Cedar Rapids builders shaped a city with vision
A tribute to Judge John M. Grimm and his civic leadership in Cedar Rapids. The piece notes his lasting influence on community progress and the pattern he set for future civic leaders. It also discusses national foreign policy debate and the need for open discussion before elections. A mild influenza wave is cited as highlighting human defiance and limits of knowledge.
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Cedar Rapids
United States
John M. Grimm
Judge Grimm
Grimm
Iowa
Marshall Returns to U S After Pacific War Talks
Gen. George C. Marshall arrives in California after a 35 000 mile round trip from Tehran and Cairo. He conferred with Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Adm. Chester Nimitz in New Guinea and Honolulu on Pacific strategy and the second front plan.
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Pearl Harbor
George C. Marshall
United States
Pacific
Douglas MacArthur
Ichester Nimitz
Cairo
Japan
MacArthur
New Guinea
Marshall
India
Ceylon
Australia
Solomons
Hawaii
Pacific Islands
Teheran
Middle East
California
Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Second Front
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sixth Army
Arawe
New Britain
Southwest Pacific
Millard F. Harmon
South Pacific
William F. Halsey
Honolulu
Nimitz
Robert C. Richardson, Jr
Hawaiian
Hawaiian Islands
Maluhia Club
Richardson
Thomas T. Handy
United States Army
C. M. Cooke
United States Navy
Haywood Hansell
War Plans Division
United States Army Air Forces
Frank McCarthy
Allied Air Offensive Sweeps German Targets
Allied air forces pound Nazi occupied Europe in a third day of nonstop raids. American B bombs escort fighters hit northwest Germany and Pas de Calais while Bremen Kiel targets receive heavy bombardment. Over 4,200 tons dropped in two days.
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London
Europe
Germany
Pas de Calais
Daily Express
Frankfort
Mannheim
Air Ministry
West End
Daily Herald
Bern
Switzerland
United States Army
Kiel
England
Stills Seized Rise Noted by Alcohol Tax Unit
Washington report shows illicit liquor activity up with 554 stills seized in November versus 355 the prior year by the Bureau of Internal Revenue Alcohol Tax Unit.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Alcohol Tax Unit
Reds Close In on Vitebsk Fortress
The Russian Baltic army advanced about five miles and nears Vitebsk, now within 15 miles of the Nazi fortress city. A drive toward Polotsk and other targets threatens German lines in the Baltic sector as Moscow reports heavy losses in counterattacks across multiple sectors.
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London
Vitebsk
Reuters
Moscow
Polotsk
Baltic States
Ivan C Bagramian
Gribali
Thhe
Gulf of Finland
Leningrad
Dnieper
Kherson
Zhlobin
Berezina River
White Russia
Korosien
Kiev Bulge
Kirovograd
Gods Work on Ship When Unionists Balk
In San Francisco AP reports uniformed U S sailors were used to complete work on a naval vessel after a war committee charged CIO machinists refused to touch the ship unless pay was raised. The Pacific Coast joint committee for ship building and ship repair led by Vice Admiral John W. Greeslade made the claim in a formal statement.
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San Francisco
United States
CIO
Pacific Coast Joint Committee For Shipbuilding and Ship Repair
John W. Greenslade
12Th Naval District
Fifth Army Advances in Italy and Ortona Fighting
Allied reports say American Fifth Army forces captured new heights and neared San Vittore on the Cassino front amid heavy artillery. The British Eighth Army fought German tanks and infantry in Ortona streets as French troops join the push with Gen Juin.
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Algiers
Fifth Army
San Vittore
Rome
Eighth Army
Ortona
Acquafondata
Filignano
Cardito
Acquafonda
Sir Bernard L. Montgomery
Termoli
Pescara
Adriatic
Yugoslav
Josip Broz
Tito
Predict Zero Here Tonight For Cedar Rapids Area
Forecast calls for fair and colder conditions with fresh winds diminishing tonight. Subzero temperatures expected in parts of northeastern Iowa with potential 15 below in the northern half. Decorah led with 4 below, Estherville 1 below, Cedar Rapids 5 above at 9:30 a.m.
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Cedar Rapids
New
Towa
Decorah
Estherville
Winter arrives with cold wave and rare snow shortage
Chicago reports winter striking with a 12:30 pm arrival and subzero forecasts for Thursday. Forecasters warn of a second cold wave and a slim chance of a white Christmas amid a remarkable lack of snow nationwide. Weather officials cite the leap year adjustment and calendar tradition as context.
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Chicago
Iero
Midlands
O. T. Laylor
Weather Bureau
Earthquake Felt East of Pasadena Causes Damage
The California Institute of Technology seismological laboratory said a quake Wednesday was centered about 125 miles east of Pasadena, likely in the desert northeast of the Imperial Valley, and was strong enough to cause damage.
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Pasadena
Calif
California Institute of Technology Seismological Laboratory
Here
Imperial Valley
Cedar Rapids Cartoonist Enlists in Navy
C R Cartoonist C R Cartoonist sworn into the navy Tuesday. Cedar Rapids resident W H Bill Ruble 1745 O avenue NW with cartoons in Collier s Saturday Evening Post Liberty and Judge and VOA bulletins goes on active duty next Monday. He is 34 and has cartooned for two years giving up a job as sealer with Wilson and Company.
