State pays for capital improvements to mental institutions
The legislative interim committee backs the State Board of Control in requesting about 7.6 million dollars for capital improvements at state institutions. It also urges steps to improve technical staff at state mental hospitals, noting bigger, better facilities must not replace skilled personnel. The piece stresses more specialists and trained assistants to return patients to normal life and reduce the need for expanding physical plants.
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State Board of Control
Littell Fight Faces Probe By Congress
The Littell dispute moves to Congress after President Roosevelt ousted Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell for insubordination. Rep. Voorhis seeks a full House inquiry, challenging the grounds for Littell's dismissal amid allegations of real estate influence and political pressure.
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Littell
Congress
Washington
Roosevelt
Norman Littell
Justice Department
Rep
Voorhis
Calif
House Judiciary Committee
Lit Littelltell
Linn County War Bond Drive Reaches 2.3 Million In One Day
Linn county war finance committee reports Thursday bond sales totaling 2,306,918.50, boosting county total to 6,767,341.25 toward a 9,256,000 quota. Business and industry purchases led the surge, with series E bonds underperforming. Cedar Rapids and Des Moines area entities contributed to the tally.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Linn County War Finance Committee
Des Moines
Iowa
Hearn
William J. Minnis
Universal C.I.T. Credit Corporation
Commercial Investment Trust Corporation
Minnis
E. R. Petro
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Japs Change Minds On Morotai Landing
The Associated Press reports a Tokyo broadcast contradicts a Japanese controlled press claim of a Morotai Island landing. The story suggested American-held Morotai was invaded without Japanese casualties, a reversal of earlier reports.
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Morotai Landing
Associated Press
Comei
Tokyo
Asia
Morotai Island
Philippines
Evacuation Report Says Budapest Left Bank Being Cleared
German radio reported Friday night that eastern Budapest was being evacuated affecting suburbs and districts on the left bank of the Danube.
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London
Budapest
Yanks Sink Convoy and Kill 5000 Japs in Leyte Action
Allied air forces destroyed a Japanese convoy bound for Ormoc in Leyte with estimates of 5000 Japanese dead. A 9000 ton transport and three small freighters were sunk, a 5000 ton freighter and a destroyer set afire. Recurring attacks this month raise Japanese sea losses to about 26000 men as ground forces press the island defense amid heavy rains.
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Philippines
Ormoc
Leyte
Ormoc Bay
Hick envisions service to all the people in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids a crowd of about 372 at the Montrose hotel honored Gov Bourke B Hickenlooper the first Cedar Rapids native elected to the U S Senate He pledged to represent the whole state and avoid obstructionism while voting for the public good The event featured Lt Gov Robert D Blue State Sen K A Evans and Chamber of Commerce leaders with a 15 jewel clock presented to him marked November 30 1944 continued on page 5 column 1
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Cedar Rapids
Bourke Hickenlooper
Hickenlooper
Montrose Hotel
Iowa
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
United States Senate
Washington
Agin
Robert D. Blue
Eagle Grove
K. A. Evans
Emerson
Blue
William B. Quarton
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Arthur Poe
John C. Reid
Arthur Barlow
Woman Says Mate Beat Her to Get Cigarettes
At 119 Tenth Street SW in Tom Leakin’s home Thursday evening Mrs Leakin reported to police that after returning with groceries she and her husband argued over a pack of cigarettes. He struck her, knocking her down, and fled before officers arrived. no charges were filed.
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Tom Leakin
Tenth Street
Cedar Rapids and Marion Begin 48-Hour Work Week
Cedar Rapids and Marion hive 48 hour work week under War Manpower Commission rules for firms with eight or more employees. WMC area director H J Eberhart says most local firms have already adopted the schedule. About 25 to 30 percent have filed for exceptions and may continue current hours until a decision arrives. Exceptions mostly affect office and professional staff, not war plants.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion
War Manpower Commission
WMC
H. J. Eberhart
Eberhart
Minneapolis
Airliner Crashes Near Burbank Killing Seven
A Transcontinental and Western Airlines plane with 23 aboard crashed in fog near the San Fernando Valley en route to New York from San Francisco. Seven killed, 16 injured, including San Diego officials Mayor Hartley Knox severely hurt and City Manager Walter W. Cooper who died.
