Americans Surge onto More Kwajalein Atoll
United States forces push across Kwajalein atoll seizing Roi and Namur and advancing on Ebeye and other small islands. Nimitz reports continued progress with minimal U S casualties as Navy and Air Force dominate the area. Japanese claims of sinking ships and damage are contradicted by U S dispatches noting light losses and heavy enemy resistance on Kwajalein island.
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U. S. Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Kwajalein Atoll
United States
Roi
Nimitz
Kwajalein Island
Namur
Howard Handleman
South End
Seventh Army
Ebeye Island
Ebeye
Kwajalein
Gugegwe
Loi
Kwajalein Lagoon
Handleman
Allies Hit French Battleship Dunkerque at Toulon
London AP reports Vichy radio saying the French battleship Dunkerque was hit during Allied bombing of Toulon on Friday and is still burning. Dunkerque, launched 1935, was scuttled by the French navy when Germany occupied Toulon in 1942 and later dismantled by Germans.
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London
Vichy
Toulon
U S Heavies Bomb Central French Fields
American bombers struck six central French airfields including Villacoublay Chateaudun Chateauroux Tours and St Avard with escort to launch the ninth straight day of Allied air offensive over France and Germany. Significant anti aircraft fire met the raids with light losses and no immediate German opposition observed.
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London
France
Villacoublay Field
Paris
Chateaudun Chateauroux
Tours
St Avard
R.A. F
Dominion
RCAF
RAF
Pars
Germany
Wilhelmshaven
Frankfort
Red Cross Moves to Granby Building Quarters
Cedar Rapids report that Linn county Red Cross will occupy the third floor of the Granby building after Whelihan Fine Arts shop space was sold. George Kosek announced the move as government space in the Federal building is taken for ten years. War activity has expanded needs and furniture is needed including 18 chairs, two desks with swivel chairs, and three eight foot tables. Call 2673 to donate.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Red Cross
Granby
Whelihan Fine Arts
George Kosek
Red Cross Board of Directors
Death Sentence For Iowa Slayer
William Jarrett, 53, a farm laborer, was sentenced to hang on February 23, 1945, by Judge Dwight C. Rider in Fort Dodge district court after pleading guilty to the murder of Everett Warden, 53, a Gowrie dairy farmer. Jarrett confessed ambushing Warden in his garage on January 11 and bludgeoning him with an iron bar. Mrs. Warden escaped to neighbors after the attack at the couple’s farm home.
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Fort Dodge
William Jarrett
Dwight C. Rider
Jarrett
Everett Warden
Gowrie
Fort Madison
Warden
Magazine Reading Job Goes Begging in Washington
A 3200 dollar a year post office position to read magazines and other literature for suitability, to deter undesirable mail, is vacant after six weeks. The last occupant, a Montana lawyer, quit stating he did not like Washington. Vincent M. Miles testified to the appropriations committee during 1945 postal supply bill hearings.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Montana
Vincent M. Miles
Department
House’ Appropriations Committee
House
No Gasoline Cuts For This Quarter
Washington AP reports that the Office of Price Administration and the Petroleum Administration for War expect no need to trim gasoline rations in the current quarter ending March 31.
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Washington
Office of Price Administration
The
Petroleum Administration For War
Nimitz suspends Hirohito's power in occupied isles
In a Pearl Harbor dispatch Admiral Chester W Nimitz proclaims the emperor's powers suspended in the Marshall Islands during military occupation. The order directs authorities to govern through subordinate commanders while promising fair treatment and preservation of native property rights and laws except where wartime needs require change. It urges natives to obey all US commands and refrain from actions aiding Japan.
