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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1944
Page
2
Senator Alben Barkley urges sound finance as wartime costs rise while critics fault Roosevelt liberalism. The piece notes debt limits, Willkie Wisconsin reactions, and a student opinion survey on teen discipline and social life.
Allied Fifth Army advances almost unopposed along coastal and mountain routes toward Rome while the German Fourteenth Army is said to have ceased as a fighting force. British Eighth Army drives the Tenth Army in retreat as Allied tanks push into Orbetello area.
The Office of Price Administration announces limited ration-free sale of odd lot shoes from July 10 to July 29. Men and women shoes of all sizes youths and boys sizes 1 to 6 are included with specified price reductions. Children's misses and little boys shoes are not affected as they were ration-free in early May.
Air forces from the United States and Britain pound German airfields in northern France and Holland. American Fortresses and Liberators target Lille Nord, Evreux Fauville, and other bases while RAF heavies bomb road junctions and a Mosquito raid hits Berlin. About 7,000 Allied sorties logged with 26 aircraft lost.
The Texas Democratic executive committee voted 37 to 6 to not certify the pro Roosevelt electors named at a convention for the July primary ballot. The resolutions committee also declined to submit binding presidential elector questions to the party's primary, effectively killing the resolution. Merritt Gibson noted the issue was settled at the state convention, where Roosevelt backers walked out after two test votes.
Four hours after 24 canvassers began in Oakland the town surpassed its 75000 fifth war loan quota. Community chairman Dr L G Dick reported at noon Monday Cedar Rapids News AP
Linn county launches a well planned attack to reach a $10,025,000 quota in the nations fifth war loan drive. Weather is favorable and leaders expect to far surpass the goal. Camp Dodge soldiers paraded and performed in the city with a free GI show at the coliseum. Local pledges include $38,750 from La Plant Choale workers by 11 am. Union Local 116 chaired the drive which aims for a county total of $65,000 in the township blitz. Co Chairs Perrine and Hearn say corporations may contribute $4,824,000 as part of overall efforts.
Moscow dispatches report that Soviet tanks guns and troops pierced the Mannerheim line near Leningrad driving Finns back across the Karelian isthmus. Pravda quoted that Germans failed to aid Finland and the Red drive would continue across the eastern front, with Viipuri within 48 miles.
Japanese armies push toward the Canton Hankow railway junction from Canton and toward Changsha with 80 000 and 70 000 troops respectively as Chennault warns of possible China isolation. Allied aim remains to hold Burma and Myitkyina while tallying Japanese casualties.
A. Isaacson dressed as a glamor girl and offered cosmetic services to the highest bidder at a Polk Nebraska war bond rally. His wife purchased him in the odd auction event.
First Lt. Hayden T. Hughes 27 previously reported missing over Berlin since April 29 died in action on that date. The German government via the Red Cross informed his family. He trained at Roswell New Mexico and arrived in England December 1. He was a University of Iowa graduate and had begun law studies before service. His wife Betty Beddow and parents in Washington Ta. Two brothers serve in the Navy in the South Pacific.
London dispatch reports that Gen. Maxime Weygand, former French army chief, was shot and killed by German guards while attempting to escape in Koenigsberg East Prussia. Weygand and his wife were said to be living in a Tyrolean hotel earlier. Petain reportedly protested his treatment last month.
A community appeal marks opening day of the fifth war loan urging residents to back the effort with increased purchases. The message stresses individual self choice carries a heavy duty to support American troops by sacrificing to buy bonds and fund the war.
Allied forces drove 18 miles inland in the Normandy beachhead and closed on Cherbourg as Carentan fell to American troops. Berlin acknowledged Carentan loss while reporting renewed Allied landings near the Vire estuary and St. Vaast la Hogue. The battle for Caen and surrounding sectors intensified with British and American units advancing amid heavy shelling and hedgerow fighting.
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