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Los Angeles
Transcontinental and
Western Airlines
San Fernando Valley
Burbank
New York
San Francisco
Hartley Knox
San Diego
Walter W. Cooper
J. P. Snowden
T. L. Bamberger
Alameda
Calif
Pacific Command selects Julian C. Smith for Pacific
Washington AP reports Maj. Gen. Julian C. Smith named commanding general, department of the Pacific, with headquarters in San Francisco. He will assume around December 5, relieving Maj. Gen. J. C. Fagan at Mare Island Naval Hospital. Smith led the Second Marine Division during the Central Pacific Offensive, including the Tarawa assault in the Gilbert Islands.
Dutch Infant Turns Toward Gestapo Trap
Dutch underground report tells how a 2 year old boy, whose father led resistance, answered every Gestapo question with Daddy dead. Gestapo tried candy and stories, but the child remained silent on his father’s fate, earning the nickname baby nemesis before liberation.
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Ninth Army
Holland
Gestapo
Nemesis
U.S. Air Losses Reported In European Operations
Paris- U S heavy bombers from Italy struck Germany as weather halted a two day RAF and Eighth Air Force offensive. Berlin warned of raids over Bavaria while Duisburg and Hamburg endured massive firebombing. U S losses were revised with 40 bombers and 13 fighters unaccounted. four enemy fighters were shot down.
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London
United States
15Th Air Force
Italy
Germany
Eighth Air Force
RAF
Berlin
Bavaria
R.A
Rhine-Ruhr
Duisburg
Hamburg
Leipzig
Cedar Rapids Sees Record Cold Amid Broad Winter Front
The Cedar Rapids area faced freezing conditions with lows near zero and a high of 26 in the afternoon. Friday brought subzero readings across portions of Nebraska and Minnesota while Atlantic recorded eight degrees below zero. Snow flurries spread statewide and gusty winds disrupted transport along the east coast.
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Cedar Rapids
McCoy
Chambers
Towa
Atlantic
United States
Nebraska
Minnesota
Dakotas
New York
Rockies
New England
Nantucket Sound
Cape Cod
Patton drives German lines back on Saar and Roer fronts
Allied forces under Patton push Germans back across the Saar at Merzig and stab toward the west bank while Ninth Army clears Lindern Welz and tightens the ring around Linnich on the Cologne plain. First Army battles to clear Lamersdorf Inden amid destroyed bridges.
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Paris
George S. Patton
Saar
Merzig
Ninth Army
Linnich
Cologne
Roer
Patton
Third Army
Germany
Reich
Rhine
Third
Merzig and
Saarlautern
France
Belfort
Hueningue
Basel
Cologne Plain
William H. Simpson
Lindern
Welz
Altdorf
Julich
DNB
Linnichi
Courtney H. Hodges
American First Army
Lamersdorf
Inden
Duren
Inde
Shakeup in Jap Burma Command
The Japanese recalled Gen Masakazu Kawabe from Burma to head the central army command in Japan as Nipponese forces reportedly withdraw from north Burma. Meanwhile Royal Scots of the 36th division march into Pinwe, a rail town 167 miles from Mandalay, with bagpipes sounding.
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Burma
Comei
Masakazu Kawabe
Central Army
Japan
Royal Scots
Pinwe
Mandalay
Egg Stays Intact As Buildings Fall
Walton Cole of Reuters told the Union League club of Chicago that the common household egg often remains intact when homes and buildings in London are destroyed by German rocket bombs. The claim contrasts the Humpty Dumpty tale with real wartime trauma.
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Chicago
INS
Walton Cole
Reuters
Cole
Union League Club of
London
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Teapot Dome
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Biddle
Thomas G. Corcoran
Ferguson
R-Mich
War Investigating Committee
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Army Real Estate
Hills
The
Association
Onslow
George Hearn
W.C.F.N
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Hick
iBy
Frank Nye
America
Blue and
Evans
Cedar Rapids News
Pacific Command
Julian Smith
Index Marquis
Eeensee
David Lawrence
Eer Pereeee
Weeneess
Drew Pearson
Eeeaees Radio Ee Eee Eeraeae
Eeverte
Walter Winchell
U U. S
Dubuque
Davenport
East
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