Local budgets trimmed as county reserves eyed
Linn county supervisors cut 1945 tax askings by nearly 23 percent aiming to guard against postwar slumps. The move preserves county services while keeping a reserve against future emergencies and notes road funds remain available for material shortages. The editorial observer also urges letters to service members and notes political forecasts for Roosevelt and Dewey shaping the election outlook.
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Linn County Board of Supervisors
Normal
Linn County Slashes 1945 Budget by 198000
Linn county supervisors cut the 1945 budget request by 198000 under taxpayer pressure. Revised total is 673267 with reduced tax asks for Cedar Rapids and outside areas. Transfers from the emergency fund aim to cover deficits in the poor and state institution funds. The widows pension fund is abolished, and no postwar fund is planned.
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Linn County Board of Supervisors
Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Fred Porter
President irked by view of Pacific voyage as political show
The President resents seeing his Pacific outpost trip as a political stunt and insists it was necessary travel to fulfill constitutional duties as commander in chief. No concrete evidence is available yet, possibly for military security reasons, while government informatics have released no salvage metric for warship voyages.
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Dewey
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Hawaii
Aleutians
Puget Sound
Reds Reach Latvian Capital Beaches Amid Baltic Push
AP reports Soviet forces advancing toward Riga with Russian troops reaching the shores near Riga and pushing a wide Baltic corridor. The German defense holds in East Prussia as Red armies press through Estonia Latvia and Lithuania trapping Chisinau and threatening Warsaw.
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Warsaw
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Jelgava
Red offensive drives toward Bucharest and Ploesti
Soviet forces push along a 150 mile front beyond Iasi toward Bucharest and Ploesti. In three days they report heavy German losses with 25 000 killed and 12 665 captured or imprisoned as Tolbukhin and Malinovsky advance toward the Danube and Bessarabia.
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Three Injured in Sideswipe Crash South of Cedar Rapids
A three-vehicle sideswipe on highway 218 six miles south of Cedar Rapids at 1:45 am left Mrs. Walter Bender 43 hospitalized with a broken nose and cuts. Her son Vernon 22, and Norvell Cady 16 suffered injuries, while other occupants, Delbert Robbins 19 and passengers, escaped injury.
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Cedar Rapids
Walter Bender
Third Avenue
Mercy Hospital
Vernon Bender
Norvell Cady
First Street
Bender
Ted Rejsa
Mallory Street
Rejsa
Cady
Delbert D. Robbins
Navy
Robbins
George Legg
Thirty-third Street
Jack Dunn
First Avenue
Richard Nunemaker
Cedar Rapids Airport Lighting Sealed Bids Due Sept 9
Mayor Frank Hahn said the Civil Aeronautics Administration has notified of sealed bids due Sept 9 at 10 a.m. for the Cedar Rapids Municipal airport lighting system installation of field boundary markers and painting of gunway markers. Bidders should request blanks and instructions from the Civil Aeronautics Administration Contract and Service Branch at City Hall.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank Hahn
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Kansas City
Cvil Aeronautics Administration Contract and Service Branch
City
Allied Forces Reach Grenoble and Marseille in Southern France
Allied troops entered Marseille and Grenoble as the Seventh Army pushed 140 miles inland. American armor spearheaded a rapid advance toward Lyon and the Rhone valley while French Forces of the Interior supported in Grenoble. Marseille encirclement continued with US forces closing the gap to the west near Aix en Provence and Etang de Berre.
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Allied Landing Report Near Bordeaux In Southwest France
AP dispatch from Madrid reports a new Allied landing begun Tuesday night near Bordeaux with naval and air bombardment. French authorities say a joint American French ground push reached the outskirts of Bordeaux at noon, but Allied HQ declined to confirm. Berlin radio claimed a company landed at St Jean de Luz, 110 miles south of Bordeaux, with partisan support.
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Des Moines Man Killed in France Lt William Gurren
Lt. William H. Gurren 27 son of Mr and Mrs Tom J Gurren Des Moines formerly of Cedar Rapids was killed in action in France July 21 He was born in Cedar Rapids and attended Immaculate Conception school and the University of Iowa He served since before Pearl Harbor and was recently moved to the European theater Surviving parents wife Margaret and daughter Margaret Suzanne live in Des Moines and Kansas City a brother Maj James T Gurren is in Europe five aunts and an uncle also listed Memorial services set for Des Moines at 7 am Thursday
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War Chest Drive Set Oct 17 to 25
The Cedar Rapids Community War Chest drive will run from Oct. 17 to Oct. 25. The dates were set at a chest committee meeting. Robert Armstrong chairs the campaign which aims to raise 186,398 dollars this year.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chest Committee
Robert Armstrong
Leader of German Seventh Wounded
Col. Gen. Paul Hausser, commander of the German Seventh Army, was wounded in the Normandy pocket west of the Dives river, according to Transocean. He reportedly escaped before the pocket was wiped out by Allied forces.
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Paul Hausser
Seventh Army
Transocean
Hausser
Normandy
Dives River
U S Files Anti-Trust Suit Against Railroads
The justice department filed an anti trust suit in Lincoln Nebraska naming the Association of American Railroads the Western Association of Railway Executives J P Morgan and company Kuhn Loeb and company and 47 railroads plus 31 other individuals and officials The action seeks dissolution of the railroads groups and an injunction to prevent continuation of the alleged collusive restraint of trade under the Sherman act.
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Neb
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Kuhn, Loeb and Company
Biddle
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Western Systems
Western Commissioner
Committee of Directors
Wendell L. Berge
Telivision
Allied Armies Close on German Remnants After Paris Liberated
Allied forces press the pursuit of the German Seventh Army from the Seine region toward the border as Patton and Bradley thrust east and French authorities claim Paris liberation. American, British, and Canadian units advance, sealing escape routes and capturing towns along the coast and along the Seine while Paris sees a triumphant return of French control.
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Gazette warns of advertising limit amid paper shortage
The Gazette explains a cap on display ads due to newsprint scarcity and a commitment to keep news and pictures strong. It notes more than 400 column inches were omitted from today's issue.
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