Peacetime Use for War Plants Seen in Iowa
Dr. O R Sweeney of Iowa State College suggests Ankeny’s big ordnance plant could become a stockyard and packing plant a soybean extraction plant or a corn byproducts factory. The aim is better postwar planning to utilize surplus factories with Iowa farm economy. Decentralizing industry and new products could bring long term growth if Iowans pursue the opportunities through persistent effort and understanding of technologists and entrepreneurs.
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O. R. Sweeney
Iowa State College
Ankeny
Sweeney
Iowa
War criminals sentenced to death by hangings in Kharkov
Soviet military tribunal convicted four war criminals in Kharkov and sentenced them to death by hanging. The defendants were Capt William Langheld 52 of the Gestapo Hans Ritz storm trooper commander Police Corporal Reinhardt Ratzlaw 36 and Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov 26 a Russian Gestapo chauffeur. The Moscow radio said the verdict met universal acclamation and that guilt was fully proved. A large crowd of Kharkov workers heard the ruling.
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London
Kharkov
Moscow
William Langheld
Gestapo
Hans Ritz
Reinhardt Ratzlaw
Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov
Roosevelt Calls Stalin a Realist in Teheran Visit
The president said he brought back the strong impression that Stalin is a realist. The speaker doubts Roosevelt would apply such a term to Stalin, viewing the remark as possibly tongue in cheek amid Roosevelt’s past portrayals. The exchange invites humorous interpretation of the label.
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Teheran
Stalin
Roosevelt
Realist label used by Roosevelt prompts debate
The speaker questions the term realist as a political label and how Roosevelt uses it to frame his strategies. The piece notes the subjective nature of labels like realist liberal or forward-looking and ends by granting Roosevelt the right to call himself a realist if that is how he wishes to be viewed.
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Mr. Roosevelt
Warert P. Patterson
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
The Foolishness of Stereotypes and Seasonal Cards
A reflective piece argues against pigeonholing people into fixed types like isolationists or internationalists. It notes how human inconsistency defies neat labels and mocks broad classifications. The author lauds clearer, legible Christmas cards and wishes a bright New Year.
Four Nazis at Kharkov atrocity trials described by Ehrenburg
Soviet author Aya Ehrenburg portrays four Nazi defendants and a witness in Kharkov, detailing Captain Langheld, Lt. Hans Ritz, and Corporal Retzlaw. The account notes their precise brutality, indifference to victims, and adherence to a state system of annihilation, with Judge’s lights revealing their ordinariness.
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United Press
Aya Ehrenburg
Kharkov
Ilya Ehrenburg
Cedar Rapids Stores Extend Hours to 9 PM Weeknights
Cedar Rapids retailers announce extended hours staying open until 9 PM on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday with closing times at 6 PM on other days.
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Cedar Rapids
Swedes warn Germany over Nordic deportations
Sweden formally warned Germany that relations cannot avoid further deterioration unless Berlin halts plans to deport 1,200 interned Oslo students and professors. Oslo reports say 600 detainees were released from Stavern concentration camp with many expected to gain freedom before Christmas.
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Stockholm
Germany
Reich
Oslo
Norway
Berlin
Scandinavia
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Sweden
Stavern
Georg Vallentin de Morgenstierne
W. Munthe de Morgenstierne
United States
Mihailovitch Vows Help in Balkan Invasion
The Yugoslav government said on Saturday that Gen. Draja Mihailovitch's forces would participate in the Allied invasion of the Balkans by all means at their disposal to deal the death blow to their enemies.
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Cairo
Balkans
Draja Mihailovitch
14 000 Philippines Veterans Classified as Prisoners of War
Washington AP reports more than 14 000 American service members once listed as missing in the Philippines are now identified as prisoners of war. The update includes 55 of 66 Army nurses among the confirmed POWs. at least 1 555 died of disease in Japanese camps and about 300 died of wounds.
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Washington
Philippines
Parley to Black Rail Strike to Be Held Today
President Roosevelt invited railroad executives and five operating brotherhoods to a White House meeting at 1:30 p.m. to avert a Dec 30 strike by 350000 workers over a four cents per hour boost. Non-operating brotherhoods seek Senate action on a Truman resolution to legalize an eight cents per hour agreement.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Brotherhoods
Cleveland
National Mediation Board
Lyren
Lee Representaives
Chicago
Operating Brotherhoods
Det. 30
Fred M. Vinson
House
Tighter Policy on Deferment of Army Civilian Employes
Washington AP War department orders end to draft deferments for army civilian employes aged 18 to 21 with all existing deferments to be terminated by a set date. Applies to civilians on duty in the continental United States. Exception for seamen on army transport ships handled by the War Shipping Administration.
