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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1944
Page
6
A wartime report details pilotless craft raids over southern England with small initial casualties and heavier strikes Friday night. Authorities caution readers not to reveal landing sites and note anti aircraft guns will continue firing as measures are reviewed with evolving experience.
Linn County trails in the $10,025,000 war bond drive with only 885,300 sold after four days. Cedar Rapids contributed 832,671 of an 8,595,000 city share. rural areas added 52,629 of 1,430,000. Series E bonds show 298,621 of 2,860,800 met by Thursday. Overall sales lag the daily average, as the county aims to complete the quota by July 8.
Porter recounts the first B 29 raid on the Japanese mainland from China bases. He details defenses, navigation, and combat over Yawata and praises American crews while noting Chinese labor and Japan’s prior Pearl Harbor attack. The broadcast links raid outcomes to long term bombing strategy and echoes Doolittle’s legacy.
A mixed listing of ration stamp details for meat, gasoline, foods, fuel oil and shoe stamps, followed by several small crime fines and drivers license entries. It then reports numerous birth notices across multiple residents, with family names and locations, and ends with a funeral service note for a Christian Science reader and burial at Maple Hill Cemetery.
Services for Mrs Frances Janosovsky who died Thursday morning at 2110 Bowling Street SW will be held at 2 p m Sunday at Janeba Funeral Home. Rev Milo Filipi officiates. Burial follows in Bohemian National Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Vance B Newhouse a Linn County courthouse custodian of over twenty years died suddenly of a heart attack at work Thursday. Services will be held at Turner Chapel at 4 p.m. Saturday with Rev. James H Blackstore Jr officiating and burial at Linwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel.
Fred Young aged 1017 Ninth Avenue SE died Wednesday. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Beatty chapel with Rev. W. C. Porter officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial Cemetery family lot. Friends may call at Beatty's.
Mrs. Nancy Alice Ralston age 83 of 1635 A avenue NE Cedar Rapids died at 10 15 p m Thursday after a long illness Born March 21 1861 near Olin she lived in Cedar Rapids 27 years Survived by one son C E Ralston Cedar Rapids three daughters Mrs Neil Covington Champaign Illinois Mrs Glenn Vernon Marion and Mrs Fred Sommerbeck Chicago five grandchildren two great grandchildren a brother W A Simmons Olin four sisters Mrs Elizabeth Starry Morley Mrs Frank Starry Olin Mrs William Starry Tallahassee Florida and Mrs C F Mitchell Olin Services set for 2 pm Sunday Beatty chapel with burial at 3 30 pm in the Olin cemetery Friends may call at Beatty's
Mrs Leafy Dell Montgomery of Charlotte Michigan died at her sister Mrs J W Houser 1505 Park avenue SE at 5 pm Thursday after a brief illness She had worked for Empire Pro a company of Kansas City until illness She was a member of the Christian Science church in Charlotte Surviving include her sister and a niece Mrs Ralph Os-
U S bombers of Lt General George C Kenney Fifth Air Force battered Yap island in a long flight through storms. The heavily fortified airfield, used by Japanese navy seaplanes, lies 1 078 miles northwest of Allied bases and aimed to pin down enemy air strength and curb reinforcements to Saipan in the Marianas.
Field dispatches report mobile fighting in the American sector with generals fighting beside troops. Allied air forces flew 3,006 sorties in 206 missions on Thursday aiding ground operations in Normandy while heavy bombers pushed the 24 hour total above 5,000 sorties. Weather hindered air work but the beachhead unloading remained vigorous and Montgomery's force strength was described as growing daily. Le Havre photographs show RAF raids driving away German E boats and motor boats after a raid. post attack ships added a brisk pounding to the port's defense.
Cedar Rapids friends reported Capt. Hugh Houghton son of Dr. Henry Houghton former dean of the University of Iowa medical college and his wife was killed in action during a pre invasion air attack in Europe He had been awarded the Air Medal and the Distinguished Service Cross He is the brother of Mrs Herbert F Clark whose husband is the son of Mr and Mrs C F Clark of 510 Knollwood Drive SE
Denver AP reports rescue parties reached a burned B 17 wreck 30 miles west of Fort Collins after a long mountain trek. Four crewmen died and four were injured from the 10 man crew on the Rapid City South Carolina to Colorado Springs flight. Brig Gen Albert L Sneed of Lowry Field said the crash was found Friday and no Iowans served on the crew. Two other crew members hiked to Fort Collins with news of the crash, triggering the ongoing search.
A premature summer thunderstorm struck Cedar Rapids about 1 a.m. Friday with an inch of rain, then sun returned by mid-morning. Friday's high reached 92 with 97 statewide. humidity at 2:30 p.m. was 48 percent and the day cooled to 78 by midnight.
PARIS Mo AP two of first degree murder were Thursday by County eee Thomas A Proctor against Raymond Paul Patrick 20 held for the deaths of three members of a family into which he said he hoped to marry The attorney said the murder charges were filed for the slayings of Albert Ross Feltz and his son Ladwin who resided near oe Mo Capt F Shaw of the state highway Ta said Patrick also confessed the killing of Mrs Feltz but the attorney said no charges had yet been filed for her death since according to the man's confession she was near Farmington Ia
A record dance will be held tonight at Club One-9-Teen with a jitterbug contest and square dancing. Jim Westcot will be the announcer. Admission is 5 cents per person with proceeds to fund a frame for an honor con. event runs from 8 to 11 p.m.
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