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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1945
Page
4
Linn county nears a 3 490 000 bond goal with 43 000 still needed by Saturday night. Local leaders praise efforts and urge a final push for 100 percent success. Editorial discusses Morgenthau’s postwar role, Roberts' retirement, court balance, and the need for tax policy teamwork.
Allied air forces renewed raids on Honshu with a large B-29 task force striking five cities Shimotsu Kofu Akashi Chiba and Shimizu at night. Far east air groups under Kenney MacArthur and Nimitz reported continued heavy blows on Kyushu and surrounding areas, with thousands of tons of shipping sunk or damaged and multiple fighter and bomber sorties against Japanese bases.
War bond leaders urge all employers to use payroll deductions to buy E bonds before Saturday noon. The county must reach its $3,490,000 quota and can extend purchase dates where needed. Banks stay open until noon and post offices until 5 p.m.
The Office of Defense Transportation says half the pullman cars now used by civilians will be shifted to military use. About 1,500 cars will join the military pool, leaving roughly equal numbers for civilian trains but reducing civilian space by more than half due to existing reservations.
A Western Railways official said 1200 new troop cars will arrive next month to ease military travel. He noted 500 European veterans rode day coaches from Boston to Camp Beale and 400 baggage cars plus kitchen cars are planned for delivery. Railroads have pooled 500 day coaches to route nationwide, and beds bugs and dirty trains have occurred due to limited cleaning ability amid wartime production demands.
Harry L. Hopkins, resigning his White House post, will take a $25,000 a year job as umpire of labor disputes in New York garment industry. David Dubinsky of ILGWU said Hopkins will start after a short rest and succeeds James J. Walker.
Paris reports President Truman invited General Charles de Gaulle to visit the United States in August and de Gaulle accepted the invitation with great pleasure, the announcement said late Friday.
The Senate War Investigating Committee urged prompt recovery of lend-lease arms from European Allies for Pacific use. It warned of extreme urgency, noting legal title rests with the U.S. and that failure to act raises costs and delays reconversion.
The Senate war investigating committee found American forces in 1944 45 faced ammunition shortages for 105 and 155 mm shells while cannons idle. Unused air bombs 20 and 500 pound clusters and 260 pound fragmentation bombs were shipped though useless in the field. The panel blamed planning failures in procurement rather than plant output and urged reform to meet changing needs.
The Gazette will publish weekly interviews with a discharged veteran titled The Veteran Speaks His Mind. Questions aim to reveal representative veterans views on problems facing Cedar Rapids, the state, and nation. President Truman predicted veterans will run the country.
First Air Force investigators at Mitchel Field disclosed a soldier civilian racket selling false medical discharges and transfers. Two non medical officers on the hospital staff and other civilians are implicated as the probe widens with payments described as “several thousand dollars” for bogus discharges and cheaper transfers from combat ready outfits to safer units.
President Truman instructed all federal agencies to reexamine expenditures with any hint of misuse or careless handling. He noted high spending, urged prompt investigation of suspected issues, and promised disciplinary action where warranted. He stressed ongoing need for extreme care in government finances from wartime to present.
Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced that Canada will resume meat rationing soon. Meat had not been rationed since March 1, 1947, due to wartime controls winding down.
Washington speculates on a Morgenthau successor with Fred M. Vinson seen as front runner after Morgenthau announces resignation. Other names mentioned include Sen. George, John Snyder, and William K. Norris. Morgenthau will remain until Truman names a replacement on return from the Big Three talks.
GUAM AP Japanese hospital ship evacuated 974 wounded and sick Japanese from Wake Island with U S Navy permission. Admiral Nimitz said the ship was stopped and searched twice by an American destroyer as it neared Wake where U S Marines fell back.
The resignation of Henry Morgenthau Jr. was attributed to his fatigue with persistent replacement rumors. A nonquoted source says Morgenthau sought clear assurances from President Truman at the White House before Truman's European trip, but left unsatisfied and stepped down. His treasury colleagues were surprised.
The South Chicago plant of Carnegie-Ilinois Steel, the world’s largest mill, shut Friday due to a strike. The stoppage idled 13,000 employees after 50 CIO railroad workers walked out, following prior layoffs tied to a maintenance workers’ action over seniority.
The air ministry said 48 Transport Command Liberator crew carrying British government attaches homeward from the San Francisco conference were missing on the Atlantic route. The plane departed Montreal for London on the evening of July 3.
Former Secretary of State Cordell Hull, 73, was discharged Friday from the U S naval hospital at Bethesda Maryland where he had been a patient since October Eng physicians said hospitalization was no longer necessary in view of his most satisfactory recovery He had been undergoing treatment for a throat ailment
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