War Opinion and Policy Debate in War Bond Efforts and OWI
A Cedar Rapids Iowa commentary page discusses the second war bond drive and urges small purchasers to participate. It critiques the Office of War Information for partial reporting, weighs postwar synthetic rubber policy split between Wallace and Jeffers, and notes the need for a workable peace plan while warning against partisan tactics in tax reform. It also questions wartime food waste figures and calls for restraint in public critique.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Allies Seize Two Hills on Tunisia Front
Allied forces storm two hills on the Tunisian front near Enfidaville and Djebel Sefsouf capturing 600 prisoners. British and French troops also took Djebel Ang near Medjez el Bab while expanding the Mareth drive and bombing Axis airfields. Over 30,000 Axis soldiers, including 23,000 Italians, have been captured in Tunisia since March 20.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
Tunisian
Djebel Sefsouf
Marshal Aa Rommel
Enfidaville
Tunis
Eighth Army
IX. A. N. Anderson
Djebel Ang
Medjez el Bab
Tunisia
Bernard L. Montgomery
Mareth Line
Algiers
Djebel Mansour
Mediterranean
Hiram Johnson Opposes Postwar International Collaboration
Senator Hiram Johnson of California, famed irreconcilable, spoke against immediate Senate consideration of postwar international collaboration proposals. He argued against committing the Senate to any specific postwar course.
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Washington
Sen
Johnson
Calif
Senate
League of Nations
Seven G O P Senators Back Rums Plan For Tax Change
Seven Republican members of the senate finance committee endorsed the Rums skip a year proposal and urged early enactment of current tax legislation including a 20 percent withholding levy. The move signals organized GOP support for pay as you go despite a House rejection two weeks earlier.
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Congress
House
Ways and Means
Senate
Washington
Ways and Means Committee
G.O.P
Senate Finance Committee
McNary
Ore
Rep
Knutson
R-Minn
Martin Mass
Marriner S. Eccles
Federal Reserve Board
Yanks Raid Kiska Ten Times in One Day
The Aleutians air force command set a record with ten separate raids on Kiska on Tuesday, using heavy and medium bombers to hit the runway and camp. Fires started on the island as fighters strafed beached Japanese float planes, while activity in Viru harbor, New Georgia, involved a torpedo bomber and fighter strike starting several fires.
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Washington
Aleutians Air Force Command
Kiska
Navy
South Pacific
Viru Harbor
New Georgia Island
Solomons
Junk Jewelry Trade Reaches Islanders For War Work
A half ton of 17 157 pieces of junk jewelry is being shipped across the Pacific to pay South Pacific natives for labor performed for Allied troops. The item comes from California and nearby states and is part of a baubles for buddies to barter campaign by the San Francisco League for Service Men.
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San Francisco
Pacific
South Pacific
Moncey
California
San Francisco League
Sergeant Dispute Over Getting Up In Cedar Rapids Police
A humorous notice describes a Coe College Aircrew sergeant who asked Cedar Rapids police to wake him at 5:30 am. Repeated calls to the sergeant’s phone went unanswered, prompting Captain John Hanna to send a patrol to the Center Point road aircrew headquarters to wake him.
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Coe College
John Hanna
Center Point Road
Truck Missing with Plane Parts Recovered Near Joliet
A truck loaded with aircraft parts missing since February 21 between Chicago and Kansas City was found near Joliet. The driver Marvin Coughan, 28, Smithville Missouri remains missing. Seals on the cargo doors were intact and plant officials had halted production awaiting the parts.
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Joliet
Ill
Chicago
Kansas City
Marvin Coughan
Smithville
Bombs From Illinois Depot Fueled Tokio Bombing
Proving Grounds in Savanna Illinois supplied bombs used against Tokyo. Col Max A Brackett notes the 14000 acre ordnance depot stored and loaded munitions for the war effort. The post, 10 miles northwest of Savanna, covers 14 miles by 3 with 113 miles of track and igloos spaced 700 feet apart to contain blasts.
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Savanna
Proving Grounds, Ill
Rock Island Arsenal
War Department
Brackett
United States
Mississippi
Burlington Railroad
WAAC Auxiliary member Cedar Rapids case ends in hospital discharge
Beulah Jas pers, 22, of Cathlamet Washington, AWOL since Monday, was found unconscious beside highway 149 near Cedar Rapids. She is discharged from Mercy hospital and plans to return to Fort Des Moines. She spent the night in hospital after telling detectives she had not eaten for three days and had $23 on her person. She left the WAAC due to army discipline.
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WAAC
Beulah Jaspers
Cedar Rapids
Fort Des Moines
Helen E. Wallace
Mercy Hospital
Coe College
Jaspers
Fay W. Hite
A. A. Scott
Vinton
Women's Army
Des Moines
Magnus
Cathlamet, Wash
Government urged to purge deferments of government workers
The House military committee on Thursday urged Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey to direct draft boards to review files to end unnecessary deferments for government employees. It charged federal policy favored draft-eligible men and noted many clerks were deferred due to new titles. The report cites 2,370,166 total government workers with 1,625,162 males and 840,578 males of draft age.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Owner of Cocoanut Grove Geis.12 Years
Barnett Wel AnsKey, owner of the Cocoanut Grove, where 490 died in the November fire, was sentenced in superior court to 12 to 15 years in state prison for manslaughter.
