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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1945
Page
2
The column argues for a balanced approach to Cedar Rapids airport development. It weighs revenue from operations against broader city benefits and asks how facilities and management should be guided to best serve immediate needs and long term growth. It also notes related wartime production disputes and public attitudes toward labor issues.
American Second Armored Division troops reach central Berlin with Pfc. Harvey Natchees of the Ute Nation leading the way. Civilians rush to greet the liberators while Red Army forces supervise cleanup and a British force prepares to enter the city. Natchees recalls the ruins and searches for remnants of Nazi centers.
Linn county reports four days left to meet its $3,490,000 E bond quota with $3,333,630 sold. Service members contributed $119,000 in E bonds, including $85,162 credited from the seventh war loan drive, prompting renewed hope of reaching the target by Saturday night.
Cedar Rapids and vicinity report a 49 degree low at 5 am Tuesday tying the state minimum with Davenport and Iowa City. The forecast calls for partly cloudy and warmer weather for Independence Day Wednesday with a high around 70. No rain was recorded or forecast.
Pfc. Fred L. Havran 25 of Center Point died at Camp Myles Standish Mass from combat injuries in Germany. A machinist for La Plant Choate before enlisting in 1944, he is survived by wife Eula and two daughters, with services set at Turner chapel and burial in Cedar Memorial Park.
Allied bombing knocked ships from blockade paths as Japan plans a 10 percent cut to the already meager basic food supply until the fall harvest. Tokyo seeks starch from 19 plants including mulberry leaves once used to feed silkworms to ease the critical food situation.
Eleven American soldiers from the 67th Army Airways Communications System Group and the Eighth Weather Squadron remain buried in a Greenland outpost after an avalanche on January 8. They survived on limited food, salvaged a generator, and were moved to a snowproof weather station as rescue attempts failed. Authorities expect rescue when spring arrives, with coast guard efforts blocked by ice in Skjoldingen fjord.
Pvt. John J. Kocherhans 35 of Lovell Wyoming collapsed during combat training and died fifteen minutes later from heat exhaustion. He is the first heat victim at Camp Lee this summer.
Akron Ohio, heart of the U S rubber industry, faced widespread idle work as about 33 000 CIO United Rubber Workers stayed off the job at Firestone Goodyear and other plants. The War Labor Board halted paid vacations for Goodyear strikers, while nearby plants like Goodrich and General Tire and Rubber were closed for repairs.
Sydney reports that rubber can be exported from Balikpapan in the Dutch East Indies within a week after full liberation if shipping space exists, according to J. Van Holst Pellekaan, Netherlands government trade commissioner in Australia, speaking Tuesday.
Cpl. James E. Newman, a 25 year old Bataan and Corregidor veteran, was flown home to die after years in a Japanese prison camp. Doctors set aside regulations, citing malnutrition and tuberculosis as the cause while noting he died in action would be fitting. Newman, liberated last February, received home cooking and a family reunion before his death.
Cmdr. Harold E. Stassen urged the national governors to back the San Francisco charter as the policy of the 48 states. He outlined a two point program to bolster peace and requested endorsement from governors including Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. He warned American policy must involve the people and suggested careful consideration before immediate senate ratification.
AP reports Max Braun aged 52, a German socialist who fled after losing a 1935 Saar Basin plebiscite fight, died Tuesday in London. Born in Germany, Braun sought safety abroad following Nazi rise and persecution.
The White House announced the retirement of Harry Hopkins from government service. Hopkins cited ill health in his letter of resignation to President Truman, ending a long White House career as adviser to Roosevelt and key aide to Truman as he prepared for the upcoming Big Three conference.
Tokyo reports about 100 American planes attacked air bases on southern Kyushu in a multi pronged strike from Okinawa. The daylight force followed Superforts damaging Maruzen refinery and oil installations near Osaka with a separate B 29 fire raid near Kainan. American planes also sunk or damaged 32 blockade runners Monday.
Donald Laverne Jordan ten year old son of Adrian and Mrs. Jordan farmers near Central City died from an accidental rifle wound suffered in his upstairs room. The gun discharged as he looked down its barrel hitting his face and head. Surviving are his parents a brother Lyle a sister Joan and grandparents. Services set for Thursday at 2 30 pm in Marion Yocom chapel with burial in Cedar Memorial park Cedar Rapids.
Australian troops captured Sepinggang and Manggar airfields near Balikpapan as the Balikpapan beach-head expanded to about 13 miles wide. Troops moved within 1,500 yards of Balikpapan city while air forces bombed and supported the advance.
Ernest Wilhelm Bohle, director of the Nazi world fifth column and espionage, was captured by Allied troops and is held in Germany to stand trial as a war criminal.
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