Russians Drive On in Silesia and Berlin Girdle
Soviet forces under Zhukov and Konev renewed heavy assaults northwest of Breslau threatening encirclement of the Silesian city. Berlin radio reported rapid advances toward Liegnitz and the Oder bridgehead battles as Germans clung to Frankfurt and Kuestrin. Refugees said Berlin may fall within weeks as Moscow widens a Baltic push toward Stettin and the Baltic coast.
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London
Breslau
Gregory Zhukov
Oder
Berlin
Ivan Konev
Malisch
Parchwitz
Liegnitz
Moscow
Konev
Saxony
Zhukov
Frankfurt
Kuestrin
the Oder
Red Army
The
Ernst von Hammer
Fuerstenburg
West Bank
Baltic
Pomerania
Danzig
Stettin
Bipartisan U S Leaders Back Postwar Peace Efforts
President Roosevelt and allies face foreign policy challenges with bipartisan support. Dewey and other Republicans back prompt Allied cooperation while opposing overbearing domestic controls. Bowles cites price-control alarums in Cedar Rapids amid ongoing wartime supply concerns. Fulerton proposes sending service wives overseas to be near husbands, prompting debate on wartime logistics and domestic capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Vandenberg
Dewey
Churchill
Stalin
Republican Party
Father and Son Ordered Hanged By Iowa Judge
District Judge Fred M Hudson sentenced Phillip H Heincy 72 and his son William Henry Heincy 45 to be hanged for the confessed murder of Robert W Raebel 63 operator of a West Okoboji lake resort The judge set March 29 1946 as the hanging date and the men were sent to Fort Madison state penitentiary The Heincys formerly employed by the Raebels pled guilty to first degree murder Raebel died after being shot and beaten Mrs Raebel seriously injured in their home last Dec 16 The pair fled to Quincy Illinois before arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spirit Lake
Fred M. Hudson
Phillip H. Heincy
William Henry Heincy
Robert W. Raebel
West Okoboji Lake
Fort Madison State Penitentiary
Raebel
Heineys
Raebels
Quincy
Ill
Iowa
Last Survivor of McLaud Triplets Dies in Hospital
Roberta Sue McLaud the last surviving triplet from Cedar Rapids birth at Mercy hospital in mid January died at 3 p.m. Thursday. Rebecca Anne born January 15 at 11:30 p.m. died January 16 at 11:15 a.m. Robert Dale born January 16 at 12:15 a.m. died January 16 at 2:45 p.m. The trio were Cedar Rapids first births in nine years and Roberta weighed 2 pounds 13 ounces at birth and lived in an incubator with ongoing hospital efforts to save her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roberta Sue McLaud
George McLaud
Fifteenth Street
Mercy Hospital
Rebecca Anne
Robert Dale
Cedar Rapids
Roberta Sue
Stark seeks new trial in drunken driving case
Judge M C Hamiel heard the motion for Paul Stark route 3 Friday and took it under advisement after review of records on possible defense concession. Stark, a fifth offense, was found guilty by a district court jury last Sept 27 and has since been imprisoned in Fort Madison for revocation of a one year sentence from 1942. Hullinger contended the jury should have verdict options, while Hendrickson argued the defense conceded two prior drunk driving convictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C. Hamiel
Paul Stark
Route 3
Stark
Fort Madison
L. M. Hullinger
Hamiel Friday
Hullinger
Carl Hendrickson
Wallace-RFC Divorce Plan Stalls in House Rules Committee
Washington AP report: legislation to divorce the RFC from the commerce department blocks in the House Rules Committee amid charges of horse trading between Senate and White House. Debate centers on delaying Wallace confirmation as commerce secretary until March 1, with postponement set until Wednesday.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
House Rules Committee
House
Senate
George Bill
RFC
Commerce Department
Wallace
Commerce
Rep. Cox
D-Ga
Rules
White House
Spence
Cox
Judge Revokes Old Suspension for Peterson
A five months remaining on a six months Linn county jail sentence for Orville Peterson was revoked by Judge M C Hamiel in district court. Peterson, 28, was to serve time starting Dec 3 1943 for lewdness. He was arrested in Iowa City for grand larceny while attempting to pawn jewelry stolen Dec 23 from a traveling bag owned by Charles Polansky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Orville Peterson
A Avenue NW
M. C. Hamiel
G. K. Thompson
Peterson
Iowa City
Fred Lewis
Cedar Rapids
Bill Kudrna
George Connell
Kudrna
Charles Polansky
Seventeenth Avenue
Union Station
Eight of Her Sons In Service Seeks Deferment of Ninth
Lehighton Pa AP Mrs Russell McFarland with eight sons in the armed services seeks to have her ninth son Marcus K Smith defer his 18th birthday registration set for Saturday He has seven brothers overseas and one in the U S The Lehighton draft board president says the next quota demands the ninth son be inducted Friend of family urges appeal to President Roosevelt A telegram reports one son Clinton age 20 missing in action in France since January 9 The mother laments the heavy burden and says I wish I could die instead of all this trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lehighton
Russell McFarland
Armed Services
Receipt Lost Then Found With Missing Cash
J A Phillips of 601 Cobban Court SE reported a missing billfold containing $220 on the way to Hutchinson Ice Cream Company. He recovered the billfold early Friday but the $220 was gone, though the billfold later arrived in the mail without the cash.
