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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1944
Page
3
The annual War Fund campaign opens next week in Linn County areas outside Cedar Rapids with encouraging early reports. Readers are urged to show courtesy to fund volunteers and consider postwar needs for veterans and industrial workers as reconversion begins.
The Third Fleet attacked the Ryukyu islands near Japan with overwhelming force. They sank or damaged 58 ships and destroyed 89 planes, while American losses were light. Admiral Nimitz announced the Monday strike, led by Vice Admiral Mitscher, targeting military and island installations.
Berlin announced the death in action of Lt. Col. Helmut Lent Germany's most successful night fighter credited with 102 air victories. The veteran pilot was lost in combat, the AP reports from Berlin.
Moscow reports on a three and a half hour luncheon where Stalin praised Allied war efforts and postwar cooperation. He highlighted U S and British planning and the merchant marine and thanked Harriman and Hull. Polish exile premier Mikolajczk to join talks in Moscow with Stalin and Churchill to address the Polish issue.
Lawrence Franks 23 was killed in action in Germany on September 16 per a war department message to his wife. He entered service in 1942 and trained at Camp Cook Camp Forrest Pine Camp Indiantown Gap and served overseas since February. Survived by wife mother foster mother and two half brothers with one brother wounded in Tunisia.
A two alarm fire at Hubbard Ice and Fuel Co 1124 First Street NW destroyed part of a railroad loading platform and several cars. A crate pile near the wall of the cold storage plant ignited first. Mrs Ervin Johnson was briefly hospitalized after being knocked down by a hose.
Hollywood reports Richard Bennett veteran actor and father of Joan Constance and Barbara Bennett was kept in an oxygen tent Wednesday due to a heart ailment.
Reports indicate Nazi forces retreating from Greece in a last effort to escape into the Reich. British units push into the Corinthian isthmus toward Athens, seize Sarande port in Albania, while guerrilla bands harry retreating columns across the Greek front as Russian troops guard escape routes.
A public notice reminds residents there are 15 days left to register. The deadline is October 27 to participate in the presidential vote.
Soviet forces push into East Prussia with a major offensive on the German frontier while encircling German divisions in Latvia. Red troops drive toward Memel and launch blockade tactics against trapped Nazi forces as air and naval operations target Baltic ports.
Dr. Charles A. Anderson, president of Coe College since 1942, submitted his resignation at the board meeting in Stewart Memorial library. The board accepted with regret. effective November 15. He plans a position outside Cedar Rapids, awaiting action by another board.
Four month old Robert King was found safe with his mother in a Detroit Negro home. Eleanor Smith, 33, was detained as a suspect after authorities traced a doll like birthmark and fingerprints to a nursemaid who had vanished with the infant ten days earlier. The case hinged on a Chicago hospital claim and a reward-led tip from a reader.
The Cedar Rapids area is expected to see a forecasted frost tonight with readings near 32 degrees Thursday morning. A slight warming is forecast for Thursday forenoon, cooler tonight with frost and low temperatures across the state. The shippers’ forecast lists 24 degrees in the northwest, 28 in the southwest, 30 northeast and 32 southeast.
The city hall registrar's office reported its busiest pre election registration days on Monday and Tuesday with 637 people. Monday saw 322 registrations and 315 on Tuesday, including 203 new registrations and 119 address changes.
David Lawrence and Raul Mallon are named in a courthouse death case with connections to the farm site. Marion Movies and media figures Drew Pearson and Walter Winchell are mentioned in features alongside Women's Features and Radio coverage.
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