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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
2
A Cedar Rapids column weighs Roosevelt’s Pacific travel and its political impact, discusses V‑Day timing and memorial plans, notes public mood for sober celebration, and recalls a convention sign painter asking how to spell Iowa and Wallace.
President Roosevelt ends three days of wartime conferences in Honolulu meeting Admiral Nimitz General MacArthur and other command chiefs to discuss Pacific strategy and the drive toward Japan. He calls the transformation of Pearl Harbor a remarkable change and signals continued war aims and future offensives.
Chinese communique confirms loss of Hengyan, a key Canton Hangko railway city. The admission comes amid ongoing hostilities and broader conflict in the region. Authorities note strategic significance of Hengyan in railway operations and supply lines.
The OPA announces changes to rationing effective Sunday. Utility grade lamb beef steaks and roasts are removed from rationing. Pork loins and hams regain points as does canned fish. Cheese and butter point values rise. Red stamps updated for new ration period starting Sunday. Civilian meat supply remains tight.
Army air forces pilot Lt Glen A Kerres aged 23 is missing in action since July 28 over Yugoslavia. He entered service in 1943 and was commissioned December 4 1943 at Blackland army air base Texas. He is survived by wife and two children and lived with his in laws at 1549 D avenue NE.
Henry Van Dyke 40 of 230 Cottage Grove Avenue SE was charged Thursday with driving while intoxicated after patrolmen Henry Overman and George Rubey intercepted his car at Fifteenth Street and Bever Avenue SE. The arrest followed a call in the vicinity and a pursuit where Van Dyke allegedly struck the curb and sidewalk, narrowly missing a tree. He pled innocent before Judge Floyd Philbrick and was held on $500 bond.
The Associated Press lists front distances: Russian front 322 miles from eastern War saw suburbs, Italian front 603 miles from Florence, French front 626 miles from Seignolles.
London report on Goebbels sweeping orders banning public gatherings not tied to the war. Foreign workers to be employed in war industries, servants conscripted into uniforms or factories, women under 50 required to work, and removal of exemptions for many classes to boost armaments production.
Cedar Rapids tied its season high Thursday afternoon at 1 p.m. with a 94 degree reading and held to 2:30, as the 30 percent humidity and hot conditions persisted. Forecasts show continued heat with a high near 95 Friday. cooler trends expected in western areas. Council Bluffs reached 98 as other Iowa cities posted 92 and 89.
London reports a grave new Russian flanking threat west of the upper Narew river aiming toward East Prussia and Warsaw. Soviet attacks were said to be repelled or checked, with Lomza possibly in Russian hands and a potential outflanking of German forces and Warsaw.
Capt. Robert Kadgihn 24, Cedar Rapids-born, son of Leo and Mrs Kadgihn, formerly of Cedar Rapids, died serving with Gen Merrill's Marauders in Burma. A University of Iowa graduate and ROTC alumnus, he trained in Georgia and went to India two years ago. he leaves behind a brother Henry in Italy, a sister Cherie in Colorado Springs, and his Iowa City relatives.
Lt. William D. Mehegan a B 24 bombardier with 13 missions is reported missing in action over Germany and is now a prisoner of the German government according to a telegram to his wife. He entered service in 1942 and landed in England last April.
German robot bombs now carry incendiaries per a Home Security ministry notice. Each flying bomb reported to contain about 20 incendiaries, with some drones over south England and London after a 24 hour lull. Several people were injured according to the official statement.
A fragmented newspaper index lists Marquis Childs Comics Deaths Farm and multiple bylines including David Lawrence Paul Mallon Marion and Drew Pearson with scattered page codes. The readable bits reference various departments such as Movies Sports Radio and Women’s Features alongside a Tom Treanor entry and Walter Winchell.
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