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J. A. Phillips
Cobban Court SE
Hutchinson Ice Cream Company
OPA Cites Cedar Rapids Price Violations
OPA Administrator Chester Bowles cited Cedar Rapids and several other cities for food price overcharges described as serious and dangerous. He noted a 25 percent drop in overcharges saving housewives about 200 million dollars last year and said 30,000 violation cases were referred to enforcement in 1944. Des Moines district officer George O Malley indicated Cedar Rapids over ceiling charges were higher than in other areas and that OPA investigations have been ongoing locally for two to three weeks focused on grocery prices.
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Chester Bowles
Cedar Rapids
OPA
Bowles
Norfolk
George O’malley
Des Moines
The
Gazette
O'Malley
O’malley
Jail Man 79 Sentenced in Liquor Possession Case
Mather Schuller, 79, using the Paramount building annex as address, was sentenced to 90 days in Linn County jail with 60 suspended for illegal possession of liquor after pleading guilty in Judge M C Hamiel’s court. He was arrested after alighting a Dubuque bus with 10 fifths of whisky. police say two bottles broke when bumped by a woman.
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Mather Shuller
Paramount
Linn County
M. C. Hamiel
Schuller
Schuler
Dubuque
East Dubuque
Americans Forge Across River Into South Manila
American forces of the 37th division crossed the Pasig river near Malacanan palace to assist the 11th Airborne division in clearing south Manila of Japanese resistance. Bridges had been destroyed, but artillery supported the assault as Maj. Gen. Robert Beightler’s 37th entered Manila from the north. Nearby, Maj. Gen. Charles Mullin’s 25th division seized Lupao Munoz and San Jose as eastern Luzon front lines held on Highway 5 amid fires from shellfire in northern Manila. The Netherlands Indies high command reportedly shifted to garrison self-reliance under heavy air and sea pressure.
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MacArthur
HDQ
Luzon
37Th Division
Pasig
Manila
Malacanan Palace
11Th Airborne Division
Robert S. Beightler
Douglas . MacArthur
Charles L.mullin
Highway 5
Lupao
San Jose
Rizal
Munoz
Netherlands New Agency
Aneta
Colombo
Ceylon
Netherlands Indies
Burma
Indo-China
Malayan
Missing in Action Sgt Louis L King 19 Tail Gunner in Italy
Missing in action since January 20 over Austria is Sgt Louis L King 19 tail gunner on a Liberator with the 15th Army Air Force in Italy He is the youngest son of Mrs Anna King of Shellsburg visiting in Hawthorne California His sister Mrs Clarence Paulsen lived at 927 Ninth Street SE He trained at Jefferson Barracks Laredo and Casper before overseas in November Three brothers Sgt Clarence L King on Guadalcanal James in the Aleutians and George with the 34th Division in northern Italy also serve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis LaVerne King
15Th Army Air Force
Italy
Austria
Anna King
Shellsburg
Hawthorne
Calif
Century Engineering Corporation
Clarence Paulsen
Ninth Street
Shellsburg High School
King
Jefferson Barracks
Laredo
Texas
Casper
Wyo
iSgt
Clarence L. King
Guadalcanal
James
Aleutians
George
Postwar Plan of Super Spy Unit Reported
Washington officials rejected the Washington Times Herald story alleging Brig. Gen. William J. Donovan proposed a postwar super spy system for the New Deal. The tale claimed an OSS ordered agency would oversee military and federal bodies to monitor foreign and domestic activity, with Stella Frankfurter cited as a key personnel figure.
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Washington
Sns
Washington Times-Herald
William J. Donovan
Office of Strategic Services
Roosevelt
Donovan
Naval Intelligence
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Secret Service
Internal Revenue
Federal Communications Commission
Frankfurter
Gestapo
Supreme Court
OSS
Stella Frankfurter
War and Navy
United States
Allies Pound North Hinge of Siegfried
Allied Western Front push breaks German lines near Kleve and Zyfflich as Canadian First Army penetrates deep into the Reich, threatening the Siegfried Line and Ruhr. American forces reach the Roer dam area. Third Army nears Prum River. French reach upper Rhine from Strasbourg toward Switzerland. Heavy bombardment precedes a massive 11 hour assault aided by 1,500 aircraft. Scattered showers aid Allied air operations. 1,800 Germans surrender as mounting momentum presses the Reich.
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Paris
First Army
Nijme
Germany
Siegfried Line
Ruhr
Kleve
Reichswald Forest
Schwammenauel Dam
Roer ‘River
Cologne
Pruem Y
Pruem River
The
Reich
Strasbourg
Upper Rhine
Switzerland
Eisenhower
Berlin
Henry Crerar
Canadian First Army
Rhine
Reichswald
Galgensteen
Zyfflich
Duisburg
Silesia
United States Third Army
Saarland
Arnhem
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Breslau Peril
Acme Telephone
Virgil Greeneway
Nashville
Tenn
William John Fassoth
Hawaii
Tell
Harry Boyd
Dewex
James G. Ful
Tae
Sawa
Hamiel
Cedar Rapids News
Hendrickson
Marquis Childs
Omics
Wee Ween
David Lawrence Eis
Marion Sates
Toe Raeenee
Drew Pearson
Walter Winchell
C.R
Linn County Price Panel
Bureau of Labor Statistics
South
Sgt. Laverne King
Siegfried
Alsace
Merrel
Krefelds
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