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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1944
Page
2
The piece argues the U S should pursue more assertive diplomacy with care to align with all nations interests. It notes past negotiators protected American aims, warns against naive uplift rhetoric, and urges practical engagement with major powers like Russia and Britain.
Soviet forces captured Kerch on the eastern Crimean coast and announced a second advance into Dzhankol. In Odessa, a German retreat by sea was blasted by Soviet air and ground bombardment as Red Army units pushed into the Crimea. Dispatches said Axis resistance collapsed, with thousands killed or captured as the Red army opened a campaign to liberate the 10 000 square mile peninsula and threaten German bases on the Black Sea coast.
Tornadoes across Arkansas Oklahoma and Kansas killed 32 people and injured about 140 as floods and high winds disrupted towns. A camp for conscientious objectors near Magnolia Arkansas suffered 65 injured with 15 serious as 14 buildings were leveled. In Kansas near Walnut and Hutchinson storms caused damage. rainfall hit Parsons at 4.5 inches. Continuous outages lingered after the violent weather.
Hope rose as 32 people including three babies remained atop Berthoud Pass 12,000 feet up the Transcontinental Divide near Idaho Springs. Ski troops reached a lodge to provide shelter after a snowslide sent a car rolling six times. one occupant seriously injured. Rescue teams cleared the mountain road while more than a dozen motorists were evacuated with minor injuries. ambulances waited at the edge of the slide.
Gale force winds swept across northern Illinois on Tuesday, smashing display windows in Rockford and tearing down trees. In Chicago some areas recorded 60 mph winds with broken storefront windows along Michigan Avenue and merchandise blown into the streets.
U S troops raise the American flag on four more atolls Ailuk Rongelap Likiep and Utirik bringing occupied atolls to 18 and establishing sovereignty on Mejit in the northeastern Marshalls. No enemy troops found on the newly taken atolls. Bombing continues at Ulul and Marshall positions.
New York AP report says Lt. Peter Lehman died in a plane crash in England on March 41. His father, Herbert Lehman, former New York governor and UNRRA head, had just returned from the Middle East.
London reports Allied bombers dropped around 5 000 short tons of bombs Monday night on German transportation systems feeding the French coast. The two-pronged attack targets rail hubs and production centers while preparing invasion plans, showing air power dominance enabling concurrent campaigns.
The War Production Board declared heavy artillery the top priority alongside invasion landing craft for the next 90 days. It cites battle lessons from Cassino and Anzio, noting 240 mm howitzers and 155 mm guns require urgent production as airpower underperformed in Italy.
Senator Ball announced expansion of Lt. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen’s Republican presidential bid. Eastern headquarters would be opened shortly to bolster the campaign.
Washington reports former chief justice Charles Evans Hughes celebrated his eighty second birthday on Tuesday marking the retirement era since leaving the Supreme Court in 1941.
Allied headquarters report control of most of New Britain near Rabaul with about 40 000 Japanese troops believed rallying for a final stand 60 miles from Rabaul. MacArthur said the enemy retreated from central New Britain to Gazelle peninsula abandoning Cape Hoskins and Gasmata.
Federal court heard John Noe testify that Louis Roeniig Jr claimed two men in a parked car knocked him unconscious after the Amana plant fire. The case asks whether Roeniig went to the plant June 7 to hide beer or to set the $235000 blaze.
In the latest phase of the air war, about 2,000 American bombers and fighters joined the RAF in raids on German rail hubs, aircraft factories near Oschersleben and Bernburg, and depots near Paris. Heavy RAF forces pounded Namur and other French rail centers as Mosquito squadrons attacked Hanover Ruhr objectives with 7,000 tons dropped over 60 hours.
Navy Secretary Knox expressed confidence British forces in India can halt the Japanese drive near Imphal. He said the operation involved a small number of men and he did not deem it serious, adding the British ought to beat it and will. He noted reports of a concentrated Japanese fleet at Singapore have been dispersed to the extent known.
Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas experienced a damp morning as rain turned to sleet and then snow, with intermittent accumulation in Des Moines and Carroll. Winds 30 to 40 mph persisted, while temperatures hovered near freezing and forecasters predicted colder, drier air later tonight and decreasing clouds.
Captain Don Gentile of Piqua Ohio was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his credited destruction of 305 enemy planes. The ceremony at Fort England featured Eisenhower presenting the medal in person.
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