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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1944
Page
3
A veteran columnist notes politics will surge in public discourse as war coverage nears, with many commentators eager to weigh in. He covers nepotism questions around Mrs Truman, Dewey versus Fish in New York, and the rise of practical politicians, plus a humorous nod to old Coxey.
Soviet forces pressed toward Warsaw from the south and east as the Baltic advance pushed along the Baltic coast and toward Germany. Red flanks cleared a 66 mile Vistula east bank corridor while Rokossovsky and Konev’s armies moved near Kaunas Przemysl and Lwow. Stalin received the Order of Victory for leadership in the offensive.
Washington reports the War Labor Board appointed Justice William Lee Knous of Denver as arbitrator to settle grievances between Montgomery Ward and its Chicago plant and the CIO mail order employees union.
In Linn county outside Cedar Rapids 47 casualties are listed with 12 killed in action, one killed in training, 11 missing in action, and six prisoners. The report notes casualties among locals in the Cedar Rapids area across killed in action, missing, and prisoners during the war.
Pacific theater report declares Orote Peninsula and Sumay naval base secured by Marines. Invasion of Guam completed with airfield and barracks taken. 30 tanks and 72 field pieces seized. Tinian and Saipan operations ongoing as Japanese retreat under air and sea pressure. PT boats patrol Apra harbor as US forces seal the harbor and surround remaining resistance.
The $1 385 000 Mississippi river bridge at Chester was destroyed when struck by lightning shortly before 10 p m Saturday. The central bolt caused the span to fold and fall into the river with no one aboard. The bridge linked Chester and Claryville Missouri and was dedicated August 21 1942. Bridge commission chairman John A File expects the structure out of service for at least a year.
Jens Grothe assistant attorney general assigned to the state tax commission announced his resignation effective Sep 1 to return to private practice.
Washington AP says congressional leaders race with Allied forces to pass demobilization and reconversion bills by Germany's defeat. Major issues include demobilizing 11 million troops and workers, disposing of war properties estimated between 50 and 100 billion dollars, and guiding peacetime industry without harming the economy. Byrnes urges creation of an Office of War Mobilization and Postwar Adjustment. action remains unlikely before late summer or end of September.
Large escort of Liberators and Mitchells hit Halmahera Island south of Mindanao in the first major raid. The daylight assault crippled three airfields, destroyed 30 planes on the ground and shot down 15 interceptors. Two Allied fighters were lost.
DETROIT UP The Ford Motor Company news bureau released quotes from Henry Ford on his 81st birth anniversary. He suggested women might run the world better and spoke of a peaceful postwar era with expanded farming and improved automobiles and aircraft.
An army transport plane with 26 aboard including 18 patients disappeared Wednesday en route from Scotland to Mitchel Field New York. The C 54 likely went down between Iceland and Newfoundland after last contact at 1 am Wednesday. Over 150 planes and surface craft search the area. Aboard were 15 Army and 3 Navy stretcher cases, a civilian crew of five and an Army flight nurse.
Pfc. Robert Lester Julis, 23, reported wounded in action in Italy in a letter to his parents Msgr. and Mrs. Joseph Julis of 833 Twenty-first Street SE Cedar Rapids. He was hit by shrapnel July 13 receiving a leg wound and is hospitalized in Italy. Julis has been overseas 30 months and served with the national guard unit that went to Camp Claiborne and saw service in Ireland England and North Africa before Italy.
United Press tally of Allied advance toward Berlin lists Russia 314 miles away, France 623 miles, and Italy 600 miles as of Saturday evening, reflecting main war fronts and strategic positions.
Clark Lee notes rumors among German prisoners that Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was killed when his car was strafed by Allied Thunderbolts. Other sources say he died from injuries or remained unconscious after a vehicle accident, with no confirmation from German reports.
The Office of Price Administration placed canned corn back on the ration list while grape jam tomato preserves and tomato marmalades are made ration-free. New point values assign 3 points to 12 ounce whole kernel vacuum packed corn and 5 points to other cans. Printing delays push next month charts to August 13.
The Navy Department credited U S submarines with sinking 17 more Japanese ships, including a small war vessel. This lift brings total Japanese warships and fleet auxiliaries sunk by American submarines since the start of the war to 671.
Allied forces push 11 miles below Coutances and 13 beyond St Lo amid heavy German resistance. Tanks, planes and infantry clear pockets, capture 6,000+ prisoners and destroy hundreds of enemy tanks as Bradley’s precision offensive widens the break toward Brehal and Percy.
Kay Cochran, 20, left her wedding plans and packed luggage to kneel and pray for her fiancé Lt. Col. Francis Gabreski, America’s ace of aces, reported missing in action over Germany. She spoke softly at St. John’s church in Prairie du Chien.
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