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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1944
Page
3
Governor Dewey’s Iowa visit showcases his precise information and readiness to listen. The piece highlights Hickenlooper’s national influence, Iowa’s Senate race, and war coverage, noting traffic concerns near a war plant and strategic German defenses in the Ruhr region.
U P dispatch says Admiral Halsey s Third Fleet sank or likely sank 89 Japanese vessels and destroyed about 68 enemy planes in the first naval air attack on the Philippines. Mindanao was swept and five airfields bombed as 51 cargo ships, 38 small craft and many sampans were lost or probably lost.
The Anacelated Press reports a 23 hour battle in the Andaman sea as rocket firing Beaufighters break up a 15 ship Japanese convoy aiding Burma. British claim the action as the greatest single air and sea victory in southeast Asiatic waters. Japanese columns still press toward Kweilin in southeast China as Allied defenses hold.
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey drew praise from farm leaders and GOP figures in Des Moines and Valentine Nebraska as he pressed for agricultural parity with labor and industry. He pledged continued support for price supports and farmer protections while touring Iowa with a coast to coast schedule, meeting veterans, editors, and party workers.
In Maine barometer elections Republicans sweep, elect Horace A. Hildreth governor with about 75 percent, and win three U.S. House seats, including Hale Smith and Fellows. Senate presidency also goes GOP, signaling strong party support amid CIO PAC opposition.
James H. Smith, Linn county sheriff since 1935, named chairman of the Linn County Republican central committee, succeeding David M. Elderkin at a Monday night meeting at the courthouse. Elderkin, Cedar Rapids attorney, has a second lieutenant commission in the marine corps and will report to Chicago on Sept. 27. Republican women plan a Sept. 19 dinner at the Montrose hotel honoring Robert Blue, lieutenant governor and party nominee for governor.
The American Seventh Army, with French support, advanced toward Belfort from central France. US forces struck near Vesoul 32 miles west of Belfort while French troops moved toward the Swiss border, forming a 31 mile arc and severing escape routes as they press the German retreat into Germany.
American forces crossed into Germany after a ten day advance through Belgium and a Moselle river crossing. The Third Army breached defenses near Pont-a-Mousson and Nancy as engineers built bridges under fire. Officers and troops pressed inland while a noted general coordinated the river assault.
Southeast Iowa faced scattered showers with rainfall reports from Burlington Keokuk Davenport and Dubuque. The weather bureau forecast cloudy cool conditions easing tonight with warmer temperatures by Wednesday. Cedar Rapids observed a high around 61 degrees with 72 percent humidity and threats of more showers.
Allied forces seal a major North European victory as British and American troops breach defenses along the Siegfried line. U S Ninth Army advances across the Moselle toward Thionville and Trier while Le Havre falls after a heavy bombardment and assault. Prisoner totals rise across the northern campaign.
NBC reporter Cassidy describes American troops entering Germany near Trier meeting with peaceful German civilians. He notes an unnamed town offered an uprourous greeting as first army forces advance toward the city.
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