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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1945
Page
2
President Truman acts quickly to overhaul his cabinet aiming to strengthen real authority and broaden policy views. New appointees include Tom C Clark and Clinton P Anderson, with shifts to Labor and Agriculture noted as pivotal for broader national policy and relations.
President Truman launches a fourway cabinet reshuffle, elevating Westerners like Tom C Clark and Lewis B Schwellenbach while removing Frances Perkins, signaling a liberal tilt with no immediate further moves. Anderson shifts to agriculture and War Food roles, with duties merged for policy coordination.
President Truman urged Congress to replace wartime powers with peacetime reform to make the government more businesslike and efficient. He warned many agencies would expire or revert after the war and pressed for continuous presidential adjustments with legislative oversight to root out inefficiencies.
Guam based B-29s led a 200 mile long force over Kyushu and Tokyo dropping 4 500 tons of incendiaries in the largest single city attack of the war. Over 6 000 airmen participated as fires raged along Shinagawa, Yokohama, and Kawasaki with the Palace garden arbour hit and jet defenses seen.
Washington officials announced a wartime gas ration increase. A coupons rise from four to six gallons effective June 22, with B and C ceilings raised to 650 miles per month starting June 11. Officials note equitable nationwide distribution and limited impact on many B users.
Linn county begins work on its third million in war bond sales with a bond dance planned Saturday night to aid the drive. Cedar Rapids total reached 1,927,613 for the mighty seventh, plus 273,346 rural, to a county total of 2,200,959 toward a 9,268,000 goal. Wednesday's 198,981 included 49,181 in E bonds, with more than half in E bonds overall. Tickets to the Coliseum dance were distributed to payroll deduction firms, and a 16 piece coast guard band from the St. Louis Ninth naval district will perform under Chief Bandmaster George Rachford.
American 10th Army troops tighten the offensive on Okinawa entering Naha with Sixth Division marines as Yonabaru falls to the 96th Infantry. Seventh Division advances on the east coast while counterattacks are repulsed and rocket ship support secures new hills for artillery dominance. Escort carrier planes attack staging air bases in the Sakishima group.
War Production Chief J A Krug authorized the automobile industry to begin producing passenger cars after July 1 as lines restart. He projected about 2,000,000 cars by July 1946 and authorized roughly 200,000 civilian vehicles in the last six months of 1945 if materials are available.
A 15-year-old girl named Charlotte Lawler walked along a block-long six inch ledge on her apartment building second level for 36 minutes as firemen and police tried to coax her back. Neighbors watched as she outmaneuvered responders until a neighbor's invitation via a window led her inside. The girl said she wanted to scare her stepfather after a quarrel over studies.
Zurich dispatch reports Jacob Stalin son of Marshal Stalin now an internee in a Swiss camp with other Russian officers after escaping a German prison camp early in the war.
Washington reports that an early meeting of the Big Three is in the works as Hopkins and Davies prepare discussions in Moscow and London. Talks will cover Poland Germany and Austria, with Russia’s postwar credits and lend lease also on the agenda. Hopkins knows Stalin and Churchill, shaping U S policy.
The Roughriders from Manson Roosevelt Cedar Rapids beat Elkader 3-1 to advance in the state high school baseball tournament. George Schamberger drove in two runs with a first inning triple as Roosevelt built a lead, Elkader answered in the fourth, and Roosevelt added another in the fifth. Petrzelka pitched for Roosevelt with Dittmer on the mound for Elkader.
New York police arrested 18 year old sailor Donald Fifer after he heaved an 11 year old boy into Central Park Lake on Wednesday night. He was charged with forcible assault. Fifer claimed he sought affection while on a 48 hour pass and blamed disruptive youngsters at the bench.
Supreme headquarters reports Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler, architect of the Gestapo and Reich police, killed himself with a poison dose while in Allied custody after arrest in Bremervorde. Details recount his capture by Second Army troops and concealment before final death.
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