Government seizure takes over 103 trucking firms in Midwest
The government and President Roosevelt order 25 000 striking drivers back to work to resume military supply transport. Office of Defense Transportation will run the industry as Longenecker and Wil son report to Minneapolis for regulations. Seizure covers Minnesota North and South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Iowa Missouri Wisconsin and Oklahoma with Seventeen Iowa firms listed among the 103.
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Minneapolis
Roosevelt
Office of Defense Transportation
ODT
Mel G. Barnes
Twin Cities
Washington
Ellis T. Longenecker
Longenecker
William Wilson
Sioux Falls
S. D
Midwest Operators Association
Barnes
Paul Halpine
Lincoln
Neb
Thomas E. Flynn
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
AFL
Indianapolis
Flynn
War Labor Board
WLB
Col
J. Monroe Johnson
William H. Davis
Longeneckers
Minnesota
North and
South Dakota
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Missouri
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
Des Moines
Donald R. Wigton
Army
Bus Freight Lines
Marshalltown
Bus Truck Lines
Brady Transfer and Storage Company
Fort Dodge
Bruce Motor Freight
Commercial Freight Lines
Dairy Dispatch Company
Dubuque
Des Moines Transportation Company
Des’ Moines
Holdcroft Transportation Company
Sioux City
H. and W. Motor Express Company
Hawkeye Motor Express
Cedar Rapids
Heuer
Jack Swiped from Police Parking Lot
Elwyn Bell of 428 F avenue NW had his car held in the police station lot after failing to pay a $5 fine for driving without a license. A hydraulic jack disappeared from the same parking area and was reported stolen after Bell retrieved his vehicle.
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Cedar Rapids
Elwyn Bell
F Avenue NW
Bell
Roosevelt to Address Nation From Bremerton Tonight
President Roosevelt will radio his first post nomination address from the Bremerton navy yard at 7 p.m. Central War Time, carried by four networks. He toured Aleutian bases and met with Fleet officials after a rapid Pacific theater advance.
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Seattle
Roosevelt
Bremerton Navy Yard
Here
San Diego
Calif
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Aleutians
Honolulu
Washington
Attempt on Life of Nazi Balkan Chief
A Belgrade report says Field Marshal Maximilian von Weichs, German commander in the Balkans, was wounded in an assassination attempt by a young Nazi lieutenant. The incident occurred Saturday and is being investigated by authorities in Belgrade and Zurich.
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Balkan
Zurich
Switzerland
Belgrade
Baron Maximilian von Weichs
Balkans
Nazis Yield Florence to Eighth Army
Florence, a storied center of Renaissance art, fell to Allied hands as German forces pulled back to a new line north of the Mugnone canal after a two week siege. British Eighth Army units prepared to administer relief to civilians as frontline reports described continued sniper activity in the north sector.
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Rome
Florence
Eighth Army
Arno
Mugnone Canal
Gothic Line
Tyrrhersian Sea
Adriatic
Cesano
Monte Porzio
Cherso
Lussino
Istrian
Yugoslavia
Italy
Pisa
Fifth Army
Red Push in Estonia War Drive Against 300,000 Nazi Troops
Soviet forces slice through southern Estonia and push toward Riga as part of a major Baltic offensive. Maslennikov’s and Yeryomenko’s columns seize dozens of settlements, edging toward East Prussia and threatening encirclement of German forces around Warsaw and along the Vistula.
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Estonia
Moscow
Red Army
Hitler
Warsaw
East Prussia
Biebrza
Berlin
Slovakia
Carpathian
Ivan Maslennikov
Pskov
Lake Peipus
Petseri
Gulf of Riga
Andrei Yeremenko
Maslennikov
Riga
Latvia
Stalin
Leonid A. Govorov
Narva
Tykocin
Lomza
Ivan Cherniakhovsky
Junker
Konstantin Rokossovsky
Dobre
Pniewnik
Korytnica
Bailystok
Red
Vistula
Poland
Krakow
Midwestern Regiment Captures Le Mans in 34 Mile Dash
Reporter Henry T. Gorrell describes a Midwest regiment’s 34 mile advance through Mayenne to Le Mans. Infantry columns, improvised river crossings, and close combat through streets and hedges led to German retreat. Tanks arrived to seal victory as prisoners were taken and doughboys enjoyed a hard earned meal.
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le Mans
Henry T. Gorrell
France
le’ Mans
Mayenne
St. Hailire de Harcouet
Lé Mans
Hitler
Selune
Montsurs
Sai
St. Suzanne
Cedar Rapids Sees 92 Degree Heat Return
Forecast for Cedar Rapids and vicinity calls for fair weather tonight and Sunday. The heat wave abated last night but rose again this afternoon with the Chambers Inskeep thermometer at 92 degrees, close to the 95 degree peak set yesterday. Humidity was 15 percent as readings cooled to 87 by 7 p.m. yesterday and dropped further overnight. Nearby cities reported varied conditions with Clarinda at 96 and Decorah at 50 the coolest spot in Iowa this morning.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Middle West
Clarinda
Decorah
Iowa
United States
le Mans
Alencon
Orne
Hitler
Brest
St. Nazaire
Lorient
Brittany
Ninth Air Force
Allied Air Strikes Hit Southern France and Italian Riviera
Fifteenth Air Force heavy bombers, more than 750 strong, pounded military targets along the southern French coast and northwest Italy. Mustang fighters strafed objectives, Fortresses returned from Russia and Italy hit an airfield at Toulouse, four Nazi planes fell to three-point escort, and coastal fortifications, radio facilities, and gun emplacements were damaged with minimal Allied losses.
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Rome
Fifteenth Air Force
France
Tactical Air Force
Italy
Mediterranean
Hitler
European
Russia
Toulouse
French
Riviera
Bombing pushes target Metz rail yards and French airfields
American bombers hit Metz railway yards shaping German troop movement and materiel routes while RAF night raids strike northern France and Brest U-boat shelters. German flights press south England with flying bombs as reports claim work on a new V-2 weapon by German engineers.
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London
INS
Metz
France
Berlin
Brest
England
London Daily Express
Germany
Somervell and Patterson Arrive in Italy on Inspection Tour
Lt. Gen. Brehon Somervell commander of the Army Service Forces and Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson arrived in Italy Saturday for an inspection tour of United States military installations.
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Rome
Brehon H. Somervell
Army Service Forces
Robert P. Patterson
Italy
United States
Allies Close In On Paris From Northwestern Front
Allied forces drive from Normandy threaten German Seventh Army retreating toward the Seine and Paris. American First and British Second Armies encircle in Normandy while another American spearhead pushes along the Loire toward Nantes and Bordeaux, signaling a shift to southern France.
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Allied
HDQ
A.E.F
Seventh Army
Seine
Paris
Normandy
Mortain
Brittany
Loire
Nantes
la Rochelle
Bordeaux
France
Seine-Loire
Johannes Blaskowitz
Blaskowitz
London
Chartres
Chateaudun
Guenther von Kluge
West ‘Wall
Caen
le Mans
Conde-sur-Noireau
Thury-Harcourt
Blast and Fire Kill 12 in Illinois Town
Twelve people died in a Friday night explosion and fire in Shawneetown Illinois. Gasoline fumes trapped by the Ohio river levee burst into 300 foot flames killing three men at storage tanks and burning residents of two houses. All house victims and one worker were from one family.
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Shawneetown, Ill
Ohio River
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