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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1944
Page
2
The essay laments the end of loud fireworks and proposes a new symbolic trigger to jolt Americans into appreciating independence. It urges reviving a disciplined appreciation of rights, liberty, and duties, echoing Adams's call for pomp and parade to honor the nation’s hard won freedoms.
American Sixth Army units under Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger landed on Noemfoor on Sunday at 8 a.m. and captured Kamiri airstrip within two hours, seizing a 5,000-foot field with 30 downed Japanese planes. MacArthur said forces landed with practically no loss and secured the airfield as part of a broader push toward the Philippines.
Lt Aldrich Drahos, 22, is missing over Poland since June 20, per war department notice to his wife Miriam Stehlik of Cedar Rapids and his mother Mary Drahos of Dubuque. A St Wenceslaus High School and Loras College alumnus, he worked for William Tehel Bottling before joining service. He earned wings November 3, 1943, at Jackson Army Air Field and went overseas May 14.
Linn County officials announce the fifth war loan quota exceeded with total sales of 10.514 million, Cedar Rapids contributing 9.686 million and rural areas 0.827 million. E bond goals lag badly with only 1.392 million sold toward a 2.860 million subquota as plans move forward including Fourth of July pledges and navy show outreach.
A service ballot mailed in Oklahoma City on June 6 reached an army major in the New Guinea jungle within four days. Secretary J William Cordell of the state election board was informed Monday.
Index page items list Marquis Childs Comies and various sections. Deaths Farm Movies Radio Sports Tom Treanor Walter Winchell and Women’s Features appear as headings or teasers in the edition. The fragmented OCR reflects table of contents style rather than a cohesive article.
Correspondent reports Garapan, largest city in the Japanese held Marianas, falls as Second Marine Division breaches through the city and advances toward Mutcho Point and Tananpac harbor. Japanese retreat northward amid ruins and civilian flight, while American air and land forces press the campaign to end the battle before the rainy season hardens communications.
A westbound Santa Fe Chief streamliner derailed 18 miles west of Flagstaff Arizona before midnight killing at least five and injuring 26. The 14 car train telescoped and several cars overturned while the engine was dragged. Fireman John O Edwards identified. engineer Carl Stilwell among the injured. Rails buckled as new trackage work began and service tied up across northern Arizona.
Up to 500 American heavy bombers from Italy struck Romanian oil targets for a second day. An air fleet of over 250 Fortresses and Liberators of the Eighth Air Force led a large Allied bomber parade across the Channel to attack several airdromes in France. Italian-based bombers and fighters of the Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces raided the Balkans, focusing on Bucharest and Giurgiu. Eleven of 40 German fighters were shot down over Giurgiu and three over Bucharest.
Paris endures mass arrests and house to house raids by Gestapo and Vichy militiamen in response to the killing of Philippe Henriot. Refugees describe a city shrouded in panic with Jews and partisans crowded into Cirque d’Hiver and districts cut off. Resistance grows in southern France amid sabotage and Maquis activity along the Mediterranean, with reports of a wrecked Toulouse powder factory and orders for militia chiefs to report as Nazi plans advance.
Allied Supreme Headquarters reports a British officer who recently toured the entire Normandy front to probe alleged women snipers, stating there has not been a single verified case in the liberated area.
London AP reports German broadcasts acknowledge Polotsk loss as Red vanguards reach toward East Prussia within 110 miles. Moscow says First Baltic Army and Cherniakhovsky’s forces drive toward Minsk, freeing the city and pushing toward Baranowicze gaps as German defenses falter along the Dvina line.
Gardner Cowles Jr of Iowa Broadcasting Corp is negotiating to sell WMT Cedar Rapids Iowa and to buy WOL Washington DC. He says negotiations have lasted eleven months with no new developments. IBC owns KRNT Des Moines and WNAX Yankton plus KSO sold subject to FCC approval. IBC has applied to buy WHOM Jersey City and WCOP Boston.
The Japanese Comet news agency said an American carrier task force attacked the Bonin and Volcano islands 700 miles southeast of Tokyo. It claimed heavy fighting on Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima with air battles, and reported about 30 carrier aircraft were shot down.
Fourteen ticket sellers at Union bus depots returned to work without neckties after a walkout of 110 workers at three Chicago depots. The strike ended under a War Labor board order as officials from the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks and Union Motor Coach Terminal company await a ruling on the dispute.
Special to The Gazette Lt. Harlan L. Nelson 24, navigator on an army bomber based in Italy, was killed in action over Yugoslavia June 21, according to a telegram from the war department received by his wife Mrs Catherine Nelson here. Nelson, son of Dr and Mrs Roy Nelson, graduated from Cornell College in 1942.
The article notes an E Bond quota of 2,860,800 dollars and reports sales to date. Details on involved organizations or dates are not provided in the readable text.
Allied forces push toward Caen from St Lo to Carentan, driving through swampy ground and rain. Canadians seize Carpiquet airfield west of Caen as Montgomery widens the Caen perimeter, while American units advance near La Haye du Puits and Le Rouland with heavy resistance and bombardments.
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