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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1944
Page
1
November 24, 1944 notices itemize rationing stamps for meat gasoline foods sugar and fuel with validity dates and points. Also listed are individuals fined for drunkenness speeding and overtime parking plus divorce decree Hazel Bernice Fish from Harry Philip Fish.
Santa visits Cedar Rapids inspiring hundreds of children including Loren H Boxwell Virginia Frame Norman Cory Alice Hilmer Cecil Eye Josephine Ankeny Gilbert Williams Mary Holmes and others. A town parade on main streets featured floats animals and storybook characters. A Santa float led by Robert Black drew cheers as kids shared wish lists and tales of Skeptics turning believers.
London reports civilians suffered increased casualties Friday in an early morning attack on southern England by German vengeance weapons, with V-1 buzz bombs and V-2 rocket bombs likely involved.
City notes Friday action with council approval of bills and payrolls and warrants drawn on the treasurer. Community notices include sermons at local churches this Sunday and a federation meeting observed as a holiday. Hospital news reports Dave Roberson in Iowa City improving and accepting visitors. Ads promote free truss adjustments at Paramount Pharmacy and local open houses at RRR Ranch formerly Bever Park Stables with new address on 30th Street.
The second annual all Methodist Sunday will be held at St Pauls Church on Sunday. All Methodist churches will dismiss their services to join in at St Pauls led by Bishop Charles.
General Hansell and Lt General Harmon describe ongoing B 29 raids against Tokyo as experimental but increasingly sustained. Engineer crews built Superfort bases on Saipan Tinian and Guam within five months, enabling Friday raids from Isely Field and other airfields as the Pacific push continues toward a larger land sea invasion.
DES MOINES Iowa Gov Rourke B Hickenlooper senator elect confirms Dan O Brien and Miss Max ser will go to Washington with him after succeeding Senator Guy M Gillette He says he does not know if he will have four or five on his Washington staff This is his first formal press conference since returning from Washington where he has not found a home yet He is undecided about when he will leave for Washington.
Stockholm AP reports the Swedish passenger ship Hanse was late near Gotland as Swedish military aircraft spotted debris and lifeboats with possible survivors. The incident follows a German proclamation that ships in the Baltic and Gulf of Bothnia could be sunk without warning, though Hanse’s route lay outside the proscribed area.
Sigourney Iowa AP report says J C Kennell 70, longtime insurance man and auditor for Keokuk county from 1913 to 19, died Friday after a heart attack.
Des Moines AP says Iowa farm hands may shift to food processing plants once county agents decide the harvest is far enough along to free them. WMC and extension service approve winter city work. workers must return to farm by March. Urgent need cited for meat packing and poultry plants.
Ottawa AP Defense Minister A G L McNaughton announced in the House of Commons that an order in council provides overseas conscription for Canadian home defense troops. The measure caps overseas troops at 16 000 and targets the European theater, amid a cabinet clash with a resigned defense minister. Prime Minister Mackenzie King sought a confidence vote, whose outcome could decide the government’s war leadership.
Eight year old Eugene Bridges of Energy Illinois died from lymphatic leukemia on Thanksgiving Day before neighbors and relatives could gather for a planned Christmas party in his honor. His mother Effie Bridges widow and his siblings faced funeral arrangements as church groups had raised funds for the event. Eugene had been unconscious when classmates delivered toys and food the night before.
A guard was killed and three convicts shot and wounded as ten prisoners attempted an escape over the wall at Stateville penitentiary Joliet Illinois Friday. The slain guard Zoethe Skaags was shot above the heart.
Sgt. William L. Perkins of Cairo NL reported finding two girdles among spoil after landing with Marines at Guam. The fragment notes the discovery but lacks additional details on provenance or subsequent action.
The Russian Fourth Ukrainian army pushed forward after a four week lull with gains up to 16 miles on a 25 mile front west of Ungvar. Forces overran 30 populated places and threatened Kassa, the chokepoint west of Tokaj, as Berlin noted Soviet landings on Csepel near Budapest amid fog and siege actions.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz disclosed that U S warships bombarded Japanese positions in the Kurile islands and continued heavy air strikes in the central and western Pacific. Matsuwa island was hit Tuesday with no Japanese opposition, big fires and explosions observed, and none of the American ships damaged.
Services for Amos Pletz age ? will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Polanski chapel with burial in Bohemian National cemetery. Surviving relatives include several nephews and nieces. Friends may call at the chapel.
Opal Kent Zeman died Sunday after a hit and run Saturday in Los Angeles. Services set for Sunday at 4 pm in Solon Methodist Church conducted by Rev. George Carlson. Burial at Oakland Cemetery, Solon. Friends may call at the family home Saturday. Brosh funeral home is handling arrangements.
Emil A Huber 65 retired telegraph operator and Solon resident died at 7 30 am at his home after a long illness He was born Aug 29 Surviving are two sisters Sarah and Magdalene at home two brothers Benedict and Irwin Solon and several nieces and nephews Services will be at 2 pm Sunday at Brosh funeral home Solon with Dr Marion H Williams of the First Christian church Cedar Rapids officiating Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery Solon Friends may call at the Brosh funeral home Solon
Margaret Smith Bailey, 79, died at 10 40 p m Thursday after a brief illness at her farm home near Monticello where she had lived 50 years. Born in Scotland December 22 1864 she came to the United States at age 2. She married John J Bailey in 1884. he died in May 1930. Survived by sons Peter F Bailey Irvin R Bailey and Mildred Bailey at Monticello and grandson John Peter Bailey. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Secretary of War Stimson announced U S combat casualties in World War II total 528,795. Army through November 7 reported 454,180 casualties with 86,245 killed 254,283 wounded 56,442 missing and 55,210 prisoners. Navy Marine and Coast Guard through November 22 reported 74,615 casualties including 29,208 killed 31,574 wounded 9,347 missing and 4,486 prisoners. Army wounded returning to duty numbered 120,887, with the overall army figure rising by 16,824 in ten days.
Washington reports a new lightweight diesel train from Spain claiming 80 miles per hour on sharp mountain curves, far above standard trains. Inventor Lt Col Alejandro Goicoechea and design features include 12 to 14 foot cars, rear wheels only, no axles, low center of gravity, and a single linked front end, boosting stability and economy.
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