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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1944
Page
1
Commentary discusses Dewey's claim that Roosevelt's cabinet lacks real authority and the need for resignations to refresh leadership. It notes Ickes as an exception and criticizes loyalty barriers to firing. It also sketches postwar German peace ideas, citing Emery Reves on a German peace plan using occupied-country templates.
Gen Joseph W Stilwell in Carmel Calif spends two informal hours at his home answering questions but refuses to discuss China or his removal as commander of the China Burma India theater. He praises US youth and laments waiting at home while awaiting new assignment. He notes he has two ribbons and jokes about missing coats and shoes.
American First and Ninth armies opened a major winter offensive north east of Aachen with heavy air strikes and ground assaults. Hodges and Simpson led forces across Germany from the Dutch frontier toward Metz as British and French units also pressed toward the Rhineland. Metz remained contested amid renewed German counterattacks.
An Associated Press item notes unclaimed cigarette lots auctioned at the Chicago post office for high prices up to 88 percent. In Mason City, OPA enforcement obtained a federal court injunction against a grocer selling cigarettes at 25 cents a package. The author questions government tolerance of market distortions while private individuals are penalized.
American invasion troops have landed on the Mapia islands 115 miles north of New Guinea to neutralize a Japanese warning post along the Leyte bombing route. MacArthur reported heavy bombing and a tightening U.S. push as divisions advance along the Ormoc road and near Taliban drive toward encirclement.
Moscow reports the Red Army breached the German line east of Budapest and presses toward the Austrian invasion routes. Malinovsky’s forces push through to Jaszbereny as German withdrawals extend 100 miles, threatening Budapest’s siege and northern rail hubs Godollo and Hatvan.
A witty note contrasts bold newspaper headlines with a real scoop on a consumer item. The piece applauds brave women keeping spirits high and notes news of new ways to apply a two-way stretch to gasoline coupons, signaling relief amid wartime shortages.
Washington AP Herbert Brownell Jr was asked by Governor Thomas Dewey to stay as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Godfrey Hammond resigned as publicity director and returned to private business at Popular Science Publishing. Leland Chesley now leads GOP publicity.
The Swedish government ordered German agents to leave Sweden immediately. The British radio said a German baron who led the German tourist bureau and suspected of involvement with Gestapo matters was asked to depart. A Finnish journalist who had recently arrived and was said to have worked for the German government was also told to leave.
President Roosevelt declines to accept the resignations of War Labor Board members William H. Davis George W. Taylor and Frank P. Graham. He asks them to remain until Germany is eliminated or they can depart without harming the board’s work.
President Roosevelt nominated Paul A. Porter publicity director of the 1944 Democratic campaign to the Federal Communications Commission to succeed Chairman James Lawrence Ply. Porter is named as a member with the chairman to be designated from among commissioners.
Beginning December 10 the ministry of food will allocate raw materials for ice cream for the British public. The treat has not been available since 1942, signaling a cautious return of the dessert amid wartime controls.
Hollywood bodyguard Mack Gray testified that George Raft was a top film star who won money at a party hosted by Lippy Durocher but denied using loaded dice. Hudson Aircraft president Martin Shurin alleged Raft rolled four fours ten and nines and lost $18 000, while a guest warned the dice were fixed. Gray argued the claim was a setup as Raft earns high film salaries and only won $10,000.
Cedar Rapids coroner Dr. T Frank Hersch appealed to motorists to exercise caution as the sixth pedestrian fatality of 1944 occurred when Mrs. Jessie Yuill Canfield 78 was struck on Third Avenue SE near Fourteenth Street at dusk. He noted 137 Linn county deaths in the past year with 26 from accidents including 13 hit by automobiles.
CHICAGO INS reports wartime shortages may end popular book matches as 90 percent of paper book earmarked for other uses. Officials of the Diamond conan company said modern match types will join cigarettes in scarcity.
Washington AP reports American ground force casualties in western Europe exceed 200 000 totaling 200 349 through November 1. The figure includes 35 884 killed 145 788 wounded and 18 677 missing. It covers Seventh Army and northern theaters but not air force.
Cedar Rapids and vicinity expect cloudy skies to clear Friday with slightly warmer afternoon temperatures. The temperature rose to 44 degrees by 2:30 p.m., after a 16 hour run near 42, then dipped to 40 as night cooled. Yesterday’s high reached 45 with 42 by 7 p.m. No precipitation reported.
RAF Mosquito bombers raided Berlin with heavy two ton bombs on Wednesday night. The attack followed up a daytime mission over Dortmund in the Ruhr. Three RAF bombers were lost in day and night operations.
In Los Angeles Otto Steve Wilson 32 confessed to two savage murders of women Virgie Lee Griffin 25 and Lillian Joingers 45. Police say he killed them after encounters on skid row and between the slayings attended the horror film The Walking Dead. A traffic officer arrested him near one hotel. He claimed motive started over a dispute over money.
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