with Tito noted.
The United Press says two German papers urge readers to return to church for morale. Novoe Slovo and Hamburger Fremdenblatt push a back-to-church message amid Nazi era tension, calling religion modern and urging faith in Christ.
Fragmentary readable items mention courthouse movements and a death notice linked to AB David Lawrence. Sports and radio items appear, with names such as Walter Winchell and Paul Marlon showing in compact listings.
Clarence Randall of Inland Steel and other Chicago magnates will auction their services at a Skokie school rally. Bidders purchasing war stamps will hear auctioneer Lester Winternitz call bids for duties like dishwashing and silvers polishing, with tycoons dressed as their future roles.
Germany forms a Nazi party led salvage organization under Goebbels to systematically clear Berlin. Iron and copper will feed war furnaces while building materials repair damaged homes and aid the homeless with temporary housing.
Concert soprano and radio star Lucille Manners married Lt. William Walker of the United States Army Air Forces on Thursday night in Short Hills New Jersey.
A joint U S army air forces and RAF statement describes a jet propelled rocket plane of British American design. Flight tests began in 1941 with Group Capt Whittle credited for the program. Production plans and orders trace to Gloucester Aircraft and Power Jets collaboration.
Cedar Rapids and vicinity recorded a low of 1 below zero with morning readings in the northern Iowa area dipping to 3 below at Mason City and Charles City. The day opened cold, with 28 degrees at noon rising to 21 by evening and 3 above at midnight. No precipitation noted, but light snow possible in the southwest later today as western Iowa may see snow tonight. Skies were partly cloudy and humidity stood at 34 percent.
Washington dispatch says President Roosevelt will confer with congressional leaders before deciding the date of his annual state of the union address. Postponement follows the President's recent bout with typhoidlike illness confining him to private quarters.
Sources say the naval flight preparatory school on the Cornell college campus at Mt Vernon will end June 30 1944. A letter attributed to Rear Admiral L E Denfeld cites a third order ending the program, with three remaining trainee classes to finish by March 1944.
The Selective Service announces ending local board screening and adding a 21 day pre induction exam. It will create three eligibility groups army general service army limited service and navy. Local boards will receive army and navy quotas and may re call men not yet in 1 A before induction.
Major Greg Boyington, 31, famed for downing 26 Japanese planes, was reported missing in action hours after Guadalcanal dispatch confirmed his record. The Black Sheep leader led a 50-strong sweep over New Britain with six confirmed zeros downed, while his mother and family await details.
KINGMAN Ariz Twenty seven soldiers were killed and eight critically injured when a Santa Fe freight train struck a Kingman army air base bus at a gunner y school crossing. The bus carried 36 aboard. The dead include Robert J Knapp and Frank E Smith. The accident occurred after the bus paused at the crossing and rolled forward into the train.
American air forces using a new bombing device dropped a heavy payload on an enemy target in southwest Germany. Marauder bombers attacked northern France under escort and returned with no losses while Mosquito aircraft hit targets along the English Channel coast in western Germany with similar results.
Pvt. Frank J. Pavek son of Mr and Mrs W J Pavek 1024 Ninth Street SE was wounded slightly in action in New Britain December 16 telegram from the war department reports He is 21 years old entered service February 25 1943 and has been overseas about six months.
Soviet lines under Gen. Vatutin carve a 175 mile front from the Pripets to the Dnieper bend, raiding towns and crushing German positions. Baltic and White Russia fronts drive west toward Latvia while reporting takedown of enemy HQ near Propoisk. German claims of tank losses and possible withdrawals arise amid harsh winter conditions.
The War Production Board granted more steel Friday for pails, buckets, wash tubs, wash boilers, funnels, fire shovels and oil storage cans. Quotas for the first quarter raise permitted tonnage to 92 14 percent of quarterly usage in the year ending June 30, 1941, up from 50 percent previously.
The influenza epidemic raised deaths for a fifth straight week in the seven days ending Jan 1. The mortality rate jumped to 50.4 percent above the three year average, based on data from 89 major cities and reported by the census bureau. The rate was 13.2 percent higher than the prior week.
William J. Barron of Cedar Rapids announced the purchase of Standard Battery and Electric of Waterloo. The firm will operate under Barron’s management with employees retained. John Hansen retires from active interest in the company.
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