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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1944
Page
13
A Survey Graphic note reports 30 percent of war plant women plan to return home, 48 percent stay in factory work, 14 percent seek white collar jobs. The piece discusses wage scales, male competition, and potential peacetime economic impacts. It also critiques Missouri Valley Authority talk and notes cigarette brand shortages prompting ad insights.
Allied forces report four more Japanese troop and supply vessels sunk near Leyte as U S fighter planes hit a convoy in the Visayan sea. Gen MacArthur notes heavy enemy losses including soldiers, transports, and destroyers across multiple attacks shaping the Leyte ground advance toward Ormoc.
Missoula Montana AP Hubert Zemke the famed Fightingest Pilot an American air ace is listed as a prisoner of war in Germany by the War Department. Zemke who led the group on a bomber escort mission was last seen missing October 30 after a crash in Germany. His wife says he had planned to end combat duty effective November 1.
FRANK CONNIFF reports that Hitler’s Volkssturm, supported by a weakened Wehrmacht, proved a military failure as elderly troops with severe injuries faced American tanks and air power. Maj. John Mettler notes patchwork defenses fail to halt Allied armor despite propaganda. Drying weather boosts air support and potential advances.
Paris AP reports growing use of enemy or comrade dogtags by soldiers to avoid danger. The practice began as a superstition and has led to many uninjured troops being misreported as casualties, raising army concerns.
Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce revealed in London that the War Department ordered her not to speak with newsmen during a congressional fact finding tour of war fronts. Army public relations officers said the directive came from Gen. George C. Marshall, while other members, including Rep. John E. Sheridan, spoke freely about the mission. The article notes Luce would discuss with the committee chair before commenting further.
Admiral Nimitz reported a Japanese reconnaissance aircraft over the U S Army B 29 base at Saipan Friday was shot down by a U S fighter. The plane, from the Bonin islands, aimed to spy on Tokyo raid preparations. US bombers hit Japanese airfields and shipping in key central and western Pacific targets on Nov 22 23 and 24.
Linn county outside Cedar Rapids reports 19 killed in action and seven prisoners. Additional losses include two killed in training 16 missing in action one died in service and one remained a war casualty.
A three year old girl, Karen Schminkey, died in a farm house fire east of Johnston. Four other children were badly burned, including Rodney Schminkey, 1, and Robert, 17, James, 9, Phyllis, 6, of Ada Wilson. Fire allegedly started when oil was poured on the stove. Mrs Schminkey and the Wilson family suffered additional losses.
CHICAGO AP Britain’s representatives at the International Civil Aviation conference seek support from small European nations for their plan on air freedom. The issue of counting traffic as part of world route capacity has stalled British and American negotiators. Both sides agree airlines should have priority to carry traffic in intermediary business, but dispute whether it can use space on long-haul routes or require added capacity.
PAC official Sidney Hill of Chicago announced Saturday that the National Citizens Political Action committee will continue its activities with a focus on small business to guard free enterprise against monopoly.
German radio claimed Russian forces pressed Axis troops from Budapest outskirts and seized Hatvan and much of Miskolc while Moscow said only four villages were captured and a road cut near Hatvan. Hatvan and Miskolc have faced a week of Red siege, shaping movements toward Austria and Czechoslovakia.
The War Labor Board raised night shift pay by four cents and late shift by six cents an hour for 400,000 workers across 86 companies and granted paid vacations. The board kept the Little Steel formula as a standard and rejected a 17 cent general raise. It also approved severance pay terms and proposed a separate commission to study guaranteed wage plans for industry stability.
A steady snowfall began about midnight Saturday with strong cold winds forecast for Sunday. Skies over Cedar Rants reported sleet and snow flurries Saturday, prompting residents to wear winter coats. Temperatures stayed near 31 degrees from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday, with humidity around 75 percent and precipitation totaling about 0.30 inches per Cham bers Inskeep measurements.
Washington reports a dangerous flare in the Poland Russia dispute after Stanislaw Mikolajczyk resigns as exile government premier. The United States and Britain seek a rapprochement while Stettinius reiterates US nonguarantee of Polish frontiers as policy, with discussions ongoing among State Department experts.
Allied forces punched toward Cologne breaking the German grip on the approaches. U S Seventh and Third armies widened fronts from Strasbourg and the Saar while First and Ninth armies logged advances, capturing towns, encircling pockets, and pushing German defenders back toward the Roer line as Juelich and Dueren remained focal points of counterattacks.
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