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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1945
Page
9
Veteran business leader notes postwar reconversion is needed beyond restoring tools and attire. He urges reviving local vision, teamwork, common courtesy, and respect for customers to rebuild goodwill and a humane free enterprise after wartime strain.
Australian forces on Borneo have pushed six miles southwest along the coast from Brunei toward the Tutong oil center as Allied planes bomb Balikpapan gun positions. The advance, confirmed by MacArthur, follows reports Australian troops are near Tutong and clearing enemy parties around Brunei bay.
Pfc David W Taylor 29 of the Sixth Marines was killed in action on Okinawa June 10 per a government message to his wife. Surviving are his wife two children LeRoy and Jeanette his parents Mr and Mrs Fred Taylor of 1145 Oakland Rd WE two brothers Pvt Everett Taylor in Germany and LeRoy at home five sisters Mrs Jessie Hanson Greene Mrs Dorothy Shaffer Alburnett Mrs Ruth Feekes Mrs Lois Olphant and Mrs Jean Donegan Cedar Rapids.
MARSHALLTOWN I a AP P F Shemmel station agent for the Chicago and Great Western railroad said 22 cars of a freight train were derailed at 10 40 o clock Saturday night near State Center 15 miles west of here The dispatchers office at Boone Ia said only a bare report of the accident had been received information reaching here was that 24 hours would be required to clear the right of way The City of Denver and City of Portland crack passenger trains westbound were held up here by the wreck and railroad officials said they probably would be detoured through Tama 23 miles east of here
British warships and carrier aircraft bombarded the Japanese naval base at Truk for two days, with airfields docks ships and radio stations destroyed. One Seafire fighter was lost in AA fire, while Japanese losses included two aircraft on the ground. Tokyo reports claimed substantial British air activity. The Truk stronghold has long been bypassed after prior heavy bombing.
The Office of Price Administration raised lard shortening and oils from 10 to 12 points per pound effective midnight, while butter stays at 24 points and margarine at 12. The move aims to balance civilian needs as War Food Administration cuts civilian allocations. industrial use is reduced across bread, cereal and related sectors, with pharmaceuticals exempted.
New York dispatch reports General Omar N. Bradley commander of the 12th army group in Europe is returning to Germany. The reveal came Saturday as part of postwar movements. Bradley’s transfer signals shifts in Allied postwar planning and occupation duties.
A giant war bond auction is planned for Memorial Coliseum at 7 p.m. June 29 to push Linn County toward its 3 490 000 E bond quota. Through Friday E bonds total 2 365 743 and all bonds 7 401 843 of 9 268 000. The sale aims to lift E bond purchases to meet the target. The event is sponsored by Bnai Brith and the Chamber of Commerce young men's bureau with hundreds of valuable items auctioned for war bonds.
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower, a Texas born Kansan recently in Europe, returns to a hero’s welcome in Washington Monday. Up to half a million people are expected as stores close and federal workers may glimpse the five star general. He travels with 53 others from Paris via Bermuda arriving at 11 am. The crowd will cheer as the party proceeds to the Capitol for a congress address and a brief White House visit with President Truman.
Iowa Senator B B Hickenlooper arrived home from Des Moines and spoke on the San Francisco peace conference. He predicted the Senate will discuss and likely approve the agreement while noting nationalism among the 44 nations remains a key obstacle to lasting peace and urging further international meetings to establish controls.
Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, former Polish premier, arrived in Moscow with Jan Stanczyk for a conference of rival Polish leaders expected to forge a new government. Soviet Warsaw government and non-government Polish parties held preliminary talks, with Wincenty Witos reportedly ill and unable to attend. In London, officials hoped the trip could clarify the fate of 16 Poles jailed on alleged diversionary charges.
Admiral Nimitz defended Buckner's Okinawa decisions as his own with my concurrence while rebutting columnist Lawrence. He said landings on Japanese rear beaches would have meant heavy casualties and supply problems, and accused Lawrence of using misinformed statements for an axe to grind. Continued on Page 6.
In a Saturday night statement David Lawrence says Admiral Nimitz was misinformed about his May 30 article and that he quoted Homer Bigart's dispatch on Okinawa verbatim. He supports an ongoing military inquiry to determine what went wrong and urges no further public argument until findings are revealed.
AP reports a nationwide potato shortage persisting in many cities though officials say it will be short lived as the 1945 crop arrives. Early crop projected at over 64.6 million bushels this year versus 52.7 million last year.
Washington officials announce a July to September tire production increase of 800000 passenger and motorcycle tires, adding to the 5,290,000 tires produced in the April to June quarter under wartime measures.
U S Tenth Army troops captured three vital heights on Yaezhu Dake plateau and reduced the enemy to under nine square miles as more than 73 000 enemy dead were counted in the final Okinawa battle. Flame throwers tanks and infantry divisions advanced toward the island’s southern end after hard fighting on Yuza hill Hill 167 and surrounding slopes. Tokyo reported possible new Ryukyu invasions while ships and landing craft were assembled off Okinawa and Amami was bombed by air forces.
Washington officials said Stabilization Director William H. Davis approved a $1.375 daily wage rise for hard coal miners and allowed a $1 per ton increase in household anthracite price ceilings to offset higher costs. An extra 25 to 50 cent per ton rise for industrial anthracite users brings the overall average price boost to 75 cents per ton.
Mrs. Josephine Rouse of Route 2 Marion reports seven family ration books and her purse vanished from the leather goods counter at the Kresge store Saturday evening. The missing items included three dollars.
Special to The Gazette Floyd D. Looney of Solon, a marine, was killed in action on Okinawa May 13. He entered service April 11, 1944, trained at Oceanside, California, and served eight months in the South Pacific. He is survived by his parents, a sister Doris, brothers Harold and Donald S. Looney, the latter stationed at Fort Riley.
Linn county totals show 314 war casualties outside Cedar Rapids including 33 killed in action, three killed in training, 26 missing in action, two died in service, three prisoners and 40 wounded in action. The report cites broken out figures for KIA and other statuses within the county.
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