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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1944
Page
3
Comment notes farmers under Triple-A pressure and threats to gas rations and draft deferments as grounds for legislative ban. Finds government bureaucracy intimidating and likens it to rackets. Discusses Roosevelt cabinet rumors, Cedar Rapids airport progress, and wind-powered air force research.
President Roosevelt urged free nations to open frontiers to refugees oppressed by Axis powers and reaffirmed U S pledge to Philippine independence. He warned about Nazi crimes and called on Germans to aid victims, while noting refugees in North Africa and ongoing interdepartmental efforts with Churchill and Stalin.
Prime Minister Churchill surprised U S airborne troops in the English countryside in a first inspection visit. He told them they would soon invade Nazi occupied Europe and praised their training and resolve as Gen. Eisenhower and other U S generals watched.
In Washington AP reports the House approved a ban in the agriculture department appropriation bill on pressuring farmers to join the Agricultural Adjustment Agency as a condition for draft deferments or rationed article priority. The 93 to 65 vote backed a measure denying salaries to anyone who makes such demands, amid Republican support and calls for committee study.
Cedar Rapids leaders praised John M. Ely and his Special Red Cross team for raising 5723 dollars from numerous organizations. Fayette township surpassed its 500 dollar quota by 21.75, with Mrs. William McCullough reporting. Century Engineering led city cash contributions with 1526.05 dollars, a first for a large industry. The drive hopes to reach about 15,000 more to hit the 147000 goal.
Fruehauf brothers filed a $400000 damage suit in Wayne county circuit court Detroit against former Ford vice president Charles E Sorenson over the Oct 6 sale of 293 Hampshire hogs. Tests showed most hogs carried Bangs disease.
MINNEAPOLIS AP Gerald L K Smith America First party leader and his associates say they favor Charles A Lindbergh for President.
United Steel Workers urge industry wide wage increases under the Little Steel formula arguing a 17 cent hourly rise would cost $207.952 million annually and not raise steel prices. They filed a 166 page brief with 94 steel companies at the War Labor Board hearing, detailing 14 demands including a guaranteed annual wage and postwar fund.
Chinese dispatches report Friday that a meningitis outbreak in Japanese-held Hangchow is killing hundreds each day, prompting concern over the city’s health crisis and potential relief efforts.
President Roosevelt announced the resignations of Leo T. Crowley as alien property custodian and Lowell Mellett as a presidential assistant. Crowley will remain foreign economic administrator while a successor is chosen. Mellett leaves to return to newspaper work.
Bryce L. Taylor Jr. eight month old son of a returned army flyer survived an eight floor fall from a Miami Beach hotel and is resting well at a local hospital. Army Air Forces reported the baby suffered a broken right leg and a neck injury. investigators say a screen gave way letting him fall into bushes.
New York AP reports Tomokazu Hori former Japanese foreign office spokesman is dead in Tokyo. The Berlin broadcaster said the news came Friday.
London reports first complete aerial images of bombed Berlin show 326 vital war plants destroyed or damaged in 15 RAF raids. Photos depict Reichstag, Unter den Linden, embassies, Goebbels home, Ribbentrop residence, and the Rhein-Metall Borsig plant with 25,000 workers, amid extensive destruction.
American Fortresses bombed Schweinfurt and Frankfurt while Liberators hit Nancy and Saint Dizier air fields in France. Fifteen air losses reported, with ground shoots and interceptions. total 61 enemy planes downed as Allied air forces push a three day German campaign and rail targets toward the invasion coast.
Mrs. Thomas Grere, 80, of Decorah, dies after a muffler caught in a washing machine wringer. Authorities report the strangling accident occurred Thursday afternoon at her home north of Decorah. She leaves her husband as survivor.
British and Indian troops push back Japanese columns crossing the Burma border into India. Allied forces enclose the Imphal area, repelling counterattacks and closing on key positions along the Imphal Tiddim road. Air forces strike Burma targets while Stilwell’s forces advance toward the Mogaung valley.
Cedar Rapids posted a new year high of 64 degrees at 2:30 p.m. with humidity at 17 percent. Forecasters predict colder conditions in Iowa for the next 24 hours with a Saturday morning low near 30.
The final round of the state high school basketball tournament will be aired tonight and Saturday by WSUI Iowa City 910. Waverly meets Harlan at 7:30 while Cedar Rapids Franklin faces Hull at 8:45. WSUI starts at 7:15 with Dick Yoakum and Harold Miller.
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