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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1944
Page
4
The piece argues Governor Dewey would push for multinational peace backed by an informed American public, critiquing Roosevelt’s record and noting campaign tactics like actor-led speeches. It laments political theater and urges voters to judge by substantial argument rather than theatrics.
Allied forces push toward Venlo and Amerika from the Maas line while American armor drives into Aachen. Dempsey’s corps gains about three miles south toward the railroad town of Amerika and Venray rail hub as German resistance collapses along the Maas bridgehead. Berlin reports intensified German attempts to counter.
Premier George Papandreou returns to power in Athens after four years in exile as his government takes control from a three member ruling committee formed since Greece's liberation.
Fragmentary newspaper text shows names such as David Lawrence Paul Marlon and mentions sections like Movies, Radio, Sports, State, Walter Winchell and Women’s Features. Readable context is limited to a chaotic index-like snippet without a coherent event or report.
A tropical hurricane battered central Florida's citrus belt with 100 mph winds and heavy rains. Thousands of citrus trees were downed, with crop damage expected in the millions. Jacksonville faced 65 mph winds and power outages while evacuations and precautionary sheltering spread from Tampa to Miami and beyond.
A Cedar Rapids audit shows $8 143 15 contributed on the first day of a city war chest drive aimed at $186 398. Lucille Murray of Public Welfare notes more data to come tomorrow as residential workers continue solicitation and some divisions begin campaigns after other duties. Linn county totals were not complete yet. Three more firms earned service awards for full or near full employee participation: John Beck Athletic Goods Morris Sanford and Al's Furniture owned by Alex Kalinsky.
The State Department rejected Gov. Dewey’s charge that the Romanian armistice was more than a military agreement. It said the document was signed on behalf of the United States Britain and the USSR by Marshal Malinovsky and that it restored the prewar frontier lines while noting prior U.S. awareness of Transylvania terms.
New York. Gov Thomas E Dewey denounces President Roosevelt for secret diplomacy in foreign policy. He cites dealings with Soviet Russia and other powers as keeping Americans in the dark and warns that such policies hinder a lasting peace. He notes Poland Italy France and Romania as examples and mentions Eisenhowers 194? timing remarks.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey warns that no official wartime plan existed when Germany invaded, faulting Treasury and State departments for conflicting strategies. He cites Goebbels propaganda leveraging the treasury proposal and laments the absence of a coherent overall program to defeat Germany and secure peace with Romania.
Tech Sgt Walter H Scheurs known as Dutch, a B 24 gunner with the Fifteenth Army Air Force in Italy, receives the Distinguished Flying Cross. He already holds the Air Medal with four Oak Leaf clusters and the Purple Heart, and is convalescing in an Italian hospital after a major operation.
Soviet and Russian forces reported major advances in Eastern Europe during the war. The Red Army pushed through the Carpathians toward the Danube region and captured seven passes along a 170 mile front. Belgrade mop up continued as German divisions faced encirclement and heavy fighting near Serbia. Opposing actions pressed toward Buda pest with few official updates from Moscow.
London AP reports Russian forces with about 500 tanks penetrated deep into East Prussia. The German border town of Eydtkuhnen was evacuated as the Red Army moved 37 miles east of Insterburg. The Berlin radio claimed this marked the deepest penetration to that point.
Vice Admiral Fletcher awards the Distinguished Flying Cross to Arthur E. Haycraft, aviation ordnanceman third class, of Cedar Rapids for meritorious acts during aerial assaults on Japanese positions in the northern Kurile Islands. Haycraft, about 24, is a former Bulk Oil company student and has family near Iowa City.
Tokyo claimed an American fleet with transports broke into Leyte Gulf in the central Philippines and may have landed troops on Suluan island. Japanese reports said invasion armadas moved toward Luzon and Manilla with air support from Morotai and Peleliu and urged counterattacks near Leyte Gulf.
The notice urges residents to register by October 2 to vote in the upcoming U S presidential election. It states criteria for new registrations including if you have not voted in four years or moved addresses, and directs to the city hall registration office on the third floor.
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