Allied Push in Europe and Pacific War News
The article praises Allied progress in Europe and the Pacific amid German counter thrusts near Avranches and wartime supply gains. It notes American port and landing efforts in Brittany, warns against work stoppages, discusses Philadelphia transit and Midwest trucker strikes, and calls for flexible school schedules to keep wartime labor. It ends with a light digression on spinach nutrition.
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Avranches
Brittany
Russians claim captured Boryslaw and Sombor in drive east
Soviet dispatches report Polish oil center Boryslaw and German fortress Sombor fall as Stalin announces new advances toward East Prussia and Warsaw. German forces rush reinforcements while fronts tighten along the Carpathians and Vistula region.
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London
Boryslaw
Sombor
Carpathian Slope
Stalin
Moscow
East Prussia
Warsaw
Krakow
Reich
Berlin
German National Socialist Party
Hitler
Britain Seen Urging Continued Lend-Lease After Defeat
The National Association of Manufacturers reports British officials insist lend-lease aid must continue after Germany’s defeat to sustain Britain’s role in the Pacific war. The plan would cost the United States at least 2.5 billion dollars annually above war costs and mark a shift from current policy.
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New York
Germany
Britain
National Association of Manufacturers
England
N. A. M. News
Publeathian
Association
United States
Congress
Russia
France
Belgium
Holland
International Bank
Murray warns lend-lease aid may burden U S economy
Senator Murray cautioned that postwar lend-lease aid to Great Britain could impose a burdensome obligation on the United States. He urged careful study and congressional agreement that such aid is essential to avert a total collapse of Britain's economy.
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Washington
Sen. Murray
D-Mont
Great Britain
Congress
Blonde actress O'Driscoll seeks divorce from Lt Commander Adams
Hollywood gossip reports actress Martha O'Driscoll, who first met Lt Commander Richard Adams at age 13, and wed him at 21, plans to file for divorce after a successful film career. The couple's marriage and age gap are highlighted in the week’s society notes.
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Hollywood
Martha O'Driscoll
Richard Adams
Saga of French Children Trapped in No Man's Land
About 100 French refugee children who walked 40 miles to escape war ended up between fighting forces near St Nicholas des Bois. Guided by clergy, they crossed bombed roads under shelling, sheltered in ditches, and were later moved to farms as American and German actions raged nearby. Civilians fed them and American troops finally freed and evacuated the children.
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Richard Tregaskis
Normandy
Ins
No Man’s Land
St. Lo
Tregaskis
St. Nicholas Des Bois
Bon Sauveur Convent
Father Tourde
Mary Madeleine Favier
Abbe Bouen
Amended Rezoning Request Debated in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids council received an amended rezoning request from Iowa Engineering and Castone for property north of First Avenue E between Twenty Ninth and Thirty Second streets. The proposal seeks to reclassify the current commercial area to light industrial class D. Local property owners pressed objections at the City Plan commission meeting, with the commission upholding their concerns against heavy industrial classification.
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Cedar Rapids
First Avenue E
Twentyninth
Thirty-second Streets
Iowa Engineering Company
Castone Products Company
City Plan Commission
Courthouse Farm Today's Index and Names
Fragmentary OCR lists names and topics including David Lawrence Marquis Childs Paul Mallon Marion and Drew Pearson. Mentions movies radio and sports sections with scattered references to state topics and Tom Treanor.
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Courthouse Farm
Index
David Lawrence
Marquis Childs
Paul Mallon Marion
Vpexen
Drew Pearson
Evens 6
Beecaes Syeceee & Sports
Es Wales State
U S Naval Guns Blast Bonin Isles
The Associated Press reports American warships bombarded the Bonin Islands for two days sinking or damaging 41 enemy ships. Omura town on Chichi Jima was destroyed and Iwo Jima and other islands were hit. Twelve enemy planes were shot down with 16 US aircraft lost.
