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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1944
Page
4
Daily Record lists ration stamps A8 through D5 and No. 4 foods and blue stamps with indefinite validity, sugar numbers 30 31 32 and canning coupon 46 through Feb 1945, shoe airplane stamps No. 1 2 indefinitely. It also reports marriage licenses, multiple driving and conduct penalties, and recent birth notices at St Luke s Mercy and Iowa City entries with locations and dates.
Royal Navy units in two running battles destroyed eight enemy ships in Audierne bay between Brest and Lorient before daybreak Wednesday. Minesweepers, supply ships and escorts were knocked out. two escorts were heavily armed. British cruiser Mauritius, destroyer Ursa, and Canadian destroyer Iroquois fought with no casualties or damage despite German shore batteries.
Cedar Rapids and vicinity expect fair skies tonight and Thursday with cooler conditions. Rain showers Tuesday brought 0.3 inch in the northeast, while Jefferson reported 1.66 inches, Monroe 1.39, Dubuque 0.74, and Davenport 0.22. Highs reached 82 Tuesday afternoon with temperatures easing into the seventies later.
Seventy five Boy Scouts will man civilian defense trucks Saturday morning for a curbside waste paper salvage drive. Volunteers report at the Hearn Stevenson lot at 9. Jim Smith directs the drive for the Citizens Service corps under district commissioner Charles Gunn.
Taxpayers clash over a Linn County budget plan as officials defend postwar funding. Beeson argues taxes cannot be avoided by owners who may move away, while critics urge sticking to current year needs and using fund balances. Proposals to cut county and road levies spark further discussion with railroad tax agents offering partial reductions. No postwar supporters attend the hearing.
In Italy along the Adriatic coast, Polish and Italian units of the British Eighth Army pressed northward against retreating German troops near the Metauro river, facing stiffening resistance on Wednesday.
Fifteen Sea Scouts from Waubeek area ships 80 and 90 left Wednesday afternoon to join the Buffalo Bill area council cruise upriver from Davenport to Clinton. About 50 Scouts from Burlington, Dubuque, Davenport and Cedar Rapids join the four day voyage in small sailboats. Cedar Rapids group is guided by skipper Jackson von Yeast Nate Worcester and executive K L Benner.
A record 135 ton raid against Halmahera and the wrecking of eight Japanese planes five small coastal vessels and 28 barges marked new strikes south and east of the Philippines. Liberators patrolled Davao gulf and nearly hit an 8000 ton freighter. Eight planes destroyed or damaged and Halmahera totals rose to 245 tons in two days. No enemy interceptions occurred.
An American Liberator bomber crashed in Freckleton Lancashire causing at least 50 deaths including 34 children at a church school. Rescue teams, including American troops, battled flames as villagers described the village center turned to a sea of fire amid ongoing efforts to account for casualties.
Des Moines collection lagged with 250 tons while Cedar Rapids gathered 1200 tons, averaging about 39 pounds per person and praised by the War Production Board as one of Iowa’s best records. Des Moines remains at the bottom among larger cities for waste paper salvage.
George E Gwilliam of Wilkes Barre Pa was elected supreme governor at the Loyal Order of Moose national convention in Chicago. Other officers named include Charles E Bowers Des Moines supreme junior governor and W S Putnam Iowa City supreme outer guard.
Kiwanis members heard District Judge Floyd Philbrick explain federal and state court functions and which matters remain under each jurisdiction. He emphasized preserving stare decisis and the veto power and the right of legislation as separate functions to avoid hypocrisy.
Oral hearings on the LePlant-Choate Manufacturing case and about 1000 members of the United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America CIO continued in the Cedar Rapids federal court room. Prof Paul B Sayre of the University of Iowa law college chairs the War Labor board panel which plans to finish the issues today. The panel will forward its advisory report to the regional War Labor board in Kansas City.
Hugo P. Saggan of Denison was elected Iowa department commander of the American Legion at the state convention in Sioux City. He has served as vice commander and led the Denison post. election of other officers followed, including Butter, Halden, Sankey, Keating, Laird, Boyce, Collins, and Smith in various posts and roles.
