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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1945
Page
1
Thousands view military aircraft at Cedar Rapids open days proving strong local aviation interest. The piece notes eager youths recognize aircraft markings, calls on merchants and city leaders to plan future airport expansion, and contrasts youth excitement with older generations’ automo tive boom. It also surveys US Soviet tensions and urges measured, decisive action.
In San Francisco the Soviet Union signaled in principle acceptance of the American compromise on the regional security issue. It suggested language changes and conveyed voting guidance to Big Five representatives via Ambassador Gromyko. The talks resume Sunday with a plan to press ahead Monday.
John L. Lewis and anthracite operators reached a contract subject to government approval raising miners pay by $1.37 a day. The agreement ends a 19 day Pennsylvania anthracite strike and awaits a referendum by about 72,000 workers before terms are released.
Cedar Rapids police say Clark Fisher 34 of 820 Fourteenth Street NE is in fair condition at St Luke’s after knife wounds to his throat following his wife’s shotgun death. The 29 year old Mrs Fisher died from a 12 gauge blast in their home as their children aged 8 and 9 told officers. County Attorney Carl Hendrickson filed first degree murder charges against Fisher who says memory is cloudy and that he and his wife planned to separate.
In a traveling show linked to the seventh war loan drive thirty-nine soldiers with combat records, including Lt Merel Haack and Sgt Dale Bechtel, will stage a mock battle at Hawkeye Downs Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. The 28 piece 265th army ground forces band will perform, and 600 Gold Star families will be honored in a special section. The event runs from noon to 2 p.m. with a concert from noon to 1 p.m. on the plaza between the courthouse and Memorial Coliseum.
Marines of the Sixth division repelled a Japanese counterattack east of Takamoji village as fierce fighting raged for Sugar Loaf Hill. Nimitz reported Okinawa casualties totaling 8,310 dead or missing and 22,216 wounded among fleet losses, with civilians under U.S. military government.
Summary of war casualties for Cedar Rapids and Linn County totals. Inside Cedar Rapids 57 killed or missing or wounded with specific breakdowns for killed in action training deaths and prisoners. Outside Cedar Rapids Linn County shows 20 killed in action 15 missing in action two died in service 31 wounded and three prisoners.
American doughboys drive the Japanese from Mindanao’s rugged highlands near Davao as Gen. MacArthur reports. The 24th division advances to the Susa airfield area while other divisions close in on Bukidnon and Malaybalay. Air bombardment, shore patrols, and guerilla actions accompany the operation, with hundreds of enemy troops killed and material seized.
The War Production Board announced approval to manufacture 530000 new affordable refrigerators this year. Production of gas and electric units may begin July 1 after a three year shutdown, with public delivery expected early next year. WPB will supply materials at about one third prewar rate, 265000 units in Q3 and Q4, with early output added to stockpiles for hospitals and blood banks.
Washington sources say special agents captured enough illegal ration currency to cripple gasoline sugar and meat programs. About 550 leaders arrested after 10 months of raids. saved millions in fuel and meat for civilians. Vinson touts a 40 million yearly cattle feeder subsidy while farm chiefs doubt meat supplies rise as forecast.
President Truman will go on the air Monday at noon. He will address a joint session of Congress in connection with the presentation of the 100th Congressional Medal of Honor to infantryman Sergeant Jake Lindsey of Lucedale Mississippi.
ae Inc of Minneapolis has purchased Honeymead Products Cedar Rapids plant. The price is not disclosed but grainmen estimate around 2.5 million dollars in plant and inventories. Honeymead keeps its Cedar Rapids offices and operates two other Iowa plants. Cargill is a leading grain, feed and seed firm.
The ICC ordered that rail freight move under the same class rate nationwide as schedules are prepared, applying from the Far West to the Rockies. Uniform rates will cover the eastern territory too, with a 10 percent interim reduction effective August 30 between southern western trunk lines and eastern rate areas. The 9 to 2 ruling pushes railroads to file a method for full uniform classification within 90 days.
Chinese forces beat back a Japanese offensive 400 miles northeast of Chungking in Hunan and reoccupied Foochow as part of a broader coastal retreat. The clash caused about 1,500 Chinese casualties, with indications the Japanese abandoned Foochow and pulled from Wenchow Amoy and Swatow.
More than 300 B 29 Superfortresses dropped 2000 tons of demolition bombs on Hamamatsu in Honshu, with Tokyo as a secondary target due to thick cloud cover. Radio Tokyo claimed some bombs fell on Tokyo, while other ships reported mines planted in Wakasa bay and Bungo Strait.
Marshal Tito asserts a Yugoslav majority in Trieste and surrounding areas while Britain and the United States press Tito to withdraw troops. Alexander rebukes Tito for violating a negotiated agreement and warns against forceful occupation as Allied powers draft tougher notes.
Acting Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew rejected Tito's claims to Trieste and asserted that any settlement must be orderly not forcible. He disclosed that Yugoslav forces have been augmented by partisan infiltrations into districts under Allied high command.
William C Murphy Washington bureau chief for the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1937 was announced Saturday night as a pointed publicity director for the Republican national committee by chairman Herbert Brownell Jr Murphy takes a key role in GOP publicity work joining the national committee staff in Washington.
Three year old Billie Scrivens of Ely treated for a gash below the eye after a collision between Gerald Butterfield on a motorcycle from Cedar Rapids Route 3 and H Scrivens driving a car from Ely at Thir avenue and Tenth street SE. Butterfield rode south on Tenth street while Scrivens turned left from Third Avenue. patrolmen Carroll and George Davis investigated.
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