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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1943
Page
6
Allied planners weigh the Lowlands Holland Belgium coast as the shortest route to Germany. Nazi defenses along the Dutch Belgian and French coasts include pillboxes artillery batteries barbed wire and machine gun nests. Dieppe and Tunisia lessons stress silencing coastal batteries and heavy air bombardment to ready a fast inland breakout.
The article argues that repeated attacks on Antwerp Zeebrugge St Omer Duisburg Dortmund and key dams suggest a strategy to breach the Ruhr via the Rhine lowlands. It warns the assault could precede a summer landing in Holland Belgium and aims to cripple Germany by capturing the Ruhr and outflanking the west wall.
Hyram Loveday, 76, was taken to the fire department on a charge of turning in false alarms and caught in the act of filing another. He told Chief C Neal Neday I must have been nuts and was handed over to county authorities for evaluation of his self diagnosis.
Crews dig 32 feet below water level at Cedar Lake to lay rock foundation for a new 15 000 kilowatt generating unit. The seven unit station will include its own railroad track and an overhead crane to move heavy equipment. The contract is held by O F Paulsen Construction with Haegg Construction on excavation. Pumps run constantly to keep lake water out. a 14 000 volt cable tunnel poses a hazard if disrupted. An abandoned tunnel is opened for one of two water discharge paths.
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