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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1944
Page
2
Chief of Staff George C. Marshall argues for a peacetime army with a small professional core in a democratic nation while training citizens in defense. The piece speculates on Hitler's sensational speech and notes Allied forces advancing into Belgian and German territory. It criticizes political fundraising and cautions about campaign finance and law.
Finland abandoned Germany and asked the Soviet Union for armistice terms. Premier Antti Hackzell announced Germany agreed to withdraw Nazi troops from Finland as Helsinki moves toward peace. The move follows Soviet advances and questions about Ryti's German pact, with parliament in secret sessions weighing the costs and terms.
Sunday index page outlines include sections on William Shirer and Drew Pearson features, social notes, and a Rationing at a Glance column. It also lists Around the Town items, book talk, movies, radio, and business reviews across multiple societal topics.
War Mobilization Director James F Byrnes creates a special committee to coordinate use of government owned war plants during reconversion to peacetime production. Congress moves toward an overall program to ease closure and conversion while avoiding ghost towns as unemployment looms. Conferees settle on a single executive administrator under a four member board to dispose of surplus property, with other issues to be settled next week.
An AP report says a Tokyo English-language station monitored by the FCC claimed Americans are using many women pilots in Pacific battles. The propaganda theme centered on the idea that America is getting short of pilots.
Mamie Doud Eisenhower says she owns no evening gown after two years and notes Washington social life is nearly non existent due to war. She is vacationing in Denver with her parents and reflects on Paris memories from 1928.
Holiday weekend travel swells Cedar Rapids stations as soldiers sailors and civilians rush home and to vacations. Union depot reports all transcontinental buses full extra coaches crowded Milwaukee Rock Island and North Western trains also crowded with standing passengers due to furloughs at Navy Pre flight Iowa City and Coe College.
War casualty totals in Linn county show 15 killed in action and seven prisoners outside Cedar Rapids, plus one killed in training, 14 missing in action, and counts for Cedar Rapids area including 63 killed in action 18 died in training and 32 missing in action.
A strong force of Liberators wiped out 38 Japanese planes in a 110 ton attack on Davao Mindanao while other bombers hit Palau Philippines defense base with 137 tons. Tokyo said 40 Liberators attacked southern Philippines and MacArthur confirmed losses of two planes there and one at Palau. Planes damaged five Japanese freighters in the Molucca sea.
London dispatch reports Adolf Hitler to deliver a sensational Sunday speech as German diplomats in Lisbon say he will declare the crossing of the German frontier by Gen. George S. Patton’s tanks and call the nation to battle on its Holy Soil.
London dispatch reports a new Bulgarian government under Premier Kosta Muraviev seen as acceptable to the Allies, signaling early peace talks at Cairo. Soviet forces push Germans across the Danube from Olteniia to Giurgiu, with Axis tolls from Aug 20 to 31 totaling 418,600 killed or captured.
Donald Nelson and Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Hurley, en route to China on a Roosevelt mission, were hosted by Foreign Commissar Molotov at a Moscow luncheon on Saturday during their stopover.
Sen A B Chandler releases a cable alleged to show a British official in India declaring former Ambassador William Phillips persona non grata over views favoring Indian independence. He had claimed London recalled Phillips due to a memo suggesting the Allied war effort was jeop ardized by Britain's stance on India.
George William Norris 83 died at 4 05 p m Saturday after a cerebral hemorrhage and paralytic stroke. He lived in McCook Nebraska for nearly 50 years with his wife and family present. Funeral services set for 3 p m Monday at McCook Congregational church conducted by the Masonic lodge. Norris, a noted liberal who served 39 years in Congress, spent 33 as a Republican before becoming an Independent in his final six years. He championed conservation public ownership of natural resources and development of the nation’s resources.
American columns roll into Belgium capturing Tournai and pushing toward Mons and the Moselle as units reach within 11 miles of the Reich border. Reports say German civilians flee, Belgian towns liberated, and Patton's Third Army presses toward the Siegfried line with 1,200 prisoners taken.
Clarence Ford, 38, of 1417 Fifth Avenue SE was charged with assault with intent to commit great bodily injury after a running fight that began at Herb's Barbecue on Marion Boulevard. Eugene Hedlund, 36, and his wife Millicent, 33, were hospitalized or bruised. Hedlund alleges Hedlund was struck with a beer bottle as Ford drove west on First Avenue and into Burkart driving range. Police reported barbed wire fences breached and potential accidents narrowly avoided during the pursuit.
Ellen Powell six.year.old daughter of Joan Blondell and Dick Powell was bitten while trying to rescue a Collie from a neighbor's police dog at William Collier Jr's home. She received seventeen stitches. Blondell returned Ellen home and cancelled Washington premiere plans for Wilson. Powell, recently divorced, was en route to visit.
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