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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1944
Page
2
The piece discusses potential breaches of the Little Steel wage-price ceiling as wartime economics shift. It notes income distribution from 1941 and warns of rapid peacetime shocks, then surveys postwar health risks, housing crowding, and rising public health costs. It also critiques reliance on insurer plans, urging sanitation and education funding. It ends with satirical notes on anti-cigarette campaigns and wartime habits.
General Eisenhower told reporters at Supreme Headquarters there was no sign of a German eastward retreat and that, given Allied air superiority, a Rhine crossing would be nearly a naval operation. He urged a maximum, continuous effort from front to home to force victory, praising Belfort and warning against complacency.
Washington AP report quotes WPB chairman J A Krug calling 28 percent of the munitions program critical and noting General Eisenhower informed Washington that Germany defeat hinges on arms deliveries and progress.
The Chinese high command acknowledged a severed China as two large Japanese forces, possibly 250,000 troops, invaded Kwangsi from east and north and linked west of Liuchow. Tokyo radio claimed U S air forces destroyed Nanning airfield, alleged as the sole enemy base in south China.
A 39 craneman strike at Carnegie-Illinois Steel Gary works halted all production at the world's largest plant. 53 open hearth furnaces stopped, five blast furnaces banked, 5,500 idle workers, 18,000 employed. officials call strike unauthorized and expect days before full shutdown.
To the People of this Community urges every American to purchase an extra war bond. It frames bond buying as crucial to victory, noting the cost of each B 29 Superfortress and urging readers to contribute at least an additional $100 through payroll savings to support troops and the war effort.
In London AP reports a record fleet of over 1,100 American fighters destroyed at least 53 German planes Tuesday while 1,250 American bombers dropped 4000 tons of explosives on three synthetic oil plants. The action over Hamburg Harburg and Merseburg involved the largest escort ever, with 21 kills by one unit prompting officials to say something big happened. Flak was intense at Hamburg Harburg and ground fire moderate at Merseburg.
Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin face delays in arranging a three power meeting. The shift pushes talks into 1945 with possible early year gatherings and a revised schedule for postwar conferences and the United Nations plan at Dumbarton Oaks. The wartime outlook and unresolved issues from Dumbarton Oaks drive the uncertainty.
The Civil Aeronautics Administration inspected the Cedar Rapids Municipal airport lighting before transfer to the city. Mayor F K Hahn activated the test switch lighting the field. S E Sombart of Kansas City praised the system pending final approval. The lighting contract, held by Baker Terry of St Louis, cost about 16000 with fencing by the same firm at 4000.
Opening day results show Linn county on the way to its 9 256 000 quota with 891 222 21 raised. Cedar Rapids contributed 868 834 71 and the rest of the county 22 387 50. Veterans and scouts helped spur totals with many locales oversubscribing their targets.
American B 29s attacked Omura and two Chinese targets Nanking and Shanghai. Weather limited results at Omura while Nanking docks showed good damage and Shanghai fair to good. Carriers hit Manila destroying 118 enemy planes with 18 shot down and 100 on the ground. Liberators bombed Tarakan and other Pacific targets with fires and vessel losses.
Allied armies on the western front have captured at least 691,989 prisoners since D-day. About two-thirds, or 424,124, were captured by the four American armies.
Allied reports say the 32nd division is steadily reducing fortified Japanese positions near Limon on Leyte as heavy rain hinders operations. The Limon roadblock resists a major Japanese breakout, while U S forces repulse attacks west of the road. air and ground actions continue with multiple enemy aircraft shot down and long range artillery shelling aiding the effort.
Pfc LuVern F Husted 23 was killed in action on Leyte October 25 according to a War Department telegram to his wife Mrs Shirley A Husted of 318 Third Avenue SW. He is survived by his wife mother Elizabeth Husted father Frank Husted a brother and two sisters and grandparents. He was born February 12 1921 and married Shirley Piers of Alpha March 18 1943. He worked for the Milwaukee Railroad at Atkins before enlisting November 5 1942. He served in Hawaii Australia and New Guinea before Leyte. His uncle Emmett Rasmussen is in the Philippines.
President Roosevelt reportedly named former Connecticut Governor Robert A. Hurley as chair of the Surplus War Property Disposal board with Senator Guy M. Gillette and Col. Edward Heller as other members. The posts pay $12,000 annually. Gillette, defeated for re election, said he might accept if service during the war crisis is possible. The board oversees disposal of an estimated 100 billion dollars of surplus war properties.
Governor B. B. Hickenlooper of Iowa and Senator Guy M. Gillette met on the senate floor in a cordial exchange. Gillette, about to be succeeded by Hickenlooper, greeted the incoming governor with a handshake and shared a brief, friendly talk as members from both parties parted to greet the guest.
Two outbound passenger trains collided on the Harahan bridge over the Mississippi River near Memphis. The Missouri Pacific train bound for Hot Springs Ark crashed into the rear of Rock Island's local to Helena Ark. Passengers were not seriously injured and train damage was slight amid foggy conditions reported by police.
Government radio announced in La Paz that two army officers and two civilians were executed in Oruro for attempting to overthrow the Villarreal regime. The dispatch notes the harsh action as part of the crackdown following the coup attempt.
Allied forces push from Belfort and Mulhouse toward the Rhine as French and American units advance into Alsace and the Saar basin. Seventh and Third armies drive toward Strasbourg Saarbrucken while facing heavy armor counterattacks and continued fort resistance near Metz.
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