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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1944
Page
11
A broad column blends Easter reflections with political notes touching medical funding debates and labor politics. The author weighs government roles in science, housing, and public welfare while commenting on tax forms, veterans’ hospital siting, and the back-to-the-land mood.
Allied communique reports repulsing Japanese efforts to seize Imphal area and achieving gains west of the Kohima road. The Arakan front saw a successful action with a British battalion capturing a village position southwest of Buthedaung as pursuit of the Akyab peninsula continues.
Capt Don S Gentile of Piqua Ohio boosted his confirmed total to 27 aerial victories with three more enemy planes shot down in air combat, bringing his score to 20 in the air and seven on the ground. The 23 year old Mustang pilot earlier claimed five grounded planes over Berlin on April 5, a record that would surpass Eddie Rickenbacker if confirmed. Gentile and other American fliers hit Brunswick and targets in Germany and Belgium as part of a broad air campaign.
Cedar Rapids recorded its high for the year at 65 degrees on Saturday as overcast skies and forecasts of showers and scattered thunderstorms threatened Easter Sunday plans. The day began mild with a 3 pm high, a one degree rise from last year’s 64. By midnight, temps slipped to 50.
Radio Tokyo reported Premier Tojo urged munitions workers during a factory inspection to exert 10 or 12 times as much effort. He said they were doing their best but must intensify their work. The message was carried by United Press from Saturday night.
Ft. Jackson officials report the deaths of Pfc. Ora F. Smith of Owensville Indiana and Sgt. Frank N. Marino of Wabash Indiana from an anti-tank rocket explosion.
Allied reports say Truk fortress in the Carolines was set afire by a Thursday night raid the heaviest yet from the South Pacific. Fifty-one tons of explosives hit Dublin island base as 13 enemy planes were destroyed at Truk, totaling 38 that day.
Washington AP report says the Office of Price Administration seeks to hire war veterans in its offices and boards across the country as vacancies arise. Administrator Chester Bowles stated the goal on a Saturday.
Pvt. Ralph Ingels describes jungle warfare in New Georgia during 11 months overseas. He recalls foxhole routines, a night wake of a sleeping comrade mistaken for a Jap, and nerve strain under jungle darkness. He attributes faith and prayer to surviving the brutal campaign and credits artillery and tanks in turning back the enemy.
The Cedar Rapids Young Men's Bureau won the outstanding project of the year at the Iowa State Junior Chamber convention. Dick Buresh was elected state vice-president, with P. F. Bezanson as campaign manager. New officers include Wallace Krekel president and others from Burlington Ames Atlantic Ottumwa.
Second Lt. Kenneth E. Wigness of Harlan a former Coe college student and husband of Jean Preston of Oelwein is the pilot of a heavy army bomber missing since Friday night from Westover Field Massachusetts. Ten other crew members are missing aboard the craft as announced by the eastern defense command. Wigness, 23, attended Coe three years before entering service in December 1942. He is the only Iowan among the crew.
Soviet announces rapid gains across a 230 mile front pushing Axis troops back into Czechoslovakia and extending into Romania. Stalin lauds victories and Czechoslovak leaders express support as Zhukov’s First Ukraine Army nears the border passes.
The AFL affiliated Harmony Lodge No. 831 IAM defeated the CIO United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers union in a company election to choose bargaining agent for Iowa Manufacturing. Of 765 votes cast, 594 favored the AFL, 167 the CIO, 4 for none, 2 spoiled, and 34 challenged, with five days allowed for protests. The regional NLRB director James M. Shields announced the results.
The War Department released the story of Capt. Albert J. Hoffman of Dubuque Iowa a chaplain in the 34th division who lost his left leg after stepping on a land mine in Italy He earned the Silver Star at Hill 609 Tunisia and was praised by comrades for heroic front line actions Hoffmann helped wounded men under heavy fire and continued to serve while recovering in Charleston and Battle Creek The men recall his calm courage and insistence on caring for others even as they faced brutal combat
U S Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr began talks with British leaders on war and postwar issues in London and was to meet Prime Minister Winston Churchill over the weekend. He spent Saturday conferring with U S Ambassador John G Winant.
Senator Bridges asks President Roosevelt to create a United Nations Axis commission chaired by Pope Pius XII to arrange Rome demilitarization. The plan would include two or more UN reps and equal enemy reps, aiming to save Rome and potentially American lives without affecting Allied military goals. Bridges notes Rome’s cultural and religious significance and urges urgent action.
Justice Department agents investigate the Columbia Shipyard and Drydock Corp a phantom yard on Columbia City Oregon for a $1,000,000 repair program and a $500,000 RF C loan amid Soviet protest. The affair centers on a nonoperational shipyard, a War Shipping contract, and a former official as treasurer.
The navy announced Saturday that a naval air transport service aircraft on the Nome to Fairbanks route in Alaska disappeared with six people aboard.
About 1 500 US aircraft struck Germany on Saturday with heavy bombers destroying two Brunswick plants and five Ruhr north targets while fighters shot down 92 German planes. Operations also hit Hasselt Belgium and raids extended toward Frankfurt, with many bombers listed as missing and German defenses described as stubborn.
DETROIT AP Harry H Bennett of Ford Motor Co issued a statement denying claims that Henry Ford secretly backed Gerald L. K. Smith. Smith rejected any link between his movement and Ford Motor Co, while Bennett clarified that Ford Lindbergh and he have no connection to Smith or his followers.
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