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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1944
Page
4
Rep. Will Rogers Jr and allies move veteran bonus bills into the hopper while estimates place cost from 1 billion to 50 billion dollars. Critics warn payouts could strain the economy and burden future taxpayers, urging careful scrutiny of affordability and impact.
Allied reports detail the deaths of the First and Third Ranger Battalions at Cisterna after a night march into the town on January 29. Survivors recalled tanks and German fire decimating the force, with radio silence and a final halt by 12:30 PM January 30. Cpl. Ben W. Mosier and Sgt. Thomas B. Fergen are named among the few who returned or fought.
The First and Second Seabee battalions, totaling about 1,500 men, returned from 23 months in the South Pacific and disembarked in San Francisco to cheers. They will each receive leaves to visit their homes as a band played and officials spoke.
Algiers AP Lt. Comdr. Doug las Fairbanks Jr. received the Silver Star on Wednesday for his actions during the Salerno landing.
Soviet forces in western Ukraine advance on a 200 mile front capturing over 200 towns and threatening Nazi supply lines in the Dnieper bend. Zhukov’s army reports continued gains while German counterattacks are repulsed.
The brokers' team of Cedar Rapids commercial division surpassed its $411 quota by raising $463 for the 1944 Red Cross drive. Ronald Booth captained the team under Commercial Division Major Tom Crabbe. Campaign HQ reported slow start with $8,000 raised in first two days. final Linn county goal is $147,000. Snowbound workers and weather delayed door knock efforts. no audit meeting Tuesday.
Chinese troops under Lt. Gen. Joseph Stilwell linked with American infantrymen under Brig. Gen. Frank Merrill in Burma on Tuesday, completing a movement that cut off the main retreat and tightened isolation of enemy positions. The operation involved coordinated action between Allied forces to sever supply lines and advance toward strategic objectives.
Ottumwa District Judge Paul McCoid removed G. E. Dusty Rhoads as city public safety commissioner after a hearing on a petition by County Attorney John D. Moon alleging failure to perform duties. Rhoads faces a conspiracy charge linked to alleged protection payoffs and denied knowledge of illegal operations while testifying in his defense.
Hollywood with Charlie Chaplin facing trial after Superior Court Judge Stanley Mosk denied a motion to dismiss Joan Barry’s paternity suit. Three doctors concluded Chaplin could not be the father of five month old Carol Ann. The judge ruled the case should proceed to trial.
ST. ALBANS VT AP The McGoverns welcomed twins in a surprise arrival as the draft board temporarily excused the father from his pre induction physical. The scene captured officials briefly delaying routine procedures amid the birth announcement.
Cedar Rapids and eastern Iowa face continued cold and mixed conditions with highways reopening to one way traffic while gravel roads No 136 and No 38 remain closed. Streets drifted and crews work toward clearing by tonight with bus schedules resuming and trains running late.
U S Marines jump 110 miles from Cape Gloucester to the north coast of New Britain near Talasea and press toward Rabaul. Los Negros in Admiralty Islands falls under American control as airfields and bombardments continue across the region.
Hotel rooms scarce as war workers flood Cedar Rapids leaving hundreds without lodging. Survey shows about 500 rooms could have been filled. Clerks report cots in offices and lobbies as rooms fill by 3 pm. many workers sleep in hotel lobbies or doubles up in rooms while others are turned away daily.
The Cedar Rapids exchange of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. handled 3 963 toll calls on Tuesday, about 487 above the prior high set last Christmas Eve. Officials credit stranded travelers and war workers for much of the surge and note no circuits were cut by the storm.
In Colorado's First District Denver Republicans win Dean M. Gillespie over Major Carl Wuertele in a special Wednesday election. Gillespie 41,447 to 38,524, giving Republicans 210 seats to Democrats 217 in the House with four minor party seats and four vacancies after the late Rep. Lawrence Lewis.
A Senate agriculture subcommittee abandoned a contempt citation against Presidential Assistant Jonathan Daniels after he answered questions about attempts to oust Rural Electrification Administrator Harry E. Slattery. The case may be closed, though the panel continues to probe White House involvement and declined to subpoena Roosevelt files.
James D. Nicoll 64, an accountant for Iowa Manufacturing and former Warfield Pratt Howell Grocer staff, died after a fall at Second Ave and Seventeenth St SE. He suffered a head injury and possible concussion with hemorrhage. burial planned at Linwood Cemetery with services at Turner chapel. Survived by wife, four sisters, two brothers. one infant son also noted.
A vast force of about 1,100 heavy bombers and 2,000 planes attacked Berlin in daylight, dropping 350,000 incendiaries and 10,000 high explosives. The operation, described as the greatest daylight offensive, followed earlier raids on Le Mans and Trappes withUnited States Marauders and RAF escort delivering heavy blows as German defenses fought back.
The International Red Cross reports Second Lt Francis E Bud Wilson missing in action over Germany since the January 11 air battle and now a German prisoner of war. He is a Flying Fortress pilot, son of Mrs K C Rollins, joined the Army Air Corps in 1942 and went overseas in 1943. Also listed missing is Second Lt George A Hannon from Cedar Rapids.
Welsh mine output for British war industries dwindled to a trickle as a wage strike spread across the area. Early estimates say from 60,000 to 70,000 of 100,000 miners in Welsh fields walked out, raising the prospect of halted production.
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