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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1944
Page
1
Harry Boyd laments press gallery scenes showing hurried tours and distracted lawmakers. He argues this distorts citizens’ views of Congress and notes the Dies Committee’s demise signals un American activities may end. The piece criticizes the committee's leadership and effectiveness.
Springfield priest Father Stanislaus Orlemanski, suspended by Bishop O Leary upon returning from a Moscow conference with Premier Stalin, says he will appeal to the apostolic delegate in Washington. He plans to celebrate Mass Sunday in his home parish while awaiting higher church action.
The Dies committee has unearthed significant information since it began, signaling further details Congress and the public should know about efforts to alter the American form of government. It urges appointing men of unquestioned ability to a new investigative body to ensure prestige and effectiveness. White collar raises remain limited despite perceived policy tweaks, with complex treasury rules confusing employers and workers. A new Global War Veterans magazine launch in Tennessee promises 24 pages next month, drawing skepticism over its significance. Abridged anecdote on a rare bridge hand contrasts with a sensational yet unreported poker hand.
STOCKHOLM AP Sweden’s ball bearing exports to Germany reached at most 3 percent of German production before heavy Allied bombing but the figure is said to have risen only by an insubstantial amount The foreign office note to American correspondents states that in the last two years ball bearings were exported to Great Britain in sizable value mainly high quality types Some bearings were used in German aircraft but the most essential aircraft bearings were not exported from Sweden
In north Burma Chinese troops under Lt. Gen. Stilwell, aided by artillery and tanks and backed by dive bombers, penetrated Nipponese positions west of the Mogaung river. The offensive covered a two mile front near Malakawng south of the Hwelon river, targeting Kamaing Mogaung and Myitkyina. Japanese attacks east of the Mogaung were repulsed with heavy casualties. Stilwell’s forces surrounded Tiangzng near Myitkyina. An allied Kohima front operation to clear ridges overlooking Kohima from the southwest was largely successful.
California Governor Earl Warren said he is not pursuing the Republican nomination or the presidency. Warren, chosen to keynote the upcoming Republican national convention, stated he would not seek national office and had not engaged in any activity toward such campaigns. Despite California's 50 delegates pledged to him for president, his name is mainly discussed as a possible vice presidential candidate.
In an Associated Press poll, 14 of 33 Republican senators backed California Governor Earl Warren for vice president, while six supported Ohio Governor John Bricker and nine were undecided. One vote each went to Lt Commander Harold Stassen and other named figures, with four Republicans not answering.
President Roosevelt signed legislation appropriating 6.7 million dollars for the money maternity and child program run by the labor department through the children's bureau to aid wives of enlisted servicemen in the armed forces.
AP report from London notes Berlin radio claim that Adolf Hitler has conferred a puppet state status on Slovakia, signaling a shift in political arrangement and Nazi influence in Central Europe.
A damaged U S Fortress nicknamed the Silver Slipper completed a perilous return from a raid on Brux in Czechoslovakia. German civilians greeted the plane with the V for victory sign as crew members reported low altitude flight to avoid German fighters and gunfire. The mission left crew members claiming to have knocked out or injured dozens of German soldiers while dodging wires, church steeples, and trees on the fragile homeward dash.
American British Russian plans for acceptance of Germanys surrender are nearly completed and call for complete destruction of the Prussian built army. The European advisory commission is drafting surrender terms to be sent to the Big Three and used in negotiations with Germany. The terms require total German surrender, disarmament where it fights, and disposal by Allied authorities. The Russians push for strict surrender to prevent the army from melting back into Germany.
Allied officials disclosed that German torpedo planes attacked a convoy off the North African coast just hours before a major Italian offensive. Beaufighters and Mos planes conducted two wave strikes near water level, losing five aircraft but causing no damage to the ships.
Ward Co formally agreed Saturday to open negotiations with Local 20 United Retail Wholesale and Store Employes union after a union request. John A Barr Ward labor representative replied that he will meet at any mutually convenient time. Union stewards council will meet Sunday night to set time and date.
London dispatch reports the German high command saying the Allied air offensive may be preparation for invasion marking the first use of invasion in Nazi bulletins. Inside France, preparations race ahead under a Rommel plan to detain the French male population. German accounts view Allied operations in Italy as the lead edge of a broader European war effort.
The International Labor Organization named United States Labor Commissioner Carter Goodrich as chairman on Saturday, extending the U S top position for another year.
Allied troops push deep into the Gustav line in Italy with strong German resistance. By nightfall at least five villages and seven strategic hills held, as Americans French British and Poles pressed on. Castelforte and Santi Cosmo e Caraiano fell amid rapid advances near the Garigliano and Rapido rivers.
U S bombers and Allied fighters attacked Focke Wulf plant at Tutow, Osnabruck yards, a Stettin area refinery, and more. They claimed 63 German planes shot down, with 12 bombers and 10 fighters lost, as 5,000 Allied aircraft struck Europe.
Washington reports the Office of Price Administration will require all retail food stores to classify by June 15 for price schedules. Stores will use calendar year 1943 gross sales to determine group, with four groups defined by annual gross business.
Smuggled messages from Belgian and other underground leaders say their forces are prepared to spark a major uprising once Allied forces land in Europe. In London, a Belgian contact, known as Emile, relayed the dispatches from a Belgian chief as intrigue and preparations swirl amid ongoing war activity.
The Soviet high command said bombers hit German trains and stores at Daugavpils in Latvia and Tartu in Estonia, with violent explosions and fires Friday night. Moscow and Berlin traded reports of Soviet forces crossing the Moldova river into Romania as fighting along the Dnestr area near Tiraspol continued with failed German counterattacks.
STOCKHOLM AP Four American bombers landed at neutral country. Two weeks ago one crashed killing the pilot.
U S heavy bombers hit north Italy targets in a massive plan to strangle German troops. In Naples officials said hundreds of escorted bombers disrupted 14 rail sites and cut the Brenner Pass line after a record air assault by more than 2 750 Allied planes.
Allied air forces conducted a major raid across northern Italy using Fortresses to hit Brenner rail yards and bridges from Bolzano to Roncholo, aiming to sever supply lines to German forces retreating toward Rome. Bombers reported effective damage though some lines were temporarily disrupted and repairs began.
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