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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1944
Page
1
Public Improvements Commissioner Dave Williams asked Finance Commissioner Bur Sus to study a universal pension plan for city workers as a spur for better compensation practices. The piece argues local government underpays for some roles while overpaying others due to flat raises, urging incentive-based pay like private industry to improve performance.
A Senate judiciary subcommittee condemned Attorney General Biddle for misleading statements about authority to seize Montgomery Ward properties and criticized the National Labor Relations Board for delaying a union election. The report urged hearings on enforcing WLB directives by court action and demanded precise legal citations in future executive orders.
Dr Henry Sloan Coffin warns against isolationism in postwar discussion and urges clearer terms about international collaboration. He argues economic development ties to peace and warns against disproportionate growth. a reader asks about tomatoes and reflects on spring farming delays and possible water lilies or trout.
Soviet planes patrol German communication lines behind the lines and at sea after sinking two Nazi transports near the coast of Finland.
Campanza California court martial finds Second Lieutenant Beaufort Swancutt guilty of murdering four people in a berserk shooting spree. The 31 year old officer is sentenced to death by hanging, pending Presidential verification. Swancutt claimed a prior mental blackout and sustained emotional tension over fearing separation from his new sweetheart.
The War Department announced a plan to provide three to nine months of college education for Air Corps enlisted reserve members before air training. Eligible youths must be under 17 years nine months on June 1 and will enter a selected college by June 1 1944 to study courses aligned with future Army Air Forces roles. Government funded. written parental permission required.
London reports Turkish dispatches indicate five German divisions about 75,000 men began securing strategic points across Bulgaria. Soviet Izvestia warns Bulgaria stands on the brink of catastrophe as Germany seizes the Black Sea coast and Bulgaria's fleet at Burgas. A pro Nazi Bulgarian government is forming under Christo Kalioff. Moscow notes Illicit butcher regimes in Bulgaria deepen the crisis.
London AP reports Pvt Wiley Harris of Greenville Georgia was hanged Friday for the killing of a civilian in Belfast.
Allied air power struck the Lyon railyards and rail yards at St Etienne and near Grenoble in southeast France. Between 500 and 750 bombers from southern bases pressed the offensive while weather in Britain grounded many planes.
Yugoslav sources report three German divisions are being pulled from the Isonzo valley between Trieste and Fiume to reinforce battered troops in Italy. Tito's counter-offensive in Slovenia continues as the movement unfolds.
On page 6 the Youth Bureau of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce reproduces a blank used in its manpower survey today and Saturday. The bureau seeks to compile names of employables to forward to the United States Employment Service, not to offer jobs. Readers are urged to clip and complete the form in advance.
President Roosevelt announced an international monetary conference to meet in the United States on July 1 to discuss postwar financial problems. Invitations went to 42 nations and the French Committee of National Liberation with Morgenthau leading the U S delegation.
London AP reports King George VI received General Dwight D. Eisenhower at Buckingham Palace on Friday and the invasion commander stayed for lunch.
Fifth Army troops enter Cisterna amid heavy shelling and sniper fire. American patrols push through ruined streets to flush out German positions at a railway station edge and in the town core, closing in on five snipers while combat rages in the rubble.
Donald Ray Wilson a 21 year old army aviation cadet was killed when a Helena Arkansas trainer plane crashed into a plowed field He was born August 21 1922 on a Floyd Iowa farm and lived at 816 Sixth Street SE Cedar Rapids He was in service nearly two years and is survived by his parents three brothers a grandmother and other relatives Funeral arrangements will be announced.
Weatherman predicts a break from rain with cooler conditions for Cedar Rapids and nearby areas. Forecast calls for partly cloudy to cloudy skies Friday night and Saturday with cooler daytime highs and night temperatures. Rain amounts ranged from .41 to 2 inches citywide, Cedar Rapids reporting .43 inches last night. Yesterday’s high reached 89 in Ames and Cedar Rapids posted 76, with morning low 62. River level dropped from 8.4 feet after crest yesterday.
Former President Herbert Hoover issued a statement denying involvement in selecting a Republican nominee. He said he had ignored efforts to link his name with possible candidates including Gov. Bricker and Gov. Dewey.
Staff Sgt. Arthur S. Elliott, 26, formerly a Cedar Valley National Guardsman, was reported free after being held as a prisoner of war in Africa. The release follows his capture alongside 11 fellow guardsmen during combat.
Allied forces spearhead toward the Eternal City with rapid advances from the Anzio beachhead. Fifth Army troops capture Cisterna and Littoria while the Eighth Army seizes Aquino and Piedimonte. Canadian troops gain a bridgehead at the Melfa in the Liri valley as air and sea units pestle German retreat.
Tokyo reports two destroyers attacked the Jap held Wotje atoll in the eastern Marianas Friday. No further details were provided by Domei.
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