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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1944
Page
1
Daily Record lists good for five gallons blue stamps A8 through A78 and A5 for 10 points each indefinitely. Sugar coupons 30 31 32 in book 4 good for five pounds indefinitely with coupon 40 for five pounds for canning through Feb 1945. Fuel oil No 4 and No 5 coupons through Sept 30. Shoes Airplane stamps No 1 2 in book 3 valid for one pair each indefinitely.
Italian locals celebrate the release of 231 hostages at San Ubaldo abbey near Gubbio after German forces withdraw. 39 villagers lie in graves from firing squads. Father Peter Baptiste Michele led relief efforts and ensured food and safe evacuation. Ricardo Siena, a former Wheeling taxi man and World War II veteran, guided reporters to the abbey.
The New York Daily News challenged that Roosevelt added the phrase unless we are attacked to his 1940 promise not to send boys to foreign wars. It will donate 5000 to charity if any challenger proves the full quote incorrect, with another 5000 from the challenger if wrong. The editorial links the statement to Willkie's defeat and jokes about income tax.
CHICAGO article notes a new army of Methodist missionaries is being recruited and trained for postwar missions in war-devastated nations, to depart immediately after hostilities end. Bishop Arthur J. Moore of Atlanta is referenced in the report.
A 2000 pound German robot bomb fired from the French coast crashed into a London hospital at dawn killing at least two patients and trapping others beneath wreckage. An empty anesthetics ward avoided higher casualties as rescue crews and civil defense units saved most patients.
Iowa Republicans renominate three Iowa Supreme Court justices by acclamation: William L. Bliss Mason City Oscar Hale Wapello and Frederic M. Miller Des Moines. The event followed a keynote by Judge Norman R. Hays Knoxville who assailed Roosevelts fourth term. Governor Hickenlooper condemned power usurpation and Lt. Gov. Blue attacked Democratic control of courts and government.
Earl W. Burkey, 56, a packing house employer in Waterloo, suffered a fatal heart attack Wednesday, less than 48 hours after receiving word from the War Department that his son, Donald Burkey, 22, had been killed in action July 5 in Italy. His wife was at his side.
The speaker emphasizes prioritizing combat fronts over the German home front. The path to lasting peace, the text asserts, lies in crushing Hitler’s war machine on the battlefield. Once the armies are defeated, the German home front will conform.
Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio told reporters in Albany that Republicans will cut deep into border states in November and carry Missouri despite Harry Truman’s nomination for vice president. Bricker and Dewey spoke as Dewey listened on a veranda sofa.
London Stuttgart, key precision tool center in Germany, was hit by a second night raid after a devastating saturation attack 24 hours earlier. American Marauders and fighter-bombers flew shuttle sorties over Normandy while German fighters stayed away. About 1000 four engine British bombers plus many smaller craft took part, with 13 planes lost. The Stuttgart raid lasted about 15 minutes and left large fires in the city.
War analyst DeWitt Mackenzie explains Hitler’s total mobilization decree aims to regiment every capable person for total war. He consolidates power under three leaders Goering Goebbels Himmler while threatening death for disobedience and plans to extend control throughout the Reich and occupied territories.
James Bud Mars a pioneering aviator who took Emperor Hirohito on his first flight died of heart disease in Los Angeles at age 68. An early balloonist since 1892 he helped introduce dirigibles and achieved the first around the world flight in 1911. He later flew in Honolulu marking a milestone in Eastern Hemisphere aviation.
More than 12,000 workers idle Wednesday affecting three Cleveland war production firms National Malleable and Steel Casting with 1100 walkouts over wage increases Ohio Crankshaft’s five plants idle for a third day with 2600 workers protesting dismissals McKinney Tool and Manufacturing idle over discharge of an employee In Lansing Michigan United Auto Workers head asks government take over Centrifugal Fusing plant 80 idle seven days Local 12 unions ordered to show cause for six day AFL walkout at Detroit Hotel Statler affecting 700 workers.
Frank Smith economics instructor and writer will arrive in Cedar Rapids around Sept. 1 to join the city postwar planning council. He will work from the Chamber of Commerce on a survey and program in three areas industry distribution and employment. He holds degrees from the University of Iowa and has taught at Iowa Bradley LSU and Louisiana publishers and auditors.
Stockholm AP reports ten days before the attempted assassination of Adolf Hitler Berlin was flooded with small leaflets urging peace and urging to smash Hitler and his gang. The leaflets were said to be distributed by inside Germany elements and resembled no prior Allied drops.
Washington dispatch reports the War Department increases the work week from 48 to 54 hours for service forces and select army offices with order backlogs. The change, effective immediately, targets army service forces and commands. leaves are limited and surplus staff will be reassigned as excess work abates.
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