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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1944
Page
8
A long panel of questions and remarks on the postwar world, unity among Allies, isolationism, and the peace process. The piece critiques politicians, writers, and editors while calling for steadfast cooperation and anti-Nazi resolve. It mentions Goebbels, Willkie, and congress probes, urging sustained effort toward a just peace.
The annual stockholders meeting of First Trust and Savings Bank will be held at its Cedar Rapids office on Sunday in January 1945 at 3:00 PM for the election of directors and other business. Cashier W F Dvorak.
AP dispatch from a Belgian frontline clearing station reports that German tank crews fired on captured American soldiers in an open field, killing many as they lay bound and nearby vehicles and trenches were overrun. Tech William R. Summer of Glenville West Virginia survived with a gashed hand.
The Gazette prints Monday showings across Paramount Iowa State Palace Rialto Times Strand and Marion venues with films including Our Hearts Were Young and Gay Wuthering Heights The Hairy Ape Crime by Night The Eve of St Mark Lumberjack Jack London Trail to Gunsight Sullivan's Travels Days of Glory George Washington Slept Here Greenwich Village and Call of the Jungle along with short subjects and times throughout the evening.
New Zealand troops with the British Eighth Army in Italy cleared Faenza of enemy forces except for a small Nazi pocket in the northern sector. Canadians pushed toward Bagnacavallo, 10 miles northeast, in a rapid thrust that has netted about 1,100 Nazi prisoners in two weeks. Allied headquarters report US air forces in the theater have lost over 4,700 aircraft, with the 12th Tactical Air Force suffering about 2,300 and the 15th Strategic Air Force about 2,400 since November 1, 1943.
Edgar A. Guest writes of the last week before Christmas as children fret over gifts and parents rush to finish shopping. The poem contrasts children's patient anticipation with adults’ swift passage of time as Santa nears.
London reports from Stockholm that several incurable Nazi war invalids volunteered to pilot V-4 missiles targeting London. The dispatch says the missiles would be controlled midflight by pilots who would die when the weapon crashed, claiming the V-4 is more accurate and powerful than the V-2.
Maj. Richard Bong of Poplar Wisconsin America’s leading fighter ace shot down another Japanese aircraft over Negros Island, boosting his total to 39 victories as disclosed Monday.
Louella Parsons reports Faye Emerson robert Roosevelt romance ahead of Cosmopolitan project Catch a Falling Star at Warner Bros. Emerson returns January with Dane Clark, after leaving December 22. she attends Macon Georgia premiere for The Very Thought of You. Also highlighted are Warner directors Irving Rapper Jean Negulesco Fred de Cordova, RKO talent NN Harding for Those Endearing Young Charms, Joyce Franklin bid, Ava Gardner gift, Ida Lupino divorce denial, and Hoosier Hotshots future Columbia project.
Honolulu INS dispatch reports Lt Gen Millard F Harmon commander of the army air forces in the Pacific warns that Japan will be fighting in 1946. He says this is a real tough war and that the recent Japanese earthquake did little to ease their war effort. Dakota is a Sioux word meaning alliance of friends.
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