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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 28, 1944

Page

8

Service Records Highlight World War II Veterans

Soldiers and sailors from the area are noted for promotions transfers and leave status. Barney McPartland Jr. rises to captain at Fort Worth Army Air Field while Louis and Donald Burgus head to the Italian theater. Others report calls to England the Southwest Pacific and California bases as they complete training and await reassignment.

Barney McPartland, Jr Army Air Corps Barney McPartland First Avenue NE Fort Worth Texas Army Air Field Franklin High School Coe College Kelly Field Louis R. Burgus Donald R. Burgus L. D. Burgus Seventh Avenue SE Army Air Service William C. Grady South America Army Air Base England Tenth Street Cpl Virgil B. Dvorak Keeslerfield Miss Christie Camp Pendleton Oceanside Calif Robert C. Wright Airborne Field Artillery Fort Bragg N. C Camp Mackall Charles Wright Johnson Avenue William Bill” Stolba Dalhart Wendl Stolba Twenty Eighth Avenue Robert Barker Army Air Forces Base Kansas City Fifth Avenue Lumir J. Serovy Fort Dix Mary Serovy Seventeenth Avenue Russell W. Warrington Sixteenth Street Harrington Southwest Pacific Claire A. Porter Angel Island San Francisco Bay Charles A. ‘Porter Thirty-fourth Street Charles Mathews F Avenue Charles A. Cameron West Coast Walter J. Cameron Rebecca J Avenue No Pfe Ark Cedar Rapids WAC Fort Oglethorpe Hot Springs Robert B. Cook Fort Robinson Neb Bobby First Avenue B. W. Cook Sixth Street John G. Cepowski Farragut Idaho Seventh Street Leroy E. Arp Camp Peary Williamsburg Robins I. Jackson Lester T. Jackson Linden Drive Smokey Hill Army Airfield Salina Kan Jackson Chanute Field Don S. Young Seabees Guadalcanal Sam Young Mechanicsville California

Rawson Resigns as Argentine Legate Amid Axis Break

Gen. Arturo Rawson resigns as Argentina's ambassador to Brazil as upheaval grows after June revolution. He clashed with Gen Pedro Ramirez over Axis relations while Ramirez counters he led the revolt but did not intend a rupture with the Axis.

Montevideo Uruguay Arturo Rawson Argentina Brazil Axis Rawson Pedro Ramirez Ramirez

Five Re-elected by Sunshine Mission

Five members of the board of directors were re-elected and one new member was chosen at the forty-eighth annual Sunshine Mission meeting. Fifty-six delegates, including ten ministers, from Cedar Rapids churches attended. re-elected were J. J. Merritt A. T. Pleune president George Vavra and Carl Hendrickson. Chester Ainsworth was elected to succeed O. J. Larson who requested release.

The Sunshine Mission Cedar Rapids J. J. Merritt A. T. Pleune George Vavra Carl Hendrickson Chester Ainsworth O. J. Larson

Flaherty Reports on AFL-Farmer Meeting

Frank Flaherty presented a report on a Dubuque meeting of AFL representatives and Second district farmers held January 16 to discuss political issues. The Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor will host the next farmer group meeting in Dyersville with John W. Evans slated to attend a Chicago MCA district meeting on February 7.

AFL Dubuque Frank Flaherty Cedar Rapids

Senate Attacks OPA Point Rationing System

A bipartisan Senate group condemns OPA point rationing as impractical and calls for sweeping revisions to adapt to changing wartime conditions. The Agriculture Subcommittee will join the FTC to probe food distribution costs and middleman margins within a week or two.

Washington INS Senate OPA Senate Agriculture Federal Trade Commission Sen. McClellan D-Ark Sen. Russell D-Ga Agriculture Committee Russell Sen. Aiken R-Vt Aiken

Lone-Wolf Scout Leads Inland Push From Bridgehead

Lt. Lewis F. Bixby, a lone-wolf recon specialist from Kalamazoo and key liaison for Col. Lionel C. McGarr, penetrated deep into enemy lines south of Rome. He reports near-constant contact with German forces and claims to have narrowly avoided engagement while gathering intelligence for Allied invasion forces.

Rome Lewis F. Bixby Kalamazoo Mich Gazette Bixby Lionel C. McGarr Phoenix Ariz

Masterly Synchronization In U S Bridgehead Drive

Allied forces expanded the beachhead to 70 square miles near Rome as a coordinated American attack repelled several German counterattacks led by 60 ton Tiger tanks. Will Lang described the operation as a masterful synchronization of infantry weapons amid harsh weather and heavy shelling.

Rome Will Lang United States Lang

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