Foreign policy strides and Iowa postwar jobs
The piece argues that cooperation between Hull and Dulles could stabilize U S foreign policy before the election and strengthen bargaining power in world councils. It also notes C W Harness’s forecast that women will gain up to 20 percent more industrial employment after the war, with Iowa facing new postwar jobs and higher wages to support families, plus weather-interpretation worries and a 20 000 Iowa attendees at a Long Beach picnic highlighting migration.
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Hull
John Foster Dulles
United States
Dulles
Roosevelt
C. W. Harness
State Bureau of Labor
Iowa
Solomon
Long Beach
Calif
California
Allies drive into Toulon as Marseille advance continues
French forces entered western and northern Toulon with street fighting under way. American troops moved within nine miles of Marseille and captured Valensole, while others pressed toward the Rhone and Aix-en-Provence as Nazi resistance weakened. Prisoner totals rose past 14,000 including Maj. Gen Hans Schubert and staff.
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Rome
Toulon
Marseille
Valensole
Durance
Rhone
Pertuis
Aix-en- Provence
Alexander M. Patch
Aix
Joseph Dynan
Associated Press
Faron
Eisenhower
France
Cannes
Hans Schubert
Schubert
Toulouse
Patch
Allied cruisers shell Bayonne defenses in southern France
Three light Allied cruisers began shelling the Bayonne area before dawn. An American motor column reportedly moved through Angouleme toward the Spanish frontier without resistance, passing 130 miles south of Nantes on the Loire and 165 miles northwest of Bayonne.
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Iran
Spain
Bayonne
France
Angouleme
Nantes
Loire River
Pvt Gale S White Killed in Action in France
Pvt Gale S White 32 of Cedar Rapids was killed in action in France July 27. He went overseas in June 1944 after leaving Cedar Rapids in 1943. Survived by wife in Chicago, parents Mr and Mrs Robert White of Rockford Illinois, and two brothers Harry of Chicago and Robert in the navy.
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Cedar Rapids
Gale S. White
France
White
Chicago
Pvt
Graham Paper Company
Optimist Club
I Avenue
Pvt. White
Robert White
Rockford, Ir
Harry
Robert
Navy
Prediction Bulgaria Breaks Ties With Germany Tuesday
London AP reports informed diplomatic sources expect Bulgaria to sever relations with Germany on Tuesday and seek peace openly from Britain and the United States.
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London
Bulgaria
Germany
Britain
United States
B 29s strike Yawata steel works twice in daylight and night
American B 29 Superfortresses hit the Yawata steel complex in western China twice in a day and again at night using their heaviest loads to scorch the plant. The raids marked the first daylight attack on Japan since the Tokyo raid and came amid heavy enemy air and anti air activity.
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Western
China
America
Yawata
Pittsburgh
Far East
Japan
Jimmy Doolittle
Tokyo
War Department
Washington
Fukuoka
Moji
Kokura
Kyushu
Choguku
Honshu
Lao Yao
Lunghai
Shanghai
Kaifeng
Peiping- Hangkow
Cedar Rapids youths injured in car crash south of Hawkeye Downs
Three Cedar Rapids youths were injured when their car overturned on Sixth Street Road SW two miles south of Hawkeye Downs late Saturday night. Ellis Slaymaker 18 suffered a head injury and was unconscious Monday morning. Richard Myers 18 and William Hughes 18 sustained cuts and bruises. The car reportedly struck loose gravel and rolled once or twice.
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Cedar Rapids
Hawkeye Downs
Sixth Street
Mercy Hospital
Ellis Slaymaker
Third Streets
Richard Myers
Tenth Street
William Hughes
G Avenue NW
Jim Smith
P. J. Whittemore
Where's the Heir To $12,000 Estate
Mrs. Hanna Wiley is described as the sole heir to a $12,000 estate from Catherine Geyer of Seattle. The will directs transfer to Wiley, last known in Cedar Rapids, but an heir search is ongoing. Attorney Carl F. Jordan in Cedar Rapids handles inquiries and notices.
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Cedar Rapids
Hanna Wiley
Carl F. Jordan
Guaranty
Willkie to Join Dewey in Nonpartisan Peace Plan Push
Gov Thomas E. Dewey inviting Wendell L. Willkie to back a nonpartisan permanent peace plan met with Willkie’s prompt acceptance for a New York City discussion with Dewey adviser John Foster Dulles. Dewey stressed united American support as essential for endurance of any such plan.
