Government secrecy and wartime reporting spark controversy
A Cedar Rapids conference excluding the Gazette farm editor shows a growing habit of closed meetings by public agencies. The piece argues such secrecy threatens the public and urges open talks, criticizing Washington approval as unnecessary for local statements. It also surveys Doolittle raid reporting, ration book plans, and public notices on windscreen stickers.
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War Production Board
Cedar Rapids
Gazette
Iowa
Usda War Boards
Office In War Information
OPA
Washington
Solons Rule 2 FCC Men Subversive
Washington report notes the House Appropriations Committee approved Kerr subcommittee findings that two FCC Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service employees William E. Dodd Jr and Goodwin B Watson are unfit for government work while denying unfitness for Dr Frederick L Schuman. The panel would bar using salary funds for Dodd and Watson.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Federal Communications Commission
William E. Dodd, Jr
Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service
FCC
Goodwin B Watson
Dodd
Germany
Rep. Smith
D-Va
Frederick L. Schuman
Appropriations Committee
House
Dodd and Watson
Cannon
D-Mo
Rep
Kerr
DN. C
House Committee On un-American Activities
Rep. Dies
D-Texas
Kerr Group
Names of Harmon's Dead Co Flyers Told
The army released the identities of two crew members from Lieut. Thomas D. Harmon’s plane that crashed in the South American jungle on April 8. They were Staff Sergeant James F. Goodwin of Texarkana Texas an engineer and Sergeant Leonard D. Gunnells of Deatsville Alabama a gunner. Harmon survived at a base in Dutch Guiana after four days in the jungle. Three others remain missing.
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Washington
Army
Thomas D. Harmon
James F. Goodwin
Texarkana
Texas
Leonard D. Gunnells
Deatsville
Ala
Harmon
Dutch Guiana
Ruml to Speak at Coe Commencement in Cedar Rapids
Beardsley Ruml, Cedar Rapids born author of the pay as you go tax plan, will deliver Coe College's sixty second commencement address on June 7 announced by Coe president Dr Charles A Anderson. He is known as father of pay as you go and serves as chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and treasurer of Macy and company.
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Beardsley Ruml
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Charles A. Anderson
Coe
Rumi
Wentzle Rumi
Fifth Avenue SE
Old Washington High School
Finance
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
R. W. Macy and Company
Ruml
Dartmouth University
University of Chicago
Chicago
Macy's
Carnegie Corporation of New
Yanks Raid Kiska 15 Times in One Day
U S airmen in the Aleutians attacked Kiska 15 times in a single day, with hits on the main camp area runway and defenses and fires started. In the Solomons they blasted a freighter at Tonoei harbor Bougainville and attacked Kiota Kahili and Munda destroying anti aircraft batteries and starting large fires.
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Washington
United States
Aleutians
Kiska
Solomons
Navy
Kiota
Bougainville
Kahili
Short
Yank Ace Swett Roughs Up Seven Jap Bombers
Lieut J E Swett on April 7 shot down seven Japanese bombers in a single air battle over Tulagi in the Solomons. Flying a Grumman Wildcat, the Marine ace engaged a formation of 15 bombers, sustained heavy damage to his plane, and was wounded, yet landed on the water and was rescued. The action marked a record for a single engagement by U S land based aircraft in the South Pacific.
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South Pacific
J. E. Swett
Solomons
Swett
United States Marine
Army
Grumman
Tulagi
Fee Nts NT
Berlin
Stettin
Rostock
London
United Press
New York
Tilsit
East Prussia
Eighth Army Breaks Enfidaville Front in North Africa
Allied forces under Montgomery and Eisenhower push into Rommel and Arnim lines. Enfidaville captured after fierce fighting as air raids pound Axis airfields and ship harbor in Palermo. 151 enemy planes down in three days amid heavy bombardments and counter-attacks.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
Eighth Army
Enfidaville
Tunis
Egypt
Bernard L. Montgomery
First Army
Medjez-eel-Bab
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Erwin Rommel
Jurgen von Arnim
Northwest African Air Force
Palermo
Sicily
Rommel
Montgomery
Wadi el Akarit
Sfax
Bond Sales Lagging Behind Needed Pace in Linn County
Linn county’s second war loan drive shows total sales of 3.33 million dollars as of now with 245294.65 raised on Tuesday and a 94 thousand state treasury boost. daily pace must reach 328723.50 to hit 4.73 million before Henry Morgenthau Jr. visits. War finance chair B. T. Perrine notes delays in reports from workers.
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Linn County
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
War Finance Committee
W. G. C. Bagley
Linn
Western Auto Supply Company
B. T. Perrine
Revised College Training Rules for Enlisted Men
The War Department announced slight changes to eligibility for enlisted men chosen for college training. New rules raise the general classifications test score to 115, require evidence that continued training serves the best interests of the army, accept equivalent education in lieu of mandatory high school graduation for men under 22, add one year of college work including mathematics for those over 22, and keep prior education as the base for eligibility.