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Washington
War Department
Continental
United States
Department
Army
War Shipping Administration
Kaiser Urges Postwar Credit Risk Trade Pool
Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser calls for a postwar plan to shift to peacetime efficiency. He proposes nationwide questionnaires to determine veterans’ preferred jobs, assigned to local committees, as part of reverse draft boards to prepare for civilian life.
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Kaiser
Gammillans
Aan
United States
Century Will Again Make Bomb Fuses
Century Engineering reopens a wartime contract to produce aerial bomb fuses and parts for the War Department. President E. J. Lattner announced retroactive refunds bonuses and a new wage agreement with the Machinists union, plus an earned vacation salary plan.
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Cedar Rapids News
War Department
Ordnance Division
Century Engineering Corporation
E. J. Lattner
Century
International Association of Machinists
Harmony Lodge No
War Labor Board
Lattner
Mild Weather Ends Early in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids saw an unseasonably mild spell end with a drop in temperature from a 44 degree high Saturday afternoon to 28 by late Saturday night. Forecasters had predicted a colder Sunday, but the rapid change suggested the forecast might come true sooner than expected.
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Cedar Rapids
Court records reveal gasoline rationing by husband in 1936
Oakland testimony shows Petroleum Administrator Ickes did not create the three gallon per week gasoline limit. Mrs Mary Athens testified that her husband James Athens began rationing her fuel in 1936 and she won a cruelty divorce decree based on the claim.
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Oakland
Calif
Ickes
Mary Athens
James Athens
Congres s adjourns amid stalled issues and holiday break
Washington D C. The first session of the 78th Congress adjourns Saturday night for a three week holiday recess. Major actions include a 200 million deficiency bill and an extension of the Commodity Credit Corporation to Feb 17, while muster out pay and other military matters await action.
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Washington
INS
Congress
House
Senate
Rep
Crosser
Ohio
Sen
Truman
Dmo
Rep. Martin
R-Mass
McCormack
D-Mass
House Military Affairs Committee
White House
Armed Services
Commodity Credit Corporation
Senate Banking Committee
Barkley
D-Ky
U. S. Forces Advance on New Britain in Arawe Area
United States Sixth Army presses inland from the Arawe beachhead on New Britain. Allied actions include capturing Umtingalu and its gun positions, fighting near Cape Gloucester, and downing multiple enemy planes as Thunderbolt patrols cover the advance toward inland objectives and high ground near the Torokina river headwaters.
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New Guinea
U. S. Sixth Army
New Britain
Umtingalu
Arawe
MacArthur
Thunderbolt
Thunderbolts
Cape Gloucester
Fortress of
Rabaul
Solomons
United States
Empress Augusta Ry
Gainville
Churchill Past Crisis Belief By Christmas Return Hoped
London AP reports Prime Minister Winston Churchill was believed safely past the crisis of pneumonia as a bulletin said his temperature was subsiding and the illness was resolving. Some pulse irregularity raised unease amid heart specialist care in the Middle East with hopes he would convalesce by Christmas and return home soon.
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London
Winston Churchill
10 Downing Street
Churchill
Middle East
Dog Marine and Pals Storm Jap Nests on Bougainville
Pfe. Robert E. Lansley of Syracuse and Pfc. John V. Mahoney of Clinton with a dogsized helper named Bass led a dangerous assault in the Piva Numa Numa jungle. The trio exposed themselves to machine gun fire to locate enemy positions and, with Lt. A. Stanley, attacked with tanks as Mahoney covered the advance and their three-man team wiped out two enemy nests, killing eight Japanese soldiers.
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Bougainville
Pfe
Robert E. Lansley
Syracuse
N. Y
Pfc
John V. Mahoney
Clinton
Andy
Mahoney
Ioose
Lansley
A. Stanley
Tuscaloosa
Ala
Stanley
Johnnie
Draft Heads Tell Needs By Next July
Washington AP reports selective service says two million more men must be drafted by next July including about one million fathers from 1-A and 3-A reclassifications. Officials warn continued father deferments risk reaching the bottom of the father pool by mid summer.
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Washington
Selective Service
Army
Pearl Harbor
Armed Services
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Warsaw
Retzlaw
France
von Mihailovitch
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Henry J. Kaiser
Eamonn
Owen
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