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G.O.P
Albany
N. Y
John Foster Dulles
Thomas E. Dewey
Hugh A. Drum
New York State Guard
Dulles
Dewey
Hull
INS
Thomas IE. Dewey
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
New York City
Foster Dulles
Japs Withdraw From Moluccas Open Door to Allied Westward Move
Gen Douglas MacArthur announced Japan is pulling planes from the Moluccas and destroying airfields, leaving the spice island chain west of the Philippines exposed. He said bases beyond bomber range reduce need for frontal assaults as Allied air pressure continues. The Molucca chain is seen as sterilized and divided for limited local action.
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HDQ
S.W. Pacific
Japan
Moluccas
Dromes
Philippines
Spice Islands
Halmahera
New Guinea
Mindanao
Douglas MacArthur
Molucca
Supervisors Set Tuesday Budget Hearing for Linn County
Linn county supervisors schedule a public hearing at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the courthouse board room to discuss the 1945 county budget. The estimated tax on $1,000 of assessed value runs 8.629 in Cedar Rapids, 10.379 outside the city, and 14.004 in townships, with a proposed 61 percent millage increase for Cedar Rapids next year. The board notes 1944 levy rose $3.38 per $1,000 yet is higher than 1942 and lower than 1941 in overall impact.
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Linn County Board of Supervisors
Cedar Rapids
Big Three Seek International Security Pact For All Nations
Washington officials and leaders from Britain and the Soviet Union pledged to create a global security organization with sovereign equality for all peace loving states. Secretary Hull said any future system must be backed by force available promptly. Cadogan urged quick action by Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and China to build a world peace framework.
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Washington
Hull
Alexander Cadogan
Andrei Gromyko
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
John Foster Dulles
Dumbarton
Dulles
Organization of Peace
United States
Cadogan
Roosevelt
League of Nations
Gromyko
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Treanor Killed in France as Tank Tramples Jeep
International News Service reports Los Angeles Times correspondent Tom Treanor was killed in France when a jeep he rode in was run over by an American tank. Treanor, a veteran war correspondent for the Times, Cedar Rapids Gazette and NBC, was near Paris amid advancing Allied units. He had covered front lines in the Far East and Europe and was among the first to enter Cassino with American troops. Treanor is survived by his wife and two children.
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France
Tom Treanor
Treanor
Los Angeles Times
Cedar Rapids Gazette
National Broadcasting Company
John MacVane
NBC
MacVane
Paris
Far East
Cassino
Italy
Dieppe
Calais
Fifteenth Army
Normandy
Montgomery
Seine
Allied Forces Break Seige On Paris Front In Normandy Sweep
Allied troops breach the Seine lines near Mantes and Vernon and press toward Paris as Montgomery declares a decisive victory. American, British and Canadian forces surge from Normandy with 25 000 plus prisoners taken in the Normandy pocket.
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France
Bernard L. Montgomery
Paris
Seine River
Normandy
Seventh Army
Seine
Mantes
George S. Patton
Vernon
Berlin
Patton
Gaillon
Caen
Lisieux
Montgomery
United Press
French Patriots Seize Toulouse as Paris Under Martial Threat
German forces impose virtual martial law on Paris while French interior forces gain control of Toulouse, with Patriots reportedly governing eight French departments. Koenig says 1,821 Germans killed and 2,265 captured in week. De Gaulle returns to Normandy to lead future operations.
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London
Paris
Toulouse
France
Transocean
Radio France
Algiers
Joseph Koenig
FFI
Koenig
Port Bou
Spain
Pyrenees
Atlantic
Mediterranean
Charles de Gaulle
French Committee of National Liberation
Normandy
Soviet Push In Romania Escalates Eastern Front
German high command said the Red Army began a Romanian offensive aimed at breaching the Galati gap toward Bucharest and the Ploesti oilfields. The attack, supported by Stormovik planes near Tiraspol and Iasi, marked renewed combat along the long eastern front with heavy fighting reported in both sectors.
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London
Red Army
Galati
Bucharest
Ploesti
Stormovik
Tiraspol
Iasi
Gulf of Finland
Black Sea
Soviet forces smash Nazi divisions near Warsaw and press toward Prague
Soviet communiques report three Nazi divisions crushed in the Sandomierz salient below Warsaw as Red forces close on Prague and push up the Vistula. Separate claims note a Jelgava sector setback with 144 German tanks and self-propelled guns knocked out, while German lines claim some advances near Riga.
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Sandomierz
Warsaw
Red
Praga
Ivan S. Konev
Ukraine
Vistula
Konev
Krakow
Gulf of Riga
Latvia
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Riga
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