Avery Hurls Defiance at Seizure Act
Montgom ery Ward and company refuse to turn over books to army officers under a presidential seizure order. H. L. Pearson says no. Sewell Avery vows leadership and challenges government power. Court hearing set. Biddle notes no forcible eviction and praises cooperation, while Avery insists constitutional rights are at stake. Ward’s operations continue. potential seizures planned for Kansas City and Trenton amid ongoing legal battle.
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Chicago
Montgomery Ward and Company
H. L. Pearson
Sewell Avery
Ward
Kansas City
Trenton
Detroit
Jamaica
N. Y
Denver
Colo
St. Pau
Minn
Portland
Ore
San Rafael
Calif
Washington
WLB
Avery
Ward's
Ward’s
The
United States
Missing Lt Wayne Dodds 29 in Italy with 48 missions
Lt Wayne Dodds a P 47 Thunderbolt pilot based in Italy has been missing in action since December 9 relatives were notified by the war department. He is the son of Mrs Minnie Dodds and W L Dodds of Cedar Rapids and was a 1939 Iowa State College graduate who later worked as a chemical engineer in New Jersey. He has a sister Mrs Doris Stein.
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Wayne Dodds
Italy
War Department
Minnie Dodds
Grande Avenue SE
W. L. Dodds
Second Avenue SE
Dodds
Iowa State College
New Jersey
Doris Stein
Cedar Rapids
Nazi Air Attack Destroys U.S. Field Hospital in Belgium
German raiders dropped two 500 pound bombs on a U.S. field hospital in Belgium killing 15 and injuring more than 50. The brick building between red crosses buried patients and staff as an ambulance was hit during evacuation. Nurses Lt Rosalie Sofia and Lt Ruth Swanson survived with minor injuries.
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Belgium
Rosalie Sofia
New Brunswick
N. J
Ruth Swanson
Creston
Miss Swanson
Roosevelt pocket vetoes Jackson Hole monument bill
President Roosevelt issued a pocket veto on a bill to abolish the Jackson Hole national monument in Wyoming. He argued the measure would deprive Americans of naturalistic, historic, scientific and recreational benefits and noted private Wyoming interests oppose the creation of the monument. He signaled openness to new legislation linking park revenues to offset tax losses.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Jackson Hole National Monument
Wyomin
White House
United States
Wyoming
National Park and Monument System
Index fragment hints at court deaths and assorted notices
Fragmentary page items reference a court, deaths, a farm, Paul Mallon, Marion, movies, sports, a state, and Walter Winchell features, expressed in a cluttered OCR style with unreadable portions and scattered names and numbers.
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Marquis
Eich Boye
David Lawrence Aveseeenese
Paul Mallon
Marion
Walter“Winchell
Sacrifice of Yariks Recalls Men of Alamo
Dispatch from La Gleize Belgium by Frank Conniff recalls the courage of American infantry fighting in the Belgian hills. Capt. Edward McBride of Somerset Kentucky describes gunners fighting to the last round, pistols and knives in hand, as Americans and Germans clash amid torn trenches and wrecked gear. The piece links present bravery to Alamo Bunker Hill and Gettysburg, noting the expendables sacrificed amid a Nazi push and the enduring American resolve in shared heritage.
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la Gleize
Belgium
INS
Valhalla
Alamo
Bunker Hill
Gettysburg
Hitler
Field Marshal
von Rundstedt
Lange
Edward McBride
Somerset
McBride
G.i.’S
General McAuliffe Says Nuts to Surrender Demand
BASTOGNE RP Fresh details of the Bastogne siege released Friday disclose that Brig. Gen. A. C. McAuliffe acting commander of the trapped 101st airborne division gave the nuts reply to a German demand for surrender.
U S Convoy Move Japs Reported In Mindanao Sea
A Japanese communique said 30 American transports with escorting cruisers and destroyers moved west through the Mindanao sea toward the Philippines possibly to launch an invasion. Japanese claims also said six large transports were sunk and two damaged as the convoy entered Mindanao from the Surigao straits between Leyte and Mindanao.
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United Press
Mindanao Sea
Philippines
Douglas
MacArthur
Luzon
Manila
Surigao Straits
Leyte
Mindanao
Snow flurries forecast for Cedar Rapids area today
Cedar Rapids and vicinity expect light snow this afternoon and early tonight with partly cloudy skies Saturday. Temperatures run 15 to 20 degrees tonight and a bit colder Saturday. At 2:30 pm the city read 26 degrees and 50 percent humidity as eastern Iowa sees abating cold after a week of subzero readings.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Chambers
Mason City
Mercury
Council Bluffs
Fort Dodge
Ames
Atlantic
Lamoni
Charles City
Des Moines
Plea for Work on New Year’s Day by Top Officials
Washington officials urged war workers to stay on the job New Year’s day to replace equipment worn out or destroyed on battlefronts. Signers included Secretary of the Navy James Forrester, Undersecretary of War Patterson, and War Production Board Chairman Krug.
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Washington
Secretary of Navy
James Forrestal
Patterson
Krug
The
War Production Board
Ration stamps safe through February says OPA
Washington AP reports OPA offers assurances that no red or blue food ration stamps will be invalidated until at least March 1. The agency states no termination date has been set for December validated stamps and they will not be invalidated in January or February.
