Manila returns to banner follow soldiers and freed prisoners
In the voice of a columnist the piece notes the Manila event as a red-letter moment for General MacArthur and American prestige. It surveys strategic value of the Philippines while warning against overestimating immediate impact and predicts a long battle to Tokyo. It also covers university journalism plans and a Columbia medical study on aging rats.
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Manila
MacArthur
Philippines
Tokyo
Orient
Columbia University Medical School
Columbia
Airborne Division
Fhids
Aytay Ridge
Aci
Mavila
First Cavalry
17Th
Sixth Army
Japan
General MacArthur
Australia
Tippines
East Indies
Iowa plans Communications Center uniting journalism fields
University of Iowa President Virgil M. Hancher announced a postwar plan to build a 500000 communications center on campus housing journalism publications radio and visual education. The center will combine classrooms library labs and equipment for journalism research and a Hall of Iowa Journalism. It aims to train reporters for newspapers radio and emerging media and to assist Iowa schools businesses and homes with oral and visual education.
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University of Iowa
Iowa City
Virgil M. Hancher
Hancher
Iowa
Dubuque Street
Iowa Avenue
Clinton and
Jefferson Streets
School of Journalism
Bureau of Visual Instruction
Juveniles Involved In 24 Hour Car Theft Spree
Three 14 and 15 year old boys were held by police after a weekend car theft spree that began Sunday night and extended into Monday. Police say they stole three cars and a truck and diverted a tool box from another vehicle. The Pontiac was taken from Baxter Motor Co and used Sunday night before being parked under the A Avenue viaduct.
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Cedar Rapids
Iato
Baxter Motor Company
A Avenue
A. Harris
Fifteenth Street SE
B Avenue
Eighth Street NE
Cottage Grove Avenue
Baxter
Don Wahl
Second Street
Harley Simon
Leonard Stusak
Wife petitions help to save G I from hanging
The 25 year old wife of Pvt Henry P Weber seeks aid after his court martial sentence to hang for refusing to bear arms. She defends his pacifist view connected to his American Socialist Labor party beliefs and asks Sen Wheeler to probe the case. Weber, a Kaiser shipyard foreman, faces execution at Camp Roberts California.
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Vancouver
Wash
Grace Weber
Pvt
Henry P. Weber
Camp Roberts
Calif
Sen. Wheeler
Senate
Washington
Wheeler
Weber
Wayne
American Socialist Labor Party
Henry
Wisconsin
Kaiser
Kaiser Yard
Richmond
Massive Allied Air Raid Strikes German Cities
London reports about 2,201 American planes attacked Leipzig Magdeburg and Chemnitz in a 250 mile long raid. More than 1,300 Fortresses and Liberators led the sky train with 850 escort planes. Target was industry and communications. A night Mosquito attack on Berlin preceded the day raid.
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London
Germany
Leipzig
Magdeburg
Chemnitz
Berlin
Arce Family Perishes in House Fire Tragedy
A fatal fire destroyed a home killing Arce family members named in reports. Officials investigate cause as neighbors recall a sudden blaze. The scene remained cordoned while investigators sought answers about the blaze and its deadly outcome.
Snow Flurries and Zero Minimum for C. R. Area Tonight
Weather report notes Cedar Rapids area temperatures near zero with snow flurries expected. Minimum readings range from five below to ten above across state quadrants, with Cedar Rapids at 28 degrees humidity 56 percent and Chambers Inskeep recording 18 degrees early Tuesday.
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C. R
Cedar Rapids
Weather Bureau
Olar Rapids
Chambers
Gag
Sioux City
Mason City
Legion Post Firm For Nisei Ouster
HOOD RIVER Ore AP The American Legion post rejected restoring the names of Japanese American servicemen erased from the county honor roll. The post said it is inadvisable to take action at this time after protests from church groups and civil liberties groups. National Commander Edward N Scheiberling had urged reversal, citing unfavorable publicity and a War Department note.
