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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1944
Page
1
An Atlantic Monthly piece by Harry Boyd quotes Leo Cherne urging concrete postwar employment plans. It critiques reliance on past programs, notes wartime production shifts, and questions Roosevelt's strategy to spur private investment, patents, and lasting job growth beyond short-term remedies.
Allied forces report slow steady advances along the front. British Second Army took Venray and pushed two miles southeast while Canadi ans reached Ijzendijke. First Army mops up around Aachen amid strong German counterattacks. Third Army moves toward Metz with heavy artillery support as Vosges actions continue.
Rep Ranulf Compton arrived in England from a six day Western Front tour and said Allied high command never planned to finish the European war in 1944. He cited supply problems and weather as delaying progress and noted Patton told Americans to expect no early end while praising morale and supplies.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey arrives in New York for an 8 30 to 9 p m speech at the Herald Tribune forum broadcast by NBC and Blue. The topic is This Must Be the Last War with a constructive outline on insuring peace after victory. He comments on Roosevelt's NYC tour, calling it good for the President to meet the people.
Cedar Rapids reports its eighth poliomyelitis case this fall. Edward Weich, 52, of 1022 Eleventh Avenue SE, has been hospitalized at University of Iowa City. He suffered a prolonged throat ailment, then paralysis of throat muscles led to diagnosis. Weich is in an isolation ward in serious condition.
Hurricane winds up to 160 mph struck Havana with houses toppled and airport buildings damaged. The Cuban Red Cross reported at least six dead and twenty injured as a severe tropical storm moved into the Gulf of Mexico and broad gales spread toward the Florida keys.
Maj. Gen. Uzal G. Ent, who suffered last week in a plane crash near San Antonio, was paralyzed from the waist down. His condition was listed as fair.
President Roosevelt plans a NYC tour touching four of the five boroughs ahead of a Manhattan address on foreign affairs. A Brooklyn rally supports Senator Wagner’s re election bid. Edison notes Dewey’s potential New Jersey win, stirring GOP optimism as polls show a close race.
Harry Van Antwerp of route 2 was robbed of $115 by three soldiers he picked up on the road near Cedar at Tuesday afternoon. He recalled stopping the car after a sergeant asked to, then woke up later with his billfold missing from the running board. Police checked three soldier groups. none could be linked to the theft.
London dispatch reports Premier Stalin announced the Red army penetrated the Carpathian passes and advanced 12 to 30 miles into Czechoslovakia on a 170 mile front.
Chinese high command said Japanese forces aimed a wide out flanking assault north of Kweilin stabbing west to a point 18 miles west of Hingan 18 miles from the Hunan Kwangsi railway town. Chinese spokesmen warned the area could become China’s Stalingrad.
In the Black Hills Passion Play, two camels Fannie and her 3 year old daughter Haroldine face housing shortages for the event staged October 24 to 27. Insurance salesman Ray Ashlock, general chairman of the Young Men's Bureau committee, says hotels and rooming houses won’t accept the animals and organizers are scrambling to find lodging within three to four days.
Linn county supervisors hear conflict over road improvements as Brown township landowners urge paving and grading a one mile stretch starting near highway 151 east of Springville. Opponent Harry Smith warns against expanding the program while Washington township residents protest delays on road No 2 used by cream trucks and mail services.
Berlin reports Hitler proclaims the formation of an armed German home guard. All civilian men 16 to 60 ordered into the volkssturm to defend the homeland with improvised weapons. Himmler signals first meeting and outlines by laws while guards wear armbands.
University of Iowa economist Frank Smith reports 2,689 of 5,885 eligible Linn County service members have requested absentee ballots and 1,369 have voted. Auditor Otto Hanzlik lists 6,903 in service. 1,018 under 21 are ineligible. The data cover three draft boards and show 3,195 of 5,885 have not yet asked for war ballots.
Delegates at the United Lutheran Church in America biennial convention in Minneapolis adopted a petition to postpone compulsory military training for one year after the war ends.
Secretary Forrestal announced that 905 enemy vessels have been sunk or damaged by the US Third and Fifth fleets in four and a half months. The tally includes 356 definitely sunk and 549 probably sunk or damaged, with 3,080 planes destroyed or damaged and American aircraft losses totaling 341. The period runs from June 6 attacks on Western Pacific bases to mid October actions, including Formosa operations.
Nimitz announced U S forces captured Ulithi Atoll in the western Carolines four weeks ago as part of a broader push toward the Philippines. Carrier task forces hammer Manila and Legaspi while new staging bases bolster invasion plans. Japanese claims of air attacks appear in Manila radio as Allied air and ground forces advance from sea and land.
London AP reports Berlin broad Wednesday notes the death of three Japanese admirals in World War II era conflict. The brief item cites high command losses impacting naval leadership and strategic balance in the Pacific theater.
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