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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1944
Page
3
The Office of Price Administration fixed nationwide price ceilings for alfalfa hay effective July 3 to curb rising costs in non controlled regions. Prices average parity of 21.50 a ton with state variations and possible $2 to $5 add ons for quality grades.
The Navy will operate the government owned Brewster plant at Johnstown Pennsylvania leased to Brewster Aeronautical. The aviation modification and engineering center will employ about 2500 people and open around July 3.
The naval air center in Philadelphia plans to terminate the Brewster lease on July 1. Johnsville work will continue partly during the transition to the naval air materials center. The Navy had also terminated Brewster production contracts, saying other plants are more satisfactory for the work.
The War Department reported that army deaths from December 7 1941 to April 30 1944 totaled 63 000 including battle and other causes. Total army separations from all sources reach 1 200 000 with 62 000 listed as prisoners or missing and 922 000 honorable discharges.
Chicago AP Earl C Smith vice president of the American Farm Bureau federation called the agricultural plank in the Republican platform satisfactory. He said the plank is adequate to meet the problems connected with the farm situation when literally interpreted and sympathetically put into action.
Charles Laughton appears on Dinah Shore program at 8 30 p.m. on CBS and WMT with the Joseph Lilley chorus and Robert Emmett Dolan orchestra. Johnny Mercer Music Shop features Jerry Colonna at 6 and 10 p.m. over WHO.
A listing of radio programs with times and stations including WBBM WHO KXEL WMT WMAQ and others. Highlights feature Those We Love Aldrich Family Town Meeting Dinah Shore and March of Time among scheduled shows.
Hour by hour listings show CBS WMT NBC WMAQ WGN and other stations with programs led by news blocks, music, and serials. Notable names include Harry Savoy, Dale Carnegie, Arthur Hale, Kaltenborn, Dinah Shore, Dinah Shore, Woolf, and Major Bowes as the day unfolds from early morning to late night.
A readable listing of meat cuts including Bottom Round Chuck blade arm Rump bone in boneless Loin Chops Rib Chops Leg Chops Steaks Shoulder Chops blade or arm Shoulder neck and shoulders crosscut bone in Sirloin Roast bone in including Yoke Rattle or Triangle bone notes and grading ranges AA A B and other grades excluding cutters canmery and stags.
Dairy products list shows only items with changed points effective July 2 including Swiss Quene Monstar Limburger and other cheeses. The table specifies updated values for these rationed cheeses and grated and brick varieties.
President Roosevelt signed a bill granting preference in federal job hiring to honorably discharged veterans and their spouses or widows of disabled veterans. The law embeds 10 point and 5 point advantages for disabled and non disabled veterans and ends future peacetime veteran preference while preserving current holders' benefits.
CHICAGO AP Milestones in the career of Gov. Thomas Edmund Dewey of New York Kee Owosso Mich March 24 02 Graduated University of Michigan 1923 AB Columbia law school NY 1925 Entered private law practice in New York 1926 Married Frances E Hutt of Sapulpa Okla while both were studying voice in New York in 1928 Have two young sons Thomas E and John Martin Named chief assistant US attorney for southern districts of New York 1931 Special assistant to US attorney general prosecuting tax proceedings against Banker Charles E Mitchell and criminal prosecution of Irving Wexler Waxey Gordon 1934 35 Counsel to New York Barasso-
The piece recalls General John J. Bennett and Harold L Kunstler, detailing Lehman era appointments, Hines fighting rackets, and the 1938 GOP bid for governor. It notes Hines's Tammany-linked conviction, Bennett's removal, and Lehman’s 1943 inauguration amid the era’s high political turnover.
In Clearwater Florida AP reports former Czechoslovak prime minister Milan Hodza died in a local hospital Tuesday night He had arrived two and a half months earlier for a visit at Clearwater Beach The story notes the year 1938 and army air forces plane acceptances at 558 for that fiscal year
Three Des Moines boys aged 12, 11, and 9 ransacked an unoccupied house near Lorimor and set fire to a barn. They told Sheriff J. R. Ewing they left Des Moines at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and rode with Madison county officers before returning with a truck to Levi, where they admitted breaking open trunks and firing shells from a found shotgun to burn out supposed robbers in the barn.
Public service notice urges citizens to support the war effort by purchasing war bonds to keep prices stable and back national defense. The call stresses financial patriotism and collective effort during wartime.
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