Roosevelt Policy Woes Highlight Stettinius Pause on Speech
Secretary Stettinius offered no comment on Churchill’s speech backing Russian demands in the Russo Polish border dispute until he could review the official text. The piece argues President Roosevelt should publicly speak on foreign policy, and notes ongoing debates over collective security and Dumbarton Oaks plans amid wartime strategy and domestic politics.
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Congress
League of Nations
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Gate City Captured by U S Seventh Army
U S Seventh army forces seized Wissembourg and Lauterbourg as they crossed the Rhine frontier on a 12 mile front, while German counterattacks forced a Belgian retreat. The drive included a two mile Bavaria frontier crossing and major actions near Mannheim Ludwigshafen and Peterskirche.
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Telow Trier
Peterskirche
Belgian St. Vith
Luxembourg
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Rhineland
Cologne
Rhine Palatinate
Scheibenhard
Unions and Ward Co. in Legal Battle
DETROIT UP The Montgomery Ward dispute intensified into a legal clash as unions charged the company with violating federal interstate law and Ward sought a second injunction to restrain militant strikes. Pickets paused and would resume Monday if Ward does not comply with War Labor Board orders, risking seizure of Ward properties in six states. Area manager R W Rosevear ordered four Detroit stores closed at 5 p m to prevent further injury to non striking employees.
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Cedar Rapids War Casualty Totals Reported
Cedar Rapids area figures show 21 killed in action and seven prisoners in Linn county outside the city. Additional losses include two killed in training and 15 missing in action with one died in service.
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Chinese Advance In Kwangsi Drive
Chinese counter offensives in Kwangsi province push toward Hochih near the Kweichow Kwangsi railway. High command says Hochih reached by multiple flanking columns. Friday forces stood 12 to 18 miles away. Southeast flank continued progress through Saturday.
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Formal Rites for Lupe Velez Banned but Burial Planned
Actress Lupe Velez who died by suicide will not receive Catholic formal rites. Friends sought dispensation but were denied. Her body moved from Forest Lawn to a Catholic mortuary for Rosary services the night before the funeral. A priest could not celebrate there. The archdiocese permits burial at Calvary Cemetery where she may be laid to rest.
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Churchill in Error Admits Memory Slip on Atlantic Charter
London AP reports Prime Minister Churchill conceded a lapse of memory after stating an insertion in the Atlantic Charter allowed mutually agreed territorial changes before peace. A private secretary said he was recalling from memory and mixed the Charter with Britain’s 1940 foreign policy. Eden noted the error and diplomacy weighs potential undisclosed changes.
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New York Meat Outlook Eases Butcher Shop Shutdown Threat
Spokesmen for about 10 000 New York City retail butchers tentatively agreed to postpone shop shutdowns after Daniel P. Woolley regional OPA administrator pledged an early Washington meeting on ceiling prices for livestock.
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Pvt. Henry Stark Missing in Reich
Pvt. Henry A. Stark 20 son of Mr and Mrs C H Stark route 8 Cedar Rapids reported missing in action in Germany since November 26 He enlisted April 1944 with basic training at Camp Roberts California went overseas in September He served in England France Belgium and Holland before Germany action.
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Red Army Shifts Smash Center to Czechoslovakia
Soviet and Romanian front lines press toward Kassa Kosice and surrounding rail hubs. Petrov Fourth Ukrainian and Malinovsky Second Ukrainian forces push to within about 20 miles of Kassa and clear a critical stretch of the Lwow Satoraljaujehly line linking Poland to Budapest.
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Satoraljaujehly
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Historian Philip Gue dalla Dies in London
Philip Gue dalla, a 55 year old English historian biographer and essayist, died Saturday in a London hospital.
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Fall in Iowa remembered by a journalist overseas
A letter from John Reynolds in France reflects on Gene Farmer s Sunday piece Fall in Iowa and the impatience at home. Reynolds urges restraint and describes civilian war impact in Cedar Rapids with citywide disruptions and the soldiers perspective from the Normandy beachhead.
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John Reynolds
France
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
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Gene
Mindoro Landing Secures San Jose Town and Airfield
U S forces seize San Jose Mindoro five miles inland as part of a seven to nine mile advance with negligible resistance. Engineers rush airfield construction enabling planes to reach Manila and other air fields. MacArthur says operations split the Philippines and enable Allies to control sea and air routes to the China coast.
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China
Americans claim heavy Luzon air assault sinks ships and planes
American carrier planes raided Luzon for three nights, sinking a medium oiler and a medium cargo ship, damaging four destroyers and several escorts, destroying 1235 enemy aircraft and destroying or damaging 17 ships in total. The drive supported MacArthur’s Mindoro invasion while Hellcat fighters flew in from Wednesday.
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