Hospitals and mental care need real reform not just bricks
In Des Moines lawmakers face funding for hospital facilities yet the author urges a broader program. He calls for trained staff, a scientific rehabilitative approach, and a professional expert committee to improve mental therapy, urging cost relief through better treatment and fewer long-term patients. He cites Lin Yutang on freedoms and warns against sacrificing responsibility for security. The column ends with a GE lab anecdote and a stray question about a child's garbage truck wheel.
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Iowa
Des Moines
General Assembly
Board of Control
12 Jap War Vessels Fall To Our Subs
The navy said American submarines sank 33 Japanese vessels in Pacific and Far Eastern waters, including 12 warships: one light cruiser, three destroyers, six escort ships, one minelayer and one minesweeper. Also sunk were two medium tankers, one large tanker, 14 medium cargo vessels, two medium cargo transports and three small cargo vessels.
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Washington
INS
Navy
Pacific
Far Eastern
Superforts Strike Nagoya and Hankow in Twin Raids
Two fleets of B 29s attacked Nagoya Japan and Hankow China in a coordinated Monday raid. Nagoya, a major Mitsubishi aircraft hub, suffered significant damage according to a Tokyo communique while Hankow saw activity along the Yangtze waterfront.
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Washington
Nagoya
Japan
Hankow
China
War Department
Tokyo
Mitsubishi Aircraft Works
Saipan
Honshu
China-India Command
Kinki
Osaka
Nara
Wakayama
Gifu
Fukui
Kyushu
Yangtze River
Chungking
Cedar Rapids Sizzles as Thermometers Plunge to 12 Below
Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas shattered cold records as the morning reading fell to 12 below zero with Marshalltown at 14 below. By midday the temperature rebounded to near zero and 28 expected highs were forecast as a cold spell eased tonight into Tuesday.
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Cedar
Rapids
Cedar Rapids
New City
The
Mercury
Marshalltown
Cold Wave Grips Midwest Turning Eastward Across States
United Press reports a sharp cold front sweeping the northern Midwest toward the east and south. Sub zero temps hit Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin and Illinois with Lone Rock Wisconsin recording 19 degrees below zero. Forecaster Hanson predicted a 15 degree rise by Tuesday into the Atlantic coast region.
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United Press
Midwest
Ohio Valley
E. S. Hanson
Chicago
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Atlantic Seaboard
Lone Rock
Wis
Keystone Boy Shot Playing with Gun
Robert Bryant 15, son of Mr and Mrs Nero Bryant six miles northeast of Keystone, improved at St Luke’s hospital after a Sunday afternoon chest wound from a revolver. Doctors said the gun was unloaded but a cartridge was inserted by the younger boy, causing the accidental discharge.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Bryant
Nero Bryant
Keystone
St. Luke's Hospital
C. E. Thomas
Robert
Gue Bult
Yankees Drive 12 Miles Inland on Mindoro Isle
Allied advances in the Philippines gain momentum as American forces push 12 miles inland on Mindoro and split the Yamashita line on Leyte. Mindoro engineers repair San Jose air field while air cover cripples Japanese resistance. In Leyte, US forces close in on Axis troops, with 2,012 enemy dead found after the three-way advance.
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Mindoro Isle
HDQ
Philippines
Mindoro
Leyte
Radio Tokyo
Sulu
Luzon
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
San Jose
MacArthur
Cogon
Ormoc
Land
Valencia
Sosaku Suzuki
First Cavalry
Mt. Catabaran
Yamashita
Iowa Sees Record 1944 Corn Crop Led by Acreage Gain
The Iowa agriculture department estimated the 1944 corn crop at 607 million bushels, the state’s largest ever, with an average yield of 54 bushels per acre. The rise followed a late crop start due to floods, and shrinkage adjustments lowered earlier estimates from 640.7 million. The 1943 crop stood at 605.5 million with 56.5 bushels per acre.
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Des Moines
Agriculture Department
Iowa
Department
Agriculture Dept Final Crop Yields Announced
The Agriculture Department reports final 1942 crop figures with corn at 3.228 billion bushels, up from 3.034 billion last year and above the ten year average of 2.369 billion. Wheat totals reach 1.079 billion bushels, higher than last year’s 1.078 billion and the ten year average of 0.760 billion.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Bell Offering Rejected by Philadelphia Mayor
Mayor Bernard Samuel refused a proposal from the Whitechapel Bell Foundry of London to recast the cracked Liberty Bell as a gesture of Anglo-American friendship. He stated the people do not want the Liberty Bell changed.