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Bonin Islands
Japan
Chichi Jima
Bonins
Tokyo
Chester Nimitz
United States
Bonin
Kazan Islands
Omura
Chichi
Haha
Muko
Ane
Iwo Jima
Kazans
Allies Attempt to Raid Philippines Reported by Domei
Japanese Domei said two Allied planes tried to raid Davao in the Philippines. One dropped three bombs that landed at sea, the other fled after a follow up. The claim, not confirmed by Allies, would mark the first air assault on the Philippines since Japanese conquest. Sansapor, the nearest Allied base, lies 600 miles from the Philippines. conquest completion was announced by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
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United Press
Domei
Davao
Endear
Philippines
Monay
Sansapor
Dutch New Guinea
Thehilippines
Douglas MacArthur
Rites Held for Last Cherry Sister Effie Cherry
Nearly a dozen elderly women attended a Beatty chapel service for Effie Cherry the final of the Cherry sisters. Rev Frank Ward led the ceremony and burial followed at Linwood cemetery. Cherry died Saturday in a nursing home after a broken hip.
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Beattychapel
Effie Cherry
Frank Ward
Sunshine Mission
Linwood Cemetery
Miss Cherry
Fourth Street NW
Effie
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Reform
Smith to push Africa home land plank at America First meet
Detroit sources report Gerald L. K. Smith organizer of the America First party said he will propose a plank favoring a separate homeland in Africa for American Negroes at the party convention.
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Detroit
Gerald L. K. Smith
America First Party
Africa
Lumir Vavricek Missing in France Since July 7
Pfc. Lumir T. Vavricek 29 son of Mr and Mrs Frank Vavricek route 3 is reported missing in action in France since July 7. He joined in April 1942 and fought in the invasion June 6 after training at Camp Barkeley Texas and Fort Dix New Jersey overseas since April. He has three sisters Mrs Ernest Srp Dysart Mrs John Branter Dubuque and Mrs Amos Jiroutek Marion and one brother Frank Marion.
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Lumir T. Vavricek
Frank Vavricek
France
Vavricek
Camp Barkeley
Texas
Fort Dix
N. J
Pvt
Ernest Srp
Transit Strike Ends as PTC Fires Leaders
Philadelphia's Transit Company dismissed four strike leaders, including James H. McMenamin, while Army guards restored full service. The seven day walkout started over upgrading eight Negro employees and ended with workers returning to duty under military watch. McMenamin and three others faced arrest under the Smith Connally act.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Transportation Company
United States Army
James H. McMenamin
PTC
William C. Dixey
Frank Carney
Frank Thompson
McMenamin
Army
Philip Hayes
Hayes
Thousands of Dead Fish Collected From 12th Street Slough
State conservation workers and city health officials scoop thousands of dead soft fish like shad buffalo and carp from the lower slough at Twelfth Street NE. They dump the fish into a trench on Iowa Electric Power property while a water analysis is arranged to find a cause. Theories cite vegetation consuming oxygen, with less than five percent oxygen deemed fatal to fish.
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State Conservation Commission
City Health Department
Twelfth Street
Health Department
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Circus Grounds
Germans Drive Counter‑Blow Toward Paris In Normandy
Allied front reports detail a furious German counter attack from Mountain to Lourdeval aimed at outflanking American spearheads near Paris. Mortain recaptured, Mortain to Domfront road cut, and British forces in Vire area linking. Americans press Breton towns. St. Malo and Lorient besieged. Brest and St Nazaire street fighting. Bradley’s armor advances toward central port objectives.
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HDQ
AEF
Avranches
France
Paris
Omar N. Bradley
Brittany
Normandy
Mortain
Bradley
Domfront
Nancy
Mountain
Lourdeval
Juvigny-le-Tertre
Cherence-le-Rousse
Vire
Orne
Caen
Breton
Brest
St. Nazaire
Nantes
Lorient
St. Malo
Chateauneuf
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Harry Boyd
Low Countries
Pacific
Slider
Praga
Vistula River
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
J. Y. Petrov
Czechoslovak
Wyszkow
Carpathians
Hungary
Petrov
Ivan S. Konev
Drohobycz
Przemysl
Poland
Ploesti
Romania
Krakow Drive
Carpatho-Ukraine
Konev
Vistula
San River
Niemen
Ivan C. Bagramian
Dubya
Juodaiciai
Tilsit
Grenadier
Associated Press
Rennes
Stettinius
Cedar Rapids News
U. S
Bonin Isles
The
Marianas
Guam
Orote Peninsula
Lumir Vavricek
Pfc
12Th Street Slough
Auray
Vannes
Eest
Huelgoat
Carhaix
Loire
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