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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1944
Page
1
The author argues against extending Franklin Roosevelt to a 16th year, outlining that voters seek peace and order, not mere rhetoric. He credits Dewey for challenging Roosevelt and emphasizes the election's focus on leadership in world peace and national prosperity.
New York AP dispatch reports Gov. Thomas E. Dewey attacking President Roosevelt for delaying victory in Europe. Dewey cites Morgenthau plan publication as fueling German resistance, saying it harmed morale and stalled Eisenhower’s forecast of a 1945 end. He urges decisive Republican leadership to speed total victory and postwar world order.
ME DEWEY argues against relying on one man’s judgment and skill. He proposes building an international peace apparatus through open conferences with many carefully chosen individuals.
Cedar Rapids Community War Chest surpasses its $186 398 target with $195 855 56 in receipts though county averages and some subgoals remain. The drive credited broad cooperation across labor and management, with industrial B team led by Harry Cohn and mercantile divisions under Reginald B Figge meeting their quotas.
The feature profiles Py Klare of Vinton, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau, noting his 440 acre farm near Vinton, chief products hybrid seed corn and hogs, and his wartime agriculture visit. The piece discusses Iowa Farm Bureau membership 76,264 and farmers’ postwar policy concerns and global trade issues.
President Roosevelt in Boston calls for at least 50 million votes on Tuesday and denounces GOP efforts he says foster racial and religious intolerance. He accuses opponents of double talk and warns against communism or monarchy while defending the Constitution and a postwar ideal of a clean America. He campaigns through Connecticut and Massachusetts highlighting health, records, and a world-peace plan.
Allied forces mass for a grand-scale push toward the Saar as the U S First Army is reported shifting southward to join the Third and the Ninth armies. Limbo Allied planes unleash heavy artillery as a 500 mile front from Mentone to the Dutch front tightens for the anticipated operation. The advance includes severing the Hollands Diep rear guard and capturing Fijnaart and De Kreek.
Soviet tanks broke into Soroksar near Budapest and pushed toward the city as fighting raged along the Danube front. Szolnok fell, blocking an escape route to Budapest, while Red Army reinforcements moved on a 19 mile front. Street fighting reportedly erupted inside Budapest as German and Hungarian troops resisted.
A trans continental and western air plane crashed three miles northeast of Hanford California at 5 17 p m Saturday killing 24 people whose bodies lay over a mile of fields. Army and navy personnel were aboard. Names of passengers were to be released once authenticated while crew members A T Bethel captain G E Smith first officer and Ruth Miller hostess were identified.
Martinsburg West Virginia INS report quotes Undersecretary Robert T Patterson stating since Pearl Harbor about 6,000,000 Americans have been evacuated to date and 425,000 sick and wounded have been sent by air. He notes air transport and gale commands fly 4 casualties monthly from theaters to the United States and 6,000 monthly from ports of debarkation to interior hospitals. Patterson adds that only the most critical cases use this route and the waste is minimal.
Field Marshal Sir John Dill head of the British combined chiefs of staff died in a Washington hospital Saturday. He served as senior British representative in the Allied command and was honored posthumously by the U.S. military.
American 24th division troops launched a land and water assault on Pinamopoan on Leyte’s north coast to seize the Ormoc road junction. Japanese tanks and infantry press to break the encirclement, with air war and coast defense shaping a forthcoming showdown near Ormoc and Capocan as the Leyte campaign nears a decisive battle.
Henry James Doering aged 62 of 1110 Twenty second avenue SW died from a basal skull fracture at Mercy hospital at 11 40 p m Saturday after a blowout on a street. His car rolled over hitting a tree. he was alone and taken by ambulance to the hospital.
A Cedar Rapids record lists war casualties with 17 killed in action 2 killed in training 16 missing in action 1 died in service and 7 prisoners in Linn county including Linn outside Cedar Rapids.
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