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Pearl Harbor
INS
Marshall Islands
Chester W Nimitz
United States
Nimitz
Admiral Nimitz
Diversion of Pulp Cuts Newsprint Supply 1944
New York reports that news print supplies from U S mills will be reduced by about 20 percent in the first quarter of 1944 and possibly longer because pulp is diverted to other products. The disclosure came Friday from the American Newspaper Publishers association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
American Newspaper Publishers Association
E Bond Sales Lag As War Drive Continues
Linn county war finance officials reported slow Series E bond sales despite 2.9 percent interest. Sheriff Smith said pledges totaling over 500000 have been converted but the 2967000 quota remains short. Legion and Woman’s Benefit association drives in Cedar Rapids area raised notable amounts for war bonds and hospital blood transfusion instruments.
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Cedar Rapids Neewws
Linn County War Finance Committee
Jim Smith
Citizens Service Corps
Smith
American Legion
College
Putnam
Cedar Rapids
Margaret Kaelln
Montrose Hotel
Womans Benefit Association
Iowa
Iowa WB A
Kaelin
W.B.A
WBA
United States
Canada
Fire razes Hen nessy distillery in Vichy broadcast
A Vichy broadcast reports a fire at the Hen nessy distillery destroying 12,000 gallons of cognac. The incident highlights wartime disruption and loss of spirits production.
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London
Hennessy
Torrent of Nazi Fire Described By Cassino Officer
Allied forces describe a three block triangle held near Cassino as subjected to 3000 shell salvos that fired like harmonicas. Second Lt Jack Kazebeer of Cedar Rapids recounts rapid machine gun fire and dark skies hindering grenades, tanks appearing at dawn, and repeated withdrawal before daylight. Major units faced heavy bombardment and struggled to regain positions despite initial gains.
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Cassino
Jack Kazebeer
Ce‘dar Rapids
Jerry
Kazebeer
E D
Fifth Street
Allies Hold Back Foe at Bridgehead
Allied and German forces clash around the Cassino bridgehead near Rome and on the Fifth Army front. German assaults north of Aprilia are repulsed as American infantry, artillery, and armor press Cassino, with heavy losses reported on both sides. The latest reports note prisoners taken in the beachhead and ongoing street fighting as Allied efforts to relieve encircled units continue amid air operation constraints.
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London
Nettuno
Rome
Allied
Italy
Aprilia
Fifth Army
Cassino
Amercans
Mt Maida
Reynolds Packard
Adolf Hitler
Aputha
Anzio
Padiglione
France
Toulon
Cannes
Wallace Warns Postwar Fight Could Bring Fascism
Vice President Henry A. Wallace warned that postwar battles among Big Business Big Labor and Big Agriculture to seize economic power could fuel fascism in the United States He urged all three sectors to work with government for the general welfare to avoid a dangerous clash and stressed organized labor and farmers must temper power with national interests.
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Wallace
Los Angeles
Henry A. Wallace
America
Washington
Wall Street
Nation
Two Convicts Recaptured At Dyersville After Escape
Bernard Sweet 19 and Paul Smith 22 escaped from Anamosa reformatory Thursday night and were recaptured in Dyersville’s business district Friday at 5 45 pm. Officers Meinhard Longseth and Platz chased them after spotting them near St Francis church. They wore prison garb. no weapons found. Sweet’s forged draft card tied him to Clarion. Smith was sentenced in Spencer in 1942 for burglary. An abandoned old Chevrolet with a Jones county plate aided the search.
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Dyersville
Bernard Sweet
Paul Smith
State Reformatory
Anamosa
Reformatory
Carl Meinhard
Arthur Longseth
State Highway Patrol
Manchester
Charles Platz
St Francis
Sweet
Clarion Ia
Smith
Spencer Ta
Snow Forecast for Cedar Rapids Area Tonight and Sunday
Snow flurries and colder air expected with low about 12 above. Partly cloudy and continued cold Sunday with winds 20 to 30 mph, diminishing tonight. Cedar Rapids temperatures fell to 24 at 2 30 pm with humidity 44 percent. overall overcast skies and light snow in parts of the state.
