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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1944
Page
1
The piece surveys fears of deflation versus inflation, cites labor’s role and Little Steel wage controls, and notes political pressures on Roosevelt for labor votes. It highlights Dewey’s critique of government controls on beef, eggs, and flour, plus calls for local legal reforms and postwar scientific prospects.
Two Chicago to Florida Dixie Flyer and an outbound express crashed in fog three miles north of Terre Haute Indiana killing 29 and injuring about 65. Most victims were overseas air force veterans wearing Purple Heart decorations amid wreckage and scattered baggage.
A telegram to Cedar Rapids relatives says Mrs. Howard Lupton and her year old son Barry were aboard the Dixie Flyer wrecked near Terre Haute Indiana early Thursday but were unharmed. They were en route to Fort Pierce Florida to join Seaman Lupton.
Cedar Rapids Community War Chest chairmen named for the campaign set for October 17 to 25 include David W. Lehti heading Industrial, Reginald B. Figge Mercantile, Weaver Witwer Wholesale, Joe M. Long Transportation, William C. Crawford Construction, Lynn Swaney Commercial, R. M. Threlkeld Service Establishments, M. H. Morrison Professional, J. C. Blodgett Public Employer, Lee Winterberg Men's, Mrs T. M. Ingersoll Residential, with Howard Kenyon as publicity chair and A. L. Taylor leading the speakers bureau.
The Civil Aeronautics administration office announced that the contract to seed the new Cedar Rapids municipal airport was awarded to R. B. Leech of Fremont Nebraska. Work to begin immediately using a special airport mixture of grasses.
Berlin radio said Russian forces attacked Warsaw and Praga the eastern suburb as Cossacks reportedly crossed the Czechoslovak border near Kosice. Red armies were also said to surge through Transylvania while Moscow cables hint a renewed drive toward Germany.
Gen G F Zakharov’s Second White Russian army probes a Narew bridgehead after shelling Lomza and nearing East Prussia. Col Iv an Petrov’s Fourth Ukrainian army reaches the Czechoslovak border on a 25 mile front. Tito’s Partisans claim Negotin near borders with Romania and Bulgaria. Rokossovsky and Berling’s forces fight Warsaw.
President Roosevelt will issue a nationwide campaign broadcast on October 5 aimed at party workers in over 125,000 voting areas across 40 states. Democratic National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan said the 9 pm CST address will mobilize volunteers to contact registered voters and urge turnout at the polls. He expressed confidence in the campaign’s momentum and dismissed Republican Maine gains as irrelevant to the broadcast strategy.
Washington AP volunteers helped pack the 1944 fruit and vegetable crop with little manpower loss. Processing plants squeezed through the season as tens of thousands not normally in the labor market volunteered. Wives of businessmen, grandmothers, and business men worked peeling tomatoes paring peaches and inspecting peas.
Chinese forces of the Twenty Army Group seized the walled city of Tengchung after six weeks of brutal combat. The victory ends Japanese occupation of a major trade hub and clears the Burma Ledo route for Allied linkage with Gen. Stilwell in northern Burma. More than 4,000 Japanese were killed and supplies reached the city by air before ground capture.
New York AP report notes formation of Servicemen's Wives to Re-elect Roosevelt a nationwide league led by Mrs John G Palfrey Jr granddaughter of Theodore Roosevelt announced.
US Third Fleet carriers led by Admiral Halsey hammered Cebu Panay and Negros in a daylong assault sinking cargo ships and destroying hundreds of Japanese aircraft. The operation expanded across the Kuriles and Marianas with further hits on Shimushu and Paramushiro as planes roamed the region.
Pfc. Sydney B. Smith, 27, of Savanna Illinois, serving with Lt. Gen. Patton's Third Army, was killed in action in France on September 1. Survived by wife Laura Jane Runyon, parents, three sisters, a brother, and three grandparents. He trained at Fort Knox, Camp Polk, a California desert center, and Fort Benning, and went overseas in June.
Lt. William L. Capron Jr., 23, a P-38 pilot stationed near Isigny France, is listed as missing in action as of Aug 25 Relatives believe he went missing on his first mission after writing a letter from France dated Aug 24 He is the son of William L Capron and Annetta Capron formerly of Visalia California He attended McKinley High School and Coe College and had been overseas since early July He has two sisters Delbert White and Howard Pettit living in Cedar Rapids Iowa Northern relatives list him among missing in action.
R J Viach and Elmer Wickham urged Cedar Rapids residents to participate in the citywide waste paper pickup set for Saturday. County effort led the state in July, and ships rely on salvaged paper. Place curb by 8 30 a m, with OCD trucks and Boy Scouts aiding.
Police investigated a report of a man resembling the Mattoon mad man appearing at a Cedar Rapids window. Mrs. Henecke credited the odor of gas and a spray-gun incident to the intruder, but officers found only a billy goat and a lingering smell.
American doughboys pushed into Siegfried defenses north of Aachen and penetrated deep along a four mile front in Luxembourg. First Army breached eight miles into outer defenses toward Prum while Third Army forged an 18 mile Moselle salient near Nancy. Units used tanks under heavy artillery fire as they attacked flimsy German fortifications along a 150 mile front.
United States First Army infantry commanded by Capt Kimball Richmond and tanks breached the first belt of the Siegfried line in the Aachen forest sector. The assault smashed dragon teeth barriers and forts as engineers cleared the belt and tanks advanced toward the second line with artillery support.
American troops penetrated Brest port area 500 miles behind the front as U S medium and dive bombers struck garrison defenses for 50 minutes in poor weather. Pilots reported seeing fighters clash near the Submarine pen zone west of the city. Army officials noted the Normandy beachhead front has widened to about 250 miles with heavy German resistance.
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