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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1944
Page
1
The piece questions who wrote the Army information guide and whether news is the public domain in wartime. It also reflects on Ray Anderson leaving The Gazette, introducing Rex Conn as farm editor, and a reflection on American notions of freedom versus foreign views.
President Fraser of the Order of Railway Conductors accuses Washington agencies of overstepping legal authority in a rail wage case. He states the railway labor act machinery was sufficient and vows the unions would have settled before Christmas if not for meddling officials. The wartime board heard the case in New York from June 7 to July 15.
Chicago police said Patricia Goodbody the sole witness to the fatal shooting of Adele Born Williams would be questioned at a district station over discrepancies in her story. Police plan lie detector tests. two safety deposit boxes opened after the crime yielded about 35000 in jewels but provided no killer clue.
In Washington at a Jackson Day dinner, House Speaker Rayburn and Vice President Wallace defended leadership during war and urged unity behind a Roosevelt fourth term. Rayburn praised Hull and Roosevelt as guiding figures while signaling no explicit term pledge. Wallace insisted the New Deal remains strong and tied to wartime victory and postwar goals.
Rex Conn, Linn county agricultural agent, resigns to become farm editor of The Cedar Rapids Gazette March 1 succeeding Ray Anderson who joins Farm Journal as roving editor. Conn led Linn county Farm Bureau since 1935 expanding to 1,250 members while Anderson shaped the Gazette farm page into a widely read feature with Fence Drift and Out on the Acres columns. S. F. Emerson will chair a board meeting Wednesday to act on Conn's resignation and consider a successor.
Roosevelt announced a War Refugee Board to rescue Nazis persecuted minorities in Europe. The board includes Hull Mor genthau Jr. and Stimson and will coordinate with international bodies to provide rescue, havens, relief, and rehabilitation for victims in imminent danger. An executive director will lead the effort.
Aboard a bomber above Italy, Robert Vermillion reports a flak hit near Rome during the invasion of the Italian coast. A tail gunner died in the crash with the B-25 returning from the Valmontone road-block mission as aerial combat raged around the beachhead.
Soviet troops advanced to within five miles of Krasnogvardeysk rail station southwest of Leningrad and cleared a Moscow to Leningrad rail line. They captured Tarsti and several towns along a 60 mile front while pushing up to 12 miles, also taking the rail station of Malukhta and clearing a 25 mile stretch of the Leningrad Moscow line.
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones reduced the Commodity Credit Corporation and its president J. B. Hutson to no policy power in the WFA food production program. A new Office of Distribution and a new Office of Price took over essential farm policy roles, ending CCC and Hutson’s wide control over key agricultural agencies.
LANSING Mich AP Circuit Judge Leland W Carr's one man grand jury ordered the arrest of 20 current or former Michigan legislators and six finance company officials on charges they conspired to influence votes in the 1939 legislative session. Warrants name three bribery schemes tied to small loan rates foreclosure procedures and motor vehicle contract regulation. Most suspects are Democrats. Arraignments planned Monday.
Gov. Forrest C. Donnell declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Bennett Champ Clark. Attorney General Roy McKittrick also seeks the Democratic nod. Clark is expected to run for re election despite Donnell and McKittrick entering the race.
Advanced Allied headquarters report jungle drive by Australian forces in the Ramu valley driving Japanese toward Madang and Dumpu under air strafing. Allied air and ground action near Madang and Saidor plus a 15 to 6 Allied air victory over Rabaul are noted.
Frank Mosley told District Judge Oras S. Shaw he filled a bucket with 1 000 pennies and gave his former wife a weekly ten dollar alimony payment. The judge laughed and told him he could now have the fun of taking them out.
Berlin radio said on Saturday that 53 people were killed in a railway disaster near Hannover in north central Germany. No further details were provided.
Swiss radio via Reynold's News says Nazis rush reinforcements across Brenner into Italy as Allied landings on the Italian coast are anticipated. AP report from Fifth Army beachhead south of Rome describes a remarkable amphibious operation with minimal resistance and surprise.
General Mark Clark visits the new Fifth Army landing zones and reports American and British forces making steady inland progress. Casualties are light, mainly from mines, with little coastal opposition and early prisoners including four drunken Germans. Allied planners express surprise at the smooth operation.
Allied forces from the United States and Britain landed by the thousands on a 30 mile stretch of the Italian coast south of Rome and pushed inland Saturday. The Germans report Nettuno harbor loss and a rapid Allied breakthrough near the Gustav and Adolf Hitler defenses.
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