Fifth Army Repels Four Big Thrusts
Allied forces in Italy report fierce fighting around Cassino and Anzio as German attacks concentrate along the Cassino front and the Anzio beachhead. Rommel directs renewed offensives while Allied air power targets German supply lines. casualties and prisoner captures mount as tanks and infantry clash amid rubble and dugouts.
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Allied
Italy
Erwin Rommel
Anzio
Rome
Cassino
Tenth Army
Eighth Army
Torricchla
Orsogna
Casoli
Sant’ Angelo
Two convicts escape from Anamosa state reformatory farm
Two inmates Bernard Sweet and Paul Smith fled the dairy barn at Anamosa reformatory Thursday night. A Hoberts car was found near Monticello while another car belonging to Serna Specht remained missing. A statewide search followed as investigations into prior escapes continued.
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Anamosa
Monticello
State Reformatory
A. I. Hoberts
Serna Specht
State Men's Reformatory
Reformatory
Bernard Sweet
Clarion
Paul Smith
Spencer
B. B. Hickenlooper
William Vincent
Sweet
Smith
Vincent
Archie Bender
Bender
Foss Davis
Iowa Highway Patrol
Senate Rejects Ballot Compromise In Soldier Vote Bill
The Senate votes 46 to 42 against the Taft substitute for the Green-Lucas federal ballot for soldiers bill. The House later passes a states’ rights measure 328 to 69, directing absentee voting for service members and related groups. The plan returns to the Senate for action.
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Senate
Gillette
D-Ia
Sen. Wilson
R-Ia
House
Armed Forces
Merchant Marine
American Red Cross
Society of Friends
Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots
U.S.O
United States
Secretaries of War and Navy
War Shipping Administrator
Secretaries of States
GM Walkout at Chevrolet Plants Settled after Strike
DETROIT AP GM announced the unauthorized strike by 6 500 workers at four Chevrolet gear and axle plants is ended and a sizable number of workers returned to the day shift. The move concludes the walkout that disrupted production in the division.
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Detroit
General Motors Corporation
Chevrolet
Section sketchy index page header with scattered topics
A fragmented newspaper index lists sections such as Courthouse Deaths Farm Movies Radio Sports and Women’s Features. Names like Raymond, David Lawrence, Paul Mallon, Marion, Tom Treanor, and Walter Winchell appear amid noisy OCR artifacts.
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Raymond Sinc
David Lawrence
Paul Mallon
Marion
Pecevese Lo Sports
Tom Treanor
Walter Winchell
Iowa Delegation Backs States’ Rights Voting Bill
Iowa's eight House members voted with the majority on the states' rights voting bill, as the House approved 328 to 69. Earlier, in voting 215 to 164, Iowa lawmakers also supported the majority against the Worley compromise.
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Washington
Iowa
House
Roosevelt Signs Veterans Pay Bill
President Roosevelt signed legislation granting mustering-out pay ranging from 100 to 300 dollars for armed services members. He urged quick action on further elements of his program to ease the military to civilian transition.
Rallying Call for Series E Bond Drive by Linn County Leader
Frank Nye reports B. T. Perrine, Linn county finance chairman, elevates the plea for war bonds. Perrine laments local apathy toward Series E purchases and praises his committee for driving a nationally noted effort.
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Frank Nye
B. T. Perrine
Linn County
B. T
Linn County For Finance Committee
Friday discussion leaves many points unsettled
The report notes a long Friday discussion with no clear conclusions. It mentions there were too many items on the agenda and signals continuation on Page 2 Column 2 for further details.
Heffelfinger Named Commander of Cornell Navy Pre-Flight School
Lt Totten P Heffelfinger of the U S Navy Reserve is named officer in charge of the naval flight preparatory school at Mt Vernon New York. He succeeds Lt H O Lestage who led the program since December when Lt A H Dailey moved to Louisiana. Heffelfinger, 45, born in Minneapolis, studied at Ojai and Yale before joining naval aviation in World War I. He later led as lieutenant in the naval reserve and helped organize the first group of reserve officers at Quonset Point Rhode Island.
