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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1944
Page
1
A patriotic wartime commentary questions the timing of shocking Japanese war atrocity reports and suggests possible government manipulation to influence public opinion and bond drives. It notes officials may have withheld details to aid prisoner relief efforts and discusses credibility concerns.
Huge RAF Lancasters struck Berlin causing fires visible 200 miles away as daylight raids followed. Helgoland faced its first attack since Rommel’s evacuation orders while northern France and western Germany also drew mines. Total RAF losses reached 34. American heavy bombers hit a northern France military objective in daylight. Reports put Berlin’s recent total explosive weight near 18 000 to 19 000 tons, with hopes to finish the knockout within six weeks. Typhoon fighter bombers hit Dutch steel mills at Tjmuiden as Mosquitoes and Typhoons attacked targets in France and Belgium. No Allied planes were lost. Britain noted 16 German raiders shot down over England last Friday night.
LOS ANGELES UP C Arthur Watson brother of the Prohibition party presidential candidate awaited a Friday hearing on a drunk driving charge. Watson a radiographer did not say how he would vote. His attorney said he did not realize the effects of a cocktail taken after code in cough drops. The effects included an automobile accident.
Cedar Rapids news reports a major bond auction set for Saturday with logistics and participants named. officials urge bidding entities to prepare documents and attend the event for funding projects.
Linn county war finance committee plans a Saturday auction at Fruehauf Farms west of Cedar Rapids to sell a Hampshire yearling sow raised by Roy and Harvey Fruehauf. The event seeks to boost war bond investments beyond 8.5 million dollars, with bids starting around 1 p.m. and the hog expected to fetch a record price.
Two men were injured in a head-on automobile collision at First Avenue and Twenty Seventh Street at 4 a.m. Friday. Lyman A. Howe 34 of 216 Fifth Street NW and Archie Bolton 27 of Marion were hospitalized with chest injuries and possible internal injuries and facial lacerations. Police believe both drivers were speeding and the taxicab Howe drove was on the wrong side of the street.
A Jefferson Transportation Co bus struck a cement bridge and crashed into a tree five miles south of Hubbard Iowa on U S highway 65. Victim Hilda Rice 21 from California to Belle Plaine Minn died. Fifteen others were injured including driver Gordon Kester from Minneapolis with skull fracture. Alex Wolfe of Austin Minn suffered brain injuries. Five injured remained at Eldora hospital and four at Iowa Falls. No eastern Iowans were among the injured.
Yugoslav partisans severed the Belgrade Zagreb railway in six sections. Marshal Tito reported the action on Friday while Cairo dispatches showed Yugoslav spearheads advancing toward Belgrade itself.
London AP reports Berlin claims submarines sunk four destroyers and seven other ships in recent days while attacking Allied convoys.
DES MOINES AP The Iowa legislature completed action on a bill allowing armed forces members to vote by absentee ballot up to 55 days before primary or general elections. The Senate approved minor House amendments 50 to 0 and the House passed the absentee voting bill 107 to 0 also approving an affidavit on the ballot envelope. Final adjournment was set for about 4 pm Friday.
Searsburg Vermont offers pupils up to 1.70 dollars weekly based on distance walked to school amid a fuel shortage.
Washington AP Sen. Vandenberg splits Republican opposition to the war ballot bill without announcing a vote for the measure to ensure service personnel can participate in the November election. He plans an amendment to ease handling of state and federal absentee ballots as Democrats attack the party on political grounds.
Allied air forces claimed their greatest Mediterranean victory as 50 German planes were shot down while bomber fleets struck Marseilles airfields. Ground fighting along the Anzio-Rome front saw German armor counterattacks repelled, with Allied gains near Cassino and Velleti.
James H. Smith Linn county sheriff has been appointed executive director of the Citizens Service Corps replacing William D Bayless. Henry Haegg director of the Office of Civilian Defense announced the move on Friday Bayless directed activities Service corps in the fourth war loan drive until he reported in Des Moines for navy duty. The Citizens Service Corps is under jurisdiction of the office.
Palmer Hoyt former OWI domestic branch director criticizes government censorship in a signed magazine article to be published next week. He accuses officials of withholding vital war news citing secrecy as unnecessary and urges frank reporting of Japanese atrocities to deter captors.
Gazette casualty records report 14 Cedar Rapids men listed as prisoners of war after the 1942 fall of Bataan and Corregidor. Capt. George H. Cockburn Jr. remains missing. Names include Russell McQueen Robert Wray John L. Morris Robert B. Moore Remes DeLahunt Scott E. ONeal Robert H. Andrews C E Taylor Carl H Wall DeWayne Morena Graham Andrews Gordon Davidson Harold Martin Johnson Raymond J Klassen and Frances Anderson of St Louis MI.
Washington reports an army navy disclosure of mistreatment of American and Filipino defenders by Japanese captors. Secretary Hull says the United States will pursue war criminals and seeks prisoner exchanges while withholding details on relief deliveries and the full atrocity account.
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