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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1945
Page
6
Discussion of fair employment practices and volunteer options, race discrimination, and the complexity of utility rates. Examines educational approaches to race issues, electric power comparisons, and the value of rate structures. Describes postwar projected world organization with assembly, security council, and allied powers shaping collective security and governance.
Barbara Pearson and Nancy Milburn, both 11, are hospitalized with poliomyelitis in Cedar Rapids. Dr. D. S. Challed and Dr. Morgan Foster say neither case is serious and both are improving. The girls, who attended Camp Huaga, show no paralysis and likely contracted the disease before leaving home.
Delegates from 50 nations gather in San Francisco to sign the United Nations charter in a flag-draped auditorium. President Truman is to deliver his first major foreign policy address to the conference, with the speech slated to begin around 7 p.m. Central wartime considerations loom over the proceedings.
New York based composer and musical director Erno Rapee, 55, longtime Radio City Music Hall figure since 1932, died unexpectedly at his apartment due to a heart attack.
Solicitor General Charles Fahy was appointed director of the legal division of the United States group control council in Germany. The White House announced the selection by Gen Eisenhower with Truman's approval. Fahy will relocate to Berlin soon, leaving the solicitor generalship. he will be joined by Warren Madden and Herman Phleger as advisers with other staff yet to be chosen.
Foreign Economic Administrator Leo T. Crowley told a Senate subcommittee that Germany's warmaking potential remains enormous despite Allied bombing. He warned long term occupation and strict industrial controls are needed to prevent a revived German war machine, noting bombing curtailed production but did not destroy industrial capacity. He cited disruption of raw materials and transport as key effects and criticized postwar terms for failing to curb German industry.
Sen. Wheeler of Montana says there will be no organized Senate opposition to ratification of the San Francisco charter. He has not read the document and will decide after studying it. He believes no other senators are planning organized opposition.
The Polish government in exile condemned the Warsaw based provisional government of national unity as illegal and said it would only transfer authority to a government formed on free Polish soil reflecting the people’s will through free elections.
Cedar Rapids restaurant leaders plan two meatless days each week starting July 1 to cope with OPA meat point cuts for July August. Wednesday and Friday will be butterless, with the aim of keeping operators open during the hot period. Iowa Restaurant Association officials warn patrons face tighter rations as bases shrink from 80 to 64 percent.
U.S. Fifth Air Force fliers conduct about 300 sorties daily over northern Luzon, blasting Japanese positions in the upper Cagayan valley. American and Filipino troops push toward the enemy, with air strikes and 240 mm howitzers rendering the valley scene a carnage zone. Mindanao columns threaten a junction as Marine bombers hammer escape routes.
London AP piece cites All-India Radio reporting a likely invasion of an island midway between Okinawa and Japan. The exact target was not named, but Amami Gunto Amami Oshima Togara Gunto and Yaku Shima lie in the vicinity, with Amami Gunto about 300 miles south of Kyushu and Yaku Shima under 100 miles from the mainland.
Tokyo reports a 200 ship American invasion fleet near Okinawa with three battleships and several cruisers and transports. Premier Suzuki warns the decisive hour is at hand as Nippon political leaders demand stronger action. Radio Tokyo meanwhile notes Allied air raids intensifying while ships allegedly sunk remain unconfirmed.
Denver dispatch reports Lt Gen George Patton contested cartoonist Bill Mauldin in a Denver encounter. Mauldin, en route to Los Angeles after army discharge, recalled Patton asking him to guide soldier and public thought. Mauldin affirmed a general may deploy troops but cannot dictate personal beliefs.
President Truman signed legislation permitting servicemen and their families to occupy war housing previously limited to transient war workers. The measure allows occupancy on a rental basis, expanding housing access for veterans and dependents.
Washington AP report says the house rejected a bill to compel the army to discharge fathers of four or more children seeking release. The tally was 115 to 89 in a teller vote.
Washington reports a massive B-29 raid on Honshu with 450 to 500 aircraft slamming 3,000 tons of munitions at key targets in Yokohama Nagoya Osaka and Kobe areas. The strike, involving 318th Army fighters and escort Mustang pilots, aimed to erase Japanese war production and followed a recent campaign pattern. Admiral Nimitz said Fleet Air Wing One sank and damaged ships since operations began, as Kyushu airfields were hit by multiple groups.
Cedar Rapids will see considerable cloudiness and a warmer spell tonight and Wednesday with occasional showers and thunderstorms. The forecast notes a summer overcast developed this noon, limiting the day’s high to 76 at 11:30 a.m. and 74 by 2:30 p.m. Monday’s high was 82, four degrees below Iowa’s peak of 86 at Council Bluffs, while the overnight low reached 51 at 5 a.m. No precipitation was recorded in Iowa Monday.
CHICAGO AP Police seek a thief who robbed Catherine Byrom a 58 year old mother of five overseas veterans as she lay dying in the street after a car crash. The purse with her identifying papers was stolen leaving her body unidentified for 12 hours in the county morgue. Her husband and five sons are named. The driver said rain glare briefly blocked visibility and he left to call authorities while a passerby guarded the scene.
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