Morgenthau Tours Cedar Rapids War Plants
Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr visited the LaPlant-Choate and Collins Radio plants in Cedar Rapids, praising workers and discussing war bond sales and lend-lease details. He toured Grant Wood works, urged a postwar museum, and spoke with employees about wages and deductions for war bonds and Blue Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Cedar Rapids
LaPlant-Choate and
Collins
Order of Railway Conductors International
Grant Wood
John B. Turner and Son
Collins Radio Company
Venita Damon
125
Twelfth Street NE
Roosevelt orders strikers at Celanese plant to return to work
President Roosevelt directed Celanese Corporation of America workers in Newark to resume operations by noon Monday or face government steps. He acted on War Labor Board recommendations after UMW District 50 urged a halt to picketing. The strike, tied to union certification disputes, has continued despite the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Celanese Corporation of America
Newark
N. J
War Labor Board
United Mine Workers District 50
John L. Lewis
UMW
Celanese
White House
Labor Relations Board
CIO Textile Workers
WLB
Stephen Early
Army
Navy
Linn County Nears War Bond Goal in Friday Sales
War bond drive in Linn County raised 389 547 on Friday pushing total to 4 489 722 toward a 4 730 000 target. Cedar Rapids contributed 372 378 with the county outside the city at 17 169 as Fairfax area passes 75 000 for a pursuit ship. Penick and Ford invested 50 000 under payroll deduction plan.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Linn County
Fairfax
Penick and
Ford
Penick
Four boys hauled from Cedar River after canoe capsizes
Four northeast side boys aged 11 to 14 ducked into the swollen Cedar River when their canoe overturned Friday afternoon. They stood on a sandbar in chest-deep current until Patrolmen Funcke and Sheppard diverted help from Ellis Park and Paul Miller arrived with a boat to pull them to safety.
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Northeast Side
Cedar River
Dean VanVoltenburg
B Avenue NE
Charles Valght
Fifth Avenue SE
Robert Schladetsky
Harold Schladetsky
Lincoln Avenue
Peter Funcke
Charles Sheppard
Ellis Park
Timme
Sheffie’s
Paul Miller
Nazi Offensive in Caucasus Bogs Down in Weeklong Battle
Soviet dispatches say the German drive in the Kuban front stalled after heavy losses. Friday saw 500 German soldiers killed and 12 tanks destroyed as Allied observers note the aim to stem a Russian push and gain a springboard for summer actions. Soviet air and ground losses cited, with numerous combats and airfield raids reported.
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Moscow
Caucasus
Kuban
Smolensk
Balakleya
Kharkov
Belgorod
Extra Gasoline for Victory Gardeners
OPA Administrator Prentiss Brown authorized up to 300 miles of additional gasoline rations for victory gardeners traveling to distant plots. Eligible are those cultivating 1,500 square feet or more and who must drive. they must share cars where possible. The extra 300 miles equals about 20 gallons and lasts six months.
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Washington
OPA
Prentiss Brown
Victory
Yanks Carry Out Five Air Raids in Solomons
Washington dispatch says five U S air attacks hit Japanese positions in the Solomons on Saturday. Two strikes targeted Munda where three grounded aircraft were burned and anti aircraft guns silenced. All American planes returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy
United States
Solomons
Munda
Yank Defiance of Japs May Have Sealed Doom
The Daily News quotes an American pilot captured in the Tokio raid and executed for defiance to a Nipponese court. He said, We bombed your damned town and we will bomb it again, twice and three times. The six missing officers and the seven named prisoners are identified as likely the six names listed, including Second Lieut. George Barr and First Lieuts. William Farrrow and Robert Hite.
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New York
The
Daily News
Washington
Tokio
Lowell Limpus
Nathan Hale
Continental Army
Limpus
George Barr
Madison
Wis
William G. Farrow
Washington, D. C
Robert L. Hite
Earth
Texas
Robert J. Meder
Lakewood
Ohio
Chase J. Nielson
Hyrum
Utah
Dean E. Hallmark
Dallas
Harold A. Spatz
Lebo
Kan
Corp
Jacob D. Deshazer
Madras
Ore
North Africa Casualties Put At About 12000
Washington reports American casualties in North Africa total 12000 with 1500 dead from initial invasion through the Battle of El Guetar. Elmer Davis clarifies casualties may have been misunderstood and totals from Nov 7 to date approach twelve thousand.
