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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1944
Page
2
London AP reports Lwow fell as the Russians claimed a new offensive advance. Dvinsk and Rezekne fell to Soviet forces with German positions at Bialystok and Stanislawow under pressure. Brest Litovsk breached on the Bug river as the Red Army crossed the Vistula threatening Warsaw.
Allied headquarters reported Japanese troops in northern New Guinea continued probing the southern flank of U S positions along the Driniumor river line. General Douglas MacArthur announced the actions on Thursday but provided no details of latest skirmishes.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Gov. John W. Bricker outline a 15 point program for action at the Republican governors conference in St. Louis. They pledge to curb conflicts among federal, state, and local governments and seek unity across 26 states. Subjects include public expenditures health unemployment services highways and land ownership.
The United States, after weeks of consultation, declares that Argentina will not be recognized until it abandons a pro Axis stance for a pro Allied one. Buenos Aires rejects the charge that it aids the Axis, while Washington cites studies of government contracts with Nazi-linked firms and pro Axis press ties.
Robert C. Armstrong, president of Armstrong Clothing, will chair Cedar Rapids Community War Chest drive this fall. A Cedar Rapids native, he graduated from Coe College and Harvard business school. he is active in the American Legion Cedar Rapids postwar planning council public welfare board St Luke's hospital and its executive committee and the YMCA board.
American forces shattered German center in Normandy advancing nine miles in two days and widening the push from St Lo toward Coutances. Troops captured Le Mesnil Herman and Montrabot while Canisy and Periers fell under rapid armored assaults as air support hit German tanks and supply lines.
German radio identified three generals linked to the July 20 plot against Hitler. Col Gen Ludwig Beck, Inf Gen Friedrich Olbricht, and Maj Gen Erich Hoepner were reported dead or under trial. Beck had opposed Nazism, Olbricht allegedly sabotaged orders, and Hoepner faced dismissal after a retreat on the Russian front.
An Al UP dispatch reports a base targeted by a task force in a rapid strike. The blast action disrupted enemy operations and damaged facilities, with no immediate reports of Allied casualties.
Allied warships and planes bomb Sabang in the Indian Ocean wrecking docks and defenses while Guam and Tinian push inland. Nimitz reports 1 958 Japanese dead on Saipan as Marines drive toward Apra harbor and the Orote peninsula, with 8 square miles of territory now under American control.
Lt Gen Lesley J McNair former commanding general of the army ground forces was killed by enemy fire in Normandy. He helped design the training program for overseas units and reshaped the ground force structure in 1942. He survived a Tunisian shell blast and was praised by Gen George Marshall as “the brains of the army.” He was born in Verndale Minnesota in 1883 and married Clare Huster with one son.
Berlin radio reported masses of Allied warships transports and landing craft concentrated in the Tyrrhenian coast near La Spezia and Genoa with several divisions of troops for an imminent landing in northern Italy.
Fragmentary readable items note court actions and death notices. Names appear alongside sections on comics movies sports and radio personalities in a busy index page with limited legible details.
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