Cedar Rapids tax rise alarms residents and officials
A Cedar Rapids property tax increase of about 60 percent next year shocks taxpayers and staff, prompting questions about the county’s finances. Officials consider a recount while experts stress clearer reporting, seen amid broader manpower and war plant labor pressures. Community strains grow as OPA rules force gasoline book renewals, with staffing shortfalls and frustration mounting.
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Cedar Rapids
Board of Supervisors
German Court Sets Up Purge of Army Officers
Berlin announced a special court of honor to purge the army of Hitler foes. Eleven officers including a field marshal were ousted or jailed, with eight officers dead from the July 20 plot. Generals like Beck, Olbricht, and Stauffenberg cited as traitors, others executed by shooting. The army purge aims to restore honor and proceed under the people’s court.
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Himmler
Josef Goebbels
Albert Speer
Allies Capture Final Barrier To China Road
Allied forces seized Myitkyina, the last major Japanese stronghold in northern Burma, ending a siege that began June 3. The fall opens the Ledo road link toward China, enabling joining forces from India and Chinese troops advancing from Yunnan to connect with the Burma route and resume overland supply into China.
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Assam
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Salween River
Yunnan
Linn Budget Held Up by Supervisors
Linn county's 1945 budget, increasing expenditures by 57 196 to 1 498 267, was ordered held up by the board of supervisors. Levy estimates imply a higher next year tax take, though mill rate should await October reports after state utility and railroad assessments.
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Linn County
Board of Supervisors
State Tax Commission
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
A Renewals Curve for A Gasoline Books in Linn County
Linn County rationing workers face a surge of A book renewals as new OPA rules place all renewals under local boards. From Sept 1 to Sept 21 expect about 20,000 applications. 1,000 daily, with 20 to 25 volunteers needed daily. Current staff totals 18 paid, with no school program this year.
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Edar Rapids
OPA
Beeson
Robert Vesely
Otto Hanzlik
W. H. Bennett
State Auditor’s Office
Hanzlik
Bennett
Linn County
CPA
Reds Break Vistula Line and Reach Silesia Front
Moscow dispatch says Soviet forces shattered the Vistula line and pushed toward Silesia within 91 miles of Germany. Units crossed the Vistula by pontoon, Danube-like advances cut German positions near Krakow Tarnow and Kielce, while Cherniakhovsky and Rokossovsky threaten East Prussia and Warsaw from the southeast. Nearly 500 towns and villages were taken Thursday as Reds press along the Vistula and Baltic fronts toward Riga and Liepaja.
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Viltraki
Schirwindt
Tilsit
Instersburg
Rezekne
Latvia
Gulf of Riga
Gulf
Konev
Jaroslaw
Sanok
Charge Against Jackie Cooper in Delinquency Case
SOUTH BEND Ind AP Prosector Scherr said affidavits filed charging Jackie Cooper 22 Beverly Hills star of Where Are Your Children with contributing to and encouraging the delinquency of minors. Also named were Pauline Frederic 19 South Bend George Bender Notre Dame V 12 student and hotel waiter Oliel Lowery. Cooper accused of furnishing intoxicants to a 15 year old South Bend girl and persuading her to stay away from home overnight in a hotel room.
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Joseph County
Arthur F. Scherr
Jackie Cooper
Beverly Hills
Calif
Cooper
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Navy
Scherr
Pauline Frederic
George Bender
Notre Dame
Olie
Lowery
Japs Report U S Attack on Bonins
Japanese radio said carrier planes attacked Bonin and Volcano Islands about 630 miles from Tokyo. Radio Tokyo claimed Task Force 58 was near the Japanese homeland, signaling renewed U S pressure in the Pacific.
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U.S
United Press
Bonin
Volcano Islands
Tokyo
Radio Tokyo
Marc A. Mitscher
Mead Heads Senate War Inquiry Group
Sen. James M. Mead of New York was named chairman of the Senate war investigating committee, succeeding Sen. Harry S. Truman, nominee for vice president, in a Washington assignment announced Friday.
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Senate
Washington
James M. Mead
D-N. Y
Friday
War Investigating Committee
Harry S. Truman
D-Mo
McKelvie Named Midwest Campaign Manager for GOP
Samuel R. McKelvie, 63, cattleman from Lincoln, Neb, chosen by Herbert Brownell Jr to be midwestern Republican campaign manager. Former Nebraska governor and Hoover farm board member served 1929 1931 and long time editor of the Nebraska Farmer.
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Chicago
Samuel R. McKelvie
Lincoln
Neb
Herbert Brownell, Jr
G.O.P
McKelvie
Nebraska
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
Nebraska Farmer
Cedar Rapids Rainstorm Drenches City and Midwest Too
A violent thunderstorm hammered Cedar Rapids Friday morning, dumping 1.08 inches by 2:30 pm as rains spread across Iowa. City temps reached 93 degrees earlier, with widespread totals from 1.02 to 2.55 inches in towns like Waterloo and Charles City, while Cedar Rapids reported 69 degrees and 70 percent humidity late afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Forest City
Iowa
Charles City
Spencer
Inwood
Estherville
Knoxville
Waterloo
Chambers
Burlington
Davenport
Allied Planes Over Manchuria Reported By Tokyo Radio
NBC heard Tokyo radio say a large force of enemy planes flew over southern Manchuria on August 4 without dropping a bomb. The report suggested Superfortresses might be attacking again.
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Tokyo
NBC
Manchuria
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