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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1945
Page
2
A U S air power buildup over Japan was announced with around 700 B 29s and long range planes sweeping a 710 mile arc north and south of Tokyo. Brig Gen Hutchison says Japan likely plans to use planes in death by action as invasion looms.
A New York AP dispatch said President Truman is due in Antwerp Sunday and will be met by an honor guard from the 137th Infantry Regiment of the 35th Division, the unit in which he served as an artillery captain in World War I.
In Tulsa, Postmaster George Watkins notes a curious loss as a person departed a post office with a sizable chunk of salt pork left behind, illustrating the steady stream of odd errors in busy offices.
Washington reports an OPA blueprint to remove price controls on select commodities as supply rises and administration confirms potential approvals. Aluminum could be freed first with products following. jewelry rum brandy and cordials may get immediate relief, while major consumer items like clothing remain under caps.
Horace D. O Meara owner of the O Meara Clothing company buys the Oriole block for 90000. The three story building at 212 Second Avenue SE also houses Big Shoe store and O Meara Clothing on second floor offices and third floor apartments. Bequest tied to Mrs Ella D Smith estate and Cedar Rapids legal figures is noted.
Russian born actress Alla Nazimova died in Hollywood at age 66 from a heart ailment. She returned to films recently after a 15 year hiatus and her last movie was Since You Went Away. Nazimova, once a leading stage star, began in Russia then arrived in America in 1905 with no English.
Manila dispatch says terrified Japanese civilians abandoned by their army in the hills of Mindanao commit mass suicide or murder as Americans near. A Tamogan group of 40 women and children found with throats cut. sole survivor a 12 year old girl says they were left behind by the Japs.
The heavy cruiser Pittsburgh endured a tropical typhoon 900 miles northwest of Guam on June 5. A bow section ripped away while 1,000 crew members fought to shore the hull for five hours, with no lives lost. The ship later towed the carrier Franklin and returned to Guam. Captain John Gingrich led the effort alongside damage control officers John J. Kircher and Horacio Rivera. The bow floated, was towed in by a destroyer and tugs, and the Pittsburgh set course for port at Apra five days later. The crew believed the bow failure was due to heavy seas, not a structural fault, and the ship planned to resume operations after repairs.
DES MOINES AP The Civic Action Committee filed articles of incorporation to promote public confidence in honest city county and state officials and to ensure recognition of efficient law enforcement in Iowa. B J Powers Paul W Walters and Chester L Morain lead as president vice president and secretary treasurer respectively. The group aims to investigate dishonesty in public office and collect evidence of alleged payoffs.
Cedar Rapids recorded a mild Friday with clear comfort levels, 77 degrees at 2 30 p m from Hubbard Ice and Fuel. Thursday saw a high of 82 and scattered showers across multiple towns including Ottumwa and Iowa City with modest rainfall.
In Herford Germany ATS girls outnumber soldiers as American G I s take ATS to boogie woogie parties. British Tommies watch as G I s load ATS into trucks at cupid s corner. Sgt. Ed Tichenor Dallas Texas leads a boogie woogie unit with a monkey named Jack endearing the crowd.
Berlin radio reports Friday city council enacted a decree confiscating the property of all Nazis and anyone who aided them. The measure targets not only party members but others who propagated Nazism or benefited from the regime, with reach extending beyond Berlin.
In Berlin Western Allied troops ignore prior rules as Red Army practices emerge. Military police urge restraint on dancing and close social mixing until inter Allied commands issue new guidelines. Soldiers meanwhile stroll streets with German women, avoiding hand holding.
Pvt Dwight S Rogers 27 listed missing after a simulated combat parachute jump over Dog Island off Carrabelle Florida. Army report says four paratroopers bodies recovered from the Gulf of Mexico and six more missing. Rogers, from Albia, Iowa, served at Fort Benning with a 14 day furlough in June and leaves a wife Mary and a son Carl. He had worked at the Jones County Home and is survived by his wife and extended family in Albia Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
Guam reports Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet weathered a fierce typhoon off Okinawa and the Philippines on June 5. No crew deaths. Pittsburgh suffered the bow shear but returned to Guam under its own power. Several carriers battleships and escorts were damaged but later repaired and returned to action.
British fleet units bombarded the Nicobar islands while carrier planes struck airfields in northwest Sumatra. Minesweepers cleared Malacca strait approaches from July 5 to 10. Rear Admiral W R Patterson led the Fifth cruiser squadron including the Nigeria carrier group and destroyer Roebuck.
Pittsburgh AP reports Thomas Coates a 57 year old slag products company worker kept calm while directing rescue after his arm was crushed in a conveyor atop a 94 foot hopper. Fellow workers used acetylene torches to free him after he refused to allow removal of an irreplaceable elf. He was supported by colleagues and cooled with water as the motors were shut off just before he would have been pulled in. Doctors believed his arm could be saved.
Indianapolis report states John Ruddick age 65 national treasurer of the American Legion died on Friday. The obituary notes his long service to the organization and his leadership roles within post activities.
Police guards were boosted around major New York newspaper plants Friday as the War Labor Board ordered publishers to use workers other than striking deliverymen to distribute papers. Tensions rose after a late Thursday directive canceled union contract rights for the union, which had ignored WLB orders. The Daily News reported confrontations with newspaper buyers outside the plants, despite a police detail of over 100. Four arrests were made as hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers queued to buy papers at the plants.
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