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Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Chambers
Sioux City
Council Bluffs
Sioux Cay
Gas Truck Car Meet Five Hurt in Cedar Rapids Crash
A head on collision at the Draport curve near Cedar Rapids left Martha Crossett a 20 year old Washington Iowa clerk dead and five others injured. The victims include James Smithson 22 Ralph Clarkson 22 Marie Gaddis 21 and Paul Kleinhammer 27 all Iowa City area students or residents. The crash occurred around 12 30 am when a Ford driven by Kleinhammer collided with a fully loaded gasoline truck owned by Clarence Wilson. Bowers of Coralville drove the truck and was uninjured. Crossett died at Mercy hospital and Smithson is not expected to live. The others sustained varying injuries. The Draport curve has seen two fatal crashes in 18 months.
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Draport Curve
Martha Crossett
Washington Ia
Iowa City
James Smithson
Paul W. Kleinhammer
ASTP
Ralph Clarkson
Towa Civ
Marie Gaddis
University of Towa
Ft Madison
Smithson
Bowers
Sherif Snyder
Smithsons
Oklahoma
Meres Hospital
Mass Crossett
Cedar Rapids
John E Buckle
Earl Chadd
Bosnian Partisans Seize Key Western Towns
London based UPI reports Yugoslav Partisans recaptured Vakhuf and Kupres in western Bosnia, signaling a turning point in the province. The capture between Banja Luka and Sarajevo blocks Nazi aims to split forces, restoring transport links may enable Marshal Josip Broz to plan a large counteroffensive, with Bosnia’s loss seen as critical to victory chances.
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London
UPI
Vakhuf
Kupres
Bosnia
Josip Broz
Yugoslavia
US Army to hang Pvt Waters for Oxfordshire murder
London AP reports United States army headquarters says Pvt John H. Waters, 38 from Chicago Heights Illinois, will be hanged Thursday for the murder of Doris Staples at Henley on Thames in Oxfordshire on July 14.
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London
United States Army Headquarters
John H. Waters
Chicago Heights
Doris Staples
Henley-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
Index Item Summary From a Murky 1930s Paper
A fragmentary list shows headings like Deaths, Movies, Radio, Sports, and Women’s Features with scattered names such as Raymond Clapper and Walter Winchell. The OCR text is garbled with punctuation errors and unreadable segments, offering only hints of a newspaper index page.
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Raymond Clapper
Hate Ag
David Lawrence
Osteo
Marion
Seeees
Walter Winchell
Nelson Credited With Enemy Plane Over Mediterranean Patrol
Special to The Gazette Lt. L L Nelson of Cedar Rapids Iowa is officially credited with destroying an enemy aircraft in the Mediterranean theater. The P-39 pilot with a squadron under the 12th Fighter Command scored against an Arado 196 Italian seaplane during a fighter patrol near the coast of France. Nelson is the son of Mr and Mrs Edward L Nelson and husband of Jean Nelson.
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12Th Fighter Command
L L. Nelson
Cedar Rapids
Ira
Mediterranean
Nelson
France
Edward L. Nelson
Hinkley Avenue
Jean Nelson
Fairway Terrace
Masaryk Plays Down Reds as Good Faith Shown
Czechoslovak vice premier and foreign minister Masaryk said after a brief call on President Roosevelt that he believed Russia had shown good faith in world affairs and expressed optimism for the future. He was in Washington with Ambassador Hurban before heading to London.
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Washington
Jan Maasaryk
Roosevelt
Russia
Vladimir Hurban
Masaryk
London
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Marshalls
Tokyo
Kwajalein Islands
Isles
Attu
Aleutians
Tokyo Radio
Marianas
Carolines
Domei
Greater East Asia
U. S
Bataan
Samuel C. Grashio
Spokane
Wash
Philippines
William E. Lynd
Fourth Air Force
Lynd
Hamilton Field
San Francisco
Hirohito
Occupied Isles
Mea
C. R
Chiago
Minesota
Jota
Cedar Ranlds News
Gadas
Kleinhammer
Partisans
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