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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1945
Page
4
President Roosevelt emphasizes cordial ties with Gen. Charles de Gaulle despite tensions over visits and policy. The piece notes American frustration with France’s status as a world power and argues France remains a key democratic bridgehead in postwar Europe.
Soviet forces gained a major bridgehead at Kuestrin across the Oder as Zhukov prepares a Berlin offensive with three Red Army groups. Konev and Rokossovsky prepare from southeast of Berlin and toward Danzig and Gdynia while German forces defend scarce Baltic coast positions. Lt. Gen. Rubel of the 163rd German infantry division was reported among the dead.
Cedar Rapids detectives and Linn county officers report a four month spree of breakins across Linn, Johnson, and Benton counties. Arrestees include Jerome Olson 17 Lumir Pavlicek 18 Clement Philipp 18 and Robert Pennington sought for arrest. Loot recovered includes tires cash gas stamps tools a typewriter batteries and more. Ten officers coordinated the case with Pennington facing charges and Pavlicek accused of receiving stolen property.
President Roosevelt named nine lieutenant generals to be promoted to full general. Those listed include Joseph T. McNarney Omar Bradley Carl Spaatz George Kenney Mark Clark Walter Krueger Brehon Somervell Jacob Devers and Thomas Handy with senior commands in Europe the Pacific and the U S Army Services.
Marine Cpl. Lawrence G. Steg gall Tuesday became the first Cedar Rapids man to be reported a casualty on Iwo Jima with shrapnel wounds in his right shoulder. His wife, children, and his mother Mrs Alma Steggall lived at 1019 D Avenue.
Weather report notes Cedar Rapids reached a new high of 60 degrees at 2 30 p m on Tuesday making it the warmest spot in the state. Humidity fell to 20 percent as the day set records for early spring warmth before expected cooling and possible light showers later tonight or Wednesday.
Cedar Rapids leaders urged Civil Aeronautics Board to grant through air service linking the city with national centers. A. L. Taylor and others cited Cedar Rapids’ large 1944 manufacturing output, diverse industries, and a 261000 retail trade area, stressing an urgent need for scheduled air service to keep plants competitive.
Fifth Marine Division reduced the last sizable Japanese pocket around Kitano point on Iwo Jima while smaller pockets held out on the northeast coast. The operation, 23 days old, nears completion with naval gunfire and air support and ongoing bombardments in the Kuriles and Palau region.
American B 29s bombed Osaka in a major incendiary raid aimed at hidden factories in the congested city. About two thousand tons of bombs were dropped, marking the heaviest load yet recorded in a Nipponese city.
Frances DeLores Cisler of Cedar Rapids seeks 10000 damages from the city in district court over injuries from a December 27 1944 fall near Sunshine Food Market at First Avenue and Fifteenth Street SE. She claims negligence allowed ice and snow to accumulate and freeze on the traveled way.
A German prisoner said a tired engineer sergeant cut demolition wires at the Ludendorff bridge over the Rhine, enabling Allied capture. He described the bridge crew attempting to blow the span and the captain in charge shooting himself when Detachment was captured, with the SS wanting to continue the war.
Secretary of Commerce Wallace told the Senate commerce panel he plans to learn to fly to gauge private aviation. He estimated the industry could generate about 1.7 billion dollars in annual revenue and employ up to 400,000 workers within eight to ten years after V-J Day. He urged federal airport-building aid.
Mrs Geneva Dodge, 39, of 1516 Tenth Street SE, mother of five, was killed in an elevator accident at the Smulekoff building on Third Avenue and First Street SW. Police say she was crushed between the third floor and the elevator shaft edge after pulling the shaft cable to start a descending car. Doctor T Frank Hersch ruled it an accidental death. no inquest. The elevator, an older model overhauled two weeks earlier, allowed starting the car from any floor by pulling the side cable.
Paris dispatch reports American forces creating a six mile bridgehead east of the Rhine near Remagen with heavy counterattacks. Patton's Third Army narrowed the Moselle hold while continuing eastward toward the Ruhr basin as German defenses stiffen.
Charles Heaton 58 of Fairfax died at St Luke's hospital at 8 30 am Tuesday from a self inflicted gunshot wound in the basement of his home. He was a former Fairfax town official a gun club pioneer and Iowa State Trapshooters president with national renown. He is survived by his wife daughter Mary Lou three brothers a sister and a granddaughter. Funeral arrangements are pending at Turner's.
Mrs. Donald A. Spalding of Midland Michigan placed a want ad in a Kansas City paper offering cigarets in exchange for blood donations for her three year old son Donnie who suffers a rare kidney ailment. She canvassed tobacco and drug stores seeking smokes to fulfill the promise noting she has only a few packs left and hopes to find more.
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