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Cocoanut Grove
Geis
Boston
Barnett Welansky
Superior Court
OWI aides quit group blasts war office ballyhoo
Four teen writers and an art director quit the Office of War Information calling it an office of war ballyhoo They fault promotional control by top OWI figures led by Elmer Davis While praising Davis they urge honest information and full truth in war reporting naming concerns about Gardner Cowles Jr and William Lewis The group asserts the issue is honest presentation of war information and signals a deeper rift within OWI
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Office of War Information
OWI
Office of War Ballyhoo
Washington (Lp
Office of
Ballyhoo
Elmer Davis
Davis
Gardner Cowles, Jr
William Lewis
Cowles
United States
Henry F. Pringle
Theodore Roosevelt
Harold Guinzburg
Viking Press
Francis E. Brennan
Fortune Magazine
Philip P Hamburger
Milton Mackaye
Harriett S. Crowley
Eleanor C. Darnton
Byron Darnton
New York Times
Australia
Louise Wells Baker
Katharine Douglas
Adrienne Koch
Delian Kuhn
W. McNeill Lowry
Mary L. Simon
Rommel Flies to Germany from Sicily with Ambrosio
London AP Reuters cited an independent source saying Marshal Erwin Rommel left Sicily on Wednesday and flew to Germany escorted by Gen. Vittorio Ambrosio chief of the Italian general staff.
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London
Reuters
Zurich
Erwin Rommel
Sicily
Germany
Vittorio Ambrosio
Thunderbolt Escort—P-47 Could Shield Fortresses To Germany
London reports a new American fighter, the Thunderbolt, may alter air warfare in the theater. The P-47 has long range to accompany bombers from the United States Fortresses to Germany and back, offering heavy firepower with six 50 caliber machine guns and high-speed dives. Experts say it could counter German Focke-Wulf 190s at varying altitudes and protect daylight raids across the long mission.
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London
United States
Germany
Republic
Thunderbolt
Focke- Wulfs
Linn County Hits Halfway Mark in Second War Bond Drive
Linn County reached over the halfway point toward the 4 730 000 goal for the second war loan with 514 212 25 in sales by Wednesday. Cedar Rapids merchants contributed 170 000, boosting three day county sales to 2 476 464 75. City totals for Cedar Rapids reached 2 376 509 75, with county outside sales at 99 955, and the drive aims to fund eight 300 000 bombers.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids
War Finance Committee
The
Gazette
Japanese Fleet Reported Near Truk Base Near South Pacific
Gen Douglas MacArthur's spokesman described a large Japanese naval fleet based near Truk within three days sailing of New Guinea. He cited 250000 tons of merchant shipping around Rabaul and noted heavy air losses for Japan as Allied forces threat posed by Milne Bay and surrounding sea lanes.
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MacArthur
Australia
Truk
New Guinea
Douglas MacArthur
Japan
Rabaul
New Britain
Knox
Southwest Pacific
South Pacific
Buna
23 Planes Lost in Stuttgart Raid and East Prussia Attacks
London reports a heavy night raid by British four engined bombers on Stuttgart with 23 planes lost. The operation targeted Bosch and Daimler-Benz plants and rail hubs, while Soviet directed raids hit East Prussia. German claims of fighter interceptions and other strikes on the Thames estuary and Bruges accompany the reports.
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London
Stuttgart
East Prussia
Air Ministry
Bosch Ignition Works
Daimler-Benz Aircraft
Germany
Ruhr
Rhineland
Italy
Tunisia
Red Air Force
Koenigsberg
Thames Estuary
East Anglia
Dover Straits
France
Bruges
Belgium
Rainbow Division to be Reconstituted at Camp Gruber
The Rainbow division officially the Forty second infantry division will be reconstituted July 14 at Camp Gruber Oklahoma. Brig Gen Harry J Collins will command. he is a Chicago native and Western Military Academy alumnus. The reactivated unit will draw men from every state and the District of Columbia.
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Washington
Forty-second Infantry Division
Camp Gruber
Oklo
Stimson
Harry J. Collins
Chicago
Western Military Academy
Alton
Ill
Rainbow
District of Columbia
Ickes to Use Jap Internees on Farm in Maryland
Interior Secretary Ickes announced the release of three American-born Japanese internees to work on his Olney Maryland farm to aid their situation and supply needed farm labor. He also arranged for four other internees from the Poston Arizona camp to work for adjacent farm owner Sam Rice, a former Washington baseball player.
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Washington (Ap
Ickes
Olney
Poston
Ariz
War Relocation Authority
Sam Rice
Washington
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