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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1945
Page
3
The Iowa House approved a bill exempting local government bodies from state sales and use taxes on purchases, a move expected to cut city county and school district costs by about 450 000. The piece notes public utilities could also gain, while urging clearer public accounting of government costs.
Moscow reports a Soviet offensive across the Berlin front with bridgeheads north and south of Kuestrin after a major artillery barrage. The Red Army advances toward Danzig and Stettin, with Wolin captured and ships fleeing the Baltic coast as Berlin readiness grows.
Washington reports William H. Davis, chairman of the War Labor Board, will become director of Economic Stabilization. George W. Taylor, WLB vice chairman, will assume the chairmanship. The moves reflect Davis’s role in wartime wage policy and a reorganization noted amid disputes over fringe wage increases and price effects.
Linn County supervisors reduced the 1945 county appropriation by 60 816 37 from 1944. Total 1945 appropriations drop to 1 188 608 25 from 1 249 424 62. General fund faces largest cut 257 253 in 1944 to 247 426 in 1945.
Cedar Rapids police corralled a 400 pound pig after it fell from a truck driven by Victor B. of Victor Iowa. The driver said he was transporting two pigs from Victor to the Packing House and only one was recovered.
Ohio river rises toward historic crests flooding 981 miles of valley. Seven dead and 5 000 to 6 000 families evacuated as hundreds of war plants close. Red Cross stocks and army air support mobilize to aid stricken Cincinnati and Millcreek valley communities.
Chinese First Army under Sun Li jen with support from an American task force captured Lashio and its airfield in a three week Burma road offensive. The seizure cut the enemy escape route to the east and bottled up Japanese forces in Mandalay, as a BBC broadcast noted a British column neared Mandalay.
Cedar Rapids reports two groups earning 100 percent Red Cross war fund quotas. Lagomarcino Grape Co and Franklin junior and senior high school employers led the effort with strong contributions. Roswell Pickford, co-chairman, notes $29,500 audited and urges daily solicitor reports as quotas move toward completion.
A walkout by 1,500 workers at the Graham Paige Motors plant in Detroit halted tank production. The strikers belong to UAW CIO Local 142.
Sgt. Robert Earley of the Third Armored Division tank unit from Fountain Minnesota recalls a grueling 10 day push from the Roer to the Rhine. He says tanks were not worth a drop of water on a hot stove and that crews want usable tanks rather than mobile targets after heavy losses. The men remained proud of their advances but bitter about their equipment.
Senators Ferguson Burton and Johnson urged investigations by the war investigating and military affairs committees into complaints by American soldiers about United States tanks. The trio noted ongoing debate among military men over heavy armor versus mobility and the difficulty of having both in one tank.
Maj. Richard Bong returns to duty at the air force redistribution center in Santa Monica with his wife after a Palm Springs honeymoon. He will stay about two weeks before possible assignment to a domestic post and is not expected to resume combat duty.
The German high command issued a communiqué claiming British troops attempted a local landing behind German lines on the Adriatic coast and that the assault was repelled.
American mountaineers pushed northeast in the Apennines southwest of Bologna gaining five miles in the strongest Fifth Army advance in weeks. They captured peaks and Castel d Aiano near Highway 64 with 1 200 prisoners. Brazilian troops alongside took Castelnuovo, near Castel d Aiano, as forces neared Bologna.
Mrs John T Liddle of 831 First Avenue SE donated 25000 to the Home for Aged Women at 202 Twelfth Street NW to fund an addition once priorities permit. Board president Mrs Walter M Krebs praised the gift noting current capacity and long waiting list.
Weather tonight will be fair and warmer in Cedar Rapids area after Decorah dropped to 11 degrees below zero, the state’s coldest point. Lows tonight near 20 below to 20 above as readings shift. statewide lows varied from six below at Spencer to one below at Sioux City.
The American First Army neared Bonn within two miles while the Third Army moved to 14 miles of the middle Rhine and under 20 miles of Coblenz. A censorship blackout signaled major developments as Ninth Army advanced toward Wesel and Coblenz.
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