Manila returns to front in war effort and policy notes
The piece reflects on the Manila return of American troops as a morale booster while warning against overestimating its strategic impact on the path to Tokyo. It also questions surplus war goods policy and praises University of Iowa plans for a unified communications education program amid postwar needs. It ends by noting Columbia University medical school’s rat and mouse colony to study aging and human ideal living conditions.
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Harry Boyd
Manila
MacArthur
Philippines
Tokyo
Orient
Columbia University Medical School
Columbia
Jrns
Johnny Doughboy
Lingayen Gulf
Leyte
Manila Bay
Europe
NBC
Corregidor
Bataan Peninsula
Cagayan
Luzon
San Jose
Balete Pass
University of Iowa plans Communications Center for journalism
President Virgil M. Hancher outlined a half million dollar Communications Center to unite journalism publications visual education and radio on campus. The facility will house classrooms library dark rooms radio newsroom student publications and labs plus a Hall of Iowa Journalism electronic information unit readership research lab and a bureau of visual instruction.
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Iowa City
Virgil M. Hancher
University of Iowa
Hancher
Towa
Iowa
Dubuque Street
Iowa Avenue
Clinton and
Jefferson Streets
School of Journalism
Bureau of Visual Instruction
Juvenile Car-Theft Spree Bites Three Teens in Cedar Rapids
Three boys aged 14 and 15 were arrested after a 24 hour spree that began Sunday night. Police say the juveniles stole three cars and a truck, took a tool kit from a parked car, and abandoned each vehicle before being taken into custody. Detectives Simon and Stusak tracked an abandoned car to the suspects and secured confessions early Tuesday.
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Cedar Rapids
Baxter Motor Company
A Avenue
Baxter
Don Wahl
Second Street
Harley Simon
Leonard Stusak
2200 American planes strike Reich cities in vast raid
Allied air forces mounted a massive assault on Leipzig Magdeburg and Chemnitz with about 2200 American planes. The 250 mile long air train split into three sections with 850 escort aircraft. Targets were civilian industries and communications amid follow up Berlin night action.
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London
Germany
Leipzig
Magdeburg
Chemnitz
Berlin
Four Children Die In North Dakota House Fire
A Tuesday fire in Bismarck North Dakota destroyed a family home and killed four children. The blaze sparked investigations into cause and safety conditions as neighbors mourned the losses.
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Bismarck, N.D
Wife Pleads to Save Soldier From Hang G. L. Weber Faces Court Martial
Grace Weber campaigns in Vancouver to spare Pvt. Henry P. Weber 27 from hanging for refusal to bear arms. Sen. Wheeler seeks senate inquiry as Weber cites deep seated pacifism from American Socialist Labor party. Weber's background includes Kaiser shipyards work and lumberjacking. his Vancouver roots are noted.
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Vancouver
Wash
Grace Weber
Pvt
Henry P. Weber
Camp Roberts
Calif
Sen. Wheeler
Senate
Washington
Wheeler
D'Mont
Weber
Wayne
American Socialist Labor Party
Henry
Wisconsin
Kaiser
Kaiser Yard
Richmond
Snow Flurries and Zero Minimum for C. R. Area Tonight
The weather bureau warned that Cedar Rapids will drop to about zero tonight with minimums of 10 below in the northwest, five below in the northeast, zero in the southwest, and five above in the southeast. Winds and clouds persist as state readings show subfreezing temperatures across regions.
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Weather Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Chambers
Sioux City
Mason City
Hood River Legion rejects Nisei names restoration
Hood River Oregon Ameri can Legion post refused the national commander’s urging to restore Japanese-American servicemen names removed from the county honor roll. The post stated it is inadvisable to take any action at this time amid protests from church groups and the Civil Liberties Union.
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Hood River
Ore
American Legion Post
Legion
Edwards N. Scheiberling
The
Civil Liberties Union
Scheiberling
War Department
Captive Who Stayed Behind After Raid Recounts Cabanatuan Escape
Edwin Rose a 65 year old Toronto native and former purser describes sleeping through the Cabanatuan raid and waking to find the camp under Sixth Army control. He dressed and sought an escort, strolling to Sixth Army headquarters four days after the assault.
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Luzon
Ins
Cabanatuan
Edwin Rose
Toronto
Canada
Rose
Singapore
Hongkong
Manila
Sixth Army
Manila Is Free As Japanese Lose Final Hold
Manila’s business district burned as trapped Japanese soldiers torched Escolta while American forces closed in from north south and east. MacArthur announced Manila's fall and liberation of about 5 500 prisoners, with Japan’s final defeat in sight. 11th airborne and First cavalry led the drive toward Manila bay.
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Philippines
Japan
Malaysia
East Indies
Manila
Escolta
Manila Fire Department
Pasig
Heacock
Douglas MacArthur
America
Santo Tomas
First Cavalry
General MacArthur
11Th Airborne Division
Eighth Army
Tagaytay Ridge
37Th
Sixth Army
MacArthur
Australia
Malaya
Tokyo
Missing in Belgium Pvt Aldrich A Polehna reported missing
Authorities confirm Pvt Aldrich A Polehna 19 son of Mr and Mrs Andrew Polehna 2448 Second Street SW has been missing in Belgium since January 17 while serving with the Ninth Army. Polehna trained in Mississippi before shipping overseas in August.
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Pvt
Aldrich A. Polehna
Andrew Polehna
Second Street
Belgium
War Department
Ninth Army
Polehna
Mississippi
Europe
First Army Cleared Roer Line Advances Near Schmidt
Allied forces push through Siegfried Line with the 78th Division reaching within 1,500 yards of Schmidt as Third Army troops fight for Brandscheid. Advances include Habscheid and Schlauenbach while Alsatian towns fall and Allied forces close on Rhine crossings. Prisoners reach 6,912 over four days through Feb 4.
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Paris
First Army
Siegfried Line
Schmidt
Roer
Third Army
Brandscheid
George S. Patton
Habscheid
Prum
Schlausenbach
Germany
Strasbourg
Colmar
Ill River
Vosges
Neufbrisach
Rhine
Cologne Plain
Luxembourg
Campholz Woods
Luxembourg City
Third
Supreme Headquarters
Nurse Beulah Greenwalt Freed From Santo Tomas
News of Beulah Greenwalt's release from the Santo Tomas concentration camp near Manila prompts relief from her sister Mrs Jonas R King. She had feared Peggy might still be held after her radiogram dated Oct 24. The Greenwalt family lives in Rolla Missouri.
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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 famed 42nd Rainbow Division, under Maj. Gen. Harry J. Collins, is now part of the U.S. Seventh Army. The move was disclosed Tuesday.
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U. S. Seventh Army
Harry J. Collins
United States Seventh Army
Nazis Admit Setbacks on Berlin Route
London AP dispatches outline Soviet progress on the Oder front with bridgeheads established east of Berlin and along the Oder near Furstenberg. Reports cite Steinau abandoned, Zellin and Damvorst seized, and heavy German losses as Zhukov’s forces push toward Kustrin and Stettin amid winter offensives.
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Berlin
London
Stalin
Oder
Breslau
Silesia
Oder River
Steinau
Gregory Zhukov
Frankfurt
Austria
Furstenberg
West Bank
Transocean
Eastern Front
The
Moscow
Zellin
Damvorst
Reich
Kustrin
Frankfurt-Kustrin
Zhukov
Schwetig
Nouth
Poznan
Poland
Stettin
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