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W. H
Bill
Ruble
O Avenue NW
Collier’s
Saturday Evening Post
Liberty
Judge
Office of War Information
Navy
Wilson and Company
Strike Call By 15 More Rail Unions
Washington rail labor leaders announce a Dec 30 6 am nationwide strike by 15 non operating unions totaling about 1 1 million workers and 350 000 operating brotherhoods opposing Roosevelt backed wage plans. They seek 8 cent hourly raises plus paid vacations overtime and away from home pay. 98 percent approved a strike.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Harry W. Fraser
Order of
Chicago
Stephen T. Early
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Vinson
John M Grimm longtime Iowa jurist dies at 77
John M Grimm 77 former Iowa Supreme Court justice and Cedar Rapids attorney died after a three year illness. He lived at 852 Fourth Avenue SE and funeral services planned at Turner Chapel Friday at 4 pm conducted by Dr Harry M Gage. A leader in public service for four decades, Grimm served as Linn county attorney and held roles with the University of Iowa and Memorial Union. Born December 2 1866 in Henry county he moved to a farm near Williamsburg at age 11 after rural schooling.
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John M Grimm
Iowa_ supreme court
Cedar Rapids
Fourth Avenue
Turner Chapel
Harry M Gage
St Charles
Coe College
Grimm
Linn County
University of Iowa
Iowa Chamber of Commerce
Iowa
University of Iowa Alumni Association
Iowa Memorial Union
Iowa City
Memorial Union
Henry County
Williamsburg
Iowa Manufacturing workers gift 34 ton rock crusher to armed forces
Louis M. Parks missing in action since January 28 when his ship was torpedoed. On Wednesday Iowa Manufacturing employees presented a 34 ton rock crushing and screening plant built in their spare time as a Christmas gift to the armed forces. Frank Countryman called the gesture a token of love and esteem for their fellow employee.
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Louis M. Parks
Merchant Marines
Iowa Manufacturing Company
Ius
Frank Countryman
AFL Machinists Union
Harmony Lodge No. 831
Capt
Robert Scott
Rock Island
Corps of Engineers
Louis M
Allies Battle Intensifies as Jap Opposition Grows
Allied air and sea forces stepped up strikes across New Guinea and the Pacific. Bombers sank a 6,000 ton supply ship at Rabaul and damaged two others while fires flared visibly. In the same period, raids near Kavieng and Cape Gloucester damaged ships. Australian troops on Huon peninsula advanced on a fortified Japanese position. Japanese pilots claimed several Allied losses near Arawe, while U S Liberators raided Taroa, with fighters engaging near Rabaul.
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New Guinea
Rabaul
Kavieng
New Ireland
New Britain
Cape Gloucester
Arawe
Dampier Strait
New Gui
Nea
Huon Peninsula
Maseneng River
mid-Pacific
Marshall Islands
United States
Seventh Air Force
Taroa
Maloelap Atoll
Marshalls
Reprisal Threats Follow Kharkov War Trials
London dispatches report Nazi media warning of German military courts acting against Anglo-Saxon prisoners in retaliation for Kharkov hangings. Berlin claims blamed for Allied airmen, with references to Murder Inc and ties to Teheran decisions, while noting a grim undertone across Swedish and Swiss Berlin correspondents.
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London
Transocean
Kharkov
Berlin
United States
United States Air Force
Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter
Tokyo
Germany
Japan
Foreign Office
Britain
Russia
Kharko
Nue Zuercher Zeitung
Chicago
Goebbels Warns Berlin Defenses Set To Grow
Josef Goebbels told Berlin police and air raid officials that further attacks on the capital are to be expected but that growing anti aircraft defenses and future retaliation will end the activities of the Huns of the air.
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London
Josef Goebbels
Berlin
Conspiracy to Keep Busch Scion Out of Service Charged
Federal complaint charges Gert HAls von Gontard alias George Grant 37 grandson of Adolphus Busch and three others with conspiring to keep Von Gontard from military service. Named are Francis Xavier Grottano former NYC detective now army intelligence lieutenant Arnold Aaron Hutschnecker NY physician who faked medical history and Michael Mangano operator of G M Uniform company which makes army uniforms.
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NEW York (Ap
Gert Hals von Gontard
George Grant
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
von Gontard
Francis Xavier Grottano
New York City
Governor's Island
Arnold Aaron Hutschnecker
New York
Michael Mangano
G. M. Uniform Company
War Department
Index and Features Page Fragment
A fragmented OCR shows names such as Raymond Clapper Paul Mallon Tom Treanor Walter Winchell and mentions sections like Comics Sports Radio and Women’s Features with illegible run‑on text suggesting a compiled index page from a newspaper edition.
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Raymond Clapper
Cc Eee
Paul Mallon
Teeseeeeesenece
Epenaea
Cccseueeveseveerll Radio
Ucceesees
Cccceenvessenencvle State
Evedeaeeseeannea
Tom Treanor
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Joe Pierre
Jersey City
Charles Myrich
Centerville
Leon L. Oben
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Ortona Streets
Burlington
Chambers
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Cedar Rapids News
Tare
Murder, Inc
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