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Philadelphia
Bernard Samuel
Whitechapel Bell
London
United States Comments on Poland Russia Boundary Talks
The United States said it would not object to a Poland Russia boundary settlement before the war ends if a mutual agreement is reached by the United Nations directly concerned. Secretary Stettinius stressed support for a strong independent Poland and noted that border questions may be settled by friendly conference without US guarantees of specific frontiers. The statement responded to Churchill's push for a precise policy and affirmed US sympathy for Polish interests while avoiding binding border guarantees.
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Washington
United States
Poland
United Nations
Stellinius
Russia
Britain
Churchill
Stettinius
Yankees Blitz Nazi Railheads from Britain to Front
Allied air forces spared no effort in a large daylight raid on German rail hubs Cologne Coblenz and Mainz after a 7 000 ton night campaign against Munich Ulm and Duisburg. 600 Mustang escorts were unable to engage due to cloud cover and 17 British bombers were lost.
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London
Britain
First Army
Cologne
Coblenz
Mainz
Cedar Rapids Men Added to War Casualty Rolls
Two Cedar Rapids men were added to the war casualty rolls. Pvt. L. W. Redfern, 34, was killed in action December 6 in Germany, and Pfc. Stephen E. Heefner, 31, died in a training plane crash near Vincennes, Indiana. Redfern entered service March 26, trained at Camp Wolters, Texas, and went overseas September 1. He is survived by his wife, Billy, father George W. Redfern, and three brothers. Heefner, son of D. E. Heefner of Los Angeles, lived with his sister Mrs. Hullinger and other sibling Mrs. E. N. Mason, and brother Cpl. Paul R. Heefner in France. He was employed by a Clinton firm before service. Burial services set for Thursday at Beatty mortuary with Mt Vernon cemetery burial.
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Cedar Rapids
Germany
L. W. “Curley” Redfern
First Street
Stephen E. Heefner
Vincennes
Ind
L. M. Hullinger
B Avenue
Pvt. Redfern
Camp Wolters
Texas
Novak Heating Company
George W. Redfern
Woodworth
Mont
Billy
Pvt
Harry Redfern
Pfc
Heefner
D. E. Heefner
Los Angeles
Army Air Forces
Hullinger
E. N. Mason
Seventh Street
Cpl
Paul R. Heefner
France
Clinton
Beatty Mortuary
Mt. Vernon
British Stage All-Out Drive Against Elas
British forces launched a full scale operation against left wing Elas in Athens. They captured a stronghold on the road from Athens to Kalamaki airport and cleared the airport to 300 yards depth. Sibelias hill fell and armored units moved toward Piraeus as clashes escalated.
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Athens
Elas
Phaleron
Kalamaki
Piraeus
Sibelias Hill
Acropolis
R.A.F
Air Trophy to Navy Safety Device Head
The Collier trophy for 1943 goes to Capt. Luis de Florez of the U S Naval Reserve. He heads the navy’s safety devices division and earns the award for developing synthetic training aids that let pilots learn on the ground what would otherwise take months or years in flight.
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Washington
Luis de Florez
United States Naval Reserve
America
de Florez
Navy
Boston Seeks Ban On Tragic Ground Obscene Book
Boston police will seek central district court action to charge a Back Bay bookseller with selling an obscene book Erskine Caldwell's Tragic Ground under Massachusetts law against material tending to corrupt the morals of minors. Detective Edward Blake announced Sunday.
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Boston
Back Bay
Central District Court
Edward F. Blake
Erskine Caldwell
Blake
Massachusetts
Allied Air and Armor Hold Line as German Offense Surges
Paris AP reports Lt. Gen. Hodges' First Army returns pressure on German columns across Belgium and Luxembourg amid a fluid front. British fighters assist as Blitz-era V-weapons appear and German paratroopers drop behind lines. Front dispatches note several miles gained, with heavy tank and infantry battles in towns and villages.
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Paris
Courtney H. Hodges
United States First Army
Belgium
Luxembourg
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt
Europe
Hodges
Holland
Namur
First Army
United States
Normandy
Ninth Tactical Air Command
William H. Simpson
Ninth United States Army
Rundstedt
Bel Jgium
Monschau
Aachen
Malmedy
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Vern Haugland
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Haywood Hansell, Jr
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