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MT. Vernon
Totten P Heffelfinger
U.S.N.R
Naval Flight Preparatory
H.O Lestage
A. H. Dailey
Natchitoches
Heffelfinger
Minneapolis
Ojai
Calif
Yale University
Naval Aviation Corps
San Diego
VanDusen, Herrington Company
Naval Reserve
Quonset Point
R.1
Mt Vernon
Navy
St. Mary’s College
Tokyo radio calls Marshall attack a big gamble
Tokyo broadcasts describe the American invasion of the Marshall Islands as a big gamble and say the United States must risk further operations to avoid nullifying the costly effort in the Gilberts, offering no details on progress.
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New York
Marshall Islands
Tokyo Radio
Gilberts
Marines Capture Namur and Four Islets in Kwajalein Atoll
U S Marines seized Namur and four adjacent islets at the northern end of Kwajalein atoll in the Marshalls. Admiral Nimitz reported heavy enemy casualties, with about 1 250 Japanese killed on Kwajalein up to Wednesday night and U S losses low. The assault, backed by a vast air and naval force, marks a bold push toward the Japanese stronghold in the central Marshalls.
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Anzio
Padiglione
Pearl Harbor
U. S
Namur
Kwajalein Atoll
Kwajalein
Chester W. Nimitz
Roi
Richmond XK. Turner
Kwajalein Lagoon
Kwajalein Islet
Seventh Infantry
Maine
Atoll
Marshalls
Edgijen
Nimitz
United States
Kwajalem
Namur Namur Namur Marines End Japanese Resistance on Namur Island
On Namur Island Kwajalein Atoll United States Marines concluded organized Japanese resistance around 1 p.m. Wednesday after a brutal two day fight. Sgt Archie Vale of Grand Junction Colorado credited with 13 Japanese killed including three officers. The battle left battered pillboxes gun emplacements and wreckage across Roi and Namur with moderate U.S. casualties.
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Kwajalein’ Atoll
The
Marshalls
United States
Marine‘ Corps
Namur
Roi
Archie Vale
Grand Junction
Colo
Red Forces Grind Foe in Encirclement Along Dnieper Bend
Soviet forces tighten ring around German divisions in the upper Dnieper bend. Red Star reports about 10,000 killed and tens of thousands surrounded as Vatutin and Konev push west from Ukraine toward the Baltic. Intercepted messages show German radio despair and guns captured, with Rovno and Lutsk reportedly abandoned further west. Go v orov’s Baltic front bypasses Narva as Soviet advances threaten coastal areas.
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Dnieper
Red Star
Ukraine
Baltic
Cherkasy
Stalingrad
Pavel Orender
Nikola Vatutin
Ivan S Konev
Orender
Vatutin
Rovno
Lutsk
Bug River
Red Army
Leonid A. Govorov
Narva
Bombers Hit Paramushiru in North Pacific Raid
Two U S navy heavy bombers struck installations on Paramushiru’s southeast coast, the North Pacific base near Japan. The navy said no observed results and both planes returned safely without enemy aircraft contact.
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Washington
Navy
North Pacific
Paramushiru
Yanks Sink Three German Blockade Runners in Atlantic
American destroyers Omaha and Jouett, with the Somers, sank the Weserland, Rio Grande, and Burgenland after追 pursuit in the South Atlantic. The ships carried thousands of tons of rubber, tins, baled rubber and strategic ores from Japanese ports. many prisoners were taken and some cargo salvaged. Commanders Leffler, Parham, and Hughes led the actions.
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Washington
Pacific
South Atlantic
Burgenland
Rio Grande
Weserland
Omaha
Jouelt
Atlantic
Somers
Jouett
Omaha-Jouett
Charles D. Leffler
Miami
Fla
John C. Parham
Tuscaloosa
Ala
William C. Hughes
Oklahoma City
Iowans to Have Taste of Winter Forecast
Weather bulletin from Des Moines forecasts a taste of real winter for Cedar Rapids and vicinity. Increasing clouds and warmer Friday night give way to rain and colder Saturday with light snow, followed by stronger winds and sharp temperature drops.
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Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Mason City
Iowa City
Mercury
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