Hickenlooper for Senate Seen as Likely but Not Assured
Governor Hickenlooper is expected to win the Republican nomination for U S senator in 1944, with strong support from Iowa officials. The piece notes his effective leadership, wartime stance, and close contact with voters, while warning against assuming easy victory due to possible Democratic opposition and a clouded national political picture. It also praises his wartime policy and calls for continued public protection efforts for trailer residents amid housing shortages.
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U. S
Iowa
Gillette
Bourke Hickenlooper
U. S. Senate
State House of Representatives
Trlinn County Highway Safety Commission
South Side Civic Club
Marion
Yanks Press Pacific Advance Toward China
American forces on Kwajalein atoll report completion of the capture and a shift of naval and air power to the Marshalls. Admiral Nimitz says the next objective is to put ground and air forces into China as early as possible, with plans to assault Japanese bases from new footholds.
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Pearl Harbor
Kwajalein
Merve
Marshalls
China
Nippon
Fleet
Japan
Roi
Kwajalein Atoll
Marshall
Chester W. Nimitz
Tokyo
South Pacific
Southwest Pacific
Nimitz
Navy
Army
Marine Corps
Weeks Appointed Bay State Senator in Massachusetts
Sinclair Weeks, treasurer of the Republican National Committee, is named to succeed Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. as U S senator by Governor Leverett Saltonstall. Saltonstall also says he will likely run for the seat in the fall. Lodge resigned four days earlier to join active military duty. Weeks will serve only until the next election and says he will not seek the post in November.
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Boston
Sinclair Weeks
Republican National Committee
United States Senate
Leverett Saltonstall
Weeks
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
United States Army
Saltonstall
Senate
Lodge
Little People Still Lagging In War Loan
Cedar Rapids reports the Tuesday sale of bonds in the fourth war loan drive was the lowest since January 17. City War Bond Chairman George Hearn announced $58,990 in bonds sold, including $32,680 in E bonds, with county sales totaling $7,285,915.50 toward an $8,500,000 quota. E bond sales reached $1,378,146.50, under the $2,967,000 goal.
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Cedar Rapids
George Hearn
Linn County
Corregidor
Bataan
Cold Wave Expected As Iowa Faces Severe Freeze
Weather notes from Des Moines forecast snow and a strong cold wave sweeping Iowa with subzero temperatures to follow. Cedar Rapids and nearby areas recorded 37 at 7 pm Tuesday, 26 by midnight with a 16 degree low at 9 am Wednesday.
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Weather Bureau
Des Moines
Chicago
H. A. Downs
Plains
Great Lakes
Mercury
Cedar Rapids
Sioux City
Charles ‘City
Accusation of Shooting Woman Called Absurd by Family
In Chicago Patricia Goodbody defends her mother Adele Born Williams against Lt John A Quinn who alleges a third party killed Adele in the Drake hotel room on January 19 during a struggle for a murder gun. Quinn says the wound was accidental and a bath room struggle likely occurred. Family members call Quinn’s theory fantastic and plan lie detector tests for witnesses Edwin Jantz and Louis Andrews.
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Chicago
Patricia Goodbody
John A Quinn
Adele Born Williams
State Department
Drake Hotel
Quinn
Patricia
Child's Body in Pit From Street Cave-In Near Pittston
Two year old Jule Ann Folmer perished when a sidewalk collapse in Pittston Pennsylvania created a deep pit. A second cave‑in hampered rescue efforts and added seven feet of soil to the bottom. Witnesses say she walked ahead of her aunt Marie Mitchell and her brother David nine as the flagstone gave way.
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Pittston
Jule Ann Folmer
John J. Reilly
Marie Mitchell
David
Death of Sgt Richard Donegan in Italian prison camp
Mrs. Francis McHugh learns her son Sgt Richard Donegan died October 26 in an Italian prison camp. A Cedar Rapids native, he joined in 1941, served in the 133rd Infantry of the 34th Division, was captured at Kasserine Pass, and had reported being well last October. He would have turned 21 in April. His brother Roger, 18, serves in the Navy at Point Mugu, and Irene Frame is his aunt.
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Cedar Rapids
Francis McHugh
Eighth Street
War Department
Richard
Dick) Donegan
Italy
Donegan
1338Rd
North Ireland
Kasserine Pass
Tunisia
Cedar “Rapids
Per
Harrison School
Roosevelt
Roger
Navy
Russians Advance Toward Krivoi Rog In Ukraine Drive
Soviet forces under Gen Rodion Malinovsky push toward the iron ore city of Krivoi Rog after capturing Nikopol, threatening Germany's manganese supply. The Nikopol victory, described as a major blow, follows a four day battle that forced seven German divisions to retreat with heavy losses.
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Moscow
Rodio Y Malinovsky
Krivon Rog
Dnieper
Nikopol
Germany
Krivoi Rog
Feodor I Tolbukhin
Malinovsky
Apostolovo
Dubuque Pilot Of B-17 Bomber Killed In Crash Near Town
Second Lt. Robert J. Breitbach 23 of Dubuque piloted a B-17 bomber that crashed five miles west of Dubuque on a farm hill after missing a house. The Chanute field crew identified Cpl. A B. Ogden as investigator and Cpl. William C. Akers as engineer. Breitbach had 50 North African campaign missions and Air Medal with nine clusters.
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Robert J. Breitbach
Here
Chanute Field
Rantoul
Ill
J. N. Siefker
Siefker
A. B. Ogden
Chanute
William C. Akers
Denver
Colo
Breitbach
Allied Flyers Raid France In Daylight
Allied air forces attack northern France in daylight for the third time in 24 hours, with RAF medium and fighter-bombers joining US Marauders and others. The sortie targets include the Atlantic wall sites and the Rhone engine factory at Limoges, while RAF Mosquito patrols claim a large German transport over Bordeaux.
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France
R.A.F
Germany
Rhone
Limoges
Frankfurt
English
Boulogne
Calais
Brittany
Air Ministry
Ask Little Steel Plan Be Dropped
American Federation of Labor members of the War Labor Board formally asked the WLB to recommend abandoning the Isis Steel wage limitation for formula.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
War Labor Board
WLB
Isis
Allies batter Cassino area as Rome beachhead holds
Allied forces press the Cassino fight with U S and British units attacking from multiple fronts while bombers hit Cisterna Verona Prato and Formia. German counterattacks are repulsed as the Casilino area remains a key bridgehead below Rome.
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