Cedar Rapids Mourns Navy Son and War Reflections
The Cedar Rapids community absorbs news that 18-year-old Gerald Heim has died in action, with tributes to his life and sacrifices. The piece urges resilience as grim wartime news will continue and weighs the national resolve against Axis forces, noting Soviet resistance and policy shifts to seven-day war production. It discusses overtime pay, inflation, and the morale impact, ending with a playful reference to selecting Houdini as a companion for a South Sea isolation hypothetical.
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Cedar Rapids
Gerald Heim
Gerald
Navy
Defense
South Sea
Hedy Lamarr
Lana Turner
Ann Sheridan
Explosive Blast Hits Iowa Ordnance Plant No 1 Unit
A Friday explosion at the No 1 melt unit of the Iowa ordnance plant near Burlington injures many workers and is feared to have killed several. Gov. George A. Wilson sends 35 highway patrolmen to secure highways near the facility as damage assessments describe the blast as very bad but contained to a single unit. The plant, part of a $60 million complex, lies five miles west of Burlington along highway 34 and employs Cedar Rapids and other eastern Iowa workers.
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Iowa
Burlington
Des Moines
George A. Wilson
Iowa Ordnance
Here
Keith F. Adamson
K. F. Adamson
Adamson
Eastern Iowa
Burlington Shell Loading Plant
Cedar Rapids Boy Killed In Action In Pacific
Gerald Heim 18, of 426 Ninth avenue SW Cedar Rapids was killed in action as Cedar Rapids' first Pacific casualty. A Navy sailor he enlisted November 26 1940. He attended Harrison grade school and McKinley high school. His mother Mrs Esther Heim received the news. his brother Donald serves in the U S Army and his father John Heim remains in Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
Gerald Heim
Ninth Avenue SW
U.S. Navy
Esther Heim
Harrison
McKinley High
Donald
U. S Army
John Heim
Roosevelt Praises Wake Island Garrison Fronting Japanese
President Roosevelt said the Wake Island garrison was holding out against Japanese attacks and praised the Marines there as doing a magnificent job. He announced eight defensive sea areas on both coasts and new navigation restrictions likely to include mining.
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Portland
Portsmouth
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San Diego
San Francisco
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Strait of Juan de Fuca
Puget Sound
Warning on snow driving slows city traffic rules
The city traffic department urged drivers to slow down as snow creates hazards. It warned stopping distances have doubled and advised reducing speed by about half to stay safe until conditions improve.
Heroic Deeds of Yank Flyers One Died to Sink Jap Battleship
Manila dispatch tells of three American and Filipino aviators striking back at Japanese forces. Captain Colin Kelly Jr. died when his dive destroyed the Haruna off Luzon. Lieut. Boyd Wagner fought multiple enemy planes and pressed toward a landing field before retreating. Lieut. C A Keller shadowed a Kongo class battleship amid heavy flak until a coordinated attack disabled the ship. Lieut. H Tutter engaged three fighters, shot down one, and made a water landing.
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Manila
Colin Kelly, Jr
Florida
Boyd D. Wagner
Philadelphia
Kelly
Army Air Corps
Wagner
Luzon
Aparri
H. Tutter
United States Naval Air Force
U S Seizes French Ships in Port Action
French crews are being removed from all vessels in American ports as a precautionary measure. The Norman Normandy and about a dozen other ships are affected amid rumors the Norman ships might be converted into an aircraft carrier.
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Washington
Reds Spurn Nazi Peace and Hit at Japan
Pravda denounces Japan for attacking the United States and Britain and vows Japan faces defeat. Radio Kuibyshev says the Soviet Union will not sign a peace with Germany without U.S. and British agreement, and that Hitler will no longer be in Germany. Maxim Litvinov discusses allied defense as the path forward in the Pacific war.
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Germany
United States
Great Britain
Hitler
Washington
Maxim Litvinov
AFL Says 1000 U S Workmen Captured at Midway and Guam
The AFL reports to its members that over 1000 American building trades workers were captured and taken prisoner at Midway and Guam in the Pacific. The workers were sent to the islands to build military facilities and the navy has not confirmed the losses of either island.
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Pacific
Philip Pearl
AFL
Building Trades Union
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Japan
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Hawaii Victimized in Surprise Pearl Harbor Raid
Governor Poindexter signed an emergency proclamation as two Japanese bombs miss his residence and a hit tears through the Capitol grounds. Four attacks Sunday and a lighter one Monday left 1,500 dead or wounded, with 49 civilians killed and over 100 injured. 24 dive bombers, four-motor bombers, and torpedo planes targeted Navy ships and bases at Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field.
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United States Battle Fleet
Hart
United States Air Corps
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CBS
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Gulf of Davao
Bill Introduced To Require 18 64 Year Olds Register
The War Department asked Congress to require all men aged 18 to 64 to register with the selective service system to gauge manpower. Only 19 to 45 would be liable for service, per Speaker Rayburn. No plan to register women. Existing registrations stay valid. new registrants aged 18 to 64 may be called earlier than earlier registrants. Alien residents of neutral nations may seek exemption under the American flag.
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War Department
Congress
United States
Sam Rayburn
Rayburn
Selective Service
Japs Deny Battleships Lost and Boast Luzon Landing
Japan denies two battleships sunk and claims a new invasion force landed in southern Luzon. Communique details light cruiser damage, a minesweeper sunk, and a mistaken Haruna loss report. Tokyo claims U S forces retreating in northern Luzon as German broadcasts tout naval gains and economic blockades.
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Japan
Philippine Islands
Imperial Headquarters
Philippines
Haruna
United States
Tokio
US Bombers Hit Japanese Battleship Near Manila
A 29 300 ton battleship, likely the Kongo, was attacked by U S Navy bombers near Manila and put out of control with heavy and lighter hits. Earlier reports said Haruna was sunk by army planes. Exchanges and air raids disrupted by storms, with other strikes against Wake Island and additional enemy movements reported along Luzon and Aparri Vigan coast.
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Hart
Washington
U. S. Flyers
Wake Island
Pilippines
War Department
Luzon
Philippine Archipelago
Cavite
Manila
War Taxes to Fund Three-Way World War Struggle
Congressional leaders move to draft legislation for several billion dollars in new war taxes to back President Roosevelt in the threefold war against Japan, Germany, and Italy. British Russian talks near to coordinate political collaboration and Axis strategy.
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Roosevelt
Japan
Germany
Italy
London
Slovakia Declares War on Britain and United States
German controlled Slovakia announced a declaration of war against Great Britain and the United States, signaling broadened hostilities in the European theater during wartime.
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Berlin
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United States
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