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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1945
Page
2
The record lists bonds, coupons, and penalties with due dates from book No 4 and No 3, including Sugar-Sugar stamps and gasoline Fuel Oil coupons. Also noted are drunkenness, disturbing the peace, overtime parking fines, a chimney fire report, family court cases, legislative actions, and multiple birth announcements from St Luke's and As Mercy along with a list of names and residences in Ames and Cedar Rapids.
Washington AP reports the army plans to close the Canadian oil development and charge off about 134 million dollars of investment as a strategic war expenditure. War Department reps told the Senate War Investigating Committee the Canal operation may be shut down after a resurvey, citing reduced Alaska petroleum needs. the committee has criticized the project as wasteful.
Mrs. Claude Miller, 19, pleaded for President Roosevelt to intercede to bring her husband home from overseas so he could see their 15 month old daughter Vesta Ann, fatally ill with a congenital heart condition. Doctors say she may have only two months to live. A reply from the White House said the matter was forwarded to Miller’s commanding officer to decide if he can be released.
Secretary of State Stettinius in Mexico City presented a five point U S program aiming at an Atlantic Charter peace free from fear and want for all. It includes destroying aggressors, preventing Germany and Japan from rearming, aiding liberated Europe, forming a world peace organization, and ensuring lasting peace in the Atlantic Charter. He warned against Axis influence in the Americas and urged allied effort to erase tyranny everywhere.
Japs fear Allied paratrooper landings in Japan as radio reports a Friday alert. Tokyo held a meeting at Home Minister Odachi's official residence to discuss arming every man, woman, and child to resist aggressions and urges citizens to cut heirloom pieces to brace for enemy attacks.
Alfred C. Cavazos 39, condemned murderer, died Thursday night from a gunshot wound suffered during a failed escape less than 12 hours before his scheduled gas chamber execution. Two other killers involved were in solitary confinement and prison guard W A Patterson received injuries.
All private construction firms in Japan were placed on government restriction Friday as the Associated Press reports. The move targets the nation’s postwar rebuilding to direct resources to essential projects and prevent nonessential work from proceeding amid wartime demands.
Edward J. Flynn, adviser to President Roosevelt, visits Moscow and is received by Patriarch Alexei of Moscow and all the Rus with greeting and courtesy as part of church ties and official diplomacy.
Alberto Tarchiani arrives in Washington as Italy's new ambassador, marking a significant diplomatic posting. The ceremony signals warmer ties and anticipation of strengthened cooperation between Italy and the United States.
London AP reports 1,900 American planes blasted at least 20 freight yards and rail targets in a broad offensive to cripple German transport. Fortresses Liberators and fighters operated 6,000 to 12,000 feet, with Italian and RAF forces joining in. The clash aimed at rail hubs from Vienna to Munich, with hundreds of locomotives and cars destroyed and dozens of bridges damaged.
AP report from Mt Suribachi see Japanese soldiers cast themselves from the crater amid fierce U S Marines actions. The text notes many enemy troops chose suicide rather than surrender, perhaps overwhelmed by bombardment or unable to flee into caves.
The government said more than 1,000 American prisoners in Germany have been moved west from Oflag 64 and Stalag 111B to Stalag 111A at Luckenwalde. About half of those from Stalag Luft 111 are en route to Moosburg with the rest headed to Nuernberg. some Luft 111 officers moved to Luckenwalde. Relatives are urged to address mail to prisoners at their last known addresses.
A man who stabbed Vera Hightower claimed mistaken identity and apologized saying he thought she was his wife. He drew a knife from his pocket and slashed at her neck before fleeing the scene.
First Lt Janis R Hougham reappears in letters from home as he serves with the 188th in wartime duty. David D Ring, in V-12 training at Ann Arbor, spends a weekend with his mother in Cedar Rapids while his brother trains at DePauw University. Dale C Morgan, son of local residents, is in pre medicine V-12 studies at DePauw. Cpl Howard Freeman, after 37 months in the Hawaiian Islands, takes a 30 day furlough with relatives in Atkins. Robert Merle Techau, in the South Pacific, returns on a 12 day leave to his wife and children in Cedar Rapids. Cpl Ralph A Sharf moves from Fort Belvoir to Camp Bowie with family in Brownwood. Leonard E Tresnak, USAAF in France, is promoted to sergeant. Robert L McBride earns technical sergeant. Robert Williams is home on furlough from the coast guard station in Brooklyn. Milton B Chase, a Wisconsin radio school graduate, becomes seaman first class radioman and heads to Shoemaker. Pvt James E Herris arrives in France. Pvt Donald L Martin advances from basic to service in France as his mother notes.
Senator McKellar charged that Nashville Tennessean was sold to Publisher Stilliman Evans under questionable circumstances and by devious methods. He urged a senate probe and Justice Department report. Evans denied the accusation and welcomed an investigation.
Thirty nine registrants from Linn County left Friday for induction. Among them three Christensen family members including John Claire from Coggan and James Carl from Central City who are twins, plus Donald and Ronald Larson grandsons of William Pfeffer. Board 3 listed many inductees, including non Christensen names from Central City, Cedar Rapids, and Marion. All inductees are 18 years old.
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