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Washington
War Department
Three Million Teen Agers in War Work
Washington reports over three million teenagers will work in war industries this summer. Katherine F Lenroot notes child health in industry is at risk due to state gaps in hours limits for under 18 workers. She cites bureau data showing long hours for high school students and a 10 percent rise in juvenile delinquency over five years.
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Washington
Katharine F. Lenroot
Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
Miss Lenroot
RAF Raid Hit Berlin Stettin Rostock On Hitler Birthday
The RAF attacked Berlin Stettin Rostock in a single night raid marking Hitler's birthday. Mosquito bombers hit Berlin while heavy bombers targeted Stettin and Rostock with incursions over northwest Germany. British losses were 31 planes, with further daylight attacks on occupied Europe and transports in the northwest.
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London
Royal Air Force
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Stettin
Rostock
Europe
Britain
Boulogne
Calais
France
Germany
Baltic
Heinkel
Holland
Belgium
Belgian
Tragic Career of British Sub Ends
The admiralty says the Thunderbolt formerly the Thetis is overdue and presumed lost after founder during trials June 1 1939 with 99 lives lost. Its crew of 53 men.
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London
Admiralty
Thunderbolt
Thetis
Roosevelt Ca macho hold talks as they meet north of border
President Roosevelt and President Manuel Avila Camacho continued their Monterrey and Texas discussions aboard the Roosevelt train. They praised the good neighbor policy and joint anti Axis aims while offering broad statements on mutual interdependence and future cooperation.
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Roosevelt
Mexico
Manuel Avila Camacho
Monterrey
Brotherhood of Arms
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
Cedar Rapids rally urged for war bond drive
Secret Morgenthau visit to Cedar Rapids Iowa highlights a campaign urging individual purchases to meet a 1 400 000 dollar quota. The appeal stresses local effort from butcher and baker to farmer and defense worker with a keynote demonstration planned on April 25. Buy bonds at banks post offices and local stores to support troops in North Africa and the South Pacific.
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Linn County
Cedar Rapids
Morgenthau
United States
Frank Tripp
Allied Newspaper Council
North Africa
South Pacific
Treasury Departments
All 11 Guardsmen Reported Missing Listed Prisoners
The War Department informs relatives that all 11 Cedar Rapids National Guardsmen reported missing March 27 and 28 are prisoners of the Italian government. Names include Kenneth Kepler and Paul M. Alsin, with service at Camp Claiborne, Northern Ireland, and North Africa with the 34th Division. Kepler and Alsin are noted graduates of Robins in Indiana and McKinley High School.
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War Department
Cedar Rapids
Eight Hour Talkathon Elevates local Heroine
Esther Ulrich, a Peru State Teachers College freshman, rode with Kansas City trucker Pearl Creek to keep him awake while delivering sandbags for Missouri river flood control. Ulrich talked nonstop for eight hours, earning praise from Creek who had only six hours sleep in 196 hours on the job.
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Peru
Neb
INS
Kansas City
Pearl Creek
Missouri River
Esther Ulrich
Peru State Teachers College
Creek
Briton Defends U S Air Claims
London AP reports an RAF commentator rebutting critics of US Army Air Force claims on enemy planes shot down. The official said Americans are as punctilious and careful in reporting losses as the RAF.
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London
R.A.F
United States Army Air Force
RAF
Roosevelt cites Tokyo executions of Doolittle raid flyers
President Roosevelt announced that Japan executed some captured American flyers from the Doolittle raid on Tokyo. The exact number and identities were not disclosed. The War Department had indicated eight flyers were captured and sentenced to death, with some executed and others given commutations. Roosevelt called the executions barbarous.
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Washington
INS
Roosevelt
Japan
Tokio
War Department
Doolittle Raid Story Reveals Hornet Base and Heroic Choices
The War Department details the 1942 Doolittle raid using the carrier Hornet as the launch base. Secrecy, rough weather, and long flights forced changes, with most crews crash landing in China or off its coast. 80 men started, 64 returned, nine lost or missing, one held by Germany.
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Washington
Tokio
Japan
War Department
Shangri- la
Isle of
Nippon
James H Doolittle
Santa Cruz
Pearl Harbor
Doolittle
China
Russia
Germany
Aleutians
Weather Delays Dixie Truck Crops Due to Unseasonable Weather
Washington AP report says eastern truck crops arrive ten days to two weeks later than usual because unseasonable weather in the south Atlantic and south central states caused considerable damage last week. Agriculture department notes widespread delays affecting spring and early summer supplies.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
South Atlantic
Especia
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