Ellis Slaymaker age 18 of 922 Third Street SE remained unconscious after a car with two other youths overturned two miles south of Hawkeye Downs late Saturday. Mercy Hospital reported Wednesday. Richard Myers and William Hughes, both 18, of 1025 Tenth Street SE and 317 G Avenue NW, suffered cuts and bruises.
Car owners with new tire certificates may use them at any time and buy through any dealer. A T Pleune, chief clerk of the war price and rationing board, said the certificates no longer carry a 30 day expiration and are honored outside Linn county. The inspector’s name appears on the certificate but the new tires need not be bought from that dealer.
Courts consider postponement of about 30 related suits as the service departments plan for a lengthy case, with Berge estimating nine to twelve months to prepare. The complaint accuses western railroads of higher freight rates, restricted rate changes, noncompetitive petroleum transport pricing, and limited competitive services, among other anti competitive practices.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette lists subscription rates for night and seven day editions with 2 p.m. and territorial pricing. It notes discounted rates for six month three month and one month plans and lists offices in Chicago New York and Detroit. The notice appears under standard publishing terms and claims full wire services from Associated Press United Press International.
Allied heavy bombers and fighters attacked targets around Vienna and in Hungary. Medium bombers struck rail bridges near Lyons, while Mediterranean raids returned to occupied Europe despite heavy losses, with 39 Allied bombers missing and 57 German planes shot down in fierce air battles.
Allied air forces resumed assaults on fleeing Germans as weather cleared. In 24 hours from Seine mouth to south of Paris they destroyed 600 tanks locomotives railway cars and other vehicles. German losses totaled 31 planes shot down and six on the ground while Allies reported two planes lost.
Allied forces pushed toward Orbec and Laigle from Gace and Dreux, advancing over 15 miles and capturing Nonancourt Verneuil and Laigle. They struck the German pocket east and northeast of Argentan, trapping about 100,000 enemy troops and finalizing its liquidation as troops moved through the area.
The FAO constitution for a permanent international body to battle hunger and aid farmers has been submitted for ratification by 44 nations. Led by L B Pearson, it would be advisory, not a command authority, with a projected $35 million annual budget for five years and US share at 25 percent. Historical context from Hot Springs 1943 conference noted.
A vivid scene describes a Wednesday bivouac with casualties and captives, alongside a vast spread of abandoned German equipment littering the area. The account highlights disruption, loss, and the remnants of conflict in a single, stark snapshot.
Paul M Achenbach 24 of 33 Oakland Avenue NE Cedar Rapids died in a Cedar Rapids hospital at 1 45 am Wednesday after a long illness Born in Cedar county November 22 1919 he had lived in Cedar Rapids about three years Surviving are his father Emanuel Achenbach Cedar Rapids two brothers Harold Central City and Lloyd near Tipton a sister Mrs B R Huston Marion and a half sister Mrs L M Truman Montezuma Services will be held at Beatty chapel Friday at 2 pm with the Rev Grant Anderson officiating burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery Friends may call at Beatty's.
Services for Mrs Sarah Jane Haynes widow of John M Haynes of 204 Sixth avenue SW will be held in Turner chapel at 2 p.m. Friday Burial will be in Cedar Memorial park Friends may call at the chapel.
James J. Hines 67 former Tammany district leader was paroled from Sing Sing after serving three years ten months and eight days of a four to eight year sentence for conspiracy and operating a lottery tied to the 20 million Nutch Schultz policy racket. Parole was ordered effective September 12 by the New York state parole board.
DECORAH Winneshiek grand jury returns indictment charging Atty J A Nelson with misappropriating five $1 000 bonds of the American Telegraph and Telephone company owned by the Johnson estate an incompetent. Nelson released on $5 000 bond. Judge Cooney had earlier urged license revocation after an attorneys' investigation citing multiple cases.
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