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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1944
Page
16
Walter Winchell rails at sedition indictments naming a Chicago publisher and assorted criminals including a Nazi agent and convicted felons. He blasts opposition to deportment of the Constitution and mocks antiwar figures while recalling radio, press, and wartime politics.
London reports that Germany plans to test a liquid air rocket bomb on the Russian front, with preliminary tests in Austria described as smashing targets to atoms. The device reportedly covers seventy miles, is released from a plane, glides to its objective, and ravages a four hundred yard area.
CBS correspondent Paul Manning, a veteran of four bombing missions over Europe, calls Nazi rockets terrible weapons of destruction and notes German air force fighting with bitterness and skill. He recounts Allied Stuttgart raid on Sept 6 failing to locate the city due to heavy weather.
In a day of heavy air combat the United States suffered 45 bomber losses while engaging enemy air forces and claimed 84 Allied fighters shot down.
Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt urged sweeping changes to social security including old age insurance for 15 to 20 million more workers. He called for hospital and medical care coverage, armed forces rights protection, disability income protection, and a national unemployment insurance system replacing state programs.
Washington WPB announces a conservation program to stretch pulp supplies for wrapping paper in the first quarter of 1944. The allocation is less than half of 1943. Howard Coonley urges public cooperation with store staff to minimize wrap uses by reusing bags, avoiding inner wrappings, reusing boxes, and not burning paper.
Twin motored Mitchell bombers of the Fourteenth United States air force raided Japanese installations in Indo China and shipping off China's southeast coast. The operation was announced by Lt Gen Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters on Monday.
Polish underground emissary Wojciech Bielak describes his London reporting post after a perilous escape from Poland. He cites German civilian despair, ra tion cuts, Gestapo surveillance, and a call to intensify Allied air attacks on Germany to end the war.
In Marrakech last Wednesday Prime Minister Churchill and General de Gaulle met for a cordial conference. They reportedly discussed French authority in liberated areas and the role of French forces in the coming invasion, with arms for the underground also on the agenda.
The piece urges vigilance and selflessness by imagining saving a neighbor’s child from danger. It asks if one would interrupt daily toil to help, stressing communal duty and the cost of indifference when defending freedom and lives in danger.
In Great Falls Montana the health department ponders Geezil the weasel's fate after a cyanide poisoning attempt on Mrs Ella Rhone. Inspector Shea rips up the apartment floor seeking a corpse or signs of death amid insects and a mouse.
Winchester Repeating Arms announces a new device to let troops throw hand grenades without disclosing position. The fuse lights five seconds before explosion, changing the noise from a sharp bang to a whispering sound while the thrower holds the grenade. The prior audible warning sometimes caused dangerous consequences.
Washington AP reports Grover Cleveland Bergdoll the World War I draft dodger will be released from Fort Leavenworth in about a month, a War Department spokesman said Sunday.
Louella Parsons previews Hollywood notes including Walt Disney shaping Bongo the bear film and rights purchase for nine Ernest Ball songs for When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. Danny Kaye receives high praise as a fresh screen personality while Sam Goldwyn bets on his breakout. Other items highlight Dick Haymes and Bob Haymes, Lupe Velez’s sister, Claude Rains’ England trip, Ginger Rogers and Billie Burke wedding plans, and Billie Burke’s New York return with Zoe Akins play plans.
The Gazette lists Monday film times for Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Times Strand and Marion venues with titles including Girl Crazy What a Woman Crime Doctor's Strangest Case Hi Diddle Diddle Bar 20 Mr Lucky Colt Comrades It Ain't Hay Fugitive of the Plains Pilot No 5 Salute for Three Here We Go Again Clancy Street Boys Salute to the Marines Thumbs Up and more.
State of Iowa Linn County on January 6 1944 Mary Mikula s named Administratrix of the estate of E J Mikula deceased all persons indebted must pay and those with claims must file with the Clerk of Linn County District Court Iowa Mary Mikulas Administratrix Eliott Shuttleworth and Ingersoll attorneys
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