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Hood River
Ore
Lyrio
American Legion Post
Legion
Edward N. Scheiberling
One Captive Who Stayed on After Yanks Took Co
Edwin Rose a 65 year old Toronto purser was captured at Manila and held in Cabana taugh after raid by Rangers he slept through the rescue awakening to find the camp almost empty and later learned Americans had arrived Rose recalled hearing the shooting and that he believed troops were staying so he stayed in his bunk until a few days after the raid
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Luzon
INS
Cabanatuan
Ameritz
Mangers
Edwin Rose
Toronto
Canada
Rose
Singapore
Hongkong
Manila
Rangers
Last Japs Put Torch To Manila
Manila's business district burned as trapped Japanese soldiers torched Escolta after water pumps were destroyed. American forces under MacArthur closed in, declaring Manila captured and vowing complete destruction of remaining resistance. 800 POWs and 550 civilian internees freed from Bilibid prison as troops advanced from multiple axes into the city.
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Manila
Escolta
Manila Fire Department
Pasig
Heacock
Douglas MacArthur
America
Bilibid
Santo Tomas
First Cavalry
Missing in Belgium Pvt Aldrich A Polehna
Private Aldrich A Polehna 19 son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Polehna 2448 Second street SW has been missing in action in Belgium since January 17 a Ninth Army infantryman overseas since August and trained in Mississippi before deployment to Europe.
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Pvt
Aldrich A. Polehna
Andrew Polehna
Second Street
Belgium
War Department
Ninth Army
Polehna
Mississippi
Europe
First Army Breaks Siegfried Line Near Schmidt
Allied forces push through the Siegfried line with the 78th Division reaching within 1,500 yards of Schmidt as Patton’s Third Army breaks from the lines toward Brandscheid. Three American divisions widen a corridor to split the Colmar pocket and German troops retreat or are boxed along the Rhine. The First Army claims control of two Roer dams amid heavy fighting and snowbound conditions as Allied morale notes possible early spring. 6,912 Axis prisoners taken over four days to Feb 4.
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Habscheid
Prum
Schlaus
Third Army
Germany
Strasbourg
First Army
Colmar
Lll
Vosges
Neufbrisach
Te Nihe
Rhine
Roer
Cologne
Luxembourg
Campholz Woods
Lembourg
Supreme Headquarters
Peggy Freed at Manila From Santo Tomas Camp
Beulah Greenwalt, known as the Peggy of the book They Were Expendable, was released from the Santo Tomas concentration camp near Manila. Her sister Mrs. Jonas R. King of Rolla Missouri called it the happiest news she has ever had and recalled hopes Peggy would be freed. Greenwalt’s mother and two brothers reside in Rolla.
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ST. Louis
Santo Tomas
Manila
Beulah Greenwalt
Peggy
Jonas R. King
Miss Greenwalt
Rolla
Rainbow Division Joins Seventh Army Under Maj. Gen. Collins
The 42nd Rainbow division, under Maj. Gen. J. Collins, is now part of the United States Seventh Army. Disclosure of the change was permitted on Tuesday.
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U. S. Seventh Army
42Nd
Rainbow
J. Collins
United States
Russians Cross Oder Front Near Breslau in Silesia Advance
Soviet forces report a 50 mile Oder front southeast of Breslau with bridgeheads east of Berlin and near Frankfurt. Moscow broadcasts claim 500000 German losses in two weeks and indicate Zhukov aims at Stettin and Poznan while German cities like Steinau and Darmorst face heavy bombardment.
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London
Stalin
Oder
Breslau
Silesia
Berlin
Oder River
Steinau
Gregory Zhukov
Frankfurt
Kustria
The
Moscow
Zellin
Austria
Damvorst
Darmorst
Reich
Kustrin
Lsst
Frankfurt-Kustri
Zhukov
Hel
Ceri
Schwetig
Frava
Urt
Gera Coms Clique
Osler Srutze
Purstenberg
Posran
Communitq
Poznan
Im Pols
Aps
Sitetiin
Cion
Stettin
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