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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1945
Page
12
A page filled with speculative bets and celeb chatter covers New York politics and Hollywood fever. Gambling on O Dwyer’s mayoral odds fizzles, while wagers on borough outcomes and party strength swirl amid celebrity marriages, stage news, and film industry notes.
A man posing as a rodeo bronc rider was caught by real cowboys who stripped him of his costume and left him in his underwear on Broadway after exposing bad checks by another phony.
The 66th Black Panther Infantry division sealed off 50,000 Nazi troops in the St Nazaire and Lorient pockets until May 8 1945. They surrendered 150000 Nazis, freed 180000 civilians, and reclaimed 856 square miles of French territory. After V E Day they guarded three staging areas including the port of Marseille.
Ports of embarkation for American troops remained running smoothly as the massive redeployment to home and the Pacific theater continued. The operation coordinated flow of personnel to their destinations, maintaining efficiency amid war demands.
The U S S Missouri, the ship whose crew signed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2 1945, consumes as much fuel oil in one hour at cruising speed as a large private dwelling uses in a year highlighting the vast energy needs of the historic battleship.
Senator Wiley launched the first full senatorial attack on President Truman's policies on the floor, calling the administration's program a CIO handout while Senator Hatch defended the President and warned that judgment will come in due time. The exchange followed Wiley's reading of Truman's letter rejecting a national conference on universal peacetime military training and urging Congress to act on defense.
Senator Hatch blasted Harry Truman as disappointing and partisan, accusing him of a wage speech that muddles the issue and a pro gram that mirrors a CIO handout. He warned that endless spending risks a financial reckoning as criticism of Truman grows in the Senate for lack of statesmanship, contrasting with Roosevelt's previous battles.
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