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Washington
OPA
Nazis Bog Down On Italian Front
Allied headquarters said fighting faded in the Serchio valley where a German counteroffensive drove the Fifth Army from Barga. The four day German push toward Lucca eased as Allied troops also retreated from Gallicano. The central sector south of Bologna quieted and Eighth Army units moved through the eastern Po valley. Canadian Lt General Charles Foulkes reported about 4,800 enemy troops knocked out and more than 1,600 prisoners taken in the Po valley drive since December 1.
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Rome
Serchio
Fifth Army
Barga
Lucca
Gallicano
Bologna
Eighth Army
Po Valley
Villa Guaglia
Faenza
Charles Foulkes
Italy
Japanese Naval Leader Nobumass Suetsugu Dies at 64
Admiral Nobumass Suetsugu, 64, a retired Japanese naval strategist and former commander-in-chief of the combined fleet, died Friday of a heart ailment, Domei news agency reported in a broadcast from San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Nobumass Suetsugu
Domei
General Maxwell Taylor Rushes to Bastogne Battlefield
Major General Maxwell D. Taylor flew from Washington to join the 101st Airborne in Bastogne. He arrived after a 48 hour journey to direct defense against German forces and reinforce the siege relief efforts led by Lt. Col. Creighton Abrams of the Fourth Armored Division.
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Acme
Maxwell D. Taylor
France
Bastogne
Washington
U. S
1011St
Atlantic
101St
Taylor
Normandy
Rome
Salerno
Pietro Badoglio
Italy
Fourth Armored Division
Creighton W. Abrams
West Newton
Mass
Fourth
Assenois
Abrams
A. C. McAuliffe
Mitscher predicts Japanese fleet will be liquidated in 1945
Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, returning from Washington, says if attrition continues, Japan’s fleet is headed for liquidation in 1945. He forecasts Japan may be on an uneasy seat by next summer as American victories mount in the Pacific.
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Pearl Harbor
Marc A. Mitscher
Task Force 58
Pacific
Washington
Mitscher
Mitscher’s New Job Remains A Imoval Secret, But It Will Be In the ‘Pacific
Philippines
Robert W
War official warns Japan faces formidable war machine
Washington reports Under Secretary of War Patterson warned Japan has a formidable war machine and that victory over Germany alone will not end the war quickly. He said direct clash with all Japanese armies in Asia would decisively win, but Japan will avoid such a test and the Pacific will be won the hard way.
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Washington
Patterson
Japan
Germany
Pacific
Patton Drives to Halt German Counteroffensive on Front
Lt Gen George S Patton Jr and the Third Army halted a German counterattack on the southern flank as they pushed from Normandy toward Lorraine. In a rapid 20 mile advance they broke into the German spearhead near Bastogne, with 19th Tactical Air Force Thunderbolts providing air cover.
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George S. Patton, Jr
Third
Normandy
Lorraine
Patton
Luxembourg
Third Army
Bastogne
19Th Tactical Air Force Thunderbolts
Otto Weyland
First Linn Draftee Bags 5-Point Buck With His New Arm
Staff Sgt. Roy Differding of Walker Indiana earned a five point buck on a hunting expedition in central Texas with three disabled partners. A Normandy veteran who lost his right arm on D day plus 10, he enlisted in 1940 and has been awarded the Purple Heart. His son of J. M. Differding and four brothers in service. One brother, Staff Sgt. Donald Differding, is missing in action.
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Mcclosky General Hospital
Temple
Texas
Roy Differding
Walker
Linn County
Differding
Southwest Pacific
Central
Normandy
J. M. Differding
Donald Differding
Leading European Ace Tops Nazi Fliers in European Theater
Paris AP report states Lt. Col. John C. Meyer of Forest Hills New York with 34 German planes to his credit became the leading ace in the European theater for the Ninth Air Force. He shot down four planes last week to pass Maj. George Preddy who had 32?4? to his credit.
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Paris
United States
Ninth Air Force
John C.’Meyer
Forest Hills
N. Y
Meyer
George Preddy
Greensboro
N.C
Yanks Wipe Out Pocket At West Tip
Allied dispatches report Patton’s Third Army driving the Von Rundstedt offensive back across the Lesse and Homme rivers into Roche fort. German pockets near Celles eliminated. 5,351 prisoners taken in seven days. Tank and plane losses tally into hundreds and thousands of trucks and aircraft destroyed. Front reports note a winter fog hindering air operations but Patton’s corridor to Bastogne widened to six miles with new crossings on the Sure river and continued advances toward Luxembourg.
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Paris
von Rundstedt
Lesse
Homme
Rochefort
Bastogne
Salient
St. Hubert
Third Army
George S. Patton, Jr
101St
United States
Patton
Sure River
Germany
Echternach
Celles
Hotton
Sibret
Salva
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War Labor Board
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Joseph W. Byron
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F.R. Pocket
Jackson Hole
Frank Conniff
McAuliffe
U.S
Collie Small
Douglass
Seventh Air Force
Strategic Air Forces In
Bonin
Volcano Islands
Tokyo
Central Pacific
Saipan
Linn
Sgt. Differding
Yanks
West Tip
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