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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1944
Page
1
Dissension within the War Production board draws attention to administrative gaps as the President hesitates to restructure. Local civic registration checks reveal misperceptions. army morale notes praise the Red Cross and magazine drives aiding troops overseas.
American Seventh Army has seized Cannes and Grasse on the French Riviera and advanced toward the Italian border within twenty miles. Allied reports say other columns near Arles and the Rhone valley press toward Lyon while fighting continues at Marseille and Toulon. Prisoner counts climb as swift American and French forces push through coastal and inland targets amid German retreats.
Four applications asked for permission for high school youths to work during vacation until October. The issue over postponing the school opening may seem minor, but the underlying labor concerns persist despite tepid teen interest.
A Cairo report says Romania declared war on Germany after a Luftwaffe attack on Bucharest. Diplomatic circles note German signals of troop withdrawals from Romania and shifting alignments in Hungary and Bulgaria as Moscow hints at armistice terms for Romanian forces fighting with the Red Army.
Soviet forces under Generals Malinovsky and Tolbukhin advanced toward Galati and Bucharest, taking 47 000 prisoners in five days and reaching within 100 miles of Ploesti. They liberated hundreds of towns, warned that liquidation of German forces must precede armistice, and promised no annexation of Romanian territory.
Paris erupts in celebration as German commander surrenders to French forces led by Brig. Gen. Leclerc. Crowds cheer, flag waves fill the streets, and captured officers are escorted from the Hotel de Ville amid calls of Vive la France.
St Luke s and Mercy hospitals in Cedar Rapids barred visitors under 14 as a precaution against poliomyelitis. The medical staffs jointly stated tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies would be discontinued until the danger subsides as polio reaches epidemic levels in parts of the country.
New York dispatch reports the British radio saying Adolf Hitler summoned all leading Nazi gauleiters to Berchtesgaden for an important conference. The broadcast notes the meeting involves prominent party leaders and could shape future policy decisions.
Allied forces entered Paris as the liberation advanced, with Brig. Gen. Jacques Leclerc entering at 9 43 a m and the Second Armored Division moving into the capital. Paris celebrated amid Allied flags and beams of victory.
First Lt. David M. Thayer 26 of Cedar Rapids receives the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement as pilot of the Flying Fortress Heaven's Above. He led a wing during the St Lo drive and over German targets including Berlin Kiel and Magdeburg. Thayer left the States on 30 day leave and is visiting Sioux City before returning home.
Canadians report contact with American forces on the Seine near Louviers as Von Kluge withdraws toward the Somme Marne line. Allied air and ground forces press from Dieppe to Le Havre, with retreating German armor and trucks streaming toward the Marne and Paris region.
Harold Kouba, 32, of near Alburnett, died instantly when a rock crusher impaled him while he cleaned it operating. The accident happened near Central City where he and Irvin Young ran the plant. Coroner said no inquest. Services set for Saturday at 2 p.m. in Marion.
Cedar Rapids and surrounding area expect intermittent light rain late today with a shift to thunder showers tonight and Saturday. Temperatures reached 74 degrees with 30 percent humidity at 2:30 p.m. The day’s high was 79 degrees earlier, and overnight low readings varied around mid to upper 40s.
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