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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1945
Page
1
After weeks of study and negotiation Cedar Rapids moves to a formal agreement with Collins Radio to construct and operate a permanent hangar and experimental laboratory at the new municipal airport. The plan aligns with local industrial growth and the city’s evolving aviation facilities.
Reports from Pearl Harbor and Tokyo describe a second American task force in the Lingayen gulf area and B 29 attacks on Formosa and Tokyo. Japanese broadcasts claim an invasion armada off Manila and a heavy carrier air assault across Honshu amid ongoing aerial operations in the Pacific.
Pan American Airways reported 23 people were killed in the Port of Spain crash of the Africa-bound China Clipper. Seven passengers and crew survived from the 30 aboard. among the missing were missionary Paul Whitlock and his family. Survivors included Captain C. A. Goyette and Charles Williams and his daughter Nancy Lou.
American forces clash with German troops in a heavy snow storm near Laroche and Samree as the Ardennes bulge sees fierce fighting on multiple fronts. The Second Armored Division, the Hell on Wheels, drives against mobile and dug-in German tanks while Montgomery’s plan aims to seal the remaining escape route. General Harmon commands the unit, with First and Ninth Army elements within ten miles of Third Army to the south.
Cedar Rapids youths Earl W. Burns 18 and Lyle Wells 19 pled guilty to larceny of a motor vehicle and were sentenced to up to 10 years in the Iowa men’s reformatory at Anamosa. They told detectives of a two week spree of bootlegging and break-ins ending with the stolen car taken December 29 from Carl Heelstrom and planned further whisky sales near Joliet before being arrested in Wellman.
The third Midwest cold wave sent Cedar Rapids to 17 degrees below zero and Decorah to 24 below, with Decorah tying International Falls for the nation’s coldest spot. Subzero conditions spread across Iowa as officials logged a new season’s record in Decorah. The Cedar Rapids reading was the coldest this month, though a 22 below zero was noted on December 26. The Weather Bureau forecast a warming trend ahead.
Partly cloudy with rising temperatures toward night and Wednesday. Light snow tonight and early Wednesday. Lowest temperature about five above zero.
Maj. Gen. Lindsay McDonald Silvester, who led the Seventh armored division across France, has been relieved of command, demoted to colonel and returned to Washington. The war department confirmed a change now led by Maj. Gen. Robert Hasbrouck, with no public announcement forthcoming.
Former world welterweight wrestler Jack Reynolds died Tuesday in a Cincinnati hospital at age 51 after a stroke last fall. Born in Center Point, he rose as a top Middle West figure with Cedar Rapids roots and a celebrated early career in Iowa venues.
Sgt Daniel M. Bickel, 22, nephew of Cedar Rapids residents Bob and Earl Bickel, was killed December 18 in action in Germany. The death was reported by his mother Mrs Willis F. Bickel. His father, now deceased, served as an engineer and World War I captain. He helped lay out nine holes of the Cedar Rapids golf course.
Correspondents with Allied forces in Belgium doubted a BBC program that credited Montgomery and British actions for halting the German drive. They noted American units, leadership, and Patton’s counteroffensive played key roles and questioned the program’s omission of U S forces and air power.
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