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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1944
Page
4
The piece extols infantrymen or gravel agitators as the core of the army calling them the Queen of Battle. It notes infantry pride and contempt for other branches and cites Canadian rail engines building 16 000 miles in 30 days as a distant digression.
Washington reports reverse lend-lease aid from Britain Australia New Zealand India rising to 2 million a year by year start, with over a billion pounds of food and use of facilities provided. Crowley notes UK supplies under reverse lend-lease support U S war effort alongside Russia shipments surpassing quotas, aiding Allied initiative.
Wendell Willkie told reporters in Boston that the race would hinge on the Republican Party eroding the President's strength on the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards and in the industrial Midwest metropolitan centers. He said the President would likely win the Solid South, and a Republican would win the Midwest without the metropolitan centers.
Janice Graham, 20, a hired girl and former sweetheart of William Morrell, repudiated his claimed confession to a Mercer county triple farm slaying and was cleared of dual murder charges as a grand jury returned a no true bill.
Commonwealth accuses Everett N. Wilson of absconding as a witness after failure to appear at Morell murder trial. Morell, convicted of voluntary manslaughter in Helen Wilson’s death, was acquitted in the killings of Catherine Wilson and Robert McKay. A youth at trial denied a confession naming Janice as the slayer, faulted for the light verdict and spurring a state inquiry awaiting results.
Allied headquarters announced that fighters under Lt. Gen. George C. Kenney have shot down 1,500 Japanese planes. The 1,500th victory occurred over Wewak, New Guinea, on Wednesday as more losses were recorded without giving exact totals for current Japanese air strength.
The advisory from Admiral William F. Halsey’s South Pacific force states the war was halted with a toll of 134 American lives.
LAS VEGAS AP John J Gunther author and foreign correspondent was granted a divorce from Frances Gunther. He charged she deserted him in 1941. District Judge George E Marshall awarded Mrs Gunther custody of their child John Jr 15 and $200 a month for support.
The record shows support and six hundred dollar monthly alimony amid a court case. Mrs Gunther denied desertion but did not contest the action, leaving the matter unresolved.
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