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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1943
Page
5
A poem by Edgar A. Guest condemns December Seven as the day of worst treachery and vilest crimes, memorializing Japan with stark judgment and calls for memory of the atrocity. The verse frames the date as a universal day of shame and moral failing.
On Tarawa Island a Marine officer recounts how Lieut Col Raymond LeRoy Murray cut off the retreat of Japanese forces on Betio. His battalion slipped in via a coral reef connection, trapping a fleeing group of at least fifty and pursuing remaining defenders in a two day mop up action.
Davenport and Bettendorf will conduct a house to house canvass next Sunday to quantify available manpower. The War Manpower commission orders aim to find unemployed workers and repurpose those in essential jobs, and to map the postwar labor market in the two cities.
An accompanying crossword style puzzle lists horizontal and vertical clues. Pictorial monument reference tied to New York and Massachusetts hints, with names such as Lemuel and Daniel Chester. Contains entries for rivers, spoons, and common crossword terms.
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