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Washington
North Africa
War Department
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Roane Waring
American Legion
Tunusia
el Guetar
Davis
Waring
Morocco
Algeria
Tunisia
Executions May Aim To Avert Japanese Surrenders
Director Elmer Davis says US flyers executions may be ordered by Japanese warlords to provoke reprisals and deter surrenders. He notes Japanese people may not hate Americans as government wants and calls for avoiding clamor to shift focus from Germany to Japan.
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Davis
Washington
Elmer Davis
Office of War Information
Japan
United States
United Nations
Germany
Pacific
Fire kills woman and two children in Old Beaver hotel blaze
A deadly fire swept the five story Old Beaver hotel, now apartments in Boston, killing a woman and two children. Fire officials report heavy flames and smoke trapping occupants, with investigators assessing cause.
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Boston
INS
Beaver Hotel
Lewis Defies WLB and Skips Coal Parleys
John L. Lewis defied the War Labor Board by failing to appear at a 10 a.m. hearing on stalemated wage hour talks in the soft coal industry. With no UMW representative present, the board extended the current wage agreement and set up a panel for closed sessions start Wednesday, risking a production stoppage if the union ignores further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
John L. Lewis
War Labor Board
United Mine Workers
William H Dalls
Lewis
Edward R. Burke
Southern
Charles O'Neill
Appalachian
Union to strike as 23000 UMW members walkout April 30
Springfield Illinois United Mine Workers President Ray Edmunds said 23 000 union members will halt work at midnight on April 30 in a nationwide coal labor action contracted with operators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
United Mine Workers of America
UMW
Ray Edmunds
FCC official defies solons over private financial affairs
Federal Communications Commissioner Clifford Durr refused to hand over banking and investment details to Rep Cox's committee, saying the information is personal unless linked to possible bribery. He urged referring any warranted inquiry to the Department of Justice in a Friday letter responding to April 20 demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Clifford Durr
Durr
FCC
Rep
Cox
D-Ga
Department of Justice
Eugene L. Garey
Cox Committee
Garey
British U Boats Destroy Ten Axis Vessels in Mediterranean
London AP says the admiralty reported ten Axis ships destroyed or damaged by British submarines targeting enemy supply lines in the Mediterranean. Among the damaged vessels were a cruiser and a tanker. Counter measures by the convoy prevented direct observation, but breaking noises were heard from both. Four other ships listed as damaged were believed to have sunk later.
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London
Admiralty
Mediterranean
Rommel Leaves Africa Report Captured by Allied Forces
Allied headquarters in North Africa released a captured document suggesting Marshal Erwin Rommel had left Africa. The note, dated March 19 and signed by Col. Gen. Jurgen von Arnim, did not attribute the move to Rommel whose location and new post, if any, remain unknown.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
Sir Harold Alexander
Erwin Rommel
Africa
First Army
Jurgen von Arnim
Rommel
Allied troops push along Tunisian front toward Bizerte
American and British forces shift from the Tunisian south to the north advancing six to seven miles in the Goubellat Bou Arada sector and toward Mateur and Bizerte. Long Stop hill known as Djebel Ahmera falls to armored assault. American units seize Djebel Amel as Patton's corps moves along the front.
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Allied Headquarters, North Africa
Ma~ Teur
Bizerte
First Army
Verdun
Long Stop Hill
Tunis
United States
Beja
Beja- Mateur Road
Eighth Army
Bernard L. Montgomery
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States Army Corps
George S. Patton, Jr
Harold Alexander
Tabarea
Mateur
Djebel Mrata
Djebel Ain Chouna
Djebel Amel
Medjez el Bab
Tebourba
Djebel Ahmera
Grich el Oued
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Morgenthau
Frank Nye
David Turner
LaPlant-Choate
Roy E. Choate
Choate
Otto Koeppen
Marion
Mr. Morgenthau
Narcotics Division
Secret Service
F. R
Jersey
War Bond Committee
Treasury
State Committee
Cedar Rapids News
Gazette
Reynolds
Csa Rapids
Henry Morginthau, Jr
Coast Guard
Hunterfield
Frank K. Hahn
Vernon L. Clark
Des Moines
War Savings
B. T. Perrine
Linn County War Savings
Victory Gardeners
Ted Gamble
Yank
U. S
Illinois
Solons
Gaia
Henry McLemore
Steele
Walter Winchell
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